Jun 17, 2019
lyn. infp. slythern. 26 or so by now.
i miss you. i was wrong.
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lyn. infp. slythern. 26 or so by now.
i miss you. i was wrong.
dumb ninja teens for the meme (8
two anons also asked me for nardo so this is for you guys too.
the antikythera mechanism - BT → obito
mahdiyat (mozart in egypt) - bulgarian symphony orchestra → suna nin (because i imagine their traditional music sounds like this)
tesselate - alt-J → kakashi
giving up - ingrid michaelson → naruto/sakura (hahaha kill me)
i gave you all - mumford & sons → itachi
amsterdam - the aesthetic junkies → tsunade (while she’s wandering)
the tower - vienna teng → sakura
stand in the rain - superchick → also… sakura…
metamorphosis - blue stahli → sasuke (sound era ish)
this is war - 30 seconds to mars → kakashi & the older jonin
ELISA HELP THE MORE I THINK ABOUT THE NARUTO ENDING THE MORE I AM BITTER ABOUT SAKURA and the more i am bitter about the ending the more i realize im bitter about how the whole nar/sauce dynamic was written and how it completely shafts sakura in the end and im SO SAD. SO SO SAD because i should've seen it coming and somehow i didn't.
I’M SO TORN ABOUT IT BECAUSE LIKE
on the one hand i think the naruto and sasuke resolution was really good for them. i think they needed this. i thought the moment with the forehead protector was lovely and it rounded out their story and it would have been perfect ending on that note.
but the fact that sasuke and sakura’s resolution in 699 was her stammering and blushing like they decided to just throw all her growth as a character during shippuden out the fucking window and then in 700 he’s off doing his own thing and she’s left in the house raising his child. no??? i’m so mad??? anyone who says that’s her getting everything she ever dreamed of is objectively wrong. she flat-out fucking didn’t because even if it was her first dream, she’s had so many others beyond being an uchiha baby maker. i liked the forehead poke, i really liked the significance it had for sasuke. but everything around it was vile.
you know how that scene could have gone? sakura asks if he’ll stay long enough to get his new arm. he says no. sakura crosses her arms and tells him fine, but forget naruto or kakashi, if he makes trouble or gets himself hurt she’s the one who’s gonna come beat the crap out of him. he smiles, pokes her forehead, and says he’ll try not to, and sakura swats his hand away, confused. but they leave on that note, sakura acknowledging sasuke’s need to do this and sasuke’s odd pride in her spine. they’ve begun to actually understand the people they’ve become. they’ve grown. there’s a start. i wouldn’t have minded a sasusaku ending if it hadn’t been built on the broken back of sakura’s character development. it kills me because it didn’t have to be. she was OOC in these chapters. period. yes, it’s possible for an author to write their own characters poorly, just like it’s possible for them to write their own story poorly. and i don’t know why that had to be so except to shoehorn in the endgame ships.
naruto and sakura’s relationship got shafted particularly hard, and it drives me up the fucking wall when people dismiss that outrage as being just about shipping. i don’t care whether or not they fucked, i care about their friendship. i care about the fact that at the beginning of shippuden they did what no one else had ever managed to do: they got the bells from kakashi, and they did it through teamwork. THIS IS AFTER SPENDING TWO FUCKING YEARS APART. they had their individual insecurities and they had their low points as teammates but ultimately, naruto smiled when she refused his offer to rest and demanded to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. his heart was literally in her hands. she has been protecting his life and his dreams since the chuunin exams, and they spoke once in the entirety of the last two chapters. their resolution wasn’t bad, it was nonexistent. it’s appalling.
people talk about how naruto and sasuke’s bond transcended friendship, and i think that’s true. but naruto and sakura’s did too. yes, she had family where naruto and sasuke didn’t, but where is her family in the text of the manga itself? her parents are never shown, her relationship with them is never discussed. the only family of hers we are presented with in the manga is her team. these are presented as the most important people in her life. and when sasuke talked about how team 7 became his family, he wasn't only talking about naruto. team 7 as a whole transcended friendship.
