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gcau commentary: part 1 chapters 6-10

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Part 1 Chapter 6:

EYE EMOJI!

Cait being so invested in Eddie/Iris is so random and yet so relatable. I love her.

„Why would we even discuss it [Bar‘s date with Snart] here“ oh you sweet summer child. I can’t believe they thought they had privacy here.

I wrote out the words „totally fucked“ in that order and did NOT make a Spring Awakening joke ????

Oliver and Sara fighting about chores <3

THE BEGIN OF THE BET BETWEEN IRIS AND SNART!

„Did you just call your gf a whore“ worse things will be done in this chat

„I may be a lot of things but cis is not one of them“ hear ye hear ye. Also: The way I started calling Cisco „Sco“ after this 😭 he’s my blorbo

SNART GUN KINK

„Mick I trusted you“ - „your mistake“

Oh my God. The vibrator being stuck in Snart is a reference to The Bold Type where that happened. Girl wanted to get off, the thing slipped and her friends had to get it out (and she chose the one who recently realized she’s into girls to do it, I love them)

THE HARTLEY CLIFFHANGER. I was so evil. But I think this was posted at the time where I still uploaded daily, so it was probably fine.

Part 1 Chapter 7

everyone starting a Hartley Defense Squad <3

Bar already having THAT impact on Snart huh

"even hartley doesnt deserve this" okay Caitlin????? what's the backstory here???

SNART ALLUDING TO ALREADY HAVING BROKEN INTO THE RATHAWAYS' HOUSE. Okay, so that's obviously a reference to how he and Mick have stolen that painting from them in canon, but in the context of the gcau it's just such a funny image tbh

"did your parents hurt you" - "no my mom just smacked me" Hartley.

Eddie taking manners into his own hands and starting the whole thing where he, Bar and Snart go to pick up Hart's stuff. I really do love their friendship. I didn't even think much of it back then, it just made sense to me to send the cop.

"this chat existed fro two weeks and we already helped each other out im proud of us" Caitlin is right!!!

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I love that Snart doesn't know where Oliver lives. Really shows how paranoid Moira is if even he can't figure it out.

"before I call up my friend cooper" Cooper is, of course, Cooper Seldon aka Felicity's hacker boyfriend from college. Hilarious that the next thing Oliver says is "I don't know who Cooper is", tbh. As to why he's SNART'S friend? I don't know, I just wanted to namedrop a hacker who's not Cisco or Felicity and we didn't have Zari yet.

Caitlin talking about "Snart's obsession with Hartley" (not the other way around???) and nobody even denying it lmao

THE RENAMING OF BAR!!!! PROUD THEY/THEM PRONOUNS USER!!!! THAT'S MY CHILD!!!!

HAHA nobody knew that Mick is non-binary, huh.

fuck buddies westhawne. hm!

Never stop bullying Oliver over having sucked Tommy's dick, guys

Part 1 Chapter 9

FIRST APPEARANCE OF ROLF THE PORTER I REPEAT FIRST APPEARANCE OF ROLF THE PORTER

Eddie really doesn't miss any moment where he can roast Oliver huh

Yay, they agreed on the first meet-up!!

Part 1 Chapter 10

"[finding Oliver is] probably simpler than trying to understand how the fuck our college labels rooms" Reference to me getting lost at uni EVERY TIME because nobody! understood! how they labeled the rooms!

Bar being obsessed with Mick's bodywash is so random and I love them for it

"irisbest: oliver do me a favour and kiss barry’s cheek once | irisbest : also my mouth" rip that neither of these ever happened :(

Snart and Hartley making out in a hallway <3 Snart likes to make out in hallways, apparently, if I remember a later scene correctly

"remind me not to sit with [Snart] today" Oh, Bar. Nobody is gonna remind you and it's gonna be beautiful.

"[Mick] fucking loves me" Snart is still riding the high from making out with Hartley. Why else would he just SAY that

meeting time!! and a cliffhanger for me :)

gcau commentary: part 1 chapters 1-5

here we go @sophiainspace @simpledontmeanpeachy

Part 1 Chapter 1:

The opening notes are already so funny: “I'm having a freaking writer's block and to fight it y'all are getting a groupchat based on one of my AU ideas,” it reads. As if this isn’t gonna become my biggest pride and joy.

I think I already wrote about the story this was originally supposed to be, but now is a great time to share it again: I had an idea for a Westhallen College AU where Eddie transfers and meets Iris, who invites him to the LGBT Club. There’s been two scenes I’d thought up so far:

Eddie witnesses Mick stealing Iris’ wallet – this could’ve been the opening scene, maybe. Anyway, Eddie tells Iris about it and she’s just completely nonchalant. Apparently, this happens regularly.

The first meeting! There were actually more Rogues to be around, I think I had actually included Axel and Mark. Definitely Shawna as a mean lesbian instead of Linda. Caitlin/Ronnie/Cisco were still dating, but Ronnie made a comment about how Cisco should finally sleep with Hartley so they’d get rid of the tension. Hartley and Snart kept making out.

Now, let’s dive into the actual fic.

Haha, Cisco and Hartley immediately bitching at each other. I think I knew right from the start that they’d end up canon.

“when will you make bi your pronouns” Snart takes no prisoners 😀

Ronnie being bi-everything is actually the first meta joke of the whole fic! I wanted something to refer to Firestorm being made up of two people, so I figured bi Ronnie would be perfect. And then I wanted everything about xem to scream bi.

