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qlala · 6 months

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so i think the best way to do a coldflash au of the greatest musical of our time, mamma mia, would be—yes i’m aware it’s 3 a.m., why do you ask—

anyway, the best way to do it would be like, a morbid dark comedy take on it where barry’s not trying to find his father, he’s trying to find the person who framed his father. for his mother’s murder. so he’s like ‘okay i’ve reviewed all the case notes, and i’ve narrowed it down to these three men. also, unrelated, iris and eddie, you don’t mind if i invite three people to your wedding last-minute, right?’

and the three men can be like, harrison wells, eobard thawne, and of course, leonard snart

and barry has sophie’s protagonist attitude of “i’ll just know which one it is when i see him,” except obviously, he doesn’t. harrison wells is an asshole, eobard thawne is a creepy asshole, and leonard snart is… flirting with him?

(i have zero notes on the “does your mother know that you’re out” scene from the mamma mia! movie. just do that again, but angrier, because barry isn’t sure if len is taunting him over his mother’s death or just poking fun at their age gap. but it should be exactly as horny)

len would be the first to catch on to what’s going on, because he knows doc allen from iron heights and puts it together, and he would be impressed at what a ballsy idea it was if he wasn’t too busy being mad at barry for what a stupid fucking idea it was instead, inviting the man who killed his mother to a wedding he’s in, to what? give him a shot at slitting barry’s throat in his sleep next?

if that happens, iris will probably cancel this wedding that len fully intends on crashing, so naturally his only option is to follow around iris’s very stupid, very cute best man for the next three days, just to keep him from getting murdered by whichever of the other two men did kill his mother. and, since that includes the previously-mentioned threat of barry getting killed in his sleep, well… he’ll just have to talk his way into barry’s bed so he can keep an eye on him overnight, too

#iris and eddie decide to elope at the end right before they get to the altar and joe is like ‘what the hell am i supposed to do now’#and len who figured out who killed barry’s mother like six hours ago but knew iris would kill him if he caused a scene before her wedding—#is like ‘well since you’re standing in the aisle… you could arrest eobard thawne for murdering nora allen’#and joe has a moment of wondering why leonard snart is at his daughter’s wedding and also why he’s wearing one of barry’s ties #before the words sink in and the entire church explodes into chaos #eobard makes a go at killing leonard instead and joe’s the one who stops him #and joe says if he had a second set of handcuffs then he’d be arresting len too #and len is like oh barry has a pair don’t worry. i’ve been very reliably informed #and joe considers letting eobard kill him after all

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avisisisis · 1 year

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I read a fanfic where the flashfam killed Eobard and he just kept on coming back so eventually murdering him and hiding his body became family bonding time

#barry: aren't you like. worried that i just killed a man #iris: honey you cried during an ad about dog medicine because it implied the dog was sick #iris: you are a teddy bear not in body but in spirit and i would never be afraid of you #they were burying eobard's body with wally and then barry went “hey what if we married eachother” and immediately panicked #and iris just took out a ring she had been keeping in her purse and proposed #barry when they bury a dead body with wally: oh my god we are terrible role models #iris had to hide a corpse on her wedding dress. fucking eobard #barry (just killed eobard in front of jay): aren't you... worried or somrthing?#jay: nah dw me and joan used to do this all the time #barry: what #jay: it was the fifties #barry: that doesn't explain anything #iris: shut up and help me hide the body #jay: lmao you're literally an angel #barry: i'm literally defiling a corpse rn #“did you know he's named eobard?” “damn no wonder he's homicidal”#<— an actual conversation between jay and iris #barry(just killed eobard in front of wally and he just rolled with it instead of being scared): iris why is your family so cool with murder #dc #dc comics #the flash #the flash comics #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic recommendation #wally west #barry allen #iris west #the fanfic is “Iris West and the Multiple Resurrections of Eobard Thawne” by poppiesandsunflowers in Ao3 #jay garrick

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noven-warsh · 1 year

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Food for thought:

Chase said that c!Jack's in a coma -> c!Jack died -> Anti is currently in charge of his body-

-> The absolute dread that Chase has to feel knowing that there's a motherfucking demon that has taken hold of his "comatose" (dead) best-friend, and has murdered who-knows-how many people while wearing his skin.

