#genericnarutoblog

[kangals]

Your dog looks like it's wearing a wig and I love it!

i dont know what youre talking about

[blackkatmagic]

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR IRUKA CHARACTERIZATION [ please ]

Oh god. You asked, okay??

So. Iruka is a chuunin. He’s a teacher. He’s also super tricky and pretty damn clever, able to use a lot of misdirection and traps to fight. He’s very good at what he does, too, or he likely wouldn’t have been allowed to teach pretty much all of the Clan Heirs at such a young age. He has a tragic backstory, but he manages to overcome it because of his big heart and his massive amounts of empathy.

However, what I usually see in Iruka as he’s presented in fics, he’s...not that. Usually he’s Naruto’s immediate best friend and supporter, and while I love Naruto having a person like that, I feel like it takes away from the absolute steel spine that let Iruka actually work through his trauma and decide to do what was best for Naruto despite it. Iruka’s incredibly brave and strong. The way he shows it is by being kind to the person housing the monster that killed his parents, and you can say anything you want about it being unfair that Naruto is seen as Kurama, but technically he can very much let the Kyuubi out and that’s what everyone is afraid of. It’s what Iruka is afraid of. And despite that, because he sees in Naruto the same truant, argumentative brat that he used to be when he was dealing with so much loneliness, Iruka overcomes his fear. He reaches out to Naruto when no one but Hiruzen and Teuchi previously have, and that’s amazing. People taking that away from him is...disappointing. 

This part’s entirely because of personal taste, but I really dislike it when people write Iruka as a badass secret ANBU with a thousand skills who goes on terrifying missions and is one of the village’s best, etc, etc. Because to me it says a hell of a lot that Naruto’s role model, the closest family he has, is a simple chuunin teacher. Iruka is a schoolteacher. He’s strong, but he struggles when he’s fighting Mizuki and nearly dies. Naruto has to save him. And yet Naruto sees him as one of the coolest people in his life, because he’s brave in a different way than most shinobi. He’s kind, and he’s selfless, and he’s willing to risk his life for his students because it’s the right thing to do. He’s strict and he has a tendency to yell and Naruto looks up to him even though he’s not this pinnacle of shinobi-ideal warrior bravery. In the manga Iruka is the first person to teach Naruto kindness, and friendship. And it says a lot about both of them that this is the person Naruto takes after the most, no matter how hard things get. 

There’s also this tendecy to make Iruka perfectly mild-mannered and sweet and the Perfect Mother Figure, and just. I always wonder if we know the same canon. Iruka is loud and fierce and a bit of a hardass, at least 45% of a disaster at any given moment, and he’s hotheaded, too. He makes mistakes and yells when he’s worried or can’t find the right words. It makes him incredibly human, and sanding that away to create a Perfect Uke for Kakashi or someone drives me bonkers. 

Canon Iruka is one of my favorite characters. Canon Iruka is amazing. What people patch together from different tropes and call Iruka just....doesn’t feel like the one I fell in love with. 

[jammedink]

I read the tags, and these beans are makin me draw more mesh sasuke for all of you. You guys make my day with this stuff

[anbu-legacy]

Did legacy ever considered writing Team 6's mission reports like you did Team 6's assessment reports? Because I would love to see how each character handles their own written mission report!

Funny you should ask that. 

Stay tuned. :D

-- DK

[kunoichi-ume]

💬 !!!

For every 💬 I get in my inbox, I’ll post a quote from my own writing that I’m proud of!

From Killing Time my unfinished Hidan/Ino Serial Killer Au

Death was not something Ino was looking for, but she had accepted it was a risk of her "hobby" and if it had to happen, if it had to be tonight, she could think of no way she would rather go than drowning in his cold jewel like eyes.

[simplyonehellofahokage]

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@genericnarutoblog

A writing meme, the ashamed edition

1. What are some writing tics that persist in your work but that you dislike?

Writing unnecessary details. What I mean is, I try to paint the entire environment so the reader can picture it clearly but those details likely hold no significance to the story or the characters. I can go on for PAGES about a room and that gets long-winded and dull very fast. That usually leads to people skipping lines if not paragraphs and missing the small nuggets that DO matter. I need to learn how to shrink my focus down and write what’s necessary…I can’t handcuff the poor reader to my vision. xDAnother writing tic I have, that is rather unfortunate especially since its most obvious in my original writing, is that a lot of my characters sound alike. They’re sassy little shits that have had it up to here with your nonsense and while one or two is nice, after a while they all start to look like clones. 

[ladymikiri]

Ibiki the Cupcake Man Masterpost

A list of all the things created around the headcanon that Ibiki Morino is an amazing baker. kokoro4kakashi‘s post that started it all here. 

Fanfic

The Case of the Mysterious Sweets by kunoichi-ume

Do You Know the Cupcake Man? by padlocked-quintus

Fanfic with OCs because OCs deserve more love 

I’d Do It Again by ladymikiri 

Fic by noharin

A Strange Homecoming by kunoichi-ume

The Sinner and the Saint by itslulu42

Aesthetics 

Aesthetics- Ibiki Morino by itslulu42

Art

The Cupcake Man by genericnarutoblog

If anyone would like to be included, let me know! Send me a message, an ask, tag me, or send me the post - I’d love to see it all! Also, if you would like to be removed or change anything, let me know. I’ll do it asap. 

Thank you to everyone who made something for this! It’s been a whole lot of fun discussing our favorite fear-inducing baker. 

[emisketch]

saw @genericnarutoblog‘s design for anbu genma and thought it was really cool!