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[thesparklingblue]

This is my contribution to the BLDCine Volume 1: Black Girl Magic as presented by @bldcine

The zine's goal is to raise representation of the amazing black women of the Arrowverse.

All proceeds will go to charities that benefit black women. You can purchase the zine here

[mizhuin]

This is my contribution to the BLDCine Volume 1: Black Girl Magic as presented by @bldcine. This zine’s goal is to raise representation of the amazing black women of the Arrowverse and raise money for some fantastic charities that benefit black women. I hope you enjoy this piece. Please share to raise awareness and consider purchasing the zine at the below link. It’s a 160 page zine of fics, art, and videos, and the cost is $25 plus $1.99 handling charge charged by the platform that hosts the sales. The entire $25 for the e-zine will go to charity.

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[jensluthor]

This is my contribution to the BLDCine Volume 1: Black Girl Magic as presented by @bldcine. This zine’s goal is to raise representation of the amazing black women of the Arrowverse and raise money for some fantastic charities that benefit black women. I hope you enjoy this piece. Please share to raise awareness and consider purchasing the zine at the below link. It’s a 160 page zine of fics, art, and videos, and the cost is $25 plus $1.99 handling charge charged by the platform that hosts the sales. The entire $25 for the e-zine will go to charity. 

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[dkgwrites]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Lightning (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Anissa Pierce & Jennifer Pierce, Grace Choi/Anissa Pierce, Grace Choi & Jennifer Pierce Characters: Anissa Pierce, Grace Choi, Jennifer Pierce Additional Tags: thundergrace - Freeform, BLM, Representation, Racism, Art, representation through art, systematic racism, Police Violence, Pierce sisters, Civil Rights, Black Lives Matter Summary:

Not everything in Thunder and Lightning's life is a battle for life or death with the Markonians. Some things are perhaps even more important. Just as the heroes use their powers to protect the innocent, Jennifer and Anissa can use their voices to do that same. This little sisterly outing, with Grace joining her wife and sister-in-law, follows the ladies on a roadtrip of hard truths, hope for the future, bonding, and love.

This is my contribution to the BLDCine Volume 1: Black Girl Magic as presented by @bldcine. This zine’s goal is to raise representation of the amazing black women of the Arrowverse and raise money for some fantastic charities that benefit black women.  I hope you enjoy this piece. Please share to raise awareness and consider purchasing the zine at the below link. It’s a 160 page zine of fics, art, and videos, and the cost is $25 plus $1.99 handling charge charged by the platform that hosts the sales. The entire $25 for the e-zine will go to charity. 

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[jensluthor]

Arts inspired by @dkgwrites new fic "Stolen" written for the @bldcine Volume 1!

Make sure to both check the fic and the whole zine with more fics to read and more arts and videos to enjoy! 💕

Link to the zine:

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Bldcine volume 1 Black girl magic from Bldcine1

This is volume one of our fan made zine highlighting Black women in DCTV universe. This is a work of love, and all funds and revenue from th

Link to the fic:

https://my.w.tt/bIloHC1gNab

[lias-musings]

iris west

Hi, guys! Bellow the cut is my contribution to the BLDCine Volume 1: Black Girl Magic as presented by @bldcine​!

This zine’s goal is to raise representation of the amazing black women of the Arrowverse and raise money for some fantastic charities that benefit black women.  

If you can, please share to raise awareness and consider purchasing the zine by clicking here. It’s a 160 page zine of fics, art, and videos, and the cost is $25 plus $1.99 handling charge charged by the platform that hosts the sales. The entire $25 for the e-zine will go to charity! Also, if you experience any problems while ordering or have questions, please contact the zine moderators at [email protected] 

It has been months since Iris left the Mirrorverse alongside captain Singh and Kamilla. For they were there not so long when compared with her, both of them recovered faster than Iris who still has to deal with some side effects of being stuck in the mirror place for so long. In addition to that, she has been feeling volatile and not in control of her emotions. Yesterday she snapped at Barry for no apparent reason other than being annoyed by him saying she needed to rest.

 She knows that the last thing she needs is to worry about her husband losing his speed and not being there when Godspeed reappeared or when the city needed its Scarlet Speedster. The world didn’t stop turning because she got stuck inside a mirror, and if there were days she resented Barry for not figuring he was with the wrong Iris, she wouldn’t say a word to not add more guilt on his shoulders.

 But Iris did resent him some days. Most of them, actually. If she could sense her husband was under Bloodwork’s influence, why couldn’t Barry see through that perfect copy? He took months to notice something was off about Iris while she only needed a few minutes.

 Additionally, her father and Cecile were suffocating her with their worries, and she couldn’t be rude to them. She had to be strong because that’s what is expected from her; strength. However, there were days she stayed late at the office after Kamilla and Allegra called a day to take deep breaths. Sometimes, Iris felt she couldn’t breathe properly and it was scary.

 She wasn’t one to easily feel powerless but alas, that’s what was happening. No one noticed she was becoming a shell of herself just like they didn’t notice they all were interacting with the wrong Iris. Resenting them was beyond Iris’ control, no matter how badly she wanted to forgive them, no matter how hard she would try and think that there was no way for them to know.

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It all began the day her husband has lost his powers for good, and Supergirl flew in to help Team Flash with the baddie of the week wearing a technology that could change one person's appearance at their desire. Because the baddie of the week was a psych metahuman, Supergirl brought along a friend of hers - Kelly Olsen.

