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"Is RtN really that much different from the LAST?" or "SP+Kishi early confessions"

Basically, two thoughts: first, RtN has more similarities to the LAST than a lot of people acknowledge and second, RtN was a pretty damn romantic movie and the Last could learn from it. Also, yes, I am not looking at NS as a BroTP in this movie, because NS never was one anywhere and especially because their counterparts SakuMenma, whose roles they played in everyone’s eyes, are pretty much confirmed canon.

Similarities between RtN and the LAST lie mostly in execution. Basically, a lot of issues 700th (sp-)chapter and The LAST had were foreshadowed in RtN. The fact that RtN is also technically-canon, since Kishimoto took part in creating it, only helps my point (SP+Kishimoto collaboration for the win).

First of all, the main plot in RtN is weak. The whole premise about capturing the fox through putting Naruto in AU is positively nonsensical. This is creator’s (SP\Kishimoto) CONFESSION NUMBER 1 - “we don’t give a fuck about the villain’s motivation and reasoning as long as it gives us the setting we wish for”. (Hello, Toneri and his crush).

Secondly, priorities are broken. Despite the fact that dark-Menma\extracting-Naruto is supposedly the driving storyline, main accent is so obviously made on Uzumaki family dynamics that the rest of the story just falls apart and disappears in the background. All action\villain scenes look extremely rushed and weak (as well as Menma’s characterization) in comparison to the effort put in depicting the process of Naruto opening up to his family. Action|villain storyline OPENLY serves the emotional plot and is treated like the means to an end. It could be ok, but again - OPENLY, BLUNTLY, at a massive cost of quality. I don’t know about you guys, but I can only see this as a big step away from Naruto’s shounen roots, where emotional development was expressed through quality fighting, in fighting and around fighting, not the other way around. Thank God the movie was saved because it was MinaKushi, it is just that good. Anyway, in my perception it is CONFESSION NUMBER 2 - “We somewhat recall that Naruto is a shounen, but c'mon, ain’t emotional issues|dialogs and character angst the main reason our mostly girly audience is reading this?? (Hello, 90% romance movie as a next step). Who cares about fighting villains?”  (well, duh, if you write those villains like cardboard) “Also we forgot how to write good fights”

Thirdly, scene-crafting is weak. This is true both about general story-crafting and fanservice injections. It happened in almost every movie with the LAST being wholesomely made out of this sin. Big portion of scenes in RtN simply stinks of “purpose”. I mean, of course the intent of the author/screenwriter can almost always be deduced, but it has to have at least a little bit of subtlety! Creators of RtN don’t know what subtlety is, which is why almost every scene in the movie is crafted bluntly to make a very straightforward step in story progression (like Naruto not dodging toad’s spit to provoke Kushina’s jump in), almost as often - to introduce an outspoken fanservice moment, which is why there is absolutely no natural flow. There is no concern about strange and unjustified actions of characters (how about tell us how Sasuke can even be a playful extrovert with his backstory? How about trying to justify Shino and Kiba’s disgust of insects\dogs - did they abandon their clans?) if it gives us the needed content (hello, next step - Hinata can’t jump when she needs to be caught, hello, Hinata must be on the same eagle as Naruto, hello, Hinata wears fishnets in winter etc etc etc). Here goes CONFESSION NUMBER 3 - “We know what our fanbase wants, they are all goats anyway, so we’ll throw a bunch of individual fanservice and "anything goes for the story to progress” scenes together, they’ll be happy enough.“ (Hello, NH-fanfiction movie with canon-contradictions that comes next.)

