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mixu · 11 months
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Naruto and H1n0t0's wedding chapter confirms SNS
Today in why Shippuden’s ending actually supports sns case, we’ll analyze the last sequence of the last chapter. (If you haven’t read the previous parts, you can find them here pt. 1&2, pt. 3, pt.4, although it’s not necessary to read them in order.) So, without further ado:
Pt 5. Naruto would rather be anywhere but here
As usual I leave my crappy clip from the scene then we’ll examine the expressions, body language of the characters and some of the editing. There’s very little dialogue but a lot to unpack.
The scene starts with Naruto and Hinata staring up at the Hokage Monument.
Who knows how long they’ve been at it, but Hinata is making the same face I make when I go to the museum and fail to understand why someone takes more than 5 minutes to appreciate a painting (excuse my uncultured ass). She then tells Neji’s ghost she is getting married (as if poor Neji cared) and turns to look at Naruto who is uncannily serious for someone who is about to marry the love of his life.
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We get a close off of Minato’s face and Naruto’s profile, still serious. What is he thinking about? I very highly doubt he’s thinking about the honeymoon.
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Then we get Hinata true to her stalker self, blushing, looking lovingly, dreamingly at Naruto, when Naruto doesn’t even know she’s there. She’s getting married to the man she loves (if you count that as love) so, acceptable, understandable expressions. And I want to emphasize how many expressions of Hinata they show us in contrast to Naruto’s during the whole sequence (3 is being generous).
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One could argue that Naruto is looking back at her, but is he? Then why don’t they show us a broader shot of them staring at each other lovingly? Because that’s not the case. That’s their relationship in a nutshell: Hinata staring at Naruto incessantly while Naruto is barely aware of her presence. Furthermore, when Hanabi and Hiashi enter, making Naruto and Hinata turn around, Naruto first looks at Hinata as if asking “you were here the whole time?” then goes back to serious mode.
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The following shots of the Hyuuga give us so much information. Hanabi is excited, smiling because she has no clue of the farce, while Hiashi is stern as he has always been, but he had changed after the Chuunin exams, didn’t he? Why does Hinata suddenly looks so worried? She was smiling a second ago? The transition of Hiashi’s expression reminds me of that meme where the father says “He looks gay to me, but whatever makes my princess happy.” So, with Hiashi’s blessing, Hinata smiles again. Once more, notice how many different expressions she has, when Naruto doesn’t even appear in the shot.
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What follows is pure gold.
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Is it just me or Naruto takes ages to return Hinata’s handhold?
Next, the first image of this batch is so hilarious to me. Hinata is looking down at their hands as if to confirm it is actually happening. Hanabi is more excited than anyone in the room even when it is Hinata and Naruto who are getting married. Naruto’s expression in images 1, 2 and 6 might have been as well copy pasted. Why? He is your main character, why are you hiding his face on every opportunity. Plus, number 4 is so bad. It looks like he is bracing for battle.
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Naruto asks Hinata if she's ready, and off they go into a mediocre, loveless marriage for the sake of Konoha and Kishimoto’s, SJ and SP wallets. Look at Naruto’s half-assed smile.
This clip is 74 sec long and we only get to see Naruto’s face/head during 19 sec. That’s roughly a quarter of the whole sequence, and even when Naruto appears, we rarely get a close off of his face. Furthermore, when we do get a close off, there’s no range of emotion (watch Dragon Ball or FMA Brotherhood’s last chapter and compare Edward and Goku’s portrayal to that of Naruto). Why would the studio hide the main character like this? Why focus so much only in the love interest and not the couple? Because there is no happy ending for Naruto. He got trapped between duty, his promises and the expectations cast upon him, and the worst part is those who were supposed to look after him looked the other way.
You can read this post in which the author analyzes similar inconsistences across Gaiden and Boruto. The conjecture is pretty much the same: Naruto gave up Sasuke and married Hinata because that was what everyone told him, directly or indirectly, he was supposed to do.
None of these choices are accidental. We saw what the studio wanted to show us like we read what Kishimoto wanted us to read. Perhaps those last chapters weren’t as clumsy as we thought, but we were too hurt by the Last, Boruto and chapter 700 to notice the characters were responding accurately given the circumstances they were facing and the values of their world. And, people can say whatever about us sns being delusional, but Naruto didn’t get a happy ending (I won’t even talk about Sasuke because there’s no doubt that he got the short end of the stick). We know how happy Naruto is supposed to look like.
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So, this is it. Even this wedding fiasco reinforces SNS and now it hurts a thousand times more. Thanks for reading my ramblings and sorry for the quality of the images and the video. I don’t have time to make better edits but I really wanted to share this. I’ll go back to the fanfic world where everything is right.
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tired-biscuit · 1 year
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we need more loser! naruto content🙏🏼🧎🏻‍♀️
i really think he'd be fitting as a flustered simp. so cute, i love him like this!! <3
18+ mdni, fem!reader // college au
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loser!naruto, who fumbles with his words so much that he just stops speaking coherently altogether whenever you merely greet him in the halls, or attempt to make small talk by asking him if he's studied for the upcoming exam for the one class you share together and that he never, never runs late to.
loser!naruto, who is so touch-deprived that his skin burns in the places you touch him purely by accident. flames lick the space where your shoulder bumps against his arm as you push past him to make it in time to the bus station, heat settles on the tips of his fingers as he lends you his pen and strikes contact with your hand the moment you reach out to borrow it.
loser!naruto, whose heart begins to pound so strongly, so fast; to the point of making him feel nauseous whenever he establishes even the briefest eye contact with you.
loser!naruto, who spends a pretty hefty sum of money - the cash that he's earned by working long afternoon shifts and even longer weekends as a waiter at the local diner - on an expensive perfume that he's once overheard you mention being your favourite.
and it's true - the damn thing smells just like you. so much like you, in fact, that he even spritzes it on his pillow before heading to bed, just so he can pretend that you are laying right there next to him.
loser!naruto, who stalks your social media profile multiple times per day. he never likes or comments on any of your posts because he's pretty positive that your friends would make fun of you for it, but he definitely lost his shit the moment he saw the notification of you following him back flash on his screen.
loser!naruto, whose three dots keep reappearing and disappearing over and over again in the chat as he contemplates on how to respond to the simple 'hey :)' you send him not even a minute after following him back.
loser!naruto, whose voice cracks when you call him over the phone the first time just to chat a couple of weeks later. he actually speaks for a change, manages full sentences even, but you definitely have to take the lead if you want to hear them.
loser!naruto, who turns so, so, so red in the face when you hug him for the first time ever as your friendship continues to blossom. who can't even enjoy said embrace, because it makes his cock so hard that it fucking hurts, turning him too anxious to actually appreciate the sweet moment as a result.
after all, what if you notice it pressing against the zipper? even worse, what if you don't want to be his friend anymore because of it?
loser!naruto, who can't even watch porn anymore ever since you've taken this sudden liking towards him, because it just doesn't do it for him anymore; at least not in the way like it used to. no, he needs you if he wants his dick to get hard from now on.
loser!naruto, who cums so quickly at just the mere thought of you. you don't even need to be there, for him to reach his peak and cause a mess all over himself. just fantasizing about you in the late hours of the night as he strokes himself in his bed is enough to reach absolute bliss.
loser!naruto, who moans your name out in a series of broken, breathy whispers; all of which he sends into the dark ceiling of his bedroom whenever he crumbles into previously mentioned bliss and prays to god and heaven above that his roommate can't hear him on the other side of the wall.
and finally, loser!naruto, who is so undeniably, deeply in love with you, that it makes him outright pathetic.
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It's this article even real? I found it hard to believe someone would read the manga or watch the show and decide that Naruto "doesn't need the overdone Sasuke Arc".
First and most importantly, Sasuke singlehandedly moves the entirety of the plot forward, he doesn't have an entire arc dedicated to himself because he's relevant for every single arc the story possesses, and he's the reason key characters behave the way they do; taking away Sasuke's journey to make him a complying tool of the state wipes out the reasoning behind every villain's actions, therefore, it destroys them as well.
It's hilarious how this article exists to take away Sasuke's relevance within the story to give it completely to Naruto, something his fandom has wanted since the very beginning of the manga and that Kishimoto never complied.