 They didn’t have much time to talk but they clicked almost instantly. Something was soothing about the woman, and Iris didn’t know what that was, exactly. Later, Kara has explained that her sister’s girlfriend used to be in the army but now she worked as a psychologist specialized in trauma; a piece of information that made Iris asked for Kelly’s number.

 Being strong and swallow her resentment wasn’t doing any good to her. She needed to talk to someone, and Iris no longer felt she could trust her family and friends to listen to her without saying a word of justification. Their excuses weren’t empty (quite the contrary) but she grew tired of hearing them as if the people surrounding her became broken records of apologies.

 To say it was surprising to go to National City after almost arguing with Barry was to lie. It wasn’t a surprise, at least not to Iris. She needed to be heard, and that just wasn’t happening among Team Flash anymore/.

 She had recovered but only physically. Iris needed to cleanse her heart somehow for something dark and heavy kept growing inside her, poisoning her; being strong wasn’t doing anything for her anymore. Actually, she was growing tired of that narrative that would only apply to her and never to people like Caitlin or Kamilla. No one expected them to be strong but everyone, even her father, expected Iris to show sheer of strength.

 It was tiresome.

 So, she flew to National City being welcomed with open arms and an inhuman amount of food for Kara Danvers wouldn’t let her crash in a hotel room. Both of them didn’t know for how long she intended to stay but the blonde didn’t seem to mind.

 The next day Iris and Kelly met to talk. She didn’t know about what, exactly. All Iris knew was that she needed someone new to talk about what was going on in her life. She needed to say out loud she was tired of being strong just as much she was tired of hearing excuses instead of the reasons why no one noticed she was replaced with a mirror copy of herself. Iris wanted them to owe their egoism and self-centered manners. However, she didn’t know a way to talk about that without losing her temper, for the moment she would lose her temper, Iris would have to listen to everyone justify themselves and say it wasn’t their fault.

 One day, Ralph even said she shouldn’t go alone to check on a lead she had for an article. The other day, her father agreed by saying she needed to be careful. It was enraging but she wasn’t allowed to feel such a thing, was she now?

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Talking to Kelly was easy as the woman listened to her wholeheartedly, and the remarks that she would casually throw here and there made Iris stopped to assess her current mindset. And for the first time in months since her rescue, Iris was smiling sincerely in the mid of a conversation. It was nice to have a friend who understood her struggles.

 After taking a sip of her coffee, she waved both of her hands absently. “Sorry, I have to ask… how, how you do this?”

 Since they were talking about the way everyone expected Black women to be strong and unshakeable, Kelly knew what prompted Iris question. The West-Allen woman had grown listening and believing she needed to be a pillar to her family and friends. While Kelly had faced the same problem, she had the chance to grow out of those expectations and that ironically happened when she served in the army.

 “After everything I saw during my tours, I… I don’t know, I guess I understood that being too strong would hurt me more than would hurt other people,” Kelly shrugged only one of her shoulders gently. She had an ease smile painted on her lips; however, Iris could see past her newest friend’s features. When Iris raised a brow, Kelly’s smile faltered. “I still have moments, though. It’s not all perfect.”

 Looking away, Iris bit her lips. “Do you… do you talk with Alex about those moments?”

 The smile is no longer faltering but a sure one that shows the depths of Kelly’s affection towards Alex Danvers.

 “Yes, I do. I mean, I know that sometimes she won’t get it but if I don’t open her eyes to what I’m feeling, who will? I have to normalize that to get to a point where she sees for herself what I’m going through.”

 Iris nodded as Kelly’s words made sense to her. Of course, her reality was far from that for she didn’t have time to talk to Barry anymore and when they did have some time, they would argue.

 “But I understand that for me may be easier than it is for you. We are dating two different people.”

 She chuckled but it was devoid of any happy feelings. “Yeah, Barry can be… a lot… sometimes. He needs to save everyone and when he fails, it’s like a straight shot to his heart. And he, I don’t know, he has time to help everyone but he... “ There were words Iris couldn’t bring herself to say aloud. Not yet, at least.

 Kelly moved on her seat, leaning in over the table. She offered her hand to the other woman, and Iris took it. “It’s okay to not feel ready to share some things. You can trust me to share whatever you want with me. Know this, you don’t have to be strong while you are with me and with the girls, okay? We got you. Me, especially. Got that?”

 Another laugh escaped her lips but this time was a shaky one; her eyes were watery as well.

 It wasn’t that Iris didn’t have support back in Central City because she had, however, it was different. In all her life, she was surrounded by white people; her past boyfriends were white, most of her friends were white or non-Black. So, listening to another Black woman, one on the same age range of her, saying that Iris wasn’t alone and she didn’t have to be strong or brave if she didn’t want to, was… everything Iris didn’t know she needed to have in her life.

 “Yeah, I got it,” she answered sheepishly, releasing the air she didn’t realize she was holding. A grateful yet shy smile made its way to Iris’ lips, softening her features.

 She found something in Kelly that not even Barry could provide her - someone who truly understood her. And how exhilarating and amazing it was to have a friend like her.

[lias-musings]

Am I lowkey shipping Iris and Kelly because the piece I’m (finally) writing for the BLDCine? Maybe?

[lias-musings]

Pushing back Ray of Light part 8 a bit to write my piece for the BLDCine because I finally know what I want to write about and yes, it’s going to be about Iris and Kelly but will be more Iris-centric.