Oh, okay. That makes sense. š
I think thereād definitely be one point when Aoba is getting menaced by a deity and in his head heās just likeā¦ Ibiki is way scarier than this. And then heād be horrified by the thought of Ibiki being himself with additional ~CELESTIAL POWERS~ and thatāsĀ what makes him flinch.
Hello to both of you anons!
Mobius+birthday+homeward bounders!anon: thanks for the info! š I had no idea that ellipsis in asks make it more edible for tumblr! ~Learning new things every day~
I am both A) pleased that youāve read my Counterclockwise works and B) a little concerned about what happens in Homeward Boundersāeven more than what youāve already mentionedābecause I try very hard to make Counterclockwise kind of bleak and ominous soā¦ oh dear.
Time-travel!anon: Hopefully mobius!anonās tip about punctuation helps as well? I love hearing aboutāthen brainstormingāabout time travel shenanigans, so Iād hate to miss out on any cool asks on the topic.
I donāt think I got that one either, anon? I think tumblr has been particularly hungry latelyā¦
The closest thing I got that somewhat matches what you are referring to of out-of-order-student/teacher relationship might beĀ this? But that seemed more like a mere mention than a cohesive idea?
The only other asks that are in my inbox (which I received only todayāFebruary 27th) are an anonās prompt for a mobius story and @hbkmzkās DoS prompt. Like with most prompts, Iāll try to get to those ASAP, generally my turn around time is within three days at most (unless Iām VERY swamped which, given tumblr is eating all of my asks, is not the case here)
I think maybe the problem here, anon, is that youāre anonymous. If you had an account I would say send me a chat message the day after you send an ask that way I can confirm whether or not I received it. But because youāre anonymous, as far as I know, each ask is a different person entirely and thereās no continuity. Like this ask just now seems a little rude to me because as far as Iām concerned itās like a random person I never met is bursting out of the crowd and asking why I never responded to them? Whereas for you, Iām the rude one becauseĀ you said something to me and I just ignored you.
Which is not the case, anon: I answer every ask I get. The problem is Iām apparently NOT GETTING THEM?
I think the best way to deal with this on your end, anon (besides, maybe, getting off anon and using an account?) is that if youāve sent multiple asks and I answer a later one with no reference whatsoever to the earlier one then that probably means I didnāt get the earlier one. At which point, feel free to send in the earlier one with a disclaimer likeĀ āsent this in earlier, but I donāt think you got it, sending it in again, etc. etc.ā
The only thing I can do on my endāwhich is what I have been doing and will continue to try to do, as I think itās just a really good practiceāis to answer every ask as soon as I get them (I may queue them, but my queue is rarely longer than three posts and I always put asks to the top anyway) and answer them in order of when I receive them.
tl;dr:Ā tumblr is apparently eating a lot of my asks.Ā Anon status makes it really hard for me to tell who you are (for obvious reasons) so I canāt figure out a continuity for asks that donāt exist.Ā I answer asks generally within three days and in order of when I receive them.Ā
Oh! Hello! Wow, usually itās the other way aroundāpeople know Shikako Nara and then find me and my recursive ficāso this is cool! Iām pretty pleased that those recursive ficlets are compelling enough to read through even without knowing who Shikako is, so thank you!
Shikako Nara is the main character of Silver QueenāsĀ āDreaming of Sunshine,ā an SI!OC Naruto fic in which the author is Shikamaru Naraās twin sister. You can read it on FF.net hereāor if youāre more the podfic type, you can listen to it hereĀ on MixCloud. I also help run the tumblr page for it, @dosbysilverqueen, which includes a multitude of resources for fans.
Hope that helped and welcome to the fandom! š
Send me an ask that saysĀ āWould you ever writeā¦ā and continue the sentence.
Iāll respond with yes or no and give an explanation as to why if I want to.
Another ask box event!
If I respond with yes, Iāll do my best to write a ficlet or, at the very least, a brainstorm.
If I respond with no, Iāll explain why and depending on the ask try to articulate what would need to be different in order to get it to a yes and then maybe write a brainstorm for that modified version.
Thanks! š
Iām pretty sureĀ itās very much in the spirit of the original Gardens!verse, so if anything Iām just staying on brand.Ā Many issues can be solved with just ruining Danzoās plans soā¦
Iām also pretty fond of the teams I madeāI definitely hope Iāll use them again, maybe not specifically in the Guide series, but ~somewhere and when~. Each installment of the Guide series is fairly discrete and more about Shikako showing up during at the various characterās most desperate point than a continuing thingā¦
But I might end up doing something likeĀ āFurther Down Road Xā in the Down Every Road series. Weāll see about thatā¦Ā Ā ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Unfortunately, I have not read Homeward Bounders soā¦Ā
Plausible deniability says:Ā Youāre welcome!
Context-clue reading suspicion says: Iām terribly sorry
Itās a goodĀ āverse, though, soā¦ Iām not that sorry. š
Iām also not completely caught up on all theĀ āverses on the forums so if youāre like me and get overwhelmed by the forums, this DoS index page is REAL helpful for finding cool AUs in the recursive fic thread without having to wade through OVER 500 pages
Iād be a little reluctant to do a DoS-plot rewrite but transcribed into the HP world because then itās justā¦ wellā¦ replace jutsu with magic and then shake slightly.
I mean, bizarrely, I guess Iād be interested in putting the Lucky Sevens in the HP plot? Likeā¦ Philosopherās Stone is pretty much Mizuki as Quirrell trying to steal the Forbidden Scroll?