#jacksepticeye #antisepticeye #chase brody #extra angst: HIS FRIEND IS FUCKING DEAD #extra extra angst: THE IMPLICATION THAT “JACK” MURDERED CHASE'S FAMILY #a teeny weeny hc-angst: HIS CHILD DIED THINKING ANTI WAS THEIR UNCLE (since you know parents' friends are considered “uncles/aunts” by kids #(lil' addition above since its maxed out: YEAH STACY PROBS ALSO THOUGHT JACK PULLED UP TO THEIR HOUSE)#man I swear every single shit Anti's done to the egos/Chase hits harder when you remember he's using c!Jack's body #mf just massacred an entire facility-traumatizing Chase- and then pulls up to him to be like "Hiii <3 #jse iris #iris project

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chstart · 4 months

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it's the way he really never tells anyone shit re himself

#no bc even thru all the time w mia he never mentioned larry once nor did he tell her his actual motivation for becoming a lawyer #& it's only when edgeworth shows up in front of him that he cant avoid telling maya abt him & this is for both the first AND second game #iirc there was a bit in the 3rd case where maya mentions that nick won't tell her squat re miles so we know it wasnt for a lack of asking #& in bridge to turnabout miles acknowledges nick's cageyness when bringing up that iris seems familiar #& miles says 'all i want is confirmation [..] & since i probably won't be getting that from You.....'#& all nick has to say to that is 'i'm sorry edgeworth'#he doesnt share information abt his connections w people willy nilly or even at all!!! & im pinning that on dahlia!!!!#if blabbing about a necklace from his supposed beloved lead to her wanting to murder him just to shut him up then...... ✨trauma✨#ooc. butterdog. the dog with the butter.

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skydreamplayzz · 1 year

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Ey ey put murder saph and iris in a room. a test. and because. I dont know. what to. do.

Why always these two?🧍

#undertale oc #undertale #sans oc #undertale au #Murder!sapphire #Iris!sans #I KNOW i Told you once that they Trust eachother #BUT NOT like this #For now.

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mothervvoid · 1 year

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my personal hc is that before cain and able had their little disastrous reunion at daevon (empire of dirt canon), cain had a lock of able’s hair braided into his own

#oh to carry the physical reminder of your brother with you all the time (the brother you killed)#the irony of able turning into a murderer vs cain becoming the repentant wanderer is not lost on me #ik agent xiaoshan basically said he was an angry lil twerp who played cod and was mad no one could beat him but i feel like its deeper #than that. like imagine you get murdered n then you get resurrected by a group of people who basically point you #at a rival army and go 'kill' and you do. bcos you're immortal.#and every society that encounters you afterward does the exact same thing #like when the foundation found him he had basically been in a cycle of drowning and resurrecting for like. centuries #thats enough to drive anyone crazy #and now everyone he actually gave a fuck about is either dead (agent AA) or hates him (iris) bcos the foundation #exposed him to a different scp that had the exact opposite effect on him that they wanted it to #like this isnt me saying able is some poor lil meow meow poo poo baby bcos i love his characterization #but just feel like ppl either flatten him out or overlook his character #and it is annoying to me

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iristhedeadflower · 1 year

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something something ludmila soaking up all the attention from older women she can get because of you know who. but you ain’t heard that from me!

#me: imagine writing a whole story about that!#my ao3: i dream of murdering you every night #iris violetta s3: priscila’s revenge

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a-septic-mind · 2 years

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Gonna counteract the flames by just being slightly on fire all day. 10/10 brilliant strategy.

