#ask box things you said

[jacksgreysays]

"things you said when we first met" from Things You Said prompts. Sasuke's POV of meeting (getting to know(?)) Shikako

Hi aryaokayfriend!

Hm… for this prompt, do you mean canon!DoS or an AU? Or a Gardens-verse Shikako meeting a different world’s Sasuke?

Because if it’s canon!DoS, that’s just when both of them are 6 years old and in the Academy for the first time and it’s probably not much more than hi, hello, my name is ____.

And maybe Sasuke was bubblier than his, you know, brooding antihero vibes that we have now. But I can’t imagine it’s too wild.

Unless this is a canon divergent AU in which the first thing that comes to Shikako’s mind to say to this soft, smiling 6 year old boy is that his entire family is soon going to be killed by his hero older brother because a creepy old man has weird self esteem issues, bloodlimit envy, and possibly a decades long unresolved crush on either his Uchiha-hating sensei or his Uchiha teammate.

Oops.

In WHICH CASE, that would be both horrifying and funny.

You know what… this COULD be an AU in which… well, maybe I’m in this specific headspace because of one of our previous exchanges and also yesterday’s post

But what if this is the Hail to the Queen: She Who Has Divine Right and it’s because since she could speak, she has been dropping “prophecies” about the future. Like. If it starts when she’s a toddler and she says something like “the Cloud ambassador is a ruse, they’re going to try to kidnap Hinata” to her father, the Jounin Commander, and if he takes it seriously—or at least, seriously enough to either let the Hyuuga know or to increase internal security/patrols—and then they actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SUCH THAT HINATA ISN’T TRAUMATIZED, HIZASHI DOESN’T HAVE TO BE SACRIFICED FOR NO REASON AND THUS ALSO NEJI ISN’T TRAUMATIZED. Then, yeah--Congratulations, Shikaku, Your Daughter Is A Prophet.

So, okay, telling a 6 year old Sasuke that his entire family is soon going to be killed by his hero older brother because a creepy old man has weird self esteem issues, bloodlimit envy, and possibly a decades long unresolved crush on either his Uchiha-hating sensei or his Uchiha teammate ISN’T GREAT but, also, as long as you heed her words, things can be fixed.

I’m also just wondering how much of this AU becomes… like… well, she’s trapped herself into this role of prophet and it’s true that she knows A LOT of the future. But also, because things keep changing, she knows increasingly less.

You know what would help in making sure she can keep up with information? A spy network. You know who would make good spies? The grateful members of Konoha’s two powerful eye-based blood limits.

[polyamorousmood]

I am poly. My husband wasn't. Now he says he wants to be Poly. Am I wrong for telling him that he can't be Poly because we didn't have that talk? He's mono. He just wants to cheat.

This is a very short ask, and yet the contradictions abound:

He says he wants to be poly vs we didn't have that talk. (My good bitch that is asking to have that talk)

He says he wants to be poly vs he just wants to cheat. (He's talking to you about it. It's possible he just wants to sleep around. But a necessary component of "cheating" is the clandestine nature. It's also possible he wants to explore it more because you opened him to the possibility. Or he wants more equality in this regard. Or any number of things.)

I am poly vs am I wrong for telling him he can't be Poly. (Regardless of whatever "the objective truth" is here, you sound like a massive hypocrite)

You don't have to be comfortable with it. You may doubt his intentions. You may even put your foot down and say "poly for me but not for thee". But if it's that last one, I would tell your husband to look for the door if he sent me an ask. Your husband deserves to get what he wants out of his relationship(s) too.

If I am doing the work of making your argument less abrasive for you (which ngl, my friend, is a heavy lift) and also assuming good faith on your part (which nothing in your ask implies, btw, so it is an assumption), I'd characterize this as "you are okay with polyamory, but are concerned your husband only wants an open relationship from his end, which you are uncomfortable with". In which case,

🗣📣TALK TO YOUR HUSBAND ABOUT IT 🔊

and work through those concerns collaboratively. As a team. Under what circumstances would you be okay with that?Like, give your husband some credit, and be willing to compromise with him as he probably did for you (if you've been practicing polyamory) or is doing now by bringing it up again (if you have remained mono for him). And if you honestly can't because he's proven himself to be that bad a person, leave him for those reasons, and not for the crime of [checks notes 🔎📝] asking for the same accommodation in the relationship you also already want/have.

[chaoslibra]

*quietly shuffles in awkwardly and places tiny box down, sliding it to you with a broom before shuffling out of sight*

*box is opened*

Hawks as a hairdresser. Easily falls in agony if you allow anyone else to cut your hair.

