Bet U Guys Thought I Was Done Overanalyzing A Manga From The Early 2000s Huh. NOPEI Also Find Sakura's

Bet u guys thought I was done overanalyzing a manga from the early 2000s huh. NOPE I also find Sakura's narrative as someone who views showing emotion as weakness, but only in her case. Time and time again she's prioritizing Naruto's feelings and trying to squash hers down because she is determined not to be that 13 year old that begged Naruto to bring Sasuke home. When Naruto broke down after seeing Sasuke again the first time, she did her best not to, even though she broke at him leaving too. When Naruto went 4 tails and hurt her, she lied so he'd feel no guilt about hurting her. And ofc, there's kage summit and her last-ditch attempt to stop what she viewed as naruto running himself into the ground. At that point, she lost one friend and was terrified of losing the other.

I know kishimoto is abysmal at writing women, but there's something so interesting about how consistently she's willing to be the bad guy to make sure naruto can still achieve his dreams to the detriment of her own mental health.

"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.

I figured out how to draw Sarada I am now obssessed

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on the other hand there are some characters that i KNOW in my heart are not cis but heres the thing . THEY wouldn't know. they would have no idea. or they're not acknowledging it. i love trans headcanons as much as the next guy but angel devil from chainsaw man does not know that he's not cis because all angel devil is thinking about is that he's got a job to do and he'd rather not be doing it but ah well its that or being killed. oh well

theres also some characters that if you took them out for drinks for like 2 hours and talked to them they would realize very quickly they arent cis. but the resources simply dont exist in the situation they are in. do you understand my vision

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.

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