#I'm sad for naruto

[stardewpoesie]

may i also add:

May not be the best way to frame Sakura's entire thoughts towards Sasuke, but these happened in the same arc. And Sakura did intend to eliminate Sasuke (without asking him or wanting to hear him out) simply because he wasn't acting as the ideal crush of her dreams.

Also Naruto, hearing all that from Sakura, decided to tell Sasuke that he was happy to know him, and that he would care for him unconditionally..

the difference between sakura’s fake confession boiled down is just “now that you are a hero i love you” to sasuke’s genuine confession being “i loved you even when you were a gremlin child terrorizing the village”

[toastedatlas]

sketches from today

[cloysterbell]

You discover a new tv show. It has everything you've ever wanted. You fall in love with this show. You watch every episode, you read everything you can get your hands on, you can't stop talking about it. But then it ends, as all shows eventually do. And you're sad. Heartbroken, even. You spend some time mourning the loss of something that was so special to you and you think you'll never find another show like this ever again, there'll never be another show like this one. But then you discover a new tv show. It has everything you've ever wanted. You fall in love with this show. And the cycle repeats forever.

[instant-bull]

Hashirama thoughts I dumped on a Discord server recently. I'm not editing too much in them, sorry if any of this is chaotic. Hope you enjoy some exhausted rambling

Tonight I'm thinking about God Hashirama from the angle of "how fucked up his situation is".

Like, if he's some sort of a god, then imo the most compelling option would a Jesus sort of situation, rather than physical descendance from a god. He's born of humans but for some reason he's chosen, he possesses the mokuton, and I love how this can be linked to him being some sort of god of nature: not only trees, maybe, but plants, maybe even expanding into fungi (but that's discussion for another day because if I speak one more word on antropocene we will be here all night).

So, Hashirama, as a god of nature, rather a manifestation of nature than a power that controls it: he's not The God, but he is a god, for sure. Are there any gods? Maybe, but I think they are a completely different thing than Hashirama, and he doesn't concern himself with them.

So, the fucked up situation angle: he's a mortal god, born and trapped in a mortal body, surrounded by humans who see him as a human: a really skilled and powerful one, but a human nonetheless. Does he even realize he's a god? I think he does, to an extent, I think trees tell him a lot of different things and he listens to them dilligently. It'd an ancient forest, and compared to them he's young and small, but he's the link that connects humans and plants, and the one who's meant to keep them at a balance.

So, he realizes he's a god, but he never gets a god complex or anything like that: I think he's selfless enough, self aware enough to understand he can't be going around calling himself a god, lest he attracts unwanted kind of attention. He wants to plant seeds of peace (pun intended) so that when he's inevitably gone, his dream can go on without him. If he were to divide and conquer and set himself an emperor or something, it would all come crumbling down once he's gone. Nobody would be able to fill in his shoes. Nobody else is a god after all.

So, instead he chooses the difficult and slow-burning way of compassion and kindness, he puts on a brave and jovial face towards the world that hates him and builds himself a little nest in between of the whole chaos he cannot control. He demeans himself and works like a human, so that humans can pick up the pieces once he's gone. In the end, he's a god with no worshippers, with no faith on his side, and that's what makes him, in my opinion, very clingy and sensitive to rejection. He needs all the praise, all the support, all the worship he can get, it is only in his nature to crave that.

Also, his status, even if it's only in his head, is what gives him all that outgoingness and happy-go-lucky attitude. He doesn't see humans as equal to him, since they are so much weaker and unable to see and comprehend things he does: at best he observes them like how we observe puppies. He loves humans, he cares for them so much, but he struggles to truly connect with them. Perhaps he perceives and processes emotions differently, he's not fully human, he's kind of removed: that's why he doesn't treat things very seriously, unless they are concerning Very Big Ideas: his dream, his people... death, that one for sure. That's why he weeps real tears when his younger brothers die, but doesn't show a slightest bit of concern that he introduced his little granddaughter to gambling and took part in her being an addict: it's really not that deep, in his mind. It's a quirk, if anything, it's silly!

