#Sakura is a good boy

[aucrowne]

⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ Don't worry, Sakura. Santa was just a lil lost. Now that you have a safe and permanent address, he can deliver your presents -- plus the ones you missed!

--- also last art for this year |˶˙ᵕ˙ )ﾉﾞSee you next year, peeps. Will def make a pinned post next year to make it easier to navigate through my art lol

Happy Holidays ヾ( ˃ᴗ˂ )◞ • *✰

⬅ Windbreaker Silly little sketches ◼

[kumeramen]

The dungeon meshi meme got me reminded of these trio lol

[perpetuallyexhaustedlibrarian]

Everyone teases Sakura about games because he's too good at everything else

Bahaha this poor baby 😆

[sakuranightsart]

Moomintroll IS a good boy!!

ムーミントロールはいい子ですよ！！

Bonus (sorry for my bad handwriting LOL):

おまけ（私の漢字はだめです笑）：

[bisepunk]

So… while finishing some stsg pieces for a zine, I’m also working on some Wind Breaker stickers/keychains if anyone’s interested 👀

What do you think about white wolf Ume and surly cat Sakura?

Would you like to see the rest of the pack?

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

GOD HE HAS NO RIGHT BEING THIS FUCKING ADORABLE

[raikirikiri]

thinking about if konoha ninja who became anbu frequently 'died' so they wouldn't be on any registry and so other villages would get word that notable shinobi have 'died'. they don't do it often, that would be suspicious, but they do it to kakashi. minato assigns him to anbu and apologizes blandly when he tells him his death is going to be faked. kakashi, broken traumatized and depressed, thinks nothing of it.

kakashi 'dies' on a mission months after the death of rin, after obito watched, after he lost pretty much everything and any sense of self he had. his body isn't recovered and the circumstances of his death are unclear.

if im being entirely cruel, this means that no one in the village (guy, asuma, iruka, etc.) would know that kakashi is still alive. they all think he's dead and they grieve him and kakashi... disappears. he doesn't know himself anymore and he can't, because he's dead and he's in the anbu now and that's all that matters. his life for konoha in life and death, always.

obito, being the stalker he is, looks for kakashi. he missed him entering the anbu, he missed the faked funeral, he missed a lot. he tries to find him in his shoebox apartment, stakes out minato's home, sits at the memorial stone and rin's grave. but kakashi never shows up and obito decides he'll check the active missions in konoha, just to know where kakashi is (definitely not to follow him and watch him, that'd be weird, duh). so after sneaking into the hokage's office with kamui, he rifles through the piles of s-rank and a-rank missions, but kakashi's name is nowhere to be found. confused and almost insulted on kakashi's behalf, he checks the b-ranks and below, but no dice.

now obito is getting...nervous might not be the word but he's definitely feel angry at this point. if kakashi isn't home, on a mission, grieiving, or with minato then where is he. obito stalks guy next, finds him sitting on a rock by a stream, glum. he's pale, his eyes are watery, he looks exhausted and obito is definitely nervous at this point. he'd never admit it but for something to get guy of all people down... obito fears for the worst.

through much stalking and espionage, obito finds out where kakashi is.

he's dead.

that can't be right.

he would've heard if kakashi was dead, right? zetsu would've told him. he would've known. kakashi has one of his eyes, he definitely would've known. and obito, pissed, scared, and indignant, opens up the connection between him and kakashi, searching for kakashi's vision, for what he can see. he hasn't done it since that night when rin...

he didn't want kakashi to know it existed, never even wanted to take that chance. but he doesn't care anymore. kakashi isn't dead. it's just not possible.

obito was right. kakashi isn't dead.

but he might as well be.

kakashi has no way out of the anbu now, no way that wouldn't give away konoha's secrets. guy can't help him because guy thinks he's dead, minato can't help him, he killed him in the first place. kakashi will forever live, breathe, and die for konoha. it makes obito's blood boil, he feels reminiscent of the night rin died.

