#arrow s5

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

OKAY. So Nyssa went back to try and rescue Evelyn, right? And it was never revealed what happened to Evelyn, even though Nyssa survived. So, what if Nyssa really did find this young, angry girl with incredibly shitty judgement of character and saved her? What if she took this rage-filled ball of teenage trauma and decided to raise Evelyn as her own, similar to Black Canary's relationship with Sin in the comics?

#arrow #arrow cw #cw arrow #nyssa al ghul #nyssa raatko #evelyn sharp #artemis #arrow s5 #arrow s6

[blazethecheeto]

Things Arrow Characters Absolutely Have Said

Oliver: Why is it so hard for you to believe me?!

New Team Arrow: ...

Oliver: Oh, right. The lying.

~~~~~~~~

Rory: You look mentally ill.

Oliver: I am. Let’s go.

~~~~~~~~~

Oliver: You guys, explain right now.

Evelyn: It was Rene.

Rory: It was Rene.

Curtis: It was Rene.

Rene: ...fuck.

~~~~~~~~~

Curtis: Come onn Evie do it for our friendship! You can't put a price on that.

Evelyn: Yes I can. Fifty dollars.

~~~~~~~~

Rory: The only thing I'm guilty of is being adorable... ...and also assault with a deadly weapon.

~~~~~~~~~

Diggle: What happened here?

Curtis: It's kind of complicated but Rene-

Diggle: Got it. Forget I asked.

~~~~~~~~

Curtis: Let's play 20 questions!