In the Naruto series, Sasuke was Naruto's rival in the Hidden Leaf. However, he was training to kill his older brother, Itachi, for wiping out their clan. In time, Sasuke would learn Itachi did what he did to protect Konoha as their Uchiha kin wanted a coup. This enraged Sasuke, who nonetheless vowed to kill Itachi and exact revenge on Konoha.
Okay so, we start awfully, and no surprises there. Sasuke killed Itachi and later on, through Obito, learned about the reasoning behind his brother's actions. It's after this that he vows to bring down those who allowed and encouraged the construction of a system that pushed the Uchiha to rise up against this power dome and forced his brother to murder his entire family.
Regardless of the circumstances, Sasuke hated the fact he had to grow up alone. This is the reason he joined the Akatsuki, formed his own terrorist cell called Taka, and tried to murder Naruto after the wars against Obito and Madara.
No. You cannot use "regardless of the circumstances" when those circumstances are detrimental to his character's actions and the functioning of the system against which he, like other characters throughout the plot, stands. He not only hated having to grow up alone (a consequence of, once again, the genocide carried out BY THE STATE ITSELF through his brother), but also the indiscriminate murder of his relatives, both those who engineered the coup and those who were profiled based on biological conditions over which they had no control.
Also, there was one single war against Obito and Madara that stretched through a couple of days for which he participated in bringing down both of them as his idea of revolution didn't partake in their idea of absolute control of people's minds.
The Naruto movie (and obviously, the sequels) would be better served by doing something unpredictable. The Evil Sasuke arc is overdone, especially since it comes up in the Boruto era. In the latter case, a redeemed Sasuke keeps using it as a lesson to teach Boruto and Kawaki why they should not let rage guide them. Fans don't like being reminded how unnecessary this was in the source material.
Overdone? Did this guy actually watch the anime at least? The entirety of the plot focuses on the system flaws that even the protagonist is "set to change", Sasuke's arc is detrimental to the story as both Naruto and Sasuke observe the same issue from different standpoints, the former wants to keep the system and make gradual changes as not to "bring chaos" and the latter wants its complete destruction as a gradual change only guarantees greater injustices being committed over time until it is "changed".
Take Sasuke off of this equation and there's no reason for Naruto to even go on or have any introspection on the matter of Konoha's political and military system --and I'm being incredibly kind about this as even when Sasuke blatantly exposes it Naruto has a hard time grasping the most basic concepts to rebel against.
Additionally, Sasuke's villain arc would be a lot to condense into live-action, even if it's done over a trilogy. It could be done the way the MCU took 10 years to build the Thanos fight in Avengers: Endgame, but by that time, the story would be stale. Everyone would know what happened. The advantage the MCU had while adapting the source material is that it subverted the lore and crafted an original story. c
Does this author actually know what "adaptation" actually means? Or what it entails? What they seem to want is a reversion of the story as they desire to modify the entirety of the character that is the main plot device within the original product, not an adaptation. Also, what's with the last phrase? How can Sasuke be a loyal rogue? That's a contradiction in itself, is he a rogue of Konoha or is he loyal to Konoha? Pick one -you can't have both.
The advantage of Sasuke being a rebel without defecting from Konoha is that Naruto would have the help needed to fight the big villains of the franchise: the Ōtsutsuki. 
Sasuke fought alongside Naruto against Kaguya, bringing the union of former Team 7, without having to compromise his original ideals... did they just... forget?
Kaguya was the first alien who came to Earth, got sealed away, and then tried to return to enslave it. Naruto and Sasuke were reincarnations of her sons (Ashura and Indra, respectively), but the manga and anime didn't spend much time detailing how they would form their clans down the line and the emotional impact Kaguya had fighting her descendants.
Haha, come on, this is clickbait isn't it? Ashura and Indra are not Kaguya's sons, they're her grandchildren that reminded her of her sons, bet your ass this is a Boruto fan that just heard about the original series and wrote whatever this was without eyeing the og manga.
but the manga and anime didn't spend much time detailing how they would form their clans down the line and the emotional impact Kaguya had fighting her descendants.
That's because one of Kaguya's sons went to live on the moon and the other one, Hagoromo, had two sons on Earth (Indra and Ashura) who -as the manga establishes, founded their own clans (Uchiha and Senju respectively) that were at war until Konoha's foundation.
It focused heavily on Sasuke plotting in the shadows, and Naruto forming an army, realizing much later in the story of their link to Kaguya.
What? They learned about their connection to Kaguya through Hagoromo before fighting her, Sasuke also never plotted in the shadows, he blatantly tells them he wants a Revolution and later on decides to kill Naruto as he's his last connection to his past! That's the whole reason they fight!
By switching this up and making lineage a primary and not secondary arc, the movie can dial more into the emotional core: Sasuke and Naruto exploring their family tree and the overall theme of dynasty. Sasuke could learn more about how Indra developed a dark side, which passed down to the Uchiha, while Ashura's light gave way to the Senju and Uzumaki (Naruto's family) clans.
That's incredibly explored throughout the manga. The Senju are the only clan linked canonically to Ashura himself, the Uzumaki obtained Ashura's attention after the Senju disappeared as they were distant relatives.
Also, love the distinction of "Indra developed a dark side which passed down to the Uchiha" and "Ashura's light gave way to the Senju". Hagoromo favored this distinction by granting the totality of his power to one of his sons and expecting the other to be functional to his brother's decisions. If Hagoromo considered that Ashura's position was better than Indra's, why did he not teach his eldest son to make similar decisions? How is it that Indra decided to form a clan and a collective group of people if his idea was to move and gain power alone? How is it that Ashura, the being full of light, decided to fight his brother for power instead of seeking a peaceful solution to work together if what he wanted was power through union? Why did he not question the idea of a single person having the totality of command?
This would allow the movie to not hinge on Naruto and his fate with his Nine-Tailed Demon Fox (Kurama).
This just proves my initial point.
Instead, Sasuke would become a key player by garnering clues as to who Kaguya is. This would also unearth her plan to place everyone in a dream state (via the Infinite Tsukuyomi genjutsu technique) and drain their chakra. In other words, he would be the egotistical brains of the operation, while Naruto functions as the go-lucky muscle.
What's the point of doing all that if this exact thing ends up happening anyway without having to destroy any character's core? Are they serious?
This would not be different from what's been seen with Iron Man and Captain America, and Batman and Superman.
Brain minimized by the same comic story over and over again, what's the point of seeing a dynamic story repeated hundreds of times in different products? Is the main idea of this theme to make audiences like this guy believe that he possesses some kind of intellect because he can predict a plot he has seen thousands of times before?
Such an approach speaks to the legacy of both warriors, which makes them the yin and yang they were meant to be. 
Don't believe this fool. Sasuke and Naruto as characters explore the Yin and Yang implications very well as they are, he doesn't seem to understand what this metaphor actually entails.
Such a change fits Sasuke's destiny organically because this is the kind of sleuth he would become in the Boruto era, where he atoned and roamed the lands as a Ranger. This same development felt rushed and left-field in the manga, as he never did that kind of work before.
Making Sasuke a heroic anchor in the Naruto movie also works for the evolution of Team 7. To start with, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura were all trained by Kakashi, but their story felt disjointed. Naruto was preoccupied with bringing Sasuke home, Sasuke was off seeking Itachi and an army, while Sakura tried to quell the anger in both of them. This took away time from her personal development and detracted from the bigger threat of the aliens. By making the plot so convoluted, fans found it odd the Boruto era would marry Sakura and Sasuke, despite them never being developed as an official romantic couple.
By not splintering the team, Naruto's director, Daniel Destin Cretton, can focus on what made Team 7 work in the first place. Sakura was known to stop arguments and function as the team's mature, responsible leader. Naruto also liked her while she liked Sasuke. Sakura eventually realized she needed to change the views of Konoha and have the village recognize female shinobi more. This worked in the love triangle that allowed Sasuke to develop feelings for Sakura that would pay off down the line. This would also allow Naruto to understand he was meant to lead the Hidden Leaf.
