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I didn't like Lee's design in Boruto, so I redesigned it. Although I just changed the details... Well, it looks like it turned out well :D

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I love how so many people refer to Naruto (both the show and the character) as just… Nart.

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Are you still doing requests? I'm a big kankuro x kiba fan for the cat and dog goofball energy and would love to know your thoughts.

I don’t personally ship Kankuro and Kiba, but I totally get why people do (and in my head, they definitely at least become good friends).

Anyways, here’s a doodle for you!

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make cute sakuino art and my life is yours 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

(i totally haven’t been stalking your page and giggling at every drawing wdym haha)

((i love your art sm i eat it up bro))

Thank you!!! Here’s a doodle of our favorite flower girls:)

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Speaking of ships, if you're comfortable, which one's DO you ship? Or maybe just characters you like seeing together in general? I assume one of them is Kakashi and Gai, which is PEAK btw! Have any others you love? (Feel free to ignore if you don't want to get into it I'm just curious ☺️)

Ooooh ok so I feel like I haven’t seen quite enough of the show to really appreciate different character dynamics yet, but I’ve seen quite a lot of cute fanart floating around, which has definitely influenced my shipping opinions. So here are my thoughts so far, separated into three categories:

1. Ships I ship:

-Kakashi and Gai: I love this ship! I think their dynamic is hilarious, I love all the fanart I’ve seen of them, and the fact that they stick together after the end of the show makes me soft.

-Ino and Sakura: I genuinely am far more interested in Sakura’s dynamic with Ino than her dynamic with Sasuke. I think the reason this ship interests me is because it’s kinda messy- in my head, Ino realizes she likes Sakura first and is deeply in denial about it while kinda pining from afar, and it takes Sakura quite a bit longer to realize her own feelings (there’s a lot of denial that they also like girls on both sides). Their ship also has a kinda “friends to enemies to friends to lovers” trajectory, which is cool.

-Izumo and Kotetsu lmao.

2. Ships that I don’t really ship personally, but I do enjoy seeing cute fanart/posts about them and I definitely see the vision. I could see myself changing my mind about these in the the future:

-Choji and Ino: this is honestly based on some really cute fanart I’ve seen rather than their in-show dynamic so far, but I find it wholesome.

-Kiba and Hinata: I love a good “opposites attract” ship. I was also surprised how much Kiba is shown to care for Hinata in OG Naruto, but the thing that’s keeping me from actually shipping them is the fact that I like them more as friends.

-Gaara and Lee: I really want to like this ship more than I do (maybe my mind will change?) because I definitely see the vision, but it just hasn’t really clicked in my head. Again, I do love a good “opposites attract” ship

3. I’ll also throw in some takes on ships I DON’T personally like (but no hate to anyone who ships them, they’re definitely still valid)

-Kakashi and Iruka: I just don’t really understand why people ship them (feel free to explain it to me if you do!) for anything other than the fact that they both are mentor/parental/older brother figures for Naruto.

-Sasuke and Naruto: okay, hear me out with this one. I DO somewhat ship this… except only as far as them having one-sided feelings for each other at different points in time. In my mind, this ship is kinda a doomed one, which also makes it interesting, but I don’t ship it the way I ship other pairings.

-Sasuke and Sakura: I just don’t think their dynamic is interesting at all. Also genin Sakura’s fawning over Sasuke is kinda painful.

-Sakura and Naruto: I personally think Sakura sees Naruto as a brother and wouldn’t entertain a romantic relationship with him.

-Naruto and Hinata: I know this is endgame but what I’ve seen of them so far is way too one-sided/imbalanced. Hinata’s crush on Naruto feels far more like hero-worship, and though it is nice to see him inspiring her, I don’t like the idea of them actually getting together. From what I’ve heard Kishimoto also just REALLY dropped the ball on developing their relationship so… common Kishimoto L?

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What’s your opinion on Sasuke’s sexuality? I personally either see him as gay or aroace.

I like both of those for him but I think I’ve landed on seeing him as gay tbh

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nah, kakusaku IS weird. as a person working with teens and pre teens, i cannot even IMAGINE meeting one of them again in 10 years and dating them. that's fucked.

Literally this!!!!

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Sakura is actually currently in her 30s so like. Idk what you mean about kakasaku

Okay, and??? That doesn’t stop me from finding it really weird-

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(not an ask really)

I wanted to tell you i absolutely eat up your team 8 drawings omnomnomnomnom

Love your art style! Hope you keep posting!!

(sending you a message felt weird, hope this isn't weirder)

Aw tysm! I love team 8 they’re my favorite lil weirdos

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Does thou think tenten would like girls :3

I’m actually an aroace Tenten truther but I support this as well!

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I've seen your Konoha12 height hcs, and I just wanted to ask you, how tall do you think the sand sibs would be? Like, where would they fall on the chart? And thank you. 😊

Ooh, great question! I’ve actually already thought about this: as genin, I think Gaara is 4’8 (just barely taller than genin Naruto, though as teens Naruto grows taller than him). And then since Temari and Kankuro are older than the Konoha kids and age is a huge factor in height when you’re that young, I think they’re the two tallest genin. Kankuro is 5’3 and Temari is 5’4.5.

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I like the idea of shinobi having varying outfits for missions in warmer or colder conditions, so here are some outfit variations for the Konoha teams!

+team lineups:

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A lineup of my (headcanoned) heights for the Konoha genin!

+ closeups:

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Silly creature and my contribution

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Socra’s Naruto Liveblog, Ep. 216-220

(Aka the Village of Artisans mission… and the LAST filler arc of OG Naruto!!!)

