#(is a naruto enjoyer)

[sleepysheepytea]

pre-shippuden naruto au where everything is the same except after every interaction with sakura, sasuke goes home and does this

[meoowwxx]

kakashi hatake

[leiandroid]

hc that neji's first impression of ino was set in stone and ino never recovered from the bruise to her ego and so they openly dislike each other

[bibbiosis]

Love it when my favorite character is also my favorite to draw

[ID in plain and alt text: digital art page of xie lian drawn 3 times against a pastel yellow background with an orange grid. On the left is him with both arms behind his back looking sheepish, eyes upwards avoiding the camera with a guilty smile and sweat drops drawn next to him. On the top right is xie lian with a similar sheepish expression, hands waving in front of him. On the bottom right, he bends his neck and head forward looking to the side with a judgemental open mouthed frown, one pointer finger resting on his chin. End ID]

[teapotart]

the curse of love

[omeya]

[everyitachi]

[yazzdonut]

funny how me and the people who thought rock lee and kisame were hot back in the deviantart days were constantly mocked and now we're considered to be ahead of our time

[bluismie]

felt unleashing my inner weaboo this week

[zephyrs-bliss]

my little sibling and i made scuffed as shit naruto ship birthday cakes and had the most fun ever doing it 10/10 activity i do reccommend

[surpriserose]

Not beating the started watching naruto allegations 😔

[everymadara]

Chapter 677

[shalomniscient]

link to and feixiao weekly leaks utc

BIG FOXY OMG ???

a CUTIE just like fei oughhh ,,,,, i need to ,,,, give it scritches ,,,,

[tentenismybitch]

currently watching the kage summit arc and wondering why more people don't ship narusai like omg ... sai cares about him SO MUCH SO QUICKLY and is yelling at everybody to stop relying on naruto so much and causing him so much pain ... literally feeling anger for the first time in his life towards sasuke because of how much pain naruto is in ... making sakura cry and guilt tripping her and then apologizing to naruto for making sakura cry like man what is he ON? it's called love juice your honor

[teapotart]

just random sad bird clan things i drew and never posted

[panharmonium]

What do you think about this: "Kakashi was never interested in Sasuke as an individual, he only projected himself into him and saw a smaller version of himself on Sasuke, Sasuke was never Sasuke to him, just a little Kakashi". I wanted to know your opinion because I miss your meta posts and I feel like lately people are hating Kakashi for things that aren't real :/, also you are really good at explaining and I feel that both characters need love

Hello! Thanks for the question!

The answer to "what do i think about this" is, honestly, that I don't think about it X) I watched the whole show without engaging with the fandom at all (for fear of spoilers, initially), so I was able to experience it without being exposed to anyone else's thoughts, and now that I'm done I generally still avoid poking around, because devoting mental energy to opinions that I find bizarre/not supported by the text doesn't enhance my fandom experience.

Kakashi and Sasuke's relationship is one of the most compelling things about the series to me. I was very surprised when I finished the show/manga and first exposed myself to the fandom only to find so few people invested in them, but at this point I've (mostly) stopped asking myself "what show was everyone else watching" and just settled into enjoying the show that I watched, because that's more fun for me. I can't convince people not to dislike Kakashi if that's what they want to do. I do find it a little weird, because I don't think that's what the story is asking from us, but as long as people mind their business and aren't bugging me on my own blog, they're free to do what they want.

I know it can be frustrating when there are people hating various characters for "things that aren't real," but the fact that these criticisms aren't "real" is precisely why I generally avoid engaging with them. For Kakashi, specifically, there are certain things people can say that will immediately make me stop taking them seriously - "projecting" is one. "Bootlicking" is another, but again, these terms are so wildly inaccurate that I'm not interested in talking about them. The manga and the show are easily accessible; if people want to rewatch/re-read them, they can.

In general, I just prefer to avoid engaging with most of the fandom negativity I see. I think overall most of the rancor I've stumbled across boils down to people engaging with the story in very ungenerous ways, if that makes sense, and that's not how I prefer to read/watch things. Like - back when I was still in the middle of watching the show, I remember someone sent me a message saying that they loved seeing me talk about the story with earnestness/joy, and it was such a lovely message to receive, but it also made me pause and wonder for a second if this was really an uncommon enough thing to be remarked upon. Wouldn't that be the default? Aren't we all here because we love the story and the characters so much? But the truth is that sometimes it does feel like large chunks of fandom spaces (not just Naruto, I mean; I've certainly experienced this elsewhere) are very focused on being negative about "things that aren't real," as you said. Like - people calling Sakura "abusive" for bopping Naruto on the head when he says something rude, when this is not something the text is even remotely trying to say about her. People writing off Jiraiya's entire storyline because of the non-consensual spying on women - which, yes, of course, is disgusting and wrong. Obviously. I am very aware of that. However, I can simultaneously recognize that the story isn't really interested in that or intending me to read it like that; the voyeurism is written as a joke (yes, I understand how gross that is) and there are a hundred potential personal and/or patriarchal and/or genre-related and/or cultural factors that may have gone into Kishimoto writing this particular fail. If I want to understand and appreciate what the story was ACTUALLY trying to communicate with Jiraiya (that he's an idealist who gave up on the world when everything went wrong, who turned to shallow pleasures of the flesh to distract him from the pain of his disillusionment, and who was finally restored to his former faith after meeting Naruto), then I have to mindfully set the voyeurism aside and go, "This writer wrote a gross thing, and I recognize that, but I'm also not going to fixate on it, because I can simultaneously appreciate/find meaning in what he was really trying to say."

I think some of the Kakashi complaints out there very much fall under this umbrella. If I have to see one more person frothing at the mouth about Kakashi briefly tying Sasuke (a qualified ninja who has already demonstrated his ability to escape rope restraints and whom Kakashi has been individually mentoring, sparring against, and connecting with for a month) to a tree for approximately sixty seconds - honestly. I don't know how to tell people they're missing the point, so I don't bother.

Ultimately, the fact of the matter is that people are entitled to dislike any character that they want, even for contrived reasons. As long as they're doing their own thing in their own space and letting me do my thing in mine, we're good.