#diamond girls au

[team7-headquarter]

To be clear, the reason why Minato and Kushina got killed on the Diamond Girls au is because they saw the Hidden Villages system as a step towards a better world and not the final state.

People with chakra and kekkei genkais survived by forming clans bases on family/blood relationships to fight off other clans and take violent jobs that would pay for their sustenance. Later, Hashirama and Madara founded the hidden villages system to stablish an standard of alliances between clans that would offer greater protection, along with the ability to obtain greater resources by liking their services to an element nation.

Knowing that Hashirama and Madara wanted to live in a world where children didn't have to fight and die all the time, it feels stupid to consider the hidden villages system as the final products. The economy of a hidden village is violence and death and suffering; there's simply no way it should be considered the finalization of their dream.

Minato saw that. He realized that Tobirama took many decisions that deviated from the original Hashirama dream, but that were necessary at the moment given the state of the world around them and the pressure of war. For example, Tobirama institutionalized soldier children by creating the Academy. Teaching children how to kill is indeed counterproductive on the long term, but at the moment it was better for kids to learn how to defend themselves and fight, because war knows no age and the enemy wouldn't spare them. If it was Tobirama's line of thinking, no one knows, but it could be rationalized like that.

The real problem came with the corruption of the original dream, which happened with Hiruzen and Danzo. For once, they were more Tobirama's kids than Hashirama's. Danzo saw the hidden villages system as the perfect machine that should be protected and maintained at all costs, which it wasn't. Hiruzen didn't necessarily shared Danzo's point of view, but he was unable to continue the change and limited himself to maintaining the status quo. That means, he preoccupied himself with maintaining Konoha's supremacy over other hidden villages, so that the threat of their power would keep others at bay.

When it came to Minato— well, the man was bold and had the benefit of an outside view (his) and a insider (Kushina). They agreed that society should not be solely on clans or hidden villages, at least not anymore. Clans were good and should be maintained given their tradition, cultures and the feeling of kinship with the family, but to base the shinobi system on clans could lead to maintain archaic practices like the secondary branche of the Hyuga clan, or the prejudice against clans like the Uchihas. Bloodline, kekkei genkais and other clan related elements were important, but again, it could generate unhealthy pressure upon heirs or discard really good shinobis that came from non clan families, among other problems.

The issue with the hidden villages system is that it was too reliable on violence and taking jobs from the elemental nations. It's partially given that the elemental nations want hidden villages to depend on them / fear the independence of the hidden villages, partially due the lack of other military like structures. On paper, the relationship between the elemental nations and the hidden villages is one of mutual benefit, but they don't particularly act like they are all part of the same community. Instead, it's more like an alliance. The division between shinobis and civilians in Naruto is too great for it to translate to our reality.

Minato thought that it was time to start working on lessening the division between clans, civilians and common shinobis. A difficult thing to do, if you consider that "turning shinobis more cilivian" or "going for hidden villages independence from the elemental nations" or even "lessening the impact of clan bloodline in hidden villages politics" sounds awful to the traditional parties, like you're telling them to be more weak.

In reality:

1) You cannot keep an ongoing state of war and then expect war not to break in. Most shinobis are seen mostly as weapons and not at all like people, which is part of the problem (see ROOT, if you want an example). So when you talk about turning shinobis more into civilians, it only means to give them a sense of peace, normalcy and care that reminds them that killing might be their job at the moment, but it doesn't have to be who they are all the time.

2) Minato doesn't want to immediately erase the Hidden Villages, but that's the goal, isn't it? If they aim for peace, having states dedicated to killing and violence is not ideal. Shinobis are bound to disappear one day and that's not a bad thing to want or look forward.

3) A lot of the violence of the shinobi world comes from the difference between common people and chakra users. That means that kekkei genkais and other chakra abilities are feared to the point of genocide (some examples include the jinchurikis, the Uzumaki clan and Haku). At some point you need to deal with that discrimination, creating opportunities for chakra users to live civilians lives and know that being a shinobi is an option, not a rule anymore. It means guaranteeing stuff like the safety of an Uchiha of the main clan if they want to become civilians and never learn how to fight or kill other people. Highly complicated, but you need to start somewhere!

