#my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

I think the reason why Naruto fans get so passionate and upset about the series is because of how real it can be. Naruto isn’t about paragon heroes outdoing dastardly villains. It’s about human beings fighting tooth and nail to survive in a world surrounded by death. It’s about broken systems made and perpetuated by broken people.

The Hyuga clan isn’t just antagonistic or pretentious, they practice slavery.

The Uchiha clan weren’t just killed by some raging psychopath, they were systematically massacred.

Itachi isn’t just cruel to Sasuke because he’s a bad brother, he’s cruel because he’d been told time and time again that you can only survive by being cruel and he wants nothing more than for Sasuke to survive.

Nagato isn’t trying to take over the world just for the sake of power, he’s trying to take over the world because it beat him down to the point of believing that the only chance at peace there is is the world being forced into compliance through fear.

Iruka isn’t hard on Naruto just because he’s a strict teacher, he’s hard on Naruto because he knows from experience how unforgiving the world is towards orphans.

Kakashi isn’t just some silly and slightly lazy teacher, he’s a contract killer still grieving his loved ones and struggling to do better without knowing how he’s supposed to.

Sakura isn’t just a fangirl, she’s a normal girl in a very dangerous and abnormal world constantly being made to choose between what she’s supposed to do and what she feels.

Sasuke isn’t just some edgelord, he’s a survivor who lost everything then gets repeatedly told that he has to choose between keeping what he’s gained and doing better than his brother.

Naruto isn’t just trying to be the best Hokage there ever was, he’s trying to prove his worth to a society that abandoned him just for existing and, in a way, confirm his worth to himself.

The Naruto story is about humans trying to force themselves into the role of weapons because that’s what they were told they had to be. It’s a story where everyone is a perpetrator but no one is trying to do wrong. It’s a story where everyone is a victim but no one is a perfect victim.

The world and the characters aren’t simple and trying to simplify them only takes away from them. So of course we get passionate about showing off all the reasons why they shouldn’t be simplified and all of the ways they’re complicated. Of course we get upset when we see others simplifying them or selling certain aspects of their characters short. Of course we get upset when the series itself simplifies them. Of course we get upset when the series chooses to abandon them. Because it not only feels like the characters are giving up, it feels like the series is betraying anyone who chose to get invested in its complexities.

#If you ever wondered why I can’t bring myself to really hate any Naruto character #This is why #They’re all trying their best (mostly) #naruto #naruto classic #naruto shippuden #analysis #naruto analysis #fandom analysis #sorta #naruto uzumaki #sakura haruno #sasuke uchiha #kakashi hatake #iruka umino #nagato uzumaki #itachi uchiha #every once in a while I remember why I like this series #and I remember why I think Kishimoto is capable of being a good writer #more serious than usual #my stooff #slight #rambling #anti naruto ending #anti kishimoto #Edit: I worded something wrong

[merrycri-sis]

yall i finished my last piano lesson for the year and im--- dude i lov my teacher so much ive been w her for 6 years and she always gives presents for easter, bdays, and creema i fucking cant,, and she's so nice??? like she why i wanna be a teacher im so emotional rn hhhhh

#she gave me hand cream and lip balm #both strawberry but i hate strawberries #but my teacher is best so n e thing for u 🤧🤧🤧🤧 #n e ways #i need to clean yeet #thud.txt #moosic stooff

[liamstranscomics]

My boi Andy is gunna take over while I deal with stooff (im all good, hes like the positive happy side of me lol... and I kinda always wanted him to be a character here sooooo~~)

[vorchagirl]

jupiterjames replied to your photo “Mmmm … new linen and pillows to replace some of what was destroyed! I...”

*whistles tunelessLY like a creepo and STEALS ALL YOUR SHIT*

Noooooooo!!!! My precious stooff!

#jupiterjames

[sonxfdoom]

there was a note at the door, it was tied around some wildflowers. It read in scribbly barely coherent letters

Yur qite welcoom for the sheny  stooff and the flowers here have some moore that I found on my walkalso also how  did I wright  thes  I have nu hands

A happy, gross growl-squeal left the boy, taking the flowers and the note that upon a quick glance he folded around the flowers.  Why try to decipher a note he can’t read, right?

