Itās always Sasuke who is portrayed as the one who makes mistakes with Naruto and has to redeem himself to prove heās worthy of Naruto. Itās always Sasuke who has to reflect, admit his faults, and apologize. Itās always Sasuke who has to reach out, chase after Naruto, and make the effort to repair their bond.
Itās always Sasuke who gets lectured by others about how great Naruto is, how much Naruto suffered, and how much Naruto sacrificed.
Itās always Sasuke who is expected to make the first move and prove his love for Naruto, while Narutoās efforts are often things weāre only told about off-screen rather than shown.
Itās always Sasuke who is framed as the one who loves Naruto more, who is more attached, and who is more obsessed with their bond.
Itās never Naruto being held accountable for mistakes he makes in their relationship or being the one who has to reflect and change. The responsibility for fixing their relationship always seems to fall on Sasuke.
This rant isnāt mine, I only copied and pasted it because I wanted you to see the kind of crazy things some people are saying.
I genuinely love your fics so much. The way you write is amazing, itās painful, emotional, and completely addictive in the best way possible. I always find myself wanting to read more because you know how to capture the charactersā struggles and emotions so well.
I especially love your portrayal of Sasuke. You donāt try to make him perfect or erase his flaws, you write him as a complex, broken, and imperfect human being. Thatās what makes him feel real, and itās exactly why he has been my favorite character for so long. Characters donāt have to be flawless to be loved...sometimes their mistakes, pain, and growth are what make them the most interesting and that's why i love reading your characters sm.
Please donāt let the negativity from some people discourage you, if someone wants a story written a certain way, they can fuck off and create it themselves instead of attacking someone elseās work.
Keep writing the stories you want to tell. There are people who truly appreciate your work, your creativity, and the emotions you put into every chapter. Your fics are so loved, and I hope you continue sharing them with usššš«
Thank you so much for this messageāand for the kindness of sending it. I really do appreciate it, especially given the context.
I suspect, from the writing style and the recurring phrasing, that the "rant" you've copied is not actually from multiple people but from one person who has been sending variations of the same argument for some time now. The "it's always Sasuke" refrain, the claim that Naruto is never held accountable, the insistence that the story only ever shows Sasuke in the wrongāit's a single, persistent voice that keeps returning, not a chorus. And I think it's worth naming that, because it's easy for an author to feel like they're being besieged from all sides when it's really just one very motivated person with too much time on their hands.
As for the substance of the rant: the claim that "it's always Sasuke" and "never Naruto" is simply untrue, both within A Lapse in Judgement and across my body of work. His flaws are present in the text, dramatised rather than moralised, and the fact that some readers don't see them because they're not delivered with a neon sign is a reading issue.
And the rant is, once again, based on a tiny sample of my work. I've written twenty-one stories. The person sending this rant has either not read those stories, or has chosen to ignore them because they don't fit the "bias" accusation they've decided to make. Either way, their argument collapses because itās selective.
Your point about Sasuke is right. Characters don't have to be flawless to be loved. Their mistakes, their pain, the slow, difficult growthāmakes them feel real. I write Sasuke as a complex, broken, imperfect human being because that's what he is, in canon and in my head. Itās also of your own free will that you continue to read the works where I express him as such. The idea that portraying him that way is a betrayal of his character is bizarre to me. I just donāt want to flatten him into something less interesting.
Thank you again for this. Messages like yours make the whole endeavour worthwhile. šš« please have a faboulous gif of James!
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