#iris of riverbend

[peonyblossom]

I'm standing there... on the balcony in summer air

thank you so much @mydemonsdrivealimo for this beautiful commission of Nia and Iris <3 they look absolutely gorgeous and I literally couldn't be happier with the results!!

@choicespride

[miqotepotatoe]

Ninjago 10th Generation Hyjinks: The Green Ninja Prophecy

-ninja are looking through old scrolls in the back of the monastery because they're bored-

Meg: Why're all these scrolls so hard to read?

Theo: Because you're illiterate Meg.

Meg: Shut up, sailor boy! At least the pictures are pretty.

-Meg then picks up a very old looking scroll that has pictures of five ninja, a green one surrounded by red, blue, black and white. There's writting underneath the picture, not that the illterate could read it-

Meg: Oi Milo, you're smart! Can you read this for me!?

-the small boy dressed in an orange gi takes a look at the scroll in Meg's hands-

Milo: This text looks ancient. I could translate it but I'll need everyone's help.

Meg: In that case I'll go look at more scrolls with pictures while you guys go translate

-The five young ninja get to work trying to translate the ancient scroll, while Meg looks over a scroll with an image of a giant sea serpent fighting of a fish person-

Theo: 'Ey Meg, get over here! We finally got a decent enough translation of that fancy scroll you found!

-Meg gathers at the table the rest of her team is at, all staring at the scroll-

Meg: Anyone gonna read it out?

Milo: Oh right! It looks like a prophecyof some sort, saying that "one ninja will rise above the others to become the Green Ninja, the ninja destined to defeat the Dark Lord," or something close to that.

-the six ninja looks at each other, grimicing their teeth-

Meg: I sure as hell hope it ain't me...

Iris: Yeah, I don't want the fate of the world resting on my shoulders...

Theo: I might need to change my gi colour...

Milo: I'm perfectly happy being the Earth Ninja thank you...

Layla: As cool as this "Green Ninja" thing sounds, I don't think I'd wanna face some "Dark Lord" all by myself...

Taiyo: What if instead of it meaning one of us, it means all of us coming together as one, uniting our powers together to defeat this great evil.

Iris: You do make a good point Taiyo, but who knows if this prophecy has even happened or not!

Layla: If it's already happened, panic averted. If not, I hope it isn't in our lifetimes.

Meg: And if it is in our lifetimes?

Layla: Then I hope blondie is right and this prophecy is about all of us coming together instead of one of us.

Milo: You think Master would be mad at us for discovering this secret ancient prophecy?

Iris: Let's not tell him, just in case. But if this prophecy is real and hasn't happened yet, we need to be in tip top shape.

Meg: So...training?

Theo: Hell yeah! Let's spar to see who's the strongest!

Milo: Or head out into the wild to practice use of our elemental powers!

Layla: Or race around the training course!

Taiyo: First let's clean up the mess, don't want Master to come in here and see the mess we made. Or the fact we found this prophecy scroll.

-outside the scroll room, Lloyd chuckled to himself, having heard everything his students said. While the Green Ninja prophecy may be a thing of the past, it can still used to inspire others to rise to greatness. Ninjago may be at peace now, but who knows when evil will decide to emerge from the shadows. And when it does, he knows his students will come together as one to defeat it. After all, who said that there could only be one Green Ninja-

[choicescommunityevents]

Event Masterlist 2024 🧚🏼‍♀️

Blades of Light & Shadow:

Juniper, the Fae (OC) - Edit created by @peonyblossom

Woodland Whimsy - Soundtrack by @choicesmc

Iris from Riverbend as a fae - Edit created by @peonyblossom

Daenarya as a fairy - Edit created by @storyofmychoices

Hades Nightbloom as a fae - Edit created by @peonyblossom

Mal Volari as a fairy - Edit created by @storyofmychoices

ChoicesSpreadKindness with Baroness Isador - Edit created by @storyofmychoices

Odette Nagoni - Character Profile created by @peonyblossom

Desire & Decorum:

@sapphoschoices 's Brigitte as a Fairy - Edit created by @kilvalir

High School Story:

Aiden Zhou in Fae outfit - Edit created by @cadybear420

Hot Couture:

Anneliese More as a Victoria's Angel - Edit created by @peonyblossom

Immortal Desires:

Fae Changeling, Luca - Edit created by @aria-ashryver

Fae Changeling, Cas & Gabe - [Part 1] Edit created by @aria-ashryver

Fae Changeling, Cas & Gabe [Part 2] - Edit created by @aria-ashryver

Nightbound:

Fae Style Birthday Calandar + Garrus his birthday on June 24th - Edit by ladylamrian

Choices Spread Kindness with Garrus - Edit created by @storyofmychoices

Happy Birthday, Garrus!! - Edit created by ladylamrian

Cam Fujisawa - Main Character Profile created by @peonyblossom

Dance féerique - Fanfiction (F!MC×Cal) created by @dutifullynuttywitch

Open Heart:

Magical (Sienna×M!OC) - Fanfiction created by @liaromancewriter

Dr. Sydney Valentine as a Barbie Rainbow Fairy - Edit created by @peonyblossom

Olivia & Bryce Lahela as fairies- Edit created by @storyofmychoices

Red Carpet Diaries/Hollywood U:

Jackie (F!MC) as a dark Fairy - Edit created by @peonyblossom

The Cursed Heart:

Royal Fae Wedding of Ella & Kieran - Pinterest Moodboard created by @bri1234

Longclaw & Radiance - Art created by @gaiuskamilah

Ever After - Fanfiction created by @bri1234

Kieran & Jack - Art created by @gaiuskamilah

Ella & Kieran - Art created by @bri1234

Male Main Character his fae outfit with a few additions - Edit created by @cadybear420

Kieran & Elam - Art for @lilyoffandoms created by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Veil of Secrets:

Kate O'Malley as a Fairy - Edit created by @storyofmychoices

Crossovers/Others:

The Royal Academy (Nightbound, Blades of Light & Shadow , Crimes of Passion) Series, Chapter 1 - Fanfiction created by ladylamrian

The Fae woods - Pinterest Moodboard created by @bri1234

[choicesfandomappreciation]

In addition to the wonderful gifts exchanged during our Trick or Treat event a very generous anonymous donor commissioned a little portrait of every person who participated in the event's MC.

To our anonymous donor:

I am sure I can speak for everyone, when I say we can't thank you enough for this generous gift. You went above and beyond what anyone expected for this event. You did so with the pure intentions of simply bringing joy to others and trying to brighten someone else's day. You didn't ask for a thank you, but you deserve to be recognized. So thank you! You truly are a gift to this fandom and we are so very lucky to have you. You deserve all the love and support. Please know you make a difference here. Thank you for these gorgeous gifts 💛💛💛

@a-cloud-for-dreams 's Lyra Lexington

@aallotarenunelma's Kanerva Leinola

@coffeeheartaddict2's Casey

@jerzwriter's Casey MacTavish

@ladylamrian's Alex

@lilyoffandoms's Maiele Nightbloom

@livelaughlovecassie's Laney Vance

@lovealexhunt's Daenarya

@moominofthevalley's Emily Rose

@mydemonsdrivealimo's Jensen

@peonyblossom's Iris of Riverbend

@rosepetals1's Arielle

@starsarewithinme's The Elementalists MC

@totojo2's Crimes of Passion MC

@trappedinfanfiction's Rán

@tveitertotwrites's Brooklyn Moore

@violentinecrl's Lersa

@zealouscanonindeer's Aspen Kallie

Also, thank you to the loveliest CoffeesforChloe for creating these gorgeous portraits

[choicesoctober]

WK 2 || WEEK ONE MASTERLIST || WELCOME || RULES || PROMPTS || HOST

I’ll compile a weekly masterlist by contributor and then a complete list at the end of the month. So here is week one’s masterlist.

