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dany: lives her whole life in exile, living on the streets starving with her sexually abusive brother who was driven into insanity with the thought of re-gaining their family’s fallen legacy

dany: sold as a sex slave

dany: loses her husband just as things are starting to become loving

dany: loses her child as well as any chance to have another child

dany: is constantly insulted and harassed for being a female ruler

dany: loses 1/3 of her dragons while saving jon 

dany: goes to protect winterfell with everything she has, leaving her kingdoms vulnerable to the max, only to be bombarded with xenophobes and sexism and the mad king’s daughter insults

dany: loses her claim to the iron throne and all she had ever built towards and been told to live for, all to the love of her life who does not even want it, but he has a dick so hes got it

dany: loses 99% of the Dothraki and Unsullied and the one man who had stuck with her through all her hardships who only cared about her safety and belief in her reign, all to protect the xenophobes against her previously murdered, zombified child and new slave master; something of which she had been banning for,,, the whole series

dany: sees that her claim to the iron throne is even more weakened by the way her opponent, someone whom she still loves and does not want the throne, is around his followers

dany: is constantly questioned with her state of mind 

dany: is constantly being questioned about her idea of rule, despite it being needed at this point

dany: needs to beg jon to not destroy the claim for something he doesnt even want…only for him to not listen to her anyway

dany: is constantly snarked by s/nsa for literally existing

dany: is forced to go onto a ship with her advisors that are for some reason, fearing her rule

dany: watches yet another, 2/3 dragon fall a brutal death into the sea right in front of her, plus most of her fleet coming to follow her to the red keep

dany: is not able to avenge either dragons’ deaths - both being by the names of her brothers, aka her only family shed known

dany: takes the remaining 40 men to attempt to save her innocent friend

dany: loses her innocent friend violently just for cersei to prove a point

dany: starts to lose sanity

everyone:

"Is RtN really that much different from the LAST?" or "SP+Kishi early confessions"

Basically, two thoughts: first, RtN has more similarities to the LAST than a lot of people acknowledge and second, RtN was a pretty damn romantic movie and the Last could learn from it. Also, yes, I am not looking at NS as a BroTP in this movie, because NS never was one anywhere and especially because their counterparts SakuMenma, whose roles they played in everyone’s eyes, are pretty much confirmed canon.

Similarities between RtN and the LAST lie mostly in execution. Basically, a lot of issues 700th (sp-)chapter and The LAST had were foreshadowed in RtN. The fact that RtN is also technically-canon, since Kishimoto took part in creating it, only helps my point (SP+Kishimoto collaboration for the win).

First of all, the main plot in RtN is weak. The whole premise about capturing the fox through putting Naruto in AU is positively nonsensical. This is creator’s (SP\Kishimoto) CONFESSION NUMBER 1 - “we don’t give a fuck about the villain’s motivation and reasoning as long as it gives us the setting we wish for”. (Hello, Toneri and his crush).

Secondly, priorities are broken. Despite the fact that dark-Menma\extracting-Naruto is supposedly the driving storyline, main accent is so obviously made on Uzumaki family dynamics that the rest of the story just falls apart and disappears in the background. All action\villain scenes look extremely rushed and weak (as well as Menma’s characterization) in comparison to the effort put in depicting the process of Naruto opening up to his family. Action|villain storyline OPENLY serves the emotional plot and is treated like the means to an end. It could be ok, but again - OPENLY, BLUNTLY, at a massive cost of quality. I don’t know about you guys, but I can only see this as a big step away from Naruto’s shounen roots, where emotional development was expressed through quality fighting, in fighting and around fighting, not the other way around. Thank God the movie was saved because it was MinaKushi, it is just that good. Anyway, in my perception it is CONFESSION NUMBER 2 - “We somewhat recall that Naruto is a shounen, but c'mon, ain’t emotional issues|dialogs and character angst the main reason our mostly girly audience is reading this?? (Hello, 90% romance movie as a next step). Who cares about fighting villains?”  (well, duh, if you write those villains like cardboard) “Also we forgot how to write good fights”

