I'm glue baby!

I was re-watching 3x20 for science obviously, and I noticed, before Felicity took her bra off, Oliver's hand grazed it, but didn't undo it. it seems like he was still hesitant, and wanted felicity to call the shots. Right after the graze, Felicity immediately took the bra off, making perfectly clear what she wants. It shows how much respect Oliver has and how much he values his love for Felicity. It wasn't something I would have expected from Oliver Queen. Thats what I thought anyways :)

Okay, anon, I honestly - honest to goodness - have too many feelings about 3x20. I am still so overwhelmed by 3x20 (I took the day off after that episode aired just to bask, but even that wasn’t enough).

And yes, yes, this is perfect! 

He followed her lead during that entire scene, and it was glorious.

This line struck me: “It wasn’t something I would have expected from Oliver Queen.”

So true.

Oliver loves Felicity… and even after everything they went through in Season 3, he still didn’t really know how she felt about him. He’d known for a while that she liked him, that she was attracted to him, but not that she returned the depth of his feelings, that she saw him in the same light… well, alright, he knew, but he didn’t know, ya feel me:

(His face, ohemgee, he’s waiting to hear her say it - he needs it like air; he knows (he believes, but at the time he knew it with a destructive certainty) he can’t have her, that he doesn’t deserve her, but he craves it - craves her - despite that…)

But she never said the words until…

(gif source)

*throws all the awards at Amell*

He’s staring at her like she just handed him the key to his entire life.

She loves him.

Felicity Smoak loves him.

His entire world opened up in that very moment, in that room, in those few stolen moments between them when Felicity thought she was never going to see him again, and Oliver thought he was going to push her away for good in the coming months during his time in the League…

In that moment, he had everything, and he accepted it, and he took it - they both did - with reckless abandon.

He not only values his love for Felicity but also hers for him. He wanted to make love to Felicity, he wanted to honor the gift she’d just given him (because damn, it’s a gift in his eyes - he honestly believes he isn’t worthy, but here she is, making him feel his worth). He’s never made love like he made love to Felicity; he’s never loved anyone like he loves Felicity.

Part of letting her take the lead like he did, I think, was because he was hesitant, unsure about how to proceed. It wasn’t about having sex, it was about showing each other their love. He could have easily just grabbed her and thrown her up against the wall, but it was passion and love here, it was consummation, it was confirmation, it was realization…

It was everything.

And that in and of itself put them on a precipice: they didn’t have the chance to get to spend time with each other as an actual couple before they made love; they didn’t get the courting period, or the talk-all-night periods, or the cutesy footsy under the table at dinner or anything really. This happened so quickly between them. (Remember EBR talked about how they didn’t want it to be rushed or over-the-top like a lot of first-time love scenes are filmed and that is yet another example of how well Amell and EBR know their characters, and this relationship - this moment came on so fast, but their love didn’t, and they respected that, and expressed that with and to each other.) The last thing Oliver wanted to do was fuck this up. He wanted to love her, he wanted to show her how much he loved her, take it beyond the words - he wanted it to be everything for her, just as she wanted that for him, and guess what, ya’ll?

Oliver loves himself a damn assertive woman, and she took what she’d been wanting - what they’d both been wanting - for a very long time.

So yes, he absolutely let her set the pace in everything, and in its own way that was just as loving as the act itself. Felicity would have gone with whatever he wanted, but this was more genuine, more heartfelt - more them, and that he recognized that and respected it made it all the more thoughtful and considerate and beautiful and so the opposite of the Oliver Queen we’d been shown thus far.

(Amell wasn’t wrong when he said Oliver does a lot of things that are outside the bounds of his normal actions in 3x20, and this was one of them.)

I love this OTP so much.