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We’ll only be posting a few key Halbarry Week posts, so go follow @halbarryweekfeed if you’re interested in that event!

Halbarry Week 2025

Halbarry Week 2025 is August 4th through 10th!

All types of fanworks are allowed and encouraged, for as many or as few days and prompts you'd like to create for!  We look forward to seeing whatever drawings, stories, metas, edits, playlists, and puppet shows you come up with!  Please make sure to tag your content for potentially triggering material, and with the #Halbarry Week and/or #Halbarry Week 2025 so everyone can find your posts!

Need ideas for the free day? See the full prompt poll list here!

We’ll be posting reminders, answering questions, and reblogging participant WIPs here,@halbarryweekfeed, between now and the Week. We’ll also be posting updates on Instagram, and you can add Halbarry Week to your calendar here!

If you have any questions, check out the Halbarry Week FAQ, send us an ask, DM the organizer @chocolateteapotsvis, or email halbarryweek@gmail.com!

Full text prompts under the cut!

Monday, August 4

Day Job/Night Life

Outsider POV

"Slowpoke." "Showoff." "I learned it from you."

TuesdayAugust 5

Space Adventure

Fell First/Fell Harder

"I don't know if I've ever felt safer."

Wednesday, August 6

World's Best Uncle

Romantic Comedy

"Maybe they should get married." "He wishes."

Thursday, August 7

Parallax

Soulmates

"I won't let you get lost in your speed. Don't let me get lost in the stars."

Friday, August 8

Blue Lantern

Hero/Villain

"If tomorrow you lost your speed and I got this ring taken away from me? I’d like to think we’d still be friends."

Saturday, August 9

Private Moment

Fake Dating/Marriage

"Barry Allen is never alone, pal. Not while I'm around."

Sunday, August 10

Free Day

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Halbarry Week 2025 Prompt/Date Voting

Thank you to everyone who submitted prompts! Now it's time to pick the Week's date and prompts!

The poll will be open through Sunday, April 20th!

>>> VOTE HERE! <<<

The final prompts and Week dates will be posted Friday, April 25th!

If you have any questions, you can send an ask here, email halbarryweek@gmail.com, or DM the mod @chocolateteapotsvis!

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We'll only be posting a few key Halbarry Week posts, so go follow @halbarryweekfeed if you're interested in that event!

Halbarry Week 2025 Prompt Suggestion Box Closing Friday, 4/11!

We'll be posting the prompt poll this Sunday, 4/13, so get your prompt suggestions in now!

The prompt poll will be up for two weeks, with the final prompts and Week date posted early May.

Drop your Prompt Suggestions Here!

A couple guidelines:

Go for prompts that are broad and open for interpretation - for example, instead of "Flash Annual #2," try "First Impressions" or "Team Up" or "Date Night"

We have to fit these on a graphic, so please keep them short!

Depending on the number of suggestions we get, some suggested prompts may not appear on the prompt poll to choose Halbarry Week's 2025's prompts

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Halbarry Prompts: AUs!

Alternate universe prompts!  If you use a prompt, think about tagging the prompt creator!

Prompts:

1950s AU @itemreceived

Arranged Marriage AU (or some other arranged forced proximity, like them being forced to work together on a case) @chocolateteapotsvis

Alternative Universe: Music Band @hiso03

Alternative Universe: Coffee Shop @hiso03

College AU

Fantasy AU @chocolateteapotsvis

Alternate Universe: Fantasy @hiso03

Fantasy au shenanigans @ceeloilights

Monsters/Mythological creatures/cosmic weirdery Hal and/or Barry @roboticnebula

Power swap

Sports AU (Barry's a track star and Hal's either a fan or another sports bro) @layspotatochipabs

Story retelling with halbarry (mythological, film, fairy tale, etc.) @ceeloilights

Alternative Universe: Vampires @hiso03

Check out the gifts on Tumblr and Ao3, and the Exit Survey here!

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 4!

And some more prompts! If you use a prompt, think about tagging the prompt creator!

Prompts:

Reunion after a mission

"Bartholomew"/ "Harold"/ roasting each other is true love @roboticnebula

Santa and his elves @bitchyblkqueer

Slowly falling in love @ceeloilights

secret relationship

Song Prompt: Lets Do Everything For The First Time by Of Montreal @toytle

T4T (preferably genderfluid Hal x transmasc Barry) @toytle

Trapped together in the cold @chocolateteapotsvis

Time Loop @chocolateteapotsvis

unrequited love (but it's not unrequited at all) @layspotatochipabs

Check out the gifts on Tumblr and Ao3, and the Exit Survey here!

