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[blackkatmagic]

SW prompt: Time travel! Obi-Wan and young Luke get sucked back in time to pre-clone wars era. Cue Obi-Wan claiming Luke is his padawan and everyone wondering where this old sand wizard came from.

I said smut prompts. These are lovely, but I’m pretty sure they’re not intended to be smut, sorry. 

[aurumacadicus]

cleverbast replied to your post “I’m about to do something either really stupid or really great”

Any particular fandoms?

I mean... preferably fandoms I know? I guess it would really depend on if I know the material well enough to be able to write it.

[ziseviolet]

How are the weichang worn over the longer skirts? Are the both pleated wraps with one being shorter or is the longer one part of an underdress? Thanks! This blog had been really helpful!

Hi, I’m glad you find my blog helpful!

Historically, Weichang/围裳 (short outer skirts) were worn on top of 裙/Qun (long skirts) as accessories. Both were separately wrapped around the body. Nowadays, there are two main ways of wearing Weichang:

1) The traditional way, with the Qun and Weichang being separate pieces. First the Qun is wrapped around the waist or chest, and then the Weichang. In the photo below, the white Qun has been wrapped first, and the red Weichang has been wrapped slightly below the white Qun:

The same goes for the outfit below, which includes a white Qun and blue Weichang. The thin pink sash is either attached to the blue Weichang, or a completely separate piece added for decoration:

2) The second way of wearing Weichang is to have it attached to the Qun, so that they are both part of the same skirt. Because of its convenience, this style is more common nowadays. For example, in the outfit below, the white Qun and red Weichang are sewn together at the waistband:

Hope this helps!

Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4

[blackkatmagic]

Thank you for the wonderful fic! This definitely is helping me get through this flu.

Ah, I hope you feel better soon! And I’m glad I can help provide a distraction! 💞

[blackkatmagic]

Please please please tell me that TenTen is a Chinese style dragon??? With all the flexibility and mythos involved, that would be SO AWESOME!

She is. ^-^

[blackkatmagic]

Thank for the fic! Hah! Shino is going to drag Kiba back? I can totally see Kiba allowing that when it's time to come home, and just allowing him to have that satisfaction. Right up until the whole thing is revealed.

Oops I drabbled? Possible future, most likely not what will happen in fic!canon, but enjoy some feels nevertheless.

Lack of chakra is the firstthing that registers, a slippery, lightheaded sort of vertigo that Kiba's becomeall too familiar with. Practice faking sleep keeps every muscle lax, hisbreathing sleep-deep and steady, but he takes stock before he’s even fullyconscious. Wrists bound, chakra almost nonexistent, no weapons that he can feelexcept the explosive charm Deidara gave him in his ear. His ankles are bound aswell, but even though the bonds are ninja wire they aren’t tight enough to dodamage.

Definitely one of the nicer waysKiba's woken up after being captured, all told.

He takes a careful breath,because lack of chakra doesn’t affect his sense of smell, and—that’s familiar. Desperately familiar, in a way Kiba doesn’tusually allow himself to think about. Subtly, carefully, he tries to wrigglehis fingers and check if the wires have give to them.

Somehow, it’s less thansurprising to find that he can't move them at all.

“You're paralyzed,” anunimpressed voice informs him. “Or mostly so. Why, you ask? Because I have beenpreparing for our encounter since the last time you escaped from me.”

For a long moment, Kiba can't evenmake himself breathe. He lies where Shino must have left him, sprawled on hisside on a particularly lush patch of grass, with Shino's warm leaf-scent in hisnose, and it’s all he can do to just close his eyes, smiling helplessly.

“Shino,” he says, and it comesout rough and warm. There's no flicker of panic in his chest, no surge ofhorror at his friends accidentally putting all of his work at risk. Just—peace,maybe, though it’s been almost six years since Kiba really felt it last.

Akatsuki is disbanded, though,its members scattered or dead. There are plans for the survivors to gather in Konohawhen enough time has passed for Kiba to get them welcomes from Tsunade. He’dplanned to, had already been working on a way to get into the villageunnoticed, but—

He hadn’t thought of this. Hadn’tthought of letting his old teammate drag him home like a prize side of venison.After everything he’s put Shino through, though, if anyone has a right to Kiba'scapture it’s him.