#jacksepticeye #iris #if you dont hear from me after this post assume I was murdered #the culprit being one mr. j spedicey

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wright-phoenix · 2 months

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ok the "iris flying over the bridge" larry saw was 100% "iris falling down the bridge" instead. what else would it be. the picture shown whenever he says he woke up to lightning shows him looking at the scene from down on the ground, looking over his head

#i do not understand this case at all. what the hell is going on #why did misty fey show up. why didnt she talk to her daughter more. why did misty fey have to DIE for real this time #why is maya in the caverns with FIVE (5) locks on the door.#i know i know it'll all be revealed but i'm. So Confused #i can figure out single pieces but not everything together #i still dont quite understand how iris isnt dahlia. did dahlia have a twin sister....#are you saying dahlia was the other person there and the actual murderer. what is going ON #cas.aa

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lillybean730 · 1 year

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ai the somnium files huh

#i did the mizuki ota and annihilation routes #first two made me cry but that last one...#phew #also hey uh what do you mean he ate his ex wife's eye? and why the fuck is the cyclops killer a different guy in every route it seems #and i don't trust iris why did you have that knife and why is your brain full of murder and nitroglycerin?????#oh and ur mom fucked an assassin i guess???#gah my head hurts

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ry3breadl0rd · 8 months

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some titles uncle rick deprived us of

”I Fall To My Death (Again)” for the fall into tartarus

“I Get Mugged by Monsters” that one chapter where leo’s tool belt gets stolen

“Jason Meets his Brother” hercules chapter

“I Obtain A Death Ray” the sphere thing

“Leo Makes a Great First Impression” when he blows up new rome

“I Scare Some Pirates With An Unofficial Sponsorship” that chapter where percy scares off the pirates with diet coke

“A Spider Hates My Mom” annabeth at any point with arachne ngl

“Scrawny Is The New Sizzling Hot” leo+hazel with narcissus

“We Get Slapped to New York” zeus smacking the argo ll to new york

“Nyx Gives Us A Tour” when they convince nyx to not murder them immediately by pretending they’re tourists

“My Evil Great-Grand Mother Wakes Up” self explanatory i hope

“Hazel Orders A Horse From Amazon” hazel meets arion

“I Get Blasted Out Of This World” leo goes to ogygia

“Fleecy Does Us A Solid” when they meet iris

“I Tame A Dragon” leo with argo

“I Vaporize Some Old Ladies” first chapter of son

“I Give My Dad Some Decor Tips” nico and hades conversation

“Piper Talks Her Boyfriend To Life” when piper charm speaks jason back to life

“I Play Roulette With A Blind Man” when percy drinks the gorgons blood

“Piper Sees Dead People (In Her Knife)” i might be remembering wrong but it’s that one where they try to trick piper by showing her how her friends were doing in her knife, like trying to convince her they were all dead

“We Use Adidas To Summon A Goddess” nike chapter

“Mudman, Hazel, and Frank Get Brunch” when they get to alaska

“I Learn The Power Of Positivity” percy and misery

“We Meet A Cool Girl (Literally)” khione chapter

“I’m Leo. You Killed My Mother. It’s My Turn” based on the funny comment:) it’s for when leo blows up gaea

“My Nosebleed Wakes Up My Great-Grandma” when gaea wakes up

“Mr. D Hates Ballet” when he helps percy and jason against the twin giants

“Frank Gets A Blast To The Past” when hazel shares her past with him

“Frank Sets Himself On Fire” with the firewood and freeing thatanos

“I Got A Girlfriend?” jason first chapter

”Why Did It Have To Be Poison?” that chapter with polybotes

“Jason Becomes The Oldest Demigod!” old man jason

“Game Night Goes Too Far” war games in son

“The World Hates Us, Literally” hoh when they’re low key attacked by like everything

“We Traumatize Frank” when percabeth gets caught together

“Lions, and Tigers, and Frank, Oh My!” when frank unlocks his shapeshifting stuff

“I Aquire a Misfortune Cookie” i might be delulu but didn’t nemesis omfg i knew that why did i put nike give leo a fortune cookie to open if he needed help?? but price would not be fun

