#time to entertain the child

[wandering-hat-guy]

[ @baby-finch waits for Wanderer in the bedroom, looking for the otter plush. Once he finds it sitting on the desk, he turns around and shows it to the other. ]

Look! Made it all by myself.

Wanderer let out a hum, crouching down so that he's the same height as Hinadori, roughly.

Impressive. I can't even see any of the stitching.. and it looks evenly stuffed, too. You've definitely improved.

He rests his arms on his legs, mind temporarily wandering to his pocket before getting drawn back to the otter again. Time to do what he's done many times before.

Are they really that blue? Or were you being creative.

[divine-draws]

Simon and Sammy are sick... Johnny absolutely had to wrangle them both into sitting down and is now stressing over kids cold meds lol

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 224

DCxDP

Now Booster Gold would like it known he is Not father material, or even responsible adult material. That is Ted, and even then they seem to share a single braincell when they're in each others presence.

But again, NOT anything close to father material. Which he repeats to both himself and the eldritch Time Entity who just handed him what he Knows to be pretty much an unborn child of its species. look, he Knows about Realms Beings- Espranto was literally his first language like many others of his timeline- so he knows the inherent dangers.

But Somehow him becoming a time-cop of sorts has endeared him towards this primordial one, thankfully. Less thankfully, it has given him a whole-ass CHILD. A BABY. HIM. Of all people!

Ted he needs help, he doesn't know if this counts as mpreg or something and he's freaking out man!

[evanonpluto]

tw: outing + swearing in the tags

things i will never do:

forgive the people who harassed kit connor, a closeted eighteen year old to the point where he was forced to come out

[noxxha]

Izuna’s Personality - the many possibilities

Uchiha Izuna is a blank canvas of a character. He barely made an appearance in the Manga, and the anime remains true to the source material - that is to say that little is done to flesh him out.

The only addition the anime made was giving us a fight between him and Tobirama (and it was a fight on the last of their powers judging by their exhaustion). While it is a pity that we were not shown Izuna’s Mangekyō abilities (missed opportunity), the exhaustion of his is at least a logical explanation as to why he did not use it by the end of the fight.

We at least get to see that he was (apparently is how I would interpret it) skilled in swordsmanship and that he knew the Katon: Gokakkyū no Jutsu, but the rest of his abilities remains a mystery.

He remains more a plot device (Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan) than a character.

Personality wise Izuna can be very similar to his brother, the complete opposite, or something in-between.

Or an absolute sweetheart

In the databook the following information is listed:

Izuna was Madara’s equal in abilities/power. He also accomplished a “great number of military achievements” according to the above. What those accomplishments are, exactly, remains unknown. That he was important to the Uchiha clan - probably both for his power and for his personality - could be one reason why Uchiha members defected to the Senju.

Both as shown in the Manga (as a child) and also above, he held Madara in high regard. He also trusted his older brother immensely. He offered, after all, their clan’s greatest treasure to his brother; and with it his faith (and confidence) that Madara could keep the Uchiha clan safe.

What we have to work with:

Harmonious/balanced

Self-sacrificing/devoted

In the anime - as a child - he appears to soften his voice around (especially) Madara (and even Tajima) as his voice was much more…cold when addressing Tobirama (for obvious reasons, but nevertheless) it is quite the contrast to Tobirama who appears to keep his tone of voice in check around their father (and in general really), while Izuna freely lets excitement be seen and heard even. There is an innocence there that probably got lost somewhere along the way of growing up.

So he is not as emotionally repressive as Tobirama. Which could indicate that there is a closer bond between the Uchiha family than the Senju family, or at least, a greater emotional honesty. The Senju siblings had to repress their feelings (at least, that was Butsuma’s wish…a wish Tobirama followed to the extreme), while the Uchiha siblings appear as if they are given more freedom to express themselves (Izuna’s disbelief and his excitement at seeing Madara’s Sharingan). Madara remains stoic and focused during the entire encounter at the river, for obvious reasons. He did not take kindly to nearly losing his brother in front of his eyes.