Rory: Okay! What's your favorite colour-

Curtis, laser fucking focused: Triangle. Do you like men?

~~~~~~~~~

Dinah: Go fuck yourself.

Black Siren, smugly: Sure, but only if you watch

#i am not sorry for the last one #yes i am aware Evelyn is evil I DOBT CARE SHE'S PART OF THE TEAM IN MY HEART #mine #my incorrect quotes #arrow #arrow found family #curtis holt #Rene Ramirez #rory regan #evelyn sharp #dinah drake #Laurel Lance e2 #black siren #oliver Queen #arrow s5 #dinahsiren #i haven't done these in so long #the gayrrowverse #john diggle

[raayllum]

people getting mad at canon for things they're misremembering are so fucking wild

anyway because someone claimed that Callum undercut all of Rayla's heroic moments in S5 here's all the times she's the one who saved him and others (in a season with only 3 fight scenes any of the trio participated in), thank you

#tdp rayla #s5 #arc 2 #'rayla got done dirty bc she's not a lone girlboss badass anymore' just say you don't understand her character arc im BEGGING #but no her saving callum then bait and then herself in quick succession #the first time she's presumably used a bow and arrow in years doesn't count #bc her bf helps her kill an evil creature (eyeroll) #fandom nonsense

[olicitygifs]

OLICITY as Midnights Tracks (insp.)

#olicity #arrow #olicityedit #arrowedit #dcedit #dctvedit #userpat #tuserluz #userstream #oliver queen #felicity smoak #oliverqueenedit #felicitysmoakedit #s1 #s2 #s3 #s4 #s5 #s7 #s8 #multiple episdes #sara #* #hi??? #the first gif was much better but tumblr decided to censor it instead :(

[n7punk]

entrapta grabbing bow and dragging him over because she has to talk Right Now but also using her pigtail to catch his arrow before it can fall is so cute. she doesn't show it with respect for personal space but she does care so much ❤️

#like the infodump is Happening but she wont let his arrow get dusty #she's such a cutie #she ra #words and things #the bottom fourth of these screenshots is cut off to remove the seek bar sorry lmao im not digging out screengrabs for this #its the vignette or no visual aids at all #oh S5:EP11 4 mins in

[julia0689]

Time’s Arrow neither stands still nor reverses, it merely marches forwards...  The many faces of Beatrice Horseman.  6 hours, Adobe Photoshop. 

#bojackthoughts #bojack diane #bojack netflix #bojack rewatch #bojack s6 #bojack #bojack horseman #bojack todd #bojack season 6 #bojack s5 #bojack s3 #bojack spoilers #beatrice horseman #times arrow #free churro #art #artwork #my art #artists on tumblr #graphic design #digital art #digital drawing #photoshop #AdobePhotoshop #andy warhol #pop art #marilyn monroe #campbell soup co #netflix

[winnie-the-monster]

“You know what he can’t change?”

“What?”

“That way he looks at you.”

#arrow #s5 #5x20 #felicity smoak #curtis holt #olicity

[sidecharactersdomatter]

I did like the final fight in Book 5 but only the issue I had with it was that Rayla was shooting arrows underwater.

#my post #the dragon prince #tdp #tdp d5 #tdp spoilers #tdp s5 spoilers #claudia #claudia tdp #rayla #aaravos #look the arrows should’nt be flying they’d be floating upwards #tdp criticism #tdp critical #yes it is impossible to shoot arrows underwater

[itachi86]

i miss roy

#arrow #s5 rewatch #this season would be so much better with roy #actually every season would be

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

the homoeroticism of the friendship between felicity smoak and alena helix

#arrow cw #arrow s5 #felicity smoak #alena whitlock #smoakhelix #helixsmoak

[baltears]

from this post

#this was a nice way to start my day ☺️ thank u #btw by the arrow between different and more i mean more is not going to happen unless it happens differently lol (s5 🙏) #also by no friends i wanted to clarify that he has one friend and she hates him. but the text didn't go small enough on my phone #they're definitely... still friends... considering they say that they are all the time but no friends more accurately captures his vibe lol #his brain is a conference call

[witch-with-wifi]

For anyone that’s been following me since way back when I was watching arrow I’m so sorry besties but I’m back on my bullshit and rewatching it

#I was gonna continue where I left off in s5 but I don’t remember shit #arrow

[orderforbrian]

erm.....😳😳😳😳 POV: you are about to learn what the K stands for

(aka i want tma2 to consist of a very disgruntled martin finally getting the murder spree he didn't get to have in s5 feat. jon stuck in a tape recorder helping him when he's not swooning)

(and yes, this is fully based off lollipop chainsaw fjdsklfjsdl)

[Start ID: Digital drawing of Martin Blackwood from The Magnus Archives. Martin is a fat mixed Polish/Korean man with shoulder length, brown wavy hair that has a streak of grey in one bang. He wears browline glasses, one side obscured by a lens glare. He has a beauty mark under hip lip and a scruffy beard. He is wearing a cableknit blue sweater underneath a teddylined brown jacket, which has some dried bloodstains, and is also wearing jeans with a belt. He is looking up with a vengeful gaze and sneer, and is breathing out a puff of white fog. At his waist, he is gripping a chainsaw. The chainsaw has blue markings on certain hardware and the blade has two blue hearts in the metal at the front and back. At Martin's right hip is a carabiner in one of his belt loops, attached to it is a black tape recorder. The tape inside has green lines on it and each spool has a dot of green (representing Jon's eyes). Above the tape recorder is a bubble with a disembodied face in it (meant to be Jon). Jon has purple and green eyes with white glowing pupils, and is blushing, appearing to be flustered by his husband's state.