“The Law is On My Side For Once” percy and terminus vs polybotes

“Being A Dumb Blonde Has Its Perks” annabeth when she drops the knife that one chapter

#heroes of olympus #percy jackson #piper mclean #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #frank zhang #annabeth chase #jason grace #leo valdez #headcanon #demigods #chapter

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toytle · 2 months

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happy birthday barry, hope this one doesn’t give you war flashbacks 🎉

redraw + remix of Flash: Rebirth vol. 4

[ID in alt text + below cut]

Fanart comic of Barry Allen’s birthday, page 1: Barry is rigid in shock as Iris pushes him towards his surprise birthday party. Along the side are panels of each guest wishing him a happy birthday as bloodied flashbacks play behind them of the moments when Eobard Thawne had murdered them.

Page 2: Panel 1 is a close up shot of Barry with a horrified expression, beset by a red background reminiscent of the bloodied flashbacks. He manages to get out the words: “Thanks… everybody….” Panel 2 is Barry walking away from the guests, touching his face in distress. He says, “Sorry. I’m really glad to see everyone… I just… Just gimme a minute….” One of the guests behind him suggests, “Maybe he’s a little shellshocked?” The red background continues to swarm him. Panel 3 is a closeup of Barry’s face as an off-screen voice says, “Hey, buddy….” His fingers slowly slide off his face as he looks up in its direction.

Page 3: Panel 1 reveals Hal Jordan holding a box and wearing a smile. He says, “Looks like I’m right on time.” The red swarm surrounding Barry doesn’t seem to touch Hal. Panel 2 is Hal handing Barry the box, which contains a model plane, as he says, “Happy birthday, Barry.” Barry takes it in his hands with a worn but blank expression. Panel 3 is much the same with Barry unmoving as he’s processing the exchange. Panel 4 is Barry suddenly giving Hal a fond, sarcastic smile as he says, “Great gift, Hal. I especially liked it when I gave it to you for your birthday two years ago.” The red swarm gradually dissipates from each panel, clearing up entirely in the last one.

Page 4: Simplified doodles of Hal and Barry stand in the large, empty space of the page. Hal has one hand in his pocket and the other gesturing in explanation. His expression is embarrassed but good-humored as he says, “Really? You sure? Uh… Haven’t been home in a long time, so….” Barry responds, “Too long… I’m just happy to see you, buddy.” He holds the gift close to himself with an innocent, close-eyed smile. An arrow points to him, reading: Literally snapped out of it to be a little shit. /end ID

#the flash #barry allen #iris west #hal jordan #james forrest #henry allen #westallen #halbarry #dc #detective comics #dc comics #dc fanart #comic #danart #blood #alt text #described #his most updated canon bday is may 13 but he’s too much of a pisces for me to accept that #trust that when it comes around i will still celebrate it tho lol

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abtrusion · 2 months

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Tranny Tango

There's a man on the sidewalk, looking over, then up to see me walking past. He stops in his tracks and stutters back and forth, his read || reaction to me flickering between upstart woman // taller man || hold ground // make space, glitching him in place. When I step off the sidewalk and into the grass, he sheepishly passes me by without a word.

I'm interested in the everyday glitches, the double-takes, the way "everybody is just a little bit disgusted by you," what Susan Stryker calls 'monstrosity' and more than that, the casual experience of being a gaping hole in the gendered world. Stryker attributes this monstrosity to the idea that medical transsexuality, more than any other form of transgenderism, "represents the prospect of destabilizing the foundational presupposition of fixed genders." She takes anti-trans feminists at their word, assuming that their hate stems from some abstract gender trouble that transsexuals pose to female spaces, and her solution is a near-complete identification with that trouble. We can do better. This monstrosity, this glitching, is not just a downstream consequence of spectacular interruptions to some abstract 'fixed genders.' It is certainly not dependent on some unique threat posed by medicalization. It exists through instinctive disgust and constant little glitches in the social infrastructure that is gender, an uneasy response to an uncanny bricolage of the building blocks of gendered life.

