Iris-hope

Okay I'm sorry!!
          	
          	But sport is NOT my thing. Like at all. Zero. Negative knowledge. If sports were a subject I’d fail with confidence. And Shame. Idk anymore.
          	
          	BUT last night I was minding my business, listening to a song, and BOOM—new plot idea attacked. And you KNOW the rule… once the plot arrives, it owns you. I don’t make the rules. I just suffer. Whatever.
          	
          	So I was like: okay okay, let’s be DIFFERENT this time. Let’s not make him a varsity quarterback again. Let’s grow. Let’s evolve.
          	
          	…and then I realized I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SPORTS!!
          	
          	I tried learning. I really did. I opened articles. I watched videos. I blinked once and suddenly there were 47 rules, 12 positions, 3 formations, and emotional damage.
          	
          	So anyway.
          	
          	We are doing football. AGAIN. 
          	
          	I’m sorry. I tried to be diverse. For AN HOUR! I COMMITTED! I failed. The universe said “quarterback it is” and I said “yes ma’am.”

fe_mont

@Iris-hope fair enough, cliche it is... I'm still reading it. You can reach out if you have questions though, because I follow every nfl season...
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Iris-hope

Okay I'm sorry!!
          
          But sport is NOT my thing. Like at all. Zero. Negative knowledge. If sports were a subject I’d fail with confidence. And Shame. Idk anymore.
          
          BUT last night I was minding my business, listening to a song, and BOOM—new plot idea attacked. And you KNOW the rule… once the plot arrives, it owns you. I don’t make the rules. I just suffer. Whatever.
          
          So I was like: okay okay, let’s be DIFFERENT this time. Let’s not make him a varsity quarterback again. Let’s grow. Let’s evolve.
          
          …and then I realized I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SPORTS!!
          
          I tried learning. I really did. I opened articles. I watched videos. I blinked once and suddenly there were 47 rules, 12 positions, 3 formations, and emotional damage.
          
          So anyway.
          
          We are doing football. AGAIN. 
          
          I’m sorry. I tried to be diverse. For AN HOUR! I COMMITTED! I failed. The universe said “quarterback it is” and I said “yes ma’am.”

fe_mont

@Iris-hope fair enough, cliche it is... I'm still reading it. You can reach out if you have questions though, because I follow every nfl season...
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AshlinRaymond0

Hey, I just got to read your books a while back  and I have to say I’m obsessed. I don’t really  leave  reviews or posts but your books really made me want to stay and see what the future holds. Maybe I loved Landon to much brings me joy every time I read it . Its very insightful, emotional and inspiring book that makes me understand and see why people stayed with people they yearn and thought of so long. You did a fantastic and wonderful job. 
          
          Keep it up 
          
          Ps, don’t judge the grammar. English hates me

Iris-hope

@AshlinRaymond0 O my goodness. This genuinely means so much to me, thank you for taking the time to write this!! Really!!!
            
            I’m really happy the story made you feel something and that you enjoy coming back to it. Messages like this honestly make my day and remind me why I love writing these stories so much  So thank youu!!
            
            And don’t worry about the grammar at all, your message was lovely and I understood it perfectly! That's the sole purpose of a language.
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Iris-hope

Sooo… love U max Ellis has hit 400K???
          
          I still remember December me being like “yeah I’m quitting writing, deleting my existence, becoming a serious academic weapon” (girl… who was that)
          I had THREE books out and like… 3 loyal soldiers reading them (I love you, you’re my emotional support squad. Not even kidding)
          
          Then 10K happened and I went… hmm… wait… I might be a little entertaining… maybe I don’t disappear today.
          
          AND NOW THIS??? 400K???
          I’m not asking questions because what if the universe hears me and goes “oops wrong person” 
          
          love y’all fr 

Introvertedpisces

@Iris-hope  :) congrats  I hope more good things come your way..you deserve it.. :)
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YourJoking-_

@Iris-hope AHHH IM SO PROUD OF YOU!!! All your pieces of work are amazing, and you deserve this many views and more.
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Iris-hope

Sooo another special chapter of love u Max Ellis is here ...
          
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/397788345-love-u-max-ellis-bxb-%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8F

Spiritual_7

@Iris-hope never lose your spark
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Spiritual_7

@Iris-hope i love it,  you are amazing
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Iris-hope

@Spiritual_7 hope you liked it!!
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Spiritual_7

You are really cool! Love your works

Spiritual_7

@Iris-hope omg thank you<3 and it totally isnt!! 
            You are right, writers are so hard on themselves
            Maybe take a few and come back to it with a fresh view
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Iris-hope

@Spiritual_7 Aww hey, I’m sure your stories are amazing too!! you’re probably just being hard on yourself. Writers are so good at doubting their own work. I mean, I’m literally doing that right now with my current book, I keep feeling like it’s boring lol.
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Spiritual_7

@Iris-hope yay!! I wish my stories were as wonderful as yours!
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edette_starlight

You deserve the biggest kiss on planet earth! I've read two of your books (YBO,S and LYME) over the past two days and I'm so wrecked. The love stories being queer make me cry all the more because I'm in somewhat a similar position with being queer in a VERY RELIGIOUS family. Thank you so much, I mean it really. I now have the hope that someone will love me fully, all cracks and scars and everything, and they will stay. I don't know how to put the way I feel about you books into words, and this is the closest thing to them. Thank you for showing me a love that's a better heaven than the one promised in my Bible.
          
          (Please don't hate me for writing on your profile, wattpad kept unposting my comments under the chapters. )
          
          -sincerely, 
          Edwina, a girl who was afraid of falling in love.