4) Clans cannot dictate most hidden villages rules and, in Konoha's case, being from an important clan should not be a requirement to be a hokage. Minato did amazing proving that point, but he had to further work on it. Funnily enough, this point was easier to tackle. For example, Uchihas were prideful but highly understanding and they were willing to change in order to achieve peace. The Hyugas were a bit more of a problem, but it was not impossible and Minato was a fuinjutsu specialist, he really wanted to deal with the seal of the second branch and erase it once and for all. Minato wanted to protect their heritage and their traditions (like he couldn't do with the Uzumakis) while simultaneously freeing them of the burden of their past mistakes.

As it's evident, it would have changed the whole shinobi world. People like Danzo didn't like Minato because he thought he was brilliant, yet naive. It was not that easy and the process would weaken the village and allow others to attack. At the same time, other villages wanted to stop Konohagakure advance because they (those villages) either still depended highly on working as militaries or they liked the violent system. Of course that elemental nations hated it as much; they were terrified of the day Minato would declare Konoha didn't need the Fire Nation anymore, as distant as it could be.

I'm really enjoying thinking about the political aspects of this au. It's simply to see that I based it way more on the Classic than on Shippuden, but that was an easy decision.

[amoschaos]

Finally done

[strichnein4]

Steven universe art

Old and new

[simplegeneral]

The CEO of Racism herself!

Diamond is definitely of the characters of WoF of all time

Decided to draw her because I do love some absolutely psycho evil girlboss queens that only WoF can provide us. She is a crazy one, and her crown of racism is definitely the funniest part of Dangerous Gift, Mink was ALMOST becoming the CEO of Racism, but the one thing good Snowfall did was saving her.

Mink should have been the main villain of Arc 3, though. Release the baby!

[spookythesillyfella]

doodle dump . again

scene tracey . cuz i do really love them

some goofy "romanian shrignold" posting

mizu ....- ... mizukii .... .. . ...---...

[altenx]

You won, and she chose you, and she loved you and she's gone…..it’s over isn’t it ? Why cant i move on….?

[lysutsia]

Humanization of ponies:3

[soundlessroom-archive]

Moulin Rouge meets Baldur's Gate 3. A crossover nobody asked for.

Roles:

Christian: Gale Dekarios

Harry Ziddler: Astarion Ancunin

The Duke: Enver Gortash

Satine: Ceres Hun'Rae (Durge)

Toulouse: Wyll Ravengard

[satanicgingermom]

This au is overtaking me. Anyway here’s some extra lore bits that’s didn’t fit in the character sheets:

1. So Smile Precure’s insane growth spurt happens the years that Akane is in the hospital. As Akane is kinda in and out of consciousness that first year, it leads to her having grown like three inches whilst asleep, so her coordination is fucked. When she first starts physical therapy she trips over her own two feet so much that she almost injuries herself again. It was a rough year for the Smile Team. ( poor girls has insane growing pains and a bestie in the hospital. tragic)

2. Honoka and Nozomi actually study together! They’re not as close as Nagisa and Rin, but they are good friends now! Honoka is great at helping Nozomi study, because she’s been helping Nagisa study for years and Nozomi may get distracted easily but at least she actually wants to study.

3. So otona was kinda a mixed bag, but the idea of Saki wanting to study abroad to study baking is kinda everything to me? I’ve also lived in the city she wants to study in, it’s actually the place I watched splash star for the first time. It felt right. That said, fuck her marrying a random man, she and Mai have been together for years and have the healthiest dynamic out of everyone here. Saki’s the only one who will actually tell Mai what goes on in the damn theater.

4. It’s been a hot minute since I watched suite, but in my memory they were all dramatic bitches with crazy pressure on their shoulders and then Kanade. From Kanade’s pov it looks like they’re being shitty, but this is actually just because of some crazy misunderstandings. Hibiki in particular has a lot on her plate, and it’s not her fault Kanade didn’t make any new friends! Kanade smh you’re such an idiot <3

5. Mana still has no idea Rikka has a crush on her. It’s actually becoming painful to witness. Alice is very thankful that Rikka has a new project to keep her distracted.

