#not rlly but can be interpreted as such

[akatsukitrash]

Madara/Tobirama parallel part 1

Another day, another naruto meta bc im obsessed :

Madara and Hashirama are not true parallels to each other. Madara and Tobirama are. 

Now I’m not cheapening Madara and Hashirama’s friendship (or romance, based on interpretation). They indeed loved each other very much, trusted each other (or at least Madara trusted Hashirama), and did agree that peace was a necessity. However, personality-wise, they differed a lot, even as children. Hashirama is the Naruto to Madara’s Sasuke, but Madara is (in Tobirama’s eyes at least) his Gaara, his Obito, his Nagato. Two sides of the same coin.

Let’s take a look at the 4th great war, when the Hokages are ressuscitated and learn about the IT. 

This is what Hashirama thinks of it :

Then Madara takes the time to explain himself to Tobirama, perhaps attempting to strengthen his own resolve, or perhaps to have someone of a similar mind agree and feel less alone and misunderstood (I could write a whole novel about Madara’s loneliness). And that’s what happens. Tobirama agrees to Madara’s views. He shares them. He, too, is disgusted that sacrifice is needed for peace. He, too, doesn’t think Hashirama’s village will bring peace (i’ll develop that in another post). He thinks the IT IS a good idea.

He’s not agreeing here with Madara just to distract him. He can still distract him by arguing, and the thoughts that follow clearly prove that he isn’t deceiving Madara when he says he is right. He simply refuses to let Madara be the one who brings peace (through IT), bc he doesn’t trust Madara. It’s both pettiness (perhaps bc he blames him for “stealing” his brother) and fear. He is terrified of Madara, and not just because of his power. Why would a man who was Izuna’s equal (Izuna, who was also hailed as being close to Madara in power), and who has the god of shinobi as a brother, be afraid? He showed no fear when he saw Jinchuuriki Obito, who by Hashirama’s own words is more powerful than him.

Tobirama fears Madara because he sees himself in him. He is a ticking bomb, as likely to fall to despair and resort to extreme measures as Madara, and only his insane rules and his repression of his emotions and his over reliance on his brother’s moral compass keep him from becoming him. In that sense, he is hypocritical when he calls the Uchiha unpredictable. 

Furthermore, isn’t the IT, in essence, similar to Edo Tensei? A jutsu that transcends time and death, in the hope of bringing loved ones gone too soon back to Madara/Tobirama? Tobirama, by creating the Edo Tensei, showed that his thought process was the same as Madara. He refused to accept reality. Not only that, but it’s implied in canon that Madara intimately knew Edo Tensei when it was being invented. Those two men sat together, at some point, despite the hate between them, and discussed the jutsu. Agreed on it, perhaps. But it didn’t work, and Tobirama shelved it (*cough* as quickly as Madara shelved Konoha *cough*). 

Their core values are the same, and they are both deeply pessimistic about the world around them. Personality-wise, they’re extremely similar. Loud, ambitious, paranoid, distrustful, goofy, caring, misunderstood geniuses. Both won’t back down from their goals, no matter what. Even physically, they share some similarities, with their spiky hair and red eyes and delicate, pointy faces. I said it before and I’ll say it again : it is tragic that the war made these two enemies, because the potential for them to be great friends was right there.

Anyway, the Tobi = Tobirama theory we had going back in the days is very much possible in fanfic. Akatsuki!Tobirama was one bad day away from being canon and I won’t change my mind.

#madara uchiha #tobirama senju #hashirama senju #naruto meta #madatobi #not rlly but can be interpreted as such #which means mdtb shippers owe me money for making their ship work in canon #tobirama joining madara in the war is such a good fanfic idea like the tension!!!! #i'll make another post abt why izuna and hashirama are parallels of each other #madara haters begone #anti konoha

[xulips]

clearly, they have the same opinion on being "casual"

#I LOVE THESE OUTFITS SO MUCH #everyone looks so goofy #i like the niigo's second (vbs is always first) #they r so goofy !!!! #the mzen and knmf diversity #project sekai #prsk #nightcord at 25:00 #kanade yoisaki #yoisaki kanade #mafuyu asahina #asahina mafuyu #ena shinonome #shinonome ena #mizuki akiyama #akiyama mizuki #feel free to tag as mzen / knmf / or polyniigo i don't mind !!!!! #mayb i should clarify that all platonic post of mine can also be interpreted as romantic it doesn't rlly bother me #(as long as its NOT my familial post or else i will kill someone)

[ghostbite0]

big fan of obanai and sanemi being two of the hardest people to talk to when obanai is five feet tall and sanemi never knows when to shut up