Touya is a piercer/tattoo artist. ‘Innocently’ convinces you a serpent with thorny roses along your back is perfect

thank you goodbye :3 *poof*

no no no waitttt come back sweetie <<33 u cooked i fear!! since i literally talked to rue both abt dyeing my hair again AND getting a new snake tattoo, i feel it'd be illegal not to tag them, so @rueclfer feel free to add ur thoughts love :3

✮ hairdresser!hawks whose entire studio is plastered full of pictures hairstyles he has tried on you (he refuses to let anybody else model for him)

✮ hairdresser!hawks who will literally block out his entire day when you call him with a new hair style idea (he loves trying out new dyes or techniques and knows that you trust him completely)

✮ hairdresser!hawks who always and without fail lets you dye a little strand of his hair to match his

✮ hairdresser!hawks who calls you into his studio and almost has a stroke seeing that you're hair is a different length than it should be from the last time he had cut it

✮ hairdresser!hawks who huffs and pouts all day while you hang out in his studio, claiming that you cheated and that you forever broke his trust and he will never do your hair again

✮ hairdresser!hawks who has you in his chair five seconds later 'fixing' the haircut and touching up the 'shoddy dye job' (his words, not yours), because you persuaded him with a late night trip to get wings at his favorite wing place (he's whipped for you, if it wasn't painfully obvious already)

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ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who always texts you at the most ungodly hours with new wannado's and flash sheets (he'd rather be caught dead, than tattoo them on anybody else but you)

ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who will shamelessly cancel any appointment if you call him with a new tattoo idea. he does not give a single fuck.

ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who lets you stay in his tattoo studio well after hours and hotboxes the backroom with you. you doodle on each other's arms which quickly turns into doing silly stick & pokes on each other while giggling high of your asses.

ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who gets insanely jealous whenever you show him other tattoo artists that you follow on instagram. he will not let you be tattooed by anybody else!

ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who always makes sure to have your favorite drinks and snacks stocked, whenever you come in (and even if you're not scheduled, cause he's always anticipating you just stopping by like and asking if he has thirty minutes to tattoo another cute little design on your already full arm)

ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who hesitantly approaches you about a big tattoo design (a serpent with thorny roses) on your back. he's holding back a blush so hard, while he asks (he's the chalantest nonchalant mf idgaf). it's not like he hasn't seen your skin before. quite the opposite, he's tattooed your arms a bunch of times and your legs, even your ribs, but a full back tattoo had his thoughts racing a mile a minute.

ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who gets so excited when you agree, that he almost let's out a fucking squeal (i was picturing that one laugh/squeal he did in s7 it js makes sense to me) and he immediately goes to his tablet to sketch it. spams you in the middle of the night with ten different versions btw.

ꨄ︎ tattoo artist!touya who has never been so deadly focused as when he tattoed the serpent on your back. and it comes out perfect. he posts it everywhere and this tattoo literally becomes his pride and joy and favorite piece he's ever done. (until of course you come to him with a new design).

[patheticwhimsy]

now i’m imagining stede twirling around in the cursed suit some more after doing his punch and his eye catching on the box. he opens it thinking it’ll be jewelry but sees it’s lube and is like you know what, i think i’ll need this anyway with how hot i look in this fit and steals it

[sonknuxadow]

As weird as it sounds, I always viewed Sonic and Shadows rivalry and relationship to be vaguely sibling coded in canon. Sonic has the whole 'its so great we get to be heroes together, even if we argue/fight alot' thing going on, while Shadow has the whole 'I respect you but I think that's embarrassing and wouldn't admit that I actually like you, ever' thing going on.

I'm pretty sure that this might be a byproduct of Sega trying to write the majority of Sonics relationships as sibling-esq no matter how his dynamic with them actually are. Sega just loves the found family trope with Sonic and Co.

hmm i guess i can see where you're coming from but i don't really see them that way personally. like it's valid i respect it its just not my usual take

i also dont really agree with the idea that most of sonics friendships have a sibling vibe like tails is his brother all those other people are his friends(/rivals/whatever) . well i can see cream being a little sister figure of sorts but i feel like she fills that role for several characters not just sonic in particular . not that im trying to control how you view sonic character relationships that's just My Onion

[lethality-of-dual-strike]

here are some pixie designs (and Cupid) i was messing around with for an AU that's consumed my entire soul. i like to think that there are differences between the pixies, even if it is funny they mostly look the same.

the "nicknames" are what Cupid calls them. Pearce/Ink was a last minute addition but he's probably my favorite of the bunch (aside from Sanderson of course). i think the most embarrassing thing is i actually have more pixie OCs in other AUs. they're very special to me.

[jorunna-mochi]

if I wake up to one more "please donate" bot in my inbox I'm turning anon off it's either I do that or let my intrusive thoughts win

[jacksgreysays]

ooooh glad to see your requests are open again!! how about- "things you said that i wasn't meant to hear" for shikako and kakashi?

