Dartin

Just a place to vent

[dartin333]

Every time I remember Sasuke screaming “Iikagen otonashiku kirareyagare!". At the valley of the end, I feel it reverberating inside my soul 😩. Like it haunts me sometimes.

The VA did such a great job, but this is very silly. WHY DO I FEEL THIS EMOTIONAL OVER A FICTIONAL CHARACTER 😩

And why is something telling Sasuke could’ve really killed Naruto if he wanted to? His heart wasn’t fully in it

[alwayssasuke]

I remember watching Naruto for the first time and seeing Sasuke’s story and thinking “This is the guy who we’re supposed to make fun of for being overly dramatic and edgy? This is the guy who’s supposed to annoy me to the point of hatred???” It just COULDN’T register to me that masses of people globally could see Sasuke’s trauma and pain and actually perceive it in such a way. More than angering- which it very much is- it’s jarring.

[tobiwonkenobi]

truly is baffling. where did the whiny even come from? crybaby? hell, i wish he was allowed to cry more. who looks at a boy who was forced to watch his entire family get slaughtered by his brother and go “lol edgelord”. like seriously. whats the difference between him and gaara? why is gaara cool and valid and sad but sasuke is emo and edgy? whats with these double standards.

[theuchihalawyer]

"real sasuke fans are happy that he got a family and is loved, not say he's a loner" yeah, right, real sasuke fans wanted him to get justice for his clan that was massacred because of the military xenophobic system that he's stuck in now, real sasuke fans wanted him to achieve revolution against Konoha's dictatorship and flawed system that now has completely erased the Uchiha clan's story from the village where they were mass murdered, dimishing Konoha's gruesome actions towards them in a rock outside the village as some kind of unimportant anecdote, real sasuke fans wanted him to stay away from Sakura, Naruto and Kakashi that misunderstood him and demonized him all the time, and reduced him to their own selfish desires and idealizations, and wanted him to go back to the village that dismissed his clan's protests against the xenophobia they suffered through decades and wanted sasuke dead as well, denied them from reaching political power, and ultimately killed them off unfairly, real sasuke fans aren't content with the atrocity of the ending they gave to sasuke, that now is stuck on the fascist regime that killed his whole family and tried to kill him too.

[sasusakunumber1lover]

Sasuke Uchiha’s trauma is noticed yet so overlooked, especially because its cumulative nature is often reduced to isolated tragedies instead of understood as a lifelong pattern of genocide, coercion, violation, emotional rupture, and dispossession. His trauma is not defined by one singular wound but by repeated experiences of having something fundamental taken from him over and over again. Nearly every stage of his life is marked by the destruction of stability, belonging, trust, bodily autonomy, or identity, creating a psyche shaped less by recovery and more by continuous survival under escalating forms of loss and manipulation.

What makes this especially significant is that Sasuke was not simply a child who lost his parents. He was the survivor of an annihilated people. The Uchiha Clan was not a secondary aspect of his life or merely a collection of relatives; it was his entire social world, culture, identity, and understanding of community. Sasuke’s home was not the abstract military state of Konoha but the Uchiha district itself, a segregated and politically marginalized community where he was raised among fellow clan members, relatives, elders, neighbors, role models, and other Uchiha children. His first understanding of family, belonging, tradition, and identity came from the people living there. The Uchiha were his community, his culture, and his sense of self.

That is why reducing the massacre to “he lost his parents” fundamentally misses the scale of what was taken from him. Overnight, every familiar face, every connection to his heritage, every elder, every friend, every neighbor, and every structure that gave shape to his world disappeared. The massacre erased not only his family but his entire lived experience of society. The Uchiha district was the center of his world, and in a single night it became a graveyard.

The trauma is intensified further because Sasuke was never removed from the site of that destruction. He remained in the same compound after the genocide, surrounded by empty homes, empty streets, and constant reminders of everyone who was gone. Every room, wall, and familiar place became permanently connected to loss. The place that once symbolized safety, belonging, and identity transformed into an environment haunted by absence and death.