#) Worldbuillding Art From Another Eye (Art) ( #submission #:: asks #EEEEe #LOOK HOW C UTE #I CRUI

[watermelonsloth]

I love how the Akatsuki pairs can be summarized as:

Itachi and Kisame: Malewife

Sasori and Deidara: Manwhore

Hidan and Kakuzu: Manslaughter

Pein and Konan: Mansplain

Obito and Zetsu: Manipulate

#do you see my vision? #naruto shippuden #naruto #akatsuki #itachi uchiha #kisame hoshigaki #sasori #deidara #hidan #kakuzu #pein #nagato uzumaki #konan #obito uchiha #zetsu #black zetsu more specifically #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

*About Sasuke*

Sakura: I can fix him

Naruto: I love him no matter how many men, women, and children he’s killed

Kakashi: I gave up on trying to fix him

Sai: “I can fix him” Okay Bob the Builder, relax

Ino: “I can fix him” You can’t even fix your sleep schedule bestie

Itachi: I can fix him by making him worse

Orochimaru: “I can fix him” That’s cute. I can break him. I can leave him a shell of who he once was.

Suigetsu: I can fix him, but whatever he’s got going on is much more amusing.

Karin: “I can fix him” Yeah? Well I can accept him as he is. You don’t like the murder? Grow up. The atrocities are a part of him and I’ve decided that they’re funny.

Juugo: What’s there to fix?

Obito: I can stick around and see how much he can fuck up. It’s kind of like watching a train wreck.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto shitposting #I think I’m funny #Sasuke uchiha #sakura haruno #naruto uzumaki #kakashi hatake #sai #team seven #ino yamanaka #itachi uchiha #orochimaru #suigetsu hozuki #karin uzumaki #juugo #team hebi #team taka #obito uchiha #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

Hashirama: Well this is an adventure!

Tobirama, littered with bruises and solidly ignoring his brother: …

Madara, ripping a kunai out of his arm and barely resisting the urge to stab his friend with it: …

Izuna, with a bleeding eye and holding his side: …

Izuna: No, this is an ambush during a diplomatic mission, Senju! We hate you!

#It’s probably for the best that they never really met #hashirama senju #izuna uchiha #naruto shippuden #naruto #my stooff #naruto incorrect quotes #naruto founders #founders era #tobirama senju #madara uchiha

[watermelonsloth]

Naruto, looking at a map: Its a barren, featureless wasteland out there, huh?

Sakura: Other side, Naruto.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto incorrect quotes #team seven incorrect quotes #naruto uzumaki #sakura haruno #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

Kakashi: The best revenge is a life well lived

Sasuke: Wrong. Murder.

#That’s how the tree conversation went right? #naruto shippuden #naruto #naruto classic #naruto incorrect quotes #my stooff #kakashi hatake #sasuke uchiha #team seven incorrect quotes #team seven #team 7

[watermelonsloth]

Hinata: What? That’s so mean! I can’t say that!

Shino: I can.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto incorrect quotes #shinohina #if you want #hinata hyuga #shino aburame #team 8 incorrect quotes #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

Ranking the Akatsuki Based on How Well Liked They Are in the Organization

1 Kisame Hoshigaki - He’s surprisingly friendly for a former Blood Mist Village friend killer. He's honest, even if he follows strict “don’t ask, don’t tell” and “need to know basis” rules, and he seems be both loyal to the organization and it’s members. He’s agreeable, a good listener, and easy to get along with.

2 Konan - She doesn’t interact with the Akatsuki’s members very often, especially outside of missions. Some members regard her as boring, but she’s respectful enough, not antagonistic, and will go out of her way for the members if it benefits the organization. It’s a low bar for normal people, but the Akatsuki aren’t normal.

