#The Iris Within

[wisteriasymphony]

plot bunny: What if Lila/Iris was a random person who found Ladybug dead and decided to impersonate her so that the city could still have their hero.

[blackbatcass]

i can’t stop being plagued by thoughts of bart allen. can you. can you imagine being fourteen years old and waking up every day knowing that your loved ones will always be beyond your reach? that you have family who are alive and well but you’ll never see them again? that there isn’t just physical distance between you and your mom but hundreds of years? that no matter how much family you have in this time, no matter how much they love you, you’ll never be whole? you will never have everyone you love in one room? that not one single person in the world speaks your native language? that your mom wants you and loves you desperately and you still can’t be with her? that you can never go home?

[vincentsleftear]

PISSING MYSELF 😭

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

No, see, now I'm thinking about Iris teaching Phoenix how to plait hair and getting emotional about it because like. The first person who ever plaited her hair was probably her mother, right? And I think Morgan's the kind of mum who's rather strict with hair, meaning that it'd be drawn very tight and be a rather painful affair. After they leave Kurain, I'm guessing that Iris still may not have known how to braid her hair but Dahlia did, and so Dahlia was the one who used to do it for her before eventually teaching Iris to do it herself; and, while I don't think Dahlia was as rough as Morgan was, she did learn how to plait from her, and she has nails, so it still hurt a little. But that's how Iris learns to plait her hair: with a touch of force and an emphasis on bridled control. It's necessary, when you're working up in the mountains since it keeps strands out of the way.

But then she goes to Ivy-U and meets the kindest, gentlest man she's ever known, and he gets curious as to how she does her hair, so she shows him. It's the first time anyone's ever touched her hair and truly cared about not hurting her -- he's hesitant to even comb his fingers through it because he's afraid of tugging on her scalp -- and she has to change the way she moves as they slowly, carefully work their way through the two braids together. Yes, it takes longer than it normally would, and the braids are looser than she would usually wear them, but they stay, and it's the first she's ever tried plaiting them in a way that's different from her mother and sister -- the first she's ever considered it, even -- and it shows her, irrevocably, that kindness and gentleness can be just as effective as the harsh strength her family has always prided and possessed. It's the first time that Iris has used her hands in a way that feels truly natural to her and not been ashamed for her own weakness.

And she carries that with her for the rest of her life; just as he carries what her hands showed him as he brushes his fingers through her younger sister's fairer brown locks, while she sits in jail and does the same to her own long, dark hair, now black as it should be instead of red.

[great-tusk]

I was playing my copy of HeartGold a while ago, and I just love the dialogue that Daisy had when she gave me Blue’s phone number. Like she giggles and everything. And in my lore, that’s around the time that Blue and my S/I met again for the first time since they were young kids. Like I can imagine him after I battle him and he’s like OMFG HE’S SO CUTE WOW!!! on the inside while telling his sister about it and she can totally tell and silently decides to be the wingwoman of the century.

[srpntlily]

i will cast abominable filth upon you,

make you vile,

and make you a SPECTACLE. (nahum 3:6)

[thewormsdontstop]

Dahlia and Iris

Two of Pentacles

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[willneverbreakme]

please give me recs for queer sci-fi/fantasy podcasts!

I have tried and loved:

the strange case of starship iris

wolf 359

within the wires

stellar firma

Alice isn't dead

any other ideas?

[blackvahana]

Ahhhhh right. you combine the (starbeing), the (dragon), and the (void fae) and you get. a black crow

[irisintheafterglow]

[mariah carey whistle note voice] I'M BAAAAACCCKKKKKKKKKK

[jinx-blackout-84]

Having ocs is so great because it's like yeah this is my emotional support guy. I made him up. Yeah I just draw him on everything. Yeah I kick him whe im bored. He's kinda traumatized but don't worry about that.

[daily-rubbersoul-redux]

more character refs (some of which i definitely forgot about prior to now oops)

in order:

pic 1: Katsumi, Ikasuki, Hanae, Emi, Chiaki, and Fuku Kitsuen. some of them are human, some of them are kudagitsune.

pic 2: these guys are already labeled so i'll just specify that Susume, Sōta, and Tomomi are also from the Kitsuen family, but Kibara Migite is not. she's got her own shit going on lmao.

also not pictured is Sōta's human form, which he's in most the time as he also goes to school but i. just haven't gotten around to designing it yet (i keep accidentally making him look too similar to Hidemi oops-)

pic 3: these guys are also already labeled. they work for the funny organization :]

and then since the rest aren't compilation images i'll just list them separately:

Shūten and Iris Uso

as usual, oops i make a lot of characters lmao-

[glitchdecay]

sometimes i think about how in two completely different genres of rpgs, two wildly different pairs of siblings end up with completely plausible themed names even though the gladiolus is technically an iris but colloqually called "sword lily"

please ignore the noct on the right lol

(names for both sibling pairs are in image descriptions!!)

despite the different etymologies i think one is as valid as the other and the names are beautiful regardless

[forcedhesitation]

top ten dumbest things I've done.

number 4: try to play killer with bad wifi AND while mmr cap is altered so good killer players (me) are primarily playing against good survivors (usually swfs)

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

Actually, what was Phoenix's plan for going up to Hazakura Temple?? Like, if the whole murder thing didn't happen. Was he just going to... shake Iris until she spilled the beans? Confront her around every corner until she cracked?? Was his plan just to go up to some remote mountain and harass a nun???

[cheemken]

Thinking abt how at the start N wanted to separate humans and pokemon, and how Iris, just as she became Champion, wanted for humans and pokemon to be closer