What is removing Sasuke's entire characterization gonna do for the rest of the characters? The author is not saying Sakura realized this canonically, by the way the paragraph goes, what he implies is that she could realize this in the movie. So he’s telling us that Sakura didn’t notice she needed to change Konoha’s views about females because Sasuke wasn’t there to help her or what? It's Sasuke staying that detrimental to her development?
He wants to change everything about the original Team 7 in order to make them fit their Boruto’s characterizations. Hell, I bet he’s a Boruto fan who barely watched the original series, I’ll go as far as to state he used AI to write this garbage.
That also was Tsunade’s ordeal as well. Shikamaru questioned her involvement and was proven wrong when she “consoled” him after Sasuke’s Retrieval Arc and proved herself to be a good Kage. He’s asking something of Sakura that Tsunade already did.
Does he know what character development is? Why should they change everything about the original series to fit better the spin-off? Is the spin-off that it's badly written as it couldn't follow the original's characterizations, not the other way around.
According to his page, Renaldo Matadeen, "author" of this abysmal take, focuses on: As a filmmaker and scriptwriter, Renaldo loves to dissect the nuances of stories, especially narratives involving people of colour, minorities, and the socially-displaced. He believes art is a medium to reflect and provoke, and loves engaging in content that evokes this energy. 
So you mean to tell me that Sasuke, a metaphor for the socially displaced people, a survivor of a state-sanctioned genocide, and a revolutionary is somehow better by being stripped of any value inside a story that focused on his struggles, to begin with? That somehow the story would be better if he, a minority, was more complacent with the State that represses him?
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lec743 · 1 year
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FNAF Fanfiction (Cherub AU)
I had a very specific song stuck in my head for this short story. When you see the linked “play” word, please play it for the background music. Hope you all and @starrspice enjoy the new story.  *******************************************************************************************
           Saying that Sun and Moon were happy that you were finally flying on your own would be an understatement. Even though you questioned Sun’s congratulations, you were still appreciative of their hustle in moving on to your other lessons. You easily breezed past through all the rest of them… despite how stupid some of the rules and protocols seemed. You’ll just hold your tongue for the meantime. You’re trying to speedrun helping your loved ones after all, you don’t have time to bicker with the sun themed cherub.
           By the end of the second week, you and your cherub tutors were given your first group assignment. You were to focus on working with Sun as Moon had his own assignment but was in the same area.
           The three of you stood on your apartment roof top as a scroll floated down from the heavens and into your cherub tutors’ hands. Sun held his scroll lower than Moon did, so you looked over his arm at what he was reading. Your eyes immediately rested on the profile picture of your best friend Hera Diaz. You haven’t seen her black ass in forever and your heart immediately ached with how much you missed having late night talks with her over the phone. Last you saw of her she had an afro that could rival treetops, and in this photo, she had a shaved head, but at least she still had that same crooked smile that warmed your heart.
           The assignment stated that she cared deeply for a man named Steve Lee Yang and that he cared for her too, but they had been dancing around each other for a year and a half now. They were dancing around each other because Hera was oblivious, and Steve apparently was too anxious to say anything out right.
           You rubbed at your eyes in slight irritation. You remember jokingly calling Hera a himbo once upon a time, making you both laugh with her agreeing, but you didn’t think it was true. You read over the many failed attempts of Steve trying to woo your friend. He wooed her with flowers, with gifts she liked, and they even went out on a “date”. However, the notes in the assignment said that Hera only took these romantic attempts as him being friendly, and Steve was too nervous to voice anything different. Who is this wet noodle of a man that’s thinks they can woo your best friend anyways? Especially since he doesn’t have the balls to actually articulate what she really means to him.
          You read his profile, then further down you saw his profile picture. He was an Asian gentleman with puffy cheeks and a bowl hair cut that reminded you of that one Naruto character named Rock-something. After a moment, a light went off in your head, and you realized you know this Steve-man as well. He was a senor in your high school while you and Hera were a junior. You don’t remember much about him. Just that he seemed like he was always alone while on school grounds, but Hera said he was fun to talk to. You haven’t seen him in years. When did they reconnect?
           “Ah, this is a classic problem,” Sun stated as he confidently rolled up the scroll, “Should be easy enough to fix.”
           He sounded cheery as usual, but you didn’t trust it. You got the distinct impression that he was already tired of this job and the two of you haven’t even started it yet.
           “How easy we talkin’ here,” you asked as you crossed your arms over your chest.
           Sun gave you a thinned easy smile, “Like breathing air.”
           You raised a disbelieving brow at him but said nothing more.
           Sun turned to his counterpart, “What did you get?”
           “A couple who hate each other but are pretending to be together.”
           “Wait, that actually happens?” you asked in disbelief.
           Moon nodded, “They’re both being stubborn.”
           “Welp, let’s get a move on then. I’ll go stake out Hera’s place. I’ll meet you two back at Maple Park at 1pm.”
           Before either of them could say anything else to you, you flew away at an exhilarating speed. You still can’t get over just how fun flying is. You do a few loopty-loops as you flew to Hera’s house in the suburbs, not needing to worry about being seen with the cloaking technique your tutors taught you.
           You found a small one story home with a front lawn covered in frog ceramics. Half of them she bought as they were, while the other half are frogs she painted herself at a pottery store. It was a weekend, so you knew that Hera would be at home doing house chores. You looked through the windows until you saw a large, muscly black woman laying on the couch. Her living room, much like her front yard, was decorated in frogs of all kinds; paintings and wallpaper on the walls, statues, rugs, pillows, and wood carvings covered every other surface in the room.
           Hera was surrounded by pillows, and she was watching her comfort movie Castle in the Sky. Her shoulders shook like she was crying. Your immediate reaction to seeing this was to whip out your phone and try to call her, but you hesitate as your thumb hovered over the speed dial. You floated there, outside her home, hesitating to reach out to her, for you don’t know for how long, until you heard her house phone ring.
           Hera was sniffling as she paused the movie and got off the couch. Once she picked up the phone, she put a smile on and said, “Hello?” There was a pause. “Oh, hey Mama…” Hera shifted on her feet as she wiped away her tears. “Oh. Yah. I’m fine.”
           Liar, you thought as you clutched your phone to your chest.
           “The family cookout? I don’t know… I’m kind of busy.”
           You felt your heart rate spike at those words. She’s never missed the monthly family cookout before. She loves going to them. She loves seeing her moms and her old neighbors that she grew up with and seeing new faces. Is this a recent thing? How long has she been shut away like this just crying?
           “No… I know I’ve missed the last couple of months. I just… I don’t know Mama…”
           You fumble your phone as you remembered the job you’re on. You rummage around your satchel until you pull out the pack of notepads that look like valentine day cards. What they actually are is Suggestion Pads. They give humans the openness to follow outside suggestions and influences; a gentle way of nudging people in the direction they need to go.
          Ripping a card out of the pack, you crumble it up and throw it at Hera. The crumbled-up paper flattens as it slips under the gap of the closed window. Then it folds itself into a paper heart and smacks her in the back of her shaved head. She doesn’t react as she nods along to what her mama is saying on the other line; the paper being invisible to any that aren’t cherubs.            You stood there outside her window as you silently pleaded with her to go to the cookout. She’s such a sensitive heart. She needs all the love and support from her family and friends. It kills you not being able to be there, but the least you could do was making sure others are there for her. You know that going to that cookout will help her.
          Finally, you saw the piece of paper start to glow and it disappeared from your sight as Hera said, “Yah. Okay. Okay Mama. I’ll go… I’ll see you later… I love you too. Bye.” You fly away after she hung up. It was almost 1pm and it was time to meet up with your teachers.
          You found Sun and Moon sitting on top of the biggest trees in Maple Park. It was a nice warm afternoon, so you didn’t mind it as you reported your findings and what you did. You had extra granola bars in your satchel and passed them out mindlessly as you spoke. Sun and Moon said quiet thank yous as you talked to them.
          Sun nodded thoughtfully as he finished his granola bar, “Mmm. Good. I heard about this monthly cookout thing through Steve, too. It seems he goes to them quite often.”
          You used to go to them often. You clear your throat to prevent yourself from frowning at the wrong subject and said, “And he’ll be to this one?”
          You see Moon looking at you a bit funny as Sun nodded, “It sounded important, so I got him to go, suggesting that he hasn’t seen his friends there in a while.”