3 Pein - He’s respected for his strength, drive, and ability to pull something like the Akatsuki off in the first place. The members have an ongoing debate of whether his attempting his goals is courage or arrogance. He has a bad habit of going on philosophical tangents. Sometimes he says things during meetings and no one can tell if he’s teasing them or… Like Konan, no one knows much about him outside of that because he rarely interacts with them.

4 Itachi Uchiha - He usually keeps to himself but occasionally gets really nosy. He thinks he’s subtle. He isn’t. He doesn’t act like someone who would kill their clan and he refuses to talk to anyone about it. He’s sick and he’s tired all of the time, no one has agreed on what he’s like outside of that. Since he’s so unreadable, many members don’t know whether or not he’s trustworthy. Average brought down by Deidara.

5 Zetsu - Everyone is uncomfortable with how he insists on keeping tabs on them. Outside of that, opinions are mixed. Black Zetsu is rude but he makes sure everyone gets their work done on schedule. White Zetsu is an idiot but is the closest thing to good company after Kisame. Hidan and Kisame gave them the nicknames Dokuzetsu and Jozetsu and they just kind of stuck. Everyone has chosen to ignore the cannibalism. Pein and Konan don’t seem concerned, so he’s probably safe, right?

6 Kakuzu - He’s aggressive and short tempered, but he won’t bother anyone unless they’re late on work or go over budget, for the most part. He’s so stingy that most of the Akatsuki prefer paying out of pocket over fighting him about “unnecessary mission expenses” like food or shelter. Most members just ignore him and he ignores them right back.

7 Deidara - He’s good at his job, so everyone understands why he’s there, but he’s also regarded as loud, overconfident, dramatic, short-tempered, only interested in art, and immature. Him being the youngest member of the Akatsuki, even if it is only by three years, doesn’t help the immature allegations. Most members were over him by week 2.

8 Sasori - He’s critical and condescending. He is ready and willing to attack anyone who makes him wait. He is unapologetically nosy and doesn’t even try to hide it like Itachi. If you don’t tell him what he wants to know, he’ll just gather intel on you behind your back. If it weren’t for the skill and knowledge he’s accrued, no one would like him.

9 Hidan - He’s loud, vulgar, and will take any chance to preach about his religion. He has been kicked out of meetings on more than one occasion. If he gets too bored, on missions or not, he will start picking fights. He complains all of the time, even about things he doesn’t actually care about. He’s made it abundantly clear that not only is he neither loyal to the organization nor its members, he’s expressed that he hates both.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto headcanon #akatsuki headcanon #rambling #akatsuki #pein #konan #zetsu #kisame hoshigaki #itachi uchiha #sasori #deidara #kakuzu #hidan #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

Sasuke: Sakura, how can you be such an idiot?

Naruto: Hey! If Sakura’s an idiot, what does that make me?!

Sasuke: Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to

#naruto uzumaki #sakura haruno #sasuke uchiha #naruto #naruto fanfiction #naruto incorrect quotes #team 7 #team seven #team seven incorrect quotes #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

I don’t really want to become known as a “Tobirama dick-rider” or whatever other insult is being used to refer to his fans, but why are people acting like he created shinobi and the shinobi system? Shinobi have been around since Ashura and Indra. Tobirama was one of those child soldiers sent off to war.

Tobirama helped create the village and many of their systems (academy, chunin promotion exam, anbu, police force, etc.) and many of those are questionable, but all of those were created with the intent of doing good. I actually think that the systems he made are accurately flawed for the creator being someone who grew up in war and doesn’t really know what peace looks like or could be. Especially since he’s meant to be the more pragmatic/realistic Hokage.

If everyone’s just blaming him for all of the village’s flaws, then I’m just gonna say that he wasn’t the only one to build the village. It would be pretty stupid if Tobirama was the only one to get his ideas incorporated and all of his ideas were used with no one having the power to overrule them. At a minimum, Hashirama and Madara were also there and it’s quite the stretch to say that Tobirama is steamrolling either of them.