Iris-hope

@edette_starlight  okay first of all, don’t you dare call this cringe  I was reading it like I just got emotionally adopted.
            
            What you wrote was honest and that kind of honesty takes courage, especially when you’re in a space where being yourself doesn’t always feel safe or accepted.
            
            I hear you. The fear, the guilt, that quiet, almost fragile hope that maybe a love like that could exist for you too… all of it. And I need you to know this—nothing about who you are makes you less deserving of love. Not your identity, not your doubts, not the world you’re in. You don’t have to earn a kind of love that already belongs to you. It belongs to you simply because you are you—and that “you” is beautiful precisely because it stayed real. It didn’t bend or disappear out of fear.
            
            And that line about “a better heaven”… I understood it. Sometimes being fully seen, fully chosen, and fully loved here, in this life, feels more sacred than anything promised somewhere else. There’s nothing NOTHING wrong with wanting that. There’s something deeply human about it.
            
            Also—“a girl who was afraid of falling in love”? I think she’s also someone brave enough to want it anyway. Brave enough to be herself, even when it’s hard. It takes so much strength not to let other people decide who you’re allowed to be or who you’re allowed to love.
            
            So yeah… that girl? She’s really brave. And I’m proud of her.
            
            (and for the record, I’m absolutely keeping that “biggest kiss on planet earth” line forever ❤️)
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edette_starlight

@edette_starlight I'm so sorry, this sounded more dramatic and actually pleasing to read in my brain and now I'm reading it and it sounds so cringe
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hecate_harmony

what happened to heirs of Lahore ???

hecate_harmony

ykw makes sense focus on ur studying, we all know how desi parents react to bad grades.
            
            looking forward to the special chapters!!
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Iris-hope

@hecate_harmony no-one seemed interested i mean. Like, I noticed the last two chapters barely got any reads. And That kind of story takes a massive amount of time and effort, yk? Multiple characters, scheming, many many subplots and all so since the readers interest wasn't there, I decided to drop it. Again. Like I only have so much time for writing yk? Padhna bhi hai ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ
            
            So I’ve shifted my focus to writing special chapters for Love U Max Ellis instead!
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Iris-hope

Chapter 23 A of Maybe I loved Landon too much is here, people!
          
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/404076432-maybe-i-loved-landon-too-much

YourJoking-_

@Iris-hope You da best tooo!! ❤️❤️
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YourJoking-_

@Iris-hope Of course!! And the last one did not suck!! I loved the flowers on it! I love all your covers!!!
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Iris-hope

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Oh my god. This is disgusting. It's heartbreaking. I don’t usually follow the news. Most of the time it just feels overwhelming and far away from everyday life.
          
          But today something showed up on my feed that I can’t ignore.
          
          The Transgender Amendment Bill 2026 has passed in Indian Parliament.
          
          From what I’ve understood so far, it changes the earlier law and removes the principle of self-identification, meaning transgender people may now have to go through medical verification boards to have their gender legally recognized?? What does that even mean?? Medical verification?? 
          
          Why the fuck are we going backwards? Why the hell the entire world is so suddenly against the trans community! My heart is actually breaking for them!
          
          This might sound like a small technical change to some people.
          But for many in the trans community, it feels like the state saying: you don’t get to define who you are.
          
          It’s heartbreaking to think that after years of fighting for dignity and recognition, something so basic about identity can still be debated, regulated, and taken away WITHIN DAYSS. Like this bill was rushed soo much. Because they knew they couldn't debate it with facts and logic.
          
          
          I am just soo soo sooo pissed rn. Let the queer folk live. What's your fucking problem with ussss.

blackkk_verd

It's so sad really, just another day in kansas city trans people's licences were being revoked, now another bill passed on the minority of the community? After failure of both economical and social development they politicize a social group maybe by aim of making a diversion on their failures? We escaped colinialism only for new chains to show up wearing better suits. We got independence but with terms and conditions that we should follow, real independence isn't a single event, it's something we keep choosing daily, consistent and if we don't fight for rights of trans people who will we fight for? it starts with the small things, you presume it's still far and you're not part of it but sooner or later everyone will be caged in their own spaces, a life that has no colour whereas LGBTQIA+ is diverse and full of colours. 
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YourJoking-_

@Iris-hope Ughhh I hate this so much, and I hate how this world seems to be going backward instead of forward. Also how can you hate on someone for being who they are? I genuinely don't understand how some people are so messed up that they can hate people who are simply existing and living their lives how they want it.  And for what? So they can simply hate and block people from having their self-identity. Why are you so happy to deprive people of being themselves??? So yes I agree this is sick, I hate it, and no one should ever have to deal with this. 
            And right now I can't do a lot, but I will do everything I can to protest against this. Because yeah, if we don't do anything now what is this going to escalate to? How many more people are going to get hurt (and I wish this number was 0 so so bad. I hate how people can make laws like this, genuinely who gave you that power)?    
            
            And I agree with @wh4twh0wh3n, let's all hope to see the day where  lgbtq+ people can claim back their rights <3
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wh4twh0wh3n

@Iris-hope i wish i could do more than just retweet informative tweets and hope that it reaches more audience + sharing it to my friends so they could be aware as well. i live in a predominantly 'religious' country where our people technically still don't have any rights to live openly and safely. even recently there has been homophobic communities formed with the purpose of harassing and even physically assaulting any queer people they could find and target. and mind you our country is collapsing in a lot of aspects as we speak but sure, let's focus on making queer people's lives' hell. it is truly a bleak timeline we're currently at
            
            stay safe, take care and hopefully you'll feel a bit better soon. may we all live to see the day where all lgbtq+ people can claim back our rights and have won against any kind of hatred and prejudice against us
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