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 3!

Even more prompts! If you use a prompt, think about tagging the prompt creator!

Prompts:

Barry neglecting himself, whole league notices, Hal ironically being the one to help get him together @hal-barry-wally

In the Medbay/ Healing

Massage/Physical Therapy (bonus points for body worship/admiration and/or themes of disability) @toytle

Overworked/stressed Barry passes out and somehow the league finds out Hal and him are together based on how Hal handles it @hal-barry-wally

Trauma Recovery/Themes of Loneliness (Thawne: “And as long as I had [the Flash]… I was never alone.” vs Hal: “Barry Allen is never alone, pal. Not while I’m around.”) @toytle

Space adventures @roboticnebula

Blue Lantern Barry on space adventure with green lanterns @briarmoon1015

Parallax Hal brings Barry back to life @roboticnebula

Parallax reunites with Barry Allen (through time travel, alternate universes, reunited after death, whatever!) @chocolateteapotsvis

Check out the gifts on Tumblr and Ao3, and the Exit Survey here!

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Halbarry Prompts: Part 2!

More prompts! If you use a prompt, think about tagging the prompt creator!

Prompts:

Accidentally in Fantasy world @briarmoon1015

Friends to lovers/strangers to lovers @itemreceived

Rivals to best friends to lovers/soulmates @layspotatochipabs

Friends to enemies (with sexual tension) @ceeloilights

Injustice - Hal Yellow Lantern and Flash @itemreceived

Gift exchanges @bitchyblkqueer

Hanukkah @bitchyblkqueer

They meet in a hospital @hiso03

Older established Halbarry @roboticnebula

Growing old together @itemreceived

Check out the gifts on Tumblr and Ao3, and the Exit Survey here!

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Halbarry Prompt: Part 1!

The exchange may be over, but that just means we get to see what prompts the participants came up with! If you happen to make something from a prompt, why not tag the prompt creator so they can enjoy your creation too?

Prompts:

Black Mercy attacks Barry  @hal-barry-wally

breaking up and making up

Childhood Friends (bonus points for undiagnosed AuDHD to AuDHD (mis)communication) @toytle

southern california christmas @bitchyblkqueer

Dreamcore/liminal space/weirdcore/surrealism @ceeloilights

eyes wide shut (the movie) @bitchyblkqueer

Fake Dating / Pretend Relationship

Fake dating, end up together at the end @briarmoon1015

fake dating on an undercover mission (where Halbarry adopt new identities as the new gay couple that just moved across the street? or some variant of this)  @layspotatochipabs

Check out the gifts on Tumblr and Ao3, and the Exit Survey here!

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Present delivery for @finalfrontierpioneer! I hope you enjoy ❤️or find it mildly entertaining =]

Thanks to @halbarrysecretsanta for hosting!

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@halbarrysecretsanta gift delivery for @hal-barry-wally ! surprise! i hope you like it!!

all up in your mind (3345 words) by loislanefanclub Chapters: 2/2

Fandom: DCU (Comics), Justice League of America (Comics), The Flash (Comics), Green Lantern (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) & Oliver Queen

Characters: Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Oliver Queen, Diana (Wonder Woman), Wally West II

Additional Tags: Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending, Black Mercy, no beta we die like the flash, pick one - Freeform, Halbarry Week 2024, Suggestive Themes, Sweet Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)

Summary: “Flash, where the hell are you?” Hal commanded. “Does anyone have eyes on the Flash?”   Barry awoke to tiny fingers prying his eyes open. “Uncle Barry, will you wake up? You’ve been sleeping all day!”   Barry is attacked by the Black Mercy!

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Hal’s been through a lot, and left almost as much behind. He’d much rather the past stay in the past, but as usual, the universe has other ideas.

Something magical’s taken an interest in Helen. Hal's not letting anything happen to his niece, not when they're finally building a relationship outside of a time in in their past Hal knows they'd rather both forget. So he's bringing in Barry, despite things between them being, well…

Not the best conditions for a family holiday mall visit.

Happy @halbarrysecretsanta to @bitchyblkqueer!

