but like

how in the blazing year of 2023

just before 2024

how is kinning not dead

especially fictionkin

how are full grown adults still going 'he just like me fr' so hard they pretend 'he actually me'.

Wow I love this image. The fact that he's standing in complete darkness, the shadow of the falling leaves, the one wedge of light coming from her. He stands passively looking down at her while the movement clearly indicates she's come and invaded his darkness and wants to pull him away into the light.

It reminds me a lot of 'A Fool'. Artistically/symbolically at least it's a perfect SakuDanzo image.

To the people who ask in my DMs - no I won't complete the mystic messenger webtoon review - I said from the start, if it turned out to be Hana/7 I'm outtie immediately.

And to the people who want more Queen's Favor, I ain't dead.

Good job to Johnny, good job to all of his legal team. Good to see justice finally prevail.

??????????

I actually just saw someone link the manga page where Sakura is comforting Naruto in the wake of the destruction of the village and the death of Jiraiya and then thinks to herself 'I'm comforting him, but I should be looking for comfort myself' because Tsunade is in a coma and might not recover...

and they said

'Sakura only thinks about herself and doesn't care about Naruto's suffering at all'

I don't understand the mind of a Sakura hater.

I really don't.

Hey Naruto fandom, this is just your reminder that Sakura didn't do anything wrong.

It's not her fault - nor is it anyone's fault - that the person she fell in love with had personal traumas that caused him to behave in unpleasant ways. She's not responsible for the actions of the person she loves.

Sakura has always only ever done what she felt was best for either her village or her friends, even when she makes rash mistakes they are with the motivation of doing what is best for those she cares about. She wished to go with Sasuke because she was terrified of him going away with Orochimaru alone, because she believed Sasuke would lose himself if he did so. She tried to kill Sasuke because she believed her old fear had come true and if anyone else killed Sasuke it would trigger a war that would only hurt Naruto, the village (currently destroyed and recovering) and her friends.

It isn't Sakura's fault that she never fell in love with Naruto or Lee, and she isn't obligated to love someone back just because they had feelings for her. She was never intentionally cruel to them simply because they had feelings for her. Her false confession was done only because she thought it would make Naruto happy, not because she was trying to hurt him.

You're not obligated to stop loving someone because they're not a good person anymore. Sakura still tried to kill her feelings for Sasuke out of guilt because she believed it was wrong to still love him, and she couldn't.

In the context of the ninja world, slapping Naruto around once or twice was not considered rude or unacceptable behavior, neither did Naruto ever consider it to be. Despite this, she does it something like twice in the entirety of her association with him. Bear in mind that adults beat a five year old child so hard he was hospitalized, and in that scenario it was the child who was considered to be in the wrong, and when Jiraiya peeped on Tsunade she almost killed him and they remained extremely close until his death. Sakura's punches of Naruto are more akin to dope slaps in-universe than they would be in reality.

Sakura was rude and mean to Naruto in class because everyone was rude and mean to him. The very first moment someone in front of her questioned the validity of this behavior and turned it on her, Sakura realized she was in the wrong and resolved to never do it again (and followed through on it).

Although Sakura started up a rivalry with Ino about Sasuke, it was not with malicious intent but respect. She saw Ino as a genuine rival for Sasuke's attention, and so openly declared her intent to Ino. Their friendship remained, and Ino is the only person for whom she rearranged her headband for as a show of respect.

Sakura worked as a doctor and a medicnin and essentially a single mother to Sarada throughout her child's youth - staying up late until she physically passed out at Sarada's bedside when the child got a fever. She shielded Sarada from the more confusing and dark aspects of her own teenage years, and hid Sasuke's uncertain return from his dangerous mission so that her daughter would grow up happier and feel more secure.

Sakura doesn't just "love people who treat her poorly", she doesn't "bully and attack Naruto relentlessly" or treat her friends "like crap". She isn't selfish and self absorbed or vain, and in fact she's almost shockingly selfless at times.

The old Naruhina vs Narusaku and Sasukarin vs Sasusaku wars have assassinated her character in every way that it can be assassinated, but in the end it's important to remember:

Sakura did nothing wrong.

What do you do when you want to make fanwork, especially fanfiction, about one of Markiplier's works? In some cases I think it would be a little easier to section it off, like with WKM where the characters have their own names, but his interactive adventures are a little more difficult to filter.