Thirdly, scene-crafting is weak. This is true both about general story-crafting and fanservice injections. It happened in almost every movie with the LAST being wholesomely made out of this sin. Big portion of scenes in RtN simply stinks of “purpose”. I mean, of course the intent of the author/screenwriter can almost always be deduced, but it has to have at least a little bit of subtlety! Creators of RtN don’t know what subtlety is, which is why almost every scene in the movie is crafted bluntly to make a very straightforward step in story progression (like Naruto not dodging toad’s spit to provoke Kushina’s jump in), almost as often - to introduce an outspoken fanservice moment, which is why there is absolutely no natural flow. There is no concern about strange and unjustified actions of characters (how about tell us how Sasuke can even be a playful extrovert with his backstory? How about trying to justify Shino and Kiba’s disgust of insects\dogs - did they abandon their clans?) if it gives us the needed content (hello, next step - Hinata can’t jump when she needs to be caught, hello, Hinata must be on the same eagle as Naruto, hello, Hinata wears fishnets in winter etc etc etc). Here goes CONFESSION NUMBER 3 - “We know what our fanbase wants, they are all goats anyway, so we’ll throw a bunch of individual fanservice and "anything goes for the story to progress” scenes together, they’ll be happy enough.“ (Hello, NH-fanfiction movie with canon-contradictions that comes next.)

And finally, what annoyed me and many other fans the most, is characters’ preposterous OOCness. To be precise, Sakura’s OOCness. I mean, 1\2 of the movie is basically about Sakura learning lessons that she has already learned in canon when she was basically 12 years old! Her first monologue on the swings about perfection of living alone, having no parents - oh it made me groan in pain! And then she said Sasuke would understand her better, even though he was literally the one to tell her that she was wrong about same statements in chapter 3! (And since then she even learned about his tragic story!)  When I was watching that scene for the first time, I wanted to cry and forsake NS forever, I almost wished Naruto would smack her right there (maybe not) and leave her for good. Now I understand what my heart was aching about. Because in my eyes that was the moment that shouted about the amount of fucks Studio Pierrot and even Kishimoto give about canon material and character development. Thus here are confessions number 4 and 5.

CONFESSION NUMBER 4: We don’t care about Sakura’s character development and image, we can use her for our purposes and totally retcon\rebuild her personality if needed to push the story forward. (hello SakuHina BFF, Sakura being sasuke fanatic at 19 etc.)

CONFESSION NUMBER 5: Since we don’t care about rebuilding personalities, we don’t care about canon material either. We don’t care if original manga story holds scenes that totally contradict what we are showing here. We don’t care if our scenes make characters look like they have brain-damage or amnesia. We don’t care if it makes the ideas in the original manga look weak. (Naruto being emotional impotent, NS being a rivalry game, Naruto giving up both on Sakura and HInata, etc.).

Confession 6 comes from the fact that Sakura’s development is basically reused, just as Naruto’s acceptance of his parents (though less, ‘cause impostors, right?lol), just as quite a bunch of battle scenes (Minato vs Tobi = Naruto vs Menma).

CONFESSION NUMBER 6: We are not too good to use scenes and developments that already worked in the manga. These are proven to be popular goods, we can milk them as much as we need, even if we give the spotlight to other characters. 

Just like that I think that RtN was indeed a forshadowing of what was going to come. Yes, the content contradicted the end a lot. The most obvious - there was a lot of NS tease and NS development as well as ship-sinking of SS and NH and Naruto learning what good parenting means (lolololol). But the underlying features of this movie, the decisions that made it what it was, the approach that was executed - they were all threatening the whole fandom, we just didn’t notice it. 

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And still RtN is a much better romantic movie than the LAST. Depends on how you define romance, of course.Naturally, I don’t mean the culmination scenes, because obviously kissing, confessing and getting married in "canon” is as much romantic resolution as it can get. RtN wasn’t a shoujo movie, but it featured an enormous mutual development of a female and male protagonists that was about them understanding each other better on a very deep level and becoming able to communicate ideals solely from this understanding (Sakura telling Naruto what being a hero means and brining his resolution to fight back). More than that - this development was a hard one. It featured two characters literally finding themselves in another’s shoes, which provoked a very sharp conflict of interests that could break them apart just as easily as make them closer. The way they handled it proved how much they meant to each other. Even Sakura, who was selfish in the beginning, was so hesitant about pressing her unhappiness upon Naruto, who finally found his home. 

