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retireearlyandtravel · 4 years

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Since we can’t travel. Let’s dream of travel to the sunny Galapagos. I truly think this guy was posing for us. This picture was taken on the island of Mosquera. Mosquera is actually an islet located between the islands of Baltra and North Seymour in the Galapagos. However, it is a reef of rocks and coral covered with a great white sand beach. Its narrowest width reaches about 525 feet and is about 1960 feet long. Because we love sea lions, we loved this island. It had the largest populations of sea lions that we saw on this trip. Unquestionably, Galapagos sea lions are the smallest sea lions in the world. Sea lions are curious and playful. There were many juvenile sea lions on this beach. Many of these young sea lions tried feeding on other moms along the shore only to be shooed away with a snip to the nose. Sometimes their mom is gone for days to feed before she returns to feed her pup. @galagentsgalapagoscruises #galapagosislands #galapagos #sealion #sealions #pacificocean🌊 #catamarancruise ##cruises #travelwithus #animalloversofinstagram #lovetraveling #dreamingofsunshine #traveldreams #nature_close_up #naturetravel #natureloversgallery #retireearlyandtravel #retireearly #earlyretirement #retirementdreams #ecuador🇪🇨 #visitecuador #ecuadortravel #luxurytravel #experiences #privatetour #oceanviews #beachscape #beachscene #islandadventure (at Islote Mosquera) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-uJjsBDwWh/?igshid=yl3eqnph3mm4

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donapoetrypassion · 5 years

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not time’s fool (bears it out even to the edge of doom)

Written as a follow-up to waffleate's "Watch Not One Another Out of Fear." (In Which Shikako, Having Permanently Dimensionally Travelled to Pre-Massacre Konoha, Joins the Uchiha Police Force as a Nara Country Bumpkin Who Seems Very Familiar With Shikaku 'I'm-Not-Saying-Whether-She's-My-Half-Sister' Nara.)

My answer to the unasked question: How do two old shogi players react? And what else was going on that Shisui didn't see?

On the well-lit porch of one of the smaller Nara households, two friends sat, drinking tea and playing shogi. Looking, for all the world, like two disapproving old men content to let the future pass them by.

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"A good game," Nara Kasuga said, lips turned briefly upward.

"Yes," Uchiha Koyane replied, turning a shogi piece over in his hand, and setting it down almost-casually with the rest of the pieces Kasuga was starting to put away. He looked over to his friend's smile, wondering how much of it was from the company, and not the game.

It was not the infuriatingly smug grin of their shared youth, but a well-fought shogi game always did get Kasuga's blood flowing. Koyane wasn't expecting that to dull his Nara friend's wits any- but the question Koyane had come here to ask might get a faster answer than it otherwise would.

Kasuga's eyes were sharp and amused as they looked across the board. Clearly some kind of question had already been anticipated.

(Koyane had thought on how best to approach this, when Fugaku has asked him to reach out. Subtlety? "It's a shame I don't see the young ones playing shogi more often," or "What were your thoughts on sending young Shikako ove to join the police force?" Challenge? "Your Shikako-chan says the Nara support the Uchiha. How far does that go?") In the end, he went with his instincts.

"How do you feel about tying our clans closer together?" Uchiha Koyane asked bluntly.

"Closer together? Ah, a task requiring the most delicate of negotiations," Kasuga murmured as he put the last of the shogi pieces away. There was a pause- as if that phrase was supposed to have explained everything to Koyane.

At last, Kasuga leaned back and looked up, resting a weighty gaze upon Koyone. Truly serious, for the first time in a while. "Any truly delicate negotiation between clans requires far more finesse than most shogi games. You're damn lucky Shikaku briefed me on the current situation, or I'd have messed this right up and not even known it. We were expecting the clans to use Shikako as a go-between."

That… was not the answer Koyane had been expecting. Neither one was. Koyone's comment was supposed to be an obvious bait, netting an equally obvious rejoinder that young Shikaku of course was generally opposed to arranged marriages, which would be countered with assurance that Koyone had not been suggesting such a thing. And then the two could get down to the brass tacks of how closely the Nara would like to be affiliated with the Uchiha. Publicly? Privately? Politically? Merely a more extensive business arrangement?

Instead, Koyane was at a loss.

"Let me tell you an old tale," Kasuga began, falling into the familiar songlike cadence of the oral histories the old clans sometimes shared, "from the days when our clan roamed with the deer and stayed long in no one place. The clan head of the time discovered that there had been an indiscretion among one of his young bucks, but came too late to bring the child into the fold. The child's out-clan mother had already pressed the young one onto the next roaming deer-herder she saw -which quite unfortunately for us was a completely separate clan that often roamed what we now call the Land of Frost- and so it took some years to track our lost one down. A farm had taken the child on as a young hired hand, and were happy to accept five strong young does for each year they'd fed and clothed and sheltered our lost clanmate. The child was happy to have a family willing to search long and far for them. And so clan was reunited with clan. The child was older now, but still took to shadows easily, and all seemed well."

