#i miss writing for naruto

[plumadesatada]

just remembered a fic on AO3 (or more likely LJ because it had that distinct late 00's experimental vibe) that appeared double-spaced oddly, in that some paragraphs would be spaced normally and others would have double or even triple spaces in between. it was about one half of the otp getting over the other's death (or coma, can't remember which), so all the comments were about how poignant the use of visual spacing was as a means to convey all the emotional holes in the character's life.

and then the author replied like... *giggle* guys it's NOT double spaced. try selecting the whole text

and we were all like "no WAY"

but we selected the text, and yes!!!

the "holes" in the story? they were actually lines and actions from the dead/coma character's ghost, rendered invisible to the eye by the simple trick of coloring the text the exact same as the background, revealed by nothing more than a click and a drag of the mouse

a story about the profound loneliness of losing your the partner of your life and having to make do without them, without anything to fill the holes they'd left behind, suddenly became a story about the profound helplessness of seeing someone you love suffer from your absence while you are right there, unable to do anything about it, unable to communicate that you love them enough to suffer unseen and unheard with them, just to keep them company they'll never know about

it was then that I truly realized how *superior* the digital medium is to plain printed paper, how the medium and the format can add to a story.

I think about that fic about once a year. I wish I could find it again

EDIT: FOUND IT!!!! UPDATE HERE

[nartml]

naruto antis: naruto fighting to gain the respect of the same village that was the source of his pain is annoyingly bootlicking behaviour, this level of desperation is beyond me

(as sasuke stans, one of our biggest talking points is "it's actually not valid to hate on a character for reacting to their trauma in a way that displeases you")

[m-jeevas]

Hello! I am SO sorry to people's messages and asks I haven't responded to over the last month. I got a severe concussion and haven't been online at all because looking at screens has been awful. I'll be writing and scrolling the internet as per usual soon and I hope everyone is doing well!

[viridian-house]

The path to recovery is arduous. Hyrule is a ruin in perfect harmony to the tumult within Zelda, and though the Calamity is no more, The Triforce yearns to be whole. The hearts of its two surviving vassals crack under the pressure of a force they never knew, aching for a man they'd never met.

lil sketchy zelink wip for my post-botw fic fields of gold, in which zelda tries to cope with 100 years of trauma in a hyrule she barely recognizes and missing the man she met within the calamity. lucky for her, it's nothing link hasn't been through before.

[kinomiakai]

Back again for day 12 of snsmonth23 - college AU! This one's a bit longer. Hope you like it!

Meet Your Match! Tired of being alone on Valentines day? Why not spend it looking for the love of your life? The Konoha Crew Residence Committee has developed a foolproof way to find them, right here on campus! Written for snsmonth23 - prompt: college AU.

[keroppri]

An Extra Special chapter for A Summer's Delight to celebrate the Summer Time!!!! 🌞😎🏖💜🧡

🧡Extra: His Summer Delight🧡

Chapter Summary: Naruto reminisces on the 10th summer of their lives together.

[effinfanfiction]

I started this blog in about 2013 (I was 12!! (ignore that I wasn't supposed to be on the internet because neither were you(probably))) but it feels more like a fanfiction positivity blog + general writing advice now, and I don't mind at all :) Although, I haven't used fanfiction.net in years, and I mainly peruse Ao3, I think I will keep this iconic icon for old times sake.

Anyways, thank you for following no matter the reason! There's quite a bit of you somehow. I wish I had tagged things in the past, but I didn't so there's still a tinge of a chaos here that is reminiscent of fanfiction.net as a website.

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[theycallmebabycakes]

anyway have an exerpt of the naruto fic i'm writing, because i'm unusually proud of this bit of writing. i don't think you really need a whole lot in the way of context to understand what's happening but you're welcome to ask questions if you feel like it :)

Finally, their relief arrived, and Tsu and Ayumu rushed back to the village. Duy’s funeral had come and passed; in war, there was little time for ceremony.

Ayumu volunteered to deliver their report to the Hokage; Tsu went in search of her friend.

Guy was at home, sitting in the empty room he and his father normally slept in. He had red, puffy eyes from crying and was wearing a house robe instead of his green jumpsuit. Tsu had entered his home when he didn’t answer the door; now she approached slowly, sinking to her knees in front of him. Guy looked at her for a moment, sniffling.

“Already dressed for a funeral,” he managed to say. His voice cracked when he spoke, tears welling in his eyes again.

“The whole village is calling him a hero,” Tsu said quietly.

“Does it matter?” He whispered. He stared down at a book in his hands.

“Not really,” she admitted. “I’m sorry, Guy.”

“You gave him this,” Guy said, lifting the book slightly. It was about the Eight Inner Gates. Tsu felt her chest tighten with guilt. “I remember seeing you hand it to him.”

“Yes,” she said quietly.

“Did you read it?”

“Only enough to know it was what he was looking for,” she admitted.

“Do you know why the Eighth Inner Gate is called Death?”

“I… I can guess.”

“There wasn’t even a body, Tsu,” Guy whispered. “He’s just…ash, now. Somewhere in the forest.”

“I’m so sorry,” Tsu said. She wanted to say more, but there wasn’t really anything else to say.

“I wish you hadn’t given him this book,” Guy said.

She didn’t know how to answer that. They sat silently for a long, painful minute, Guy’s eyes still wet with unshed tears. Finally, he wiped at his face one last time and stood, book in hand.

“Thank you,” Guy said. Tsu looked up at him, confused.

“For… for what?”

“For coming,” he answered, turning to a bookshelf in the corner of the room. He put the book away and paused again. “And for giving Papa this book. It let him live out his greatest self-rule.”

