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Araitsume's Chamber

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The dwelling place of one unfortunate soul that gets caught up in more things than he can keep track of in this lifetime. Member of the Naruhina Network 3DS Friend Code: 2105-9778-4700 Pokemon GO: 9673 2722 1023 Discord: Araitsume#3740
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iamdslr

Come one, Come all! #NaruHinaWedding

Join us as we celebrate Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga's Wedding! See you all on March 23rd!

On the final episode of Naruto Shippuden, which aired on March 23, 2017, Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga were married. We're now presenting a one day celebration to you in honor of the episode's sixth anniversary!

We encourage the fans to use the event's icon as their pfp and share their posts and retweets by using the hashtag #NaruHinaWedding

Special thanks to @Hinaaa_Uzumaki_ & @saradesuchiha organizing this event~

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swainathan

Konohagakure Lovers, a totally self indulgent Naru-Hina version of Eugene de Blaas' "Venetian Lovers"

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I was talking with a friend of mine about Avatar The Last Airbender and wanted to share something interesting we’ve realized through our conversation. So we were discussing the podcast Braving The Elements, specifically the segment with Bryan (one half of our infamous Bryke) dunking on Zutara (‘bad boy doesn’t always win y’all 🙄) and basically disregarding Zuko’s an entire redemption arc.

My friend said that Bryke seem to be stuck in a very black and white view of their own creation. From the beginning they had a good idea for a show, but it was very black and white. The writers were the ones to take the idea, expand it, and give it depth and nuance. For Bryke, Aang being this protagonist who never has to grow or change and gains all this power without having to really work for it. The writers attempted to give Aang an actual arc but Bryke clearly vetoed it as evidenced by the finale and the aborted chakra arc.

Fortunately they were a little more successful at getting Bryke to change some of the other things. Katara being the chick, the girl the hero gets at the end as his prize for saving the world, and nothing more, her character revolving completely around Aang, seems to be how Bryke initially created Katara seeing how Aang was originally going to fight Pakku so Katara could learn to waterbend until the writers turned her into a feminist powerhouse who fought Pakku herself. And considering how Katara is reverted back to the hero’s girl and nothing else in the comics where Bryke had more control and none of the writing talent from the show. Even Sokka who seems to have been conceived as a one dimensional comic relief character but was given amazing character development and an arc that made Sokka a leader. He became so much more than just the comic relief. (And like Katara was reverted back to his one dimensional character in the comics). Toph was going to be a guy who rivaled Aang for his affections in pursuing Katara before being changed to a blind girl who kicks butt!

The point is Bryke conceived a very shallow, one dimensional show that the very talented writers were able to turn into one of the best and most influential children’s cartoons of the 21st century. And just think how much more amazing and highly praised atla would have been if Zutara had happened instead of the canon pairs.

It seems like Bryke is still very stuck in their black and white mindset of their original more shallow idea for the show and characters. What they don’t seem to realize is that if they hadn’t had those talented writers, if they had made the show the way they initially set out to, it would never have been as successful and well loved by all ages and audiences as it is now. And that’s even with the awful canon pairs we got. Even in spite of the canon pairs the show is still very very well written and enjoyable to watch. Again, just imagine how much more awesome this show could have been if Zutara had been canon as well as all the other great stuff the show gave us. They can’t see the diamond their show became and still see it as the coal it started out as.

That’s why they view Zuko as this bad boy who would have a toxic relationship with Katara (never mind that Zuko even at his worst was never a bad boy). That’s why they don’t respect or care about Katara as a character outside of her relationship to Aang. That’s why the comics were as flat and one dimensional as they were, walking back all the character development and undoing all the nuance the story had.

Avatar The Last Airbender seems to have been conceived as a typical ten year old boy cartoon in the beginning, with lots of action and adventure, full of cliches, the protagonist being a boy who gets everything he wants and more in the end without having to work for it much. A comic relief character who is nothing more than a butt monkey, the only girl in the group exists to be nothing more than the hero’s prize at the end. The bad guys are bad for the sake of being bad and nothing more.

And that’s what it would have been if Bryke hadn’t gotten the writers they did. It would have been entirely unremarkable. That’s what it turned back into in the comics and LOK. But fortunately for all of us, they got writers who turned the this show into something exceptional. Nearly all of the characters are real and relatable, with their own thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, etc. They all have depth, nuance and for the most part a good solid clear character arc. Aang and Mai not included. The story is engaging and has so many good messages that can be felt and understood at any age. The worldbuilding is unique and interesting. For all it’s faults and flaws Avatar The Last Airbender is an amazing show. It’s kind of sad that Bryke can’t seem to see what they have, what their show writers did to make their shallow one dimensional idea into what it became and will forever be praised as. Even after all this time.

