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Me during the finale:

“I can't lose your twice” starts playing: 

ME: GUYS! IT’S THE MUSIC! (That I was talking about an hour before that they hadn’t played for a long time)

Roy proposes to Thea: 

ME: GUYS! MY SHIP IS GETTING MARRIED!!! 

Thea accepts Roy’s proposal: 

ME: GUYS! LOOK LOOK LOOK! 

Oliver FINALLY tells Felicity about seeing her: 

ME: I’M DEAD I CAN’T STOP CRYING SOMEBODY HELP ME

#Literally me #I couldn't stop bawling #I was crying way after we turned the TV off #It was bad #my sisters were laughing ant me #Arrow Finale #Olicity #Theroy

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I WOULD JUST LIKE TO MENTION THAT MY FIRST AND STILL, HONESTLY, MY FAVORITE SHIP IN THE ENTIRE ARROWVERSE ARE GOING TO GET MARRIED AND AHHHHHHHHHH

Go live an amazing life. Get married, have a couple of kids. Get a minivan. Just go be normal. There’s nothing in this world that would make me happier than that. insp.

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Goodbye Arrow

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve made a post on here! And how fitting that I decided to come on here to say goodbye to the fandom and the show that has brought me so much joy over the past five years. Yes, not eight, because my sisters and I started watching in season three. 

I started watching because of Colton Haynes. Because he’s gorgeous. And then found out he wasn't introduced until episode 15. It was okay, because we all started falling in love with this murdering, dark, cold man named Oliver Queen. And the bubbly, sweet, and adorable girl named Felicity Smoak. 

Also John Diggle. 

And then Roy came. And I cried and squealed and fawned over him. Still do. 

But it did become more than that. It became a bonding for my sisters and I that we didn’t have before. We stayed up until three in the morning binging, then had to get up at eight to go to church. Ouch. We laid in one bed watching dramatic videos. We giggled at the dinner table about characters that had my parents rolling their eyes. (Even got my dad, and grandpa and grandma to watch for a few seasons.) 

And I came on here and found some interesting people I ended up blocking, but found a few that I still come on here to check on and read their metas and look at their gif sets. 

Yes, the show has changed. Yes, it didn’t go in the direction I wanted it to go at times, but at the heart, it’s still Arrow. It’s still about a man who thought he didn’t deserve love. Didn’t deserve trust. Didn’t want to trust. Didn’t want anything but to stick some arrows in people, all in the name of “justice”. 

But it became more than that. It became about a man who became desperate for love. For trust. To trust. To bring justice, but in a different way. 

And yes, it was Felicity. But it was also Diggle. Thea. Roy. William and Mia. At times, there were others in the mix who did help this man to grow into Oliver Queen: hero, father, husband. That wouldn’t have been possible without all those people in his life. 

It’s a story that ... is honestly beautiful. Made even more beautiful from my friends on here who wrote amazing spec and metas (@cogentranting), also amazing metas and gifs (@smoakmonster) and literally the best musician ever (@austencello).

Thank you for the fun years on here! I will always cherish the moments of screaming over reblogs and tags. I think my favorite moment was when @cogentranting and I made a thread about Oliver bleeding out in 5x20 before it aired and honestly, I remember very little of it, but I remember it being awesome. 

#Arrow #Oliver Queen #Felicity Smoak #Olicity

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I chose to keep you safe, and I chose right. You just wanted to be a hero, so you put your mission above your family. 

#Ohhhh Shelley #this is beautiful #Also: Stephen Amell's acting #Arrow #Oliver Queen and his baby girl

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- So did, uh–looks like the two of you got a chance to– to grow up with each other. - Um…actually, Mia and I just found out about each other recently. I never saw Felicity growing up, and–and after I left here, I never saw you again.

#STEPHEN'S ACTING #is always so awesome #But I swear this season has been even better than the rest #Like...wow #and this episode just solidified it all

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Diggle: How do I put this nicely?

Oliver turning to Diggle after interacting with Mia for a day: Is… is this what dealing with me is like?

#John Diggle #Oliver Queen #Arrow 8x04

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Oliver: Oh, how’s my ex-wife? Is she well? But yeah, not going to fight you. 