SoĀ āNaruto Uzumaki and the Forbidden Scrollā except considering thatās basically resolved in the first episode of Narutoā¦ hmā¦
And if Shikakoās knowledge of canon would be the equivalent of being a Seerā¦
I think Iām more interested in the worldbuilding, anon.
A/N: I put a lot of links in this brainstorm/rant, and while they arenāt mandatory to understand the post, they probably do help.
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I veeeeery briefly went into such a crossover/fusion in the middle of this massive post, and I did do that one witches!verse TemarixShikako ficletĀ with some background lore,Ā but seeing as how neither of them are specifically, solely devoted to a HP!DoS AU, I suppose I could go more into it hereā¦
Hmā¦
While not as disastrous as Ilvermorny (Lavaeudeen for life!) Iām not very keen on the HP canon of MahoutokoroĀ or, at least, not as a magical commuter school that somehow has the smallest student body of the eleven great wizarding school. The Hogwarts student body was fucking tiny, no way does the only Japanese magical school have less than that. Iād like to tweak it slightly–so that it just makes more sense–that Mahoutokoro is the only all-magical UNIVERSITY of Japan (though some of the other universities also have magical departments/classes available).
Actually, now that Iāve said that, I kind like the idea of magical education for younger magicians being the equivalent of an after school club or a cram school or a special class that only certain students take (advanced placement or art or foreign languages, etc). So theĀ āmain charactersā that would be the Konoha Thirteen in DoS would still go to the same school as civilians/genin corps characters but theyād be in the magic club/class.
Which means that the different villages are different schools in different regions of Japan… which means this has the same set up of a sports shounen manga but instead of sports itās magic?
Uhhhhhh… now I canāt unsee it.
I mean, a lot of sports manga practically give their characters magic powers ANYWAY, so we might as well just go straight there.
LETāS WINĀ NATIONALS, KONOHA~!
I donāt think Iād want to do Quidditch–only because itās not very conducive to three person teams, and it originates from the UK anyway–so maybe itās magical dueling? But that also doesnāt really go with three person teams… Or, alternatively, thatās pretty bloodthirsty for a sport for kids.
Maybe Iāll make up some new sport. Something like magical capture the flag so itās not just straight up FIGHTING. (I mean, pro-bending in Avatar LoK WAS a thing, but not all that keen on it, either)
Anyway, so the point is… while magic is an important part of their lives (and maybe even THE MOST important part of their lives) they still live amongst non-magical people, unlike in HP.
I also donāt particularly like the whole wooden wands thing. Though I donāt particularly want all Japanese magicians to do wandless magic (itād basically be ninjutsu and kind of defeats the purpose of transferring it into the HP verse). Maybe part of learning magic is finding/making your own conduit. Which sort of explains why Naruto starts off pretty bad (like all shounen sports protagonists) because for the longest time he just canāt find one that can withstand the sheer amount of power he has. Whereas the equivalent of Shikakoās burgeoning fuinjutsu mastery would be her NOT needing her conduit all the time. Sasuke, as with most Uchiha, has a very traditional mirror conduit–because Sharingan = Mirror Wheel Eye?
Though there are still things that carry over from HP. Like, while itās not AS huge a deal as it is in Britain, blood purity is still an issue depending on which clan youāre from. The Nara twins are probably halfbloods–but only the worst of the elders really care–but so is Neji which is a HUGE problem for the Hyuuga (especially considering heās originally more talented thanĀ Hinata who is pureblooded).
I mean, I sort of joke about the sports shounen manga thing, so I suppose I could go in the more serious direction of Japan having a real bad Dark Lord problem given Orochimaru, Itachi, Pein/Nagato, Obito/Madara, and Kaguya… (although, the Golden trio never had to fight a literal goddess so thatās pretty cool I guess… although, although, the Golden Trio would probably be pretty good at the three person magical sport Iāll have to make up)
Hm… I guess it depends. Am I just transposing the DoS plot into the HP world, or just the characters?
(2/2) These days, I wouldnāt go back more than a couple months, if that. Iāve made a dear, dear friend; she and I started dating, even, and I donāt want to take any chance that we wouldnāt meetāitās worth the potentialities and āwhat if"s of a live lived with more experience. But I donāt know if thatās selfish of me, or if being willing to go back in time and start over is more selfish, you know?
I sometimes have this thought as well, anon. Except my reasoning is a little more pessimistic, perhaps. Like: “I’ve done nothing significant with my life, if I went back in time I would try to be a better version of myself.”
Now, in my slightly less depressed but still pessimistic thoughts I think “my life hasn’t been completely awful, who’s to say if I went back and changed things that I wouldn’t just make things terrible or, worse, just end up doing the same exact thing.”
And so basically, I suppose what I’m saying is that being satisfied with your life–accepting what’s happened and how it’s shaped you–is a sign that you’re doing better. That mentally and emotionally, you’ve forgiven yourself, though I doubt you were at fault at all–there is always an amount of guilt that comes from losing someone close to you.
I for one am happy for you that you’ve met someone–someone that makes you want to live this life, this timeline. I don’t think it’s selfish of you at all, even if you were capable of time travel.
You’re allowed to be happy, anon, you’re allowed to be satisfied with your life.
Yes it’s sad to have lost loved ones, that will always be a wound that scars us, but not being constantly weighed down by regret and grief is not the same as being selfish.
I don’t know if this is reassuring for you, anon, or it it’s helpful in anyway, but thank you for sharing and I hope this life continues to be one you want to embrace.
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