If I missed your’s please let me know and I will get it on the list. Same, if I missed reblogging your contribution.

@aallotarenunelma

Intro: Ash Clark (It Lives, OC)

Intro: Ash Clark (It Lives, OC)

@ao719

Fic: …Sometimes Not, Part 11 (TRR, Liam x OC)

@cadybear420

Intro: Evie (HSS, MC)

@cariantha

Fic: All He Wanted (OPH, Ethan x MC)

@farizrz

Intro & Edit: Lindow Marcelino Redesign (HSS, OC)

@jerzwriter

Text Fic: Feeling Ancient (OPH, Ethan x MC)

Fic: First Date (CoP, Trystan x MC)

Fic: In a Pickle (OPH, Tobias x MC)

Text Fic: Roman Adventure (OPH, Tobias x MC)

@ladylamrian

Intro: Amber Burke (It Lives, MC)

Intro: Elissa Ryder (Nightbound, OC child)

Intro: Jason Ryder (Nightbound, OC child)

Fic: When Hunters Become Prey, Chapter 22 (Nightbound, MC)

@lawrencebarkley

Intro: Tyril x Reyna Headcanons (Blades, Tyril x MC)

@liaromancewriter

Fic: And There Was This Cat (OPH, Ethan x MC)

Fic: One Day (OPH, Ethan x MC)

@lilyoffandoms

Fic: Drabble (OPH, Tobias x MC, Ethan x MC, Bryce x OC)

@noesapphic

Picrew: Brienne of Riverbend Redesign (Blades, MC)

@peonyblossom

Edit: Iris of Riverbend Redesign (Blades, MC)

Edit: Jackie Winters Redesign (RCC, MC)

Intro & Edit: Jamie Baxter (HSS, MC)

Intro & Edit: Lola Williams (HSS, MC)

Edit: Lola Williams Redesign (HSS, MC)

Into & Edit: Ollie Bridgers (ILW, MC)

Edit: Dr. Sydney Valentine Redesign (OPH, MC)

@storyofmychoices

Fic & Art: Obvious Secret (OPH, Bryce x OC)

Fic: Sculpting Desires (Blades, Mal x OC, Tyril x OC, Mal x Tyril)

Fic: Vintage Dreams (Blades, Mal x OC, Tyril x OC, Mal x Tyril)

[secret-fungi]

Moonlit Garden

Pairing: Tyril x F! elf MC (odelia)

word count: 2k (i tried so hard dudes)

Rating: e

Category: Fluff and smut (ik it surprised me too)

warnings: sex

Summary: Tyril shows mc what he's done in their absence.

a/n: im not good at smut dont come at me im fragile

Tags @lawrencebarkley @choicesficwriterscreations @desired-love-

Tyril pulled yet another weed from his plant as Odelia walked up, a smile on her lips as she took in the garden. “I didn’t think you were the type.” she says “Neither did i, but in your absence…” he trailed off “busy hands, my father suggested.” he adds with a huff. 

“Mal and nia had kids, and you… made a garden.” she says with a fond smile on her lips. “Flowers are a bit like kids, they have different needs, must have food, water, proper care…” At this she covered her mouth with her hand in a poor attempt to stifle her laughter. 

“Haven’t been around many children, have you, Tyril?” “Of course I have, I’m excellent with them.” he brags, rising to his feet. “Somehow, I don’t trust that.” she teased. “You don’t have to believe, you could join me at a festival, all the little children love me.” “The one at Riverbend doesn’t count.” “why not?” he asks “because you’re the second elf they’ve seen and unlike me, you’re….” she paused, taking in the smile on his lips before smiling herself. 

“A real elf.” She says He arched a brow, taking off his gloves carefully. “You’re a ‘real elf’, too.” he said. “Not like you. I didn’t even know I could do magic, and I can't do fancy undermount fireworks, I didn’t know any elvish curse words… I am not rich.” She lists making him laugh, the deep timber was rich and smooth. It rattled her bones and sent a chill down her body, the warmth settling in her core.

“Is that what makes one a ‘real elf’?” He asks “It’s your culture, and it's all just arcane rituals to me.” she explained, finally standing face to face with him. “It’s your culture too.” he assured. She gave him a sharp look but didn’t press the matter farther. “Will you show me your garden?” she asked 

With a grin he offers her his arm. “The pathway is beautiful, what is it?” “moonstone.” he replied “this is the evening rain lily, above us is glowing Wisteria, it lights up to attract prey.” he explained with a grin. 

The garden was beautiful, full of color and life, the path circling around a pond full of fae fish and all sorts of lovely creatures, the stop of the pond decorated with glowing water lilies and blossoms that had landed into the water. Trumpet shaped flowers hung from above, a blossoming orange tree stood tall off to the corner near the stone fence. 

“These are called Four O’clocks because-” “They bloom at four o’clock?” she guessed. He gives a nod before showing her another flower “nightshade.” he said “why would you want something that could kill you in your pretty garden?” she asked. He gave her a look like she wasn’t quite up to speed with what was infront of her, but with a smile he continued on. 

He went on, pointing out Lava Iris, a blossom with yellow, orange and black petals, 

Moonflowers, white little things that almost seemed to give off an ethereal glow. Black pansies and flowers in a rainbow of colors that had petals shaped like hearts. Pink and red carnations, and a strange plant. 

“I’ve never seen this one before.” “It’s called bleeding heart.” He informed. “Doesn’t much look like a heart.” she said. “A broken one, maybe.” he replied, leading her to the center of the garden. To flowers that looked like the night sky, all lit up with stars.

Picking one from the bush and offering it to her he smiled and said “And here is my favorite, NIghtblooms.” 

The Garden was his love letter to a woman he didn’t know would return, his ode to a mage that came and went and came back again. 

Odelia looked at the flower in a stunned silence, realization dawning on her as she stared at it, then back up at him.

“What’s the matter?” he asked “why’d you plant Nightblooms? Why are they all nightblooming?” she asked. 

He smiled at her, raising his brows and tilting his head to the side. The woman flushed as he laughed. “That’s why Adrina said I should see it.” she said, pressing her hand to her warmed cheek.

“My father said that this wasn’t what he meant when he saw the nightblooms, but it is the pride of undermount.” he said with a proud grin.

“People come here to honor a hero that was lost for a while.” he added. 

Suddenly the woman bursts into tears, as if she couldn’t contain them in her any longer, surging forward in an instant and pressing her lips to his, her arms coming to rest on top of his shoulders, her fingers digging into his hair.

He lifted her up with ease and she wrapped her legs around his hips without hesitation. Without breaking the kiss he walked towards a stone bench and sat on it. 