“Oh,” was all she managed.

“I haven’t slept in a while,” Guy said, turning to his stored bedding. “I’m gonna try and sleep now.”

“Oh,” she said again, standing up. “Okay.”

With Guy curled up in his bedroom, even his head under a cover, Tsu wandered into his kitchen. She never knew what to say to someone who was mourning, but she could always help them out elsewhere.

The kitchen was a mess; the sink full of dirty dishes, and more mold in the refrigerator than there was fur on Anji’s back. Pulling her kimono’s sleeves back, Tsu got to work.

Ayumu showed up as Tsu was putting the last of Guy’s rotten food in the compost heap on the side of his house. She’d brought several of their Academy classmates with her, presenting them in a lineup like troops on the battlefield. Tsu took a deep breath and cleared her throat.

Guy woke up to the smell of soap mixed with a fresh hot pot. Rin was in charge of the hot pot as Obito set out every bowl, spoon and chopstick set Guy owned; Kurenai led Genma and Ebisu in the scrubbing of the living room floor. Kakashi cleaned the bathroom while Tsu and Asuma finished beating dust out of curtains and area rugs on the front lawn.

[variantia]

BELLUM. good morning I am here to ruin everything

... by talking abt villain Elsa and how even tho she feels like she belongs with the League, despite everyone's best efforts she's still TERRIFIED of herself and also feels like she has no real common ground with the others at least for a long time

she hates fighting, she doesn't hate heroes, she would rather starve than shoplift food

she doesn't feel like society failed her, she feels like she failed herself

and she is so far inside that shell of "you're going to hurt everyone without meaning to because you can't control your power" for that first month or two that she has difficulty connecting with anyone else

oh, and add to that the fact that she thinks she killed her sister

villain Elsa is basically Elsa post Hans telling her she killed Anna except she never gets better because she never sees that Anna didn't die, because Elsa is now in a different country and only had Hans' call to go on

she's so depressed and withdrawn from the rest of the League that I'm sure some of them are convinced that she doesn't even want to be there ; she has no bite in combat because she doesn't want to hurt anyone so she holds back, she has no animosity toward heroes because doesn't see it as 'I needed help and they didn't help me', and unlike some of the others, she has IMMENSE guilt about doing something criminal like stealing

but of course, if any of them ask "you're obviously not into the whole villain thing, why are you even here?"

her response is just a tearful "I have nowhere else to go"

and it's like, yeah okay one of us one of us one of us

[akemi-snow]

Chapters: 1/? Relationships: Hagane Kotetsu/Kamizuki Izumo  Summary:

At age 25, Kotetsu throws out a question: "Where would I be without you?" Casual, distracted, a rethorical question. However, it leads Izumo into a deep thinking to imagine really where Kotetsu would be without him.

Because it's an interesting question, when asked by Kotetsu. Because while most people could track meeting their best friend in school, at the candy shop, in the park, or somewhere uninteresting where they could have met anyone else and where their lives wouldn't change a whole lot if they had never met, Kotetsu was the only one who could say that if he hadn't met Izumo, he would probably, quite literally, be dead, gone rogue, or still be missing since age three, living alone in the woods, barely verbal, and more an animal than a person.

The story of how Kotetsu at age 7 had been missing and isolated from civilization for so long, he refused to let anyone near him; except the one kid who, after a bad first meeting, started giving him what no one else had offered him before, and what would, in their adult years, transform into something even greater: genuine care, patience, and love.

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*slaps the roof of this fic*

I started a new baby.

[cafeinthemoon]

Considering re-writing The Leaves of Her Garden from chapter I as a 2023 project 🤔

[sasukeless]

sasuke's mission actually started when sarada was already like at least 7 based on her looks in naruto's hokage ceremony. naruto was already a hokage when sasuke got the mission. yet he had never seen his daughter...

actually the timeline is a mess because in the first chapter of gaiden sarada says he left when she was a baby and later theres a flashback to her being really young around 3 years old i think asking where he is and sakura saying he left on a mission so i think its a plothole.

still not having contact w ur child since shes a baby and sakura not even having a picture of sasuke when they were "together" or their wedding at least says it all

[dullahanswritingstash]

Why do Hidan x Reader fics and such very frequently have reader so averse to converting to Jashinism? If you're in a relationship with the man there's no way you don't condone it. Cowards. Live a little. Perform human sacrifice with your immortal boyfriend.

[yuhenglesbian]

you know i really have no clue what i want to do here. like i come and i rt stuff but ah. should i cross post my poetry here? do you want to hear my thoughts about yut-lung banana fish? do you want incomplete fics and blurbs i have?

[cheesecaketyrant]

I'm going to be making a new blog, don't know if I had stated this in the past, but on the new blog- I kinda want to focus on some of my own writings/stories, and possibly my own FanFic stuff for the fandoms I do enjoy. I may not be active here as much (not that I was for a bit). I haven't decided on a good blog name, and to be fair, I kinda want to detach from this blog. I have so many ideas I want to sprout and share! However, I feel a bit contained on this blog for some odd reason. Though, I'll keep this blog up and what not, just for the things I like, and as well for some of you fantastic artist out there!

Anywho! Most of the post I'll be making will be focused on: SasuSaku (Naruto), Starscream (Transformers) and possibly That 70s show! As well with Loki (Prehaps?)

As for my own personal works; I'll be making posts about my own story (Still gotta work out some details, and work on the world building). As well with some art work that will betrayed my story.

[obitoslay]

ehhh… ive been so preoccupied with my other wip that ive neglected lff… whoops… i mean tbh tho it always takes me forever to update that fic lmao