Snowicorn

I don't mean you can't get good at things through repeated practice. You can do that, I have done that, but I don't trust it.

I was driving this morning and thinking about how I have never developed the blasé contempt for it most people seem to despite never having caused an accident in 20 years because my sense of time is such that I might as well have been driving for a week. I'm a good, safe driver, but I do not have a heap of confidence in my driving despite having regularly done it for two decades because my sense of time is such that those two decades may as well not have happened.

I finished editing a novel today. When I publish it, it will be the 64th novel I have published in the last 10 years, not counting ghostwritten work. You'd think after a decade and 63 novels I'd be confident that I was capable of writing, editing, and publishing a novel—even be confident about the timeline for this—but no. No, I feel like I'm doing it for the first time, every time, and I was surprised to have finished the editing at all, let alone on time. Because those other 63 novels were published in a past I have a vague at best concept of. I have a record that says it happened but I do not feel it.

I cannot trust my future behaviour because for me there is functionally no past. I know it occurred, I have records, but I don't feel it the way people without this kind of memory issue do. I feel inexperienced at everything I've ever done and I cannot accurately estimate my skill level at anything, particularly not on the fly.

The "Hashimada sharing food" really stuck to me. Madara's relationship with food is... complicated (at least in my hc) because of a time his clan lacked this kind of resources, so I imagine him to be reluctant to share food with anyone (if you're a child, esp an Uchiha child, or Izuna, he does a 180 and is very eager to share, but what matters is that Hashirama doesn't fall into either category)

But food sharing is romantic, Hashirama daydreams about Madara feeding him and taking care of him, but Madara just refuses.

So, imagine this, those two going out to eat, and Hashirama looks at Madara with his kicked puppy expression until he yields.

But this is inarizushi. Hashirama wants him to share, fine, but he'll have to share too.

And that's how Hashirama ended up eating perhaps two piece at most before realising Madara had taken his share and eaten it.

I was compelled to have Madara think "idiot..." on the picture, but decided against it in the end. Doesn't mean he doesn't call Hashirama a fool in his head while snickering to himself lol.

Madara meets tiny Tomoe :з

Thank you @thesuicidalfox for the idea, I immediately went to draw this!

Madara is confused, how can such a tiny thing feel so powerful. Like Tomoe is literally the size of a baby kitten here, but has that look in his eyes like .-.

I imagine Madara can sometimes carry smol Tomoe on his head like Kiba did with Akamaru. That'd be cute uwu

And despite his small size, tiny Tomoe eats almost as much as regular Tomoe, somehow. A mystery of the universe xd

I think beside the size he's really nothing different from the original. Just really, really smol 🤏

Bonus:

like this?

I was just drawing this as you posted, it fits so perfectly

Madara meets tiny Tomoe :з

Thank you @thesuicidalfox for the idea, I immediately went to draw this!

Madara is confused, how can such a tiny thing feel so powerful. Like Tomoe is literally the size of a baby kitten here, but has that look in his eyes like .-.

I imagine Madara can sometimes carry smol Tomoe on his head like Kiba did with Akamaru. That'd be cute uwu

And despite his small size, tiny Tomoe eats almost as much as regular Tomoe, somehow. A mystery of the universe xd

I think beside the size he's really nothing different from the original. Just really, really smol 🤏

Bonus:

like this?

Tomoe so tiny with his lil tongue like ToT