Ep 216:

-aw yeah last filler arc!!!

-bruh wtf since when do Kakashi’s dogs literally tunnel out of the ground

-ooh another arc with a mystery, I’m sat

-yippee sand siblings time!!!

-damn Shikamaru really called his future wife “mean and nasty”

-huh Gaara’s voice was weirdly deep when he first started talking. Also I feel bad that no one wanted to be in his training group

-I don’t like Matsuri’s voice

-I actually don’t think Gaara would be very good with weapons, since his fighting style really just involves him standing and letting his sand do its thing

-ooh this villain lady’s voice is kinda hot

-so like is Gaara not the Kazekage yet? Who’s leading the Sand Village?

-yay the genin are all here! Except for Tenten for some reason! But yay!

Ep 217:

-oooh I like the flashbacks to Lee, Kiba, and Shikamaru being saved by Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari (I do think they didn’t need to go on quite so long tho)

-also they had Naruto and Lee both think “Gaara…” and Kiba think “Kankuro…” and it was like…kinda funny how wistful it was

-I like that Ino and Choji backed up Shikamaru’s leadership and reminded Naruto who’s the leader

-oh interesting there’s another wind user

-I still wanna know how much Temari’s fan weighs

-this is really IS just the Sasuke Retrieval Arc but with the Sand-Leaf roles reversed

-Kankuro says the villain guy (who I admittedly thought was a girl) is “just a kid” and even calls him “sonny”, as if Kankuro himself isn’t like 15. Yes I know that this society has different standards of adulthood but like cmon dude

-rip Black Ant

-I still think it’s funny that Gaara’s default battle position is just standing there with his arms crossed

-god Shino’s insects are so useful

-awwwww the animation of Akamaru running is so cute🥺. I’m gonna miss him being a tiny pupper tbh

-it’s interesting that Shikamaru and Ino are paired together as a squad, since neither of them are really combat types and their abilities to immobilize people would both be very helpful when paired with a heavy hitter. I guess Shikamaru’s power is the easiest way to ensure that Ino can pull off her jutsu tho

-Shikamaru using his shadow possession to maneuver Temari’s unconscious body out of the way of an attack was a really unexpected use of his power actually

-I highkey forgot that Kiba and Akamaru can just turn into a giant dog monster

Ep 218:

-Shikamaruuuu pls for the love of god stop being sexist

-also I love Temari’s sass

-oh my god Temari really made fun of Shikamaru for crying over the failure of his first mission as leader and the near-death of his teammates (including his best friend). Like I’m still living for her clapping back at Shikamaru but girl that’s a low fucking blow

-lmao not Ino calling herself a fifth wheel-

-ahhhh Gaara’s so cool

-ngl Kankuro, Choji, and Kiba yelling their attack names was kinda hilarious. It was just like “Man Beast Clone!” “Partial Expansion Jutsu!” “CROW!”

-ah yes of course Gaara has the same water weakness as Crocodile from One Piece. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that

-YESSS LEE WITH THE SAVE

-booooo give Ino stuff to do :((((

-the squads with Temari and Gaara have legit barriers preventing them from being effective and meanwhile the squad with Kankuro is just uncoordinated as fuck

-as usual Akamaru is the MVP of his team

-oh yeah Shikamaru is totally catching feelings for Temari

-aw poor Ino. They better be setting up her feeling useless so that she can have a big useful moment later

-wtf Gaara just fucking JAVELINED A DUDE THROUGH THE HEART

-okay look I love Kankuro’s Iron Maiden move but like… didn’t the enemy dude break the Black Ant???

Ep 219:

-these weapons are some bullshit ngl

-it’s really weird seeing Gaara fight with kunai

-time for Naruto to Naruto all over the place

-still really don’t like Matsuri’s voice

-goddamn they’re sending Kakashi AND Jiraiya? This “Ultimate Tool” better be really fucking threatening

-poor Gaara:(

-I don’t really like this new enemy dude’s voice either

-Naruto maybe instead of trying to break Gaara’s cage with your bare hands you should, I dunno, try to hit it with a rasengan?

-oh my god Matsuri’s voice is so annoying. I think I don’t like it because it sounds almost TOO cartoony?

Ep 220:

-welp this is it. The last OG Naruto episode. Damn now I’m sad

-this is so unrelated to anything but I like Temari’s sash

-I love Temari being noticeably taller than Shikamaru

-lmao not the flashback to Naruto worming his way towards Gaara after their fight-

-ah yes, overcoming the demon inside you with the power of love

-okay I wanna see Gaara pop off now

-yep he’s popping off

-wow Gaara really likes his javelin attacks huh

-soooo that was easier than I thought it would be. I’m glad they’re not nerfing Gaara tho

-aw Gaara is still so short

-“Terrific. Another Naruto fan.” Shikamaru is so funny lol

-okay so Ino’s self-doubt was the setup for her becoming a medical ninja! I don’t mind that. Sakura was so smug about it tho

-(anyways I have thoughts about the medical ninja thing that I’ll maybe make a post about at some point. Hot take maybe but I think Shikamaru should have been the medical ninja on their team)

-I like that Tenten is annoyed she wasn’t taken on the mission

-AW NARUTO EATING RAMEN WITH IRUKA BEFORE HE LEAVES<3

-I wish we got Kakashi’s thoughts on Naruto leaving too

…well, that’s the end of my OG Naruto liveblog! I’ll be liveblogging Shippuden next, so wish me luck!

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rivals challenge weekend - day one

prompt: strength

8 panel comic so - 30 points total !

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The people have spoken and as predicted it’s a TSUME SWEEP