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pasiphile · 7 months

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>.> Can you say more words about GO2

Oh, I can, but they're not very nice words.

While I had my issues with the first season, the second season is just so... bafflingly bad? Like, so strangely bad. Plotwise it feels like something written by a beginner. Like for some reason they've given a huge budget to some mediocre fanfic. There are just so many instances where they obviously had to get from point A to point B and just made up a quick shortcut without thinking too much about the implications or it, you know, making sense. Some of it is because of the honestly strange decision to let other writers take care of the flashbacks, with the worst contender the WWII flashback (zombies exist now? with no repercussions? so much gratuitous gore? Also the whole sequence with the gun would be so dramatic if, you know, demons actually died instead of being discorporated being nothing but a minor administrative setback). But it's also there in the main plot. Fire extinguishers work against demons for some reason? Aziraphale goes all the way to Scotland and back to learn basically nothing? The whole contrived romantic subplot with Nina and Maggie? The fucking Gabriel/Beelzebub thing? It's all either so heavy handed or just plain lazy. And I'm all for suspension of disbelief but if it's just one thing after another...

To me it feels like the basic plot of the whole second season could've over and done with in half an episode, and they just put in filler after filler to fluff it out into a full season where, in fact, barely anything happens.

And it's so odd! I know John Finnemore's work, he's good at intricate little plot connections! And Neil Gaiman can hardly be called an inexperienced writer either! It just feels like they were too lazy to actually bother writing a plot that works.

Meanwhile characterisation-wise, they've gone further on the path they'd already started in season one and wandered even farther away from what made the book characterisation interesting. In the book, Crowley is the nice one, who's generally polite and friendly and very fond of humans, while Aziraphale is, honestly, a bit of a dick and a recluse who prefers not interacting with humans and is 100% down to kill a child if it means he can keep his comfy lifestyle going. Aziraphale accidentally kills a dove and doesn't care about it. Crowley is the one that revives it. It's that kind of contradiction that makes it so fun, and to see that reversed into Aziraphale being a bleeding heart saving-the-poor-humans and Crowley acting all tough and sarcastic really erases a lot of what makes the pairing so charming.

But the thing that bothers me the most is how much they included the Big Conflict between Heaven and Hell. In the books, both Crowley and Aziraphale are low in the hierarchy. You only catch a glimpse of the big players and only at the end. Plus, they're lazy. It's a plot point that they both have human agents to take care of the work for them and that they don't get involved. They're not remotely interested by the overarching conflict or wanting either side to win. The whole point of the Agreement is that they take over a bit of each other's work for ease and convenience. And they're not particularly involved in humanity's welbeing either, and they definitely don't go around saving individual humans. They're disturbed by it, sure, but they don't think about interfering in any way. They only start taking an active role when their comfy lifestyle is threatened. And that's what I like about the whole thing. It's small, in a way. It's contained. Meanwhile the TV series went full out with Hell and Heaven fighting against each other and Crowley and Aziraphale suddenly becoming major agents in that conflict, catching the interest of demons and angels all the way up. It feels very at odds with the central theme and message of the book.

I did enjoy watching it. About 50% for the little things that did work, and about 50% to point and laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.

And to spot the Pratchett references, of course. Those were nice.

#Anonymous #good omens negativity #is that a tag? it should be a tag #i dont wanna shit on people who are enjoying it #good for you!#i would have also maybe enjoyed it a lot if i hadn't read the books first #and imprinted on them #but even then it would have felt like. sort of all right fan fiction #the writer wants to characters to kiss #and has a vague idea that there has to plot to get them there #so they quickly rehash some things from the original (jukebox) and make up some conflict #writing mediocre fanfiction of the book you co-wrote thirty years ago? wild. next level. Totally incomprehensible but i am intrigued #will probably watch the 3rd season too #out of morbid curiosity

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bottombaron · 6 months

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oh ok so its the usual no-homo bullshit you always hear, good to know.