Now, the “harmonious” part of Izuna’s personality, is tricky to pin down. We saw too little about him for the “show don’t tell” rule to really apply to him.

At least if we think about “harmonious” in a particular - to even stereotypical - way.

“The definition of harmonious is things that go well together, or people and things that get along well. When you get along with someone and rarely fight, that is an example of a situation where you have a harmonious relationship.” (Yourdictionary.com)

If we use the above definition the harmonious part of Izuna’s personality could simply mean that he - in general - knew how to handle people, had a soothing aura, but that the one he got along best with, was his older brother - Madara. Who knows, perhaps they rarely fought? Being so in-tune with one another?

But we still do not know how he was around his clan, around Madara, when he was older, to say for certain that they were “one heart and one mind” type of duo.

According to dictionary.com the definition of harmonious is the following:

Adjective

1 marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group

2 forming a pleasingly consistent whole: congruous: harmonious colors

3 pleasant to the ear; tuneful; melodious

This does not really mention how a human is when described as “harmonious”, besides the first one. Which pretty much states that you are in agreement in body, spirit and emotion/feeling…which does apply to Izuna. He is shown to be consistent in his behaviour and is not wishy washy. His opinion on the Senju does not change the little we see about him. Perhaps he was blinded by hatred, but so were the rest of the characters - even if said hatred was shown in different (and in more, or less, subtle ways).

Synonyms to harmonious (thesauruses.com)

Amicable

Balanced

Congenial

Coordinated

Cordial

Peaceful

Accordant

Adapted

We are getting somewhere, but I am still not satisfied with the answers I have found. I therefore looked into “peaceful” (as such was another word that was used to describe Izuna back in the day) to see if there was a better answer to be found with that word.

Adjective, peaceful (thefreedictionary)

1. Undisturbed by strife, turmoil, or disagreement; tranquil

2. Inclined or disposed to peace; peaceable

3. Not involving violence or employing force

Hmm…the first two could be possible descriptions, the third one…well…

The words calm and composed seem to describe Izuna rather well honestly. Even as a child, as well as an adult.

It could also just be that the “harmonic” part of Izuna was meant as him being a pleasant person to be around all in all. I can see him as someone kind, someone who went above and beyond to help and keep his clan safe.

Then again, despite going this far to make sense of this particular part of Izuna’s personality - there could be a more simple reason for some things not making complete sense, and that is that Kishimoto had not planned so far ahead when he wrote down Izuna’s personality traits. Perhaps he had a different plan in mind for the Manga? Perhaps he never expected having to write out the founding of Konoha - or perhaps he had a different idea in mind before he introduced the “Indra and Ashura” dynamic, and as such he had to backtrack and make Hashirama and Madara similar to Ashura, Indra, Naruto and Sasuke?

Who knows.

The official german translation goes as follows:

“Du ähnelst…Madara’s…kleinem Bruder, Uchiha Izuna.”

The official english translation is the following:

“…You’re a lot like…Madara’s…little brother, Uchiha Izuna.”

In my “Uchiha Izuna” comparison post I mentioned that the anime - while still vague - seems to imply that Sasuke and Izuna were alike in both appearance and personality (at least they could have been).

The german translation is vague. You can interpret however you wish here. Same with the english translation and the anime - honestly - and yet the anime…is a touch more concrete in a way. Considering the context. I’m rambling now, but I feel that the anime implies a strong (to stronger) likeness to Sasuke and Izuna being alike in personality. Hashirama does not know Izuna exactly, but that smile of his almost makes it seem as if he remembered something. Perhaps Izuna being similiar to the way Sasuke was in that scene? Considering that is what he says indirectly, it could therefore mean that Izuna was blunt and very “to the point” (with the Senju, it could have been different with other clans).

It is interesting to speculate what could have been.

Here Izuna showcases quite the arrogance (which comes back to haunt him just a split second later). It appears he was - rightfully - proud of his eyes and their power.

And while it does not really state who was the stronger of the two, a particular sentence from Madara (during chapter 661) stuck out to me while going through the chapter.

“It’s your M.O to strike an opponent just when he’s convinced of victory.”

