shoko in her twink era

he/they, bisexual etc etc

things that i think are funny

normal au where they're normal regular as fuck regular kids who go to a normal regular school together

they're in a modern day sitcom where they realize they're still very much insufferable in their 30s wahahaha did everyone catch last week's episode it was sooooo funny

stephanie continuing her hashimada era not saying reentering cause i know it’s always there lol

hi! i really like the slam dunk piece you did a few years back!! it's so pretty!!! >.< so i just wanna ask, have you watched the new slam dunk movie? if yes what did you think about it? if not are you going to? :>

AHEM i actually just came back from watching it a second time. overall, one of the best times i've had in a movie theater i thought i was going to throw up from how much fun i was having. inoue takehiko is a meticulous and phenomenal artist and this movie really features that. no wonder there are rumors that he didn't appreciate the original anime in the 90s because if this is the level he envisioned for his work, then nothing would have met his standards unless he worked on it himself (which he did this time). it's also been over two decades since we last saw slam dunk so that 90s kids vibe is almost nowhere to be seen in this movie. everything is so much more mature and calm that at times the movie feels more like a coming-of-age film than a sports movie. i personally liked this transition because it still felt very much like slam dunk while also allowing us to delve deeper into each of the characters, especially ryota. this more mature tone also cuts out a lot of the bad taste jokes that the original manga/anime was riddled with, although it still does exist and i get why this pulls people away from slam dunk. this change in tone also does wash out the vibrancy and saturation that i liked in the original slam dunk, most of the characters look much paler than they did in the past so that was something i was disappointed with. the 3d-ish anime actually didn't look bad at all, in fact it made the basketball game scenes feel explosive!!! the camera movement and the 3d animation makes you feel like you're in the middle of the court watching it all and ugh the game sequences are so so so good it has you on the edge of your seat. also ngl, me already being a slam dunk fan and knowing the character dynamics and their lores etc made this movie infinitely more enjoyable. i'll probably go watch it third time soon

i think it is also like. quite a testament to hashirama's charisma and ability to connect with ppl that he managed to gain madara's trust. i mean him and madara are also bound together by fate so that helps as well but if u consider how madara generally is like, completely incapable of trusting anyone. even before hashirama's betrayal, apparently did not have a trust-bond with his own clan even. it says quite a lot abt hashirama that he managed to gain that. and also that he in turn was so trusting towards madara and trusting in their potential future together despite madara over years being unwilling to consider making peace with him. probably also tobirama and, who knows, maybe his entire clan in his ear telling him not to trust him, he still was like no no i trust him. i know my feelings abt him. and i know them to be true. everyone who says otherwise .. not my problem 😌 like he's just so completely confident and optimistic abt it, despite all the odds. it says quite a lot abt his leadership qualities, too, cuz like his entire clan backed him on his decision to form an alliance with madara despite their presumably pretty negative opinions on him. hashirama just has the most positive and trust-worthy vibe i think. everyone who sees him is just immediately like "i'd trust him with my life actually". hashirama didnt even need all that power, his charisma and optimism could conquer the world

some thoughts about madaras and hashiramas bond. this got way too long. much to think about when it comes to those old men

hashirama and madara somehow completely avoid talking about how hashirama killed madara at the valley of the end (vote0). they both bring it up to other people (madara when he talks about hashiramas strength and skills full of admiration and smiles fondly when he says they fought a battle to the death - and hashirama when he talks to sasuke) but they just do not bring it up even once when they are actually reunited on the battlefield for the first time afterwards. (and they don't seem to feel the need to talk about it either)

in a way at vote0 madara did what sasuke tried to do and cut off the last/only person left who was closest to him. not by killing hashirama but by making hashirama believe he had killed him so he could walk away. that is what severing that bond looks like. hashirama decided to kill madara and madara decided for himself that this is where their relationship and their bond ends. thats fair. and hashirama kind of did the same when he stabbed madara in the back fully intending to take his life. making that decision should cross the line.

