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AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Round 4
Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death) vs Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù)
Blackbeard/Stede
Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.
AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Round 4
Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto (Naruto) vs Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Sasuke/Naruto
Merlin/Arthur
This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.
Could you draw a solo “underrated” character like, for example, Haku, Fuu, Karui, C, Genma, Dan, Mabui, Utakata, Yugito, Guren, that one female character that kinda looks like Genma, etc. kinda got carried away. U don’t have to do everyone of course
I always try to go with the first name on a list, and in this case, that was Haku 🖤
Lol, so I discovered that I apparently drew myself as a naruto-ninja when I was younger (???), so I wanted to try resketching it. I tried to keep most of the initial elements. I really liked moons and stars apparently lol.
Kimimaro really is the pinacle of evil minions. Hot for no good reason. Hypercompetent. Thoroughly brainwashed. On the brink of death and not tipping over by sheer force of will. Ardently devoted. Confident enough that he'll respectfully wait for his enemy to take his medicine. Just perfect. I want to tenderly kiss his temple and write him 10k of pure suffering.
Naruto (as a series, not the manga) gets a lot of flak for the time when it's animation is bad. That's fair (and I've joined in on the fun) because sometimes the animation WAS complete shit, but when the animation was good it was REALLY good, especially when it comes to fight choreography. The way the animators incorporated real martial arts techniques into the fights they expanded on when adapting the manga to the anime and how they would pay tribute to fight scenes from other media that they liked: pure fire!
For example, let's talk real martial arts. A lot of the characters in Naruto have fighting styles that consist of elements from different disciplines. From boxing to taekwondo to muy thai to capoeira to wing chun, there are a lot of instances of real techniques being used. And the thing that really makes me geek out is when the characters use the right form when executing a move! The attention to detail is so fucking incredible!
For example, here's Sakura throwing a overhead hook and fucking NAILING IT:
I mean, goddamn! The punch starts in her legs LIKE IT'S SUPPOSED TO (that's why she has her feet planted firmly on the ground and lunges slightly while swiveling her hips) and she twists her body to where it's facing outward. This adds so much force to the punch because it's proper boxing form! See below:
Then there's shit like this, where Sasuke is just out here throwing those perfect Muay Thai kicks:
This is the proper form for a Muay Thai kick. He's kicking with his shin, not his foot. He's using the momentum from his arms. It makes the kick more powerful. I LOVE IT. Real life execution for reference:
And, even though I HATE Boruto, I still have to acknowledge that the animators went all out in this same way in episode 65, and it was good. Here's what looks to me to be a heavily Wing Chun inspired part of the fight where Naruto is straight refusing to catch those hands:
His form is narrow, he keeps his elbows tucked close to his sides, he's blocking with his feet and using low kicks. Here it is in physical practice:
I MEAN, not to be such a nerd, but I've started rewatching Naruto recently and I've noticed so much more of this than I ever did before and it gets me so hype. This kind of attention to detail makes you feel like the character actually knows what they're doing; that they ARE a fighter, that they worked hard to be one! It helps immerse you in the universe. So much anime, and even a lot of live action media, focuses only on close-ups, fast cuts, or just unfocused, crazy strong punching, flashy, energy-based moves, or unrealistic weapons. Naruto is guilty of that sometimes, too, but it also gave us so many incredibly well-animated fights using real techniques. And there are so many great details if you watch these scenes closely enough to notice.
Things like at the end of this clip, when Sasuke fakes a punch so that Naruto focuses on blocking and allows himself to be kicked:
And the hand to hand combat between Kakashi and Obito (when he kicks the kunai into his face!!!):
Or the weapon fighting between Itachi and Sasuke (complete with rad sword block!):
As for how awesome it is to see tributes to fights from other media reproduced by the animators of Naruto: they're some of the most fun Easter eggs to find. They've included fight choreography from Cowboy Bebop and Captain America: Winter Soldier for instance (wish I could include these here, but for some reason Tumblr won't let me).
The animated fights in Naruto are so well-known for how good they are that other shows have paid tribute to them as well! Like when The Boondocks paid tribute to the Orochimaru vs Sasuke fight in the Forest of Death:
Anyway, to sum up, even though Naruto has it's failings, I'm absolutely convinced that no other anime has better or more realistic fight scenes than it does. And in this house we stan.
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[Image description: four photos or screenshots of the Ever Given with lyrics from “No Children” as top and bottom text.
The ship is stuck: “I am drowning.”
The small backhoe attempts to dig the ship out: “There is no sign of land.”
A screenshot of the Ever Given stuck on a shipping map: “You are coming down with me.”
The same screenshot, zoomed out to show the many other ships trying to get through the canal: “Hand in unlovable hand.”
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In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that’s true, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.
- Karl Marx
YOU TRY TO HIDE BUT I SEE YAAAAA NO THEY CANT FUCK WITH THE UCHIHAAAAA HIDE YOUR DAUGHTERS HIDE YOUR SOOOONS ‘FOR THEY GET TOUCHED BY THE SHARINGAAAAAN SOMEBODY’S POPPIN PIIIIILLS THROW ME A LOOK AND SHE GONNA GET KIIIIIILLED YALL MOTHERFUCKERS WANNA PLAY MY GAAAAAME YALL BETTER LEARN TO SAY MY NAAAAAME
haku is so good i miss him
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The noise rap group clipping. put out a fantastic horror-themed album called Visions of Bodies Being Burned - it’s pretty long, so check out the title track, “she bad”, and “pain everyday” if you want a sampler
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The air seems a little clearer as well, less thick with resentful energy. The change has been too gradual to take note of, but it’s obvious now that he pays attention to it. That’s his doing, but it’s the spirits’, too. They’d clutched onto him immediately, the living thing he was (is? Is, he thinks), seeking to fill him up with themselves, core him out so there was more room for all that rage.
Luckily for everyone, he already had a hollow place inside him, ready-made.
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Wei Wuxian’s first night out of the Burial Mounds.
Something I find very interesting is that new Naruto fans are almost always–in my experience–way more sympathetic to Sasuke than long-time fans.
They’re always like “why does everyone give Sasuke so much shit……Everyone complains about him, so I expected to hate him. He’s been through a lot, and I can sympathize.”
And I’m like listen, I understand your side completely, but hear me out………
Assume for a minute that “first-wave” American fans in it for the long haul got into Naruto via the English premier in 2005. Next, assume that, eventually, despite episodes being in three parts on youtube, most of us switched to the subs to watch ahead.
In this scenario, by the the time the “Sasuke Totally Stabs Karin” episode aired in Japanese, it was 2011, and we’d been putting up with Sasuke’s downward spiral for six years.
Meanwhile, y’all who came in around 2014 got to watch Sasuke at his absolute worst while your memories of him as a brave, innocent, protective & well-meaning twelve-year-old were only a few months old at most in your memory.
Whereas any context we had in which Sasuke was on anything close to the right path was five or six years behind us, and he had a looooong way to go to find his way back.
Like DON”T GET ME WRONG this isn’t an elitist post about when you started watching Naruto. I love new fans, and I GENUINELY find this funny and interesting to observe.
I also love Sasuke, and I’m stuck with these disaster boys until the very end.
All I’m saying (while laughing) is, the next time you wonder why a fan from 2005 berates Sasuke so much,
understand,
We were Tired.