The person responsible was not a foreign enemy but his own brother, the person he loved and admired most. Itachi was not simply someone Sasuke cared about; he was the emotional center of his childhood, the figure around whom much of his admiration, identity, and sense of direction revolved. The shift from love and admiration to devastation created a psychological rupture that never fully healed. Worse still, Itachi repeatedly forced Sasuke to relive the massacre through Tsukuyomi, trapping him inside the worst moment of his life again and again. His grief was not allowed to exist naturally or process over time. It was continuously reopened, redirected, and weaponized.

From childhood onward, Sasuke’s development becomes shaped by repeated violations of autonomy. Institutions, family systems, and powerful individuals continually act upon his body, emotions, and future as though they are resources to be controlled rather than aspects of a person capable of self-determination. The Uchiha massacre itself represents the first major demonstration of this reality. The village leadership treated an entire clan as expendable for the sake of state stability, leaving Sasuke alive inside a system that authorized the extermination of his people. His life, future, and identity were overwritten by decisions made entirely without his consent.

That foundational loss is then reinforced through Itachi’s manipulation of his emotional development. Sasuke’s grief, survival, and purpose become psychologically engineered toward revenge. Rather than being allowed space to mourn, heal, or reconstruct himself organically, his suffering is redirected into a predetermined ideological path. His emotional world is structured externally long before he has the ability to define it for himself.

This pattern intensifies through Orochimaru and the curse mark. The curse mark is not simply a source of power but a forced bodily intrusion that permanently alters Sasuke and establishes an ongoing invasive connection to its creator. It acts upon him regardless of his desires, conditioning pain, transformation, influence, surveillance, and continued access to his body. Orochimaru’s ability to manifest through the mark and later emerge from Sasuke reinforces themes of invasive possession and compromised bodily autonomy. The violation does not end with the initial encounter because the intrusion itself remains embedded within him.

As Sasuke grows older, he increasingly becomes treated as an object of value rather than a person allowed to define himself independently. His bloodline, abilities, appearance, and potential attract obsession, projection, manipulation, and competition from others. Orochimaru seeks to possess him, organizations pursue him as a strategic asset, institutions attempt to control him, and numerous individuals project their desires and expectations onto him. Again and again, people decide what Sasuke should feel, who he should become, and what role he should fulfill while his own wishes become secondary to external agendas.

Even interpersonal relationships often reinforce distorted boundaries around his autonomy. Karin repeatedly disregards Sasuke’s personal boundaries through obsessive behavior that centers her own desires over his comfort or consent. Her fixation includes preserving his belongings without his knowledge and sexualizing moments where he is physically vulnerable. Even when framed comedically, these moments still reflect a recurring pattern in Sasuke’s life where other people prioritize their own emotional or physical desires over his boundaries. Similarly, comments from adults such as Mei Terumi reduce him to an aesthetic object even in moments where violence against him is simultaneously being discussed, reinforcing how frequently others evaluate him according to usefulness, symbolism, attractiveness, or strategic value rather than recognizing him as a traumatized individual.

At the systemic level, the shinobi world itself repeatedly collapses the distinction between person and instrument. Children are militarized before they can form stable identities, bodies are conditioned for combat, and value is measured through utility to larger institutions. Sasuke’s life exists within a system where autonomy is continually negotiated away under the language of duty, survival, revenge, loyalty, training, and power. His body, future, and emotional responses are repeatedly redirected by forces larger than himself, making selfhood something he must constantly fight to reclaim rather than something naturally protected.

This produces a deep internal tension between attachment and rupture. Even when Sasuke forms meaningful bonds later in life, those bonds are filtered through the expectation of loss, betrayal, or destruction. Connection becomes psychologically unstable because every major attachment in his life has either been violently removed, manipulated, or weaponized against him. His isolation therefore functions not simply as preference but as a learned response to repeated emotional collapse. Closeness is simultaneously desired and feared because intimacy itself has become associated with vulnerability to devastation.