#demon slayer #kny #sanemi shinazugawa #obanai iguro #artbites #artists on tumblr #art #digital art #demon slayer fanart #sanemi shinazugawa fanart #obanai iguro fanart #i lowkey rlly hate how this turned out #but at least i got it out of my system i guess #i just dont like how i draw faces. ahhhhhh #gotta work on that :( #saneoba #sanemi x obanai #can be interpreted as romantic or platonic #tagging just in case

[mechieonu]

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

#i know they have their fingers in a lot of pies but #i've just been thinking #bc i don't watch star wars or sports or marvel and i don't rlly watch tv/cable anymore #and i haven't bought a disney product or gone to the theme parks #and as far as i know disney doesn't facilitate a necessity that can't be circumvented #and at the VERY‚ very least‚ we're supposed to pressure them #the way i personally interpret that is 'avoid directly supporting them as much as you can' #bc i'm aware that you could accidently support them by proxy by buying something they've invested in #which is why we're supposed to PRESSURE rather than BOYCOTT #but i just also want to see disney downfall in my lifetime but that's neither here nor there #idk man #i was so excited to hear abt the book of bill but I don't think i could stomach #directly supporting the company that pledged $2million to the occupation project #free palestine #and don't forget that you can still sail the seven seas (or just go buy old dvds! I need to build a collection) #lol it's easy to boycott if you're broke !

[codgod-moved]

i’m so sorry

#.png #team rancher #jimmy solidarity #tangotek #double life spoilers #dlsmp #double life smp #trafficshipping #< not rlly. or i would’ve put it on the other blog. but it can be interpreted as such #so i’m tagging jic #i just wanted to draw hands and this quote is killing me and #AGH

[beybuniki]

like today i saw a tweet claiming that bkg is the only one who believed that quirkless deku could get into UA like i guess but also he did notttt say that because he looked up to deku in a gay way or sth that is just bakuog's crazy paranoia like take the yaoi goggles OFF

#and it happens all the time like 14yo genuinely despised that boy #you can still enjoy the yaoi but lets not twist the canon!!! #and i said it before but stripping bakugo of his resentment and replacing it with suppressed gay feelings is a dumn trop and doesnt do his #character justice #my point is the ship stuff tends to flatten them a lotno offense #there are some rlly nice interpretations though like i love what my mutuals draw #but otherwise im having a hard time believing it lmaooo #but my art is still sincere i like to draqw them being nice to each other and they DO cling to each other #there's a very fun and endearing middle ground

[sethcoart]

srry can't talk rn im thinking about trans adora

#my art #spop #she ra and the princess of power #she ra #catradora #adora #catra #she ra catra #she ra adora #spop adora #spop catra #trans woman adora for the soul #but she can be anything rlly like nom binary or smtg is up to interpretation #just know that she's not cis lol

[realsafari]

i forgot that certain types of jokes REALLY arent funny and i made 2 yesterday after being told the first time that it wasnt funny uhhh...

yeah um.

this week is not going so fun.

#safari is the best browser #safari posts #safari's deep shit #for clarification it was an incest joke #i forgot that a lot of ppl dont find that funny #yeah i screwed up #it was abt the twins from OHSHC #i jokingly said “ermmmm hikaru kaoru kiss” without a /j tag because i thought ppl would interpret it as joking #i also attatched the sweet home alabama song to the message #uh #yeah anyways i just lost all my friends so thats fun #EXTRA CLARIFICATION: NO I DO NOT FUCKING SHIP THE TWINS THATS DISGUSTING??? #i dont rlly ship anyone except mori x hani and tamaki x haruhi #but not even hardcore #js casual #anyways #yeah im telling a whole story here #um yeah if u want to comfort me u can but i dont expect u to bc i did make a really gross joke. #love u all!!

[ignatius-pennyfeather-ix]

since ofmd season is coming up here’s a little edit that i’ve never posted on here :)

#idk man first and only time i’ve done an edit #but i love it #made on imovie lmaoa #sorry if it’s bad quality #i actually originally posted this on insta & if you knew me there…ur a real one #lollll #but yeah everyone would always talk abt how never love an anchor was the perfect song for the show #but i never saw any edits so i had just decided to make one #i honestly was originally gonna do it from stede’s percy #but this was more fun for me #esp bc it kind of deviates from how it actually happens #so i can kind of tell that story #it could also be interpreted as how ed views it in retrospect #bc when you think of it yeah stede was the one who left #but ed rlly blamed himself so i that’s kind of what this edit it reflecting #(i’m pretending this is a short film and i’m being interviewed by a magazine.) #(also hi if you’re actually reading this 😭😭😭) #ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means gay #ofmd edit #ofmd ed teach #edward teach #edward teach born on a beach #ofmd blackbeard #ofmd s2 #ed x stede #gentlebeard #ofmd stede #stede bonnet

