knuckle tatts that say HIIII IIIII

just look at this tiktok so i dont have to explain myself

absence of warmth.

based off this post by @theratdruid

oldschool Angelic Pretty strawberry dresses🍓

why is everyone so mad at the eggs. everyone forgetting that the eggs are kids. they are children. they are going to be bratty and selfish and over-emotional. because they are children. fictional egg children in a fictional minecraft server. relax.

the post that's like "boy detective is a gender in itself" anyway in the same vein: mad scientist is a gender

swifties kinda up there with the worst fandoms ever

I forgor 💀

I don't think season 7's opening song gets enough credit or hype like I hear stuff about season 5's opening song but I don't hear ANYTHING about season 7 like whattt

[pointing] teen boy

i think that every time i make a post and think wow this should get a billion note it should get like. at least a thousand

obsessed with the idea of a jasonlityerses friendship btw. you see lit's ass in the dark prophecy? i want him to be friends with jason. they spar together and jason loses every time because he gets distracted by how hot lit is. they lay on couches and one of them has their head in the other's lap while said other pets them. lit keeps getting nature valleyed cuz jason refuses to stop eating granola bars

Amazing how ghost became the patron Saint of 'he wouldn't fucking say that' within a month. Astounding even

hi kat, i love your blog and when you talk about naruto op/eds. so my question to you is which one do you think encapsulates the series the best? <3

rome, beloved, bless you for this question. it's been far too long since properly waxed poetic about a naruto OP/ED.

to me the easiest answer for which OP/ED encapsulates the series is hands down diver. which may sound biased but it's not even my favorite one!!! but it does encapsulate the series the best.

to start, something really interesting about it is that like most anime, in general naruto OPs follow the theme/story of the current arc, which usually means showing shots of the groups of characters that appear, and fights that play a large role. but diver doesn't do that. it has a story to tell and doesn't bother with any cruft.

it's worth nothing that diver is attached to the episodes in which naruto gets beaten up by karui for refusing to give up sasuke, resolves to travel to the five kage summit in order to beg the raikage for sasukes's life, and also learns from obito the truth about itachi and the uchiha massacre. so naruto is basically balls to the wall for sasuke at this point (i mean when has he not been, but sasuke is really not a popular guy right now). not only that, but naruto just finished saving the village from pain and basically has the love and support from others that he has always wanted. i think this is super important context for how we should look at diver.

we start out with naruto falling into a black abyss all alone. obviously loneliness has always been a major part of naruto's backstory.

next we see shots of obito and the other akatsuki - -these are main antagonists that naruto has faced, and just one of his many burdens. then we see SASUKE, grouped together with the antagonists, but he's much closer, and he's looking right into naruto's eyes EXACTLY like how he did in VOTE1. only this time naruto's eyes are open.

at this point sasuke raises his chidori to strike naruto, further driving home this framing of him as an antagonist. not only is he threatening naruto, he's doing it in a much more close and personal way than the other antagonists. at this point naruto starts to resist, and everything dissolves and turns red as if the weight of everything has become too much.

that's when other people, most notably team 7 and iruka, start supporting naruto and pushing him upwards. "bonds" are what i would consider to be the greatest theme in naruto. relationships with others, feeling their pain, this is what makes people strong enough to overcome evil and hatred (according to naruto). he believes this so strongly because when he was alone, others acknowledging him (notably iruka and sasuke) is what saved him. so after all this support from others, naruto, is pushed above the water and is saved.

but. he turns around and sasuke is still there. in a black whirlpool (uzumaki means whirlpool. coincidence???). and he has the mangekyo now, a something which is used to symbolize hatred but actually a sign of the loss of great love. and sasuke is preparing to use it as a weapon to achieve his goals of hatred and revenge. he's cut himself off from every bond. he's alone. naruto knows exactly what this means. at this point, he puts his headband on his head. he's been holding it in his hand the whole time. the headband carries a lot of meaning throughout the series. naruto actually doesn't even wear it the whole time during the kage arc, which i find very interesting (he wants to approach sasuke not as a ninja or jinchuriki but as his friend). but in this OP putting on the headband seems to symbolize some level of resolve, and/or perhaps similar to how naruto demanded sasuke put his headband on when they fought, as a sign they acknowledge each other as equal ninja.

the point is though, that naruto goes back for sasuke. naruto's whole thing always for for the end of time is that when he sees others' pain, he feels that pain, he relates, he empathizes, and he can't stand to see them go through the same thing he did (source: every talk no jutsu ever), and he admits later on that when he sees sasuke in pain, he hurts too. which is exactly why he goes after sasuke, because right now everyone is against sasuke, literally the entire five great nations have branded him as an enemy of the state. itachi is dead, and kakashi and sakura have all given up on him. sasuke has team taka but even they end up being abandoned by him during his quest. literally everyone is telling naruto to give up on sasuke, but he refuses. naruto recognizes that what sasuke really needs is someone to understand him, to be there for him, to love him, the way others had for naruto (including sasuke in the past!!). so naruto goes back.

but this is the end of the OP. we don't see if he succeeds, because that won't actually be resolved until the very end of the series. and that's why i think it perfectly encapsulates the series. naruto and sasuke's relationship encapsulates the series, their bond, their empathy for each other, their shared pain. every talk no jutsu naruto does in order to understand every antagonist -- sasuke is the pinnacle of that. and that's why i think it encapsulates the series :)

you want your white dad to say “you slammed your penis into the wrong car door” ??

oh absolutely. i can't be the only one saying "penis" in the house

the cutiest cuties in the world fr look at these cuties

sobs theyre so cute