more, more, more

being kind is sexy actually

[booksandmore]

man if only sakura was as mean as people say she is. like damn! she really should’ve! but unfortunately not

[catgriller]

[sunbutch]

if you call women “females” i automatically do not trust or like you

[cryptic-crassulaceae]

you really wont like the military then buddy

[sunbutch]

jokes on you, i already hate the military

[eseninkit-blog]

[booksandmore]

so is naruto’s sexy jutsu intentionally a reference to how in japanese folklore kitsune’s are often depicted as taking on a female form/possessing women in order to trick men or is it just like. another instance of misogyny in the show

[dontbelasagnax]

*taps mic* AHEM. it's only old man yaoi if they get the senior discount at the grocery store. thank you for your time.

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[booksandmore]

and by the way sasuke and naruto are inverses of each other in the sense that if sasuke is the golden boy, the genius, the top of his class and the ideal of what a shinobi is, then naruto must be the outcast, the dead last, the prankster, the monster parents tell their children to keep away from. and likewise, if naruto is the hero of konoha, the one people accept as the future hokage, and one of the most powerful and popular shinobi of the leaf, then sasuke is the traitor, the enemy, the one who swore to destroy them.

[iszapizza]

naruto doodles!

[drfish0-0]

something softer....

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[redstonedust]

idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[booksandmore]

the thing about sakura and hinata and so many female charachters is that them being motivated by sasuke and naruto would’ve been fine and dandy if sasuke and naruto were equally as motivated by them, but they’re just not. sasuke and naruto work as well as they do because they’re fundamentally equals who want to surpass e/o and compete with e/o, so there’s a certain level of reciprocacy between them that doesn’t exist with anyone else and creates this imbalance. even if you say that canonically sasuke loved and married sakura, and same with naruto and hinata, neither of them are challenged by them. they’re not regarded are equals. and anyway, their love wasn’t the only thing they wanted - sakura wanted to protect naruto and sasuke. hinata wanted to be recognized for her strength. but do they ever?

[booksandmore]

it does confuse me a little when people say jet and hama’s writing villainizes freedom fighters when the entire story follows the aang and his ragtag group of revolutionaries? fighting against their oppressors, the fire nation, who are very much portrayed as the enemy?? they say jet and hama are the only ones willing to fight against oppression, and i get what their going for but like. what do you think the gaang is doing, exactly? bato and the water tribes and the earth kingdom? who are actively resisting??

[guelwaar]

people love the idea of the mean girl nurse pipeline because it problematises medical abuse as a personal perversion rather than understanding it as a product of broadly held ableist values and its like, if this was only about ontologically evil teenage girls choosing to enter a profession because of their unique sadism then you really wouldnt expect to see the exact same forms of abuse pervading all arrangements of paid, unpaid, formal, ad hoc, and familial caretaking as well -- its more comforting to believe the nurse was just a preexisting bad person than that most of the world broadly hates disabled people and will abuse, neglect, and gaslight them if given power over their care

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.