Tbh the say Hashirama views humans and his closest people is such a rabbit hole on its own... But last though rn is that I think he shows some psychopathic tendencies (this is hard to research bc most papers on psychopathy treat it like it's an Evil Person Disease: I mean mostly his thrill-seeking, low empathy (but great compassion), disregard for norms and rules and aforementioned detachment (in his case specific to his status)). Sorry if any of this is kind of disjointed

[leaveamessageafterthescream]

i've nothing without you

[moldy-flowers]

Me n @bubba-buff drew Sakura a (Not belated I Have NO idea what you're talking about) birthday gift of her from childhood shows we watched

here's Bubbas GORGEOUS art (THAT THEY DREW AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT BTW??? The skill on them like what 😭) with my colouring and shading!! This is her from winx club,,, I like the sparkles they were fun to add. I mean I literally used a brush to do it but it was still fun lol. I SPEDRAN THE AXE SHADING BC I DIDNT KNOW WAYY INWAS DOING IDK HOW TO SHADE METAL WAA 😭😭😭

Heres my art with Bubbas gorgeous colouring 💞💝✨️💗♥️❣️💓💞💝💗❣️💖💝💌💌

My dad made fun of her hands 😞😞 BTW SHES FROM CARD CAPTOR SAKURA!!!!! I couldn't pick between literally making her card captor Sakura or making her a clow card so i kinda mixed both??? It doesn't look like a clow card or like she's a Card captor but blegh! It was fun. And it was also fun when I finished the colouring before bubba could bc of the flowers lmao

[team7-headquarter]

The fact that it is a trope in Naruto that Kakashi saves Sakura before Sasuke can or when Sasuke is in a position to do so himself is so unhinged.

What was Kishimoto trying to do there?

The first time it happens (just outside of Konoha while traveling to the Land of the Waves), Sasuke very clearly thinks Kakashi is showing off. It's one of those funny moments where you can see how both Sasuke and Kakashi like being dramatic.

From that point, the story somehow establishes that it's Kakashi's job to protect Sakura as Sasuke and Naruto fight. At least Sasuke thinks that's the case...

It happens during the fight with Haku. I know that Sakura screams and Sasuke immediately wonders what Kakashi is doing when Sakura is in danger. I don't think he'd wonder the same if it was Naruto out there, since he'd probably criticize Naruto and not Kakashi for Naruto's own safety.

When Kakashi saves Sakura from both the chidori and the rasengan, they don't mention it at all, like it was natural for Kakashi to be there and for him to save / protect Sakura. At the time, Naruto was panicking because he couldn't stop, in the sense that he knew he didn't have the skill to do so, but Sasuke was more shocked that it was Sakura he'd hit. Once Sakura was safe and the thing was over, Sasuke went immediately back to thinking about how he was weak compared to Naruto.

He wasn't worried about Sakura not because he didn't care, but because that moment reassured him about Kakashi being there to protect her.

(It's worth mentioning Sasuke was upset over Naruto being the one who rescued her from Gaara because Sasuke was too used to having the role of second protector of the team, since it signaled he was the second strongest around).

Then, in Shippuden? Sasuke doesn't see Sakura as a real threat. He did mean to kill her during the Land of Iron, but the narrative again placed both Kakashi and Naruto there to protect her life. As soon as Kakashi and Naruto appeared, Sasuke forgot about her.

That encounter was the farthest Team 7 had been from the old days and the roles they had at those moments. Teamwork was absolutely gone.

During the Fourth Shinobi War, things went back a bit to what they were. Sasuke and Naruto tried to protect Sakura by telling her to stand behind or step back, except Sakura refused to be protected. They worked seamlessly for a few minutes, until it all went to hell and Kaguya appeared.

Kakashi spent almost the entire battle protecting Sakura. Understandable, since the first thing she did was run to get impaled like she didn't care at all about her own life. (Kakashi was scared shitless that something would happen to her).

TWO TIMES during the Kaguya fight Sakura was in danger and Naruto pointed out (commanded, really) that Sasuke could help her and Sasuke did move to do so, he did face her to act, before his mind could process what he was doing. In both cases, Kakashi was faster and had her safe and sound before Sasuke could even reconsider.

First in the lava world, where Kakashi had Sakura and Obito already secured, so Sasuke moved to protect Naruto. Second when Obito gave both his eyes to Kakashi and he decided to go all Susanno to pull Sakura out of danger, to Sasuke's surprise.

