The Problematic of the Unproblematic

Chapter 11 - The Master of PenglaiPart 4

written by LalaLoop
edited by Kakashi

consulting by Bunny

“Here,” Zhuowei handed Bai Qian a tightly closed pouch, inside which was the item she had asked the princess to make. “I did what I could to create the energy around it. I hope you’ll never have to use it, but if you and Yanzhi do run into Demons again --” the princess sighed. “You’re right, it might be able to save your lives.”

Chapter 65 written by kakashi
edited by Panda & LigayaCroft

Home.

A single breath of air was enough. The fragrance of wood and peach trees, rocks, moss and little creeks awakened a feeling that blossomed outwards from Mo Yuan’s heart like a flower that explodes into bloom in spring, soon vibrating in every fiber of his body.

Home!

Kunlun was where he had lived the larger part of his life and where he meant to die. The Holy Mountain. The Pillar of the Earth, the Pillar of the Sky. Extending deeper into the core of the earth and reaching higher into the sky than any other formation in the realms. Standing at the top made you believe you could scratch the underbelly of the Heavens if you just went on your tiptoes and stretched out your arm a little further.

Home and more... the place that had made him who he was today. A forge of character and will for the God of War, elder son of the makers of this creation. Here, legend said his parents had gotten married. Here, his brother’s sou…

kakashi: Ouf, now it goes downhill. Poor Ling Xi, she never knew what hit her. Poor Jiu Chen, he is so powerful yet cannot do a thing for her. 
JoAnne:  Barbarians!
Bunny: *crawls into blankets and hides*

Chapter 2 - Genjutsuwritten by kakashi

“Sakura,” Tsunade smiled sweetly behind her large desk. Too sweetly. She wanted something from her and was anticipating she would say no.

Chapter 11 - The Master of PenglaiPart 3

written by LalaLoop
edited by kakashi
consulting by Bunny

Bai Qian gazed around in bewilderment. Ashes surrounded her, filling her lungs, her mind, obscuring her vision. The last of the blood sun had sunk behind the horizon. Everything was a hazy shade of red.

Kakashi: A very hard choice. Beautiful pictures of Mark vs. sexy pictures of Chang Chen. Oh, and Hu Ge too? Decisions, decisions. 
Trotwood: Who said that you have to choose? That's just silly talk.
It's a trick question. I never wanted to choose.

Chapter 1 - The Tattoowritten by kakashi

*note: this story is set 7 years after the 4th Shinobi World War. Tsunade is still Hokage. 


“Kakashi?”

He was trapped. Trapped in a vortex of quicksand, his limbs impossibly heavy and useless, his broken fingers frantically but pointlessly trying to find something to hold on to. He was sinking rapidly, the pressure around him mounting, crushing his bones, the sound of their breaking momentarily drowning out the grating song of the incessantly slithering sand particles. There was no more air. There was sand, only sand, it was entering his mouth, it was finding its way into his lungs. As he suffocated, he had one last thought: He had not ...

kakashi: The story picks back up in the second half of this episode, before that there's quite a lot of filler material and coupling (= couple making/forming, Jo, not the other coupling). But then, there's another extremely sweet scene between the leads under a huge moon. And more. Massive stomach flutters.
JoAnne:  If you don't want me to think it, then you shouldn't say it, Kakashi. You know I'm very susceptible.
Bunny: Sorry guys, I watched this filler-dense episode with like half of one eye open the whole time, and then Chang Chen straight slaughtered me with his dimply smile half-way through, so I'm not on my best game this go-around.  

Trotwood:This is the episode where I try to think what/who would be my lighthouse light.
Panda: I keep wracking my brains as to where I have seen Satomi before and I. Don't. Want. To . Google. Urgh

kakashi: This episode is extremely cute, they're totally behaving like the most precious virgin lovers, but it makes me very angry (read on).
JoAnne: I feel like that might not be a difficult task just recently.
Bunny: Yes, "cute", with a slice of impending doom. 
I'm laughing because this recap's discussion is so old after all the comments under the last one :) Dear readers, it's not that we're harping on about the same point AGAIN, it's just that this one was written quite a while ago, haha.  

Chapter 24. Lost and found written by Bunny
edited by Kakashi
consulting by LalaLoop

Rain...

Thunder…

The Second Disciple of Kunlun Mountain was sitting down to enjoy his hot cup of tea as he observed the ongoing downpour outside when he suddenly felt a bit saddened.

Chapter 11 - The Master of PenglaiPart 2

written by LalaLoop
edited by kakashi

consulting by Bunny

Bai Qian held a letter she had addressed to her brother Bai Zhen and quickly headed for the building where she had been told was the home of messenger pigeons. With the assistance of a few passing maids and up some sets of stairs, she arrived at the place. It was by no means the highest building of Xunzhua palace, but the room she entered was certainly the one with the most doors and windows. It was large and tall with marble shelves attached to the four walls and open archways and the place was currently guarded by two Xunzhua men, each wearing protective gauntlets on one of their arms. Each shelf was divided into several quarters inside which stood a pigeon, and by the look of it, there must be more than five hundred birds in total, large and small.