it seems obvious we are meant to look vote0 at it as a parallel to sasuke and naruto. but its not a 1:1 sasuke-madara and naruto-hashirama parallel. while its probably true that the only way naruto would ever give up on sasuke is if he thought sasuke was dead, he would not ever think of taking his life. its the exact opposite of what he wants. and the only way sasuke could probably sever his bond to naruto (without killing him. which he cant) is if naruto were to go as far as to actually try to kill him, but naruto doesnt. the roles are somewhat reversed though. at vote1 sasuke is the one who tries to kill naruto but cant bring himself to go through with it. its sasuke who is hovering over naruto at the end of their battle refusing to kill. and its hashirama kneeling next to madaras dead body after he didnt. madara is the villain of the story and hashirama is supposed to be one of its heroes. this scene feels anything but heroic. and its all mixed up. its a mess. im assuming it's trying to show what it would take to sever their bond but the true irony is - in the end for hashirama and madara it doesnt even do that. madara seems to have come to terms with how their final battle ended (he was prepared for it). madara calls it a sacrifice. hashirama said it was something he had to endure for what he believed to be the greater good.

when hashirama is brought back via edo tensei and madara senses his chakra hes excited. visibly excited. we haven't seen him be that expressive at all during the whole time he himself has been resurrected. madara says "ive been waiting for you" and he thinks hashirama being there is fun. and when hashirama goes to join the battle hashirama does not think of the war at all. he's also excited to see madara. he says to himself "it may be imprudent but im looking forward to meeting my friend" (in the anime he even says "wait for me"). they are both happy to be reunited. it takes priority over everything else that's happening. this bond is not severed at all. their bond (just like naruto's and sasuke's) can't be severed. it's not meant to.

madara complains multiple times about not getting to fight the real hashirama and also when he thinks hes running out of time to fight him before he becomes the jinchuuriki. but it doesn't seem like he wants to do so out of a desire for revenge. more like it's really the only way he's got left to enjoy spending time with him and he insists on doing so one last time before the infinite tsukuyomi. (he does take chakra from hashirama but remember, hashirama being here was never part of madaras plan to begin with)

hashirama said he didnt want to kill madara and he probably meant it. and madara believes it. he doesn't blame hashirama for it. he blames the whole world for it. the world is cruel and it keeps making the people in it cruel and wage wars and shed blood and it made his closest friend cruel to the point where he killed him in the name of peace that was unachievable ("you've changed").

madara tells tobirama that in the dream world such a sacrife would no longer have to be made. in an ideal world hashirama would not have had to kill him.

this is one of the few times we see madara actually share his emotions and motives. to madara everything that had happened to him and hashirama and between them and how it had to ultimately end is part of that downward spiral of endless tragedy. it was always going to happen. it was unavoidable. getting killed by hashirama hurt, and it seems like he wants to put the blame anywhere else. (that makes it hurt less) and hes absolving hashirama of the crime of having killed him, (even if he does not say so directly but he is definitely trying to rationalize that betrayal away)

when hashirama learns about what happend in konoha with the uchiha clan after his own death he tries to reflect on his mistakes and wonders whether madara had been in the right after all. unfortunately he can only do so in hindsight. (the damage has been done. he can not fix his own mistakes now. he's dead) at the time he killed madara he believed what he did was the correct decision, and it wasnt a decision he made lightly. he didnt want to have to kill madara and we can assume that hashirama grieved the loss of his friend. he even built him a statue to remember him by (weirdly enough madara in his cave did a very similar thing) they have both grieved the outcome of their final battle and rationalized it in their own ways. and they have moved on from it now. (not neccesarily in a healthy way) hashirama killed madara but they both lost that day and they both know it.