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #nandermo #look im a reasonable guy #i dont get worked up easily and ive been around writers rooms and understand the pressures of writing a big show like wwdits #hell i even liked season 4 #but this has got to be one of the most offensive bs ive read that wasnt from 2015 #‘its only a small (but vocal) amount of people that actually want to see them together’#‘their love isnt ~s*xual~ they dont need to kiss its more ~profound~ than that’#‘you don’t REALLY want to see them together! (thats gross!)’#also ‘the power dynamic is ~problematic~’??? are you kidding me???#jfc its like someone literally got this out of the queerbating handbook from 2010 #and like yeah i know wwdits isnt queerbating but its queerness feels more performative when it treats an actual central relationship #like its a gross kinkything only a few freaks on the internet want #instead of a legitimate plausible story that deserves exploration #nandermo should be a triumph - a victory for the characters and something the writers should be pleased with writing #not…this.#like it’s some problem pressured reluctantly upon them that needs to be carefully defused #this has left a bad taste in my mouth

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uranium-city · 11 months

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guys i really hate to say it but Abe's kind of been the highlight of the last two episodes for me & feels most in character to his S1 counterpart when compared to the other main characters 😭

ALSO him & Joan had more genuine chemistry in the one hospital scene than JFK & Joan have had all season & as a member of the JoanFK nation i am frustrated

#also why has his relationship with cleo not been mentioned once this season at all #i'm assuming they just?? broke up off screen?? but you're telling me Cleo wouldn't flip over her nerdy unpopular bf leaving her for JOAN??#there's so much story potential there do the writers just hate Cleo or something why is she getting sidelined so hard #like is this just never gonna be addressed it was such a huge plot point in season 1 i feel like i'm going mad #& also for clarification i'm not trying to act like Abe & Joan's first scene at the hospital was inherently romantic in anyway all Im sayin #is that the two actually had a genuinely sweet & heartfelt one on one moment where Joan & JFK have pretty much just been “haha sex” “hahaha #open mouth kissing haha" & surface level cutesy flirting this entire season 😭. Like the reason i liked S1 JoanFK so much was because of the #genuinely heartfelt moment they had at the end of the season like where is that why has their relationship been watered down to #open mouth kissing & “look at how perfect & cute & happy they are hahaa they also make out a lot” it feels so forced imo 😭#also also does anyone else feel like JFK has been pretty out of character this season #sorry if it seems like I'm being unfair I'm only being so harsh because I really really like this show & I want S2 to live up the the #original so bad & I KNOW it has the potential to do so. it's just a lot of decisions being made so far... I'm not really a fan #clone high

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icecream-and-gadreel · 2 months

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Don't get me wrong, I love me some "plain text" gay content as much as the next guy, but there's nothing like that deep, deep subtext pining that allows you to explore the 'what ifs' on your own.

Of course Destiel immediately comes to mind because the fucking longing was RIGHT there

But also Hannibal, gay as shit. Longing so deep that it felt palpable. House. Wilson and Dr. House were just insanely, toxically attached at the hip and just w a n t e d. Psych. Gay gay gay.

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keeperofseeds · 11 months

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Shipping culture has rotted some of your brains. The people in the Good Omens tag vehemently saying that the leak utterly spoiled season 2- do you all think this show is a romcom. Is this show only about romance. Do you think media only exists as a vehicle for your ships. Do you think maybe this show could be about anything else at all. Like an actual story perhaps.

#good omens #also you all need to calm down about spoilers #why have writers at all if all you want is two characters kissing

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hella1975 · 10 months

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no one is doing fanfic like me btw

