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i very much enjoy the extremely scientific analysis of the naruto verse in which there are three genders, aka naruto, sasuke, and Woman.
AM I WRONG? AM I WRONG? pulls down projection screen and plays powerpoint
Obviously let's give room for nuance. A ton of Naruto characters don't fall into these gender norms. This does predominantly apply to the rampant proliferation of the three-person dynamics that were assigned by the government and dictate your entire life. And, like, society. It does not end. Gender isn't a biological factor in Naruto, it's a social dynamic constructed entirely by your homoerotic tension with other men. And there are so many.
Madara (S), Hashirama (N), Mito (W). Izuna (N) and Tobirama (S) - tragically, Izuna died before women could be invented. Sarutobi (N), Danzo (S, horrifically) - see above about women not being invented yet. Jiraiya (N), Orochimaru (S), Tsunade (W). Yahiko (N), Nagato (S), Konan (W). Obito (N), Kakashi (S), Rin (W). Shisui (N), Itachi (S), that little deeply unimportant girlfriend (W). Um, fucking, Naruto (N), Sasuke (S), Sakura (W). Even - even, fuckin, Rock Lee (N), Neiji (S), Tenten (W).
And what do they all have in common????
(OT3. They're all OT3s. Is what I'm saying).
There is some room for alternative gender expressions here, like being butch or femme. Naruto gender expressions: teacher, otouto, woman who you can't even tell is woman gendered because she has no backstory but you just have to kinda assume that she has a polycule-based backstory where she was Woman Gender. I feel almost as if 2/3rds of the Rookie 9 are liberated from this. InoShikaCho just doesn't fit (their chaotic cousin energy is just too strong and Ino's too much of a lesbian). Hinata's too busy being defined entirely by a different throuple's N to have codependent dynamics with her own N and S (and I'm hesitant to even say that, since I actually don't know if Kiba and Shino have a codependent rivalry - do they?).
I get, like, the reason for all of this. Curse of Hatred. Cycles. N and S Genders being sourced from demigods or something. Narrative parallelism. Sympathy points. It's not the bad guy's fault he's evil, his N and W gendered counterparts died :(. But an extremely strange side-effect of this is that all of the male characters are, like, Just Naruto or Just Sasuke. But the vast majority of the female characters are - like, completely defined by the men in their lives - but also they are more likely to be a unique person. Mito, Sakura, and Rin have actually nothing in common. Writing so sexist it creates more interesting characters?!?!
Unironically, this is why I'm always saying that Sasunaru is the ship of all time, nothing will ever top it, you will NEVER do it like Sasunaru, etc. Every important relationship in the series is meant to evoke Sasunaru. (Notably, none of the explicitly romantic ones. But we're beyond such paltry understandings of the most iconic pairing of all time as fundamentally based in romance. We're operating on a higher level than that). This unbroken chain of toxic yaoi has culminated at the end point of Sasunaru, and it exists to parallel Sasunaru and define their relationship by the dysfunction of generations of tragedy. That's why Naruto has to consciously break the cycle and free them from the generational hate - it was the only way to save Sasuke. This is also why I'm always saying that Sasunaru is the point of Naruto, and that the entirety of Naruto is about Sasunaru. Come back to me when your work has invented new genders in the all-encompassing pursuit of toxic yaoi.
This also means that the only truly gender non-conforming individuals in Naruto are its mightiest heterosexuals: Minato (W) and Kushina (N). Truly insane. The N/S/W configuration is the societal norm, it's bonkers to make a major good-aligned male character a wifeguy. By Naruto standards Minato and Kushina are the only queer couple.
Update:
Also, to respond to a lot of the tags that go 'wait, why is this mostly correct' [also this is not my doctorate]:
Of course I'm correct. And using Naruto as a framework doesn't make me less right. I really am just saying that the construct of gender is very heavily based on societal roles. A narrative role is a societal role in a funny hat decorated with metaphors and allegories, which is why there's no such thing as a genderless story - all stories are Written By People Who Live In A Society. On top of that, gender is very heavily based on interpersonal relationship dynamics. The concept and idea of a man cannot exist if there is no concept of a woman.
Naruto incorporates a) three-person unique relationship dynamics constructed and imposed and enforced by society, b) extremely rigid narrative roles that are both a straightforward carrier of ideas about humanity and depictions of love while also exploring the society that those narrative roles create, c) consistent depictions of a very specific type of love that can only exist between two different 'types' of person, and also way less importantly, c) so much real life sexism that the real-life implications of man/woman roles are highly tangential in comparison to the male/male roles. It is a story that is highly dependent on [shonen, in this case] narrative & character tropes, and is generally uninterested going beyond the genre constructs. But Naruto is so iconic and insane that it created very many of those typical shonen & narrative character tropes, and thus you could say that it invented new character types and dynamics - a character is not like Sasuke, he's a Sasuke - and thus you could say that Naruto invented new genders. Naruto genders.
I'm right. Is what I'm saying.
Kinda.
i do not have time to be back on this blog yet here i am. i am back out of yugioh remission, yet again it has awakened within me. we'll see if this lasts past today but i'm tempted to make a meta post or something (this should be interpreted as a threat)
it's the return of the yugioh special interest after all these years
I had top surgery two weeks ago so to stay sane during recovery I've started doodling the card game geeks again. surely more is to come as I have a few bigger projects I have in the works
picking up the pen again after 3 years to do nothing but make shitposts
first date (last date)
i love seeing my non-ygo followers in my notes going "what the actual Fuck happens in yugioh" because there is no adequate way to answer that question. everything happens. everything you can possibly think of that could ever happen, happens in yugioh.
wait a minute ok. i was about to start listing a bunch of absurd shit that goes down in this series but instead i'm just going to make my point by making it everybody else's problem instead
Which one of these events did NOT happen in the original yugioh manga or anime
Yami sets a man on fire in broad daylight at the local burger joint
Malik mind controls a mime and turns it into an unstoppable killing machine
Yugi confesses his love for Joey then gets dragged to the sea floor by an anchor
Seto stops a guy from shooting him by blocking the gun's hammer with a card
Ancient Egyptian laser beam battle
Bakura gouges out a man's eyeball and licks it
Yugi's grandpa tries to beat a ghost to death with a frying pan
Seto sacrifices god just so he can play another blue eyes white dragon
Yugi almost gets hanged to death by the yo-yo gang
Joey straight up dies (he gets better though don't worry)
The movie villain The real villain
“But what can you actually DO with a degree in [insert subject here]?!”
Write fanfiction with a high degree of accuracy in a very specific field, next question.
tolkien ghostwrote this
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I had a fun doodle session with a friend and this is the result of my brain farts: Local fool with money learns where his desire to keep is brother safe stems from and also where those other repressed feelings need to go back to.
yeah fuck it i’m bringing this account back
just a lil bit but i’m marathoning yugioh again and idk where to talk about it