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anistarrose · 23 days

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The possible explanations for why the fuck Barry could've felt the need to open that scene with "are you afraid?" have been analyzed by this fandom for basically ever since the Red Robe identity reveal, and a lot of people have brought up good theories that I've adopted bits and pieces of from each. But one thing that I haven't actually seen proposed as a factor is this:

Talking to Tres Horny Boys through the facade of the faceless "Red Robe" might've just been Barry's backup plan. Plan A was, quite possibly, to sneak Junior's ichor out of Lucretia's private quarters, be able to actually inoculate THB, and actually have them recognize him. (A proper reunion, with no cryptic warnings. With no dancing around static — just Barry and Tres Horny Boys, actually trusting each other innately.)

Why do I think this is plausible? Let me clarify the timeline a little: at the start of the Petals arc, before THB leave the Bureau, all is normal with their soon to be ex-roommate Pringles/Robbie (Ep. 18). Upon return, THB are informed that at some point during their (overnight, so 24 hour-ish?) absence, Pringles was thrown in the brig (Ep. 28).

It's eventually revealed by Pringles and Barry, in The Suffering Game and Reunion Tour respectively, that Barry possessed Pringles to do "reconnaissance" on the Bureau, specifically on where to find the second Voidfish (ie, Lucretia's private office, which is where Pringles "woke up" and was "arrested summarily").

I will note that Barry describes this as just recon — implying information gathering, and not necessarily a Voidfish ichor heist. However, this was an explanation he gave through a recorded message in the coin, where he was likely choosing his words carefully to confuse THB the least amount possible. And moreover... I just find it hard to believe that Barry wouldn't let himself hope, leading up to and during this infiltration, that he could make it out with the ichor he so desperately needed.

After all, Barry may be Going Through It during the podcast, but he definitely knows that as much as he needs information, it's going to be a lot harder to pull off his eventual heist if Lucretia catches him in the act, and winds up knowing that he has that information. Barry also chose to make his infiltration attempt while the Bureau was distracted, monitoring the Gaia Sash — in a lot of ways, this might've seemed not like not just his first chance at the ichor, but also his best chance at it.

Barry's both an incredibly determined and opportunistic, calculating guy. I don't think Barry would've left Pringles' body unless/until he was absolutely cornered; no hope left of getting out with the ichor this time. He wouldn't pass up a chance to restore his family's memories — because of his deep, deep emotional and practical stakes in restoring those memories, first and foremost — but he even feels kinda bad about possessing Pringles (calling it "unfortunate collateral damage"), and would certainly prefer for his unsavory tactics to be, you know, worth it.

So when Barry fails? When he comes away from his mission he's no doubt been planning for weeks, waiting intently and single-mindedly for his chance with the right Relic-based distraction — and it turns out he has information, but no ichor, to show for it? When he fails, Barry's left on the back foot.

He'd dared to hope it might turn out better than this. He'd dared to hope this might be a turning point, and the world might remain in danger, but at least he'd have his family back. He'd dared to hope he might be able to speak to them, in his right mind, with his memories, and be recognized for the first time in a decade.

So when none of that comes to fruition? When he knows his boys won't recognize him yet, no matter what he does? Yet he still needs them on his side? He still needs them to be prepared for the horrors coming?

Well, he just fucking improvises.

"Are you afraid?"

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #barry bluejeans #taz meta #this is actually a conclusion i reached while working on a fic recently!#but this topic is buried right in the middle of mostly non-barry pov; so it deserved its own post for visibility #disclaimer that i don't actually think griffin intended this explicitly - but i think it's a very powerful read on barry's character #and writing-wise barry's motivations were spun together on the fly so much anyways that i think i'm allowed to extrapolate #what was griffin doing if not extrapolating from his own previous writing choices anyways? (i'm so glad he did. i love barry)#long post

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lorephobic · 5 months

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(same anon) IVE NEVER SEEN THAT honestly if i was barrys gf i would just be like fine its jacob elordi LMFAO oh my god thats so cute 😭😭 i also saw a selfie barry took with jacob and jacob is like. crouching so hed be in frame... it made me sob.. uncle jacob... what if i died

no fr their friendship is so real & true 💛💛💛💛

just for u anon ive curated my favorite obscure jarry pics that i havent seen on tumblr yet <3

starting off w my absolute faves and putting the rest below the cut

ok the premiere ones arent that obscure but shhhh i hadnt seen these exact angles yet