In that complex scene near the fence we saw Naruto and Sakura not even needing words to communicate their feelings to each other. It was not a happy scene. It was the first time when Naruto actually said he didn’t have time for Sakura (and he suffered for this). It was not a happy scene, but it was a VERY intimate one. This is the kind of conflict that can make people realize the true value of the relationship they have - not some kind of adrenaline ride and a bunch of pitiful memories. I would even go further to say that this is the mild kind of development SN had - development through polishing values, priorities, being pulled apart and still not giving up on each other.

Even better - this was a Naruto movie with intimacy and hero\heroine development, but with a focus on other important themes (family and responsibility). Important to the Naruto universe, to original manga, to the shounen genre. Naruto and Sakura managed to grow together while addressing themes and resolving problems that were way beyond their feeling for each other thus proving wide meaning, stability and productivity of their relationship. On the other hand, in the Last Naruto and Hinata focus pretty much solely on each other. Basically all scenes in the LAST are about Naruto and Hinata learning to be comfortable at touching each other. Everything that is happening is pushing them in one direction - into each other’s arms. The conflict between them is solely external, all internal barriers are idiotic (Hinata is still as shy as she was in Part 1, Naruto is an emotional impotent he never was before) and are conveniently destroyed by a genjutsu with no personality developments needed.

RtN gives an image of a romantic story the LAST could have been. Even if it was about NH, it could put NH in the background of something that was always present in Naruto’s story - themes like changing rules, not giving up, destroying the system, etc. Hinata could have helped Naruto in his quest to lead the new ninja world and that could be hard for both of them, but that would make them actually intimate - something I didn’t manage to see in the Last. I am not even mentioning that it would keep Naruto’s genre intact and please a much wider audience.

But to me RtN is the movie with a lot of flaws that still showed me that NS needs not more than a tiny little push to become canon. Like that scene in the end, if only Sakura invited Naruto to have dinner with her family…

But. Denied.

Omg...this fanart is so good xD

You’re a diamond I can’t buy               You’re a sin I can forgive And when you sink into the dark                Know that I am there with you

I think James or Mitch would have been much better romance options than Louis or Violet.

Same as me xD I'll wait your photo cosplaying max

I’ll be doing a Max cosplay from LIS soon. :>>> I just need a Chloe or warren! x’D

I fixed the District Map up a little, made it less cluttered and stuff!!

Wall Maria:

Shinganshina District (South-most district of Wall Maria. We all know this one.)

Three other unspecified Districts in the east, west, and north.

Wall Rose:

Trost District (South-most district of Wall Rose. Closest to the breach in Wall Maria, most frequent titan attacks)

Nedlay District (North-most district of Wall Rose.)

Karanese District (East-most district of Wall Rose. Where 57th expedition beyond the walls was launched)

Chlorba District (West-most district of Wall Rose)

Dauper (Sasha’s Village)

Ragako (Connie’s Village)

Wall Sina:

Stohess District (East-most district of Sina. Where EP23 takes place)

Hermiha District (South-most district of Sina. Currently overloaded with Rose refugees who believe Wall Rose has been breached)

Yalkell District (West-most district of Sina)

Utopia/Inner District (Area Wall Sina surrounds)

One other unspecified District in the north.

Clementine: I have feelings for you. Gabe: I have feelings for you. Narrator: The feeling was friendship, but neither had ever experienced it.

Why dont you like sasusaku? Be honest.

Okay honestly,

Let me put my dislike for Sakura aside because I don’t dislike the ship because it involves her, I dislike the ship for Sasuke’s sake. Though, there is definite evidence that needs to be said about Sakura’s character later on.

1. I’ll start with the fact that Sasuke shares zero romantic interest with anyone ANYONE in the series. He does not want it. He is focused on other things. He has said that he does not want it and I get frustrated when a character speaks their mind within their story and then others still assume they don’t know what they are talking about.