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Anonymous asked:

Not just the Boruto anniversary animation team, seems like the english translators got something against Hinata as well. Rei and OrganicDinosaur from twitter cleared up she didn't call Kawaki insane, the translation should be 'your loosing it / you've lost your mind' The official translation of 'Your insane!' sounds a lot more harsh. I know it's minor, but this fandom tends to take things overboard, I know a wrong fanmade translation of Karin still has ss fans claiming she wanted to drug Sasuke.

narhinafan answered:

I thought that as well it was too harsh what she said didn't match how devastated she was over what Kawaki was saying she was crying the time after showing she was clearly more sad then angry. Your insane is more criticism while the proper translations expresses more concern over him thinking that way.

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magicmooshka

storyteller

sometimes I forget that I'm just a teenager writing a webcomic in my spare time, so I shouldn't hold myself to the same standards as, say, a feature film with an entire team of professional writers, or Hiromu Arakawa. Writing flawed stories is okay, and even necessary in order to write better ones :)

(if you want to read aforementioned amateur webcomic...)

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omegansamurai

Good gosh…that’s beautiful. You truly did inspired me to keep on writing and keep on going with my storytelling. I mean I did before, but wow, this was…this was the icing on the cake! Thank you for this! I wish I can print this and put it on my wall for inspiration! :D

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burst-of-iridescent
Anonymous asked:

Thoughts on the atla comics?

burst-of-iridescent answered:

short answer: kill them with fire.

long answer: the atla comics are poorly-written, poorly-characterized, poorly-developed pieces of trash that should have been scrapped if anyone with a lick of sense had worked on them, and prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it was the writing team of atla, not bryke, that made the show the masterpiece it is.

the comics lack any and all understanding of how to tackle either the characters or the issues involved with nuance and sensitivity, resulting in: characters that feel extremely OOC (aang agreeing to kill zuko), complex topics being covered with all the subtlety and delicacy of a hammer to the face (katara "learning" to accept the annexation of the swt by the nwt), drama manufactured just for the sake of plot (aang and zuko fighting and aang proposing anti-miscegenation as a valid solution to international problems) and the further destruction of relationships that were already terrible to begin with (kat.aang and mai.ko).

i've heard the suki, kyoshi and yangchen comics are fairly decent so i might give those a chance someday. but the ones involving the gaang add so little and ruin so much that as far as i'm concerned... there are no atla comics in ba sing se.

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avatarfandompolice

“The comics are bad so I don’t read them”

No. The comics are “bad” because you don’t read them.

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burst-of-iridescent

“so you just say that they ruin everything without giving any real criticism” 

my criticism: 

characters that feel extremely OOC
  • aang, the pacifist monk who believes all life is sacred, agreeing to kill his close friend when he couldn’t even kill the genocidal maniac who was on the precipice of burning down an entire country
  • katara, who is also close friends with zuko, who saw him sacrifice himself for her and fought to save his life, agreeing with aang’s decision
  • aang, the avatar, who is supposed to be the embodiment of balance and harmony, who has friends from all four nations and a girlfriend from another nation, proposing anti miscegenation as a solution
complex topics being covered with all the subtlety and delicacy of a hammer to the face 
  • katara being the one who has to “learn” to accept the annexation and "progress” of the southern water tribe under the northern water tribe, even though she’s expressing valid concerns regarding the cost of, and need for, this “development”
  • the hamfisted handling of azula’s mental breakdown, as well as the depiction of mental illness and psychiatric facilities 
drama manufactured just for the sake of plot 
  • aang and zuko fighting over the colonies, and the aforementioned promise, instead of just... oh, idk, communicating? 
  • ursa randomly erasing her memories and choosing to forget her children, even though she was willing to commit murder to protect zuko and knows she’s leaving them in the care of a sociopathic abuser. not only is this OOC, it’s clearly just a plot device to make the events of the search happen 
the further destruction of relationships (kat.aang and mai.ko) that were already terrible to begin with 
  • aang exploding a lava fissure in katara’s face because she doesn’t want to discuss their kiss at the invasion 
  • katara feeling sidelined and forgotten while aang entertains his fan club, only for the lesson to be that SHE needs to come around and let aang be happy 
  • katara being reduced to aang’s trophy girlfriend 
  • katara putting herself in danger to pull aang out of the avatar state YET AGAIN
  • mai allowing her own father, who nearly killed her boyfriend, to escape and hiding information about the people trying to assassinate him from zuko 
  • mai throwing knives at zuko’s head and encouraging jin to do the same (and this is the comic where they get together, go figure) 
  • mai using kei lo to make zuko jealous 

i hope that’s clear enough for you, since you clearly didn’t read my (properly tagged) post before jumping to conclusions. next time, work on your own reading comprehension first before you try lecturing anybody else about it. 