#they r so. :(<3 #love the second to last one sm bc everyone makes their friendship out to be this clingy one sided thing #but jacob has dropped so many stunning barry pics that hes just kept for himself this whole time and it makes my entire heart ache #hes just not very online LOL #but whenever he feels like it he has the power to drop the most beautiful barry keoghan image weve ever seen #that hes just been holding onto. for himself. do u understand.#im going to cry.#ANYWAY sorry it took me forever to get to this ask ive been super busy w work but i love u mwah #asks #saltburn posting

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rooolt · 1 year

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I think the sheer presence of gilear faeth would just destroy the omega dads. He’s like the opposite of all of them. He shows up and they’re all simply unmade

#Gilear faeth vs willy stampler who would win #Gilear faeth vs Barry oak who would win #Gilear faeth vs bill close who would win #I think gilear sweep #I just think he’d be too much for them to comprehend #Power word kill on him and it just doesn’t work for some reason #dndads #dimension 20 #Gilear faeth #fantasy high

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danothan · 1 year

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i’m in the kind of art block where it takes me 5 hrs to do a simple bust sketch bc it feels like i’m relearning how to draw, so what ends up happening is that i find myself painstakingly sculpting barry allens for half of the day and then admiring those drawings for the other half, not bc they’re any good (art block clouding my perception), but bc they are. barry <3

he could singlehandedly push me thru this block, i know he can. he has to.

#danbles #dc #the flash #barry allen #i wanna draw the other 3 superblorbs o’ mine but it’s already so hard to draw in general rn nvm trying entirely new characters #ideally i could keep working on the familiar until i get the hang of it but that’s just counterproductive isn’t it #an absolutely terrifying prospect but i can’t delay the inevitable #speaking of which i showed my friend a drawing of barry i did in 2017 and they had to will the power of god to not laugh at me 😭😭#the ugly truth behind drawing men before the jojo takeover of 2019 </3

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professionalbookhoarder · 1 year

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JLA: Incarnations (2001) #2: “Belonging”

Bruce joins the JLA. For some context, everyone but J’onn had basically been complaining about Batman ordering them around before this. Imagine thinking Batman was looking down on you just to be hit with the speech he gave here. And for him to be challenging SUPERMAN to do better by you at the same time??? Unreal. Also, Bruce finally accepting the offer JLA had extended them earlier but only after being like, “Are you sure? Are you really sure?” AFTER GIVING THAT SPEECH OF COURSE THEY WERE GOING TO SAY YES.

#😭#this issue is also lowkey a good study of supes #and his shortcomings as a team player in his early years #and it's also an interesting juxtaposition with bruce #bc while both are more used to working alone #bruce's strategic mindset helps him better see how all the members of a team can work together to resolve a conflict #and the fact that he doesn't have super powers like invulnerability means he's much more aware of strengths and weaknesses #and the necessity to create plans that maximize the former and mitigating the latter so that team members come to the least harm possible #clark doesn't need to consider that for himself really so it comes to mind less quickly in team settings #the issue didn't lay this out explicitly but it sure made me think on it a lot #bruce wayne #clark kent #hal jordan #barry allen #carter hall #dc comics #jla #justice league #batman #superman

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givemewallywestorgivemedeath · 1 year

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I mean...

He's not wrong. Barry and Wally have both almost destroyed the bleed without meaning to.

#which is slightly weird because the bleed is outside of the speedforce. it borders the speedforce so they can still get into it #but technically their powers shouldn't work there at all because it IS OUTSIDE OF THE SPEEDFORCE #and yet... they've both almost entirely destroyed it #dc #dc comics #the flash #kid flash #wally west #barry allen

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angst-is-love-angst-is-life · 5 months

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*laughs nervously* haha fuck. I made Zoom way too powerful

And am now questioning the entire fic

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apprenticemockingbird · 6 months

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#barry lyndon #power walk into work music #music #Spotify

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gatogotica · 1 year

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rimmer as a shift leader is literally the red dwarf equivalent of that one retail manager that takes their job bossing sales associates around WAY too seriously

#I’m cryingggg he’s so funny #I’m listening to the audiobooks read by chris barrie and it’s so fucking good he’s AMAZING at the impressions #if you’ve worked retail u know what I mean. like bro our job is to sell people things it’s not that serious #like the kind of person who goes into a management position solely to exert power over normal ass employees #but like they still suck at their job #I love him sm he’s so silly. what a nerd #red dwarf #my post #arnold rimmer #infinity welcomes careful drivers

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years

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oooh for the WIP, blanket? or maybe close? thank youuuuu

You can find the ask game here! :D (Please send some in if you want!!)