he hates kakashi. he wants to hate kakashi. he can't hate kakashi. he can hate the world, he can despise konoha, he can want to kill minato. but kakashi...

he's never been able to hate him. no matter how hard he tried, how easy kakashi made it for him. when it came to kakashi, his balance between love and hate was never more skewed.

there's a particularly awful mission, kakashi is the only one to return to the village and he's...he's not good. obito watches him laugh hysterically as he washes his hands of blood that isn't there. he's never seen kakashi so broken and it hurts more than he ever thought it would.

obito gets kakashi out of the anbu. kakashi hates him for it, fights him, thrashes against him and his will and ideologies. kakashi doesn't know him, obito was too ahamed to reveal himself. it doesn't matter though, kakashi wants to die. he was happy in the anbu, he says. it'd be a quicker death, a noble death.

you've already died, obito shouts at him, enraged and torn apart. how can't he see it? how can he be so naive and blind to it all?

kakashi doesn't answer, doesn't know what words to say to make this stranger believe he isn't worth the trouble. obito has no choice.

with a shaking hand, he removes his mask. kakashi watches, eyes wide and wet and obito throws the mask to the side to hold out his hand. you've already died, but you can be reborn.

with me.

kakashi, broken tattered and thoroughly sure he's lost it, takes obito's hand. yes, kakashi thinks, he's died. but if this is the afterlife, than maybe things won't be so bad...

[x-emeraldsky-x]

My contribution

[5hoe1]

Everyone in windbreaker is so bisexual it’s actually insane to me

[moldy-flowers]

The interesting experience of being pro Sasuke, anti konoha, pro tobirama, anti Naruto ending, pro Sasusaku, anti Itachi, pro Sakura, anti SasuNaru, pro Tobirama×Izuna, anti Madara, pro karin, anti Orochimaru, pro Uchiha and anti Hashirama. And also as much as I hate the guy danzo was kind of hot when he was younger...

[yinyuedijun]

so sorry if this is a stupid question but like... how do u age up characters, not like literally but like in a writing sence (cause ur suo fics were honestly amazing)

this isn't a stupid question at all, it's actually something I struggle a lot with LOL and I'm glad to hear that you liked how I handled it in my suo fics - thank you for reading 🥺!

here are the approaches I take to generally ageing people up:

think about their canon characterization - not just their traits and habits, but also their motivations/values and where their character arc is heading

think about what kind of path they'd be heading toward as an adulthood (in material, mundane terms - university, type of work, relationships, major life events, etc). sometimes the series will give you careers they're heading towards, but wherever that's not the case, I usually like to stick to very realistic career paths because it grounds them into a realistic kind of adult context that we would be able to relate to. if they're getting into some kind of exceptional career (like, for instance, yakuza membership lol, but even if I kept them in delinquent groups like shishitoren or roppo-ichiza), then I usually go out of my way to justify it.

now this is the tricky part - think about how the events of their adulthood would affect their motivations/values, traits, habits, and larger character arc. the motivations/values and character arc pieces are very important, because it basically defines the adult characterization. (that's why so much of the suo fic revolves around his master and the effect of losing him, and what it does to his values and character arc!)

I also like to think about how other, normal adults would perceive this new aged-up version of them - the typical salaryman, the typical convenience store worker, etc. I find it helps recontextualize the character away from the canon setting and toward a more realistic, adult context. this is mostly so I'm not viewing the character through rose coloured glasses as I'm writing them lol (eg, someone who may be charming to us because of our attachment to them in canon might in fact be a neurotic loser to the average well-adjusted adult).

sorry I yapped so much rip - hopefully this helps!!!!

[namisweatheria]

Reading this article about copaganda in animanga on Anime Feminist to see which examples it brings up out of curiosity, and was delighted when it had a whole paragraph about One Piece being The Big Anti-Cop Exception

"One Piece, perhaps the most successful manga and anime ever made, is fundamentally against cops and the systems that empower them. Much of the conflict in One Piece stems from the acts of oppression committed by the World Government via their Marine forces and the deputized Pirate Warlords. Here, characters empowered by the government nearly always act in their own self-interest or to the benefit of those in power. Even when readers are meant to root for characters that are a part of the Marines, like the idealistic Koby, a major part of their character arc is reckoning with the knowledge that the organization they idealize has a sordid history and isn’t always a force for good."