“Rough landing.” she muttered into his lips. “Couldn’t see,” he said before capturing her mouth again. 

Her hands encased his face as they kissed. Both of them tried to one up each other with how much love and desperation you could put into a kiss. 

And though it was officially a tie, both of them were convinced that they were the winner. 

“Tyril.” she cried out with a kiss to his cheek. his name had never sounded sweeter. “Darling.” she said with a kiss the other cheek, “Dinvalir.” she said with a kiss to his jaw. “A’mael.” a his to his neck. 

“Kilvalir.” he rasped out, his grip on her hips tightening. She pauses, her head falling onto his shoulder. “What have I done to deserve you?” she wonders. “I wonder that myself, the most beautiful person that I've ever seen, and out of everyone you chose me?” He marvels “You’re perfect and I can't believe you love me.” he admits. She lifts her head to look at him, her cheeks flushed and a horribly fond look on her face. “There is no one else, Tyril.” she said, her fingers moving to free him of his clothes. “It’s a public garden.” “No qualms, right?” she asked with a grin. 

“You’re a bad influence.” he said, his own hands working the ties of her shirt.

He kissed the freshly exposed skin of her shoulder as she played with his hair.

“You’re beautiful.” he said, pressing a kiss to the center of her chest, his hands reaching to massage the other. He leaves open mouth kisses on her throat and across her breasts, leaving his marks as he did.

her hips rocked against him as he worked, pretty little cries came from the woman that nearly drove him mad with need.

“I need you.” he almost begged, lifting her from his lap to rid himself of his pants, she simply gathered her skirt up, a tent of sorts.

“Say it again.” he said “Dinvalir?” “That i’m the only one.” he clarified, “how could there be anyone else?” she asks as she sinks down onto him,

The couple share a gasp, a coil tightening in their stomachs. 

She is so lovely, painted in love bites, flushed, her full lips swollen and parted so that her song could escape from those lips like honey.

He moves his hips to meet hers, his hand sliding under her skirt to find a treasure. 

His eyes sought hers, when his hand met her core, her eyes half lidded and dazed with desire.

“Tyril!” she moans into the air, at once moving forward to silence herself with his lips. 

Her hands roamed his body as if they had no home, then settled against his chest like it was made for her, one hand gripped his bicep and the other stayed over his heart.

They’ve had many kisses, desperately urgent, heated kisses that they snuck whenever they had a moment alone, chaste kisses, as thank you or to soothe a wound, jealous kisses. You name it. 

But this was something else entirely. Desperate and frustrated but with all the care and tenderness of the chastest kiss.

a muttered chant fell against his lips, too out of sorts himself to register the three words she repeated like a prayer.

Her hips moved to meet his, they set a pace neither could keep up with for long, Her nails leaving crescent shaped marks in his arm and his hands leaving his fingers prints on her bum.

 “There's just you, There's no one else.” she swears breathlessly, trapping his response with her lips to his.

He loved her, fully, completely. it was all consuming, this feeling that overtook him when he saw her, flushed and glowing, breasts freeing themselves from her top, almost begging him.

He broke the kiss, and captured her breast in his mouth.

“you’re so gorgeous for me.“ he rasped out, his voice low and rumbling, horribly affected by their actions and the sound of it sent electricity down her spine, leaving her tightly wound and just aching for that last thing to get her to the top.

He moved her to lay on her back, her hair falling loose from its braided prison.

“I love you.” he swears, his lips pressed against her chest, his hips working to meet hers that were slightly lifted to meet him.

She arched into him as he kissed the skin above her heart.

“You’re so- beautiful.” she said, reaching to tangle her fingers in his hair. “The most beautiful.” she rectified upon seeing his arched brow.

“There could never be anyone else for me.” he said “when with every beat of my heart it spells out your name, when my love for you is etched into my bones-  very soul there could never-“ “Tyril!” she cried, trembling 

“Kivalir.” he replied, holding on to watch her come undone, taking every detail in before he fell.

The term of endearment seemed to set her off, she melted beneath him as he came undone above her.

When the denizens of Undermount asked Tyril what the missing hero was like, he couldn’t find the words, all his feelings got trapped behind the lump in his throat.

Still they asked, and so he planted a orange tree, so that they might smell her, he planted nightshade, as it too used it’s beauty as a weapon, carnations to tell of his devotion, and lilies to tell of her joyful soul, Bleeding hearts to declare his love, and Nightbloom to tell her name, and for every night she was away, he set a blossom to the water, a nightbloom adrift, and prayer repeated.

“My love for you is like this garden, it shall not wither in the winter, and neither shall my feelings.” he swore, and the other took it to heart.

Every word he said she believed, maybe foolishly but no one had ever done what He had seemed to do easily, a public love letter was on a whole other level than begging a lover to hold her hand in the sunlight.

When she thinks back to the mayor’s son, promising forever while looking for his boots, and with age or maybe distance she understood that she was asking him to be something he wasn’t, and that maybe they loved each other but what they had wasn't love.

and then she thinks to Tyril, much more at stake than an angry father, the way he loved her would harm his quest to restore his house, she’ll bring disgrace to his house, but still he fell into her.

Still he erected a garden full of hearts and I love yous for all of undermount to see, because he loved her.

She realized she had asked all her lovers to be Tyril, even before she met him, she wished them to stand a little taller, be a little more romantic. She’d ask them to walk in the way he did, smile in the soft way he did, all in the name of the feeling of missing someone she hadn’t met yet. 

and from the moment she saw him, there was something in the back of her mind that said “This is it.” 

at the sound of his voice, the glare he wore felt so familiar, like she’s known him from the beginning, that in all her lives she’s sought after him.

Kade always used to say that she’d follow blue eyes off a cliff. The color always pulled her in, leaving her hypnotized. The mayor’s son, the village girl, a traveling merchant, she could never say no to them, and if she was more romantic, or maybe just braver than she is now. she’d admit outloud that some part of her, the part of her soul that was his was searching for him in all of the faces she came across. Desperate to find him but only knowing the color of his stare.

They both made a promise unbeknownst to the other, to love each other till their hearts gave out. Tyril made a secondary promise that after the afterglow fades and their bones resolidify to plant a million flowers.

[choicespride]

Valentine's Day 2024 Masterlist

Blades of Light and Shadow

Hades Nightbloom Valentine's Day Edits - m!elf!MC (Hades Nightbloom) - @peonyblossom

Iris of Riverbend Valentine's Day Edits - f!human!MC (Iris of Riverbend) - @peonyblossom

Bloodbound

By Any Other Name - Kamilah Sayeed x f!MC (Lucy West) - @thosehallowedhalls

High School Story

Jamie Baxter Valentine's Day Edits - nb!MC (Jamie Baxter) - @peonyblossom

Hollywood U

Cafe Whispers and Scone Kisses - Addison Sinclair x f!MC (Alex Spencer), Thomas Hunt x f!MC (Alex Spencer) (mentioned) - @theartoflovingthomashunt

Jackie Winters Valentine's Day Edits - nb!MC (Jackie Winters) - @peonyblossom

Thomas x Jackie Date Night - Thomas Hunt x nb!MC (Jackie Winters) - art by @lilyoffandoms, requested by @peonyblossom