And finally, what annoyed me and many other fans the most, is characters’ preposterous OOCness. To be precise, Sakura’s OOCness. I mean, 1\2 of the movie is basically about Sakura learning lessons that she has already learned in canon when she was basically 12 years old! Her first monologue on the swings about perfection of living alone, having no parents - oh it made me groan in pain! And then she said Sasuke would understand her better, even though he was literally the one to tell her that she was wrong about same statements in chapter 3! (And since then she even learned about his tragic story!)  When I was watching that scene for the first time, I wanted to cry and forsake NS forever, I almost wished Naruto would smack her right there (maybe not) and leave her for good. Now I understand what my heart was aching about. Because in my eyes that was the moment that shouted about the amount of fucks Studio Pierrot and even Kishimoto give about canon material and character development. Thus here are confessions number 4 and 5.

CONFESSION NUMBER 4: We don’t care about Sakura’s character development and image, we can use her for our purposes and totally retcon\rebuild her personality if needed to push the story forward. (hello SakuHina BFF, Sakura being sasuke fanatic at 19 etc.)

CONFESSION NUMBER 5: Since we don’t care about rebuilding personalities, we don’t care about canon material either. We don’t care if original manga story holds scenes that totally contradict what we are showing here. We don’t care if our scenes make characters look like they have brain-damage or amnesia. We don’t care if it makes the ideas in the original manga look weak. (Naruto being emotional impotent, NS being a rivalry game, Naruto giving up both on Sakura and HInata, etc.).

Confession 6 comes from the fact that Sakura’s development is basically reused, just as Naruto’s acceptance of his parents (though less, ‘cause impostors, right?lol), just as quite a bunch of battle scenes (Minato vs Tobi = Naruto vs Menma).

CONFESSION NUMBER 6: We are not too good to use scenes and developments that already worked in the manga. These are proven to be popular goods, we can milk them as much as we need, even if we give the spotlight to other characters. 

Just like that I think that RtN was indeed a forshadowing of what was going to come. Yes, the content contradicted the end a lot. The most obvious - there was a lot of NS tease and NS development as well as ship-sinking of SS and NH and Naruto learning what good parenting means (lolololol). But the underlying features of this movie, the decisions that made it what it was, the approach that was executed - they were all threatening the whole fandom, we just didn’t notice it. 

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And still RtN is a much better romantic movie than the LAST. Depends on how you define romance, of course.Naturally, I don’t mean the culmination scenes, because obviously kissing, confessing and getting married in "canon” is as much romantic resolution as it can get. RtN wasn’t a shoujo movie, but it featured an enormous mutual development of a female and male protagonists that was about them understanding each other better on a very deep level and becoming able to communicate ideals solely from this understanding (Sakura telling Naruto what being a hero means and brining his resolution to fight back). More than that - this development was a hard one. It featured two characters literally finding themselves in another’s shoes, which provoked a very sharp conflict of interests that could break them apart just as easily as make them closer. The way they handled it proved how much they meant to each other. Even Sakura, who was selfish in the beginning, was so hesitant about pressing her unhappiness upon Naruto, who finally found his home. 

In that complex scene near the fence we saw Naruto and Sakura not even needing words to communicate their feelings to each other. It was not a happy scene. It was the first time when Naruto actually said he didn’t have time for Sakura (and he suffered for this). It was not a happy scene, but it was a VERY intimate one. This is the kind of conflict that can make people realize the true value of the relationship they have - not some kind of adrenaline ride and a bunch of pitiful memories. I would even go further to say that this is the mild kind of development SN had - development through polishing values, priorities, being pulled apart and still not giving up on each other.

Even better - this was a Naruto movie with intimacy and hero\heroine development, but with a focus on other important themes (family and responsibility). Important to the Naruto universe, to original manga, to the shounen genre. Naruto and Sakura managed to grow together while addressing themes and resolving problems that were way beyond their feeling for each other thus proving wide meaning, stability and productivity of their relationship. On the other hand, in the Last Naruto and Hinata focus pretty much solely on each other. Basically all scenes in the LAST are about Naruto and Hinata learning to be comfortable at touching each other. Everything that is happening is pushing them in one direction - into each other’s arms. The conflict between them is solely external, all internal barriers are idiotic (Hinata is still as shy as she was in Part 1, Naruto is an emotional impotent he never was before) and are conveniently destroyed by a genjutsu with no personality developments needed.