At the same time, Sasuke is rarely given space to emotionally process his grief outside of survival and performance. There is no consistent environment where his suffering can be witnessed, held, and integrated without pressure toward endurance, strength, or usefulness. Instead, emotional expression becomes subordinated to functionality, reinforcing suppression and disconnection between feeling and action. His coping mechanisms increasingly narrow his world to singular goals because focus becomes easier to manage than emotional complexity.

Over time, these repeated violations accumulate into a fragmented sense of self where internal desire and external programming become increasingly difficult to separate. Genocide, isolation, psychological torture, institutional betrayal, bodily intrusion, manipulation, objectification, obsessive attention, and continual coercion do not exist as isolated wounds but as interconnected layers of trauma constantly reinforcing one another. Each loss compounds the previous one rather than replacing it.

Ultimately, the defining tension of Sasuke’s character is not merely revenge or redemption but the struggle to reclaim ownership over himself after years of having his identity shaped, manipulated, violated, and appropriated by individuals, institutions, and systems of power. His story is the story of someone repeatedly denied autonomy over his body, emotions, future, and sense of belonging, while continually trying to reconstruct a self that exists outside the control of everyone who attempted to define him from the outside.

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[eyesthatreflectheheart]

You Can’t Say “Uchiha Massacre”was Wrong and Defend Itachi At The Same Time

just read some itachi fans posts and it’s so obvious they’re a bootlicker like him.

You guys need to stop defending him, his actions are inexcusable. You can love a character without excusing the things he did; knowing his past and understanding how he thinks or feels doesn’t absolve him.

Because I’ve seen too many times the same fans say that Uchiha genocide is “wrong” and “inexcusable” yet immediately try to absolve Itachi of his part in it (Shisui too) and the way all of you convinced yourselves that Uchiha shouldn’t have a coup or it will lead to war etc. nonsense and it is realistically false. Soft coups or coups that had minimal casualties does happen in real life, Konoha has been through worse situations domestically before and after the “massacre” yet none of the hidden villages attacked them.

Just because Itachi and Shisui believes this narrative doesn’t mean it’s the truth.

This post by Persephone @persephone-falling-into-darkness Why didn't the Uchiha seek diplomatic dialogue? explains everything so well.

Uchiha genocide had nothing to do with preventing a civil war, It’s a cop out.

[dushman-e-jaan]

Can people stop spreading their Fanon that Sasuke didn't live in his family home even after the Massacre?

It's so fucking irritating at this point as it's entirely made up. How? We were shown Sasuke's room from different angles during the flashback chapters; and here's what his room looked like (top-down view):

Look at the table on the panel's left (Sasuke's right); it's extremely important. See the table's structure? The lamp, its size and shape? Good, now, we get the look of the book-case that's to the panel's right (Sasuke's left):

Look at the case's height and structure and the books neatly arranged in it. Closely look at the closed curtains above it. These, by the way, are scans from the exact same chapter as they come one after the other. Now, in the next panel, nearly at the chapter's end, we see more of the room from a specific angle that matches the one during which Sasuke finally makes his decision to leave Konoha:

(Just in case if someone claims that I doctored the images, then these are from the Viz version, Chapter 223, pg. 2, 3, & 16.)

Look at the ceiling and the very smooth arc that makes it. The large lamp-like bulb and its wire that hangs down, and the position and type of the television and the table-like structure under it. A little on the right of the tv-set, which appears to be fairly old and basic, is some sort of frame on the wall; it isn't detailed as it isn't in the focus. Sasuke's bedpost is also of importance as it looks like a fancy sofa-cum-futon like structure.

Good, now, onto the panel that shows (nearly) his full room when he's about to leave Konoha; the perspectives are the same:

(Chapter 181, pg. 11.)

