𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨

it's those eyes

[sunabeast]

𝐢𝐟 𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫. writing blog for gaara   of   the   desert   from   naruto   series. exploring  character  themes  of  finding  purpose,  what  makes  a  monster,  ode  to  the  desert

i only write with mutuals and 21+ ; blog contains canon typical themes ; my naruto knowledge is very incomplete and i can't be fucked ; blog currently does not use icons ; my gaara is transfem nonbinary with she/they pronouns ; i'm dimitri (27, they/them, desert bitch) also on @ninhand and @deerkeep. established march 2025

[clayxbread]

if i may...

[sunabeast]

gaara was so weirdly eloquent as a kid they for sure read a LOT of poetry and novels in their free time.

[sandsibs-and-co]

Baki: You don't tell me what to do

Temari: uhh that is where you are wrong, baby Girl. I run this village. 

[sunabeast]

thought about Her while driving today ....

[sunabeast]

i dont want to promise anything but hii

[sunabeast]

hi been in mental hospital but im back and idk dont want to leave this blog

[radioactive-earthshine]

You've heard of multi-shipper now get ready for multi-headcanoner: where multiple interpretations of the same character coexist in your head and they are all great.

[sunabeast]

abolish god for inventing sad + in pain combo

[sunabeast]

suna culture is freak culture btw

[cloudabserk]

the sexism in naruto is actually so crazy and all encompassing. every female character is defined by her relationship to men. the majority are boy-crazy. and it’s constantly remarked upon how weak they are when compared to their male teammates.

not only that but the main male characters actively dislike the women they’ve been paired off with. shikamaru is into temari but his infinite dream is not having to marry her. sai ends up with ino despite finding her ugly. naruto thinks hinata is weird and boring. sasuke’s dislike of sakura is infamous.

adult men’s interest in women is seen as comical and alien. (reactions to the sexy jutsu, jiraiya harassing women). almost all of the adult men are perpetual bachelors or sex perverts (and those who aren’t are stand ins for “mom and dad”).

when boys actually do like girls, it’s to show goofy immaturity and innocence (naruto’s crush on sakura that he grows out of as he reaches maturity, lee’s crush which is dropped entirely, obitos crush on rin which lasts into adulthood just to show he isn’t entirely separate from the boy he once was)

the whole ninja society likes to imagine it is a mostly gender blind world where women can thrive but this is SO obviously untrue. women are almost always healers and support. women make up less than 1/3 of the ninjas even at genin level. girls are almost all desperate to become wives and earn the attention of boys who don’t even like them!

mikoto uchiha was a jonin and presumably directly descended from the uchiha line (based on characters commenting that she/sasuke look just like izuna uchiha), but we only ever see her retired and raising her sons while her husband gets to be clan leader. (why?? if he married into the main family and she is an extremely capable ninja??)

similarly kushina uzumaki is borderline royalty and a jinchuriki, but her husband is hokage. once again the mother carries on the burden of power (for her sons to inherit) but the father has the title and status.

even the backstory of ninja enforces this. kaguya literally ate the forbidden fruit, giving the gift of chakra to all of humanity but also dooming them to fight for eternity. literally womens original sin …

anyway it’s not that all this sexist shit is in the story. it’s that kishimoto seemingly has no idea it’s there and believes the women he writes have epic girl power. how do you even do this by accident. why does every boy hate their wife. why did kaguya commit the original sin ! the girl characters want so badly to be with a boy but they don’t even care that the boy doesn’t like them back!! sakura and hinata are in loveless marriages of obligation and THEY DONT EVEN CARE??? they’re into it??? does kishimoto think men are universally forced to marry women they don’t like? does he blame women for this?WHY IS THE ORIGINAL SIN DRIVING THE BUS ALL THE SUDDEN?

[clayxbread]

if i may...

[sunagakurenosato]

Boo! Little Gaara's shadow laughed and ran away from the figure entering the cell. They're coming!

It was not Konoha's mind scrapers, thank goodness. But Yashamaru would recognize traditional Sunan clothes anywhere. He had enough presence of mind to lift himself off the floor and the dirt, just enough to sit at attention. And with a low bow, he greeted, "Kazekage-sama."

Yasha let himself get a closer look at the new Kazekage. She was much smaller than Rasa but carried with her the same intimidating face that all the Kage before her had. And yet--- Yashamaru blinked. And it was a face that reminded him so much of---

He hasn't thought of Karura in years. A tear had built up in his eye and fallen before he could blink it away.

"It must have been a long journey," Yasha said, barely above a whisper. "All the way from Sunagakure."

Why come all this way for little old me?

[sunabeast]

gaara inhaled, her breath shook and she clutched her shirt at the belly. he’d aged, of course what else would a few decades do? how he murmured, how distant his eyes strayed, the reality of the man in front of her had an immediate effect on her.

maybe temari should’ve come in with her.

tears immediately bloomed and rolled down her cheeks, she wiped them with the hilt of her palm. it felt like she was a child again, her muscles physically tensed as if she were feeling all of the loneliness and confusion, then the betrayal and abandonment of the only adult who seemed to care about the monster child, the curse of sunagakure.

it was an intensity of emotion she grew familiar handling through her life, and immeasurably easier after shukaku’s extraction. but this circumstance was uniquely evoking.

“uncle.”

she isn’t sure what she’s pleading for, she isn’t sure what she wanted to have happen. did she want this at all, or would it have been better for yashamaru to have stayed lost in the wind and presumed dead. regardless he was here and with that gust came simultaneous memories of being cared for and being abandoned. Tears swelled again.

[sunabeast]

ok …..

minato blog?

yes!!!!

stop doing this new blog shit come on!!!!!

dimitri button!!!!!

Voting ended onFeb 23

[breakingdawnpt2]

and just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, you want to fuck a blonde guy

[sunabeast]

hi please let me know if we have threads. i want to organize it all and figure out where im at !!

[sunabeast]

headcanons and honestly just me posting a lot of pictures from a fav artist below the cut

these are pieces by an artist i really love, lalla essaydi. i wont get into her work itself here and instead want to talk about lol naruto headcanons. specifically concerning suna, and their form of seal work.

shukaku's legend is that he is the angry spirit of a monk, later that a monk was his first jinchuriki. either way this does establish that suna has monks. perhaps gaara had the idea of marking the face with writing because it is a common spiritual and/or emotional practice originating with monks who cover themselves in seals and such. pulling from that, a young gaara permanently put a prayer or mourn for love on her face.

so i picture the monks dressed something like this. because i love this artist and these look cool as fuck and beautiful. that's the main reason.

i do like to think of karura, the sand sibling's mother, coming from a background of either training to be a monk or having been a monk. maybe much of her family is associated with this work, i'm not positive yet. maybe chiyo had been one.

i do also think the monks did a lot of science research. chemistry, medicine, geology. gaara even as a child read philosophy writings of past monks as part of her lol prepubescent existential crisis