RtN gives an image of a romantic story the LAST could have been. Even if it was about NH, it could put NH in the background of something that was always present in Naruto’s story - themes like changing rules, not giving up, destroying the system, etc. Hinata could have helped Naruto in his quest to lead the new ninja world and that could be hard for both of them, but that would make them actually intimate - something I didn’t manage to see in the Last. I am not even mentioning that it would keep Naruto’s genre intact and please a much wider audience.

But to me RtN is the movie with a lot of flaws that still showed me that NS needs not more than a tiny little push to become canon. Like that scene in the end, if only Sakura invited Naruto to have dinner with her family…

But. Denied.

sorry if you've already shared this at some point, but what went wrong with snk in your opinion?

oh boy here we go

disclaimer before going in: i have nothing against anyone liking this manga,  i make zero personal judgments based on what you like, this is not meant to be a searing indictment of your taste, just some bitter personal grievances i’d like to excise lmao. 

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Armin and Eren

Armin’s a character whose development and progress tends to quietly happen in the background, especially when compared to louder, more flashy characters. His shifts and foreshadowing are more often shown with in between panels of his face, inserted amongst other things, so I feel these moments get overlooked.

With that in mind, I found the interaction between Eren and Armin in chapter 90 to be interesting.

Prior to Shiganshina, when Armin talked about the ocean with Eren, he was bubbly and enthusiastic. Armin’s a character that encapsulates the goodness and necessity of hope for something better, and it’s because of this that he ignited Eren’s desire for freedom. Eren strives for freedom so that people like Armin would be able to enjoy the freedom that is their birthright.

That said, Armin is similar to Eren in that he’s still willing to fight for that freedom. His goal isn’t freedom itself, but rather the rewards it brings. Where they differ is what they’re willing to sacrifice. Eren has his line and he’s unwilling to cross it, the realisation of which shocks Armin to the core.

Putting aside Armin’s insecurities and disbelief that anyone would want to save him at all (especially in favour of someone else), I feel like this scene is the moment where Armin realises he doesn’t really know Eren at all. The person he thought would follow the same path as him, that he intensely admired and laid down his life for, doesn’t have any of the qualities Armin believes are necessary to change their situation.

They have the ocean talk again, but I don’t think Armin’s buying it.

Eren smiles at him, but look at Armin’s expression. There’s none of the previous excitement or enthusiasm or hope the topic used to spark in him. His expression is closed off and downright cold. He doesn’t even return Eren’s smile.

There’s a close up of his eye that indicates some kind of realisation or thought. Eren says he knows freedom is beyond the walls, but while he says it he thinks of Faye, torn to pieces by dogs. Eren doesn’t believe what he’s saying. He’s telling Armin hopeful platitudes he himself doesn’t believe, and Armin knows Eren is lying to him.

Armin also knows Eren’s been keeping crucial information to himself, and it’s this suspicion as well as the break of trust in this scene that could very well be the foundation of the EMA split.

Moving to the ocean scene, Armin and Mikasa’s reactions to Eren are pretty exact, and that they’re framed close together and physically away from him is a pretty big indication that in whatever argument Eren and Armin have, Mikasa will inevitably side with Armin, something that was hinted at in chapter 101 with Mikasa arriving with the SC rather than being in Marley with Eren.

The internet just changed: Net Neutrality is dead.

The FCC sided with Comcast and decided to let ISPs censor the internet. The Internet needs to stop this from happening: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/

Last Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced a proposal for new rules that would allow for a “ fast lane” of Internet traffic for content providers who are willing (and able) to pay a fee. [1] The proposal reverses the FCC’s previous commitment to net neutrality and open internet and allows ISP’s like Comcast or Verizon to slow down and censor services that don’t pay the toll.