#IM A GOD AT THIS LITERALLY #never met a writer as good as me sorry about it but that's the facts #like oh my goddd the neurons are firing the themes are paralleling the plot is tying itself in a neat bow #im so good ive ended up with miss fuyumi todoroki as one of my favourite characters #like no beef to my girlypop but i love to hate her like imo she's a good character bc she frustrates me so much #i generally dislike her like i dont want to defend her but i can see her justifications etc etc #and me personally i LOVE when characters do that to me like ohhh i wanna hit you so bad but writing-wise i want to study you #and now ive gone full circle bc in the fic im planning ive made her so outrageously complex that im gripping her shoulders and shaking her #she's everything she's nothing she's an antagonist she's an enabler she's just a girl she's tired im kissing her forehead #me with my actually very close relationship with my sister every time i see sibling dynamics in media: what if i made them worse #aiaia u have a rant incoming btw i mean this threateningly #tams and taob and tbp watching me outline what is very much looking to be another behemoth of a fic: 😟😟😟

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capricornsicle · 1 year

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"I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe it will sound familiar." Visionary x Insatiable x Status Asthmaticus x The Wolves of War

#this is really a show about coming of age in a vicious and unfamiliar world more than a show about werewolves #think about it. scott is sixteen and to him losing his first love is as incomprehensible and unfathomable as the supernatural.#and we're constantly reminded of how being sixteen and in love goes -- 'you're not in love you're sixteen and a child' etc.#these three characters make for such a good parallel to one another in how they werewolf + seeking guidance #especially + sudden change of worldview/stakes when confronted with sudden and unexpected loss and grieving #of course derek loses paige and becomes cold and jaded (see: literally becomes cold w/ blue eyes)#scott loses allison and commits harder to saving all of his friends even though one of them (or someone possessing him) killed her #liam is stopped from killing because of hayden's death #here are three werewolves who were sixteen and held their first love's dead body in their arms #and each of them took a different path. do you close yourself off? refuse to? do you change completely because of it?#and ofc it's teen wolf so everything always comes in threes #I have a lot of issues with the writing but the use of death (barring 6b) is not one of them. they really went hard on meaningful death.#also consider: lori holding brett's hand so he doesn't die alone and theo responding to tracy kissing him by killing her as she does #teen wolf writers went is anyone going to bastardize the original narrative to ponder new ideas about it and didn't wait for an answer #also women's deaths are always about love/for a man (thanks hollywood) but goddamn if they don't kill their women wisely #and the thing is they are all running. they're running from death and what does it get them? it gets them here.#derek wants to turn paige so she'll live forever. scott wants allison to live happily even with someone else. liam wants to save hayden.#none of them consider that cheating death will catch up to them until they run right into its arms #and all three die because of getting involved with the supernatural. all of them would presumably not have died otherwise.#coming of age into a world that takes and hurts and destroys and where you are now old enough for people around you to die.#this is not a show about werewolves.#teen wolf #twedit #teenwolfedit #my edit #derek hale #paige krasikeva #scott mccall #allison argent #liam dunbar

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wuzhiqi-enj0yer · 4 months

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where mighty the armadillo x reader fic

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thatrandomlemononyourcounter1 · 1 month

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eyyyy so like I know I'm working on the kotlc rewrite (sorry I didn't release a chapter today, editing sucks /hj) but like I'm also working on an original story and like...if anyone wants to hear more details about it, I'll gladly share :D

#in all reality I'm just really proud of this story so far #plot who?#but the characters are *chefs kiss*#got one chapter that makes me want to sob with how much I like it #it's fantasy so if you like that lol #fantasy #writing #writblr #writers on tumblr

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delulu-4-lewlew · 1 year

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I hate to be that bitch, but there was no form of gratification in that Titans finale.

We know they’re endgame, we’ve seen M’ari, but they’re acting so shy shy about getting into a relationship. These people shagged. TWICE! Yet they wanna act like we forgot that. They’ve been mum and dad from day one and collecting to their litter along the way.

They’ve been skirting around the inevitable for so long that this doesn’t even feel natural. And I know it was rushed due to the fact that they show was cancelled.

The burn was so slow that it stopped and was only picked up to finish the plot point. It didn’t even seem to pick up after they both met their child.

And I know that the only reason I feel this way because of the best episode that they’ve ever dropped “Dick & Karol & Ted & Kory”. That episode was crack. co. caine. Everything about that episode was suburb and nothing else has even attempted to come close.