It Lives Anthology

Harry Spear Valentine's Day Edits - ILITW m!MC (Harry Spear) - @peonyblossom

Ollie Bridgers Valentine's Day Edits - ILW nb!MC (Ollie Bridgers) - @peonyblossom

Laws of Attraction

Date Night - Gabe Ricci x m!MC (Fiona Lightwood) - @choicesmc

Murder At Homecoming

Let Me Be Your Valentine, Saint Valentine - Donovan Navarro x/& nb!MC (Edelmina Stone) - @aallotarenunelma

Open Heart

Dr. Sydney Valentine Valentine's Day Edits - m!MC (Sydney Valentine) - @peonyblossom

Two Types of People - Bryce Lahela x m!MC (Jensen Valentine) - art by @lilyoffandoms, requested by @mydemonsdrivealimo

when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love - Bryce Lahela x m!MC (Jensen Valentine) - @mydemonsdrivealimo

Perfect Match

Beach Love: "Glasses and Missy" at Komodo Island - Sloane Washington x Alana Kusuma - @lizzybeth1986

Wishful Thinking

Art Request - Anna Koishi x f!MC (Nyx) - art by @lilyoffandoms, requested by @noesapphic

[choicesficwriterscreations]

✒️ = Fanfic | 📱= Text Fics/Edits | 🎨= Fanart Ⓜ️ = Mature Content 18+ | 🔥 = Explicit/NSFW 18+ 🌟 = Holiday

November 2023

List 1 of 2 (List 2)

Hey y'all! If I missed anyone, please shoot me a DM ant let me know! @jerzwriter

BLADES OF LIGHT & SHADOW

Aerin Valleros x M!Elf!MC Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Aerin Valleros x M!Elf!MC Fanfic ✒️Ⓜ️🏳️‍🌈 by @malthemagnifisent

Aerin Valleros x M!Elf!MC Fanfic ✒️🏳️‍🌈 by @malthemagnifisent

Aerin Valleros x M!MC Art 🎨Ⓜ️🔥🏳️‍🌈 by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Aerin Valleros x MC Drabble ✒️🏳️‍🌈 by @lilyoffandoms

Aerin Valleros x M!MC Fanfic ✒️🏳️‍🌈 - @noesapphic

Are You Strong Enough to Stand? 🎨🏳��‍🌈| Aerin Valleros x M!Elf!MC - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Blades Drabble ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Nia Ellarious x MC - @lilyoffandoms

Bolas M!MC 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Blades M!Elf!MC 🎨🏳️‍🌈by @unluckyamulet

BOLAS Elf!MC 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @/coffeesforchole for @lilyoffandoms

Daenarya of Riverbend 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by/coffeesforchloe (IG) for @storyofmychoices

A Deal With Shadows ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Mal Volari x MC - @camillemontespan

A Funeral of Faith ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Aerin Valleros x M!MC - @saibug1022

Iris of Riverbend 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @/coffeesforchloe (IG) for @peonyblossom

The Lonely Prince ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Aerin Valleros x MC - @starsarewithinme

Mal Volari x MC Drabble ✒️🏳️‍🌈 by @lilyoffandoms

Marya Moonglory 🎨🏳️‍🌈| F!Elf!MC by @gaiuskamilah

Nia Ellarious x F!Human!MC 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @artbyalz

Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope! 🎨🏳️‍🌈| M!elf!MC - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Raine's Vision 🎨🏳️‍🌈| Aerin Valleros - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Ran 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @/coffeesforchloe (IG) for @trappedinfanfiction

Tell Me What You Want 🎨🏳️‍🌈| Aerin Valleros x M!elf!MC - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

BLOODBOUND

Sacramentum ✒️Ⓜ️🏳️‍🌈| Gaius Augustine, Kamilah Sayeed, Adrian Raines - @gaiuskamilah

CRIMES OF PASSION

Calypso Rose NB!MC Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @treesinboxes

CoP MC - Cameron Rose 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @cassie-thorne

Crimes Drabble ✒️ 🏳️‍🌈| Trystan Thorne x MC - @lilyoffandoms

Emily Rose 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @/coffeesforchole (IG) for @moominofthevalley

In the Grey ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Trystan Thorne, Eveline Goncharov, etc - @starsarewithinme

New Traditions ✒️🏳️‍🌈🌟| Trystan Thorne x F!MC, others - @jerzwriter

Nora Rose 🎨🏳️‍🌈 CoP F!MC - @inlocusmads

Of Intangible Worth ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @inlocusmads

Past Lives ✒️🏳️‍🌈| Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @inlocusmads

Trystan Thorne 🎨🏳️‍🌈by @treesinboxes

Trystan Thorne Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

[k4creative]

Raven and Cat

Please be my beta readers! 😊

I saw this photo on facebook for the umpteenth time this week and I decided to consider it a writing prompt. I'm keeping the premise, but I am deviating from the picture somewhat.

Here is the first part. I hope, I’ll be able to continue it!

Note: english is not my first language.

Any comment, criticism and good-intentioned help is welcome!

I.

In a forest clearing, on a moss-covered, sunny rock, a big white cat sleeps.

Calling this cat white though is like describing a sunset as ’orange’, or the eye of your lover as ’blue’... As the sun rays glide over his coat, you can observe, that parts of it are white as milk, others are like whitewash, or the silvery-creamy white of a pearl. His whiskers fracture the light into rainbow-coloured sparkles, and his fluffy tail – his pride and joy – gleams like the light of a harvest moon.

He sleeps restlessly. His ears are constantly twitching - catching the noises of the forest –, so does the end of his tail. Now his ears perk up, he opens one yellow eye and in the very next second he’s sitting upright, regally curling his tail around his front paws. He looks like, he never slept. An unholy swishing sound fills the forest clearing as an enormous black bird breaks the treeline. It lands without fuss a little further from the cat. It’s eyes glow purple for a moment, but the next blink clears the enchantment, leaving only the normal colour of anthracite in the big bird’s iris.

-Well? – asks the cat, unable to mask his agitation.

-Nothing. – comes the reply in a sharp, edgy tone. – I looked everywhere. – continues the bird, adjusting their chest feathers irritably – There’s no way she’s still in the vicinity. I can see traces of her mana all over the place…it is her territory after all…but beyond the Border…only a faint trail pointing North. We’re gonna have to follow her dammit! It’s been a month…

-I vote we wait for another week. There were times, she was away longer than…

-Yes yes – interrupts the raven rather rudely – but she always, always left instructions and sent dreams if she was delayed.

The cat visibly pouts after the interruption. His whiskers twitch and his pupils dilate for a split second. He remains accusingly silent, looking daggers at his companion.

-Look – says the raven, perfectly imitating a human sigh – I know you are territorial…I am too, but this is serious stuff.

-What about her villages? – asks the cat, finding her superior tone again.

-They have to make do without her anyway. – shrugs the raven – We did everything we could since she left. We educated that dull herbalist down in Riverbend. I replenished the potions of all the barber surgeons in the area and you strengthened every enchantment around the Border. The people gotta be fine until winter. – they tilt their head with a nasty expression on their beak - If this is not enough, they’d die without her anyway…

The cat lowers his lashes disapprovingly, then he lets out a sigh, yawns and stretches. The raven fidgets, waiting for a reply. They know that the cat has a bad temper and a stick up his butt about basically everything, so they force themselves to be patient. With two small licks of the hair on his chest, he finishes the ritualistic stretching and – apparently – the thinking too.

