#(hullo!)

[anchovykeeps]

THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY (they're sharing a chilidog)

[diner-au-asks]

Intro Post!

hiya! this is an official ask blog for an au I made like a year and a half ago promptly labeled “the diner au” (lol)!

I made this so that fans of it could ask questions about plot/characters/relationships/etc, here’s some jargon about how it works!

ask pretty much anything that isn’t heavily explicit and/or gross (jokes are absolutely fine, asks that don't go into real aggressive detail are also alright, just be mindful!), violent (again, jokes are wtv), or just generally rude toward me, anyone involved, or the source material :)

you’ve made it this far so have a doodle of some goobers!

you can absolutely ask the characters questions directly within the bounds found above! I’ll doodle their responses and get back to ya as soon as possible ^^

you may also ask me questions about this au, how I think it will pan out, anything appropriate that’s about this au :D along with character asks, if you’d like to ask specifically an older version of any of the characters then just specify in the ask and I will act accordingly 🫡

the characters I’ve gotten down— if even roughly— that are ready for asks are these six:

I’ll get into more plot stuff as this au progresses but for now my youtube account with more content can be found here! and otherwise, my main tumblr account is @takemebacktowheniwassane

rabid theater addict

i make art and whatnot :) welcome to a really weird posting schedule and a lotta musicals ✨Pinterest: weempwompwoomp (goofy goober)

enjoy my silly little excuse to draw my favorite au some more without burning out :3

[saintjamboni]

Hey pal did you catch the Will Wood livestream on youtube last night? It was about an hour maybe and the people saw his cat :3

I think it was an announcement that he's putting something up on Spotify but he was reading comments and also told them to get a refund because THE SUPER COMMENTS WITH THE MONEY ATTACHED WERE INSANE, SOMEONE SENT HIM 300 BUCKS AND I KNOW THERE WAS MORE

anyway Will Wood yay also how are you doing are you hanging in there J-dawg

I sort of saw it, meaning I turned it on and got bombarded with ads so I didn't stay, but I'm sure it was about the live album drop.

Fans are insane, I think sending the man 300 bucks kinda goes against his wishes--"it's not a gift if you pay for it but I don't want no charity"--and definitely DEFINITELY is some parasocial business, but that's just my opinion idk

I am indeed Hanging In There, wishing I could send you holiday cookies or something (imma make gochujang caramel snickerdoodles). I hope you're doing alright too; how are you, Lemony Snickers?

[of-magpies-and-murders]

I saw you in the Sherlock and co YouTube comment section! Happy to know you are here aswell with your insights. A definite follow :D

Oh, wow! Thank you! Always chuffed to meet another Sh&Co enjoyer! Welcome :)

[velvetcloak]

Dice Kayek | fall 2018

[falc0nsight-a]

"do you ever wonder how DIFFERENTLY your life would have turned out if the things that HAPPENED to you in childhood didn't happen?" @kobikd

[heartshaped-lou]

[mokutone]

points a water pistol at u talk abt kakashi dog nose science or else.

OH NOOOO this is a stick up...alright, alright! u've forced my hand...more kakashi nose science!!!!! my favorite but most complicated kakashi canine nose hc is like. okay so both humans and dogs have a vomeronasal organ (also called the jacobson organ sometimes) BUT humans have lost almost all of our ability to use this! dogs have not.

(stanley coren, whomst i have a love-hate relationship with his work, theorized that the reason we lost our ability to use this organ was Because our relationship to protodog-canines meant that we could outsource mechanisms of that (like tracking prey) to the dogs!) but this isn't a stanley coren talk this is a vomernasal organ kakashi nose chakras talk

the vomeronasal organ is used to interpret ectohormones and other scents typically undetectable to humans—which probably plays a large part in how dogs are able to so quickly identify feelings of anxiety or other similar chemical signatures in their handlers! this in mind, when i write or draw kakashi, it's usually with the idea that he's generally fairly aware of the way other people are feeling—not that this means he's any good at reacting to those feelings! no amount of knowing that somebody is anxious is going to give him understanding of how to help sdkjghsdkghs there's also an interesting space to explore in how to /write/ about somebody who has such an expansive understanding of smell—like to me my grandparents smell like cigarettes and peanut butter cookies—but i know that they don't "actually" smell like that, it's just that those smells cling to them, and, human as I am that's kind of the depth of what I can experience! but when dogs recognize the scent of an individual, it's not the scents that cling to them, perfume or deodorant, foods they eat, places they've been—they're aware of those things, but when a dog knows our scent, they're recognizing something more like an expression of our genetics (which is why dogs sometimes have trouble telling unfamiliar identical twins apart by scent!) if we were to expect Kakashi to have those kind of skills, writing say about how he experiences the smell of the people around him might be interesting and complicated—Naruto, despite having had no contact with his parents and no shared items from his parents, no shared cooking, nothing, would still probably smell a little like Kushina and Minato—or, assuming that the nine tailed fox has a chemical affect on Naruto as well (it probably would!) it might have a smell as well. Tsunade and Yamato both might share traces of Hashirama. (Also Yamato might just smell a little bit plant-y in general bc the use of mokuton is something which is genetic to him.

Artistically it presents an interesting challenge—how to describe a sense or feeling that we don't have the capability to experience? I love it because it feels like a challenge well met by poetic language and metaphor.

for example, writing isn't something i've been trained in, but here's how i try to handle it:

"Tenzō, who had been standing over him with a small bowl in one hand, the other braced against Kakashi’s shoulder to shake him awake, said nothing. He put the bowl down and withdrew his hand, but Kakashi still caught that bright whiff of cortisol, as familiar to him as ash to a smoker."

i describe cortisol (an important hormone in stress reactions) as smelling bright because that's typically a visual word, so it already puts this kind of scent in an abstract realm, and because i'm thinking of it like a flare—my first instinct was to call it acrid—a scent word for a scent description, but then i just...kept thinking abt like. grapefruit smell, and i am certain that since this is a scent which already exists under its own chemical makeup, whatever stress smells like to dogs, it's not that

ANYWAY i hope this makes sense and is interesting!