6. Is the theatre haunted? Yes. Why doesn’t Akane think it’s haunted? The ghosts like her. They’re leaving her to her own devices because this is the most comedy they’ve had in years. The Sunbeam itself is on a magical fault line, so that’s why it’s such a creature hotspot, but there are ghosts sitting in the wings watching all these girls fuck up

7. Anna is a whole mess into herself, but, uh, let’s just say she has a lot of growth to do before she’s actually a good person. Oh she likes Rin a whole lot, but boy howdy does she have some ulterior motives.

[mostly-magical-polls]

Best Magical Duo! Round 1

[team7-headquarter]

Diamond Girls au Tsunade is great because she laughs in Danzo's face every time he interrogates here.

What is he gonna do? Make women illegal in Konoha? Show the world how paranoid he truly is? Fire all the nurses and medics from service? Ask the clans to sacrifice their girls for his peace of mind?

Kushina and Tsunade really spend years and years recruiting every woman and girl in the village for that operation, it's driving Danzo mad. He sees a woman and gets on edge. He doesn't know how many are involved, can't even start to guess, Tsunade is so enjoying it because wow yeah, so smart for being the student of the first and second Hokages, too bad she's their granddaughter and blood so let's see who wins that game.

Also????? The ghosts of Kushina and Minato absolutely haunts his ass. They are twice as fast and way more resilient and way way way more savage, and of it wasn't enough to deal with "one brat blonde with big boobs and way too much alcohol on her system", he has to deal with Naruto too.

It makes it more perfect when the Uchihas are the one who bring him down.

[widowshill]

aldo cipullo for cartier + hadestown.

aldo cipullo, love bracelet, photographed by gary bernstein / hadestown, "chant II" / cartier love bracelet advertisement, 1970 / hadestown, "chant II" / cartier "nail" and "love" illustration for women’s wear daily / hadestown, "epic III" / cartier "nail" bracelet, a. cipullo, 1971

[glidiaxoxo]

they are so mean girls coded

[diamond-in-the-rough-au]

*RosePearl Gemling Jumpscaee*

And Lore dump…Istg I keep lore dumping about the wrong things

But anyways it’s below if you’d like to read it. If not; get ready to see these guys a lot because the gemling stuff is actually important to the AU and not just fun (although I am having fun with these guys)

The RosePearl kids were born sometime durning the war and spent most of their (very unfortunately) short lives fighting each other and alongside each other.

Barlow and Rosemary have always had animosity toward each other even since they were barely walking leaving Bosco to defuse the tension.

Barlow’s anamosity just might be her interlaced hatred of being a Pearl and Rosemary not having to try as hard to be a good fighter/soilder. He’s trying his best and live to his mother’s legacy and if anything were to happen to them, he would like to be the new acting leader of the rebellion. Although her façade of the prefect golden child slips every now and then.

Rosemary wants nothing to do with the war as much as most gems seem to want nothing to do with her. People have always called her the strange child of Rose and her unnerving eyes make it harder to even walk up to people.

Bosco, the youngest, is just trying his best to get by. He really, really wants to be a leader like his mother (Rose) and be able to strike fear in others and be someone people look up too. But he’s just so small and scrawny and Barlow has already convinced everyone he’s a better fit for a leader and has already led several successful battles. If only he could be half of what Barlow is.

[fair-night-starry-tears]

Twst Magical girl au: the maidens see Catrina and Idia holding hands together and all is confused how Idia bagged a hottie

This is also the villains (-Hades) reactions because not one time either mention they were dating and Ignihyde knew

@adrianasunderworld @mangacupcake @writing-heiress @the-weirdos-mind @skboba-stars @nproduction626 @rose-tea-and-strawberries @anxious-twisted-vampire

[oli-b3rry]

I made some more doodles of the Trolls Mean Girls AU🫶

Trolls mean girls au by @elijah-doodle (I am so sorry that I keep popping up in your notifications)