There are multiple arrows with text pointing around the picture. "Vengeful gaze" points to Martin's face. "Lonely, Eye, and Web aligned. Read: Ur fucked" also points to Martin's face. "Bloodstained jacket (apocalypse vintage)" points to his jacket. "Big arms (for poetry and cuddling) (and violence)" points to his arms. "Sorry boys, he's taken" points to a gold wedding band on Martin's left hand. "This chainsaw kills avatars" points to the chainsaw. "Husband (he's a tape recorder) (long story)" points to Jon as the tape recorder. End ID.]

some closeups

#all i can imagine is jon's tape recorder clanking around martin's hip with the carabiner as he runs around #the magnus archives #tma #jmart #jonmartin #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #tma2 #order up! art tag

[tommyxgrace-always]

Tommy & Ada parallels

Political inclination

Tommy was known to be communist/socialist before the war, dreaming about changing the world. After Grace, he eventually decides to pursue politics.

Ada also shared communist ideologies and is active to an extent with Freddie. When Tommy became MP, she naturally became his political advisor. In the finale, Tommy reiterates the fact that she was born for politics in her family.

Fine things in life

Tommy liked to possess lavish and fine things. His suits for example, In s1, we see how he gets his suits done from the same place as Kimber. In s4, we hear how he gets his suits done by a tailor in London. Similarly he admired Tatiana’s luxurious car in s3 just like the look of awe he gave May’s mansion. Arrow house was decorated with the finest things - paintings, interiors, furniture and his bedroom with Grace too.

Ada’s house in s2 said it all. The interior, the furniture everything was expensive and grand. This aspect of her personality is reiterated in s5, by showing the luxurious redecoration and also her art pieces, vases etc (when finn was too scared to ruin it with his blood)

Love & Marraige

Both married the love of their life inspite of opposition from family. Ada married Freddie even though Tommy and her brothers were against a communist. Tommy married Grace even when Polly was against her.

Both their children were born out of wedlock. When Ada got pregnant there was ambiguity about Freddie’s intentions for her. Just when Ada lost hope and decides to be practical and abort, they have a dramatic reunion at the train station. Their love for each other is validated and they look forward to have their child. Similarly Grace got pregnant with Tommy’s child, there is ambiguity about her intentions and it seems they will go their separate ways again. Just when Tommy seems to have accepted that she will sail away and decides to be practical and be with May, they have a dramatic reunion at the Derby. Their love and longing for each other is re-validated and they look forward to have a life together.

Both lose the love of their life. Tommy takes it way worse because of his already existing war trauma. Ada is normal and emotionally stable so she carries on without getting sucked into addictions, depression and hallucinations whereas we all know how Tommy suffered after Grace.

Both end up being widowers and single parents

Companionship

They never looked for love again. Companions yes but not another love.

We see Ada interested in the Russian spy in s3 and later we see her with Ben Younger. There may be other men whom she saw which we don’t see onscreen. Tommy, we all know went from women to women. Prostitutes, aristocrats, communist, secretary, dead wife’s ghost, ex girlfriend’s ghost, you name it!!!

Ben Younger was Ada’s constant and the longest one we see with her. They seem to share a stable relationship like two “mutually consenting normal people” who respect each other, can share. Lizzie is a constant go-to for Tommy but they share an unequal dynamic where she has been hopelessly in love with him from beginning while he saw her as no strings attached buddy and had other priorities and is done with love after Grace. Thats why that relationship is chaotic and toxic but also convenient and practical for both.

Interestingly they also have a child out of wedlock with their companions. The difference is Tommy had to marry Lizzie as a man who took responsibility of his child. Whereas Ada mentions she wasn’t planning to marry Ben, it’s seen as a bold move.

Ada and Ben’s relationship confirms what Grace fan always knew unlike a certain section of the fandom . Just because a partner is decent and good and you like them does not automatically mean you fell in love. Ada explains in a s5 scene after she hears of Ben’s demise “I didn’t love him. But I liked him. He was decent and good….I wasn’t going to marry him. God he didn’t deserve us”. This is exactly how Tommy and Lizzie were designed too. Due to Tommy’s trauma and unequal feelings for Lizzie, their relationship is more toxic in nature than Ada and Ben’s. But at the core it was companionship. Two people having a convenient partnership that serves both. Tommy also found Lizzie to be decent and good compared to him. She took care of his children and was loyal to him and his family. She didn’t deserve him. He didn’t love her either but liked her. He felt sorry for her as she had to bear the ultimate pain of losing a child.

There is so much more I wanted to cover about their bond. But this post will be too long. So will do a separate post.

#tommy x grace #tommy shelby #peaky blinders #grace burgess #thomas shelby #grace shelby #cillian murphy #tommy x grace forever #annabelle wallis #tommy and grace #ada shelby #polly gray #arthur shelby #john shelby #tommy x lizzie #lizzie x tommy #freddie thorne #ada x freddie #sophie rundle #iddo goldberg

[teaforthotxxx]

I know its been a literal decade since Arrow was good but I will never forget how Oliver and Sara had the same type in girls.

Like they really like blonde smart girls with special interests.