I have so much more to say but it’s so hard to put into words the somewhat anger I feel right now

#titans #titans dc #dc titans #maybe the writers strike affected the show at some point down the line #but this felt weak #I also don’t like the way they made a sweaty Dick (character) kiss Kory like that #like ew #I felt like I wanted an hour of my time #kory anders #dick grayson #dickkory

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demadogs · 2 years

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can you share your first kiss vision

GLADLY!!! also this is more just a fun concept to think about than a genuine prediction. this got kinda fanficy ngl.

so i envision it mid s5 pretty well into whatever danger will is in and mike and el are completely broken up. in this scenario its more of a thing like max where hes still himself just in danger of being tranced or something like that rather than s2 when he was possessed. (tho i dont think his danger will be the same as max’s. i think he has a deeper connection to vecna that will lead to a completely different kinda danger than what max was in.) anyways, the gang is all together and will is always being monitored whenever hes not in immediate danger just in case, similar to max. like 24/7 even when they sleep.

usually jonathan has this role but something else requires his attention so mike volunteers to keep an eye on will one night. they share a bed bc this is my vision and i make the rules and of course im only giving them one bed. as theyre getting ready to sleep mike seems visibly anxious and will asks whats wrong and mike just tells him that hes scared for him. i imagine this is the night before some big plan to defeat everything and mikes scared it wont work.

ive had this vision in my head for a while of them both in a quiet bedroom at night sitting on a bed and mikes talking about how ever since he went missing hes had such a fear of losing will for good and mikes silently crying. mike tells him “i saw your body. did anybody ever tell you that? when they lifted the fake body out of the water at the query, i was there. we were all there.” will didnt know this. mike tells him that the party rarely talks about all the upside down stuff when theres no danger present but they all have ptsd and nightmares. he tells him that their nightmares are about demogorgans and demodogs or the mindflayer or being shot at but mikes… mikes nightmares are just reliving the moment they lifted wills body out of the water.

mike tells him how the day he thought he was dead was the worst day of his life and how when he got him back he never wanted to let him go but then when the mindflayer got him he was so terrified of losing him again and he just has this terribly feeling that this time hes gonna be taken from him for good.

theyre both crying and will hugs mike super tight. a REAL HUG WITH EMOTION AND TEARS!!!! mike tells him “i cant lose you” and will says “im not going anywhere”.

eventually mike pulls away from the hug a bit but is still holding him. he rests his forehead on wills and stays there. will brings his hands up to his face and wipes his tears with his thumbs and leaves his hands there. mikes looking at his lips and its obvious that hes thinking about kissing him but hes not doing it because hes scared of risking their friendship and losing will in a different way.

then i love the idea of will knowing that mike wants to kiss him and he just nods and whispers “do it” and then mike kisses him.

mike pulls away but still leaves his face really close to his and hes kinda mentally freaking out and we can tell but will just smiles so big cuz hes so fricken happy and that instantly calms mike down and he kisses him again.

isnt my imagination great. someone send this to the duffers.

if someone wants to write this into an actual fic go nuts but plz tag me in it and credit me in the notes on ao3.

#i have like three other byler first kiss concepts in my head too lmao #i love this one tho #i have so many concepts like these of every show and every book ive ever read to the point where i genuinely didnt realize that most people-#daydream about themselves in a scenario with someone they like or something they want #couldnt be me my brain is full of fictional characters and nothing else #sometimes i even mix book universes and make an entire new story and new characters #like not a crossover a completely new character by taking traits of like 6 other book characters and giving then all to one #but im not a writer so ill never do anything with it #but i can outline the entire thing and give it to someone else to write #id be nothing without fiction #stranger things #byler #eden answers

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constantvariations · 1 year

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This might just be my aversion to this in media, but I absolutely hate that the bees jumped straight into "I love you"

Writers have been using it as a crutch probably since written language was invented. Two characters get jammed together by the plot for a decent length of time so Of CoUrSe they're in love!!

