Iris, the mascot
Every self-respecting archive has a mascot, and ours was inevitable: Iris is an eye. Specifically, one of those floating eyes scattered through dreamcore images since the genre began. Ours settled in the side menu, right at the bottom, where it's lived since the site's founding without asking for anything in return.
Profile
| Name | Iris (she named herself; don't ask how) |
| Species | Floating field eye (a common variety in dreams of 1999-2009) |
| Found in | The home-page field, floating 1.5 m above the grass, watching the house on the horizon |
| Function | To watch over the archive. To watch you, but kindly |
| Blinks | About one every 7 seconds. Only when you're not looking |
| Favourite food | The 3 p.m. light |
| Unsettled by | Other people's eyelids, weirdcore, you closing the tab without saying goodbye |
Frequently asked questions about Iris
Why an eye? Because the floating eye is dreamcore's most iconic motif: the feeling of being watched inside a dream, made literal. In the genre, eyes don't chase or judge — they only attest that you're there. It's, believe it or not, a kind presence: someone has to bear witness that you were in places that don't exist.
Does Iris see what I do on the site? No. Iris is made of three divs and a CSS animation. No analytics, no cookies, nothing. The only thing that records your visit is the footer counter, and it lives in your browser. In this archive, even the surveillance is fake.
Can I draw her? Please do. Iris fan art to the guestbook. The model's rules: almond eye, desaturated blue iris (#7ab0d8), an expression of remembering something nice it can't quite place.
iris sees you. it's okay. — inscription beneath the menu portrait, since the archive's founding