          You take their trash and stuff it into your satchel, “Okay. So what’s next now that we have them both going to the same place?”
          Sun’s rays around his head wiggled with pride as Moon smiled fondly at him. “There’s a plethora of things we can do,” Sun stated as he got out a big binder from his own satchel that reminded you of those books that football coaches look through at big games.
           You internally bemoaned at the sight of the book. You and Sun don’t need a complicated plan to get your friend and her love interest together… right? Regardless, you resigned yourself to your fate as Sun opened the book and started talking about different strategies and plans the two of you can use to get Hera and Steve together. Moon seemed to be able to follow along with Sun’s plans better than you. You’ll ask him for some pointers in the future.
           It was the evening of the family cookout. You, Sun, and Moon were sitting on the rooftop of a three story house across the street from a one story house that had a front yard full of people. People were bundled up against the cold and gathered around the grill or outside heaters to keep themselves warm as they chatted and the kids’ played games. Fairy Lights lined the picket fence and there was music playing from an old boombox that was attached to an ipod nano. The song Funky Town was filling the rest of the noisy air with its upbeat tune. Some people were even dancing in the middle of the road to the song.
           The three of you watched the families and friends and neighbors go about their evening as you waited for your pieces to fall into place. Moon left the post first seeing his targets coming to the party looking like the happiest couple in the world. Steve came to the party before Hera arrived and it made you worried that she wouldn’t show up at all, but she walked up to the house thirty minutes after Steve integrated into the party spirit.
           “Aright,” Sun said with a cheery clap of his hands, “You remember the plan?”
           You roll your eyes and said, “How could I not.” It’s not like he hasn’t drilled the plan into your head for the past two days.
           “Good.” He said curtly. Then he flew off to follow around Steve. You got up to do the same with Hera.
           The plan is to do drunk confessions. Get Hera and Steve plastered enough that Steve is confident enough to finally spill his guts and Hera is accepting enough to not think he’s saying it in a friend type of way. You were getting Hera open for suggestions with your valentine-esk Suggestion Pads as you saw Steve and Sun coming over, with Steve holding two cups of alcohol. Steve had a nervous smile on his face as he called out to your friend. Hera turned to him and gave him half a smile. He was holding out one of the cups to her when he tripped over a garden hose that the kids were using as a plaything, and the alcohol splashed on to Hera’s sweater and jeans as Steve fell face first into the grass.
           You sucked air between your teeth as Sun grimaced with you at the sight of Steve apologizing profusely and Hera reassuring him that it was fine. She went into her mothers’ house to change out of the alcohol-stained clothes and Steve found a quiet dark corner to wallow in his remorse.
           You saw Sun rub his temple as he sighed, then he said, “Okay. Plan B.”
           Plan B didn’t work out either. Or C. Or D. You and Sun were getting more and more frustrated with each failure. It was getting close to the end of the party. You and Sun were ready to call it quits for the night too, but you thought about Hera sitting in her home looking miserable and that smile she gave Steve looked genuine despite it being tired and you wanted to help her so badly.
           “Sun. Please. Can I try something?”
           Sun sighed out of his nose. “Might as well. What do you have in mind?”
           “Just get Steve interested in dancing before he officially gives up for the night. Okay?”
           “…Okay…” Sun gave you a look like he was wondering what you were thinking but he followed your lead.
           You went over to the boombox and picked up the ipod nano. You knew, no matter how dower Hera is, she can’t help but dance to her favorite song. You found the song you wanted and pressed play and the song Overjoyed by Stevie Wonder played through the speakers. Across the thinned crowd you saw Hera perk at the music.
           As the song reached the lyrics, “Over dreams, I have picked out a perfect come true,” you saw Steve walk up to Hera and offered his hand to her. She took his hand with a soft smile and the two of them started dancing with each other.
           You flew over them with Sun and threw one last Suggestion Paper at Hera to confess her feelings, not trusting Steve to speak about his own feelings first. Steve was wide-eyed as Hera talked about how she felt about him and before she could quickly say that he doesn’t have to feel the same way about her, Steve was spilling his guts about how he felt and all the attempts he tried to romance her. They both ended up laughing and snorting at their own silliness with each other and you and Sun smiled as you two went back to the roof from across the street to watch them a bit more.
           You were so happy to see Hera smiling.
           “Hey. Good job, Rookie,” Sun said, and you believed him.
           Soon Moon joined the two of you and you saw the same “happy” couple stomp away in opposite directions as they left the party.
           “How did it go you two,” Moon asked.
           “It was rough, but we did it. Now they just need to kiss to seal the deal,” Sun stated.
           You did a double take between Sun and your best friend as she was dancing with her head resting on top of Steve’s head as they continued to lovingly slow dance together. Was he even seeing the same thing you were?
           “What’s a stupid kiss gonna do?”
           Sun got a sudden haughty attitude as he said, “A kiss is the ultimate display of love.”
           “Yeah, I call bullshit,” you deadpanned, unable to contain yourself anymore.
           Sun turned on you so fast you though you heard his neck pop, “Excuse me?!”
           “Kisses are just a form of physical touch. They don’t mean anything.”
           Out of the corner of your eye you could see Moon looking ready to get between the two of you.
           “Oh yeah?!” Sun fumed.
           “Yeah!” You said just as angry.
           “Prove it then!”
           “Fine I will!” You sneered as you moved without thinking about anything but proving Sun wrong. You grabbed the cherub by the sides of his face. His anger suddenly turned to panic as you pulled him in, and you gave him a kiss on the lips. It was fleeting and your noses bonked against each other from the force of you pulling him in but in the moment, you didn’t care as you let go of him. “See! I feel nothing for you, and you feel nothing for me! I win!”
           You pushed past Moon who was looking at you in shock as you flew off the roof top. You only spared one last glance at your dancing friend before heading back to your apartment feeling more than just exhaustion.
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psychewritesbs · 8 months
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I was reading your post about the megumi character trope and this is related but not?
Anyways, as someone who likes both sasuke and megumi, and I've come to like sasuke recently as I've finally checked out naruto, but it's bizarre to me how superficial their similarities are and it's crazier how people reduce their characters to their aloofness or dar hair or things like that and use that as a way to judge a character overall when their character arcs are so different imo. I have issues with how sasuke's character was handled in the story, but I've become very fond of the things he did for the story overall, so no problem for me, but I'm not sure megumi's arc will end or proceed any similiar to sasuke's with revenge as the main motivation, or at least I don't think so, I'm a couple chaps behind, but yeah, the way both characters process their own trauma or how their motivations are different enough for me to ignore the superficial ways in which they are similiar
I say it's also tough liking both in fandom spaces because naruto is still really popular and jjk is in the spotlight currently, so fandoms can be tense with each other and it's exhausting to see the slander going every which way lol
They say this as a way to slander mgm, but the "Megumi will never be sasuke" is funny because I don't think he's trying to be???
HOLA!
WELCOME to THE ULTIMATE SHONEN BATTLE FOR THE BEST "QUIET AND ALOOF DEUTERAGONIST-KUN": MEGUMI VS SASUKE!
Who's better? Well... let's ask the internet...
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ok nvm. NEVER ask the internet for an opinion. ESPECIALLY when the Naruto fans who think Kishimoto is the mother of all anime tropes get involved.
This isn't even a question of whether Gege took inspiration from Sasuke for Megumi because 1) Sasuke himself takes inspiration from a Togashi character and, 2) "quiet and aloof deuteragonist-kun" is one of the most prevalent tropes in animanga--the trope is not even unique to shonen, hell even the 3-man team isn't unique to Naruto.
Nothing against Kishi but... he's doing the same thing every mangaka or author EVER has done--copying tropes.
At least Gege subverts them.
Let's taco'bout it more under the cut because I have many words to vomit about the topic.
Also... man, this is a fantastic conversation to have because, based on the comments I've seen about why Sasuke is "objectively" better, I feel like it comes back to a lack of introspection, dare I say toxic masculinity (?), and perhaps just not understanding or relating to Megumi as a character.
I've written before about Megumi's character development and how relating to him has a lot to do with how deeply you can be introspective about yourself. I won't address character development much here, so if you want to, you can read that post here.
