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Practicing some classical portraiture 👨🏻‍🎨 next step: oil painting!

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– Marie Howe, “The Promise”

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I don’t take hints. Throw a rock at me

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no when i say intimacy i mean one of us is bleeding out and the other is putting their entire body weight behind their hands to stop it

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shout out to the Flash for accidentally creating the best superhero x villain homoerotic I can save him dynamic with Captain Cold and the Flash. Joe was literally like: Barry I don’t want you having around with a nebulously older career criminal. Barry: But Daddy I love him. I can fix him. I think there’s good in smart deep down.

Snart meanwhile is doing gay supervillain like others can only dream. He’s got the nasal drawl, he has the great motivations, he has actually awesome planning skills. He is serving cunt on every diamond heist. He realized there was a super hero in his city and went alright time to become a supervillain and become his nemesis and said hero got super into it!!

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I almost pitied him; I almost loved him. I did not hate him—or, if I did, it was only as one loathes the looking-glass, that shows one one's imperfect form in strict and fearful clarity.

—Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

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my husband and I had our first threesome today and the guy died

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Can we talk about Barry’s absolute lack of fear, though?

I mean, sure, Snart is with the Legends now, playing hero, but still: this is a man who’s tried to kill him before, who’s betrayed him, who’s proved time and again how ruthless he is, and he’s aiming a piece of dangerous, potentially lethal weaponry right at Barry.

And sure, Barry is desperate and needs Leonard’s help, but this right there? That’s not an appeasing ‘hear me out before you shoot’. Between the way Barry looks down and the adorably awkward little wave, it’s clear that’s he’s thoroughly unconcerned about the threat of the cold gun. There’s no trepidation. No grandstanding either, none of the usual ‘I know there’s good’ appeal to Snart’s better nature to get him to put down the gun. In fact, Barry not only fails to acknowledge the gun – he doesn’t even pay attention to it; that’s how absolutely sure he is that Snart’s not going to use it against him (or at least not in a way that really does any harm).

This shouldn’t give me as many shipper feelings as it does, but… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Sorry for the crappy GIF quality. I’m too busy drowning in Coldflash feels to wait until I’m back at the computer that has proper animation software.)

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The Rogues Gallery members who appeared in the shows suits took some inspiration from those of their comic counter parts. But would you have liked to have seen suits much closer in design to those in the comics or do you like the ones in the shows as they are?

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This is the first opportunity I have to process my breakup with Cynthia, okay?

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Guy who is touch starved but emotionally repressed goading you into punching him for completely normal reasons

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someone: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON

barry allen: do u have a piece of glass and a marker pen

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Sorry, sorry, but manipulative hurt/comfort is fucking cocaine to me. The predatory aspect of it. The vulnerability—500% better if the hurt party knows they're being manipulated and is past the point of caring. The juxtaposition of sweet and sharp flavours. Barkbarkbark

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(Note: the difference between guilt and shame is that ‘guilt’ focuses on specific acts or behaviors, while ‘shame’ involves the overall sense of self.)

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truly one of the most upsetting things to hear in pretty much any context is "i'm used to it"

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i love coldflash because logically both of them would freak out and immediately regret that spontaneous hookup (which they knew was a bad idea at the time, but beforehand it was a bad idea (sexy!), and afterwards it was a bad idea (jesus christ))

but the consequences of that freak out and how much it tanks them depends entirely on which one of them freaks out first

like, if len does, then he’s going to shut down and get flippant and try to leave immediately, which is going to make barry feel stupid and naive and used (the thing he’s sensitive about) and now he’s getting defensive and angry, and the entire situation devolves into barry making snappy accusations and len shutting down even further and walking out with no intention of ever touching that can of worms again

but if barry freaks out first, he starts making excuses and rambling and tripping on his own jeans as he tries to get his clothes back on and head for the exit at the same time, and that completely derails down len’s own pending freak out, because he’s a man with a one-track mind, and barry disheveled and backing toward the door just set off his prey drive

no one is leaving that situation with their pride intact enough to bail out because len is pinning barry up against the wall for round two and barry forgets every reason he shouldn’t let him as soon as he does

this is by far the more catastrophic situation btw because barry getting even a little bit invested increases the chances of len hitting his cut-and-run point in the future and causing option 1 to execute instead. except it also gives barry the leverage to ignore len’s freak out and be like “oh okay you’re a ~villain ~ again, got it. well, i’m gonna take a nap. so text me whenever you’re done with… whatever this is, and want me to blow you again” and len is extremely cranky about it. but he does