Summary: It should be a purely happy scene, nothing more than a fun family outing during the most wonderful time of the year. Instead, Hal’s scouring the store for threats, searching every shadow and jumping at everything he thinks he sees in his peripheral vision. And all because some magical blowhard couldn’t mind their own business.

Hal’s at a crossroads in his life. It’s where he usually is when he makes his worst decisions. But something is after Helen, and Hal will do anything to keep his niece safe. Even if it means bringing in his best friend, despite the current situation between them.

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Thanks for a Great Exchange!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in Halbarry Secret Santa 2024! This exchange couldn't exist without the effort, care, and heart you all put into the gifts! All the gifts have been posted, so check out the art on Tumblr, and the fics in the Ao3 collection!

We've got a couple more posts coming up here! We'll be reblogging yesterday's flurry of gifts over the next couple days, and will be posting everyone's prompts soon!

What did you think about the exchange? Let us know in the Exit Survey!

Respond Here!

If you are interested in potentially participating next year, we’d also like to hear from you!

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“My best friend. My ally, who’s saved my lives more times than I can count. And I shatter him as recklessly as I shatter our friendship.”

PROMPT: reunion + healing. leave it to barry to carry guilt for something he did in a dream (it’s not abt the dream)

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Fancomic of a reunion between Barry Allen and Hal Jordan, page 1.

Panel 1: Barry and Hal sit atop a building, both in hero uniform except for Barry’s cowl pulled down. The city lights illuminate them from below against a starry dusk sky. Hal says, “Glad we can finally catch up with each other like this.”

Panel 2: Hal turns his head in Barry’s direction, revealing bright green cracks forming at the corner of his eye. “Must be nice to slow down for once, huh?” he says.

Panel 3: Closeup of Barry’s eyes going wide, noticing the fractures on Hal’s face.

Panel 4: Closeup of Hal’s eyes, green cracks spreading across his mask. The faint outline of his pupils glance up at Barry.

Panel 5: Barry looks stunned in return.

Panels 6-9: Sequence of the cracks spreading from Hal’s neck to his chest and arms, all the way down to his hand. Barry tentatively reaches out to place his hand on top of it, thumb rubbing the fracture on one of Hal’s fingers as if trying to smooth it out.

Panel 10: Barry turns his head away, the top half of his face cut off by the panel. “Yeah,” he says stiffly.

Page 2:

Panels 1-2: Hal is in silhouette, viewed from behind. He looks down at their hands before looking back up with a smile. “Someone’s clingy.”

Panel 3-5: The sequence of panels are outlined like cracked glass. Barry’s hand stills on top of Hal’s but he can’t bring himself to let go. He squeezes it instead. “Sorry,” he says. A close-up of his eye glances up, filled with guilt.

Panel 6: Hal looks back at Barry, the panel taking up most of the page and shattering like a broken window. In half of the shards, Hal is the same, present in GL uniform with the sky darkening behind him. In the other shards, Hal resembles the version of him from Barry’s nightmare, skin burnt and mottled with green cracks all over his body in the same place as what Barry had been seeing.

Current Hal starts to say, “You miss me that much?”

Nightmare Hal says in faint, cracked word bubbles, “It killed me, but you wouldn’t know that ‘cause you weren’t here. As usual.”

Current Hal continues to say, “C’mon, it hasn’t been THAT long.”

Page 3: Sequences of flashbacks fill the page like shattered glass. All the figures’ faces in each panel are obscured.

Panel 1: Parallax gestures with his arms out in a grandiose manner, green light swirling behind him. Barry’s narration box reads: “Hal…”

Panel 2: Barry’s Flash statue stands upright with a streak of green from Hal’s flight making a path right past him. The memory invokes the time Hal visited Barry’s statue after Barry’s death.

Panel 3: Barry looks down at his hand grimly, his whole body vibrating. Hal is right behind him, giving him a small, supportive smile. The memory invokes the time Barry came back to life with Hal comforting him as he tried to readjust.

Panel 4: Barry and Hal are sitting at a bar construct in the sky as Hal smiles at Barry with a hand on his shoulder. The memory invokes the time Hal gave Barry advice and reminded him that every second is a gift.