Time to mention that the narrative of the manga makes explicit the petty rivalry between Kakashi and Sasuke. Sasuke does hate him for having the sharingan, you know, and Kakashi would not stop when recriminating how Sasuke decided to use the things he taught him, like the chidori, to hurt his comrades.

Anyway, Naruto decides to use that moment to tell Sasuke that Kakashi's susanno was cooler and talk about how the Copy Nin was amazing and all of that. If I had to guess, Naruto was more than a bit irritated because Sasuke was rude to Kakashi and Sakura and called them useless. It is a good guess if I'm allowed to say so, since Naruto also made a point of telling Sasuke to thanks Sakura for helping Obito bring him back from another dimension.— After all, Naruto did also complain about Sasuke being the leader, since he thought Sakura and Kakashi were better at making plans.

It kinda reached its limits when Sasuke put her under a genjutsu (of getting hit with a chidori to the chest, of all things) and Kakashi lost his cool. He was so visibly frustrated with Sasuke and the feeling was mutual.

It was call back to sooo many moments between Sakura and Sasuke:

When Sakura cried and calmmed the cursed mark back at the Forest of Death, when Sakura tried to prevent Sasuke from competing with the cursed mark during the Chuning Exams preliminaries and Sasuke told her to shut up, or when she tried to stop him from leaving Konoha to find Orochimaru and Sasuke knocked her out. It was an echo of the way Sasuke did almost hit her with a chidori back when they were kids without meaning to and then years later when he did mean to kill her; it was the memory all the times she worried about him and rushed to put herself in danger for his wellbeing when he didn't want her to.

When Sasuke left to fight Naruto, Kakashi was the one who stayed with her. When Sasuke left on his journey for atonement, Kakashi was there to tell him to behave, but also he was there next to the girl he had been protecting for years now. I don't know what all of that was supposed to mean...

I guess that Sakura played a part in Sasuke and Naruto's rivalry as much as she played a part in Kakashi and Sasuke's animosity.

[teapotart]

just random sad bird clan things i drew and never posted

[faggotnojutsu]

a bottle of soju deep (is a lightweight): no youu don't get it I know I know The Crane Wives shows up in a lot of character playlists but Allies or Enemies is theeeee hashimada song ever to me and I don't care I don't care it just is... And take me to war? Don't even get me started.

[shizuma-is-my-pet-fish]

(About my 'The Blood That Binds and Blinds Us' fic)

(Spoilers for future chapters wayyy down the line? Theme spoilers ig.)

I keep making myself sad. While also laughing. Thinking about how Itachi + Kisame and Shizuma are in such different genres rn.

Itachi and Kisame: We don't have long left...our path is shortening...we must leave behind what little good we can in this world of ours...selfishly indulge in the wonders of the future we will never live to see...

Shizuma, writing in a journal in his room: They didn't eat me. Holy shit. Buntan my love I will have much to share once we reunite.

[skykashi]

They are playing Demon Slayer on the tv rn and I just rewatched the episode where Rengoku dies and now my heart is broken all over again 😭😭 it's been too long since I watched it the first time that I forgot how friggin' sad it was 💔 Rengoku San, why did you have to dieeeeee? 😭😭😭💔💔 He just promised those kids to train them and make them as strong as him but he never got the chance 😭😭😭😭😭

[lmaster37]

FUCK i need to write a million fics RIGHT NOW where haku and zabuza survive the land of waves and get to actually fucking. develop a healthy relationship. idk they strike a deal with kakashi or smth to get amnesty in konohagakure and haku gets to grow up and make friends with all the genin of that generation and zabuza learns how to be a proper dad outside the stress of being a shinobi and also they live forever and everything is good and fine and nothing hurts

[cairafea]

mirai and shino are best friends, change my mind.

[renaapeach]

Ugh this is just word vomit but the pain of re-reading childhood media and seeing the flaws in your favourite character over and over but you can't admit they're not as great of a person as you thought because you know what they went through and you know how much you felt comforted by them as a kid i want to punch myself in my face

[danikatze]

Naruto is the kind of story that makes me go 😂,🙄 and😢 all at once. That's probably why I like it.

[earthgrudgefear]

ok