The same table-structure, lamp and its position, and bed's bedpost structure; the same book-case and arrangement of books, position of curtains that are simply drawn, and the tv and the table under it; the arc, bulb on the ceiling and its, what I'm assuming, switch that's hanging down, and the detailed frame that hangs exactly at the same place it was before; only now, it's detailed.

So the room in both these panels is exactly the same; the only thing different are two extra pillows and the rest of the room, which includes the balcony, that we couldn't see before. Here's the side by side comparison again:

The room's entire structure and the furnishing are literally the same. Not even a tiny item is out of place. So let me guess, Sasuke personally commissioned an apartment to be structurally a copy of his previous one and then decorated it to place all the items to be in the exact same position as before? Or the logical conclusion is that he was living in his family home this whole time? Does this even need to be said, given that these two chapters aren't that far apart, so Kishimoto wasn't even fuzzy on the details?

I gotta say, the lengths to which people go to minimize and belittle this character's trauma in any way they can is comically detestable. The only thing that these panels prove is that not only is Sasuke living in the compound all alone but he's also a very clean and responsible child who's able to keep his home, room, and its articles tidy and presentable on his own, without any assistance. The room is pretty much squeaky-clean. A facet of his personality that's consistent throughout the narrative: he likes to keep himself and his surroundings clean and tidy; and, as time went on, he didn't care for furnishing at all, almost as if that he left everything behind in the home he left. (Even in Chapter 305, we saw that Sasuke barely has anything in the room Orochimaru allotted him save a rudimentary bed; his room was almost entirely empty.)

Other details include the fact that he's got very little interest in watching tv as it looks fairly old and basic, barely used, and engaging in recreational games as you see nothing of the sort anywhere in the room, an unmissable detail that shows that how state-violence forces children, happy children, to grow up so fast; heck, he doesn't even have any toys (toys for slightly older children) when he's so young at the point he left Konoha, only 13; but he's a very curious and studious child who learns a lot via different books, scrolls, and other materials that make up an integral part of his room decor; no wonder Kishimoto used his perspective to offer political discourse on many aspects since Part 1. (So much for Sakura being a book-worm.) Another thing I noted is that there are three cup-like structures on the table by the sofa. Who are they for? Just items for hospitality if someone showed up unannounced or items of his departed family, trinkets of the past? It's hard to say, but, in both cases, it renders depth to the characterization without saying a single word.

All that aside, it's absurd how the crowd, "writing experts", that froth at the mouth ceaselessly over "show don't tell!" couldn't pick up these simple details but instead chose to make up an entirely different scenario to throw the narrative off-course and continue on their cheap agenda.

Funny, huh, that all this whooshed over your head; and, in its stead, you just made up fanon to dunk on him. What's there to be gained from being so rancidly petty all the fucking time that you hold such a deep grudge for a child character (who's minority-coded and a genocide and torture victim) that you can't help yourself from tearing down all narrative signs that showcase his misery, tragedy, and heartache? It just perfectly illustrates that you lot have no empathy for plight of children like Sasuke. (The fact that I'm seeing same talking points being used by many to put down children in Gaza just goes to show how these interpretative markers, which are politically charged, are simply reused over and over again in all aspects of life, art included) Absolutely pathetic!

[dartin333]

Ugh you guys….

Rant session. Even after all these years, Sasuke is still one of the saddest characters I’ve ever come across.

Legit breaks my heart into a thousand pieces. You cannot convince me that he’s a whiny , emo bitch.

Sometimes I wonder if me and other people were watching the same show? I’m gonna lay out some statements that’ll probably get me some strong hate, but I just can’t keep it inside of me any longer!

First of all lets start with Itachi. He is not a hero, he’s a psychopathic piece of shit.

Sasuke was letting go of his hate with team 7, an agenda which Itachi programmed into Sasuke when he was 7 or 8 years old mind you, then dear older brother had to reprogram it into him again at age 12 FOR NO FUCKING REASON! I will die on this hill!