2. In addition Sasuke barely respects her and acknowledges her at all. So the idea of them being shipped together makes no sense to me, because for me there needs to be some sense of logic behind a ship especially one we are to believe as canon. With the type of character Sasuke is, he can’t be with someone for the sake of being with them, he isn’t casual like that. He doesn’t even talk to people he doesn’t want to. Sasuke has a personality where his significant other would be someone near and dear to him. Someone who has made an impact on his life. Now I won’t say that he does not care for her in a small way, he wanted the team to be safe during their time together as Team 7 and looked out for everyone including Sakura, but just because someone takes on responsibility like that it doesn’t mean he wants that pussy.

3. Something else to consider is, Sasuke doesn’t need someone to control him and keep him tied down to a location. He deserves to be where he wishes after all that he has been through. I don’t ever remember him being happy to come “home” to Konoha. So why would he want to be with someone who lives there? Maybe things would make more sense if Sakura (or insert any girl here) were to up and leave Konoha to find another home. But keep in mind that someone like Sasuke who has spend years locked inside his head and alone in solitude does not crave to be surrounded by people and always talking and such. Sasuke shows a lot of signs of depression so nearly any relationship that involves him will have to face off with his depression and isolation scars.

4. Sakura does not respect Sasuke’s feelings, she only respects her own. She never asks him how he feels, or of he likes her, or if he cares about her. She lives in a world that only belongs to her and I personally stem behavior like that from her being an only child. Maybe I’m getting too deep into this but Sakura and Naruto have a very selfish mentality where if a situation does not involve them then they will force their way in and they will project their feelings onto the other person. To be honest, the reason I prefer the idea of Naruto being with Sakura is because they share similar perspectives where they are selfish, childish at times, they yell to get their way and they project their feelings into others, and they bully people into doing what they want them to do with severe lack of respect for the other person. Naruto and Sakura also work really well together, and I saw this proven when they met Sai.

The moment Sakura and Naruto were introduced to Sai opened my eyes wide to the fact that the Naruto I liked pre-shippuden was no longer with us. When Sai came in we saw both Sakura and Naruto reject him, put him down, call him weird and invade his privacy to pry into his life without asking. They often compared him to Sasuke which I think is just do sad because Sai is his own person despite being part of Root, he is still his own being. Regardless, because Sai wasn’t what they both wanted, they rejected him until they were able to get to know him better and so on. This part of the story showed me the type of behavior Sakura and Naruto were capable of and I absolutely loathed it. I remember thinking, ‘this is our hero?’ And I shook my head.

5. Anyway back to Sasuke and Sakura. My point is that from they way I interpreted the manga I feel that Sakura is not the girl for Sasuke and for the main reason being that he said he was not interested. If he said he was not interested in Ino then I wouldn’t ship that, if he said he wasn’t interested in Karin, then I wouldn’t ship that, etc. Sasuke’s personality isn’t a mysterious one where he speaks in riddles and you need to dissect it. He speaks boldly and bluntly, what he says is what he means. He said he was not interested therefore, because I like and respect his character, I believe that he does not want to be with her. So why would I ship that?

LMAO 😂😂

guys guys guys, i have a solution!! i know how to save ‘game of thrones’!!

so suppose that everything goes to shit in episode 8x05 and 8x06 (like it will). dany burns down king’s landing, jon kills her, tryrion is executed, maybe we get cleganebowl, i don’t know. point is, everyone dies and the whole show is ruined.

then: smash cut to bran, sitting at the table in winterfell. it’s the beginning of episode 8x01. he is surrounded by everyone (dany, jon, sansa, tyrion, missandei, jorah, arya etc.). they all look horrified.

he goes: “and that’s what happens if we don’t get our shit together.” everyone is like ‘damn, we better start working together and not act completely ooc’. 

so they do. they defeat the night king. they defeat cersei. jon and dany become king and queen of the seven kingdoms, sansa rules the north. missandei and grey worm sail for naath. jaime gets his shit together. bran keeps creeping out everybody at winterfell. everyone is happy.

so yes, what i’m suggesting is that game of thrones literally pulls a ‘twilight: breaking dawn - part 2’ so we’re spared all this stupid fucking nonsense