#This scene made me squeee its so good

[snailtrain]

Just a vampire and a werewolf hanging out. scribbly, scribbly hangout

Please please please go read Safekeeping by @seventhstrife, it is one of my favourite fanfics of all time and I love it so ♥

[beardisable]

yall. discovering the good omens parody made me rewatch @thehillywoodshow parodies i remember from my teenhood and.

this makes me experience shrimp emotions. idk where to even start explaining how this makes me feel. but ig i will try

like first of all the fact that ive watched enough of this show to know all the references. and that all these references happened at all and this show happened at all and that i watched most of it and loved it as a teen. its like awe and suprise and nostalgia and sadness and joy and a little bit of mortification but then vindication for having been so passionate about something and enjoying it

second of all the song, im not a massive fan of swift and never really was but shake it off and a lot of her stuff was pretty unavoidable during those years, and i def cant deny this and others are absolute bops and still make me smile and dance... and the message is positive and fun, the way lyrics are changed in the parody mostly fit really well and sound really good so its a song i can enjoy without the context too

and how its like. intentionally combining this... idea of a misogynistic perception of fandom that used to be a lot more prominent, of like the "squeee fangirl" and just being super silly and fun because why the fuck not! and combining it with this show, which is (at least at the start meant to be) more like kinda broody and classically masculine and stuff, and just embracing that combination so genuinely and happily, it was so wonderful to see in 2015 and still so wonderful, and such a fuck you to THA HATERS literally

and just. the production quality is incredible and inspiring, theres so much going on so many scenes and so many meme and culture and show references that bring a smile to my face, the cosplay is wonderful and high quality and makes me want to cosplay spn(really? oh god) for the first time again...

and the fact that they got so many actors and people involved with the show involved!! seeing fancontent aknowledged by "official" sources is still pretty baffling to me sometimes, and it def wasnt as regular in 2015 as it is now to my knowledge, so this was super BIG and awesome back then...

i fell off the latter end of spn, so the only like offical fan depictions and fandom aknowledgements in the series itself i remember are Fan Fiction and the novels and the larper ghostbusters?? or whatever, and those werent always the most sympathetic, or rather made fun of the fandom... which like, parody is fine, spn is a fun meta show, but it did often feel somewhat meanspirited and disapproving, which i understand but dont like. So seeing a fan-MADE parody that is just genuinely celebrating the work AND its fans is such a joy!!!

im just... :') god what a wonderful video and time to look back on and remember, it makes me so happy this exists

im sure all of this was said when this released but 14 year old me certainly couldnt have expressed this, or very literally have the like. context of looking back on this in a historical and cultural sense lmao so. Thinks about <3

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why do I ship NaruSaku? (aka my narusaku megapost)

[My submission for the final day of the NARUSAKU AUGUST EVENT, 2017]

This post is dedicated to all my fellow NaruSaku shippers, the ones who have gone down with this ship and yet continue to hold on to it, submerged in a sea of our perfect fanon. Enjoy this extremely long post about the pairing of Naruto and Sakura :) x

You may want to sit down with a cup of coffee/tea, find a comfortable environment, and just fill yourselves with shipper feels in order to read this.

So, why do we ship NaruSaku when it isn’t even canon?

Because it’s about a relationship that involves two individuals harbouring healthy feelings for each other, showing great respect towards each other and putting great trust in each other, facing great adversities and only coming out stronger than ever before, having developed an even stronger connection.

It’s not just the big, flashy, seemingly-romantic moments between them that draws me to them. It is, in fact, the smaller but significant interactions that makes me admire whatever Naruto and Sakura share. Throughout the manga, there have been several moments signifying the development of their bond, paving the way to the depiction of a more grounded and realistic relationship (at least, with respect to the Narutoverse and its foundation of “bonds”). 

Here’s a collection of some Naruto and Sakura moments from the manga, moments that make my shipper heart go squeee. Seeing them in a romantic light or not is up to you! I mean, NaruSaku as a BroTP is unbeatable, but this post will be more OTP-oriented. Feel free to keep these moments for yourselves ;)

The start of it all

okay maybe not the most perfect start

naruto’s (true) reason of having a crush on sakura

their support for each other in the chunin exams

some cute moments

some even cuter moments

even when they’re grown up, they’re grown up dorks

blushy blushy (while still being dorks)

“ooooh but narusaku is such a plain ship. there’s no angst!!!”

honey u sure about that

LOOK  AT HIS FACE JHFSKDGKJLHGF

The POAL is nothing but angst for Naruto.  How he chose to put aside his feelings for Sakura. If this doesn’t show you his maturity and the amount of respect he has for Sakura’s feelings, I don’t know what to tell you.

The moments preceding the POAL shows us the development of the respect Sakura has for Naruto. How she felt at first about him, and how she felt now. A beautiful contrast.

How ‘bout Sakura’s promise to Naruto?

:’)

Power CoupleTM

Here’s a panel of a Naruto in awe of his waifu

here have some more angst

Look how much she cares for him. Romantic or platonic, love is love and it’s very evident from these panels.

Also, Sakura invented the slapped-sense-into-Naruto thing before it was cool:

And whatever thing they have against Sai, it’s common:

“Sakura is so selfish!!! She used Naruto!!! She doesn’t care about him!!!”

ya lol.

“But NaruSaku in the manga is so one-sided!!”