Bonus: Sara also ends up with a blonde smart girl. (Anything after Arrow s5 is basically trash to me)

#felicity smoak #oliver x felicity #olicity #oliver queen #sara lance #avalance #arrowverse #arrow #legends of tomorrow

[silverliing]

Mike’s wall art

I love seeing analysis about ST set design because it really spells out so much of the story without verbally telling you, and ive seen much discussion abt the details of mike’s room in s4 (that one way sign haunts me btw). buuut there are two pieces of visible wall art that I don’t really see get talked about on here (that i’ve read) and I just have a few things to say about them and what i think they might be telling us about Mike’s character and upcoming journey (hint: going into the UD)(hint: making plans and leading the party)(hint: byler)

so idk if this has been pointed out or if it’s common knowledge atp but the two pieces circled above are lithographs by artist MC Escher; Hand with Reflective Sphere (left)

and Relativity (right)

(a lil hard to see in this screenshot i’m sorry😢)

The artwork is beautiful as you can see (canon Mike Wheeler has great taste in art). Escher was most known for his intricate “impossible constructions” which are optical illusions of paradoxical space, he was also the inventor of the impossible cube:

this is some pretty cool nerdy, mathy stuff that I’d expect mike would be into, but looking at it from the context of his character and the direction of where the story is headed, there were 3 immediate possible readings that popped into my head which point toward 3 different (yet coexisting) directions:

He likes the art — It’s true, this art taps into Mike’s interests. Valid but boring. zzzz. snooze. You could argue that these posters should be taken at face value, but I just feel like in a show like ST —where the main cast knows of and is in various ways affected by an evil alternate dimension— having a character with wall art that references perspective/dimensional anomalies doesn’t really tell us much about his specific character or story. We’ve known that the ST set designers use a character’s space to show us who they are as people, these two artworks need to tell us something about Mike and his journey. And maybe Mike’s sensibilities about the world at large are shifting into nihilism with everything that’s happened in hawkins and the art reflects an absurdist outlook of future (teenage stuff, growing up, etc. etc.)

It foreshadows Mike’s s5 arc — I love this one. Mike is one of the few in the main cast who haven’t been in the upside down proper, so this art could reference not only that he’ll go into the UD in s5 but also that there could be dimensional anomalies involved in his travel or journey there. Perhaps this is how they’ll be able to find Max— by bending the laws of physics and using the mechanics of dimensional travel against itself, perhaps to open new doors or travel in different directions (hint: time travel 😏). And i think the reason this art is in Mike’s wall is bc it will be Mike who formulates the plan to find Max and retrieve her with the help of El and Will’s new powers 😏 (g*d knows i want to see leader Mike make a come back)(and Will with powers).

Will Byers — we know Mike and Will are tied together by the narrative and so I think these artworks could be directly pointing to Will with big red arrows. This point is corroborated by simply analyzing the formal qualities of the artwork, both individually and as a set. Hand with Reflective Sphere is about optics and perspective, about seeing, but also about the flattening of space. Relativity is about space, dimension, and paradox, but also about impossible perspective/vantage point. When read together the objective reading of them is about sight and space and paradox, about how the flattening of space helps us see something new and impossible. While Mike hasn’t experienced the dimensional travel into the UD proper, many of those closest to him atp had; El, Will, Nancy… but the reason i think these two posters remind him of Will specifically is because out of everyone else who has been in the UD, only Will experiences the feeling of being stuck there and of seeing into both dimensions at once; the stuck view-master, true sight. Mike associates these things combined (dimensional travel and dimensional sight/perception) with Will.

Also, Mike is a nerdy guy, he seems interested in this kind of stuff for the fun of it so he could’ve had sciency charts that reference the subject of visible light and paradoxes the way Suzie does, but instead he has not one but two fine-art pieces by a pretty big graphic artist that reference the subject of sight and space. Also, Idk what it is about the fact that it’s fine-art and not movie/game/dnd art that makes me also associate it with Will— the self-proclaimed visual artist of the show. The words are all jumbled up in my head rn but; artist. sight. all-encompassing. dimension. paradox. new perspective. -> -> -> -> Will Byers (is this a hint to wills powers??) etc. etc. etc. you get it

Secret 4th option (ties into #2)

Mike gets Vecnaed and this forces him into extensive self-reflection and the labyrinthian trials of finding himself and mastering his fears(maybe he’s already begun his self-searching and that’s why we see this art at the beginning of s4). cue cool musical montage of Mike navigating his own memories and mind-scape to find the answer that will make everything make sense while also hiding from vecna and buying the party time to find a way to end him.

#i just have thoughts #i love this art but what does it meannn #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #st analysis #byler #st5 speculation #will byers has powers #will byers has true sight #st #i just have thoughts ok? #stranger things analysis #stranger thing 5