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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All

I like the green yuri manga

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i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

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Little Uchiha

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He asked Sasuke to avoid leaving marks where someone could see them...*sigh*

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Naruto put their foreheads together when he thought Sasuke had died.

Sasuke will never know, just like Naruto doesn't know about all the precious memories Sasuke thought of when he believed he was about to die OMFGGGGGG

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"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

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God bless the sickos over at the AO3 for providing the absolute most conceptually bizarre yet extremely compelling fiction for free.

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Isildur's Bane

Durin's Bane

Gandalf's Bane

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Hercules model sheets by Andreas Deja

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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, logging into tumblr. You step onto your dash, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you'll be booped off to

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“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”

— Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (b. 8 November 1900)

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This! I felt exactly the same way. Also, may I add that the whole "they love each other like brothers" felt really weird to me because I have a brother, and even though I love my brother dearly I always felt like Naruto and Sasuke´s relationship was a little extra in the sense that I found myself often thinking "I wouldn´t do that for my brother" or maybe " I would do it but I wouldn´t say things like that" or just "Yeah, I understand the feeling but I wouldn´t proceed like that" and I felt so weird because at some point some people made me think that maybe I didn´t love my brother as much as Naruto and Sasuke (friends/brothers) loved each other. That maybe I was a bad sibling.

You can say the same about the "friendship" thing. I have friends I adore and love dearly. I will give an arm and leg for them any day, but then again, there are many things that I do not feel in the same way Naruto and Sasuke feel for each other in the series. And until recently, these things made me wonder if I even cared for my friends and my brother at all...since I didn´t "see" my relationship with my brother and friends being "reflected" in Naruto and Sasuke`s brothers/rivals/friends relationship. Op, is so right, because calling Naruto and Sasuke just "friends" seems off and calling them "brothers" it feels even worse, at least to me.

I do not know if I expressed myself correctly here, but it feels good to just share these thoughts, I love SNS, and I do believe that their story pointed in the direction for a romantic relationship. If you tell me they are lovers, I would go, "yeah, sounds about right" and it would feel right.

You know, when I first read the Naruto manga for the first time, I was so confused with the ending. Because how the hell did Sakura and Hinata end up with Sasuke and Naruto, respectively?

(Note here that back then, I wasn't an SNS fan as I was unable to comprehend the depth of their feelings. But I still thought that the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke was weird, and I found it difficult to put into words.)

Actually, even Naruhina ship was somewhat acceptable, but Sasusaku ship didn't make any sense at all. How am I supposed to believe that the person who never gave a shit about Sakura is now suddenly in love with her?? Sakura was so insignificant to Sasuke's character that it was completely unbelievable that he would marry her. How?? Why?? These questions would keep gnawing my mind constantly. It actually felt like the writer just wanted to be done with the story and didn't care how the characters ended up being. It felt like Sasuke was given to Sakura as a prize. But even a prize needed to be earned, and Sakura had done nothing to deserve Sasuke even as prize.

I was actually willing to accept Naruhina ship because many shonen stories, especially showcasing a hero's journey, normally give a girl to the hero as a prize for all the hard work he did. Yes, as a prize. In the typical hero type stories, the girl doesn't have any significance to the story or the hero character except being the hero's love interest, and in the end, they normally end up together.

But even in those stories, the heroine has more presence than Hinata did. The Hero never ignores the heroine's love confession and thinks of her often. But Naruto completely ignored her confession and never thought of her. It was like Hinata didn't even exist for him, and all he cared for and thought about was Sasuke.

(Oh, and anyone claiming that Sakura is the heroine, please shut up. She wasn't because if she was, then the manga wouldn't troll her this badly. Kishimoto himself said that when he introduced Sakura, he only considered her as another character. He didn't do it to bring her in as a special female character. She was the same level as characters like Kiba.)

So, overall, naruhina and sasusaku ships were extremely confusing, the latter even more so than the former.

