beyblade relationship that i think is very cute and would love to see it more talked about: yuriy and dickenson/daitenji in g-rev

he barely knew this kid before but he sits with yuriy in the hospital for half of the season.

dickenson has just had the bba, something very important to him taken away from him by volkov. and yet he sits there with yuriy who had his childhood, innocence, trust in people, etc taken away by volkov as well. i am certain that he would think that losing the bba is nothing compared to what yuriy went through and grow attached to him.

then he would try to help him in any way he can, pay for his therapy, etc. he himself received help and got back what volkov took away from him, he would want to provide the help yuriy needs to get back what volkov took as well

yuriy on the other hand has most likely never had a proper familial relationship and i want him to experience one. i want him to eventually accept that this sweet old man genuinely wants the best for him and call him dedushka bc he probably never had an actual dedushka in his life.

as a sasuke defender and understander i love narusasu because naruto views sasuke as passionate and full of feeling and sensitive instead of thinking him cold, cruel and extreme like everyone else. sasuke is this beautiful, misunderstood, compelling creature to him and sasuke can't fathom being so clearly seen and understood, finds it baffling even, but naruto is unwavering in his observation. it's what sasuke DESERVES

It's them coded

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

big day today

queued for the next wednesday the 12th

happy wednesday the 12th everyone

Uchiha Sasuke

Sakura is "the juice"

Some people might remember this interview where Kishi talked about writing characters and him using Sasuke as an example. And funnily enough, even non-shipper men on narutoforums immediately came to the conclusion that Sakura is the juice that Sasuke doesn't like, and Naruto is the tea that Sasuke likes.

"I want a character to behave like this --- if it's a juice situation where Sasuke wouldn't want to do it --- I need to create a different pattern/circumstance so the juice situation happens"

A good example of tea situations, Sasuke acknowledging and protecting Naruto where it comes naturally to him. "If tea shows up in a scene, he'll drink it". His "body just moves on its own" to protect Naruto:

Whereas with juice situation, it is like this. "If it's juice, I don't think he will drink it because he doesn't like it":

In order to make juice situation work, he will create a different circumstance:

Since Sasuke's body does not "move on its own" for Sakura, what Kishi will do is create a contrived circumstance where Sasuke HAS TO switch places with Sakura's vest in order to get out of the desert, so he appears right behind her, and she falls on him due to exhaustion, thus creating a scene. None of this would have been needed if Sasuke just instinctively protected Sakura like he does Naruto.

Because protecting someone you love is not about looking down on that person (like how SS tried to justify Sasuke's disinterest in protecting Sakura). This is something Naruto had to learn. In the beginning, Naruto did not like being saved by Sasuke because it made him feel inferior.

However, Sasuke did "die" for Naruto later in the same arc because Naruto was important to him.

Kishi brought what Haku said here back in the war arc, where Naruto brings it up to Sasuke.

And Naruto understands now. And that's why he likes it. Because he knows it means Sasuke loves him. That's why Kishi also made sure to give Naruto a reaction whenever Sasuke protected him during the war arc.

Because as I said instinctively protecting the person you love is not about "looking down on them" but about loving them. It's an INSTINCT. Something Sasuke did not have for Sakura during the war arc, because Kishi knew it would have been out of character for him. Which is why Kishi had to make that contrived scenario in order to create a "moment" SS wet their pants over.

i love this i love the small details and the little differences kishimoto gives to their features. how naruto’s mouth is wider and his canines are sharper than sasuke’s, how his chin and jaw are “rougher” while sasuke’s face shape is more delicate, how naruto has more “wrinkles” and how his nose is slightly wider, how his eyebrows are thicker while sasuke’s are thinner, the shape of their eyes, how sasuke has double eyelids while naruto had monolids, how sasuke’s ears are larger, how his shoulders and clavicles are curved while naruto’s are “straighter”. if you let me i’ll stare at it the whole day i love it

how i feel when someone reblogs my stuff with a really really nice tag

Finally, with only a small delay - I present to you the 2024 MayBlade prompt list! I tried to include as many of your ideas as possible - I didn't include ideas that were too similar or that were included in previous years. The one prompt that comes back is the unpopular character prompt, since it was requested. Remember to use MayBlade 2024 tag this year so I will be able to reblog your posts. Good luck to everyone, I can't wait to see your amazing works!

-Mod Akemi

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about

i think about them all the time.

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unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won't opt out. those who don't see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don't anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they're on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn't have opted in but don't/can't opt out in time. automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.

I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can't opt out.

when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you've posted before you opted out?

and if they're especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying "this image is from a blog that's opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn't opted out, so we're selling the image that's on that non-opted-out blog."

making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don't respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.

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