#also i keep using new game in air quotes because i have a healthy dose of skepticism that it's like

[nicknederson]

shoutout to everyone criticizing the ‘new game’ and marketing tactics surrounding it it’s in your rights and best interest to be a critical consumer and even if you get a lot of annoying pushback from people who “just want to be excited about a new game!!” know that i’m on your side besties

[chattegeorgiana]

I love your love for Narusaku. I think you're one of the few NS fans left. Narusaku is beautifully sad. They deserved better. I'm Anna M. ;)

Hi Anna!

Thank you so much for your sweet message. ❤️

I must confess that your name rings a bell, but I can't say from where exactly? Have we interacted before?

Please apologize if I have forgotten it, you're talking to an growing old lady here, lol.

As for NaruSaku, well, what's not to love about them? They are closest to real love you can get, and I love real love.

Real. Raw. Messy. Complex. But love. Through thick and thin.

And the best part of it? It's companionship/friendship love.

You can't find any love better than that, trust me.

And I'm not talking out of my imagination but from the same real, raw, messy and wonderful experience you call life.

In a (media) world that keeps promoting toxic traits as being this ultimate proof of real love, these two would've been like I said it million times and I'll say it over and over again, a breath of fresh air.

Naruto was that prince on a white horse every girl dreams of, that support of badasses women the new cultural airs so much push forward via feminism, that gentle yet strong man every woman secretly dreams of, your cool couple like these youngsters dream of, yet level headed, because life is not about extremes.

But this entitled generation mixed with an industry that nowadays only cares about profit brought us where we are today.

Maybe I'm old school, but I am at peace with the way I am.

I've been old school, new school, I've been through every phase of the life you can, but at the ensd of the day, life showed me the real and healthy way.

And the real way is one that very much mimics what NaruSaku had.

Was NaruSaku perfect? Hell no. Life isn't either. But that was the beauty of it and that is what made it so real.

That's what it made it such a positive example for the younger audiences, because it had the balanced mix of everything.

And that's life's purpose as well: everything in balance.

That's how nature itself functions! If you have too much of one thing, nature will find its way to balance it, even if it has to give birth to a new extreme to counterbalance the initial one.

But nature will find its way or will shake the world until it'll find its balance.

And that is what NaruSaku was all about: balance. A healthy dose of everything: sadness, grief, joy, companionship, independence, support, care, you name it.

It has good, healthy morals.

But sadly industry doesn't care about morals. They care about making profit. At the cost of healthy morals. They don't care about teaching healthy morals to the younger audience, they care about how to make profits from these youngsters.

A lot of psychological studies goes into the sales process. And for them to sale as best, they need to get them addicted.

See for example SS's case. Sasuke thanked Sakura back in pt 1 after which he downright rejected her over and over again.

This reminds me of a Tony Robbins quote: rejection breeds obsession. Well, think about it in the context of the narrative for Sakura's charactera in terms of her love for Sasuke and the audience that favored these two.

This is on one side, because on the other side we have the NH case, with entitlement.

I don't know if this has been said by anyone else but, as rejection breeds obsession, entitlement breeds bullying/harrassment.

So much that Hinata fans felt entitled to write to the author over and over again about how much they hate Sakura and how much Hinata should be the one with Naruto instead of Sakura, the girl whom he dearly loved.

Entitlement is a dark part of the newest generation.

Yes, the newest generation has its good parts, too. I am not one of those old ladies that is all about this new generation is crap.

I am not here to play the blame game between generations.

I am here to point out that for all the good they display, they also display bad.

For all the activism they display, they also tend to fall from the edge of balance to the side of entitlement which leads to bullying and harassment.

And I am not talking out of imagination again.

But experience.

One very recent is on Christmas day with Hinata/NaruHina fans.

They found a 2 months old post about Shinachiku on my FB page and started harassing me with NaruHina pictures and foul language.

Here's a glimpse of it.

That is how the youngsters nowadays operate.

What I am trying to say is that they should also be aware of their dark side, not just the light one.

Because like we discussed earlier, it's all about balance.

And they need to become aware of their less good traits, while they pride with their better ones.

However, I think that at the end of the day, it's all about accountability.

And we need to revolutionize the media industry somehow.

I don't know yet how, all I know is that we need to find a way.

For the moment all I can think is kinda getting back to the old ways.

Hayao Miyazaki ways.

I know the newest generation would see it as "boomers" time or idk what "fancy" & "cool" terms it's used nowadays, but everything that is old doesn't mean bad.

We need to take the good lessons with us while learning from their mistakes to understand how we, the newer generation can do better.

Because cutting ourselves fully isn't the answer either.

We're all connected by the thread of life anyway.

It's our choices that set us apart.

But aah, anyway, I've derailed and rambled enough once again.

This was meant to be yet again a post about NaruSaku and I turned it philosophical again.

Sorry about that.

It's a bad habit of mine.

But thank you once again for your sweet message.

I'll always be here to light the candle of NaruSaku light.