Trotwood: Really sick this weekend. So sick that I actually couldn't go to Day6 concert for which I had tickets!! Didn't watch much at all. Now that Dr. John is over, I realized I'm not watching any Korea dramas. Too late to try to catch up with currently airing ones. What upcoming Kdramas are people looking forward to?
OH NO, Trot!!! So sorry to hear you're sick and missed Day6, THAT SUCKS. Not looking forward to any upcoming Kdramas since I don't even know which Kdramas are upcoming. Where's Jo?!
Well, I did spend the last week tweeting with increasing disbelief and pointed advice about the 90-Day Fiance phenomenon, but I can share that the big drama everyone is currently anticipating is Melt Me Softly, a Ji Chang Wook vehicle where he is cryogenically frozen and then thawed after many years. That starts on the 28th.  This week we have an addition to the Flower Boy group of dramas (after many years) with Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency.  That started toda…

kakashi: The ice block is a puddle of goo. Oh, or a poodle of goo, hehe.
JoAnne: Well the little fairy is kind of irresistable.
Bunny: We all knew the poodle wasn't gonna be able to stay away for very long.

The episode where I openly route for gangsters.
Na do!!! This episode made me quite angry.

It's an open secret that my first, my big, my eternal love is Kakashi from the Naruto Universe. Never have I met a character who could fascinate me more. Since April this year, triggered by an intensive rewatch of Naruto, I have been publishing Kakashi Fanfiction over at Archive of Our Own. Even if nobody here is into Naruto (hello? watch it!), I am of the conviction that there cannot be enough Kakashi love in the world. Hence I decided to re-publish the story - which is ongoing - on this blog. Slowly. Whenever there's an opening.

Chapter 64bwritten by Kakashi
edited by LigayaCroft & Panda

Someone was screaming.

It was strange that it sounded like herself when she was so tired and wanted to go to sleep more than anything.

Chapter 64a written by kakashi
edited by LigayaCroft&Panda

I can’t breathe.

A tremendous weight pressed down on Mo Yuan. It took all his strength and will to remain standing upright.

Trotwood: What am I supposed to think about this picture? Where is everyone? I can submit my stuff tonight when I get home from work. Was going to do it last night, but too many things happened first weekend students are on campus. Faculty!! Give them work already!!
kakashi: I'm here, Trot. My semester starts next week and I'm in panic mode.
Panda: OMG why is this man so hotttt?
That's it. That's the whole RAWR 😂

EDIT: 

(running in after being traumatized because I actually erased all of last week's RAWR) I'm here (panting) I'm here! Updating now. Thanks to Emma and QAS who commented when there was nothing. 

Chapter 11 - The Master of Penglai Part 1

written by LalaLoop
edited by Kakashi
consulting by Bunny

Shaowan opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling for a long while.

She had hoped to dream about something other than pitch black when she’d gone to bed last night, but her dream once again consisted of nothing but the darkness of a bottomless pit into which she kept falling, and falling without knowing when she would hit the bottom, and what would become of her when she did.

kakashi: Worst first kiss EVER. Don't despair, Ling Xi. It can only get better with the next guy.
JoAnne:  We now switch from regularly scheduled programming to 50,000 year old virgins.
Bunny: It better frickin' get better. Have we seen this man's filmography? Those lips were made for kissing.

Chapter 63 written by Kakashi
edited by LigayaCroft and Panda

Shao Wan dreams.

She is in a strange and eerie place. She turns in a full circle to orient herself and for a moment, everything tilts on its head - she is floating in the clouds, looking down at her lonely figure in this vast, vast land. She notices there is not even a trace of a cloud in the sky… which is not really the sky, it’s a blue dome that seals the world off from what is outside, a thin membrane separating the Created from the Uncreated, the Everlasting Chaos.

Chapter 10 - Devices and TrialsPart 6

written by LalaLoop
editing by kakashi
consulting by Bunny

Deciding that he had granted the wooden board and the fractured lines of black and white stones enough of his attention, Moyuan closed his eyes for a long moment then opened them again, directing his gaze to the figure that had fallen asleep on her side of the table, opposite of him.

Chapter 23. The Nine-headed Snakewritten by Bunny
edited by kakashi
consulting by LalaLoop

Spears of sunlight whistled through the mid-afternoon air. The heat was making Bai Qian’s clothes stick to her uncomfortably. It wouldn’t hurt to cast a small cooling spell on herself, would it?

She raised her arm and was about to summon some magic when the two people walking ahead of her looked back.

kakashi: What are you doing, Mark? ?? ????
JoAnne: That is the look of a man realizing it wasn't deodorant he just sprayed under his arm.
Trotwood: What could he be spraying that would cause that expression?



KOREA Dr. JohnI'm very glad that Dr. John's team completely backs him because the hospital seems to be having far more drama about his condition than they should. We've been talking about this on twitter. I agree, now, that having him as a doctor in surgery might be a problem because he is now sick. However, the board played in crazy nurse's hands by getting all hysterical that a person who can't experience pain would be a doctor. Pfft. He doesn't feel pain so can't relate to patients so he can't be a doctor is the kind of logical fallacy for which I would've failed my students. You couldn't see him with poor Go=i Seok and not think he' s a good doctor. But enough about that, we now have Dr. John pairing up with Prosecutor Son against …

kakashi: Nasty God of War, fie! Hurting our Ling Xi!
JoAnne: Now, now...we can't praise him in one episode for being rational and objective, and then call him names in the next for the exact same thing. Can we?
Yes. 
Bunny: I was happy, then I was mad, then I was annoyed, then I was sad, but OMG they're touching...