The fact that half those people are around 20/21 is killing me. Like. I was that age when I started this series! I am almost 30 now! Fucks me up, and I don’t know whether it’s in a good or bad way.

Cisco who accidentally flirts with girls. Top tier headcanon of mine. I think I didn’t actually do anything with that, did I?

Snart and Eddie being civil 🥹 Enjoy it while it lasts, huh?

“who sucks i do not suck,” Linda says, as if she doesn’t say she’s sucked dick a few lines down. Maybe she didn’t get THE FIRST INNUENDO OF THE SERIES CAN I GET A HELL YEAH!!

Snart immediately hitting on Bar. Young love <3

Do you know how often I correct people about the correct plural of “penis”. Do you know how often I think of this exact scene.

First of Eddie’s incest jokes!!! They’re so stupid, I’ll admit that sometimes I thought they’d fall completely flat but I also felt like Eddie would never miss out on them. No matter how bad they are. And I’m glad nobody took actual offense at them.

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“guy doesn't even know oliver and roasts him. lov u fellow bi” - The beginning of a legendary (hah) friendship.

Snart wanting to be all mysterious about whether they’re criminals or not and Mick just admitting to it. I love them.

FIRST HORNY!HARTLEY

The way I had Bar and Sara drop knowledge about Eddie without explaining how they know him. And nobody even questions it. I guess they just aren’t as nosy yet <3

“eddiethawne changed their username to detectiveprettybi” as he should!

Ah, there I explain how Bar knows Eddie. But when will we learn about Sara?

Everyone immediately agreeing that Mick should NOT take criminology is so funny, actually.

LESBIANDA!!! there she is!

There comes the Ronnie/Cait/Cisco OT3 drop!!

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Having Iris do some kind of essay was such a weird excuse to have them all drop facts about themselves, to be honest. But I couldn’t think of a better way to have them settle into this and I kinda wanted to give people an overview about how the AU is affecting everyone’s family life. My brain wouldn’t let me live if I hadn’t, for example, established that Oliver’s dad is still dead. Or, of course, that Henry is still in prison.

Oh, I remember how I had Cisco jotted down as Colombian at first – because Carlos is Colombian. Someone taught me that Cisco is actually canonically Puerto Rican, so I changed that.

I did keep the actors’ ethnicities for Linda and Snart, though. Half-Black Leonard Snart was super important for me to include.

Did Mick still kill his family? We will never know.

“im an orphan at heart” yes, you are!

“my parents are fucking homophobes” - “but at least they have money” - “fucking great im gonna buy myself a pony” Another line I think of often. Hartley has some bangers!

Coldbar being gay as hell already, what the fuck

And then Snart has to establish that the others are probably cute, too, haha. First mention of his violence kink, too!

Linda being weirded out by Snart? Oh honey, you’ve got a big storm coming.

God, okay, there’s me mentioning QPPs before I fully understood what queerplatonic relationships are. Which is to say, I totally see Snart and Mick in a QPR – they just aren’t in one in this fic! Very clearly so. I wrote an interlude years later where I retconned that – especially since it’d literally never mentioned again.

“:3c” what the fuck, Snart

And then he goes and calls Bar and Cisco nerds, as if he isn’t one himself. Why didn’t I let Mick call him out on that?

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Bar’s first glimpse of Snart being the most unhinged version is so funny. Like, why is he even puring energy drink into his coffee? Snart, it’s literally the second or third week of the semester. Why are you so tired.

Iris blaming Bar for putting the idea of studying psychology in her head <3 Callback to canon where she mentions that Barry convinced her to take journalism, only that in this she doesn’t actually study journalism, soooo….

Sara bullying Oliver is something that can be so personal, actually.

Wonky Olicity timeline!! Can’t believe I said they’d only dated for a year at that point – they feel so much more established later on. And I think I literally do say they dated for longer, at some point. But who cares? (Let’s see how much I will care. Maybe I’ll adjust this at some point.)

Mick having been rich for three hours is so funny, too. In case you missed it: it’s the tiniest reference to LoT’s season 1 episode “Star City 2046”. I loved seeing Mick in that fur coat.

“y’all are weird” – Ronnie Raymond, 2017. I bet this isn’t gonna bite us in the ass, huh?

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Mick immediately snuffing out that Snart is the guy whom Bar found so hot. Makes you wonder how Snart might have acted at home. Considering he’s taking out Bar only minutes later, he’s probably acted like a stereotypical teenage girl and changed clothes twenty times until he was satisfied.

Nyssara having loud cybersex. As they should.

Hartley established as Hard of Hearing! I don’t even know if I was fully aware of comic!Hartley at that point or if I just read that fact somewhere and went of with it.

Though I gotta say, weird choice of mine to have CAIT be surprised to learn that. You’d think Ronnie would have mentioned a Deaf student in his class. Though I guess I hadn’t thought about that particular friendship just then.

High School rivals Hartmon, my beloved <3

FIRST COLDBAR DATE!! It happens so early already 😭😭

Iris live-blogging this whole event is so random. And the first of many!

„you know gossiping isnt all so subtle when YOU DO IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE“ – Snart is so real for this.

Iris is so supportive of them rn. Why does she turn so hostile later, I wonder.

Oh my God, this is when Iris and Eddie first hook up, too????

I love the tradition of Mick ending chapters. He does feel like the kind of guy to have the last word.

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