we're all somewhere in the middle

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Series Begun:
2017-09-13
Series Updated:
2024-10-13
Description:

Central City University gets its own Queer Groupchat and these are its shenanigans.

The series' title is from A Great Big World's "Everyone is Gay".

Takes place October 2017 - October 2018. Four main parts + a companion piece filled with interludes.

Notes:

Some notes before you head into this series:
- The focus lies on characters from before the 2017/2018 season since I started writing this in late 2017. Newer characters are, however, frequently mentioned as the story develops.
- The version of ColdFlash featured here has a smaller age difference than canon would have, but I understand it could come across as more troubling here since Bar is 20/21 to Snart's 28/29.
- There are mentions of problematic media, such as Harry Potter or Twilight, for example, spread throughout the story. I understand the problems with their contents by now, but at the time of writing I was unaware of them/they generally weren't known. I do not endorse the writers' behaviour and don't want to advertise for them.
- There's mentions of homo-, bi-, queer- and transphobia, as well as racism and ableism. These are, obviously, seen as negatively. The same goes for self-deprecating jokes, which are a symptom of depression for the character in question.
- You need to expect many meta references. I started explaining them in later chapters; I'll probably add the explanation to the ones before once I have time.

 

Overview about the main characters:

captaincold: Leonard Snart - June 02 1989, pansexual, he/him (Art History)
heatwave: Mick Rory - August 28 1988, aroace nb, he/him (Sports Science)
oliverking / oliverqueer: Oliver Queen - May 16 1991, queer demisexual, he/him (Business Management)
detectiveprettybi: Eddie Thawne - April 06 1994, bisexual, he/him (additional class for police work - Criminology)
babybibibi: Ronnie Raymond - April 21 1995, bisexual bigender, xe/xyr (Physics)
notcis-co / transco: Cisco Ramon - April 20 1997, trans gay, he/him (Physics & Chemistry)
irisbest: Iris West - June 24 1996, demiromantic, she/her (Psychology)
spACEbar: Bar Allen - March 14 1997, questioning asexual nb, they/them (everything you need for Forensic science - mostly Chemistry and Criminology referenced)
bilance: Sara Lance - December 25 1993, bisexual, she/her (Asian religions)
pipes: Hartley Rathaway - November 10 1998, gay, he/him (Physics & Biology)
lesbianda: Linda Park - July 18 1994, lesbian, she/her (Journalism)
snowflake: Caitlin Snow - June 28 1994, token cishet, she/her (Medicine)

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