If we can give courtesy and sympathize with Sumire, we can do the same for Sasuke.

Do I also need to remind you that Itachi made Sasuke relive the massacre for 72 hours a half million times?

That Naruto had to find Tsunade to get him out of that state? Do you realize he could’ve been trapped in that nightmare forever?

Itachi was also a nationalist who completely disregarded his clan’s systemic oppression and! Don’t give me this bullshit about Itachi doing it to protect Sasuke. So, he can slaughter his entire clan, but he can’t take his little brother and run?

And by the way the Uchiha chose not follow Madara and were framed for the Kyubi attack, which they wanted to help stop but were not allowed to by Danzo and were subsequently pushed to the outskirts of the village and put on 24/7 surveillance.

Even their coup was planned to be bloodless!

Sasuke was a happy kid! Itachi himself said his brother is a “white paper”. Like how manipulative can you be ?

We see this in Sasuke until this day unfortunately! And thats the most heartbreaking thing for and drives me absolutely mad!

People telling him he should never be forgiven, he took it on. He has never forgiven himself. I’m convinced he distanced himself from his family because he thinks he doesn’t deserve happiness.

Itachi and the previous Hokage told him the Uchiha is cursed, so now he’s going to let the clan die. He’s only had Sarada and isn’t planning to revive the clan.

He was told Itachi was a martyr , he took on Itachi’s identity in a pathetic servitude role for Konoha if you ask me.

Sasuke has been getting manipulated since he was 7 years old by Itachi, then later on Orochimaru, then Obito.

His only reason to crash the 5 kage summit was to kill Danzo, which resulted in the death of many Samurai, which he’d told to step aside if they wanted to live.

And by the when I saw all those Uchiha eyes on Dazno I lost my shit. I can only imagine what Sasuke was feeling.

Because was anyone going to give him justice? Fuck no. The Uchiha files remain sealed in Naruto’s era and the Uchiha are an afterthought and Konoha never took accountability for the tragedy.

He did come dangerously close to destroying Konoha, but stepped aside once he got those flimsy speeches from Itachi and the past Hokages.

I just think the writers pushed themselves into a corner. It was never convincing. A more realistic portrayal is Eren Yeager. As much as I love Sasuke, it would’ve made more sense if he died instead of this sad character washing.

Last thing, it absolutely unravels me how Sasuke almost never talks about his clan. I wish Naruto could encourage him to do so and remember them with love instead of the contempt that bled over from Itachi.

I don’t think people realize how broken Sasuke is.

He is like this robotic weapon that’s been gaslit to serve and forced itself to live only for that purpose in self punishment.

Itachi tried to use Shisui’s eye after his death to get Sasuke to become a ninja for the.

Itachi viewed Sasuke as a tool! Only for Sasuke to end up being one anyways by his own merit 💔

In 80% of the fics I read Sasuke is an arrogant shitty asshole just for the sake of it and Naruto is this person that can do no wrong, even though if you ask me, a true friend wouldn’t be as passive as Naruto is towards a tragedy like Sasuke’s. Trying to talk him into getting over what happened to please others at the expense of glossing over his friend’s pain.

My heart 💔

[dartin333]

Yooo

What is happening here 😭? What’s going on 😭?

[tora-the-cat]

It still drives me crazy that so many people kind of don't realize that sasuke is suicidal for basically all of Shippuden. Like people wonder why he would go 'crazy' and do things like crash the five kage summit or fight killer b and like. The answer is in his head he's been living on borrowed time since he somehow killed itachi without dying. And before that he thought he was living on borrowed time ever since itachi decided 'on a whim' to spare him. He's never seen his life as his own……and he's going to nuke every injustice he can about it until he dies trying……

[dartin333]

This 👏🏼

[dartin333]

Hey!

Looking for an illustrator for hire. I want a sketch for a fic I’m writing. It’s a Naruto modern figure skating AU.