And while this can mean any which battle, it could mean that Madara was remembering Tobirama striking down Izuna in particular. This could imply that Izuna had the upper hand, and could have made it out alive, had Tobirama not caught him off guard with his “hiraishingiri” technique.

But who knows, in the Manga we only got the very end of the fight. Izuna could very well have had the upper hand for a while, until Tobirama caught him off guard.

It says a lot that Tobirama had to invent a completely new jutsu to counter Izuna and his Sharingan/Mangekyō Sharingan.

Aww, he is definitely young here. He is leaned slightly sideways, as if he is looking past Madara to look at Hashirama (most likely), while in the anime his gaze seems to be directed at Madara’s back.

I can imagine that Izuna was empathic - but his empathy was only really extended to his clan. Perhaps to an allied clan or two (if such arrangements were made), but that is not to say that he was not someone kind. I can imagine that he was…and that he would have been kinder to more clans than only the Uchiha, had circumstances been different.

They lived in times of war, after all. Kindness and empathy has no place in war. At least not to their enemies.

One can accuse Izuna for being selfish - the moment he willingly accepts his death before joining hands with the Senju. But that does not take away from his peaceloving and harmonic nature. Humans are complex, never static or “one way or the other” - one can interpret the Naruto characters in a similar way if one so wishes. Izuna probably wanted peace as much as any other Uchiha, but he saw an alliance (between Uchiha and Senju) doomed to fail.

It can be seen as Izuna being against peace, but I do not see him as someone averse to peace as a whole - he was simply wary of the Senju clan, and of Hashirama in particular.

And that is another thing that does not take away from someone being peaceful. I cannot claim that we humans get along with everyone we meet, and that would be the same for the characters in the Narutoverse were they real.

Izuna simply looked out for his brother and the clan - the way a second-in-command should.

Even if Madara had accepted the ceasefire then and there, would it truly have lead to the peace Hashirama envisioned? Madara was not particularly clear-headed and could - theoretically - have agreed to any condition, Hashirama could have made, in his distress. Which would have invoked Izuna’s ire most likely.

It would not have been an agreement on equal footing and terms. It wasn’t even when Madara finally accepted Hashirama’s agreement.

Madara wanted to believe in Hashirama and their “pipe dream” (as much as he tried to deny it) - but Izuna did not have the same faith in the Senju clan.

Suspicion and fear also reared its ugly head, and can one blame him for such? Not really.

Being wounded by your archrival, being in pain and dying, and the leader of their nemesis dares to offer an alliance in that moment? Suspicious and hypocritical.

Everyone would be at fault - in one way or another - had the situation been real. Both Senju and Uchiha are as much victims as they are perpetrators of this vicious cycle of hatred.

While this is speculation, Izuna was probably quite the strong willed person. We do not know how the wound killed him, but it - most likely - got infected and caused him a slow, agonizing death.

He probably laid dying between days to perhaps a month at most.

Looking at the background during the skirmish it appears to be summer, and when Izuna passes away it is autumn. He probably had to cling to life for at least a few weeks…I can only imagine how painful such a situation must have been to both brothers. Imagine the agony of watching your most precious person waste away, watching him slowly die, while you can do nothing to save him.

It must have chafed at Izuna’s pride as a warrior as well, dying in such a “undignified” way. Honour has always been important to the Japanese, and I wonder how many can truly empathize with their way of thinking (“bushidō”) - and that you should kill yourself before bringing “shame” to your family name/yourself.

That’s…terrifying and tragic. And yet it is also quite sound…considering how valuable a hostage could be (or a corpse or two…).

It is while Izuna laid dying (we are only shown Madara’s anger after his passing - anime only scene at that) that he offered Madara his eyes. This, at the very least, implies his devoted nature. Like Obito, he gave up their clan’s treasure (Sharingan) so that his beloved older brother could look after one thing he, Izuna, held dear.

No matter who he might have been, we know one thing for certain, and that is that Izuna was devoted to the clan, to Madara, to the very end.

[sysig]

Second request!

If you're okay with crossover requests, what about Camillo (Encanto) trying to make Todd (Vargas/JTHM) laugh?

