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fuck if we know, naruto
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For a minute, just for a minute You made it feel… …Home
Why does your love hurt so much? Don't know why…
I listened to this song all day and eventually it made me scribble stuff
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?
decay exists as an extant form of life
That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day
THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???
On my dash!??!
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Some tips for fanfic writers:
Sasuke has a sense of humour. He's not a killjoy.
Naruto has other emotions than cheerful. He can make other expressions and reactions than "smile" and "laugh".
Naruto shouldn't exist just to be a perfect boyfriend and coddle Sasuke. He has his own issues and negative emotions.
Sasuke shouldn't exist just to be Naruto's shitty bf who is lucky to have him but doesn't deserve him really.
Neither of them should be a wet blanket. They are both passionate and complex characters.
Just my opinion but I'd prefer no Sakura or Hinata in the fic if you can't write them in character. If you feel writing them in character feels misogynistic, then I don't know what to tell you. Just don't write them in at all instead of making Sakura the biggest gay ally who gives emotionally mature advice. Sometimes reading some fics also feels like y'all resent Naruto and Sasuke for not wanting Sakura and Hinata. And write the latter two as some victims. No thank you.
they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"
It's not a cure but you have no idea how many times this image has helped me with my OCD
I have couple times gotten the same argument on how "after everything Sasuke did, no one should want Naruto with him" usually from nar/uhina, nar/ugaa shippers or just non-shippers and I could go on a rant about Sasuke's character but the thing is it doesn't matter whether you people want Naruto with him because Naruto loves Sasuke and doesn't blame him for anything because he understands him. NARUTO wants Sasuke.
I love Naruto SO much like I love naruto more then the average person some people (not me) might even claim that i am not normal about naruto (not true) BUT. I would give an arm and a leg for Masashi Kishimoto to stop writing Naruto and write a horror manga. Come ON he LOVES to just say The Most Horrifying Shit Imaginable, maybe give you an INSANE shot of body horror, and leave. he's got a real talent for it. it should be set in a middleschool cause he's only good at writing kids and it should make my bones try to leave my body. He needs to start using his talents for evil instead of just leaving it all for us to stew in. 'btw shino's entire family have bugs in their blood' sir get back here. Mr.Kishimoto sir I REMEMBER early Orochimaru I REMEMBER how scary everyone associated with him looked I REMEMBER you used to do it for the girls and the goths and that was it. throw us a bone.
The official Naruto page on Twitter just posted this manga page
And I just noticed this 🫥
Who is this? What is this? What the heck, Kishimoto? 😂😂 I think I'm gonna have nightmares about this little dragonfly man
Omg there's more 😭
Today, I was explaining the basics of mdzs to someone I hope reads it, and I was struck by a small realization: Lan Wangji is the only character capable of paying the tithe/cost of loving Wei Wuxian and surviving.
Previously, I had thought about this in terms of the tree scene, where someone was finally capable of catching Wei Wuxian before he hit the ground, but today the thought went deeper than that.
Wei Wuxian, after escaping the burial mounds, tells Lan Wangji "I can afford it" (meaning he can pay the price for cultivating the ghostly/deviant path).
During Lan Wangji's drunken reattempted confession, he throws his coin purse out and says "I will pay!" (quite beligerently).
No one else in Wei Wuxian's life has survived the cost of loving him. Wen Qing, Jiang Yanli, and Wen Ning died. Jiang Cheng tried, but regretted it and became resentful. Jin Zixuan gets an honorable mention here, too.
The point has been made before that Lan Wangji had the resources to navigate this violent and archaic world, but I find it fascinating that MXTX had his clan give him a punishment that could have been a death sentence. Lan Wangji surviving his 33 strikes and choosing to live a life he could be proud of is different from having social resources.
This isn't to say the others wanted to die. Wen Ning came back from the dead (kind of) and never resented Wei Wuxian for the losses he suffered. He was prepared to die a second time, alongside his sister, who actively chose to pay the tithe (death) for loving Wei Wuxian. Jiang Yanli, similarly, chose to save Wei Wuxian's life at the cost of her own.
Those sacrifices wounded Wei Wuxian down to the marrow of his soul. He meets Jiang Yanli's son and immediately finds a brook to cry in. Wen Ning shows back up in his life and he's like "run away and hide, I don't want to get you killed again." He wants to sever any connection with Jiang Cheng (which... mood).
But Lan Wangji walks by and Wei Wuxian meets his eyes. He entrusts the Lan juniors and their very dangerous ghost arm to this man after he risked exposing his identity to help them get and keep the arm under control. He uses compliments in his attempt to drive Lan Wangji away on Dafan Mountain. Wei Wuxian's respect for his to be partner is evident from the the instant we're introduced to him.
Moreover, in Lan Wangji's presence, Wei Wuxian forgets to pretend to be someone else. He is certain that Lan Wangji can handle whatever comes, and Lan Wangji reaffirms this throughout the novel. In Koi Tower, in Yi City, in Gusu, in Yunmeng--Lan Wangji never falters. He is fully aware of and prepared to survive the consequences of loving Wei Wuxian.