-I think in this particular matter your surmise might be true, bird. – the cat’s sonorous voice sounds in the raven’s head – However, an expedition of this importance and caliber should not be rushed. We need provisions: food, water, enchantments…we have to think about lodgings along the way…

-You must be joking! You are a hunter and a high class mage for the goddess’ sake! And I am a proud scavenger. Food? Water? Lodging?! It’s high summer, we can sleep wherever and whenever. You are nocturnal and I can adapt my eyes, so we can even move at night...! Stop pussyfooting around this and let’s go!

The moment they say it, the raven knows it was a mistake. They pull their head way down between the wings and with rapid blinking, looks apologetically at him. His eyes sparkle, ears flat, mane is all fluffed up and his whole body radiates righteous indignation. If the situation wouldn’t be this serious, the raven would flee now, till he calms down, but not now.

-Look, I am sorry! It was tactless of me to use that word, but we have to go and we have to start now!

-I will not let this insult slide, bird! -  sounds his voice in the bird’s head, underlined with a faint growl emanating from his throat. His blue left and yellow right eyes sparkle with fury. The raven is certain that if the enchantment would still be active, they’d be able to see his mana swirling red around his paws. After a few seconds of heavy eye contact, he gets a hold of himself.

-Unfortunately we really are pressed by time here. – he sighs, forcing calm on himself - She can only count on us. I will follow your lead for now, but be warned: you’re dancing on thin ice.

With that, the cat swishes his tail and with energetic bounds, fueled by his unquenched anger, he leaves the clearing. Due North.

The tension leaves the bird’s body after a few seconds. They imitate a heavy sigh again, and to calm themselves down, they emit a silent, low, purring ’kraa’. With a full body shake, they tidy their plumage, activate the enchantment in their eyes with a heavy blink, then take off to the sky, their giant wings beating the air heavily.

[idreamofmagic]

About

Name: Iris

Pronouns: she/they

Age: 21+

Favorite Disney Films: Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tangled, Moana, live action Lady and the Tramp

Favorite Disney Characters: Wendy Darling, Alice, Rapunzel, Sally, Naveen

Favorite Disney Princesses: Snow White, Moana, Pocahontas, Rapunzel

Favorite Disney Villains: Maleficent, Captain Hook

Favorite Disney Shows: Beauty and the Beast, Aida

Favorite Disney Songs: So This Is Love, You’re Welcome, Almost There, How Far I’ll Go, Just Around the Riverbend, God Help the Outcasts, Go the Distance, I See the Light, No Matter What

Favorite Disney Rides: Haunted Mansion, Tower of Terror, Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain

This blog covers all things classic Disney, as well as information about the properties and Broadway shows. It will occasionally cover some Pixar and live action as well, but will not cover anything Marvel or Star Wars.

This blog is Disney critical! While it won’t be on the regular, I will be posting criticisms of Disney as a corporation. I think we have a responsibility to hold corporations accountable, especially when they produce media we like, and especially as we are living in what is supposed to be a free market. As a major Disney fan I feel I more so than anyone want to hold Disney up to higher standards. At the end of the day, I would rather give up on media I may potentially find entertaining than actively show support for a show or movie that is hurting someone.

In addition to Disney, my interests include classic literature, musical theatre, opera, mythology and history, and costuming! I am a major Star Wars fan, however majority of Disney produced Star Wars content I dislike, which is one of the reasons it will not be included on this blog. Same thing applies to Marvel - big comic book and superhero fan, have seen most of the MCU and am extremely disappointed in majority of it.

[peonyblossom]

reunited

Thank you so much @weetlebeetle for this adorable iris x nia chibi art 💕

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Casual outfits for the 10th gen squad

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Mako island of secrets

3: Tommy Vext (formerly of Bad Wolves), Bogart's. 3: The Eternal Now CD Release Party, Southgate House Revival, Revival Room. 3: The Black Keys, Riverbend Music Center. 3: Cole Swindell, Great American Ball Park, following the Reds vs. Featuring Japanese Breakfast, Angel Olsen, Yo La Tengo, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Shannon & the Clams, Town Mountain, Mdou Moctar, La Luz, Madi Diaz and more. 2-4: Nelsonville Music Festival, Snow Fork Event Center. Featuring Hayes Carll, Courtney Marie Andrews, John Fullbright, Iris DeMent, Vance Gilbert, Carrie Newcomer, Ben Sollee, Nikki Lerner, Carolina Story, Willy Tea Taylor, the Winetree and Over the Rhine. 2-4: Nowhere Else Festival, Martinsville. with Brian Culbertson, Avery Sunshine, Norman Brown, Alex Bugnon, Keiko Matsui, Gerald Albright, Damien Escobar, Nestor Torres, Maysa, Brian Simpson, Eric Roberson and Jackiem Joyner. 2-3: Cincinnati International Jazz Festival, Smale Riverfront Park, Downtown. 2: Archers, Drying Out, Spirit Board, Bravelake, Echobreak, Prost, John Bobinger, Kaitlyn Collins, Southgate House Revival, Sanctuary. Featuring Midwife, Allison Lorenzen, Lake Mary, Desert Liminal, Airport People, Bailey Miller, Brianna Kelly and more. 1, 3-4: White Sepulchre Records Fest, Hexagon House and Urban Artifact. 1: Dean Ford and the Beautiful Ones, RiversEdge Amphitheatre. 1: The Mummy Cats, Mako Vega, Actual Italians, Southgate House Revival, Revival Room. 31: Linda Gail Lewis Family Affair, Southgate House Revival, Sanctuary. With Steven LaBrie and a special tribute to Carlos Marin.Īug. 26: Kentucky Headhunters, Lori's Roadhouse.Īug. 26: Fool House: Ultimate 90s Dance Party, JD Legends.Īug. 25: Sour Nothings August Artist in Residence with The Bell and the Hammer, Southgate House Revival, Lounge.Īug. 26: Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert Tour, Riverbend Music Center.Īug. 25: Lespecial with Fury & Solace, Fretboard Brewing Co.Īug. 25: Tayls, Madqueen, Southgate House Revival, Revival Room.Īug. 25: The Milk Carton Kids, Ludlow Garage.Īug. 25: Michael Franti & Spearhead, Riverfront Live.Īug. 25: Kelsey Waldon, Southgate House Revival, Sanctuary.Īug. 25: Greensky Bluegrass, MegaCorp Pavilion.Īug. With Gabby Barrett, John Morgan and Dee Jay Silver.Īug. 25: Jason Aldean, Riverbend Music Center.

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Iris of Riverbend

Art by CoffeesForChloe (Insta)

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[saintheartwing]

So...I’ve Begun Reading Artemis Fowl...It IS Really Good

So, I decided to check out the movie and...ugh.Not good. So I began to think “How badly did they screw this up” and began reading the books.

They’re REALLY good. The thing you need to know about Artemis Fowl is he starts off as...well, a smug snake. He’s a big jerk in a lot of ways who, after his dad supposedly dies out trying to get into a new market in Russia which the Russian mafia doesn’t take kind to, his mom goes nutso. She doesn’t recognize him half the time. His only friend is his butler...and he doesn’t even know Butler’s real name. He’s also a super brilliant young man. Add all that up, and you get a very selfish, self-centered, pretentious young man who doesn’t find ANYBODY his equal. 