Also, say what you want about it, but the village worked up until other shinobi villages were made. The clans of the Land of Fire were fighting for centuries up until the alliance and subsequent village was built. Konoha is FAR from perfect (or even good if I’m being honest), but the goals of ending the warring states era and raising the age minimum of soldiers to lower the rate of child death were accomplished. If you ask me, the village’s biggest problems are more because of there being room to take advantage of the system and none of the future leaders pushing for much progress, not the village itself being a fundamentally flawed idea.

#How did this become four paragraphs? #Why am I becoming a defender of Tobirama? #I’m supposed to be a hater not a defender against fandom stupidity goddammit #tobirama senju #naruto #naruto shippuden #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

Naruto, texting: The next booth over is selling wooden swords. Does our son need a sword?

Neji: No. Absolutely not.

Naruto: It says “Message Failed” I’m getting him a sword

Neji: It does not say message failed. Do not get him a sword.

#Nejinaru #naruto incorrect quotes #naruto #naruto shippuden #neji hyuga #naruto uzumaki #my stooff

[watermelonsloth]

Itachi and the Uchiha Massacre

This might be one of the most controversial posts I’ll ever make.

I find myself very undecided about how I feel about Itachi’s role in the Uchiha massacre. It fills me with the same moral indecision and disgust of the trauma olympics (aka the comparing of “who had it worse”). Every time I try to come to a consensus, I immediately doubt my conclusion and question whether I’m giving Itachi too much of the benefit of the doubt or I’m not taking his circumstances into account enough. It’s like asking if him being a child outweighs him killing children. And that makes me uncomfortable.

On the one hand, he did something very very very bad. He killed an entire clan of people, including who knows how many innocent civilians and children. He then proceeded to psychologically torture his seven year old brother with the memories of him doing so. Prior to being met with this specific conundrum, I would’ve said without hesitation that this is a black-and-white situation with Itachi being solidly in the wrong. Even if he wasn’t the only perpetrator, he still would deserve much of the blame for being one of the executors of such an abhorrent act.

I cannot stress enough how terrible the massacre would’ve been in practice.

However, and this is where I might lose a few of you, as more information is revealed, one question nags at my entire fucking central nervous system. How much of a choice did Itachi really have?

To understand the full circumstances, first you have to understand that the context falls under two categories: who Itachi is (and his perspective) and what position he was in when he made the decision he did. First, who he is:

Itachi grew up in a militaristic village that normalizes violence, especially violence being used to solve problems.

This village has also normalized putting the village’s survival over oneself and one’s friends/family.

He was alive to see the very end of the third shinobi war and the nine tails attack, two events that have solidified his belief that war is the worst thing ever and should be prevented at all costs.

Hiruzen, Danzo, Kakashi, and Shisui encourage his belief that war should be avoided at any and all costs. Three of them are authority figures (see the Milgram experiment for why that’s relevant) and one of them is his first and only best friend.

He is a very introverted and closed off person. He’s so closed off that not even his immediate family can read him. Because of this, his inner circle is very small (meaning he has a very small support network).

He grew up with a strict, authoritarian father and entered the anbu at a young age, meaning he grew up being expected/pressured to obey those in positions of power without asking questions.

He’s an introvert who’s scared of conflict and keeps his head down.

Second, his actual position when he was told to kill his clan (I might be missing some, so feel free to add any others you remember.):

He was thirteen. That is a child in grade 8. That is the age of most genin.

Tensions between his family and village are implied to have been rising for a while and are now at the point that, for whatever reason, negotiation is deemed impossible.

Tensions are so high that if the village doesn’t act soon, the Uchiha’s coup will spark an all out civil war.

The Uchiha clan has little to no chance of winning the conflict and will likely have most (if not all) of its members killed in it. Plus, the conflict would’ve also resulted in many casualties on Konoha’s side as well, including civilians, children, and shinobi who had nothing to do with what was happening.

Tensions between him and his father are extremely high as well with the two of them being implied to regularly argue.

His best friend, possibly only friend, died by jumping off of a cliff in front of him after giving him one of his eyes and left the responsibility of handling the entire situation to him.