Okay, I gotta do these few sentences because I think you haven't seen the couple of posts I've made about my new second long term wip, and this is too funny out of context to not share it salkghslgkhdlksdhgldshk

From Double Troubles:

He could probably come up with a bullshit excuse about why he can't go with the others immediately and why he needs to talk to Barry alone and away from everyone else.

He's not going to kill Barry. Come on!

Meadow shakes his head, and he closes the door behind him.

#Thank you for sending this in; Reese!! :D #the really bare bones short version of the concept of this fic is it's an 8th bird au but the 8th bird is an oc named Meadow #Meadow is one soul linked to two bodies; one that lives in the Material Plane and one that lives in the Plane of Logic #post voidfishing; Meadow remembers everything in the Plane of Logic because that body is from that plane and is also now in it #so it's immune to Fisher's powers #so in a very Barry-esque situation; they're trying to convince themself in the Material Plane to do things to figure out how to stop #Lucretia and find everyone without any memories lol #(spoiler alert; it doesn't go very well during the decade and he still struggles slightly during the campaign lol)#I can send you a link to the post where I go more in detail about it if you want :3 #Gab gabs #ask game #written works of Gab #Double Troubles

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con-ked · 1 year

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imagine if our hands could be whatever we wanted them to be

think of the possibilities

#I'm looking at you band kids #bassoonists #pianists #literally just all band kids #eerily thin tactile precise fingers for delicate work #hands so comically large and notorious for their power the village nicknames you Barry Bigslappy #hands just like average hands but glimmering a thousand different hues as if carved from crystal #tf2 engineer sentry hands #cthulhu hands #glowy hands that light up when you shake them or high five somebody #giant knife fingers #worm on a string fingers #tag yourself #i'm curious what kinda hands people come up with #i'm already regretting this i know what y'all are like #hands #shitpost

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coldflasher · 2 years

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also probably shouldn’t have laughed when barry’s first response to finding out he was savitar was “what if i killed myself” because i know this was meant to be a Very Serious Moment but who among us has not had that very normal reaction to an inconvenience

#helen's flash rewatch #suicide tw #he really was like i'm savitar? guess i'll just kill myself then #it was funnier than it should have been but maybe im just sick #also lowkey annoyed me cos i have a savitar fic where barry threatening to kill himself is actually an active power play he uses against him #i forgot they did it on the show and now i feel annoyed that they thought of it and dismissed it #but also i 100% think their reasons for why that wouldnt work were like #inadequate. so i will choose to ignore it

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kraviolis · 1 year

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i fucking love the bbmc so much

#IF DUNDEE CANT COME BACK TO HIS FUCKIN FAMILY IM GONNA CRY #HE HAD THE KUTTE ON HE HAD IT THEY WELCOMED HIM WITH OPEN ARMS #BUT BARRY LIED AND STEVIE WOULDNT LISTEN AND NOW..................#HES SPENDING CHRISTMAS ALONE #I THOUGHT HE WOULD GET TO SPEND IT WITH BARRY IN THEIR HOUSE.............................#HE MADE THIS CLUB!!!! HE BUILT THIS!!!!! ITS ENTIRE PURPOSE WAS TO HONOR HIS MUM HOW CAN HE HONOR HER AND GIVE HER A LEGACY NOW?????#ABSOLUTELY FUCKING. HEARTBREAKING. WITH CREAM #and fucking collin BRO fucking collin #he was so against dundee at first but then barry was like 'ok we either let dundee back in or kill nancy' and he switched up REAL fast #hes putting nancy before the fucking club and its so INFURIATING but my god. my GOD is it justified #the club literally wanted him to shoot his own daughter in the head even tho she didnt do anything it was just bcus she KNEW stuff #cleo died to norman bones and dundee died to norman bones but dundee is back and cleo isnt.#and now involving nancy's life? collin refuses.#i cant tell if collin wants to try to kill norman (it wont work) or if hes. hes gonna make a deal.#what KIND of deal i have no clue #dundee thinks collin is trying to snake his way into being the leader of bbmc but i think its. more complicated than that #collin wants to keep nancy safe and having more power within the bbmc will help him to do that #but he also thought at first that dundee wanted to hurt nancy #so thats why he was so fucking against dee at the start #but once dee started to prove he had no intention to hurt anyone he wanted to give him a chance #hence the whole making dee apologize to nancy #(also the fact that nancy didnt forgive dundee for SURE is influencing collin rn and making him keep his distance from dee)#but then barry told him #goddddddddd #krav talks #nopixel

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jadenvargen · 2 months

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free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty.

