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Nope. I enjoy fanfic now more than I ever have (for this show).

Why would they when Felicity is still with her boyfriend?

I guess this might have something to do with Prometheus?

It was in the previouslies, so I'd say yes. It happened.

Literally dump it in the river as she says, "Bye bye, birdie," because once was not enough with that joke. And then Oliver needs to get recalled for wasting taxpayer money.

Have any interviews with EBR been released from the 100th party? Because the comic sites are releasing interviews about the comic people-I haven't seen much else. The show's track record gives people reason to be skeptical, but maybe don't rage about it JUST yet?

What insight would he have into Felicity's POV though?

ETA: @Midnight Lullaby wrote it better

Based on his past behavior, this seems like maybe a social media snit.

Did Barry's dumb ass Flashpoint us back to Saturday or what

ETA-never mind, I don't know where I was going with this, haha

Who are you, pretty bird?!!

When you see someone holding something in a pic, the first thing you do is see if you can read what's on said thing, haha.

Yes. SIDES in grey letters is pretty easy to make out for me in that pic.

What he's holding has "SIDES" written on it. What they're sides for though, IDK.

Near impossible at this point.

I'm surprised anyone thinks that's EBR, haha.

The only resemblance I see is the hair.

I just wish they'd left out the whole knowing-about-past-Ellie thing, along with her feelings if inadequacy. It is totally normal for Jules to feel the way she does, but there are extenuating circumstances in this situation regarding their past that make going there not a good look for Oliver and Felicity. I wish they'd just made her a tough nut to crack and a little bit distant, because I totally buy that O/F would have a kid like that (and they set it up here that Ellie was kind of difficult since birth, so it would just be her personality!). And they seem to be pretty great parents otherwise, so...ugh. WHY, FIC. WHY?!

Yeah. It isn't something they're ever able to fix, which seems like maybe they continue doing whatever it is they'd been doing that made Jules feel that way in the first place? Hopefully they delve into that in later chapters, because as of now, given that Oliver seems to have pinpointed her issue with being withdrawn and not feeling like she's wanted, the way they talk about her attitude later in life makes me feel like they're a couple of a-holes. Even this from today's chapter:

Plus - they wrote in a way (unintentionally, I think) that could've given the audience the impression that Jules was the less-favored child, even before this one-shot. Felicity thinking about Ellie during Jules' ultrasound, the narrator referring to her as "the familiar three-year-old" when she comes to visit O/F after Ellie is born (and having Oliver wax poetic about what kind of life Ellie's destined for as he says, "We've been waiting for you."). And it's hard to separate these feelings from the text despite the fact that I realize the story of FiCoN was about Ellie, and that we got tons of time with her and O/F and none with Jules and O/F, so there's already that feeling of...ickiness there for people who read into those things they've already written. And then to find out here that Jules knows about Ellie from before, and that she's obviously taken any sort of favoritism Oliver and Felicity show towards Ellie (which...could be distorted, but given the way they talk about Ellie being an easy child, and having an infectious happiness that draws you to her, vs how closed-off and difficult Jules is, I think it probably isn't?), there's a correlation there between this knowledge and their behavior and the way Jules feels about her place in the family, which makes me very sad for her, and IMO takes it beyond any feelings of insecurity a kid that age would feel about their younger siblings into Very Real Issue territory.

I don't think anyone here implied that she was neglected. I also don't think it's out-of-the-ordinary for her to feel insecure, but she's obviously got some learned behavior with regards to her parents putting her sister first considering she kept expecting Oliver to change his mind about taking her to see the sea lions (which indicates that it's happened before, which...I suppose there's no way around that sometimes, but in this situation - yikes), and she also has the knowledge that some other version of her little sister traveled back in time and got to meet her parents first, and that they were obviously excited to meet her, and that she came from a world where a Jules didn't exist. Why Oliver and Felicity would EVER tell their kids about that I have no idea - I'm hoping someone else did, but given the way Jules seems to be when she grows up it certainly doesn't seem as if this is a 7-year-old thing. It's something that sticks with her for most of her life.

Yeah. And having read the earlier one-shots and knowing

Yeah. :( And the way Oliver kept

I hope maybe someone who wasn't Oliver and Felicity let it slip, because yeah. Yikes! The fact that Jules knew enough of the story to be able to pinpoint-at seven- exactly what Ellie had said that upset Felicity? Yuck!