Day 21 - Complimentary

[wazzuppy]

i really love scott fellows' approach to live action film making, because he's not only willing, but completely excited to to stretch reality and the audience's suspension of disbelief. like he's workered on a lot of cartoons where things like over the top humor and wild slapstick are much more common, and he inserts those things into his life action work too. he didnt care if it looked fake as long as it was fun and i really respect that. it added such a specific charm to his shows that i genuinely don't think all that many directors have managed to bring.

[revvnant]

i sit and stew on a post so potent about the victim blaming that goes on in wider fandom headcanons about these characters that goes unnoticed because it's never overt or even intentional and i eat my hands because it's the jumpscare games for kids with their parents' credit cards.

[artheresy]

Im getting,, a fic prompt but I'm still in a writers block this sucks :')

P basic idea of Soukoku getting into the entertainment industry at a young age but ahhh there's so much I would explore with it

[golden-explosions-main]

🌼- *the flower nods, before asking with an excited and stary-eyed expression*

Do you guys like video games??

*with the same excited little kid energy as “do you have games on your phone”*

Flowey lights up as if he's been activated: "Frisk 'likes' video games, but I LOVE video games!" *He then proceeds to list all of the games he owns and then takes it further by rambling about his favorite game series, he rambles for at least five minutes until he catches himself and stops*

Flowey, looks to Frisk: "Now it's your turn,"

Frisk, caught off guard: "I'm not a big gamer like him, and I enjoy .... 'peaceful' stuff, like farming games and life simulators,"

Flowey: "Just be honest and say you like to pretend to be a god,"

Frisk: "No, because what I like to pretend to be is a farmer who's going pet my animals and romance and marry my favorite characters,"

Flowey: "Awful,"

[whatudottu]

Look, I'm not saying that the entirety of the Galvan race would be gamers. That would be ludicrous. I'm simply saying that if they found out about the existence of video games as well as how to program them,

Damn if only they didn't have tadpole children otherwise they'd totally have iPad toddlers smh smh- no doubt on Galvan Prime (or whatever edition of planet they're on if you don't retcon it's destruction in the Highbreed arc) they'd already found an interest in many variations of video games, even if predominantly it's not socially acceptable in most galvan cultures to be an adult in full pursuit of a gamer, not that there isn't a market for it because expectations breeds exceptions.

Because of the majority of galvan intellects steer towards the sciences, galvan video game developers probably tend to target younger fresh-out-of-the-pond adolescents with educational games, a combination of fun and learning. But these are galvans we're talking about, so no Mario Teaches Typing or Leap Frog levels of baby smarts games, more like Brain Training and significantly more difficult than what you get here. It's not to say 'fun for fun's sake' games don't exist, just that these are really the only games that early learning galvan really get until they have control over their own financial responsibilities.

I'm not saying that galvan who prefer more entertaining games later in life are unintelligent, but I am saying that Blukic and Driba seem the type to game for fun-

[eosofspades]

next gen (2018) is the best movie ever for a lot of reasons but the biggest, most integral one that i've never seen anybody actually address before, is that it is fundamentally a story about being a very young child who is suffering so much emotional pain and the experience of that pain not being taken seriously by anyone around you. mai's anger issues and crushing loneliness are absolutely integral to any reading of the story's themes, and not only is her pain a driving force, but it is validated by the narrative. the story doesn't mock her for having "daddy issues," she's not just a whiny or dramatic little girl; she is ABSOLUTELY justified in feeling lonely and hopelessly angry, and the movie goes out of its way to show you things from HER perspective. and at the end, the "lesson" she had to learn wasn't that she was WRONG about how she viewed her mother and her situation - in fact, her MOM is the one who has to learn that she was mistreating her daughter and hurting her.

the movie also takes so much care to honestly and realistically show how that loneliness can manifest in the most destructive of ways - mai is ALLOWED to be angry, she is allowed to be rude and abrasive and destructive, and while it is portrayed as a problem and something that needs to be addressed, the narrative never BLAMES her for it - because she is a child reacting in a real, emotional, raw, human way to her trauma and pain.

what i'm trying to say is i have never seen a film before that takes a child's feelings of misery as something so valid. the narrative NEVER condescends to her character, it never comes across as patronizing. and the movie isn't about having to forgive the people who hurt you, but instead it's about the importance of not letting that pain stop you from making NEW memories and better relationships. it's so real and RAW and full of love and ultimately, it is about how even one person looking at you and saying "i see your pain, and i'm not going anywhere" and meaning it can be enough to save you.