hashirama gets told of madaras current plans. the infinite tsukuyomi, the war, he's aware of everything thats currently happening and despite that he's still happy to see him. he's smiling. talks about him with love. highlights the positive parts of madaras character when talking to sasuke both during the flashback and also later when he tells him that madara is fundamentally a kind person and that seeing someone who might remind him of his brother could change his mind (it doesnt work. madara kills sasuke. but it speaks volumes on hashiramas opinion of madara and how he still wants to believe that he is a good person at his core. hashirama tells us even as a child he knew what it meant when madara first awakened his sharingan. we also know that he knows it's out of love. hashirama had to look madara in the eyes countless of times when he was facing him in battles and seeing madaras sharingan would have been a constant reminder of that love)

both of hashirama and madara were faced with a problem that neither of them had the correct solution for. not konoha and not the infinite tsukuyomi. both of them wanting to achieve peace so badly that they would go to unimaginable lengths to achieve it. (violence and opression in the name of peace. hashirama chooses the village over madaras life and madara in turn chooses the infinite tsukuyomi over the rest of the world)

both of them were children who had to grow up surrounded by war, violence and loss and failed to find a way out of that which didnt include just that - because its all they ever knew. the only respite from the never ending violence was the times they spent together. they get to know eachother as friends first before they get to know eachother as shinobi and enemies. they have fun together. (when they are reuinited this is still true. there is a whole war and the world is ending and they think about eachother and having fun) thats why they are so important to eachother. its why hashirama originally spared madaras life before konoha was founded. its why hashirama chose to sacrife his own life at that time and its why madara didn't let him. this is why they cant let go of eachother.

hashirama failed to make konoha into a place were the clans were treated equally and failed in protecting the uchiha clan, failed in getting tobirama out of his mindset that had him target the uchiha clan even further later on after hashiramas own death. konoha has existed for maybe 70 years and went to war 3 times already. children are still soldiers who get send into battle and they still die in battle. a whole clan is killed because of unfounded mistrust. (madara tells him "you are mistaking the cause for the end" founding the village to escape bloodshed and violence but then using bloodshed and violence to try to keep the village stable) konoha was originally the shared dream of two children who longed for peace and safety and a future to look forward to. together. they could not come to an understanding on how to achieve their goal of peace together and it lead them as far apart from eachother as possible but they never managed to completely break the bond that they share. not as young adults during war, not when hashirama stabbed him in the back, definitely not when madara fixed the hole in his chest by putting part of hashirama in his heart and not even in death.

in the very end, when madara is dying for a final time he is the defeated, misguided villain of the story - until hashirama walks over to him. hashirama doesn't leave madara to die alone. he can't. they are going to die together. and madara wants him to be there. he wants to share his last moments with him, be close to him and have one last conversation. this shifts our perception of madara from villain to human again (naruto tells sasuke that when they both die they can be free of their burdens and hopefully come to understand one another in the next world and this is what that looks like.) they are dying and they do not have to worry about their clans, any responsibilities, the village or war and peace anymore. there are no more choices to be made except choosing eachother. all that matters is them in the present. they look at eachother with such fondness. madara calls hashirama soft (as soft as ever. hashirama has changed, they both have, but this is the hashirama that he knows and loves. warm. soft. optimistic. his friend. the hashirama that madara thought he'd lost) and he smiles at him gently and hashirama comforts him. neither of them have achieved actual peace but madara considers that maybe hashirama wasnt all wrong in his ideas. that hashiramas plan at least has a future in which it could be improved. hashirama reminds him that neither of them would have been able to fully realize their dream of peace in one lifetime. but they did manage to make peace with eachother (even if it did take them literally their entire lifetime to get there). hashirama lets him know that this time they are dying as comrades. not as brothers and not as enemies on opposing sides. they were never truly on opposing sides - but it took them too long to realize that and communicate it properly. madara looks peaceful in death and hashirama looks heartbroken by the fact that they weren't able to get to this point sooner

(edit: corrected the amount of time konoha has existed to 70 years instead of 50-60)

cheers - - !

happy birthday to madara...🎄🎁✨

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