He’s being suspected for the murder of said best friend (and was flat out accused of it in front of his younger brother by three adult police officers) and is suspected as being more loyal to the village than to his clan, making him even more of an outcast to his clan.

He's aware that his best friend was attacked and mutilated by Danzo, one of the village leaders and his superior. If he wants any action taken against Danzo, he’ll have to fight a solo, uphill battle against all of the village leaders and risk losing all sway over the Uchiha situation (which would still be a ticking time bomb) in the process.

If he doesn’t want to fight a two sided war or lose what little power he has in the situation, his safest option is to follow orders while pushing for a plan where casualties are minimized.

Did Itachi have other options? Yes, I’m not gonna pretend that genocide was Itachi’s only choice. But a lot of people seem to forget how difficult or flawed a lot of his alternatives would have actually been in practice.

For example, I’ve seen a lot of people throw around the idea of Itachi just grabbing Sasuke and leaving the village. First of all, the massacre still would’ve happened, Itachi and Sasuke just wouldn’t have been there for it. Second, Itachi would’ve had to remove Sasuke from the village without being caught by the village or the Uchiha clan when he was under the scrutiny of both. Itachi is a good shinobi, but I don’t know if he’s that good. Third, how would he even get Sasuke to go along with him? Itachi may not have been close to his clan, but Sasuke loved his clan. Yes, Sasuke also loved Itachi, but it’s a pretty big stretch to say that seven-year-old Sasuke would’ve just gone along with it, especially when he wouldn’t have been able to understand the true scale of the situation. (Itachi would pretty much have to kidnap Sasuke for this plan to work.) Fourth (and similarly), people don’t tend to like uprooting their entire lives to leave the home they grew up in, even in emergency situations or when it’s the objectively better/safer option. Itachi and Sasuke, who were both raised to be “lay down their lives” loyal to their home, would’ve been especially averse to this idea. Fifth, even if they got over all of that and got out of the village, Itachi would have to raise his younger brother alone at thirteen years old while being on the run from a world power with no protection in a world where they’re at risk of being killed or getting the attention of creeps like Orochimaru simply for having kekkei genkai. It’s not like Itachi had outside contacts (beside Obito but Obito would not have helped them even if Itachi trusted him enough to trust Sasuke’s life to him) or there was a benevolent nation to take them in. Even if they managed to one day settle into a peaceful life, it would’ve taken years of fighting to survive before they’d have gotten there. Cool fanfic idea, but making Itachi slightly more innocent isn’t a solution.

The idea that Itachi should’ve just told the Uchiha clan what was going on and got help from them is similarly short sighted. The Uchiha clan were the victims in this situation, but they weren’t perfect angels either. Itachi was not close to, or particularly well liked by, his clan. Save for Shisui (who is theoretically dead in this scenario) and Sasuke, he had no emotional connection to the clan, only vague respect and a waning sense of responsibility towards it. And even if he did go to them, Itachi telling them what was happening would’ve just sparked a civil war, the one thing Itachi was desperate to avoid and the thing that would’ve gotten them all killed.

So…

What was the point of all this?

I’ll admit that I hoped typing out my thoughts would somehow end in me settling on an opinion, but right now I’m still just as undecided and significantly more depressed. Because, like, it’s just a depressing, shitty situation where there were victims and perpetrators and Itachi who just so happened to be both. Maybe trying to ask if Itachi is either “good” or “evil” is asking the wrong question. Maybe the entire discussion about how moral Itachi is as a person or all of the other choices he could’ve made is missing the point.

#itachi uchiha #the Itachi morality conundrum #this should replace the trolly problem because OH MY GOD- #a looooong #rambling #i wrote this over the course of two days #naruto shippuden #naruto #the Uchiha massacre #the uchiha clan #discussing the morality within Naruto is exhausting #naruto analysis #character analysis #analysis #my stooff #I know that in the end Konoha is the greatest perpetrator and is to blame #But I thought ending this with that conclusion would be lame and miss the entire point of having this discussion #Though I guess how this ended isn’t all that much better