[starrycat123-blog]

oksies hi starting a new thread of get to know you

haii I'm moth and also thea you may call me any nickname as well <3

I love musicals so so much (niche and popular!! basic-shaming is lame)

I am superhero obsessed (augh pied piper)

doctor who is my autism (yay river sonf!!!!)

good omens heoughhhhhhhh

super excited to meet you <3333333

Hi moth!! You can call me tetra. Don't worry that's not my real name or anything tho. I took it from the concept of tetrachords in music.

If we're generous about what we call superheroes, then maybe most of the things I like are superhero based. I mean obviously there's marvel and dc, but then there's stuff like dpxdc, sonic the hedgehog (idk if I've ever heard him called a superhero but he kinda is), if we count magical girls then like. Sailor moon and madoka magica

I haven't seen any episodes of good omens, but I read a really good fanfic of Crowley going to therapy a while back, and a couple funny ones with like yelp reviews of Aziraphale's bookstore. Plus I love the good omens analysis posts on here. I feel like maybe I half know some of what's happened in the show but also probably haven't scratched the surface. I'm kinda bad at watching TV shows, so there's a lot of stuff that I know from fandom but haven't seen. For another example of that, I've only watched one or two episodes of Sonic Prime. I reblog posts for it and it sounds good but idk. Just bad at it.

I'm a much more casual fan of musicals, I think for the same thing as above where I just struggle to sit and watch something on purpose. But I listen to the music from them sometimes, I've read transcripts online of a couple, and i swoon whenever I see a post analyzing the meaning of a musical song, especially when they go beyond lyrics and start going into the music theory in the tune. I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that myself but I love it so much

(when the singer changes their technique to enhance the meaning,, when this or that chord is a step outside the key to symbolize change or isolation or anything,,, using instruments as symbols for this or that character,,, tbh it doesn't have to be a musical even shout out to that youtube video by Scruffy on how fnaf's audio and sound effects make it scarier)

Lately I've been bouncing back and forth between Sonic and DPxDC. With hints of Slay The Princess in there bc I saw part of a playthrough of that awhile ago and loved the concept. I reblog madoka magica stuff whenever I see it (except magia record bc I know next to nothing about it) because that stuff makes me lose my mind. The love the pain the hope the despair!! Homura is probably like my ultimate blorbo but I love all the five girls they're so cool. I actually read the manga instead of watching the show though so I'm not as familiar with all the music. Plus I think the show had some extra scenes. Although it's a little confusing bc I think some of the extra scenes I see are magia record so idk.

Also I'm a fan of arts and crafts and will reblog that kind of thing once in a while, along with cute cat stuff.

Super excited to meet you too!

[releaseholiday]

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[vervainvoyage]

Soooo after I reblogged some of OSP's JttW content, I get the Lego Monkie Kid recommended posts and blogs thrown at me every 4 minutes on my dash. Fiiiine, I went to check out the pilot.

And ok.

Tumblr was right.

The pilot episode is hilarious and the animation ABSOLUTELY SLAPS. I keep rewinding because there are so many good gags happening in the background, or just because the animation was so pretty I wanted to see it thrice. This is like a crackfic with the production value of movie theater animated blockbusters.

[gay-little-cloud]

we keep getting news of the sm kpop boys not renewing their contrats lmao first half of exo opening their own company, now taemin and onew are leaving as well........ that company sucks they should all leave fr.

im still waiting for red velvet to leave and become an indie gruop hahahhh no but fr SM doesnt deserve them, theyre so good, so talented, so hardworking !! and they get nothing in return. red productions when i catch your lazy ass is over for you 👊