Oooh, anon, the first thing that came to my mind with this prompt was pretty mean. Like… I’m going to explain what it was after, but I think it might be TOO mean to actually write in full:

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Naruto is the one to go through the pictures, of course, the colors faded with age; but the bright blue of his father’s eyes and deep red of his mother’s hair still visible. He presses uncharacteristically gentle hands against the worn fabric of a light pink kitchen apron, a jacket with bold patterns around the red Uzumaki spiral, an unused baby blanket with his name embroidered on it. The soft sentimental things, remnants of a family that should have been, this is what Naruto focuses on as he finally, belatedly, goes through the inheritance that should have been his all along.

Kakashi says nothing, turns away so as to give his student a small amount of privacy, but does not leave him. Not this time.

Down the hall, his other students are focused instead on the more practical items: Weapons and armor. Storage scrolls—some of which are labeled, but the majority of which are not. Fuinjutsu research notes both in Minato-sensei’s slanted chicken scratch and Kushina-san’s looping, cresting hand.

“This is fine,” he hears Sasuke say, no doubt using his Sharingan to pick up any hidden, lingering security techniques. “Something’s weird about that shelf, we should skip it for now.”

“Look at all of this,” Shikako’s words are followed by the rapid rustling of paper. “This is beyond ingenious, this is… this is impossible.”

The part of Kakashi that isn’t constantly grieving feels second hand pride on behalf of his mentor.

“You do the impossible all the time,” Sasuke’s response is somehow flat yet still conveys exasperation.

“Not like this,” she says, her tone absolutely certain, not just the usual flavor of humility and self-doubt. “I can’t even imagine… to have been able to learn from either of them—from both of them?—I would have been able to do so much.”

Sasuke says something after that, but the words don’t make it through to Kakashi. The constantly grieving part of him rises swiftly as guilt, flooding his ears with white noise. Because he knows Shikako would never imply it, but he can hear it anyway:

Had she been Minato-sensei’s student, had she been the child practically adopted by Kushina-san through force of will alone, had she been there, then, if it had been her…

She would have been able to do so much better than Kakashi did.

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Okay, it’s pretty short and I took a lot of the sting out of it, but the original idea was basically going to JUST be Shikako and Kakashi going through some of Minato’s old fuinjutsu notes and then Shikako kind of accidentally implying that had Kakashi bothered to learn under Konoha’s, perhaps, greatest fuinjutsu master (I think Minato apparently perfected a lot of things Tobirama only had protoypes for?) then a lot of tragedies, both personal and public, wouldn’t have happened or been as bad. I think the meanest one that came to me was that Rin wouldn’t have died since Minato had been working on a way to temporarily transfer a jinchuuriki seal from a person onto an item—probably in preparation for Naruto’s birth—such that they both could have made it home to Konoha where then the actual sealing masters could fix the seal on Rin which, uhhhhh, so sorry Kakashi T_T

There were other things like—a student of a sealing master (especially one that had Sharingan) would have noticed and been able to tweak or remove ROOT seals or find Orochimaru’s fucked up laboratories, etc. etc.

Just me bullying Kakashi, the saddest string bean in the world.

But at least I made it a little nicer? Oof, soooo sorry, anon, I can’t really think of anything else that is as meanly compelling as this.

[hayaku14]

hello why is kaishin more popular than shinkai or what i mean is why bottom shinichi is like the most widely believed one? lol not really in the fandom just vaguely familiar with the anime from childhood it's just my mutuals likes this ship. i'd thought shinichi being the top would be more popular given his personality.

anon sorry for the late answer!!

imma be real honest with you, anon, i've loved the kidco dynamic since i was conan-sized but i only realized kaishin should be making out around 2021 so i don't know if i'm the best person to answer this question LOL BUT, i'll give you an answer!

tbh, i think for fandom shipping in general, the main character more often than not is the chosen bottom and whoever else is the other party is topping them. in japanese media especially, the ship names are mostly born from putting the kanji of their names together wherein the order of which indicates the seme and uke. since this happens early on, we kinda get stuck with that as the popular ship name whether you prefer the other way later on.

perhaps kaishin is more popular but not entirely by a lot compared to other ships where it's completely skewed to one side. i see a lot of shinkai too. ofc there are people who prefer one way over the other exclusively and that's completely fine!

personally, i think confining them into seme and uke or top and bottom does a great disservice to the kaishin dynamic because to me we should be looking at their sub-dom dynamic more and why they're actually peak switch sub and dom!!!!

that's fucking right kaishin is actually peak switch and i will die on this fucking hill!!!!!!!!!!