We have to be totally honest, this situation is seriously grim. But there is still hope. The FCC already knows that the Internet community wants net neutrality, but they think they can put their spin on these new rules and sneak them through. If we can prove them wrong right now with a massive public outcry, we can literally save the Internet once again.

We need to stop the FCC now. Big business groups are already ramping up lobbying efforts with the FCC in swarms since Wednesday’s announcement in support of censoring the open Internet and to ensure this dangerous proposal moves forward. [2]

This is a critical moment. In the last few weeks more than 65,000 people have taken action with us. Can you help us get to 80,000 by the end of the day today?

[1] Gautham Nagesh. “FCC to Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules”. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304518704579519963416350296

[2] Edward Wyatt. Edward Wyatt. “Lobbying Efforts Intensify After F.C.C. Tries 3rd Time on Net Neutrality” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/lobbying-efforts-intensify-after-fcc-tries-3rd-time-on-net-neutrality.html?hpw&rref=politics

  - Fight For The Future

ELIA MARTELL! YOU PUBLICLY DISGRACED HER! YOU CHEATED ON HER! YOU DIVORCED HER IN SECRET!

Awesomee xD

AU in which Kate, Victoria and Warren form an unlikely alliance to uncover the truth behind the missing people at blackwell. Also Kate is brandishing a katana, Victoria dual pistols and Warren sniper rifle. Of which they promptly equip, and pose with in a badass style upon confronting Jefferson in the dark room.

Refrence that promise tho

People say, “How can you ship NaruSaku?”

JUST LOOK AT HOW CUTE AND DORKY THEY ARE.

Spoilers for John Wick 3 and it’s beautiful writing vs Jon Snow in the series finale of GoT (John Wick vs Jon Snow)

Just finished the movie and WOW.

THAT is how you make a likable person the villain. Take note D&D.

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Winston. Oh Winston. Smart. But not very smart to betray John.

John Wick has more honor and a better brain that Jon Snow. John Wick is excommunicated by the High Table and the Continental, rendering all services useless to him. John travels to the one man that the High Table listens to. His task to go back in good graces? Murder Winston. The father figure to John and the man that has made his survival possible via pushing his death back one hour.

Tasked with great mental fortitude but distraught and doubt in his heart, John travels to the continental and meets Winston face to face. Winston, the clever man that he is, correctly deduces that the All Father, the man that is above the High Table, has ordered his assassination for his defiance against the High Table. He offers John a choice. Kill him(Winston) and live but remain in servitude to the High Table forever. Or help him and help Winston win his rebellion to live once again as a free man. John chooses Winston, of course, because John has experienced love ever since he met his wife. And he holds love for Winston for all that Winston has done for him. This proves to be the wrong choice as Winston was playing him and was merely using John as an example that Winston still held strength and would later have John as his fall man.

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Now, in a week where I have seen two betrayals/villain turns. I should have been angry. Daenerys’ butcher ran through my mind and I felt as if I should have expressed nothing but anger.

Except…I didn’t. The betrayal from Winston was never out of place. Winston turning on Jon was something that actually made sense. Since John Wick 2, it’s been heavily foreshadowed that the High Table rules all. But as I’ve said before and as I’ll say again. “Foreshadowing is not character development”. And that holds true here as well. We actually see it. We see the power the High Table holds and it’s influence. How many elite men they could spare on their FIRST assault against Winston. Meanwhile, Winston’s forced have been reduced with only John and Charon remaining. Winston’s whole plan made sense. Everything was calculated to perfection. Disguise his weakness with John’s strength and and later turn on John to show his fealty.

And John Wick? He chose the love he had for Winston and ended up the loser. Winston realized there could only be one left alive after the entire ordeal and he chose himself (as expected of any assassin). But John’s choice cannot be faulted. He’s been out of the loop for 5 years. The bloodshed and havoc he’s wreaked has been in a span of 2 weeks. He doesn’t know the Continental. And he was blinded for the favoritism that Winston showed him. In the end, John’s eyes were opened wide to what Winston truly was. And in John Wick 4, we will see the true effect of John’s rage.