Yamato would disagree...

Annnnnnndddd the dorks are back!

Which is then followed by the reunion with Sasuke, after which we were given one of the most beautifully tragic panels in the manga:

Not only is this one of the best Naruto-Sakura moment, but for me, this is one of the most powerful panels in the entire manga. After all these years, they finally find Sasuke only to have their hearts broken again. They’re both in a state of grieving, and Sakura, with her back towards him, tells him to stay strong even though she’s hurting herself.

Gosh, I absolutely love this scene.

Another scene similar to the above moment, after Pain’s defeat:

Sakura trying to console Naruto when she’s worried herself. Awww

Then moving on to these fan-favourite panels:

a moment ruined by non other than our beloved Sai

And then, of course, after Pain destroys the entire village. Sakura sees her home being reduced to nothing. Konoha is lost. There seems to be no hope. Sakura, in that very moment of shock and despair, calls out one name:

That’s how much she believes and trusts in Naruto. And this is then followed by Naruto’s iconic entry jdhkshj

Now, we come to my favourite NaruSaku moment in the entire series...

The Hug. 

After one of the most important events in Naruto’s life, one of the most important people in his life thanks him for what he’s done (after giving him a piece of herself for his reckless of course :P). No words needed. Just a “thank you.”

(The people staring at them though. Relatable.)

Moving on to this, the purest representation of Naruto’s feelings for Sakura, observed by a third party (who happens to be none other than Sai, of course):

He loves her, but he can’t tell her because he feels that he has no right to do so. Because he couldn’t keep the promise he made to her all those years ago.

Which prompts our beloved Sai, to take this action:

Realisation hits Sakura, and she can do nothing but cry. Because Sai’s words make her believe that she herself is causing pain to Naruto because of the promise he made.

ouch

Which then brings us to the “bad” NaruSaku moment:

Having realised what she has caused, Sakura becomes desperate. She wants to save Naruto from burdening himself with saving Sasuke all alone. Everyone decides that Sasuke has to be dealt with once and for all and she does not want Naruto to bear this burden. In a desperate attempt, she “confesses” to Naruto, hoping to free him from the promise he made. She says she doesn’t want Sasuke back even though she knows that Naruto wants to save Sasuke regardless of anything. She’s willing to put aside her own happiness for Naruto.

And Naruto, being perceptive as he is and having known Sakura for so long, doesn’t buy any of it:

He knows that Sakura doesn’t love him. He can sense the lies in her words because he knows her a little too well.

Sakura, her desperation growing again, blurts out the true reason behind what she was doing and why she came all the way to talk to him: 

Sakura had nothing but good intentions in the end, while her lies may not necessarily be called justified. She was only seeing what she wanted to see. She couldn’t see what implications it would have on both her and Naruto. 

But it was all for him, and him only. So that he could stop hurting.

Not every relationship is perfect. Two people who happen to be close to each other don’t have to be on the same page. Misunderstandings occur, things happen. This was a significant hurdle for the relationship that they shared. 

Later, we get this iconic moment:

The intensity in Naruto’s eyes. The way he holds her. The way he glares at Sasuke.

Perfection.

Oh, and how can I forget about this one?

oh wait sorry that’s a red herring. Because of course the last words of the protagonist’s mother have to be a red herring. (Pardon the salt.)

And then we get Minato’s approval too:

a herring drenched in blood

Our dorks manage to squeeze through some more dorkiness in the midst of war:

How can you not love them

Speaking of NaruSaku moments in the war...

Naruto, the very person for whom the war was being fought for, dies in battle...And guess who’s there to save him, to bring him back to life...

Sakura fucking Haruno. The girl who, literally, held Naruto’s heart in her hand, and brought him back to life.

While performing the surgery, she had one thought in mind:

His dream. She couldn’t let him die because she believed in his dream and cared for it too much to have him die on her.

Again, one of the most intense moments in the manga. 

Of course, there are a lot more moments that I have missed out (like Heaven&Earth, Vs. Gaara, the lil moments in Part 1, etc.) but I’m confident I have made my point.

One of the biggest reasons for shipping NaruSaku is its development. Their story starts off with Naruto liking Sakura, but Sakura despising Naruto and treating him like garbage. But, as the story progresses, Sakura gets to see that Naruto is not just some brat spouting nonsense about some impossible dream he absolutely cannot achieve. 

The manga suffers from a major problem of ‘telling, not showing.’ But at least with NaruSaku, we have everything. 

Nothing has to be implied. It’s just there, on the manga pages. We see them grow together, we see them go through stuff together, we see them having common goals, we see them sharing each other’s grief. We see everything. We don’t just see some few big moments. We see a lot of smaller, yet significant moments as well. There are romantic-moments, there are not-so-romantic scenes, there are scenes that highlight the impact of their relationship on each other, there are scenes which make you cherish their friendship, there are certain parallels and hints to depict symbolism, a beautiful aspect of Kishimoto’s storytelling, and there is so much more that we ourselves can interpret with what we are shown. 

Of course, we don’t have our happy ending for these two, but with all that the manga has provided us with, we already have a beautiful foundation for our fanon. 

And that is what makes me ship NaruSaku.

Happy NaruSaku Event folks! I thoroughly enjoyed these past few days! Really loved interacting with all my shipmates. May we ship NaruSaku for life and beyond!

NaruSaku trash out.