He decides upon doing some investigation into the more strange and occultish things in the world to get hold of a ton of money through a SEEMINGLY insane, ludicrous way...through the fairy world. Yes, there’s actual elves. He got into it, evidently, by trolling through the ancient stories and there always seemed to be commonalities among them from ancient races. 

Artemis slightly lucks out. He’s able to get hold of basically the Fairy Bible, the Book of the People. It provides insider knowledge of how they do things, and through that, he makes a plan. He’ll kidnap a fairy, overcoming their magic, and ransom them for gold. It’ll be difficult, they need to get one that’s low on magic. And they have to wear special sunglasses that will be reflective, for fairies can MESMERIZE people, hypnotizing them.  They’ll catch one doing the necessary ritual for magic recharge. 

The good news is fairies are fairly commonly popping out of the Underground they live in in Ireland...where the Fowl manor is located. And the ritual is best done near an ancient oak and a riverbend and even better, under a full moon. Well, there’s one not too far from Fowl Manor...and after some staking out...Fowl catches one. A fairy named Holly Short, the only female fairy on the recon unit that the fair folk have. 

He, Butler, and his butler’s sister Juliet lock her in a room with a bed. They’ve got their hostage. They use the helmet armor she’s got to communicate with her boss. The fairies figure out where Fowl Manor is, but though they can slow down time, pretty much stop it...Artemis now has fairy tech because he caught Holly, and this means Butler can move freely through the time bubble. He kicks the butts of EVERY recon agent sent to save her. So Holly’s boss, Commander Root, has to come in for negotiations. 

Artemis wants gold. A ton of twenty four carat gold. And a ton of gold is, evidently,  64.3 million dollars. A looot of money. Root says that Artemis can’t win. They have a “bio bomb”. It destroys all organic matter used on it, and if they’re caught in a time field, as they are right now, they can’t just race out the front door to get away. There’s only one helmet, and there’s three of them. They’re trapped.

Right?

Well, Artemis says he knows how to escape it. And he’s thought of everything ELSE the fairies would do so far. So...they send in a wild card. Professional Thief Mulch Diggums, a dwarf. Dwarves are natural diggers, they tunnel by unhinging their jaws, eating through the dirt, and expelling it out their rump.

...yeaaah...THAT particular scene from the movie’s pretty accurate. So Mulch is called on to tunnel into the Fowl estate to try and help free Holly. At the same time, Holly’s got a way to break free. She’s been using the bed to break into the floor and beneath the floor...is some earth. And she’s got an acorn on her. With that acorn and the proper words and access to real Earth...she can recharge her magic. Not even reflective lenses can keep her from mesmerizing Juliet. And Mulch finds Artemis’s copy of the Book of the People, thus taking away his big advantage over the fairies. Holly’s now free, but she can’t leave the house. Fairies have rules to adhere to if they wanna keep their magic, and when captured by Artemis, one of his rules was “You absolutely can’t leave the house”. Now...she COULD leave her room. He didn’t say she couldn’t do that. But the house? Nope.

No matter. Root’s gonna send in the gold, get Holly out...then bio bomb the place, stroll in, and claim the ransom.

Unfortuntely his second in command and friend, Cudgeon, has a better idea. They’ve got a troll Holly recently caught. Cudgeon suggested to the fairy’s ruling council to just launch the troll in. Have it wreck the place, the humans will be screaming for help, and then the fairies can just bust in and kick Fowl’s little ass up and down the halls. And if Holly’s hurt, well...too bad. 

It goes badly. Butler is strong and skilled but he was trying to get Juliet to safety and he wasn’t expecting a TROLL. Holly tries to help fight it off but she can’t get her helmet to work properly, it’s been damaged, and the weapon she used on the troll earlier to beat it was IN the helmet. She only manages to make it reel back, but she’s badly hurt. BUT...not so hurt she can’t use magic to heal Butler. Who is NOT. PLAYING.

He rises up, puts some nearby knight armor from a standing knight stand on...and has a mace. BAM! BAM! BAM! He has a Sig Saurer submachine gun. BAM-BAM-BAM! Nobody touches his sister. But...Holly asks him not to kill the troll. It’s beaten. And it’s just a dumb animal, please show mercy. So he doesn’t kill it, kicks it out, and Artemis and Juliet and Butler get contacted by Root, who agrees to send the money in, apologizing for the troll. 

Holly feels bad that Juliet’s about to get killed, she doesn’t feel bad about Artemis, but she doesn’t want Juliet killed. She says “I have magic, please, isn’t there anything I can do, you’re gonna be killed!” Artemis says there’s nothing she can do. He knows there’s a real danger coming but he’s sure he can beat it.

Although...there is ONE thing Holly could do with her magic. 

Then...sure enough...Holly is allowed to leave the house with half the gold. Payment for services rendered. The fairies launch the bio bomb as Artemis and Butler and Juliet drink drugged champagne.

And THAT...is how they beat the time field and the bio bomb. By knocking themselves unconcious, they can weasel out of the time field’s effects. When the fairy recon team comes in...yep. Sure enough, no bodies lying around. Artemis has escaped. So he gets to keep half a ton of gold. 

And...well, Holly did some magic for Artemis. She cured his mother of her mental illness. And that’s the first book.

Artemis is kinda unlikable, but having Holly freeing herself basically, not being a true damsel in distress, AND her saving Butler, who’s a lot more uneasy and disliking of Artemis’s plan, makes the story engaging. Artemis may not be a nice kid you can like, but the other characters make up for that. And there’s great worldbuilding and humor, with some nice, dry wit. 

The “Artic Incident” shows that Artemis’s mom is having him see a shrink. THe issue is he doesn’t respect anybody else. Nobody alive. Sure, he respects people like Einstein and Archimedes, but nobody PRESENT. And his dad’s still gone.

...or so he thought. A video has come in. Slightly blurry. But a man is tied up to a pole in a Russian winter and a sign on him reads...Hello Son. 

...Artemis is sure it’s him. And the FAIRIES are sure Artemis has teamed up with one of the most problematic, and STUPIDEST races of all...goblins. Nasty little things who can breath fire and who are super dumb...but now they’re using human tech to attack the fair folk underground. Who else but Artemis would do it? It’s sinister, evil, clever, it’s totally him.

The joke, though, is it isn’t him  who’s sold the tech to the goblins. Holly brings him in to be interrogated by Commander Root, and the scientist centaur, Foaly, who’s a brilliant mind and who makes fascianting devices like iris cams, little cameras that can slip onto your eyes as easily as a contact lens. Artemis isn’t behind what the goblins are doing BUT...he’s willing to help find out who is...

If they help him get his dad back. Well, Root agrees. Holly at first doesn’t believe Artemis actually cares until more time goes on and she realizes “Oh, wow, he’s serious, he DOES care about his dad, he’s not as cold and cruel as I thought”. They find out though that...well...they’ve got problems. While going to Russia, and trekking through the artic to where his dad is being held...goblins attack, and their weapons have been sabotaged! Somebody on the inside has screwed them over. 

