209: Wondrous Strange

[thefourthvine]

Those of you who were on the earthling filter way back when he was still leasing space in my body may remember that I suffer from a very severe case of Familial Lyrics Disorder, as did my father and my grandmother before me. (Some of our incorrect songs have been handed down through three generations!) It's not just that I mishear and misremember

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[mari_redstar]

Hey now, Iris found out Barry was the Flash on the first night after their wedding, because he talked in his sleep! ("First night after their wedding." Because he talked in his sleep. Keeping in mind that Iris was a groovy swinging liberated woman with jazz records in her bachelorette flat. I'm going with "knew well before the wedding," personally.) He just didn't, uh, tell her for a year. (And even then, the previous Flash and his wife had to talk him into it.) During which she didn't bother bringing it up, because, well, it seemed so important to him and, I don't know, she thought it was kind of cute how he thought she was fooled? ...I love comics so much. They're like LSD for people who like to make timelines.

Speaking of the previous Flash, labyrinthine timelines, and comics swingerfic: somebody should totally write wildly inappropriate 1970s pre-Crisis Jay/Joan/Barry. Jay thinks Barry's adorable, Barry was drawing little hearts around Jay's name in his Trapper Keeper when he was twelve years old, and it still wouldn't even make it onto the Justice League's "top ten most screwed-up relationships" list.