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Now after all that. Surely I can stomach Jon’s decision to kill Daenerys much more, right?

Wrong

Winston was always a ruthless man but his partiality to John blinded John to who Winston really was. Daenerys did nothing but good for her people and one act of rage somehow convinced Jon Snow she needed to be put down?

John Wick 3 was BEAUTIFUL. Another parallel/foreshadowing? Something John Wick did better than D&D? Telling us that John would kill Winston. No, I’m not talking about when he’s tasked with killin Winston. I’m talking earlier in the film, when he meets with Sofia(Halle Barry) and she tells him “Sometimes you have to kill the thing you love”. And that’s it! No dramatic pan on his face. John doesn’t suddenly go to Winston and put a cap in his ass. No! You forget about the line. You think it’s just some tragedy of Sofia’s character and move on. John struggles with himself internally and it isn’t until Winston’s betrayal and the roll credits of the movie that you remember! That you say to yourself “John has to kill Winston for what Winston did. No matter all the good that Winston’s done for him, this is something that John can’t forgive.” Versus Game of Thrones with Tyrion, “Yeah bro, love is the death of duty buuuut sometimes DutY iS ThE DeaTh oF LovE” right before Jon kills Daenerys. Like lol, did you think we’d be surprised? That people wouldn’t expect that shit when you put that literally the scene before? LMAO

THAT is how Jon should’ve killed Daenerys. The emotional turmoil is what Jon should have gone through. The decision to choose Winston(Daenerys) and only when Winston fucked over John(Jon) is it when John(Jon) decides to kill Winston(Daenerys) because he has to pay. Daenerys(Winston) even said “rule with me”. She could have been saved. She NEEDED to be saved. But Jon chose to butcher her while John chose to believe.

John Wick, an assassin, has more honor than Jon Snow, Ned Stark’s son.

Fandom Drama

Hello everyone.

Lately, the Naruto fandom has been abuzz with some kind of conflict. An animator or something posted some lewd content that was taken down because “NARUSAKU FANS WERE SO ANGRY”. A little of it has been spilling into the NaruSaku tags and a there are many people on the outside suddenly directing their anger toward us for our actions. 

…On behalf of the NaruSaku fandom, we don’t even know what you’re talking about. No, the NaruSaku fandom didn’t get together to attack someone… somewhere about… whatever it was. 

If you haven’t noticed, the NaruSaku fandom has been peacefully quiet in our corner for years now. Most of us have no idea what is going on with Naruto, nor do we care. Although our love for NaruSaku remains, we are well rounded individuals and many of us have found other things to love. 

On behalf of the NaruSaku fandom, I ask, once again, that you leave us out of your mess.

We do not care what you are doing. We don’t care what’s happening to you. We do not want to know.  We have our own families. We have our own outfits. We have our own story lines. We even have our own smut!

You are free to do whatever you want, it really doesn’t matter to us. Just leave us alone and find a new scapegoat. To even mention NaruSaku in your fandom arguments and wars among yourselves is quite simply pathetic at this point.

NaruSaku has all but vanished from canon now, there’s nothing left. Everyone working on that series right now is not in our corner. 

Everything they make and produce is for YOU. 

To attract YOU. 

To please YOU. 

We do not matter. We have fanon to enjoy and we have been enjoying it. For years. Don’t even bother to mention us anymore.

Thanks,

The NaruSaku Fandom

P.S: Fellow NaruSaku fans, if possible, continue ignoring the drama that you probably weren’t aware of until this post. If someone is harassing you or you see a crosstagger, please let us know and we will add them to the Block List

Same as me xD I'll wait your photo cosplaying max

I’ll be doing a Max cosplay from LIS soon. :>>> I just need a Chloe or warren! x’D