#shadows blinding

[swagglessmoth]

Thinking about Shadows Blinding…

Ougghhhhh

[pestoast]

Literally one of the funniest mistakes I ever made while posting shadows blinding is that in the first batch of tag adding (see: when I first posted it) I had the brilliant idea to add a tag that said ‘processing your grief and trauma in the cushiness valley in the world: luxury!’ and at the time I thought I was being really tongue in cheek! I was the comedian of the internet!! But with literally no one having read the fic but me at that point, it was 100% serious to literally everyone but me. I apologize to the poor soul who was the first comment on SB and said ‘a healing fic. Nice!’ because I replied “hahaha yeah!!!!” instead of being frank and telling you the truth that the tag was a heinous LIE and Kakashi only came out of that valley with MORE grief and trauma bitch!!!

[virune]

(blind shadow au) curiosity + contact

[disastermanagement]

He just needs a good distraction.

[fishyartist]

Drew a bunch of sonic characters as zero escape+aitsf characters for various reasons or w/e. Don’t worry about it <3

Bonus this whole thing started w/ this amy as ace I drew as a joke about a single shared character trait (?) between two otherwise totally different as hell characters

[ask-but-beware-the-consequences]

Summer collection no. 1 piece! ^^ A sweet friender bender moment in Paris :3

Drinking wine instead of porter An Irishman in gay Paris~

[sonadowkismesis]

Because you, my friend, you have found yourself the perfect man. If I was ever so lucky to find the perfect man, I would give him flowers every day! And not just any flowers, okay? His favorites are dandelions - yellow dandelions. And snacks! One hot dog inside a bun, with chili meat sauce on it! No cheese! Just the way he likes it.

[ohmerricat]

quick question steven. what did you mean by that last bit there

[yellowvixen]

person who loves listening + person who infodumps = perfect match. if they weren't so oblivious lol

[clovreat3r]

BLOOD UNDERNEATH WATCH OUT RAHHHH

Tord after painfully peeling off his bandages after the disaster of a comeback with the gang

at least he got to borrow some comfy sweatpants though- oh yeah and a new eye!

[swagglessmoth]

“Shadows, Blinding” rant

(🚨Mega spoilers🚨)

This fic really fucked me up bro.

The fucked up family dynamic. Kakashi not being able to ever come back to his timeline, never being able to go back to how everything was. Unintentionally abandoning his students and friends and indirectly causing their death.

Obito.

All the things he’s learned about his family. All the scars he’s gained in The Village (physical and psychological), the whole village fucking despising him in the end despite it all.

Nana.

Whatever the fuck the spirit mother was on. The irreparable nerve damage she caused too, a constant reminder of what happened. Him not even having the opportunity to be back in team Minato (judging by the epilogue, Obito and Rin would be around 14-17, Kakashi would be older than Minato at 30). Kakashi having to move on from everything he’s ever known, all he has, AGAIN. 💔💔

Oughhhh I’m unwell man, the ending was just so bittersweet, and with the sequel coming things are probably gonna get much worse before they get better. 1000000/10 we need more angst like this.

I do wonder one thing though: did the seal really erase people’s memories of you? Or did it really just transport you to another timeline in which you don’t exist, and bc the Hatake dgaf about the Outside they didn’t really notice? I’m just saying 🖐️😬🖐️ bc it seems Kakashi’s not returning to HIS Konoha. Never mind the time displacement, which was kind of a given, he straight up died at birth. It’s not that he’s been forgotten or erased completely, he existed and people remember his birth, he just didn’t survive. And him not being there changes A LOT for many characters (mainly team Minato). This is a completely different timeline, who knows what else changed with Sakumo there, what about Kannabi Bridge (which would have already happened)? does team Minato even exist, or were they put in different teams? Who would even be able to fill the spot where Kakashi once was, how will Kakashi react to being replaced?

Also, talking about the sequel: it’s gonna be interesting to see how Konoha reacts to Kakashi. A guy (probably kage level, it’s the least he deserves after all this) that appeared out of nowhere, has a sharingan, and is apparently related to one of the best shinobi of the village. Interesting mix. Oh and don’t even get me started on how Kakashi himself will react to being in (supposedly) another timeline, all he really wanted was to be reunited with his kids 😭 now he won’t even get that bc while they may be the same person, they’re really not, and they never will be the same kids he knew (bc those died in the war, and he wasn’t there for them). WHAT THE FUCKK AAAAAAA

[pestoast]

Thank you for all the kind comments on Shadows, Blinding! I’ll be trying really hard to reply to all of them soon :).

Sequel is at 8.7k. ;-)

[virune]

(terios inspired) blind shadow au

sonic gets a job as a waiter at a local cat café and discovers a mysterious regular, a hedgehog named shadow, who is blind. sonic takes shadow's orders and chats with him, gradually getting to know him over time, all the while falling more and more in love.

[razzek]

One thing that's starting to really get to me with the James Somerton stuff is a real strong undercurrent of disdain toward his fans. And yeah, I was one of them. A good scam artist isn't as easy to spot as y'all seem to think. You forget that you have all the information right now. Two days ago most of you had never heard of him and it would have kept going. Anyone can fall for a scam, nobody is immune. I would love to have had whatever resources you guys think we all should magically know about so I could have kept my sad $5 a month I really needed but thought was going to something worthwhile. Some of us can only devote so much energy into things and when you have no idea whatsoever that something is amiss of course you're not going to go digging for sources, why would you when everything is fine as far as you know? I really wish I could have seen the dissenting opinions on him but for many, many reasons that aren't just that the dissenting voices weren't widely circulating at the time all I had was the thought every now and again that "huh that doesn't seem right" and then go on with my day. And I think that happened to a lot of us. So yeah. Say what you gotta say about Somerton, he has more than earned it with the damage he's caused, but maybe don't shit so hard on his former fans because that is going to be you someday with something, it happens to everyone sooner or later.

[neurotypical-sonic]

shadow 🤝 silver

"oh my god is this what sunlight feels like. is this what fresh air feels like"

[fourswords]

to be quite honest shadow's characterization in the fsa manga was always something that raised more questions than answers for me because it's like. he's got a mile-wide inferiority complex about being link's shadow we all know this but when did he have the time to develop that inferiority complex in the first place. how long was he lurking around after ganon created him before the events of the manga actually started. what did he witness or hear or both to make him so fucking angry