when you say shinichi would be the "obvious top," i'd like to assume in your heart you actually meant "the obvious dom" (LOL) but i think that could also apply to kaito.

i think the appeal of kaishin is the push and pull between them. the give and take. they're always trying to one-up each other. sometimes one pushes and the other gives way, sometimes it's the other way around.

i will be honest, perhaps switch pairings might just be my preference but I have never encountered a pairing that felt this completely equal in the switch department more than kaishin. like for other ships i'd sometimes be like, "yeah they switch but A is 70% more dom than B." But for kaishin I'm like, "oKAY THEY'RE 50/50 THEY'RE EQUALS THEY'RE PERFECT HALVES RAAAAAHHHH"

now how does this answer your question? well, i have no proof and im going off of vibes and like i said im no veteran in this ship fandom but, i think a lot of people do enjoy the other way around as you think it would've been. it's just that...it's something that can just be filed under the kaishin tag too. because it's basically the same sometimes. the only different thing is who's topping and bottoming. like sometimes i'm scrolling through twitter and i'd see art that's giving shinkai but it's tagged as kaishin and vice versa lol.

also personally i prefer calling them kaishin because i love the letter k and i associate the name shinkai more with makoto shinkai so every time i see people refer to kaishin as shinkai, my mind just conjures up an image of kaito, shinichi, and makoto shinkai together and i know that's fucking hilariously weird but it sometimes happens!!!! LMAO so even if i'm thinking about shinkai stuff, i still prefer using the name kaishin lol.

(but having the kaishin/shinkai distinction is definitely still useful especially for people who want to filter through one way or the other so fuck yeah to the ship name shinkai you're here to stay!!!)

anyway in conclusion, top shinichi is popular too dw lol, or maybe i should say bottom kaito is popular too lol i see yalls

also sorry that this answer is not only late but also a whole essay that doesn't even straightforwardly answer your question lol my bad anon

[green-static]

You wanted to know what people think about you? Well, this is what I think about you.

You're super cool, funny, nice, sweet, and even more positive adjectives I can't think of. You have amazing art and you introduced me to fandoms I adore and would've never found if it weren't for you. You make me smile and hate myself a little less (and that's a massive feat!) So yeah. You're cool, I like you (platonically), and yeah. You're really awesome. Gold star for you ⭐

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[moshieee]

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You have found. . .

A decently sized box inside your inbox. It seems to be a present of some sort

There is a little folded paper that says: “To Moshieee From GlitchyK”

When you open it up, it has a small drawing/doodle/outline of QOTR Pomni, the text says.

“Hey Moshieee, I know I didn’t need to get you anything, and it’s somewhat random, but I figured I would!”

Ps: “Totally not why I asked for your favorite tadc character so I could draw it in the AU you inspired me to make… totally…”

You choose to. . .

Open the box

Save it for later

Don’t open at all

Send back

Oh this is darling thank you this is such a kind gesture and I love the drawing

It still surprises me that I managed to inspire someone to make an au...

I think a gift is just what I need after my last class

(I would love to open the box)

[grumfy]

it’s insane how disgusting some 2ha fans are. proshitter rape apologists like you need to all stay far away from chu wanning … …

damn so does chu wanning have to stay away from himself or…

[bleaksqueak]

I haven't posted any fresh WIPs in a bit... it's sad because I really, really want to! The pages I've been working on have some of my favorite drawings of the characters so far, but every single panel of those feels like something I can't share early. Boo urns. Also, apologies. I know I've been a bit quiet between page postings. The month hasn't been quite as Good as I was going into it hoping lol but I've been cooking up some fun stuff for all of you! And if you sent me asks that I still haven't answered, I *will* get to them, I promise. Some are easier to answer than others when my brain is tired from all that cooking (There's asks about funerals and weddings that I've been both really itching to get to... and wondering how much info I should give, bc these are world building topics that have been fairly built upon behind the scenes already lol. Another fun ask about Magic Staves that I want to answer soon as I've not been using my brain hardcore all day.) But! as always, seems we will keep up the bargain of "Send me just the Right Ask and you may get a sketch answer for it" since I already answered a few others with doodles ♪♫ ♪

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

they fucking missed an opportunity to have 13 come out as gay by the tardis didnt they

[equalperson]

sometimes I believe that My tendency to avoid telling My family when I'm having health issues is just the result of avoidant cognitive distortions, but then I actually do it, get told that it's "normal" and/or a lifestyle issue, and realize the real cognitive distortion was expecting help at all -_-

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

Yes but one of the grand things about having Finn cook for me is that I don't have to suppress my autistic need to know every little ingredient inside of a food or dish because I can just endlessly ask him the question every five minutes or as needed.