Escaping the Cisgender Gaze

The classic trans encounter is to see a visibly transfeminine person out on the street, or as an escort, or in some carefully-curated performance piece, and to realize that gender is a lie. This is part of the utility of transmisogyny, which renders people both constantly accessible and utterly exemplary, and in turn this casts transmisogyny itself as spectacular exclusion instead of a slow social and economic death that sometimes spikes, particularly with multiply marginalized subjects, into horrific violence.

This singularization of transfeminine life and oppression (particularly with trans women of color) through suicide and murder statistics renders both trans life and pain spectacular and implicitly places one as a 'natural' consequence of the other. We need to seriously inspect the many interactions between non-passing transfem people and cis people which do not end with one of them dead. One way to start is Sandra Lee Bartky's understanding of hegemonic femininity as a disciplinary practice.

Femininity as Disciplinary Practice

As the lesbian separatists of the 1970s and 80s intensified the work of rooting out patriarchy from their spaces, they began to discover that nothing was sacred: nearly all everyday social activities were shaped by gender. As Bartky argues, the 'imposition of such discipline on female identity' influences every second of every day:

Iris Young observes that a space seems to surround women in imagination that they are hesitant to move beyond: this manifests itself both in a reluctance to reach, stretch, and extend the body to meet resistances of matter in motion—as in sport or in the performance of physical tasks—and in a typically constricted posture and general style of movement. In an extraordinary series of over two thousand photographs, many candid shots taken in the street, the German photographer Marianne Wex has documented differences in typical masculine and feminine body posture. Women sit waiting for trains with arms close to the body, hands folded together in their laps, toes pointing straight ahead or turned inward, and legs pressed together. The women in these photographs make themselves small and narrow, harmless; they seem tense; they take up little space. Men, on the other hand, expand into the available space; they sit with legs far apart and arms flung out at some distance from the body. Most common in these sitting male figures is what Wex calls the “proffering position”: the men sit with legs thrown wide apart, crotch visible, feet pointing outward, often with an arm and a casually dangling hand resting comfortably on an open, spread thigh. …in a way that normally goes unnoticed, males in couples may literally steer a woman everywhere she goes: down the street, around corners, into elevators, through doorways, into her chair at the dinner table, around the dance floor. The man’s movement “is not necessarily heavy and pushy or physical in an ugly way; it is light and gentle but firm in the way of the most confident equestrians with the best trained horses.”

Bartky concludes that, between behavior and makeup and skin-care, these disciplinary practices "produce a 'practiced and subjected' body, that is, a body on which an inferior status has been inscribed,” and that "the practices that construct this body have an overt aim and character far removed, indeed, radically distinct, from their covert function;" that is, she claims that gender is everywhere, that it is power, and that cisgender women are structurally made unaware of this connection.

What does this mean for transfeminine experience? First, as seen in the sidewalk example we started with (so chosen precisely because of how fucking boring it is), the abstract 'genderfuck' of transfeminine existence congeals into actual examples in the context of gender-as-infrastructure. Gender is a crossing-guard, a gatekeeper, a reviewer -- it performs social functions, all the time, which glitch and shake in our presence. Transmisogyny is not necessarily vitriolic rage at 'boundary-breakers,' it can also just be the passive exclusion of a person whose existence causes a few too many little frictions.

As we've noted, the singularization of transfeminine life makes non-spectacular trans life impossible for cis people to understand, leading to a constant current of disgust/disdain that accompanies their more exciting bouts of transmisogyny. One major inlet to this current is social friction, the way that non-passing transfems are structurally prevented from using social/visual gender infrastructures to do everyday things. The second inlet, which I will discuss in the next section, is the unease provoked by the negotiations transfems take to navigate gendered systems despite this breakage, making small corrections which are ignored, must be ignored, leaving only the horrible lingering fear that they're better at this gender thing than you.