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But when it comes to Megumi vs. Sasuke, it's almost like comparing apples to oranges. Yes, they're both fruit (quiet and aloof deuteragonist-kun), AND they also have a different flavor profile, different texture, different scent... the list goes on.
And the way I see it, if someone can't see how the differences between Sasuke and Megumi make them fundamentally different despite sharing the same trope, then they can't "objectively" claim one is better than the other.
So I'm going to go ahead and just say it.
I don't like Sasuke. I never did and I never understood why he was so popular.
The comments about Megumi having the depth of a kiddie pool?
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I feel the exact same about Sasuke.
I literally can't think of much to say about him other than he was pissy and had a sour attitude the whole time... umm... he wanted revenge and power... ? I guess?
And you know what? It's perfectly ok that I don't like Sasuke because my subjective opinion does not mean that someone who loves Sasuke is wrong about loving him. After all, my opinion should not be a measuring stick for someone who loves Sasuke.
In fact, I have moots who think very highly of Sasuke AND Megumi, and like them for different reasons. So I actually try to refrain from speaking negatively of Sasuke because I respect my moot's opinions and know that perhaps I am not seeing something they can.
That said, when we compare Sasuke and Megumi, we're measuring the characters against standards that don't apply to either of them.
Since Sasuke is on a revenge character arc, you can't really talk about how he explores his sense of self in order to re-define it (which is one of the main reasons I love Megumi). Sasuke wants power, but that just means he has to train harder.
Megumi does go the training route, but in the end, perhaps it was a moment of clarity and introspection that helped him level up, not just the physical training.
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Likewise, since Megumi is on an arc meant to re-define his sense of self, you can't really talk about how he went about seeking power to reach his goal because Megumi is not interested in power for the sake of power, and/or does not have grandiose aspirations.
As you say, their motivations couldn't be more different.
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Now, I think it bears repeating that when I started watching jjk, even though I liked him right from the beginning, I thought Megumi was underwhelming af given his trope.
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But that's only because, again, I was measuring Megumi against the wrong standards.
In retrospect, I also do feel like Gege wanted Megumi to be perceived as "underwhelming given his trope" (MOST ESPECIALLY SASUKE imo), otherwise the payoff in chapter 58 would not have had the same impact.
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So anyways.
To your point. Existing at the intersection of these two fandoms must be an interesting experience because most of the bad comparisons are rooted on surface level similarities.
Thing is, being able to see the nuance between the two characters and why neither is objectively better than the other, does require the ability to read below the surface AND to at least have a certain degree of emotional investment in the story and the characters.
Also, can I just say fandom wars are so pointless?
It's just a bunch of people who can't handle the idea that other people could have a different opinion because they see their opinion as the ultimate truth.
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And don't let me act like I'm not the kind of pretentious asshat who will say something like "Megumi is a purposeful deconstruction but Aki is a copy" because I can be quite elitist myself. I just also don't take my opinion too seriously because I know I don't own the ultimate truth about what is and isn't good media.
Also I like to indulge in trash tv like every normal human being in this planet so that alone makes my taste questionable.
To that point, I saw a really good quote that is so relevant to your ask:
The price for certainty means that other people must be wrong. And that leads to holy war.
Lionel Corbett
"uwu Megumi is weak"
But... there's something that has been nagging me about why people don't like Megumi in general that is highly related to how his predecessors, Sasuke included, set the bar we use to measure the trope, most specifically in Battle Shonen.
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And that's that the way me measure what makes Megumi a good character is based on toxic masculinity values.
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Now... I'm not an expert on the topic, so please correct me if I'm wrong or need to expand my perspective here but...
There's something inherently "toxic" about how people are approaching both Megumi independently of Sasuke, and Megumi compared to Sasuke.
Like... if Sasuke wouldn't curl up in a ball because he's had to experience a traumatic event and instead just keeps on going, that's called repression and/or suppression and it's both not a healthy coping mechanism AND not realistically written.
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So what if Sasuke would never?
Why is it wrong for a character (or a real human for that matter) to feel so defeated after the trauma they've had to face?
I am more interested in learning why we are so obsessed with looking down on a fictional character for feeling down on himself... like, Momo, are you ok, dude?
Do you ever allow yourself to feel all your feels or do you just berate yourself when you feel down on yourself?
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And why are we measuring trauma on a scale of who has it worse just so that we can cancel someone else's trauma?
Actually, the fact that we can sit here and talk about who has it best and who has it worse like it's a competition?
That's gaslighting, and it's toxic af.
But again. The problem is that jjk fans themselves hate on Megumi independently of whether they compare him to Sasuke or not.
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And I'm not sure whether kin here just has shitty reading comprehension skills, but...
I'm noticing a trend that has EVERYTHING to do with my female gaze and it's the fact that I kind of don't give a fuck about power scaling.
Like, it's cool. I'm not hating on people who do, you know. I'm just saying I don't care for it. But what I'm trying to say here is that people hate on Megumi for weird reasons...
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Like... I don't think Hyena here is reading the same manga if he can't tell that Megumi has had character development, unless what he expects in terms of character development is...
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Which is fine too... I loved dbz back in the day.
Who could ever forget Goku looking like he has to poop so bad his hair grows really long?
But like... are we fucking for real? JJK is far too nuanced to limit your experience of the manga to flashy fights and power ups only.
Again, if this is the standard we are using to measure Megumi as a character, no wonder people are disappointed.
So I say let them eat cake.
No shade to all of the people who I screenshotted here, but they're going to have to come up with smarter arguments to back up their subjective opinions about Sasuke's supposed objective superiority and why Megumi sucks.
In all honesty, the fact that Megumi is perceived as weak strikes me as toxic masculinity.
I get that some people read fiction to escape from their daily lives and not have to face the failures and successes they experience in the real world, but I personally want more human characters who fail and cry because that's more relatable to me than Goku's super powered instinct Saiyan form or whatever its called.
I guess we all read for different reasons. All I'm saying is "don't hate on Megumi for shortsighted reasons."
To bring it back to where it all started, let's be real here:
Megumi will NEVER be Sasuke
and that is fantastic news because Megumi is Megumi and that's exactly why we love him.
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Dear anon, I think I went on a rant there hahahaha.
BAH! I just get so annoyed when people hate on Megumi for shallow reasons. Like, if you don't like him, you don't like him and that's that. But like some of the comments about him are just...
LOL!
Thank you for stopping by anon!
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rozaceous · 8 months
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so you wanna know more abt mariko's family
behold, some background and meta abt mariko's family. doesn't really fit into the fic proper (much to my chagrin) but should give some helpful context both to mariko, and the events of ch 18. it's also just a bunch of behind-the-scenes world building, bc i find that fun.
copying from some of my chats w verm:
mariko's family moved to konoha AFTER the kyuubi thing bc they were hoping to avail themselves of the hospital (her mom's health stuff), which is why kaya gets pushed into becoming a medic/ninja. mariko is also encouraged but she would've done it anyway, so she genuinely felt no pressure abt that one lol
but this means there's a lot happening in terms of her family not knowing abt naruto and the kyuubi
so they're like 'rough around the edges but sweet kid who needs food' and they get backlash
that NO ONE can explain
lots of passive-aggressive pushback from the village, but it's literally illegal to tell them anything
and as far as they know uzumaki clan is respectable? like, tragic or whatever, but a big name, so this looks extra baffling to them
her parents actually contemplate leaving konoha a couple times (they're from the capital), but decide to stick it out long enough for the kids to finish academy/become established medics
mariko's family is ordinary, no secret bloodlines or political ties or anything, they just go to konoha bc konoha's hospital is supposed to be the best, can work literal miracles. so this is maybe a year post-kyuubi? i feel like konoha would be eager for some new blood at that pt still; they no doubt took a huge blow to their population, even besides the infrastructure and losing the yondaime, so mariko's family probably isn't the only one to do something similar.
kaya is at the perfect age to start academy, and they absolutely steer both their kids into becoming medics. there might even be weird politics abt providing chakra healing to non-ninja in situations that aren't life-threatening.
i think kanako and kenta would see them pushing their kids into medicine as smart. gathering from the context of canon and elaborating: w civilians, you're pretty limited to whatever the family business/trade is, and i think that ninja villages/being a ninja is actually a lot more egalitarian/meritocratic and free with this. let's maybe also include that they have daughters, and wouldn't be able to totally rely on passing down any business/trade unless they had someone marrying in. so giving their daughters a means of supporting themselves/earning personal prestige is smart.