Panel 5: Barry’s POV of looking at his own hands, sharp-taloned and weathered by the Speed Force. His suit is singed off up to his wrists and sparks fly off his skin. Past his hands is Nightmare Hal’s dismembered body, broken up into fractured blocks. The memory invokes the time Barry shattered Hal in Knight Terrors. Barry’s narration box reads: “I could never miss you enough.”

Page 4:

Panel 1-2: Flash-forward to Hal and Barry on the roof, a close-up of Barry’s hand on Hal’s as before, except they both resemble the ones from the nightmare. He lifts his hand off of Hal’s. The panels are outlined like cracked glass.

Panel 3-5: The panels are outlined in green. Barry forces a smile, looking up at the sky instead of Hal. “You wish,” he says. The next panel zooms in on their hands which have returned to normal. Barry’s hand now sits next to Hal’s, but it’s vibrating tensely against him. A close-up of Hal’s eyes glance down at it.

Panel 6: From behind, Hal stares up ahead pensively. Barry is silhouetted, head tilted downwards.

Page 5: A series of 3 present-day panels overlay a backdrop of sequential panels. The background panels are framed like a broken window, each fracture a panel.

Present-day panels:

Panel 1: Barry’s hand vibrates tensely when it gets nudged by Hal’s pinky. Hal and Barry’s hands resemble their hands from the nightmare, with Hal’s hand fractured with green cracks and Barry’s hand sharp and weathered. A panel in the background reveals a shot of Barry looking down in trepidation at Hal’s touch.

Panel 2: Hal’s hand reaches over Barry’s hand, fingers going beneath his palm. The cracks in Hal’s hand are fading. Barry’s hand is also starting to return to normal.

Panel 3: Hal’s fingers interlock with Barry’s. Hal and Barry’s hands have fully returned to normal, without cracks or injury.

Background panels, from left to right: Nightmare Barry balls his hand into a fist before it gets swept away in a motion of lightning. Nightmare Hal’s hand is severed, the open wound blotchy, bright red, and solid without bone. The ring on his fist gradually pulls him together, veins stretching out to connect the pieces. Present-day Hal holds Barry’s hand as Barry slowly, tentatively reciprocates. The previously weathered fingers of his suit have rematerialized.

The background panels circle a cracked opening in the corner, framing a shot of Barry. He looks at Hal with wide, glowing eyes. Confusion, fear, and hope cross his face.

Page 6: A splash page of Barry and Hal sitting atop the building, angled from below. Hal holds their hands up, their knees tapping together. He smiles, responding simply, “I missed you too, buddy.”

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My Halbarry Secret Santa 2024 gift for @toytle !!

Title: Your Years and Mine

Pairings: HalBarry centric, background HalBarryOllie

Summary: Barry's fifty-fifth birthday is fast approaching and his feelings about it are... complicated. Thankfully, Hal knows how to make him feel better about it.

Thank you for your wonderful prompts and for all your beautiful Halbarry art throughout the year! I really hope you enjoy your gift!

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Here is my Secret Santa gift for you, @hiso03!!! I hope you like it! @halbarrysecretsanta <3

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Halbarry Secret Santa for @briarmoon1015 !!!

Sorry I'm literally posting this at like the last second lmao

Prompt: Fake dating

Artificial Love (Can't Trust This!) (29880 words) by layspotatochipabs

Chapters: 3/3

Fandom: DCU, Green Lantern - All Media Types, The Flash - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Barry Allen/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)

Characters: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Barry Allen, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman), J'onn J'onzz, Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Arthur Curry (DCU), Jack Jordan, Jim Jordan, Original Characters, Carol Ferris, Wally West (mentioned)

Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Emotional Hurt, First Kiss, Unrequited Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Getting Together, Undercover Missions, Undercover as a Couple, Flirting, Tension, Idiots in Love, Halbarry Secret Santa (DCU), Minor Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen, Past Carol Ferris/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)

Summary:

“I’d never fake-date Barry Allen even if my life depended on it.”

“And I’d sooner be dead than be seen with Oliver Queen like that.”

Yeah.

The mission would blow up in their faces if those two had to go undercover as a couple. So Hal did the only thing he could think of before Barry and Ollie destroyed each other.

He opened his big mouth.

“I’ll date Barry.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62513317/chapters/159993883

(hopefully the AO3 thing works?? It's not formatting for me)

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my Secret Santa gift for @itemreceived ! 🫶

1950s AU Halbarry - Hal waits outside the CCPD to pick him up after work

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