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in 2025 let’s bring back being enthusiastic on ao3. leave a comment on every chapter. leave kudos and, if necessary, leave “double kudos” in the comments. tags and notes on bookmarks. the whole nine yards. let’s show fanfic authors how much we love them.

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My only new year's resolution is to leave more comments on AO3

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not shatner giggling with nimoy pressed up against him

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Give and take

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I’ve managed to update my fic three times this year. I’m so incredibly happy about it! 

Happy New Year! 

Chapters: 15/? (91k words) Fandom: Naruto Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto Characters: Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Nara Shikamaru, Umino Iruka, Uchiha Itachi, Yakushi Kabuto, Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Fugaku, Yamanaka Ino, Hatake Kakashi, Haruno Sakura, Tsunade (Naruto), Gaara (Naruto), and many other familiar faces! Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Drama & Romance, Humor, Flirting, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Friendship, Family, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Panic Attacks, Uchiha Sasuke Can't Catch a Break, Uchiha Sasuke Needs a Hug, Closeted Character, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Drugs, Violence, Minor Character Death, Uchiha Sasuke/Gaara (briefly), Plot, Slow Build, POV Alternating, Idiots in Love, Action, Journalism, Business, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary:

Naruto is a young journalist for a celebrity gossip magazine. To everyone's surprise, the heir of Konoha's biggest corporation is suddenly getting married. Obviously, there should be plenty for Naruto to write about, right?

An unlikely partnership. Double games, secrets and lies. What was supposed to be a simple story quickly turns into something else. This is the one where everyone is in over their heads.

Especially Uchiha Sasuke.

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Creators of TOS: Kirk is sexy, Spock is for nerds, Bones too, Chekov is the eye candy.

Fandom: Kirk is for nerds, Spock is sexy, Bones is the eye candy. Chekov is a child.

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Well...

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can someone rec me fics where sasuke is just absolutely insane for naruto in the same way naruto is insane for him throughout the entire series?

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I think Amanda fully believed she and Sarek were dating for weeks or months before he realized that she thought that.

Like, Sarek is thinking he's doing SUCH a good job in Human Diplomacy, he has made A Human Friend. They do activities together, consume meals together, communicate outside of work functions in an informal fashion. Amanda makes an effort to show him Human culture and landmarks that are more likely to appeal to a Vulcan and is considerate of his different physiology in a way most Humans usually forget to be. She doesn't touch him without warning but still somehow uses body language to convey to other Humans that they are together on their activities. She gives him lots of signs of Human comfort and intimacy without pushing too hard at his Vulcan boundaries. He's Succeeding at Human socializing!

Meanwhile Amanda has like. Introduced him to her parents. Taken him to friends' weddings. Done super obvious This Is A Date activities with him, only tailored to accomodate Vulcan preferences about physical contact and emotional displays. SHE thinks she is doing So Good at Wooing The Vulcan. Sometimes he willingly touches her when they are out in public, to like, keep them from getting separated, or pull her out of the path of danger or discomfort, which as far as she knows is like Vulcan First Base.

But also she is a Human woman they have been dating for months and taking it slow for her Vulcan beau is beginning to grow...somewhat frustrating! A little! Like she enjoys spending time with him but also! She would sure like to touch him more! Maybe kiss him! She would even settle for feeling up his hands the way Vulcans do because she has gotten so preoccupied with his hands since they've been dating, she feels like a 19th century maiden, it's insane.

So she casually broaches the subject of whether or not Vulcans engage in sexual activity outside of Pon Farr (when they're having a quiet evening alone in one of their apartments, obviously, you don't have a sex talk with your very shy boyfriend in public) and Sarek is like. Well that's a very intimate topic, Amanda, why do you ask? Is there a Vulcan you are interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with?

And she's just like What.

And he's like (gently condescending) That sort of question could imply a "come-on", as you Humans would say.

And she's like I SURE HOPE IT WOULD, SAREK, MY BOYFRIEND OF SIX MONTHS, WITH WHOM I WOULD LIKE TO BE PHYSICALLY INTIMATE

And Sarek is like WHAT.

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Price of the Phoenix is gayer than any slash fic I’ve read

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Thinking about Naruto

The day you realize Naruto and all his friends are child soldiers being raised by child soldiers— you aren’t watching the same show twice anymore. The cycle of violence never ends because you raise child soldiers to forfeit their humanity in a nationalist society.

Don’t get me wrong— as Naruto gets older and understands more— he is able to break pieces of that cycle. He never escapes it though.

Naruto was a leader amongst his peers because he didn’t comply with apathy. Naruto let his empathy guide him throughout the world. In the society he lives in— empathy is a radical concept.

When you really think about the values the shinobi world drills into their citizens: unemotional, lethal force, and nationalism— Naruto’s desire to see others and understand them is defiant of those values.

Naruto’s capacity and willingness to see others as individuals first and strive to understand, and then see them as from another nation second separates him from the rest. Naruto’s empathy and love for humanity gives him the ability for open dialogue with people he thought of as enemies (Zabuza, Haku, Nagato, Gaara). He is able to cry for his enemies ( again— zabuza, haku, gaara, and sasuke). He is has the capacity for forgiveness and growth. Through these radical (in this society) concepts of empathy, understanding, forgiveness— Naruto changed people for the better. He changed his nation for the better.

He never breaks free though. Naruto becomes the hokage and continues the cycle. His village still raises child soldiers (in less harsh values)— he promotes incorporating empathy and extending your understanding outside of your own nation. The violence still continues. He still facilitates a violence society in raising these child soldiers— he is not the only one— gaara and the other kages are right along with him.

The show feels very different when you realize that Kakashi was a victim of a system that raised victims of a system— that went on to raise more victims of a system. The show feels different. Suddenly it’s not just a shonen battle anime with bright colors and cool concepts. It becomes thought provoking and reflects realities of a society and continuous cycles. Brilliant writing. Dark and layered undertones.

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I almost broke my head and hand with this, congrats x)

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and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

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It so confusing when people say “the boys.” Who are you talking about? 5 Seconds of Summer? One Direction? The Jonas Brothers? All 43 US Presidents? Nobody knows. 

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God I love “We’re enemies, but we’ve been enemies for a long time, which is sort of like being friends.” Great trope.