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i think kishimoto just really bit off more than he could chew lol. he kept introducing concepts he wasnt equipped to handle - like, people aren’t looking at dbz and asking why goku is a child soldier or whatever, because dbz encourages some suspension of disbelief. naruto discusses the concept of child soldiers and children used as tools from the first arc to the last arc, explicitly. it introduces the “will of fire” as a philosophy, and later reveals the figure we see touting said philosophy signed off on a genocide. of course, the characters who question the themes of the series are still positioned antagonistically, and resemble terrorists more than freedom fighters, their solutions are always too extreme to be functional because it’s the only way naruto can be remotely believable as a messiah. he’s only going to be as politically astute as kishi is, and kishi was so stressed out by the pain arc he was losing sleep. the words ‘reparations’ ‘peace summit’ ‘economic redistribution’ do not exist in his vocabulary. and the character he’s created doesnt even think he has the solution, he actually tells minato he’s too stupid to come up with something and shouldn’t be expected to when the hokages couldnt. and he’s right, but…shounen.

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gojo satoru + on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

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Chainsaw Man

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Vash the Stampede + Text Posts

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I would prefer not to color😕

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the difference between naruto and sasuke is that naruto “is a character that forgives” and sasuke is “a character that doesn’t”. this their conflict, in kishimoto’s own words, and i think it’s often unquestioningly absorbed in fandom because, well, people are generally able to be critical within a framework, but unable to criticize a framework in itself. they can say “what this character did is wrong”. they will not ask, WHY is this character, who embodies this specific ideology, the one to do wrong, WHY are certain archetypes designated heroes while others are designated villains, and some like neji become designated fodder

because naruto’s perspective can be flipped very easily. he is a character that suffers and vows to change, to alter himself since he’s abandoned all hope of the people who horrifically mistreat him changing until he has proven himself as worthy

and sasuke is a character who suffers and expects the world to change. he wants itachi dead, by his hand, because that’s justice to him. he wants orochimaru dead, by his hand, because he revolts him. he wants danzo dead, by his hand, because itachi was a tool in the end and danzo was the instigator. he wants to reform the system as a whole. the running theme in all his plans is that he wants justice for the massacre of his clan - his idea of who is responsible simply evolves, and eventually he settles for “there is something deeply wrong and corrupt about our system that can only be weeded out by force”

sasuke’s attempts to mold the world into something he can tolerate become extreme and violent, i am not denying that. but naruto’s complacency also enables and begets violence. he covers up the uchiha massacre, he fawns over a man who killed his friend a day prior and his parents, he allows orochimaru to work for the village after kakashi pardons him, continuing his experiments. amazingly, people blame sasuke for this as if he is the one literally holding political office and also not one of oro’s victims who clearly wants nothing to do with him

a small shift in perspective can make for a vastly more interesting, thoughtful, and engaging story imo. but writers, male writers in particular have a mental block against their protagonists’ questioning their worldview in a serious way - it feels unmanly and like “losing” to them, although they are happy to thrust the responsibility to change onto others. it’s purely the product of male writers projecting their egos onto their protagonists.

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Basically

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Give it back.

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I love the phrase "they get along like a house on fire". It's perfect. You and me have perfect chemistry and it's setting off the carbon monoxide detectors. People are calling emergency services to get us to stop being so chummy. Someone died

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Inktober Day 3

Some good bois

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they are so so normal 😀😀

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so funny how bakugo's personality is so rotten that best jeanist specifically takes him in as an intern to fix his personality. the bnha kids have to intern at hero agencies to grow as heroes in training, bakugo has to intern at a gay man's agency to get good manners first, which is why best jeanist styles his hair and puts him into skinny jeans while deku and co. are fighting for their lives

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who lives who dies who tells your story

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I think there is already enough angst with this two so here you go ahahahahha idk what is this