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

#james baldwin #motivated by i think people here think it's harder to find resources and read than it actually is. so much stuff online!#motivation nr 2 wtf

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graphicpolicy · 7 months

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inbarfink · 3 months

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It’s really fascinating to compare the way Agatha handles the Heterodyne Legacy compared to her father and uncle. Because these are the two known generations of ‘Heroic’ Heterodynes after a long, long legacy of the Heterodyne family being known primarily as Evil Bastards - but they have such a totally opposite relationship with that villainous legacy.

Bill and Barry grew up deep inside that Evil Heterodyne Legacy and know all about how truly rotten it really is. Their father was an Old Heterodyne to the bone and an Extremely Reprehensible Human Being. Like, not just Cartoon Evil Overlord stuff - according to the Novels, he forced Bill and Barry’s mom to marry him by threatening her family. And he tried to kill them because they weren’t evil enough to his tastes.

And when their mom killed him to protect her sons, the Castle killed her in retaliation. The very manifestation of the Heterodyne Legacy has cost them their beloved mother who just saved their life. And all of this in addition to the fact a non-evil Heterodyne was really an unthinkable concept when the Boys started - meaning they had to work extra hard to distance themselves from their family if they wanted anyone outside of Mechanicsburg to trust them.

And Heterodyne Boys worked very very hard to prove to the world that they’re not monsters. Both to fight off against the constant suspicions that they were monsters, and because they most likely wanted as little to do with their father’s legacy as Spark-ly possible. For them the Heterodyne Legacy was mostly kind of a Curse, the thing that tormented their mother and killed her and almost killed them, the thing that makes people wary of them.

And as such, they distanced themselves from anything that’s even remotely to do with that old legacy of monsters, from anything evil or scary or messy or ugly. Much to the chagrin of the Castle, the House of Heterodyne’s many other monsters, the Jager Horde Mechanicsburg’s proud Evil Minion population and many others who felt abandoned by them for the sake of PR.

Then there’s Agatha Heterodyne. And it’s not just that Agatha grew up in a post-Heterodyne-Boys world where the general populace associates the family name less with evil barbarous mad kings and more with good-natured heroism. Where even those who remember the Old Heterodynes are at least willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Where even those who would like her to be like the Old Heterodynes are at least willing to give her some wiggle room to express herself....

It is all of that, but more importantly Agatha didn’t grow up as a Heterodyne at all.

She grew up as Agatha Clay, with the Spark-Suppressing Locket that dulled her mind and made her a miserable klutzy mess who couldn’t do anything right. She grew up hating the constant feeling of being powerless.

And discovering that she’s a Heterodyne came up… pretty close to realizing she’s a Spark, and both of these revelations gave her a certain kind of Power that she never got to have before. She is now both a powerful Spark and a powerful political player in this grand Europa political chess board.

And as much as she has the same heroic values and upbringing as the Boys did (courtesy of Barry and the Construct Duo), not growing up so up-close-and-personal with the worst consequences of the Old Heterodyne’s evil means she’s not as immediately repulsed by it like the Boys were.

She encountered all of these old monstrous pieces of the Heterodyne Legacy - the Jagers, the Castle, Mechanicsburg, even just the fear her name can put into people’s hearts - not as the Evil Legacy Forced Upon Her. But stuff that was taken away from her, and she had to earn back. And in a world stacked so heavily against her, so determined to rob her of her agency and newfound sense of power, these things represent the assertion and security of her power.

For the Heterodyne Boys, the worst thing they could ever imagine being was monsters - like their father and the rest of their family was. For Agatha Heterodyne, the worst thing she could imagine is being powerless again. She would take being seen as a monster a thousand times over being condescended and ignored ever again.

Being seen as a monster isn’t actually all that bad at all, she discovered.

All of these things together make Agatha not quite the second generation of Actually Heroic Heterodyne or just another link in the Old Heterodyne Legacy - but another new kind of Heterodyne altogether. One that can both retain a moral code and embrace the family’s monstreness at the same time.

#girl genius #agatha heterodyne #webcomics #webcomic #webcomix

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