I don't want, in any way, to write or read RPF. Still, I like the characters and concepts in his interactive stories enough that I'd love to see fandom extensions of them - or make some myself. (Mark has made it pretty clear he prefers to make new adventures rather than go back to old ones, and that's understandable...but also what fanfic is for. You know. Fanfic other than that Other Kind of fanfic. notthaththeresanythingwrongwiththat.gif)

What is the protocol for making things related to Heist, Date, Space, or anything else made in past or future with the "Mark" character interacting with an "audience" character? How do you find material for it that doesn't include RPF, how do you make things that aren't weird or creepy either to other fans or to Mark himself if he were to stumble across it?

This obviously means 'creative' works that add on to or change what's there, not 'representative' works that portray what's already there, such as cosplay or art of characters or existing scenes. Quite obviously such work wouldn't bother anyone.

Ordinarily this wouldn't be a question at all, because no one is going to question that you meant Jensen Ackles when you write Dean Winchester, but many of Mark's characters are just named 'Mark' and are meant to be fictionalized variations of himself.

The question is aimed at fandom, because I'm sure that what I'm describing does exist already and such rules therefore also exist, but just on the off chance that Mark happens to get on tumblr and glance at his tag at the exact right moment, I'll also mention @markiplier because an official answer is always a good one to have.

Also, yes, I know that 'just don't publish it' would be the perfect answer to 'how not to put anything out there that will bother anyone else' but that wouldn't solve how I could read and experience other people's works.

--Where would you find those, by the way? AO3? Do I have to fight with Tumblr's tag system to find them?

Don't send me to the pits of fanfiction.net...

"This female cover just makes the Phantom so much more sympathetic and understandable, if I were Christine I would totally choose her!"

because the Phantom isn't always sympathetic and there's never a debate over whether Christine should have chosen Eric or Raoul, right?

When someone reblogs you and agrees with you, but has you blocked....

Tumblr, it's been like ten years now, why are you still so weird?

And here is my regularly scheduled "AND ANOTHER THING THE PARTY IS STUPID" post

because

it is.

I don't know if you know this but there is quite literally no reason to put a bomb protecting what is essentially a list of doxes of famous and powerful people in South Korea. Brace yourself for this one, but: most powerful and famous people are already doxed and have been for a really long time. California sells 'star maps' which are just 'this is where x celebrity lives!' - it's even got a website.

and this is crazier but the really powerful people have famously public addresses, like the White House and the Kremlin. And the hilarious thing is that Rika's info doesn't even have the home addresses for 99% of these people. It's literally just their email.

There's top secret protocols and a bomb to protect semi famous wicker basket weavers from getting spam emails.

But wait, there's more!

The game acts like this party is somehow groundbreaking and revolutionary, that Rika had done something nobody has ever done to get people interconnected and boost careers and raise money for charity but it is literally just your bog standard charity dinner schmooze fest that rich people and upper society hold all the time. It's basic networking that rich people engage in and up-and-coming people employ nepotism or ingenuity to get invited to so they can hobnob with the famous and influential potential buyers they're looking for.

There's literally nothing remarkable about the party, they happen all over the world all throughout the year. The only thing that would make it stand out is that C&R is hosting it and the RFA themselves attend it and that makes it a bit of a status symbol for attendees, which means any party could be that if they just attended/sponsored it.

There is nothing sensitive about the information in Rika's apartment besides the business and sometimes personal emails of random attendees and AT. BEST. a list of notes on things like 'bic pen businessman likes traditional pens'

Literally the only reason it's dangerous to be involved in the RFA is because Rika is a psychopath!

Despite this the game is all about how the party is so vitally important they can't even delay a party they haven't held in 2 years for more than 1 week, and it's (almost) completely understandable to hold a random girl hostage in an apartment with a bomb in it constantly threatening her life, because there's a computer with email addresses on it.

You could literally just have the hard drive wipe itself if the wrong person opened the door, but no. EFFING BOMB.

Because everything is about me let me just say that even now, looking at Mysme, everyone's treatment of Jumin still enrages me and only does so more now.

This month someone suddenly died, someone who I am extremely close to, possibly the person I'm closest to in the world. If I wanted to explain how I feel about that, I can't, except to say that continuing to be alive takes almost all of my power, and that's something that will probably never change. And to the chat groups and places that I have social interaction with, I say extremely little about it to them. Mostly I just continue on exactly the same as I always am, with some occasional mention of it here and there. I only have spoken in depth about it extremely briefly and in private to people I feel comfortable doing so with.