They even included this image! I love it. Also pleased how the author went after BNHA specifically, as it is my personal enemy for it's specific brand of misogyny. (Which is very much like Naruto's, the thing I grew up loving and suffering, except Even Worse Somehow. THAT MAKES IT PERSONAL!) I know it's completely petty and unbecoming but I do enjoy knowing that it got worse in other ways after I dropped it. #Vindication. (ALTHOUGH IT'S VERY BAD FOR THE STATE OF THINGS. I do wish it was different and better!)

[lil-cuppo8]

IT ARRIVED!!

I can’t exactly read it but it’s still so fascinating and awesome nonetheless.

We got sketches!

Character bios with the boys and the Nagano trio!!

Episode recaps!

Conan’s gadgets!

GUNS

This book is great.

[invaderhogtwopointohno]

Wind Breaker and Trauma

Hey, you should go watch Wind Breaker right the fuck now because I have not seen a slice-of-life anime that has done such a good job depicting what it is like to live and deal with ongoing trauma in such a beautiful way. Just for context:

Our main character naturally has two different eye colors and that is actually his natural hair. His parents constantly told him to dye his hair to make him look like a "normal person" and everyone he ever met judged him based solely on his hair and eye color. While this kind of look stands out in anime, the story actually does a great job of weaponizing his differences to make him a piraha.

Because he was a young impressionable boy, he started fighting because he didn't know how to deal with his ongoing and continuous verbal and emotional abuse from just about everyone he had ever met. Sakura spends his entire life literally just fighting everyone he meets and he values strength of a person above all else because he considers that the only trait worth noting in a person. This is deeply rooted in his inability to form any kind of positive human connections with everyone and he genuinely doesn't trust or bond with anyone he meets.

So he heads to an infamous high school that is known for its fighting and decides that he wants to be the top dog there because he can only value his own self-worth through the use of violence. But when he gets there, he finds out that the town is actually protected by the kids of the school- the leader of the school has turned the entire neighborhood around and the people love them, they are revered as heroes and protect the citizens. Without even knowing that, he ends up protecting a woman who is getting harassed by a group of guys and even gets stabbed defending her. When she shows that she is grateful and actually provides him with a meal- he is genuinely confused. He doesn't understand why she isn't shunning him like everyone he has ever known. And it turns out the entire town is like this, they think that he is a good kid and he helps out the neighborhood but he has such deep seeded trust issues that he is confused by actual kindess.

He even meets other kids that he keeps at arms length because he is so certain based off of the abuse that he has suffered his entire life applies to everyone he meets. Which is ironic and the show calls him out for this train of thought as being exactly the kind of thinking that the people who mistreated him had.

It so well done and his issues don't just go away overnight because he suddenly is shown kindness- he is still suffering from his trauma and has issues with trust and actually forming real genuine friendships with people, which I really like because the anime isn't pretending that his deep trauma is going to be magically cured because he forms a few relationships with people. The real story is about his fight to the be the best- but what does that mean exactly? What does he actually want? The show does a fantastic job of exploring that. Please watch it, it is so good

[giggly-squiggily]

Yoooooo, I've been getting so many people to watch Windbreaker lately and am on my third watchthrough it's so goooood!!!

Also my babyyyyy!!!

AHHHHHH! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Let’s go Dessie!!! Way to spread the good word of Windbreaker! 🤩🤣🥰 I lost count myself how many times I’ve watched it: it’s just so GOOD! (And the manga is even better! 👀)

Umemiya!!! 😭😭😭🙏🏻 He’s such a great dude AHH! My babies will forever be these lugheads (affectionate) but my god if this show doesn’t make me love all of them! 🤣😭🙏🏻

Now I wanna go watch Windbreaker from the beginning 👀🤣