#I am trash but it is ok

[nebulous-lalochezia]

Having crushes on fictional side characters is a big sad sometimes. I want more content but they are side characters with little screen time.

I. WILL. JUST. HAVE TO WRITE. MY OWN CONTENT

[feshsticks]

pt 3 of re8/pokemon no-one asked for 👍 tbh this one has been waiting for my attention for about 20ish months and i only did it now to avoid doing something else :)

[viridian-house]

Do you have any favorite naruto fics you’d recommend? Any pairing, complete or not, on-hiatus, gen, oneshots, anything is fine lol

I was legitimately just pruning my bookmarks the other day!! thank you so much for asking.

I don't read too much fanfic these days, and I'm picky when I do--only about grammar/punctuation and immersion though. I ship a LOT of stuff (I guess The Youth would call me a proshipper) and although I never read darkfic, I don't shy away from weirder kinks and unhealthy relationship stuff.

categorizing by pairing, if applicable. some of them are smutty, and please note that the first 3 come from FFN which doesn't have a tagging system, but there is some SA CW I'll give in advance.

KAKASAKU | my first OTP! formative fics that totally reshaped my understanding of what fanfiction could be, and how well-written chemistry can make it or break it

HOUSE OF CROWS is the quintessential kakasaku fanfic. it was written during shippuden and so is canon divergent because of that, but also tells a comprehensive story of its own right that is intriguing and well planned. excellent characterization and world building. leaves me gutted in the best way on my yearly reread.

DUTY BEFORE HONOR is another silvershine classic. I don't reread is as often as House of Crows but they are just about equal in quality. again, the chemistry between them is off the charts, and the world feels so alive.

WILL OF FIRE for me is up there with House of Crows in being essential kakasaku reading. cynchick is a multisaku champion and a wonderful storyteller. the stakes in this one are stressful, the romance tense and believable, and we once again get lovely world building and great chemistry.

ITAKISA | a pairing near and dear to me, because men who do everything wrong are so deeply relatable. they both know they don't deserve anything good ever again but they found each other!!!! ARE YOU GUYS SEEING THIS--

A SHARK HIDDEN INN THE LEAVES doesn't have my favorite version of Kisame, but he's plenty close enough. it's a lengthy oneshot that got me into certain *ahem* kinks. it is a very fun and wild fic that is entirely self-aware of how absurd it's being, and manages to have nothing but sincerity at the same time (and I highly recommend the author's other stories as well)

AN ORCHESTRA PLAYING ON, INSANE is a modern AU (extremely rare in my bookmarks) that absolutely tore my heart out. god is it SO much to ask for these losers to be happy?! yes, it is, and I love every moment of it

MADAMITO | a rarepair I am SUCH a sucker for that has some of the most talented authors writing for it. lots of them have ot3 elements between them and hashirama, often angsty, but stuff like that is part of the appeal for me, lol

A HANDFUL OF SKY is an unfinished fic that I genuinely think about like once a week. if it ever updates then I will be over the moon. technically hashimadamito but it hadn't quite gotten there yet

LIKE ALTARS is just such a beautiful piece of writing, mostly on madara. it is everything, that is all

BLOOD AND RIVER WATER is more mito-centric but has one of my favorite madaras of all time

YOURS ARE RATTLED BONES is another short, mito-centric but gut-wrenching piece featuring the opposite type of madara from the last one

OTHER | character-centric stuff that isn't necessarily shippy but also doesn't have a very "gen" vibe either?

A SERPENT IN THE RICE is a little series about orochimaru that makes me feel so so so many things. highly recommended

HERETIC is such a love letter to kushina, and kurama too. cannot stress enough how much I adore this one

there's a few others that I probably won't link on tumblr, mostly unhealthy and/or "problematic" smut hhfhdj but maybe I'll make a public rec list on ao3 for these different categories and stuff like that.

but yeah that's pretty much it!!! I know it's not a huge list with a lot of variety but it's what I've enjoyed over the last 15+ years in the naruto fandom.

[fxnker]

happy new year 😌🍾

[ecoustsaintmein]

Thorsten's Love Language is 'Acts of Service'

[torchickentacos]

I'm reading poetry at 1 am and spiraling over like 45 emotions at once, which is how poetry was meant to be enjoyed, I think

[bright-and-burning]

have i ever mentioned how much i love working in public service. i love working in public service. i was told for like the fourth time tonight that i should run for office. also got told i sound and look like an italian american from the jersey shore (I AM FROM THE MIDWEST. W A FRENCH LAST NAME.) which would apparently benefit me in running for office in [redacted neighborhood]. do you know how fucking incredible it is to just get drunk w other public service workers and talk about like. street design. public transit plans. constituents destroying bathrooms to get back at transportation planners (???). how we’d fix the housing crisis if anyone had the guts to do it. public trash cans. like omg. i love public service!!! i love the people i know in it!! i love the young gusto and sheer will to Fix Things of the people around me!!!!

[ichbinmeltdown]

This happened when my mom and I were waiting for the bus after an appointment

*Really loud train horn blares a few blocks away* What my brain impulsively told me to say: SHUT UP ASTROTRAIN!!!

[a-substantial-trash-pile]

may i ask a question

that's so ominous but sure lol

if you were an anon asking this i'd be a little more scared 💀

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

Parts of Alysmond I NEED to see:

-Their iconic first meeting, whatever that may entail

-Alys stopping Aemond from blowing a fuse when he finds out about King's Landing

-Aemond fighting Crispy over Alys (whether Crispy likes her or not I don't care I just need Aemond to completely lose his shit over her ok)

-Aemond leaving Harrenhal like brb babe

-Aemond hearing from some random villagers while out foraging that Harrenhal has been taken by Sabitha Frey and she found a pregnant witch there and he's like shit shit shit I gotta go back

-Obv the moment he reburns Harrenhal and takes Alys with him

-him and Alys camping, probably Alys stopping him from doing stupid shit

-I NEED to see the moment Alys decides to take him back to Harrenhal, either as revenge for what he's done to her ancestral home OR she genuinely thinks he can merk Daemon's good noodle with his giant nuke lizard

-And of course, that good bye kiss even historians jotted down

[capinejghafa]

If I had a nickel every time a romance author wrote that the FMC was afraid of wind due to some traumatic event in her past, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[feshsticks]

they ain't kiddin - if u wanna see ur own fic update, u gotta do it urself 😔😔 in the meantime have this 10 minute SBT silly based off below, as wisely suggested by @donnasmeatballs

[inchidentally]

¡¿dos?!

[cloudstongue]

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL POLL!!!!

tagging @pocketslook @millylostintheosc and nobody else i dont want to get hunted down

[mamawasatesttube]

just remembered how megfitz made tim think about how bernard is so much better than all the other relationships he'd "settled for" and was once again briefly consumed by rage. meghan you apologize to zoanne wilkins right the fuck now