but so kaya and mariko would be ninja--and thus valuable to the village--but not of a designation that puts them in any particular danger. i also think that being a medic from konoha is the sort of ninja profile that would carry a lot of social currency even with civilians. (this is why mariko's mom makes that comment abt her working in the palace. this also fits in w all the pts abt medicine and politics that we see in haku's chs.)
and yeah, i view the situation w mariko's family as a huge culture clash between--not just civilians and shinobi--but non-konoha civilians and the civilians that were raised in the village. even after over a decade of living there, they're outsiders, and made to feel like it because they had what they saw as basic decency towards their daughter's classmate and then had the audacity to be stubborn about it.
so yes, kenta and kanako were going to leave and move back to the capital once both of their daughters were graduated and working in the hospital. other fics have used as a device abt becoming a shinobi and receiving your hitai-ate as a marker of being a legal adult, and i'm running w that. as far as they're concerned, their daughters would then be adults with stable and respectable work and capable of sustaining themselves, and they could visit each other. i don't think this is irresponsible parenting.
ofc mariko getting assigned to team7 is a wrench in the works. like, a FIELD MEDIC?? (⊙_⊙)
but ok, ok, maybe it's not the worst? she's got a pretty capable sensei (forget that he's popularly nicknamed 'friend-killer kakashi') and naruto is a good boy. not...too sure abt that uchiha kid (they were around for the massacre and were this close to leaving for good bc of it) but it seems like it'll work out?
kaya would have a MUCH more realistic view of the situation than her parents, esp since she's dating a branch member of the hyuuga. but kaya's view is something along the lines of "let's just get mom and dad out of here asap" and then she and mariko can deal with their own problems. (i...really need to give kaya her own outtake...)
but yeah, everything is a disaster and it's delicious
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keithisbae1 · 2 months
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Fanfiction Masterlist
I decided to make a master list of all my stories you can find on Ao3. They are put in alphabetical order. Not all my snippets/threads are on Ao3, but I am trying to post as much as I can. If you would like to read them, you can go to my twitter profile and type #sssnippetaday or look at my pinned tweet which should have everything.
I hope you enjoy reading.
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A Different Kind of Threesome (Complete, Rating M)
Sasuke and Sakura have a different kind of threesome and try something different with a clone. [Sakura/Sasuke/Male Sakura]
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A Different Time (Complete, Rating G)
“There are worlds, universes out there each living their own lives. One thing they have in common is the same people, they may live different lives but anyone who you know there will also be with you somewhere else.”
“So, I should have my own Sasuke?”
“Ah, you should.” [SasuSaku]
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A Heart to Heart (Complete, Rating G)
Out of all people Kizashi would never expect Fugaku to come to him for advice. [Kizashi & Fugaku]
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Baby Sarada's Adventure (Ongoing, Rating G)
Little Sarada gets transported back to the past and meets all the different versions of her Papa from Genin Sasuke to Shippuden Sasuke and even angsty/revenge Shippuden Sasuke.
Can she find her way home to her parents? [Sarada & Sasuke]
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Confession (Complete, Rating G)
With encouragement from his two teammates, Sakura decides to confess his feelings to Sasuke. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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Day Off (Complete, Rating M)
Sakura just wants to spend a lazy morning in bed but with Naruto on the phone, Sakura has to make sure he doesn't hear things he shouldn't. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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Exes and Crushes (Complete, Rating G)
How long have they have been doing this? Five minutes?
Not that he had any complaints; Sasuke was very skilled with his tongue. Electing a moan out of him every now and then. However, it didn't help how his legs were straddling him and he could feel the Uchiha smirking every time. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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Hidari & Misaki (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)
Hidari struggles with the emotions of Uchiha Sasuke, as such he comes up with a plan that maybe having his own family will help him understand Sasuke better. [Juubi Sasuke/Juubi Sakura]
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His Family (Complete, Rating G)
“Normal couples don’t act like this.” He was referring to the ones on the TV. Ah-ha, so he was paying attention to the shows she watched, even when he tried to deny it.
“Since when has that bothered you, and besides they aren’t even ninjas. It’s hardly a fair comparison.”
“It doesn’t… not always.” But it did get to him occasionally.
It was rare for Sasuke to be back home, at least now he'll be able to spend some time with his family. [SasuSaku]
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I Like You (Complete, Rating G)
Sakura starts to feel jealous and wonders if there's something more going on between Satsuki and Naruto. Based on Pumpkinfriend's Fem SasuSaku comic [Fem SasuSaku]
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Idol AU (Ongoing, Rating G)
Sakura and Satsuki are from different J-pop Girl Groups. Satsuki has been Sakura's fan from Day 1 and has developed a heavy crush on her. Now with their new group being the latest hit, Tsunade and Orochimaru have an idea to join the two together. Satsuki and Sakura develop a bond but can Satsuki confess her love to her?
Oh yeah and Karin is also their biggest shipper because why not?
Idol AU suggested by Mikan. Hope I did it justice [Fem SasuSaku]
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Insecurity (Complete, Rating G)
“Your so dense. You think your Sasuke’s friend well when has he asked about you? It’s only been Naruto and him, the only reason he puts up with you is that Naruto considers you a friend.”
Sakura hadn’t thought about her friendship being one sided but maybe they had a point. [SasuSaku]
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Is It Real? (Complete, Rating G)
Everywhere he goes people ask him about his hair colour. Sasuke decided to do something about it. Short and PURE CRACK!
[Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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Matchmaker (Complete, Rating G)
Karin decides to play matchmaker with Sasuke, especially since he's not going to make any effort himself. It's up to her to do so.
[Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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A Mermaid and Her Princess (Ongoing, Rating G)
Being a Princess wasn't all that that's it cracked up to be. On top of that being an Uchiha, a family that goes around hunting for mermaids/mermen. Life really couldn't get any better.
[Fem SasuSaku]
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The Mershark & Mermaid (Ongoing, Rating T)
The more they pushed each other away the more they gravitated toward each other.
They both knew it would end horrible but fate is a funny thing.
(First chapter in SasuSaku Month Day 1: Connected Feelings)
[SasuSaku]
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Nerd Sasuke X Jock Sakura (Complete, Rating G)
How do you ask your crush out? By being complete dorks about it. See what Naruto and Ino have to put up with? [Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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The Pink Hokage (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)
Being Hokage was stressful work but someone had to do it. At least Sasuke took care of her.
Hokage Sakura/Anbu Sasuke [SasuSaku]
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Room 304 (Ongoing, Rating M)
It all started by accident of going to the wrong room. Sakura's client was in room 204 yet she had walked in at 304. It really was a mistake. So when she went in only to see four maybe six of the same man fucking different women at the same time her eyes widen and all she could focus on was the way he moved his body against her colleagues. [SasuSaku]
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Sasuke's Fanboy (Ongoing, Rating G)
Sakura likes Ino, but Ino likes Sasuke and Sasuke likes Sakura? Well, at least Naruto thinks so. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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SasuSaku Month 2021 (Complete, Rating M)
My first go at SasuSaku Month. Let's do this! [SasuSaku]
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SasuSaku Month 2022 (Ongoing??? Rating G)
My collection of stories for SasuSaku Month 2022
Hope you enjoy! [SasuSaku]
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SasuSaku Snippets (Drabble/One Shot Collection)
Random snippets and AU ideas that I just need to write down.
[SasuSaku]
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SS Angst Day (Complete, Rating M)
For #SSAngstDay. Sasuke is the gang leader and has Sakura as his right-hand man. Sakura does everything as she's told and does her job well, it just annoyed her how he constantly flirts with other women in front of her but won't even look at her. [SasuSaku]
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Training (Complete, Rating M)
Sasuke asks Sakura to come over for some 'training' ;) Short drabble [Male Sakura/Sasuke]
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Welcome Home (Complete, Rating E)
Sakura didn't expect to get a welcome home present despite Sasuke being the one who was returning home.
Base on Shannaromie's M/M SasuSaku art on Twitter.