But no, it’s not Foaly or Commander Root or the like. It’s Cudgeon. He’s teamed up with the pixie Opal Kaboi, a brilliant young woman who “upgraded” all the fairy folk police weaponry...as part of a plan for Cudgeon to take over the fairy lands. He’s sold weapons to the goblins, and he’s depowered the fair folks weapons...but then he’ll come riding in, JUST in time to save them. The weapons of the fair folk will be restored, the goblin rebellion put down, and they’ll all be so grateful he saved them he’ll get into a position of power. And then he’ll make Opal Kaboi meet with a tragic accident. Maybe several. And, of course, he’ll kill off Commander Root and Holly and Foaly and those “mud men”, as he calls Artemis and Butler. Heck, all the fairies call humans mud men. Racist pricks. 

Artemis is able to help stop the rebellion. He exposes cudgeon to Opal, Butler and Root kick goblin ass, and in the end, they uphold their end of the bargain and go back to Russia to free Artemis’s dad, faking him being shot. Artemis thanks Holly...rather profusely, at that. He’s SUPER grateful. She’s given him back his family, she’s saved his life once, and she’s just an amazing woman and-

Yeaaah, it’s sorta implied he KINDA has feelings for her. And Holly’s grateful too, not just for the “helping to stop the goblin rebellion and conspiracy” thing. She had lost her finger in an incident involving a train earlier when travelling through the artic with him. A door had slammed and cut her finger off, but Artemis was able to get it back on and to use the magic ritual to heal her, meaning she didn’t have to lose her trigger finger. She gives him a gold coin that she shoots through, a trophy, and says that beneath that exterior, there’s a “spark of decency. Blow on it sometime”.

The next story has Artemis trying to be a bit more...well, less criminal. He’s got some technology he salvaged from that helmet Holly left behind at his house. He’s used the tech and made a fancy computer cube, YEAAAARS beyond anything humanity has. No, he’s not putting it on the market. Not yet. He wants a businessman, Jon Spiro, to invest in his company he’s gonna be making. He’ll keep the cube off the market, Jon Spiro can sell his stocks, and invest in a real winner. After all nobody else has this kind of tech.

Spiro, however, is like “I could just kill you and take your fancy computer here you just showed me”. And Artemis is like “Oh give me a break, I arranged to meet you in a public restaurant, in broad daylight, and with my bodyguard who’s like three times your size, you can’t threaten me.”

Well. actually...he can. Spiro had the ENTIRE PLACE filled with his assassins before Artemis arrived. All the “customers” are his men. He takes the cube and leaves Artemis to get plugged by his bodyguards. Not good! The good news is Artemis rigged a sonic grenade underneath the table and they set it off. So all the bodyguards are beaten down!

Bad news is that one of the bodyguards actually was prepared for such a thing...well, mostly. His teeth are all blown out but he’s still concious enough...to try and shoot Artemis right in the chest. 

Butler barely saves him, taking the shot, and managing to shoot THAT guy, knocking him out. But Butler...Butler’s wound is basically fatal, and he reveals his true name, Domovoi, before he goes limp.

Artemis is DESPERATE. He has only one recourse. He sticks Butler in the nearby frozen fish ice tank in the restaurant to keep the body cool, and calls in a favor, getting a cryo pod delivered to keep Butler’s body cool. He then makes a call. A public phone call...that talks about stuff ONLY the fair folk would know, all to get the attention of the fairies. And lucky him...Holly shows up. He begs her to heal Butler. 

“Please, Holly. I can’t just let him go. It’s BUTLER...”

“...alright, Mud Boy.” Holly agrees. She owes Butler, after all. He’s saved her life several times and he’s a good man. Foaly the centaur is unsure the magical procedure will work, it’s NEVER really been done before. Artemis keeping the body cool has helped, but...it’s a shot in the dark.

But...the magic ritual works. Holly heals him. But she’s also sorta...took  some of his life force. The process made him age a bit. He’s now got a beard! But, still, he’s alive.

Artemis admits what happened with the cube computer, and Jon Spiro. And the cube is SO powerful and SO beyond normal human tech, in Spiro’s hands, it’d be a nightmare for all parties. He can easily, if he cracks the code on it, find out about the fairy folk. So Artemis offers to clean up his mess if he can get some help from Holly. Commander Root says sure...if he agrees to a mind wipe. He, Juliet, and Butler. They’ll remove all memory of the People from him, he won’t remember anything about fairies and the like, and they’ll fill in the gaps since, after all, he’s known about them for several years now. 

Artemis agrees, and they come up with a plan. Jon Spiro can’t get INTO the cube. So Artemis will agree to come to him in exchange for Spiro not going after him and his family, and he’ll crack the code he put on the cube to allow Spiro to make use of it. But it’s a trick. He’s wired with some fairy tech to spy on Spiro through it all as they make a plan. He’ll “fix” the cube, crack it open...but make it so it won’t actually tell Spiro about The People. On top  of that, he knows full well Spiro wants to use the cube to get even with his rivals...

And what better way to do that than to break into their own corporate HQ with the cube and hack their security and steal all their stuff right from out of their noses? Artemis is like “I don’t think that’s a good ideaaaa” in a sort of more subtle “Stop, don’t, come back” bit from Willy Wonka. He’s COUNTING on Spiro being a “rub his face in it” type...and Spiro really, REALLY is that type. Super petty, super smug. And super screwed. Artemis and the gang manage to trap him, get the cops to show up, and they steal the cube back, with Artemis tricking Spiro handily. He even fiddled with the cameras in the facility that Spiro tried to break into to make it look like HE wasn’t even there at all!

With the adventure done, the gang has to have their memories wiped. Artemis gives Mulch Diggums, who helped with everything, the gold coin memento Holly gave him saying “it means a lot to me, and I’d like you to have it”. He also thanks Holly for everything. He has both his family and now real friends thanks to the People. He wishes he didn’t have to forget that. 

Soon, the memory wipe is done. Artemis tried to leave behind some memory triggers to get AROUND the wipe, like unsent emails, online storage, and even a time capsule buried in the yard. But...well, that gold coin he gave to Mulch the dwarf isn’t ACTUALLY the coin.

It’s a computer disc. With a few memory triggers on it. He also has a note attached to it. “Wait a few years and come find me...we’re gonna do a TON of business together”, basically. Artemis, meanwhile, realizes a short time after the mind wipe that..something isn’t right. He was washing his face...when a tiny lens fell from his eyes. A corroded contact lens with a mirrored  layer behind it. And Juliet and Butler had them too. But they don’t remember putting those lenses there...clearly, something’s up. And he’s determined to find out what. 

Meanwhile, Holly and Foaly are rather sad about wiping Artemis’s memory. They were really beginning to like him. They’re worried, too, that maybe wiping his memory has taken away all the progress he’s made. Maybe he’s back to being that cold, cruel criminal Holly met those few years ago...

Well, the People will soon end up needing him. Because the pixie Opal Kaboi, sinister mastermind and sociopathic inventor, has been faking a coma, and she’s got two servants of hers to break her out. She switches herself with a clone of her that’s brain dead to fake the coma, and she’s got a plan. She’s disguised herself as a human, the child of a billionaire environmentalist, and she’s going to make herself human...and have her dad do a special project. A project...to tunnel down into the Earth to tap into the core.

