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★ 【小唄朗】 「 時をかける少女3 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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I think my favorite love stories all have some sort of tension in them...lol

May and Drew Sakura and Sasuke Elizabeth and Darcy Rory and Jess

Also love Maryanne and Connell, and Fleabag and Hot Priest lol I think they're also good examples

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There's been plenty of debate about when Sasuke started having feelings for Sakura, but I think this shows us that feelings were there at least by this point if not before. He can't help but smile proudly at her fighting. Him catching her after getting though the portal and holding her eye contact is an especially intimate and tender interaction in the middle of all the chaos and him trying to act like he doesn't care about her. It's the nonverbal things with them for me lol

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i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.

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training buddies and their very competitive teachers

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A Ted Talk lol

I'm clearing out some posts and drafts, and found an old draft about Naruto fandom ✨discourse✨ from 2018 that makes me laugh now, but also has some interesting and sincere thoughts that I think still ring true even 6 years later. I made some edits and added thoughts.

8/14/2018 | 12/22/2024 This fandom has been...wild to say the least lol. It's a great example of the type of Tumblr fandom social justice mayhem that happened from like 2014 to 2021, and that I can imagine continues to happen to some degree now.

Just to reiterate something that's already been said many times, Naruto proves that pop culture aimed at boys should have carefully written main female characters. There is the blatant misogyny that's happened in this fandom that anyone can see. Meanwhile, certain specific fans in the Naruto fandom that I may or may not need to specify (lol) have acted like the gatekeepers of social justice discourse in the fandom when really they've often just been hypocritical and selective about the type of issues they apparently care about when it comes to how they manifest in pop culture, or at least in this bananas series. They've often been bystanders or apologists or worse to that blatant misogyny.

Back when I started writing this, I was 22 and angry at the large swaths of the fandom insulting the intelligence of Sakura fans like myself. I still love Sakura and SS, but I don't have an issue now saying that men like Kishimoto writing dynamics like Sasuke and Sakura's is something that should be...looked into, let's put it that way haha. That being said, I still find it disheartening seeing Sakura, very much torn down by misogynistic fans in a large, primarily male fanbase, also torn down or criticized for supposedly feminist reasons by people who are often just determined to dislike her for whatever reason or somehow clearly miss important details and set double standards. Back in 2017, I wrote in another post: I'm sick of condescending takes about Sakura and her fans as though there's little about Sakura’s character or the end of her story that could or should possibly resonate positively with girls.

Kishimoto's writing deserves to be criticized and certain characters and things clearly should've been written more carefully and responsibly. But in light of everything that's been going on in the world, I sincerely still think people should at least think a little more about what Sakura has meant to a lot of girls and how the story actually unfolds.

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Abraham Mignon, Still Life with Flowers and a Watch (detail), 1660 - 1679. Oil on canvas, 75 × 60 × 8 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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I just think it's funny

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Handmade figures of Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno

Source: (x)

Official Art by Masashi Kishimoto:

Fanart:

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no bond is stronger than a girl and the first anime she ever watched

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this one is so funny like okay we get it lol

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heirloom farmer Bettinakbh in Denmark

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what they don’t tell you about making art is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

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Father’s Eyes ~ Mother’s Fists