Memoirs of an Iridescent Lily (aka IriLil 🫧)

Journey into the sometimes irreverent, oftentimes personal, always beautiful musings and murmurings of me she/her, 30smthing

[lovepollution]

jack abbot + emojis

[ninsarchive]

“We’re gonna look like idiots after taking the zutara bait and watch them not be canon end game 😭”

Take the bait anyway. Enjoy it anyway. Love it anyway. If it’s a ship that Netflix would use as bait, it would be zutara not a canon ship so…🤷‍♀️.

[iridescentlilt]

Absolutely this! We may as well enjoy the ride. Is it gonna be canon? Who cares?! Are we being hella fed right now?! Thoroughly so.

“To worry about the end so much, that it ruins the now…” is silly and nonsensical. We have no idea. Absolutely none! Enjoy the ride. Devour this NATLA ZuTara feast 😋 I certainly will be!

[wraithofmorhogg]

I can't believe that Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender actually gave me everything I wanted and more. I haven't had this much fun watching a show in a long time.

[wraithofmorhogg]

[glimmerfics]

In this Choose Your Own Adventure, a new Avatar is born into the Water Tribe-- and forced into a marriage with Prince Zuko. But when Princess Azula also vies for your attention... who will you choose?

Zuko, Azula x Fem!Reader C hoose Your Own Adventure

🔗 READ/PLAY HERE 🎮interactive fanfic "An Avatar in the Royal Fire Court" by brinzamartian 📖 Episode 1 of ?

[flowersfromunderground]

Be yourself so ppl looking for u can find u

[foodffs]

Fudgy Oreo Brownies

Follow for recipes

Is this how you roll?

[alwaysshipping1]

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[insomniac-jay]

CHRIS BROWN IS GOING TO JAIL

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Inside the World of Orïsha | Children of Blood and Bone (2027 Movie) - Gina Prince-Bythewood

[sleepynegress]

Children of Blood & Bone : First Look Teaser (trailer drops tomorrow)

[sammy-bryant]

SHAWN HATOSY as BRETT RICHARDS Fire Country | Not a Stray (4.02)

[franarfsblog]

破茧

[fansplaining]

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[nohardheroes]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER → ZUTARA

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER - LIVE ACTION (S2) → ZUTARA

Avatar: The Last Airbender

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[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.