#( im at work)

[mar1psa]

i feel like his fav fruit is tomato..hed get mad if you called it a vegetable and then dump facts

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[thetrashthatsmilesback]

My issue with how Naruto is portrayed as hokage in Boruto, and subsequently the treatment of the surviving Uchiha (Sasuke and Sarada) in Boruto, is that it undermines the political messaging of Naruto completely.

So Naruto (the character) agrees with Nagato and Sasuke regarding the abuse they faced and the need for an overhaul of Shinobi society. This is not where he disagrees with them. Naruto (the character) is the closest thing the manga has to a pacifist (though he's a poor representation of one, I'm not going to harp on that too hard as I'm not expecting the shonen manga to get too deep into leftist political theory for its audience of 12 year olds). He is not shown to actually disagree with Nagato or Sasuke on the basis of their beliefs, but instead on their actions. Naruto doesn't believe that mass suffering is needed to bring peace (Nagato's plan of causing pain to bring empathy.) He also doesn't believe in killing all of the kages or martyring Sasuke as someone to be eternally hated for the sake of peace. His issue with killing the kages has to do with the instability that would lead to (what we're shown).

So in modern terms, Naruto is closest to a socdem - someone who wants to work within the system to bring about leftist changes to the system.

Okay

But then we get to Boruto and we have:

The Uchiha tablet has been moved to the middle of the woods, effectively erasing their culture from Konoha completely

Sarada has people making comments about her carrying the curse of hate and faces discrimination for her ancestors part in the fourth war - meaning the very conditions which facilitated the Uchiha massacre/genocide are still in place, furthered by a lack of history education of the Uchiha via the removal of their cultural texts to outside the village (the tablet)

Children still are sent to fight and die for Konoha

The council of elders still has political strength

The anbu still exist

Those who took part in hiding the truth behind the Uchiha massacre/genocide have faced no consequences and have maintained their positions of power

The hokage still has an unlimited term AND is not elected by the citizens of Konoha - the hokage still falls under the control of the will of the elders if they wish to keep their position

And the thing that gets me is that there is no evidence in Naruto (the manga) that Naruto (the character) would hide the truth of the Uchiha massacre. He immediately went to tell people but was held back by Kakashi, but Kakashi would have no power over him once he's hokage.

So is this some commentary about how revolution is the only path forward towards change? I'd be shocked at kishi's sudden change in political beliefs but fair enough, i can totally work with the narrative through that view point.

But the why the fuck is Sasuke, the main revolutionary of the series, now an asset of the state?

Or was the idea that change takes time?

But why were they able to erect a statue of Itachi whilst moving the last of Uchiha culture literally outside the village.

Is it that Kishi didn't think about his own political messages before writing Boruto, effectively ruining Naruto's character as a fighter for the oppressed?

Most likely.

Because at the end of Naruto, Naruto vowed to fight for the oppressed. He wanted to fix things for Nagato, and Neji, and Sasuke. He wanted to overhaul the entire system, he just wanted to do so in a way that wouldn't result in more civilian deaths.

That his time as hokage in canon has finished the eradication of a culture from konoha, continued the abuses of children, did not end Konoha's economic reliance on violence, and more is a complete destruction of his character.

And the thing is that Naruto didn't have to end by validating Nagato, Neji, and Sasuke's beliefs. Kishi could have gone full ally of the oppressive state and painted them as incorrect wholly and completely.

He didn't.

He made the choice to have them be objectively mistreated and to have his protagonist agree that change was necessary. HE is the one who validated them. He is the one who wrote their oppression into the story, and also had his protagonist agree they were oppressed and that change is necessary

[soulzerofever]

paaaaaht numbaaah ooooooone (1/uhhhh??)

part 2! || part 3!

[mossycobblestonewrites]

DC X/& DP LION KING AUS

DP only:

Things are a bit different,, Danny is Simba yes, Vlad is scar yes. Vlad kills Jack (as mufasa) :).. now for the different things,, Danny runs into the woods where he meets Sam and Tucker (replacing Pumba & Timon) and they basically raise each other. Jazz replaces Nala BUT they are siblings and the reason Danny follows her back is because tHATS HIS BIG SISTER!!!

DC only:

I don't have everything figured out for this one 😔

Damian is Simba,, Bruce dies :).. idk who scar would be.. the BIGGEST DIFFERENCE instead of a Pumba and Timon, Damian runs into the Batkids (ALL OF THEM, JUST A WHOLE FERAL PACK OF THEM) and stays with them :) no clue who Nala would be, don't care, I only care about the feral pack of kids uwu.

DC X DP:

Went back and forth with how to mash them and decided this was the funniest.

Danny is once again Simba with Vlad as scar,, same as the DP only one,,, Pumba and Timon are the pack of Batkids. Nala would be replaced by Sam AND Tucker :),, idk where Bruce is,, or jazz... This was mostly half baked but I needed to get it out

[likelytorain]

i cant fix him 🙁

[cold-red-venom]

GUYS PLEASE WATCH RDR2 AS VINES ON YT THE ONE BY @hoppy6787 I FCKING KILLING ME ITS SO ACCURATE

[castlebyler]

ST5 TEASER???? ON A RANDOM MONDAY???

[kitteecassee]

♡⁠

[sickofthistoxicshit]

So the next 1 on 1 interaction between Eddie and Buck after Buck injures Eddie, and Buck is afraid that Eddie is mad at him until tree trunk T tells him that if anything Eddie, for some reason, is sorry for making him feel excluded, is Eddie hugging Buck in the coming out scene.

And then after Buck injures Gerrard, Buck is afraid Gerrard will be mad and fire him, when in fact Gerrard hugs him and thanks him for saving his life.

So maybe the moral here is embracing the scary things because they may be a blessing in disguise.

I don't know, I'm spit-balling here, but you gotta appreciate the symmetry lol.

[wagingmywarsbehindmyface]

In celebration of upcoming spooky season aaand new project, here are films from my favourite director of my least favourite genre of cinema! 🎥👻🧜‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧝‍♂️ (yeah I know, it doesn’t make any sense! I despise horrors… BUT EGGERS!! 🫰 It’s an another level of making them I LOVE OK! HE IS A GENIUS!)

[lizstiel]

IF THEY HAD AIRED THIS??????? I WOULD BE A SHELL OF A HUMAN

[floating-potatoes]

program tutorial: so you add an anchor

me, thinking about Them: using an anchor jsut like—

[cokowiii]

There’s so many…

[madame-mongoose]

Thinking abt the inherent intimacy of ripping something apart with your bare teeth. Your lips touching hard metal in the semblance of a kiss, only to part as your teeth dent and tear at impenetrable plating. Feeling their wires snap, the electric shock tingle along your jaw. Feeling your tooth chip as you crunch down on hard steel. You're destroying them, sure, but you won't come away undamaged either. That's the price to pay for a love so fierce it feels like hate

ASKS THAT MAKE ME BLUSH IRL???? OH HOLY SHIT

[minawakitten]

cryin in the fuckin arbys over choso