I Remember When I First Saw This Scene. My Thought Process Was: Dang He Took His Clothes Off To Only

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I'm usually more wholesome with my art, but... Cloud :)

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OMG I JUST NOTICED. During the Diver opening (the best Shippūden opening btw) when Naruto and Sasuke were recreating the upside down spider man kiss under water, SASUKE WAS GONNA CHIDORI NARUTO UNDER WATER. THAT SO RUDE WTF MAN

Today’s FF16 replay bonus: I completely forgot that Cid casually mentions he tried to sneak in and destroy Drake’s Head one time before and got chased out by Dion. I am DESPERATE to know more about that “little game of hide and seek with Bahamut”…

I finished all of Naruto + Shippuden in two weeks. Yes I’m crazy and I binged all of the canon episodes.

Anyway - I took notes on my thoughts before, during and after every single arc.

In terms of Sasunaru, I had some inklings about the pairing during Shippuden, none pre-time skip but what really made me fully believe at one point Naruto was maybe in love with Sasuke, was early Kage Summit arc.

I just didn’t think Naruto would handle Sasuke’s absence so poorly when I started Shippuden. I completely misjudged his character. I didn’t think he would be so clingy. It was like baby’s first breakup with him. It was genuinely like watching someone experience a breakup, get depressed but instead of getting over it in half a year, it was 500 episodes or 10 years of anime. He literally was not the same character anymore. Yes he got older but he was just such a downer compared to pre-time skip because he was depressed about his man.

I fully believed he was in love with him until the whole reincarnation brother stuff. 

So many ups and downs with Naruto but I love him. I can’t believe I’m saying this in the year 2024, almost 2025 but Naruto is one of my favourite anime characters ever. Maybe I just don’t watch enough shounen but I’ve really come to like Naruto. He’s so endearing and him recovering over his breakup was one of the most cathartic things ever. Literally more cathartic than 99% of the anime fights. My biggest takeaway from watching the show and how I remember it, was Naruto’s coming of age story from his career to his interpersonal deeply complex relationships he has with people, especially Sasuke Uchiha. Take that as you wish.

their burdened restraint and senses of duty have bewitched me

This is the energy I bring to a lot of ships

Like I don't actually care about the ship by itself but it being canon would piss off a specific group of people and that is always funny.

I don’t get the women who try to make very dark and serious subject matter cute and girly.

Oh when I mean women I mean Banana fish fans.

There are wayyy too many middle aged white men on my xiaohongshu feed.

I’ve tried to block people and mark videos as uninterested but my feed will not go back to cute makeup tutorials 😭

I need to find a way to block TikTok refugee tag it’s super annoying.

I used xiaohongshu like Pinterest and now it’s just not that anymore.

This is such an inappropriate thing to mention but I can’t help it because no one else is bringing it up. Adult Joshua has permanent bedroom eyes. I’m not sure why but his eyes are always so sultry it’s weird because I feel like it clashes with certain scenes.

FFXVI "You're alive. We both are. Nothing else matters."