Takes Ur Hand In Mind

Takes ur hand in mind

Let's reread naruto through a queer lense if Sakura was a young trans girl growing up and grappling with femininity and gaining a new found family

People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

"Stop talking about sakura" NO!

Anyways her making fun of an orphan to an orphan is objectively comedic gold BUT narratively for her it's great because her whole young life at that point she's just been living with what the village believes about naruto. What she's heard from adults or classmates.

Sasuke's "you're annoying" challenged that rhetoric directly and caused her to actually reflect and start to treat naruto better immediately. Like most kids, she just needed to be shown a different point of view.

hi! you sem to have such a different view of sakura than i do and i just can't fathom how you get that. do you really just get sakura better than i do? or are you being delulu? did we read the same manga? please i want an essay of sakura from you because for some reason sakura is a very complicated character to me and i kinda just want to like her but somehow i can't see the coolness. or like i can but still she just seems so so so one dimensional to me. like do you impose your own headcanons to her to deepen the character or like what. where do you get all that. because you also seem to get sasuke and naruto so perfectly. please talk to me about sakura

I will admit that some of my works with her are a little headcanony, but so is my stuff with Naruto and Sasuke. That's just the nature of making fanworks in general. I actually think I do it LESS with her than anyone else.

I think the big thing is not seeing her as "cool", but just as a person like you do the male characters (or the female characters who worship Naruto and all his choices). A large part of people's responses to her are misogyny, even when we don't notice that on the surface level. Think about things people dislike about her- weak, stuck up, a bad friend. Now realize Kakashi's exactly the same way only we didn't have to see him be a know-it-all brat until way later. Another thing- people hold her meanest moment (chapter 3) as an unforgivable CONTINUING thing, even though she learned her lesson right away, despite characters like Shikamaru taking way longer to acknowledge Naruto. Also, how people think she's useless for the same things they think Lee is awesome for.

If you want more ninja discourse from me about Sakura, THIS might be the best break down I did about the other thing everyone gets mad about.

Tl;dr: 1. She is extremely protective of Naruto's emotional health even when he does not want/need it, and that's a compelling and fun dynamic. 2. She has great slapstick reactions to things, be it as the one making funny faces while chastising at an idiot or making funny faces while being the idiot. She's both as a tsukkomi and a boke depending on the situation. 3. Female characters in this series are written shallowly and only exist as support to male characters, but Sakura acts with her OWN reasons, even when the male characters she is acting for would not want it, so she's more interesting to me. Example: the Kage Summit Arc when she wanted to kill Sasuke to protect Naruto even though she knew it would make Naruto hate her and the guy she loves be dead.

pathetic men summer!!