Kiba curls forward as much as hecan with his arms bound and unresponsive behind him, buries his face in thesoft new grass and takes a shaky breath. There's tension he hadn’t even realizedhe was carrying sliding out of him, washing away under a tide of sheer relief,fierce and desperate joy that everything is over.

“Kiba?” Shino asks quietly. There'sa few light steps before sandals enter his field of vision, and Shino crouchesdown in front of him, expression cautious but also faintly worried. He lookslike he did when they were kids, but then, Kiba can see the changes in him,too. they’ve all changed, over the years.

He manages a smile, one hereally means, turns his head enough that Shino can see it too. “Suits you,” hesays roughly. “The bandana. Never got a chance to tell you before.”

Shino pauses like he’s waiting forthe trap to spring, bracing himself for whatever bit of venom Kiba is going tothrow at him next. For the first time in six years, though, Kiba doesn’t have to, and the relief of it isdizzying.

When Kiba doesn’t add anything,just keeps looking at his best friend the way he hasn’t allowed himself inyears, Shino reaches up, carefully runs a hand over his hitai-ate where it’stied over his hair. “The hair used to add to my height,” he admits. “I don’t needit anymore.”

“You sure don’t,” Kiba says, andlaughs a little, closing his eyes again. He wants to keep lying here for alittle while longer, warm with sunlight and joy in equal measure, but he alsowants to go home. Back to Konoha, theway he always promised himself he would.

A calloused hand brushes acrossthe scar bisecting his clan marking, lingering for a moment. “Are you allright?” Shino asks, and there's a thread of concern in it that Kiba doesn’t deserveat all. “The toxin is largely untested. Why, you ask? Because it’s a newspecies I created specifically to stop you.”

Kiba snorts, shifting enough toroll back onto one arm so he can look at up Shino. “A new species, huh? Now I definitelyfeel special. Congrats on the success, though.”

Shino doesn’t answer, justraises one brow at him in a gesture that’s so familiar Kiba kind of wants tocry. He feels his smile falter, closes his eyes again. The darkness makes thetruth come easier, somehow.

“I'm tired,” he admits, and hisvoice cracks. “I'm just—really fucking tired, Shino.”

There's a moment of silence, andthen Shino shifts, sitting on the ground next to him. Not quite touching,but—close. Warm.

“We can stay here for a few morehours,” Shino says, tone as blunt as ever, but Kiba can feel the gaze on him,and it’s not even close to hostile. “But then we need to go home.”

“Home,” Kiba repeats, and itaches somewhere deep in his chest. Not in a bad way, though; more like a musclerelearning what was once a familiar motion. “Yeah, that—home sounds good.”

Shino doesn’t say anything, buthe doesn’t move, and Kiba turns his head, presses his temple against the muscleof Shino's thigh, and lets himself breathe in the scent of warm leaves andfamily.

[blackkatmagic]

Thank you so much for everything you do! I loved "Walk walk, fashion baby" so much! My day has been really shitty. We put down my dog this morning, because he had the dog version of ALS, and being able to read your fic when I got home added a little bit of brightness to a really dark day. I just wanted you to know how much it means to me that you keep posting this beautiful artwork where we can read it, enjoy it, and gain something from it. So, thanks. May you be blessed with happiness forever.

You have all of my sympathies for your loss, and that’s a terrible thing to go through. If my writing helped even a fraction, I’m very glad and very grateful. 

[blackkatmagic]

I love how Tsume's first reaction is "What did you DO?" Such a mom reaction!

xD

It really is, isn’t it? It’s funny to think about, since she’s shown so little in the manga, but Tsume is one of the few parents in canon with two children, besides Hiashi (who doesn’t count because he fucked Hinata up so badly and needs to get his head out of his ass). And just - she’s a good mom? Kiba has no glaring problems? It’s pretty cool. Tsume is awesome.