And, well...fairies live underground. The two races are sure to meet thanks to this project, and Opal is sure they’ll be war, and with her sinister technology and skills, she intends to wipe out the fair folk and have humans win, and then work her way up from there, getting more and more power so she can finally take over the world. 

Artemis, meanwhile, is engaging in some theft of a very special painting...the Fairy Thief. He’s now gonna be the youngest thief in the entire world, and as he admires the painting, he realizes something about this Pascal Herve painting. The fairy is lingering at the window because she can’t come in unless INVITED. How does he know that? 

At the same time, Holly and Commander Root are trying to track down a goblin general who was able to sneak out of prison. Root has recommended Holly to basically take over the division she’s a part of, to be, well, a commander herself. And he also wants her to know how proud he is of what she’s become. He’s become a secondary father to her after she lost her own dad twenty years back. 

...I think...you can guess what I’m going to say next. No, he’s not three days until retirement. But he and Holly walk into a trap set up by Opal Kaboi. The goblin general is wired. When Root tries to grab the goblin...a special bomb is strapped to him. One that’s messing with the electronics in the room they’re currently stuck in. Foaly, watching everything from Holly’s camera, can’t hear what’s being said, and all he sees is her pointing a gun at her commanding officer, he can’t even see the bomb because the bomb’s made of a special stealth ore. 

Root is gonna explode. But Opal says “Hey, if you shoot this ONE SPECIFIC PART of the bomb...MAYBE you’ll stop the countdownn, but you really should go off and save those mud men, because the Fairy Thief painting they’re after has a tracking chip in it. And I’ve sent a bio bomb after them to blow them up.” 

Holly is SURE she can make the shot and stop the countdown but...

...well, she doesn’t. Poor Root is violently blown up. It’s a horrifying, terrible scene. And shortly after as Holly BARRELS desperately to try and save them, the bio bomb soars at Artemis and Butler! The good news is Butler leaps out the window with Artemis, using a bed to cushion the fall.

The bad news is they barely survive. Holly manages to save Artemis, carrrying him off, intending to come back to help Butler later, he’s just WAY too heavy to carry, and after healing Artemis, and he awakens, she explains what’s going on. 

You might think he doesn’t believe her. But no, he does. He remembers the strange lenses he’d put in his eyes, and her story lines up with them. He found out shortly after discovering those lenses HE ordered them, and he could only have done so to cheat a fairy mesmer. So he belives Holly...but he doesn’t remember her one iota. 

Butler, meanwhile, is visited by Mulch Diggum, who’s broken out of prison upon hearing Julius Root is dead and Holly is suspect number one. They’re his friends...and he HAS to help them! So he’s gone to Fowl Manor...with the memory trigger disc. He plays it for Butler...and Butler remembers everything. Good thing too...

Because Opal Kaboi has just found Artemis and Holly and intends to PERSONALLY have them killed as NASTILY as possible cuz they avoided being killed by her little bombs earlier. She’s gonna have trolls tear them apart. And she rubs salt in the wound by telling Holly that hey, funny story...that sweet spot I told you about? On the bomb on Root? That I said if you shot, it’d stop the countdown? Well, there wasn’t one. I lied just to frame you. The good news is, Artemis had his phone on and was leaving a message at Fowl Manor, and Butler and Mulch heard the whole thing, so they know where Opal is gonna be sending them. And they hurry over as Artemis begins to get more of his memories back, and they try to escape from being torn apart by trolls.

Soon Artemis has his whole memory back...and he’s torn by guilt over what he did to Holly when he first met her. He feels scummy. And he also swears to stop Opal Kaboi. And he knows exactly how. 

They know where Opal is going to be because she’s bragged so much. Mulch is able to sneak onto her ship...steal the bombs she intended to trigger that would be part of her plan to damage the home of the fairies and make them even MORE vulnerable to the drilling plan her “adopted human father” was planning...and put them in her ship. In fact, right where she was keeping her chocolate truffles. Just to add insult to injury. Opal had been all “You’re so dumb if you thought stealing the bombs would stop me, I’ll just detonate them and your whole ship will blow up”. Well, Opal, they did steal them from your ship...but they just moved it to another part of the ship you didn’t think to check...

Until it’s too late. Opal’s ship blows up, she BARELY escapes to the surface...and just as her  magic has run out, leaving her stranded in Italy and forced to work in a vineyard, digging holes for grapes and the like. Artemis and the gang reunite with Foaly and explain to him and the fairy authorities what happened, and after an investigation and Commander Julius Root’s funeral, Holly is cleared. She and Mulch decide to work together as private detectives, the Fairy Folk now consider Artemis and Butler a true friend of the people, Mulch has his criminal record expunged completely, and Artemis, in a show of generosity, decides to secretly donate “The Fairy Thief” painting he stole (which,t to be fair, was taken from ANOTHER thief...) to the Louvre.

The fourth story is definitely the height of the series. Some dramatic changes, Artemis at his very best, the interplay with the gang, the high stakes...so I can recommend the series. Well, to a point. THIS point. After this, the books begin to go downhill. It just comes across as spinning  it’s wheels, and then for the last book, well...

Well, uh...see, there’s this plan Opal has to cause chaos and because a TON of her technology is now being used up on the surface world, all the technology she had friggin blows up. We’re talking stuff like dialysis machines and other medical equipment made useless. Pacemakers? BOOM! Right in your chest! Submarines no longer functioning! People on boats? Stranded! People begin looting. PLANES FALL FROM THE SKY. 

Oh but hey, at least they’re not distracted by TV anymore. No really, that’s...like, nobody really dwells on what’s clearly a horrific, apocalyptic scenario and god knows how many people died...

Look, I love the series. But I think I can best recommend it...in the graphic novel format it came in. So check those out. They go all the way, at least currently, up to the fourth book. So just read those if you can. They’re a ton of fun and super creative. :)

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Choices Pride 2024 Week 1 Masterlist

Blades of Light and Shadow

I'm standing there... on the balcony in summer air - Nia Ellarious x f!human!MC (Iris of Riverbend) - art by @mydemonsdrivealimo, submitted by @peonyblossom

riverbend's best butcher! and some elf lord - Tyril Starfury x m!orc!MC (Lawod Nagoni) - @gaiuskamilah

Crimes of Passion

nora & trystan & pride - Trystan Thorne x MC (Nora Rose) - @inlocusmads

The Freshman

Rin & Madison QPR HCs - Madison Eckhart & OC (Rin Day) - @choicesmc

It Lives Anthology

Lesbian MCs Picrew - f!MC (Ivy Lovelace, ILITW), f!MC (Merliah Vance, ILB), f!MC (Eleanor Wilkins, ILW) - @peonyblossom

MC Picrews - m!MC (Harry Spear, ILITW), m!MC (Isaak Vance, ILB), nb!MC (Ollie Bridgers, ILW) - @peonyblossom

MC Picrews - f!MC (Raven Adams), f!MC (Fiona Vance), nb!MC (Keagan Burke) - @peonyblossom

MC Picrews - m!MC (Jesse Harrison, ILITW), m!MC (River Vance, ILB), nb!MC (Lottie Hamilton, ILW) - @peonyblossom

Murder at Homecoming

rowan & stevie & pride - Stevie Sun x MC (Rowan) - @inlocusmads