The routes in Mystic Messenger would address this in the same way they do Jumin dealing with his own tragedies and stresses: calling a fundamentally broken person for behaving calmly, a robot for controlling my behavior, and then making fun about using a trusted source as 'a diary' if I were to go into how I felt.

I'm not trying to go for sympathy points or say "I'm just like Jumin guys look!" my point is that I've always been irritated with the fact that they act like him being introverted, calm and collected is somehow wrong, that when he goes through a crisis and maintains a cool head it's proof that he's just a broken human who doesn't function right, and when he finally reaches so much distress that cracks show, they make fun of him for it being so uncharacteristic.

The characters constantly do this to Jumin on every route, and where other times they generally only do this on that person's route and are proven to be wrong, with Mysme it's always just played off as a joke and like the people he's supposed to be friends with are completely in the right to treat him like that.

You are not a broken person because you can handle yourself and appear to be well put together even when the world is falling apart around you.

You're not wrong or some kind of freak because you keep your emotions and your internal struggles to yourself as much as humanly possible.

It's not harmless fun to make fun of a person who's hurting so much that they have to let it out to someone they feel comfortable with or trust, even if they're the type to usually be stoic and reserved. Jumin was wrong to trust the RFA with his emotional pain just because he trusted them most, but he was wrong because the RFA don't return those feelings, not because he trusted someone and needed to vent.

The RFA is full of asshole friends who barely count as friends to Jumin. It's irritating that Mysme pretends it's not.

Don't be like the RFA to Jumin, and if you're Jumin in that situation, probably don't put up with the RFA invalidating the way you operate just because it's different from how they do.

In a bit of a Sasusaku mood so let me put forth this thing that sounds like headcanon but is actually canon if you pay attention at all to the post-699 chapters:

Sasuke is the type to seem super cold and aloof because he generally is, but when something or someone has managed to get past those cold defenses and outstretched arms keeping people away, he's extremely warm, caring, tender, and obsessively devoted. It's not the kind of thing where his behavior changes toward other people and he becomes a completely new person because now he has someone to love, but rather all that lack of emotion and care everywhere else has only one outlet, and it's at the people he does care about.

Naruto doesn't count, because he has a unique relationship with him where they show their care for one another by being combative and violent. His behavior toward Naruto should never be used to measure what he thinks of others. Instead, how he handles people like Itachi are a better read. He will prioritize them over just about anything, he will cling to them like a lost puppy, and while he will fight them if he is forced to do so, even if they betray him that cannot kill the love he feels for them and the pain that it causes him if he loses them. For the one he loves, forgiving even the most terrible torture is possible.

How does this relate to Sakura? Sasuke loves her romantically, and she is one of only three outlets of his emotion and care - one being Naruto and therefore functioning differently - and that means you can be assured he is ultra laser focused on her. Sasuke can't maintain a stern face in front of Sarada getting weepy, so you can see he is quite weak for the people he loves - this is part of why he was impossible to get to while on his quest for revenge, love makes him weak and he knows it.

While publicly Sasuke maintains the proper decorum expected of the traditional Japanese kind of man he embodies, it's stated that he reserves special smiles to share with only her in private, and as heavily implied as possible that as soon as he's home they immediately have sex. All of Sasuke's (romantic) affection, all of his tenderness, and all of his sex drive is totally pinned on Sakura. He may tease Sakura playfully where he doesn't tease Sarada (which is in itself a subtle sign of the kind of man he is with her in private) but she is certainly just as spoiled as he clearly spoils Sarada. In her own way.

What I'm saying is that contrary to much of fandom's beliefs, Sasuke is a jealous lover who is very possessive of Sakura (see how he is with Itachi), he is tender and loving and sweet to her in private - and in public this only shows a little - and they absolutely have a full and rambunctious sex life because Sakura is a pervert and Sasuke has a lot of repressed sexual energy with only one person to point it at.

The anime claiming that Sakura could have gone on a date with Sasuke, and Sasuke went on that date with her willingly and she got the impression he didn't even realize they were on a date is simply not possible with what we have seen of Sasuke. He may well have been extremely quiet and aloof during the date, but he would still subtly communicate his feelings about it by the end - and Sakura is established to be able to understand such communication from him.

When writing Sasusaku post-curse of hatred, one should bear these points in mind. Sasuke is an Uchiha, and Uchiha feel everything to such an extreme that untrained Vulcans would blush. Writing him as cold and distant in their relationship - once it is a relationship - is simply not based in canon of any sort. And the novels that address their relationship agree with my conclusions completely.