i know that the manga had always been about naruto and sasuke’s conflict, and that it would factor prominently in the end. but that’s them; the dynamics of team 7 was not and had never been just about them, sakura’s kindness and intelligence and determination to protect them had always been an important factor too. kishimoto, who is so fucking bad about shafting his women, made her absolutely critical in taking down kaguya. she may not have been the reincarnation of the sage’s children, but where the fuck would they have been if sakura and her byakugo hadn’t been there to help obito rescue sasuke? what if she hadn’t been there to prevent kaguya’s last escape? she was important.
i liked naruto and sasuke’s resolution. what i dislike is that in the end, i think we’re expected to see that as team 7’s resolution, or at least the only corner of team 7’s arc that really mattered. no. fuck that, fuck this ending, sakura’s character arc and her relationship to the boys mattered. sakura fucking mattered.
i sort of saw this coming, when they released the end date and i saw how little time there was going to be to wrap up naruto and sasuke’s fight and end this thing. i just didn’t expect it to be quite this incredibly, atrociously bad.
HALLIE HALLIE HELP I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY HANDS WHY IS DC GIVING ME THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE THINGS THAT I WILL LIKE????
RIGHT??? idk once they announced that damian was coming back i was like “damn i have to start paying money for dc books again” but now it’s like multiple books i want and will pull and pay money for? what is the world even coming to?? we’re not sure but there’s gonna be og titans so i think we’ll be ok!!
top 5 middle earth characters, top 5 OCs you've come up with, aaaand idk top 5 headcanons either your or someone else's--any fandom
top five middle earth characters
five; Boromir.
Good intentions are so important. Wanting to protect everyone is so important. Boromir is so important.
four; Lothíriel.
Though I’m not sure she really counts because it’s not like she ever gets more than a mention in the appendixes, but the version of her that exists in my head is so excellent, and I’m so attached to her, because head!Lothíriel is this self-centered casually cruel young woman who doesn’t want to grow up, but she has to and it’s fantastic, and I’m super, super sad that I’m not a writer because all I want to do is write about her.
three; Thorin Oakenshield.
All I ever am is sad about Thorin. That is all.
two; Fíli.
Another that I’m not certain should count because really, book!Fíli hardly has any characterization, but head!Fíli is really good. Stupidly loyal idealistic homesick princes are always good.
one; Éowyn.
I think Éowyn was actually my first ever favorite character? I remember being six and running around with a stick, pretending to slay the witchking. Like, Éowyn is one of the most important characters of my entire life, so. I know the way her story ends annoys a lot of people, but I’ve kind of come to love it, because it feels like growth to me, like growing up and realizing that war is horrible and there are more worthy things to do with your life than seek a glorious death. (Not that Tolkien’s reasons for it weren’t probably fairly sexist, but I’m choosing to read it the way I want.
top five ocs
five; Sigríd.
Probably technically should be considered a villain. I like her because I never have to actually decide what actually happened to her, because she’s more myth than historical figure by most of the oc’s time, so it makes sense for there to be ten conflicting accounts of her life. And I just really like monstrous war-waging women who are unapologetically terrible.
four; Emiliana Selwyn.
Angry tragic Squib darling whose life is a wreck, who channels all of her rage into making things better and isn’t afraid of anyone or anything and teaches herself to be so sure of her own worth despite spending the first twenty-odd years of her life never having it validated by anyone. I am crazy about people fighting to secure their place in the world, and people with complicated familial relationships. Also I am ridiculously attached to how flawed she is, how difficult it always is for her to get outside of her own issues, to see just how much privilege she still has. I always forget how in love with her I am until I start talking about her.
three; Valeria Colt.
It’s come to my attention that I’m really into women who might be monsters. The great thing about Valeria is that she’s absolutely certain in herself; no one could ever convince her that everything she does isn’t justified. Yes, sometimes evil things aren’t the only ones who die, but such is the cost of war.
two; Dax and Bree Tucker.
