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hm. yeah.

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Comfort Sketch!

Got a puppy (already had a dog) and I've been struggling finding time, energy and motivation to draw. I decided to move my csp licence to my iPad to hopefully draw more even while I watch the dogs, not sure if it's going to work but I made this sketch to try!

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Narutaugust2023 day 1 - Redraw

Super excited about this challenge, I wanted to join last year but I found out too late dbjdjd I suck at finishing monthly challenges so we'll see how it goes!

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Woke up today and thought abt Naruto

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spent too long thinking about if naruto has ever actually seen a sock before

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I’ve been really into kakashi lately

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Absolutely wilding that Tobirama's take on ending war is "people should just stop having feelings." I mean, it is a very nine-year-old take but it's pretty clear he holds that stance close for the rest of his life (may not be great at following it, but holds the idea). I like the interpretations that have him semi-parenting his other siblings; we can see that he's already got the "just shut your mouth and do what needs to be done because nobody else is going to" philosophy of parentified kids down.

I mostly don't like the interpretations that stretch sensor types to basically empaths because I feel like it loses some of what makes the idea unique to Naruto (the active choice to sense, the limited nature of the ability). For Tobirama, though...it feels fitting to me that he'd have a hypersensitivity to aggression. Not reading feelings as a whole, but just aggression/violence.

It helps paper over a few inconsistencies regarding how good sensing is supposed to be, and for a kid that ended up playing promoted-parent, that's exactly the skillset you end up with--hypersensitivity to when things are about to go bad, because it's going to be your job to head that off at the pass. That trained hypersensitivity can also set you to jumping at shadows or making people think that you're looking for a fight, because, well...you are, in a sense. You never trust, you're always looking for how a situation is going to go bad and how you're going to get out in one piece.

Notice I didn't say win, I said get out. In the scene with Kawarama's grave, Tobirama lies to and appeases Butsuma even though his personal feelings are the opposite. His goal was not to prove the rightness of his philosophy, but to get Hashirama (and Itama) out of the funeral without further violence. Even for a shonen manga with bloodthirsty nine-year-olds, that's thinking a lot of steps ahead with a lot of subterfuge--and it's not even a canon-typical level of child insight, because Itama and Hashirama standing right there fail to defuse the scene.

In spite of running jokes about how dumb he is working up a lot of steam, Hashirama is not incapable of subterfuge or thinking ahead! He suspects Madara's identity from the first five minutes they meet, identifying Madara's stone-skipping as identical to shuriken-throwing. He recognizes this, recognizes that there would be negative consequences if he let on the truth about what he was seeing, and played dumb. And it worked. Hashirama absolutely had the skillset necessary to talk Butsuma down in the funeral scene and had already demonstrated skill with it.

Hashirama wanted to win against Butsuma; Tobirama wanted to survive.

And I think this behavior tracks neatly with his lifelong paranoia about Madara; even when it's sabotaging himself, he cannot stop fixating on how things can go wrong and how he can contain the damage.

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imagine if naruto were just some random poor baby minato decided to install the nine tailed beast within in order to save his dying wife. naruto not being the child of the hokage is a more reasonable explanation as to why he doesn’t get special treatment for being his only surviving child (with a fuckin uzumaki no less) and why no one ever tells him about minato being his dad throughout his life in the village. it also gives minato some personality outside the stale ‘pretty hokage guy’ who is somehow very nice despite serving a military state utilizing child soldiers well enough he was made hokage at like 23. and the conflict that would have arose between minato and kushina in kushina’s last moments? for condemning a child to the fate of a jinchuuriki like her for most of her life? and then the stupid ass plan backfiring anyway cus they all die when kurama still wreaks havoc on konoha after the jinchuuriki transfer goes wrong. and now the village has no hokage and everyone tiptoes around the unknowing child that somebody decided to put a nuclear weapon in. no bum ass indra vs ashura/senju vs uchiha/good vs evil endgame rivalry shit, just naruto being some guy who’s been thrown into some mess since he was born. a walking casualty of the hidden villages.

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7/23!!! its sasuke day. happy birthday sasuke, patron saint of gay people

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remember that sasuke figurine that could hold up like literally fricking anythign

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christian rock bands are a backbone genre in the amv scene

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Round 1, Poll 35

SasuNaru Propaganda: none submitted

Jonatello Propaganda: Even If in a relationship they would probably still have the enemies to lovers vibe, they are enemies in the show too.

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i have survived several attempts on my life by simply not dying, giving people the impression that i'm hard to kill. however my poor posture and laughably pathetic demeanour cancels out any intimidation factor i could gain from this.

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