Sidenote: do you guys think this book will ever release my brain from its clutches? I'm starting to doubt it. I read a lot--I read today! But am I writing metas about Godkiller or the Apothecary Diaries right now? No. Because I miss these guys so damned much!!!
to me, the funniest recurring beat in journey to the west is someone seeding the idea that maybe they shouldn't trust sun wukong and it works every single time because, given literally everything he says and does, it makes a lot of sense not to trust sun wukong
sun wukong when someone distrusts him because of the things he says and does with some regularity:
posting 2016: you ever think about how in ten years we'll still be gay and online together
posting 2026: imagine, if you will, making a necklace from the bones in your hand. feeling them slowly become mundane, like stones, as time renders them unfamiliar to you. thought exercise now concludes
Naruto is a character who makes a lot of promises and he tends to stick the landing -- I think it's interesting how Neji goes from a traditional victim of this to something more nuanced. When your fatalistic foil doesn't give you the traditional hero's narrative you may desire ...
When Naruto wins their fight he also wins their philosophical debate. Neji doesn't dwell on this promise of changing the Hyūga -- he's more concerned with Naruto's valuing of his genius. 'You are too good to restrain yourself to an expected fate.'
Neji's genius is core to his story. His father tells him he must live because he's a Hyūga so blessed with talent. He taught himself techniques of the main line he wasn't supposed to know; Hiashi states that the blood of the Hyūga is strongest in someone who can never be heir. At the end of Part I we see Hiashi training Neji, implying he's bending family rules. In this way changing the Hyūga was down to Neji, for being so exceptional, and for his capacity for forgiveness and love for his family. This is why Hiashi says that Hinata and Neji fighting side-by-side in the war is evidence that their family has changed.
(Now, Naruto's words do suggest further more actionable change was desired, and that does remain frustratingly ambiguous.)
This is all very interesting, but it is, of course, not what Naruto promised. However, the exchange was more complicated than that. He prefaces his promise by saying, "Look, I may not understand the tragic destiny of the Hyūga clan or whatever, but ... if you think it's inescapable, fine! Then stop fighting it already!!" This is a conditional that draws attention to the fact Neji hasn't been as passive as he claims fate demands of him; it's Naruto saying 'If you deny you can, I will, but --' and this is bookmarked by his words to Neji after the KO blow:
"Even a caged bird, when it smartens up, will try to open the cage door with its beak."
This is the root of their relationship, what we can gather from Naruto's last words was implicitly understood by them both, and why Neji works so well as a foil of Naruto's. It's why Naruto beating Neji here means so much to him even years and years later. Naruto thinks very highly of Neji. He thinks so highly of him that it's as important to him as anything that his philosophy won: he can't see Neji as passive, because Neji needs to decide his own fate in order to keep proving Naruto right. It's a well-earned victory.
Of course, Naruto's strongest foils tend to have the independent streak to challenge him in ways he might not like. Sasuke spent most of the series doing this, and I like how Boruto recently gave us Shikamaru on his #SIGMAMALE grind with his "Naruto probably wouldn't take this route [befriend then betray our enemies] ... but I'm not him." This gets us to Neji's death.
Naruto vows to never let a comrade die; Naruto has seen comrades come dangerously close to death for him. It's a very sensitive subject for him.
He's always been able to pull through -- although there's also often outside factors (Iruka can tank a giant shuriken, Haku didn't really want to kill, Sakura is there to help Hinata) ... then with Neji, we get him interjecting himself into the narrative back-and-forth that's building between Naruto and Obito, by pulling an Obito.
Naruto carries forth Neji's legacy as Kakashi carried forth Obito's. Obito says you can't save your friend, and really says, 'You can't save me.' And so on and so forth. However, Obito "died" with regrets, wishing he'd told Rin how he felt, wishing to go on with his team, while Neji comes across much more at peace. His sacrifice feels both more intentional and more evolved; it is a freedom for him.
People want to sacrifice themselves for Naruto. Naruto has never really had to face it head-on in this way before, however. Either they survive, or it was outside of his sphere of influence. Here, It is theoretically within his power to save Neji, but he doesn't; he has to let Neji follow his own philosophy instead of submitting to this narrative of 'Hero Naruto' that been building through the series, and especially through the war.
Naruto will save the day! ... But Itachi warns him that there's also an arrogance to presuming you have to do everything yourself; of forgetting the comrades who got you this far.
Neji is the one to prove that Naruto isn't infallible. Neji is someone Naruto admires; Neji is someone who says, 'We can decide our own fates? Then I decide one that upsets you.' 'You don't see me as a victim -- then you can't see this as a failure.' Neji's last words are just, "Hinata loves you, and so you hold her life [she will die for you] -- just as you hold my life [I of course will die for you too.]"
If you want to be beloved, accept the consequence of it: your fate, being decided by others. Bonds are what you have fought for your whole life, and they are the greatest thing you can ever have, but they will also cost you. Naruto goes #BEASTMODE when people he loves 'die' because it represents a fundamental loss of control that he has to accept and overcome. 'Love and its costs.'
In this way Neji is answering Naruto's philosophy and not giving him an easy out for it. Naruto's promises can never really be simple promises with him because Neji is too persistent, and Naruto has too high an opinion of Neji to ignore what Neji says, believes, does. This is to the strength of Neji's character -- used in both senses -- and it is the strongest argument for his death working. This is Naruto's story, and in Naruto's story there has to be some kind of sacrifice: but since he insisted he'd never let it happen, Neji takes the choice from him, because only Neji could.