Instead of showing us these characters are in love, or in the process of falling, they tell us. Which is bad, lazy writing

You can compare it to any number of well-written romances, but my go-to is Rick and Evie from The Mummy 1999 because (outside of the forced kiss) it is a perfect depiction of strangers to lovers

Physical attraction is reinforced through the acting and camera framing (most notably after Rick cleans up and when Evie gets new clothes), but the dynamic shift is where the real meat is

Originally a business transaction of "I saved your life so lead me to this impossible place" and thoughtless words getting on each other's nerves, these two casually save each other's lives, look after the other's well-being, teach each other their fields of expertise (adeptly using that knowledge in the sequel to show that time has passed), give gifts with adorable awkwardness, and argue like an old married couple

There are so many instances where you see them growing closer and closer together that you wouldn't be able to fit them all in a single gifset. And not a single I love you

But the bees? Sure, there's flirts and trauma bonding, but there's no real substance to any of it. There is not a single real conversation between them. They can't even list real qualities they like about the other when held at metaphorical gunpoint!

Which is why the "I love you" is so annoying. These two are still testing the waters about the other's feelings, there is no fucking way they should be jumping straight into established domesticity

I'm glad that it was made canon, but it is entirely unearned in terms of dynamic development

#rwde #thinking abt the bees again bc i just wrote my characters confessing and first kiss #its a personal rule of mine to never use ilu romantically in stories bc it forces me to actually think abt the relationships unique shape #every relationship is its own language and you need to be fluent in every single one if you want to be a good writer #and yes some relationships can start off at ilu but it doesnt fit w the two characters w abandonment/abuse issues #even for untraumatized folk the ilu is a milestone in a relationship. it was a whole plot point in transformers 2 #for an even better example of shown not told romance look at the beginning of Up #thats a whole damn story w no dialogue #the bees truly cannot compare #do they even know if the other has food allergies?#hope they don't have to have that conversation at gunpoint as well

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hecksupremechips · 11 days

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Persona romance routes are all pretty bad but damn they really hit rock bottom with p3p femc route like the misogyny is very blatant and it’s almost hilarious like look at the Shinjiro romance. When you do his social link he’s like very clearly respectful of Kotone as a leader and explicitly says stuff like "oh yeah you’re clearly the best fighter we have, I don’t really know much about fighting like you do, I hope I’m not dragging you down, you’re doing a good job as leader just remember to take care of yourself, everyone looks up to you I know you can rely on them" etc. like he has faith in her leading abilities. But then when you romance him he’s like got dialogue like "bwah bluh i gotta look after you because you’re a GIRL and you need to stick by me, a big strong MAN so you don’t get hurt" and "don’t wear that revealing outfit in front of other guys 👺" and it’s like. Does he respect her or not and also like it doesn’t make sense for him to look down on her for being a girl cuz he literally has never not been led by a girl leader during his time in sees and Mitsuru in particular really has her shit together when it comes to being responsible and a good fighter and she’s always known the most about Tartarus

It’s also like. Idk maybe its just me I’m not a girl so FUCK IF I KNOW but to me the appeal of romancing Shinji is the fact that he’s sweet and sensitive and gentle and has respect for you despite the fact that he acts all scary. That’s like, what made me like this character in the first place. But the writers seem to think what women want is for a BIG STRONG MAN to protect them because they are just DELICATE WOMEN who are inferior in every way it’s like. Shut upppp thanks