[charmingbeep]

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #reimob #mobrei #it can rlly be interpreted as either #reigen x mob #mob x reigen #proship #mp100 proship #mp100 reigen #mp100 mob #shigeo kageyama #reigen arataka #mp100 fanart #mob psycho 100 fanart

[thsc-confessions]

"Confession Time, I used to dislike Ellie Rose. Scandalous I know. A lot of my reasoning was that I didn’t like how she was boiled down very early in the fandom as Henry’s romantic interest in THSC. As the was in tiredly untrue but it didn’t help a lot when everyone talked about Ellie it was if she was an extension of Henry, his girlfriend if you will. I enjoy Ellie Rose now but even when I was doing Ellie Rose week I felt very disconnected with her character. Probably will revisit her again to try and mend my opinion on her. Till then I am alway sadden and disappointed with how I cannot stop seeing her only through Henry as his ‘plus one’ or ‘partner in crime’." submitted by @howlerlight

#honestly I understand that #fandom interpretations can rlly dwindle someone's opinion on a character or just the characters likeability in general </3 #“OMG?? GIRL!!! IT'S A GIRL GUYS IT'S A GIRL AND HENRY IS A GUY AND SHE HELPS US ESCAPE SHE MUST LOVE HIM🥰🥰🥰” #ellie is more than just that one girl character 💔 #I never disliked her but I can see why some ppl would bcz of yknow. that #mod dave #thsc #thsc confession #thsc confessions #@/howlerlight

[pesteringchum]

i think a lot about if jade would ever have been able to live a normal life.

had the kids never played sburb, what would’ve happened to jade? does she have citizenship anywhere? does she have a passport? does she have a birth certificate? if she ever got off the island, does she have any proof at all that she exists?

if she doesn’t and can’t get any, would she just stay on her island? would she die there, without ever being near a human other than her grandfather? would she die there, a distant memory of her childhood friends, who’ve long since grown up and joined society and no longer had time for her? would it be as if she’d never existed at all?

if she does get off the island and is able to join human society, would she even like it?

she grew up alone, aside from bec. she’s smart and curious, so she probably would want to go to university so she could do research. would she be able to live in a city packed with people people people and bricks and concrete and air pollution? would she learn that her social battery is a lot shorter than she thought, that the concrete and brick is colder than she thought, that even the air is more foreign to her lungs than she thought it would be? would she feel suffocated?

she grew up with bec constantly by her side, but many places dont allow dogs. would she feel separation anxiety? would she feel more alone than she ever thought possible, amidst more people she ever experienced in all years of her life combined?

would she return to her island? would she die there, lonely again but content but hungry for something she can’t stand? would she be remembered by her peers and professors? or would they, too, with time, forget her? would it be like she’d never left the island at all? would it be as if she’d never existed at all?

#idk if any of this makes sense #this is mostly projection bc i grew up chronically online but. #jade never stood a chance without sburb i think #she never rlly had irl human connection with anyone other than her grandpa #and you can only learn so much from tv and chatting to ppl online #physically being around people can be exhausting—let alone talking AND listening AND interpreting your interlocutor’s body language #does she have the tools to not only perform social existence but to also cope with how tiring it is? #if she chose to stay among society how long would it take her to learn body language and learn what her social limits are? #would she ever learn her limits or would she exist in a cycle of party party party -> burn out -> isolate self -> repeat? #without sburb i think she would have really struggled to Exist in an observable way #blipping in and out of existence; on and off the radar #which doesn’t make for stable relationships #sorry for all my jade angst hc’s she’s just my favourite blorbo to project onto <//3 #jade harley #homestuck #chum pesters

[sideblogdotjpeg]

my own interpretation of neverafter is that its less about disney/capitalism/etc but more about the idea of storytelling. its abt themes of power & control, personhood & identity, childhood & change - and how those themes relate to the concept of narratives.

like - what does it mean to tell stories, preserve stories and to be a character within a story? how can narratives act as a force of happiness and violence? i think theres something really interesting about the times of shadow - that it corrupts these original happy endings, but eventually reveals how 'corrupted' they were from the start. that perhaps "things going wrong" is just the natural progression of the thematic core of these stories.