Gender work

Because transfemininity makes no sense from a vulgar gender-power perspective, cis people generally view transfeminine people as either unwitting 'dupes' of gender or as spectacular hyper-aware gender predators, as seen across the HSTS/AGP split, the dead tranny/serial killer media split, the 'scheming eunuch' archetype, and the binarization of transfem identity in queer spaces. But because cis people also generally want to assume that they're talking to someone that isn't an evil serial manipulator, personal interactions encourage and enforce the good tranny archetype, which demands absolute suppression of any sort of informed gender negotiation. This archetype is impossible to fulfill because of the systematic failure of social gender-power infrastructure to account for transfeminine people, which demands some degree of semi-intentional gender work to fill in the gaps.

Fortunately, this work will basically never be understood as such by well-meaning cis people because of transmisogyny, so you don't have to be /super/ subtle about it. Unfortunately, ignoring this transfeminine gender work takes a lot of effort on the part of cis people, particularly if they also have had to perform reparative gender work because of trans-adjacent conditions (divorce, infertility, lesbianism, PCOS). The invisible work cis people must make to keep themselves separate from transfeminine people is then associated with our presence, most clearly articulated in Janice Raymond's lament that transsexual lesbians are feeding "off woman’s true energy source, i.e., her woman-identified self" -- our proximity alone demands intense effort to keep cis gender negotiations distinct from trans ones, growing frustrations that feed the slow current of transmisogyny.

Even if a cis person successfully suppresses their understanding of transfeminine gender work, for folks within queer & women's spaces, this itself leads to a horrible looming anxiety because people in these spaces usually pride themselves on having a full consciousness of gender, and we're a pretty notable exception to that. These anxieties are then channeled into a constant fear of the bad tranny, manifested in the horrible trans woman that your cis queer initiators will tell you to stay far away from. But there is really not much of a difference between the shadowy machinations of the bad tranny and the gender work transfeminine people have to constantly perform to even exist within queer spaces, so transfeminine people are rendered constantly precarious.

What's so deliciously ironic about all this is that this is just a shallow repetition of the cis man // cis woman dyad! Archetypes like 'the poisoner witch' or 'the gossip' or 'the slut' have always been used as a reaction to negotiating power gained via the kitchen, or cloistered social activity, or sex, all routes that men could never understand as a direct consequence of their own gendered power -- so in response to this fear, these roles pilloried exemplary women to structurally terrify the population, but just as importantly to exonerate the rest of the female population, to let men pretend that these weren't tools that everyone was using, to pretend that heterosexual relationships were pure! Just as transfems serve the role of gay best friend^2 in gay mens' films, they serve the role of women^2 in queer spaces, constantly performing gender work which is simultaneously unknowable and terrifying to the cis majority, forcing periodic purges to pick out 'the bad ones' which temporarily exonerate the rest, letting the majority believe that the 'good tranny' actually exists: that mythical trans woman who is not semi-intentionally managing their gender presentation around you, the one you can fuck without worrying if she's just faking it, the one who is good and pure and radical and really, really boring. I have never met a non-passing trans woman like this, but I'm sure plenty of queer people have.

Conclusion

So there are two main forms of everyday experience that express and constitute transmisogyny. The first is the social friction inherent in being freak-gendered in a world that relies on gender to make people move and talk and shit correctly. The second is the friction between the gender awareness demanded of transfeminine people (none) and the practical result of transgendered living in the world. If you want to take some of this back to cis womanhood, I've been trying to reframe the marginalized position of womanhood in terms of articulation work -- that while women have always worked, that work has generally been rendered unreal, always carried out with a dream of not existing, turned into stage-setting for the real boys to grow up and come in and be breadwinners. In this context, our components look like 1) do gender work and 2) don't let it show, and the framing of transfeminine people as socially useless outcasts despite their constitutive role in social life via flexible labor starts to sound a lot like the making of a super-woman, like the mujerísima sometimes invoked in Latin American travesti activism. That sounds just about right. I will become a witch of witches, the lurking terror that eats astrologers, always and ever a little bit too real.

#transmisogyny

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