#persona #persona 3 #shinjiro aragaki #this is soooooooo obviously not the only romance route that sucks in this game yall know which one im referring to 🤨#and i actually tend to think of the shinji romance as the best one in the series cuz at least his confession scene is the only unique one #that really highlights who he is as a character and goes with the story #but ughh just idk its so annoying how the writers cant decide if hes sexist or not its really weird and its like #really shows how poorly the writers think of women playing their game its like all the romance options are trash and then your boyfriend is #sexist to you and its so clearly done in a way thats supposed to be romantic which is. ew #like idk if my partner was like talking about how i need to stay close to them because im a weak girl and they are strong man #especially when im literally the leader of the team and have been doing perfectly fine thus far and am clearly the strongest here #id simply run him over with a bulldozer #and its like this will all the guys in this game its like girl shut up and eat glass #meanwhile when youre a male protagonist your gf will kiss your ass to the point its infuriating #and their character arcs can never be too grand cuz then they might not wanna fuck you if they realize they have worth #uh sorry my brain is all over the place basically i hate persona romances lol and i hate how they wrote shinji in his #like dammit i dont want him cuz hes gonna protect me like a man i want him cuz he isnt great at fighting and prefers cooking and puppy dogs #and has respect for me and trusts my judgement and asks me to talk about my life and interests and smiles sweetly #but god forbid a woman in this series be respected i guess

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joblessquinoa · 2 years

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Can’t stop thinking about how at the beginning of ep12, Suyeon was able to clearly articulate why the company policy was sexist based on patriarchal social context, but we still had to watch the Hanbada team defend the company and its policy (which we find out later that Hanbada had a hand in creating!!) for an entire episode and win the case. It’s so frustrating to watch because that’s exactly what the writers were setting us up for with that opening scene

#i want to give the writers a kiss on the head for that #the writers are holding us up by the scruffs of our necks and going don't you think this fucked up!?#and Attorney Ryu's character was chef's kiss #as much as i like Jung Myeong seok the man is still part of the status quo #when he was saying that it's not an attorney's job to pass moral judgement and that's what the judge is for blah blah #and then we see the judge rule in favor of the company like fndjksgdsj #cool #well attorney ryu's character was so refreshing because she was loud about her personal stance on issues #and she didn't let the possibility of losing deter her from standing up for what she believed in #and at this point the show is asking us who we would rather root for #and i think the answer is obvious there #extraordinary attorney woo #eaw

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cherryhrat · 1 year

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Im ashamed to say im back on my naruto shit

Hes my son your honor, hes just a little guy

Id die for him

#naruto #help i cant believe im about the hyper fixate on naruto for the 4th time #watching the first show reminds me of everything wrong with boruto especially art and animation wise #god I fucking hate boruto #anyways naruto so silly i love him so much #thinking about team 7 found family....#thinking about if sakura was well written...#so much potential.. wasted :c #I hc that shes actually not a boy crazy idiot and simply has a crush like a normal person and that she ACTUALLY HAS MUSCLES BC YA KNOW #HER WHOLE FUCKING THING IS STRENGTH CHARACTER DESIGNERS WERE YOU HIGH????#and I hc that she was actually used well in fight scenes like the one against puppet guy and she didn't cry for naruto to solve everything #and that she didnt fuck with his feelings in that one episode when she 'confessed' to get him to go home #and that sasuke wasnt a lame piece of edgy shit and was a better written antagonist #and that naruto didnt have an absolutely unhealthy obsession with him #sorry but people who ship naruto and sasuke are gross #its already abusive and unhealthy as all get out and now you want to add r o m a n c e???#im sure narutos crush on sakura got weird too #oh yeah like when he transformed into sasuke to trick her into kissing him #naruto writers be normal about romance for once please #shikamaru and temari and naruto and hinata were pretty good #idk personally I ship naruto and gaara and naruto and shikamaru #oops im rambling in the tags what can I say I fucking love naruto and have a lot of opinions on it

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semercury · 8 months

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Decided to be irresponsible and play game anyway. I did get my s+ 😎

#stuff sarah says #😎 <- is also a certain someone saying BILLIONS #fucking idiot. i love him for that as a character #anyway this game makes me ache in the best way possible and i love it so much #also btw this was on standard. so i now have s+ on standard and assisted #i still say assisted s+ is hard bc you have to do it in four hours! just four!!!!!#i thiiink i have every non hardcore/professional achievment/challenge done too #so i just gotta play the harder modes #im debatjng on if i want to stream hardcore or professional #depends on if i want the death counter to be super high or not #anyway. im kissing the writers of this game on the mouth. they did such a good job

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