#dimension 20 #neverafter #anyway. not to be bitchy but thats why i dont rlly like the theories that 'the REAL bbeg is capitalism/disney/etc' #like!! youre missing the real juicy bits!! that stories can hurt and kill and rot! #the narrative is out for your blood man!! #but like yeah. anyway i rlly like this season #*** altho i WILL say. while this interpretation fits for like 2/3 of the pcs #i rlly havent figured out where tim and pib fit into it?? #but anyway yeha. #brain thoughts

[sotogalmo]

11:55

He is so right for this. He really is

#time diary(?) #audrey/kellie's time diary #fnaf #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #im serious. matthew liliard (??). is right about what he says. tell me. have we ever seen gore in the games???? No we have not #we have never once seen actual gore. 8-bits dont rlly count but whatever. its pixels and we can only interpret what we see #thats why i kinda like fnaf. its kinda also why i like eva and what Eva's meaning could be. jts all for the reader's imagination #and i like that in a media

[ryutoro]

perfect blue did so much more than most of those blockbuster movies ever could

#Literally #it conveyed so much?? Through so little time??(like 80 minutes which **is** short for a movie) #Also it was made in 1997. They were talking abt things that many people didn’t even recognize as an issue at the time #Itis kinda fucked up #rlly shows the mental health of mima through her perspective #The plot twists was so good too #though don’t recommend to watch if ur sensitive especially bc it deals with a lot of heavy topics + nudity (even tho it’s yk animated) #also ig the title doesn’t rlly make sense to western watchers??? I mean u can interpret it however u want

[cutemeat]

Your tags about charlie poisoning dee and frank compel me to mention that everytime someone mentions “dennis is a serial killer” near me I want to respond with “It’s more likely quick to anger and prone to rash decision making and holding grudges Charlie with his in depth knowledge of the sewer sytems and off the grid living would be a more prolific serial killer.”

NO STOP I . LITERALLY NO JOKE THAT IS MY EXACT SAME THOUGHT PROCESS LMAOOOOO-

CHARLIE BEING A SERIAL KILLER IS SO MUCH MORE FUN TO PLAY WITH. Like its ALL these little things in canon- HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE SEWER SYSTEMS/LIVING OFF THE GRID YESSS, his comment about Jamie Nelson drowning being said with what seems like... fondness???, the "Bad Room", his writing The Nightman Cometh all as a scheme to try n pressure the Waitress into accepting his proposal by making a play that's like "see i had a bad childhood so u should just forgive me for everything! im not so bad after all!!", the fact that his job requires him to slip into a dissociative state in order to constantly mercilessly maim living creatures that he canonically resonates/identifies with, his ability to manipulate people with ease in general with his initial charm, the various parallels made between Charlie and characters like Patrick Bateman and Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill....,

like idc i think charlie as a serial killer would be Way more interesting... just think abt Charlie Catches a Leprechaun! he's a natural! and it's so hypnotizing watching the man work that u kinda GO ALONG WITH IT until the rest of the gang snaps us out of it,

also i do think Charlie Day is very smart writing-wise and he'd totally think up a character like this that is a subversion of that "harmless manchild" trope and turn it on its head by giving it a pretty grim ending... like . he's 100% smart enough and talented to pull smth like that off LOL

and i dont want ppl to take this as me trying to trash Charlie, cuz as I just said-- that is an extremely difficult kind of character to pull off!!!! Talk about a slow burn.... I am fuckin praising the man for his writing/performance of Charlie Kelly cuz he is so fucking convoluted and complex n im obsessed and a twist like this would just b the cherry on top

#this is actually how they can bring s1-3 sunny back. a totally fucked up plot twist #doesnt even need to be serial killer shit cuz i hav other interpretations that are more mild but still painful #like charlie befriending frank turning out to be nothing more than a scheme for charlie to take all of franks money once he dies #much like how frank screwed over HIS old business partner to make his fortune. itd be everything 2 me #n i believe theres enough seeds planted thru the show to make this twist work #cat the butcher #id actually love to see a charden fic platonic or romantic where charlies a serial killer n dennis tries to act tough but it rlly freaks #him out n scares him more than he wants ppl to know n how he presents himself n covers for charlie. #he tries to act like hes just as capable of killing as charlie but hes so fucking useless w that shit in practice #(i guess u could argue the fire poker scene in suburbs or the axe in s15 #but s15 p much debunked that shit. he was 'too weak to even lift the axe' and he was delirious w his intent so its hard to pick apart) #anytime he tries to 'help' charlie it just gives charlie a headache #but dennis is so desperate to prove himself to charlie... n how that could end up. interestingggg