Kasuga paused, and deliberately caught Koyone's eye. "But something pained the child still. He sensed things unseen, and at times could almost hear the unvoiced words of those around him. A clan who roams the wild forest does not lightly ignore such signs. True, our clan would part with our young one for nothing. But we were not so selfish as to try to keep the boy from his own self. And we were sharp of eye and ear enough to know where to find the other part of our child.

Still, it was a sensitive matter. So, first, we sent one of our young medicine-workers down to trade with the folk who were rumored to see without eyes and hear without ears, before the most delicate of negotiations could begin."

Koyane blinked.

"The 'most delicate of negotiations' is a euphemism," Nara Kasuga explained dryly. "It's the phrase the Ino-Shika-Cho use when there's been-"

"-an indiscretion." Koyane finished. There was something starting in his chest that might have been anger. They'd been hiding an Uchiha child? Why not just bring the parents before the elder council, give them all a scolding, and acknowledge the babe as a member of both clans? "And you didn't think to tell us?" It took iron control, but his voice didn't rise.

"There are four clans involved in this clusterfuck and you're the only other clan we're planning to tell," Nara Kasuga hissed back. Friends they might be, but Kasuga and Koyane had tempers that fed on each other. "The child doesn't have the sharingan but if Fugaku wants his heritage confirmed with a blood test you have to do it discreetly." He paused. "It's Shikaku's nephew. The boy was supposed to be our heir. His mother gave him up to a third party."

"Fugaku will want the boy's heritage confirmed with an in-person test," Koyane said firmly. There was still anger roiling in his gut. A little less, knowing that four clans were involved and the Nara had initially wanted this child as their heir- but still. He'd thought better of the Nara than this. There were outlines and plans in place for when a child had more than one clan wishing to claim him. Koyane had rarely advised others to seek out village authorities for intra-clan disputes, but the text of the founding treaties was clear. "This could have been brought to the Hokage-"

"Danzo Shimura was planning on making the boy kill his adoptive brother."

For a moment, the world froze.

Bizarrely, all Koyane could focus on was that he'd never told Kasuga anything about the Mangekyou. Did the Nara know anyway? Was this why they had suspected Uchiha blood, even in the absence of the sharingan?

"And how do you know that." Koyane's voice was level. He didn't know how. Automatic reflex, maybe. He focused intently in keeping his breathing very steady. He had to report this to the clan. …He had to report this to only those members of the clan would wouldn't fly off at the handle. And… he didn't think any of the Nara were so closely intertwined with Danzo to just be given this information.

"The adoptive brother told us. That was a few months after a certain Nara learned of the situation, then relied on some… classified clan techniques to exfiltrate both children, fake their deaths, and transport them to a suitable home among some of our out-village clan members. Shikaku visits them both as often as he can." Kasuga's voice left no doubt of his clan head's unhappiness with the situation. Clearly, Shikaku was unappeased by sparse, at-most-monthly visits to his deceased brother's child. Possibly he wished to raise the boy himself, among his own children.

Koyane didn't know Shikaku well enough to be able to imagine him discovering the existence of a hidden nephew and immediately faking the boy's death to grab him back. Frankly, he couldn't imagine any clan head, past or present, doing such a thing. But there really wasn't a better suspect among the Nara.

…Actually, Madara would definitely have done it. And Koyane didn't know many other clan heads with living siblings, or living children of dead siblings. Fugaku was an only child. Perhaps Shikaku was not the only clan head who would react so aggressively to the discovery of a missing child. Not the only clan head would act to protect their own clan members from Danzo's plots.

Perhaps the Uchiha were not as alone as he had feared.

#dreamingofsunshine #waffleate #WatchNotOneAnotherOutofFear #Koyane Uchiha #Kasuga Nara #Shikaku #Shikako #Nara #Uchiha #Sai

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emilycollageart · 2 years

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Wading In or Walking Out? #swimming #difficultdecisions #paintedcollage #collagepainting #dreamingofsunshine #greyandgold #spottedcostume #art #contemporaryart #mixedmedia #collage #collageart #analogcollage #collagenottinghill #lovewanalogcollage #collagewave #handmade #contemporarycollage #cutandpaste #cutandstick #artistofinstagram #コラージ#collageoftheday #dailycollage #design #nottinghilllondon #edinburghcollagecollective #papersource #brooklyncollagecollective https://www.instagram.com/collagenottinghill/p/CXYuiahKwnt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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irish-artist-ie · 4 years

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#Repost @emmahiggins • • • • • • Listening to the wind outside and dreaming of this ☀️☀️☀️ - it’s been a long dreary winter ... #dreamingofsunshine #springflowers #thecopperbeakedbird #originalpainting #joyspottingdublin #originalart https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nOZcVnblY/?igshid=11ebcl3s4j1ip