I keep meaning to make an actual post about them, because I’ve been thinking about them a ton lately, but I haven’t gotten around to it. They count as one because you can’t really separate them. (But Bree might be a little bit more my favorite.) I like their stupidly complicated relationship, and how attached to each other they get, despite spending the first twenty-odd years of their lives absolutely hating each other, and their vastly different reasons for getting involved in the war. Essentially I just really like Drift partners.
one; Erlen.
She’s my forever number-one favorite. Legitimately more important to me than 98% of canon characters. Started as ‘hot-dwarf-needs-a-girlfriend’ half formed nonsense thing, and eventually took over my entire brain, and at this point the Fíli part of her life is nowhere near the most important part of her to me? Mostly I just want to talk forever about her being in awe of the world despite awful things; about how she runs away from things but always always comes back; about her faith and her recklessness and her grumpiness; about her home and family and how it’s always been split; about how the Red Mountains are everything to her, but she’s never not felt her mother’s blood in her veins calling for Erebor. She is so important to me.
top five headcanons
five; Socially ridiculous Tauriel.
I don’t even know whose headcanon it originally was, but Tauriel who just does not know how to handle herself around people is one of my favorite things.
four; Little league quidditch.
I can’t find the post now, but essentially: tiny wizards on brooms. Parents who take it way too seriously. It’s the best image. (Also I absolutely believe that James Potter was already preparing Harry at age one. That broom was not a toy it was a training instrument.)
three; Everything that is offbeatorbit’s Lily Evans.
The most fun version of Lily Evans, who writes manifestos in cafes and smokes sometimes and snoops around and doesn’t take any shit. Also, best Lily/Snape friendship.
two; basilandtheblues’ Mrs. Bard headcanon.
From this post. It’s a much more excellent thought that ‘she’s dead’. I don’t even have anything to say about it because it’s so fantastic.
one; Dís at Azanulbizar.
Probably the best headcanon I’ve ever had. Generally all my secret-dwarf-warrior headcanon is a thing I’m really into, but especially Dís.
She’s thirty nine and her entire family has told her she can’t go to battle. The king will take no solider under forty; her training has been spotty at best; if the battle is lost she will be the only remaining heir to the throne. But she can’t let her brothers and her father go without her. It’s her right to go, and though she accepts her parents’ ruling gracefully, inside she’s furious; inside she’s already making plans to get her swords from her mother’s tent, to steal the armor Thorin outgrew years ago, to slip into the ranks somewhere in the middle among the Iron Hills dwarves who won’t recognize her for who she it. She laughs when she sees her cousin Dáin hiding under a helmet that’s bigger than he is, younger than her and no doubt forbidden to come as well. They wait for battle together, avoiding their fathers’ eyes and promising each other that they will be brave. They’re separated almost immediately on the battlefield; Dáin follows his father’s battalion, and Dís stays as close to her brothers as she can. In the end, she’s wounded but alive, still guarding Frerin’s body viciously when Thorin finds her.
brontidalwave replied to your post “adventurouskitten replied to your post “NaNo November Fail” Ok now...”
this is such a good idea and would work so much better than nano for soooo many reasons
Thank you! I feel like it would be much better training for aspiring writers than the current set up :-/
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twig does not even begin to describe him and it pleases me so much. he’s like a tiny yellow stick full of snark and jazz.
the biggest thing about him is his front teeth
he's probably stronger than he looks but how much. would he dissolve if you left him out in the rain too long. i suspect he would
brontidalwave replied to your post:filed under: things i want to write but don’t have...
omg this is beautiful. and now I’m just imagining sauce coming back and walking in on nar and sakura fucking and being pissed he
brontidalwave replied to your post:filed under: things i want to write but don’t have...
can’t join in until he showers
he'd be SUPER huffy and his teammates are having none of it
"the sooner you quit bitching and wash the dirt off you the sooner you can have some," naruto says, before going back to eating sakura out.