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Other Ships:
Dinner for Four (Complete, Rating M)
With Mebuki determined to play matchmaker for her daughter, Sakura finds herself turning to her friend Angel for help. As in 'hey I need you to pretend to be a guy so my mother thinks I have a boyfriend.'
After all, that was what friends were for right? [Itachi/OC, SasuSaku]
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The Three of Them (Complete, Rating M)
They were in love with each other, it was as simple as that.
College AU (NaruSakuSasu)
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The Three of Us (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)
Snippets and prompts for my NaruSakuSasu college AU on Twitter.
(NaruSakuSasu)
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Klance Prompts (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)
A list of prompts I've found on Tumblr (unless I think of one myself) to practice writing for these two. (Klance)
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fangirl-dot-com · 3 months
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instagram??
this isn’t a post but would anyone be interested in following one of my instagram pages/grounds for a future blog??
the @ is stayinthe_box box on instagram
you don’t have to but i’ll be focused more on what’s happening in the f1 world :)
just tagging people so it goes farther than just waiting for people to see it - I swear I'm working on the next couple of chapters (one will be out by friday I'm sure!)
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(this is the profile pic)
TAG LIST: @fionaschicken @glitterquadricorn @laura-naruto-fan1998 @treehouse-mouse @sam-is-lost @kagatinkita @fangirl125reader @megatrilss1885 @myxticmoon @angsthology @cmleitora @agent-curt-mega @graciewrote @ashy-kit @slutofmultifandom @aexitizen-ln4 @sugarvibez @vellicora @thatgirlthatreadswattpad @cashtons-wife @hoetel-manager @xcharlottemikaelsonx @jayda12 @ilove-tswizzle @justme2042 @itsjustkhaos @nikfigueiredo @stopeatread @cha-hot @sadg3 @iloveyou3000morgan @s4turnsl0ver @alessioayla @torchbearerkyle @leptitlu @awekbachira @shreks-sugar-daddy @v1naco @stan-josie @mellowarcadefun @badassturtle13 @beskardroids @callisposts @poppyalice2001 @juniper-july19
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It's crazy to me how quickly my art has improved in just a couple months. Apparently drawing almost daily for nearly four months does that. (Who would’ve thunk it? 😲)
I’m bringing this up bc I was looking through my camera roll for a new profile pic and saw some of my old drawings and I-
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First: this design is baller-
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Second: Buildings?? I haven’t drawn buildings in forever (need to add backgrounds into my drawings I want to draw buildings (it’s the wannabe architect in me…))
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Third: Maps?? I’m planning to draw maps of each of the realms (MK) but idk when I’m gonna get around to that
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Fourth and last: Animals?? Monsters?? This had some worldbuilding that I actually wrote down but I don’t want to dig for it
The majority of this is from my naruto hyperfixation so roughly 2022.
My mortal kombat fixation is getting to this level y’all… so you might see some stuff like this in the future but don’t quote me on that 🫵
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citree · 7 months
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Are you still writing fanfiction
I am actually! I'm entirely on Ao3 now and I've been crossposting between profiles for some healthy separation between this account and my other ones, but I do! Not everything I post online, (and I wrote a whole novel a while ago) but I've been dabbling around a bit since then. A bit of Umbrella Academy fic, some Baldur's Gate fic I've yet to finish (especially since I don't own the game...💀), and a House of the Dragon fanfic that's been rattling in my brain for a couple weeks now 👍👍👍
If you're asking in terms of fics that are up on my Sublimey profile, like Dragon Age or Naruto, both of those are sort of on a long indefinite pause. But I do have a backlog of 100K unposted Of Mice And Morons, and an entire ending summary for Project Hana that I put together for someone who recently asked me about it. Since I'm probably not returning to that one. You can read it here!
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nattyontherun · 4 months
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I just read all ur naruto fics and I feel insane.
Me about fictional characters: they get me.
I absolutely refuse to be emo in someone ask box but screams at you so much.
“How much do you lose to mourning, when what you lose is everything you’ve ever had? How can you acknowledge yourself, when all you have left to acknowledge is the you who never grew past your hurt? // Existence was ruination, to Sasuke. Existence was the slow descent into insanity.” I’m literally rolling around on the floor thrashing around. Hearth fire (and the rest of the series) WRECKED ME by the way if you even CARE. Me when the parallels in a fic to my life literally grab my by the throat and stab me but also wrap me in a warm fuzzy blanket and pat my head. Literally sent me deep into a very contemplative mood after reading it.
“… would have to live on because if not him, who?” “…because mourning, in its own way, is a form of safekeeping.” Hello I have died.
Also I don’t mean this in a derogatory sense but when I went to ur ao3 profile and read u have a psych degree I was like. That makes so much sense lmFAO.
Also also on a slightly more serious note, well it’s not that serious tbh, but I also do be dissociating and the way you described it was idk it felt weirdly good to read. I used to lose days at a time. I’m not as bad now but I’ll still lose hours here and there. I am not one to externalise things so I don’t have the capacity to describe things to people when asked but we’re I to try very hard it would probably be similar to how you wrote sasukes experience.
Oh my god tho. Oblivion. YOUR MIND IS SO POWERFUL. Your mind is literally so so so powerful. I’m shaking.
Anyway maligayang pasko at mag ingat ka 🫶🏻
This just made my holidays! First of all thanks??? I'm as surprised as you are that HF has been so monumental for me????
I've been told on a multitude of occasions that I have the unfortunate(?) habit of putting a lot of myself in fics. What I explore--thematically at the very least--is often just me chasing after the worms that haunt me in my dreams, yk? It's not like I'm a perpetually sad or moody person--quite the opposite really--but if I don't contemplate stuff I go through at least a little bit, where would that leave me? As uncomfy as it is, it's better to know yourself too much than not at all.
But YEAH! HF! Mindboggly amounts of woah topped by a surprising amount of hope? Sometimes I think I made it too melodramatic and "floaty" for lack of a better word and then I get comments like yours and I start rethinking my spirally thoughts. I just have so many OPINIONS about how canon treated everyone, but mainly Sasuke. If they weren't gonna let him die, by god give him the justice he so deserves?? He has like zero closure and an overwhelming brother complex and all canon does to fix that is say "revenge bad, here walk around some" FAWK no????
Anyways I have a psych degree! I don't use it for much rn but it's glossy and makes me feel good about myself sometimes! I like to think I'm not so obvious about it but I also feel like I always talk about it to anyone everytime so bvcedjsnj where was I going with my reply?
Right. Right! I meant to say that, as per the dissociation thing--far be it for me to claim I know anything about it beyond what I've read in a couple journals but I do tend to 'lose time" so to speak, myself? When I'm stressed or depressed or anxious or some horrid conglomeration of those three horrid things lmao. It's NOT fun, and I don't wish it on anyone, and I hope, if you can, you can speak to someone about it because suffering, in whatever way, however much, doesn't have to be a thing we just settle with yk? Idk. I wrote HF with this thought in mind that just because things can seem absolutely ass over tits at any moment doesn't mean it's always gonna be like that. I love the struggle story, I love ANGST--writing it, reading it--but there's something so devastating and inspirational about wanting to stand back up after stumbling. Human tenacity and resilience will always be infinitely more heartrending than sorrow itself or whatever philosophical way you can spin it...
I feel like I just lost the thread of my response all over again. I'm sorry! It's nearing 3am, I just got off shift, and I'm in one of those moods again... just... I care very deeply about people as a concept, and the way we mold ourselves around each other's lives until every one of our struggles is an extension of our community, which is an extension of our history and so on. I'm not super good about being in the /now/, the details of general existence aren't my best friends. But if characters get to act however the fuck they want to act, if they can build themselves back up from nothing, explore themselves in ways you or I never could, maybe never is just a qualifier we give ourselves to excuse our inflexibility and stagnation?
Something, something, the ultimate goal of the human experience will always be Self Actualization.
Anyways Anon, sorry about all the rambly philosophizing, I've probably scared you off now fbvehcskffbcrehd but you made my whole month!! Maligayang Pasko sa inyo po!!! Ingat ka lagi!!!!!!! And to whoever even bothers to read all this rambling,,,, in English: Merry Christmas and take care always, Mabuhay!