But I still tried to make sense of them. I remember being so desperate to find some moments that could validate those ships. Because if they don't make sense, then why did Kishimoto even make them end up together? Moreover, the social media would show me posts of Naruhina and Sasusaku ships. Those were all the same, like — "Hinata was there for Naruto when no was" or, "Naruto is dumb when it comes to matters of feelings and love and thus he couldn't realise he was in love with Hinata" or, "Naruto saved Sasuke's body while Sakura saved his heart" or, "Sakura is the best example of devoted love" and nonsense like these. It made me think that maybe the problem was with me.

I was a teenager back then, and my mind couldn't comprehend the complexities of Naruto. But even then, I knew that SS and NH were nonsense.

They were just too farfetched for me to support those ships. But it wasn't like I hated NH or SS back then like I do now. All I felt was confusion.

I remember feeling so insecure because I couldn't confidently say that Naruto love Hinata. I remember reading a comment dissing the SS ship. An SS shipper replied to that comment saying something like, "You are wrong. Kishimoto made them end up together, so obviously, they love each other." I remember cringing because the argument was so pathetic.

I even tried to convince myself that the problem wasn't with the ships but with Kishimoto for failing to write a good romance. SS and NH fans claimed that Kishimoto doesn't know how to write romance or a good female character. I also tried to believe those claims, but I actually doubted them deep inside. The voice in the back of my mind was like, "How is it possible for a person to write a story like Naruto (which was all about emotions and feelings) and not know how to write romance? How can a person who writes characters like Tsunade, Temari, and Konan don't know how to write good female characters?? It was impossible."

At present, I know that the reason I tried to find validation for NH and SS is because I failed to understand the characterisation of Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and Sakura.

The reason behind the existence of chapter 700 can be guessed easily — so that Boruto manga can exist. But the reasons for Naruto and Sasuke not ending up together are more than that. It was because of the prejudices prevalent against homosexuality, the limitations of the Shonen genre, for the existence of Boruto manga, or maybe because Kishimoto intended for Naruto and Sasuke to be star-crossed lovers. Whatever it is, it doesn't change the fact that Naruto and Sasuke were actually in love with each other throughout the 699 chapters.

Anyway, so back then, as I couldn't comprehend the love between Naruto and Sasuke, I was constantly confused, desperate, and insecure in relation to the NH and SS ships.

(Do note here that I didn't ship NH or SS, I was just trying to find justifications behind them.)

Once my younger sibling asked, "Would Naruto do the same thing for others that he did for Sasuke?" I wanted to say yes, but then I remembered Naruto threatening Gaara during their fight that he would kill him if he hurt his friends (even after knowing that they shared similar pain and past), how he told Obito to return as a Konoha shinobi and receive the appropriate punishment for his crimes, how he never once tried to figure out the reason behind Sai's emotionless smiles and help him come out of that emptiness even after knowing that Sai was traumatised, and many other incidents.

When my sibling asked to describe the bond between the two, my words were all over the place because I found it hard to describe their bond. I wanted to say that they're friends, but somehow, it didn't feel right.

How could I call them just friends when Kishimoto himself drew these posters??

The main reason I failed to understand their dynamic was because I had never been exposed to gay media before. It hindered my ability to comprehend the SNS dynamic.

I had to reread the Naruto manga and watch the anime to finally understand that Naruto and Sasuke were in love and they're not just friends. SNS analysis on tumblr also helped me greatly to clear the confusion.

As a fact, Naruto and Sasuke were the first gay couple that I started shipping. And not just that. They were also the 'first couple' that I shipped. Before watching Naruto, I watched many movies, animes, and k-dramas, and I read many fantasy books too, but I never liked any couple with such fierceness and deep love as I have liked Naruto and Sasuke. Even though I liked the couple in the stories, it was only to the point of 'like'. I never shipped any of them. But SNS showed me a totally new level of love story. It transcended all of the love stories that I've ever read. The dedication, love, sacrifice, selflessness, possessiveness, they showed toward each other was mind blowing. I love SNS as much as I love my family. This is how deep my love for them goes.

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En "secreto en la montaña" los protagonistas tampoco se quedaron juntos. Se casaron con mujeres y tuvieron hijos con ellas. Visto así Naruto terminó igual

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

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I MUST push the limits of what still constitutes as bishounen