Let reach out to me if you’re interested in this project :D

[msmazingham]

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[dartin333]

Omg , haha. What? I don’t know what I’m supposed to feel about this 🤣

[dartin333]

Why does it feel like the possibility that the audience might like Shane more than Ilya is really getting on Rachel Reid’s nerve?

[mojoscircus]

Y’all can show grace to the guy who sided with a bigoted asshole for years, but not Shane for being unable to read Ilya’s mind? Okay, got it.

[urie]

this is why it drives me so so so crazy when people are like "stop giving jacob/hudson so much credit i mean they barely changed anything about shane and these are still RACHEL'S characters" because i get i really do that you are trying to defend her against the obvious misogyny she faces and yes i understand that she wrote these characters but when shes saying things like "shane is stupid" "i regret making him autistic" "in the original draft shane agreed to crowell's terms" "when i was watching the show i thought ilya should be with svetlana" etc etc i become so convinced that she stumbled upon something she doesnt even fully understand and unfortunately it DID take jacob and hudson to fully flesh out and understand this character. IM SORRY THAT IS JUST TRUE SORRY

[mybeautifuldarktwistedmitchkov]

As we all know, having an eating disorder is selfish because it gives you less time to focus on your boyfriend's depression, which he denied having and actively snapped at you every time you inquired about.

[dartin333]

Guys, by the way I love Ilya, but , you can call me sensitive and a snowflake or whatever, but as a neurodivergent person (ADHD) , I always felt disconnected, never on the same wave length of other people till this day. Often times I feel so isolated and lonely, because I fear my interests bore people.

So every time Ilya made fun of Shane , calling him boring or made fun of his interests or dismissed him in the beginning of their getting to know each other, I felt hurt feelings in me stir up.

I remembered being an excitable kid and not having anyone that wanted to listen to me, in fact I was called a chatterbox and was compared to a character from a children’s show called “Sami the chatterbox”

My ADHD was used against me a lot because I’d lose my focus and forget things, and I was told on multiple occasions that I was selfish, and if I cared enough I would’ve remembered or paid attention.

I couldn’t meet people’s eyes for a very long time, a family member told me I’m being disrespectful. Sometimes I interrupt people so I don’t forget my thought trail, other times I take them on a long journey to tell a very small fact that seems arbitrary to them but its connected in my head.

As you can imagine all this made pieces of me die little by little. I love my brain, I think it’s brilliant, but I forget how brilliant it is when other people are around and I just want to disappear. My parents fought with me a lot because I just wanted to lock myself in my room all the time and not want to spend time with anyone.

Now why did I write all this? Seeing Rachel call Shane stupid and selfish, a character she created, is so hurtful and disappointing. Many might think I’m over reacting and making it a bigger deal than it actually is, you are entitled to that opinion. But I want you to know how it feels from the perspective of people who are struggling.

I’m writing a fic about this, where Ilya realizes how hurtful words can be, and he learns to understand Shane through therapy .

This is not to say neurodivergent people don’t have flaws, they do. But we learn to overcome them. As an example, I learned to repeat what people ask me to do as a mantra all day and make it my sole focus or primary task of the day so I don’t forget. It wasn’t obvious to me like it was to so many others I assume.

What left a deep wound in my soul is being villainized and diminished from a young age. Being called selfish, like what Mrs Rachel is doing with Shane, attaching this attribute to him like a permanent stamp. It feels like a character assassination. We all have room to grow.

I don’t blame the people in my life for how they treated me by the way. They couldn’t have known, they don’t believe in ADHD anyways. I’ve accepted this.

Thats all.

[icaruswar]

im very sorry but i think at this point the greatest tragedy of this fandom is rachel reid being the author of heated rivalry. i am flabbergasted with her perception of shane AND SHE LITERALLY CREATED HIM.

i have so many things i want to say about this i don't even know where to start honestly