#iricity

sorry - same anon regarding smoakwest, what I meant by icky is that it is really problematic for a white woman to insert herself into a Black woman’s wedding and interrupt her and her husband. So even though the friendship itself was fine, it left a bad taste in my mouth where I couldn’t view their friendship the same, especially as a Black person myself. I definitely would not let Oliver off the hook though. I actually think just as a matter of etiquette, he came across very self-absorbed and even ruder because he went to a formal event which is his friend’s rehearsal dinner and tried to propose to his girlfriend. At least in Felicity’s case, one can argue that she got swept up in the impromptu wedding of it all (still absolutely not okay). But Iris at least got to basically make it clear that she did NOT like Oliver Queen after that whole incident. Not that I wanted her to dislike Felicity, at all, but it’s just… why is this one of her most developed, best friendships, when her close friend would do something like this to her, you know? I guess it’s complicated, beyond even the scope of the Arrowverse, and really is a microcosm for what Black women have to put up with on the day to day.

Your reblog of the smoakwest gif set got me nostalgic, that could have been such a good friendship. Felt like they made that friendship icky with some real problematic connotations though when they had Felicity interrupt Barry and Iris after her wedding vows to get married to Oliver during her wedding ceremony. Which is sad to me. Man, so many missed opportunities in the arrowverse.