Mia: Nyssa Al Ghul trained me. You want to see how well?

Oliver: First of all I’m not gonna fight you. I’m your father.

Oliver: Second of all, I was trained by Nyssa’s father (and like 5 others) and then stabbed him through the chest, so I could beat Nyssa Al Ghul with my hands tied behind my back. 

Oliver: But mostly I’m your father and I’m not gonna fight you. 

#I've missed adding things to @cogentranting's post #*s #arrow #Oliver Queen #Mia Smoak #Queen

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Stephen Amell: Tonight is the last night I wear the Arrow suit.

stephenamell: One last time.

#wow #my emotions #his emotions #everyone's emotions #arrow

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Those are my kids.

#man the emotions #this scene was beautiful #97% of the episode was beautiful #arrow

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Bonus:

#let me just say #this scene was very cute #both of them were actually #arrow

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stubbornness runs in the family

#Olicity #Oliver Queen #Stubborness runs in the Queen family more than any other trait #Besides beauty

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Sometimes the mission is not worth the cost. You know that. So why are you still doing what [the Monitor] asks?

#one of Stephen's best scenes #Honestly #that guy just gets better and better #and this was great #Arrow spoilers

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Moira: This is John Diggle

Oliver: Finally… I mean nooooo

#Brianna posts #look at this #I'm alive #Arrow

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DAAaHRLINg,

#hello #it's me #I'm alive #and this is funny so here you go

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the sound of music is so iconic

like

the nuns roasting maria in three part harmony

‘the dress. you’ll have to put on another one before meeting the children’ ‘when we enter the abbey our worldly clothes are given to the poor’ ‘what about this one?’ ‘the poor didn’t want this one’

all seven children bursting into tears at dinner while Maria sips her tea

‘God bless whats his name’ (ten minutes later) ‘KURT! that’s the one I left out! God bless Kurt.’

maria passive aggressively praying about Liesl as she climbs through the window

tbh Captain Von Trapp dragging everyone around him at every possible moment like

‘you flatter me captain’ ‘oh I’m sorry, I meant to accuse you’ *AIR HORN SOUNDS*

‘I’m not finished yet!’ ‘OH YES YOU ARE, CAPTAIN.’ … ‘FRAULEIN’

liesl rolling her eyes at kurt during the blueberry/strawberry scene

honestly the love story I didn’t quite get as a kid but I’m SHOOK

when the baroness is trying to get the captain back on track but he just interrupts her and is like ‘there’s no use’

BUT WHEN THE BARONESS SAYS ‘well, she’ll never be a nun’ the look of SHOCK on his face like it honestly never occurred to him that Maria was in love with him too

so of course hes like ‘I must find her and kiss her immediately’

Von Trapp ripping the nazi flag in half like YES BINCH

THE MOST UNDERRATED SCENE THOUGH IS AFTER THE NAZIS RUN TO THEIR CARS TO CHASE THE VON TRAPPS AND THE SCENE SWITCHES TO THE TWO NUNS

‘reverend mother, I have sinned’ ‘I too, reverend mother’ *they both hold up coils from the nazi’s cars*

anyway this movie is the best and I love it

#popping on here to reblog this #the sound of music is honestly the best thing ever #and I'm so happy when people acknowledge it #ALL OF THIS

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I cannot even begin to imagine how hurtful it must be for children of rape, kids in foster care, and people with disabilities to hear over and over and OVER again that they’re the exception. That THEY are the people who everyone uses to argue why abortion is okay. They are always the people who are told it’s okay if they don’t live because they’re a burden. GOD ABOVE HELP US, YOU MATTER. If no one else tells you, I’m telling you now you’re WORTH fighting for, you’re WORTH IT. You deserve to be alive. You’re just as precious and valuable and beautiful as anyone else and I pray with all my heart that you never forget that.

#pro life

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Would you tell Mia that I love her every day? And I know that she will grow up to be as smart  and as beautiful as her mom.

#Let me interrupt my no-posting to post this #and SOBBBBBBBB #wowwwwwwwww #arrow #olicity