#repost #dreamingofsunshine #springflowers #thecopperbeakedbird #originalpainting #joyspottingdublin #originalart

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devintodesign · 4 years

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Weather got you down? Planning a sunny getaway? We’ve got you covered for all your beach strolls. #ootdfashion #resortwear #stripedoutfit #stripedpants #stripedcroptop #ethicalstyle #sustainable #ecofashion #consciousfashion #consciousconsumerism #dreamingofsunshine #ecoandchic #bekindandbeglam https://www.instagram.com/p/B8PXs3hH6A_/?igshid=13eozneh50tho

#ootdfashion #resortwear #stripedoutfit #stripedpants #stripedcroptop #ethicalstyle #sustainable #ecofashion #consciousfashion #consciousconsumerism #dreamingofsunshine #ecoandchic #bekindandbeglam

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branecessities · 4 years

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🌊 This goes hand in hand with yesterday’s count down. Take care of your favourite suits with SPLASH swim wash. #wintergetaway #branecessities #dreamingofsunshine #christmascountdown #downtowncamrose #camrose https://www.instagram.com/p/B5_DeF0FDpS/?igshid=gsyahi378h08

#wintergetaway #branecessities #dreamingofsunshine #christmascountdown #downtowncamrose #camrose

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royalpigeonyoga · 5 years

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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. #bookquote #the4hourworkweek #timferriss . . Our competition right now is Nature 🤣 She’s cold and rainy and windy. Hope summer wakes up from her snooze soon! . . #supyoga #paddleboardyoga #chicagoyoga #chicagolakefront #waitingforsummer2019 #royalpigeonyoga #paddleboarding #meditationclasses #yogaclasses #southloopyoga #yogachicago #lotuspose #padmasana #dreamingofsunshine (at Royal Pigeon Yoga) https://www.instagram.com/p/By0uyq-BW82/?igshid=far2mdeytb3t

#bookquote #the4hourworkweek #timferriss #supyoga #paddleboardyoga #chicagoyoga #chicagolakefront #waitingforsummer2019 #royalpigeonyoga #paddleboarding #meditationclasses #yogaclasses #southloopyoga #yogachicago #lotuspose #padmasana #dreamingofsunshine

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thewritingfuriosa-blog · 7 years

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First daffodils of the year! 🌻it makes me so happy. Elizabeth Gaskell will always be a spring time writer to me, and Wives and daughters is my favourite. Maybe posting this photo will tempt the fates to bring springtime to England early? I need more daffodils and sunshine! 🌻☀️🌻☀️🌻#bookstagram #bookstsgrammer #dreamingofsunshine #daffodillove #bookworm #bookshelf #booklover #elizabethgaskell #wivesanddaughters

#dreamingofsunshine #elizabethgaskell #bookstsgrammer #wivesanddaughters #booklover #daffodillove #bookworm #bookshelf #bookstagram

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dosbysilverqueen · 2 years

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not important at all but i thought you might like to marvel at the sheer stupidity? i'll go with how slow i am: dosby stands for Dreaming of Sunshine by (SilverQueen) and isn't like a name and or nickname; Dosby... Anyway! I found your fanfiction like a year ago and tumblr even more recently and I'd like to say that I really enjoy your writing and really enjoyed reading it!

(Sorry for the late reply and also the fact that I'm not SQ, but regarding the tumblr name that is my fault so I thought I'd step in to answer:

At the time "dreamingofsunshine" had been taken and DoS seemed too vague by itself--also, I think a shorthand for a fairly popular video game Divinity Original Sin?--so I figured the best way to clarify would be by putting author name. I think @cyb-by-lang also uses the same naming convention for a similar reason?

-jacksgreyson)

#dreaming of sunshine #asks #answers #dosbysilverqueen #anonymous #jacksgreyson

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wafflelate · 5 years

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SIGN UPS OPEN FOR DREAMING OF SUNSHINE EXCHANGE WINTER ROUND

Schedule:

Nominations: October 29th-November 8th

Sign ups: November 9th-17th (11:59 PM EST)

Assignment out: November 19th

Default deadline: December 29th (11:59 PM EST)

Works due: January 3rd (11:59 PM EST)

Work reveals: January 10th

Author reveals: January 17th

DoS Ex is an exchange for recursive fic (fic of fic!) about the Naruto fanfiction Dreaming of Sunshine by Silver Queen, which is a +700k ongoing SI OC fic that started in 2011. Last round we made almost 100 new fanworks, and this time we’re hoping to top it! New this round we also have crossovers!

If you sign up, you'll want to check the Dreamwidth community for updates and your email for messages from the exchange mod. You might also want to join the Heliocentric discord to talk to your fellow participants!

If you need an AO3 invite I have a bunch of invites to give out for this event!

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