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avatarfandompolice

Here’s what you missed, though:

1. Context

2. Context

3. Context

- Context

- Context, context, context

Context, context.

Context context context context context. Context. Context context context.

- Context

- Context, context

4. Context: context, and context

5. Context

6. More context

- Context; context, context

Context context. Context, context.

a) context,

b) context,

c) context, and/or

d) context

If you are getting your information from wiki plot summaries or other angry tumblr posts from people who have the reading comprehension of a 2x4, then you’re missing all the context. There are plenty of things that are “bad writing” and “OOC” in the show so long as you just remove any and all context surrounding them.

Not to mention as well that all of your criticisms are either moot, completely in-character, make sense in the story, or are from one-off comics shoved into the back of Nick magazine and just released as bonus content not meant to be serious.

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firelxdykatara

i'm sorry, i know i usually don't bother engaging with the biggest clown-nose honker in this fandom because it's an exercise in futility, and it's not even all that engaging because he never has a genuine argument--just ad hominem attacks and screaming about how canon is brilliant actually and we're all just meanies who can't understand or appreciate bryke's creative genius--but for those watching at home, this one interaction perfectly encapsulates why this blog is so widely known as the atla fandom's butt-monkey.

ana laid out in fairly broad strokes her overall issues with the atla comics, complete with several direct examples. the original post was tagged correctly, so it's pretty clear that the self-appointed atla cop right here chose to go looking for posts espousing opinions he doesn't like so he could go fight them, but rather than actually engaging with any of the points made in the original post, his response was simply 'you didn't read them, so NYEH'. mind you, nowhere does ana say she hasn't read the comics she has opinions on, so the clear implication here is that the only reason to dislike them is if you haven't read them.

(i can tell you up front that this is bunk. i read them. the post-canon ones sucked, and the during-canon ones were very hit-or-miss. 'katara and the pirate's silver' was great, some of the lost adventures were decent, that's the best i can really say for them.)

despite the fact that it's clear mister atla cop here (and i cannot express enough how much disdain i hold for this person and his choice of moniker) was not engaging in good faith, ana still broke down in exhaustive detail the elements of canon in the comics that she dislikes.

his only response was to yell CONTEXT in her face like he's ross gellar in the stairwell with a couch, and then act like that's a reasonable means of refuting her arguments, despite the fact that he failed to elaborate on how 'context' makes anything remotely better. (because it doesn't, and i suspect afp knows this, otherwise he might have actually tried to formulate a coherent argument rather than acting like a little troll whose only goal is to get a rise out of people he allegedly despises.

i say 'allegedly' because he is clearly so very desperate for our attention. one wonders if he isn't actually a fan in disguise.)

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sneezypeasy

Just want to add that the term for this sort of argument “technique” is “sealioning”. When Person A makes a statement or a claim, and then Person B accuses Person A of not putting in the emotional labour of actually addressing x rebuttals or constructing a cohesive argument and being “lazy” or arguing in bad faith, so then person A expends time and energy into putting together the argument person B requested, and person B provides no actual counter-argument aside from barking at them that they still haven’t provided a strong or robust enough argument and it’s still not enough - if you allow this to go on, it goes on forever. No argument you put forth could ever make the sealion concede you have a point, the whole exercise is so that they can keep demanding more emotional labour from you indefinitely and then if/when you lose patience and snap, then they’ll be like “See?!? The fact that you couldn’t even handle requests for evidence and thoroughness means you never had any substance to your arguments to begin with. (Also, what a rude and emotionally unstable way to respond to someone debating your opinions, lmao these people be crazy-)” Sealioning - the technique that provides nothing of substance but nitpicks every argument you could make, accuses you of arguing from a place of bad faith because you did not pre-empt, or refuse to respond to, these nitpicks, and then makes you the bad guy when you inevitably get sick of the constant barking that adds nothing of value to the discussion. 

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