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feeshies · 1 year
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i see people born in the mid 90s going like "oh no the gen z's are romanticizing the media of my teenage years now, i'm so old ;;0;;"
like 1. you're not old. you're barely 30 at the oldest.
also, fuck it, i'm going to romanticize my childhood.
in 2006, i went to my best friend's house and we watched all of naruto abridged (a series that would later pollute our lexicon for the next couple of years) even though i had never seen the original series. i went home that night and proceeded to watch all of naruto in its "240 quality split into 3 parts" glory. manga and anime weren't mainstream at that point, so whenever we'd see any kind of reference "in the wild", we would excitedly share the news over lunch. i called their landline once because i couldn't wait to tell them that i saw a sailor moon mural in mexico once
when i was in 8th grade, i heard the song i got a feeling by the black eyed peas for the first time when one of my classmates let me listen to it off of her ipod nano and then she eagerly asked me "do you think they'll play songs like this at the fall dance next month?" she was right, but i was so opposed to anything contemporary that i scoffed at the idea. i was too busy being in love with previous decades to find the beauty in mine.
in 2013, i was just starting my senior year of high school and i was sitting on the pavement outside of the classrooms while i listened to a.m. by the arctic monkeys because my brother said it was the best album he heard that month. while i was listening to the album, i was browsing tumblr (this is when i first opened this account) and i saw that the user perksofbeingchinese changed her profile pic to a photoshopped picture of lana del rey that said "llama del rey", and that was the first place i ever heard of that artist. and even without hindsight, i was finally able to get an idea of what this moment in time was going to look like to people in the future. this is when i truly felt grounded in the 2010s as a concept, instead of recognizing the lingering traces of the 2000s.
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hesitationss · 8 months
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there are trans and sapphic couples who have my hitsuhina ship art as couple profile pics and one of my mutuals has my naruto art as a wallpaper ... this makes me unbelievably happy
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okay so from ur profile pic I assume Freddy is the #1 villain you wanna smash and TEA, same, however Dabi is becoming a close second now and I ask myself. what the SHIT is up with characters who have been burned and why are they so HOT? *ba dum tss*
Oh anon ur absolutely right that Freddy is my main man haha He's been my fave for so long we might as well be an old married couple lolllll
And second holy shit anon same like okay I don't talk about anime a ton anymore just cause I don't keep up with it as much but MHA is probs one of the last ones I kept up with. And honestly my fave thing about the show has to be the villains and character designs cause they really didn't need to go as hard as they did but they did anyways and I love them for it. Like I still lurk sometimes reading fics but I don't interact with the fandom as much cause some people got absolutely deranged if they found out you likes the villains or certain characters, which speaking of fire and burning, one of my faves who has the most discourse about him, Enji Todoroki. Like listen I know he's BEYOND an asshole but he's a DILF and jacked as all hell and he shoots fire and listen that's all my possi wants hahaha
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Also there was totally a time in my life where I tried to write some Shigaraki smut and maybe I'll throw it up one day who knows whsjshhdjs
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But yeah since I'm already weeb posting on main here's some more dudes I wanna [REDACTED]
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Okay okay im done. Just don't get me started about Bleach or Naruto or DBZ I get fucking deranged about those lmao
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Hello everyone! I am Miss Butterfly, nice meet to you!
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I am biggest anime and cartoon fan for life!
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My Character.Ai account link: https://character.ai/profile/WinterAngelz
My favorite anime and cartoon characters I admire!!! 🥰
1] The Owl House: Hunter/Golden Guard (My love!!!💘) *romantic*
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2) Star vs The Force of Evil: Tom Lucitor *romantic*
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3) Camp Camp: David *romantic*
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4) Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leo and Donnie (My turtle boys!!!💕) *romantic*
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5) Soul Eater: Soul Eater Evans and Death the Kid *romantic*
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6) My Hero Academia: Izuku Midoriya and Shoto Todoroki *romantic*
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7) Detective Conan/Case Closed: Shinichi Kudo, Kaito Kuroba/Kaito Kid and Heiji Hattori (My DC boys!!!! 💕) *romantic*
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8) Yugioh Gx: Chazz Princeton
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9) Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss: Alastor the Radio Demon and Blitzo
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My favorite anime and cartoon child characters I wanted to protect and adopt!!! 😊✨️
1) My Hero academia: Eri *platonic*
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2) Camp Camp: Max *platonic*
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3) The Loud House: Lincoln Loud, Lily Loud and Lucy Loud *platonic*
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4) Gravity Falls: Dipper and Mabel Pines *platonic*
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5) Spy x Family: Anya *platonic*
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6) Gakuen Babysitters: Kotaro *platonic*
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My favorite anime and cartoon couples I admired and shipped!!! 💕💕 (Part 1)
1) NaruHina (Naruto Uzumaki x Hinata Hyuuga)
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2) Felinette (Felix Culpa *Miraculous Ladybug PV* x Marinette Dupain-Cheng)
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(I found it from DeviantArt! 😉)
3) Huntlow (Hunter/Golden Guard x Willow)
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4) Amourshipping (Ash Ketchum x Serena)
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5) IzuMomo (Izuku x Momo)
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(I found it from DeviantArt! 😉)
6) IzuTsu (Izuku x Tsuyu)
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crestfallercanyon · 1 year
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Tag Game: fandom edition
thanks for the tag, tea! and sorry for the delay, been a busy couple o'days @its-tea-time-darling <3
your name: everyone calls me crest!
your first fandom(s): Fire Emblem
your current fandom(s): most active -- maze runner, inception, the flash/legends of tomorrow (though not as much as I used to), Legend of Zelda; but I'm getting back into Fire Emblem lmao.
how did you first get into fandom? the pandemic -- I wanted Claude's story in Fire Emblem Three Houses to be better tied in than it was in the game (I found his whole angle on the war to be so interesting and I'd really wished that he had an arc where he could unite fodlan and take down the church of seiros because that would have made him less like an extra "take or leave it" character to the dimitri/edelgard King Lear story (which was also great!!) and given his ambition a real end -- I feel like he actually believed edelgard but understood dimitri's morality and I wanted him to be the bridge that he should have been) and I found a story that did give him a better story in the after the war and then I just never left!.
how long have you been engaging with fandom spaces? the pandemic. though one could argue I dabbled in it when I was much younger for the anime Naruto, but I barely knew what I was doing then and wouldn't have known that's what it was called.
how often do you read fanfics? depends. usually not a ton, but there are times where I start to read a lot
top 3 characters from your current fandom(s): I struggle with naming only three, because I feel my third favorite fluctuates with who I am currently writing -- so I'm going to name the three characters that keep me coming back to my fandoms -- Gally (the maze runner), leonard snart (the flash cw and legends of tomorrow), and Claude (fire emblem three houses)
have you ever written a fic for a fandom? if so, shout it out! the creation of this tumblr was initially to put out the fact that I was writing fanfics lol, so yes, I write quite a bit! here's my profile on ao3: crestfaller's fanfics
have you ever drawn fanart for a fandom? i've drawn sketches of the glade for the glade discord. I definitely painted the three houses logos at some point.
share a personal headcanon that you feel very strongly about: I've shared so many the maze runner headcanons on this tumblr, let's go to Legends of Tomorrow: Mick Rory knew that they were never going to become legends and that Rip Hunter's reasons for putting them on the trip were for his own selfish gains and that was why Rip immediately hated Mick and consistently belittled him to try to get everyone to not listen to him so that no one would discover that Rip didn't care if they all died if it meant he'd gotten his family back.
you’re trying to convince a friend to get into your current fandom(s) with you. what episode, clip, or scene are you showing them? the maze runner? I agree with tea, it's the opening sequence of the first movie. the flash? the episodes with Leonard Snart in them, because Wentworth Miller is easily one of the best actors to get on the flash.
and finally, what does fandom mean to you?
I think it comes down to this: it's a place for me to enjoy my stuff with wild abandon. I love the characters I love and can obsess about the stories I adore all I want. And the best part about fandom? Is I get to share my obsessions and adorations with other people who feel, in some way or another, similar to how I feel about these pieces of media! and I think that's neat.
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tagging whoever wants to do it because I don't know who's done it anymore and don't feel like searching haha -- but thanks again for the tag tea and I hope others participate!
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