A dump of fanciful Fiction

Bluebird

Pairing: NaruSasu

Tags: romance drama, 8 year age gap, Naruto’s a britpop star, Sasuke’s an architecture student, Neji is alive, alternative timeline

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DAMN can you imagine how hot would it be if Acantha wrote something like that?

Have you ever thought about writing something like that?And yes your smut scenes have left that much of an impesion on me and im always looking forward to them. 😏

It’s always Sasuke who gets lectured by others about how great Naruto is, how much Naruto suffered, and how much Naruto sacrificed.

It’s always Sasuke who is expected to make the first move and prove his love for Naruto, while Naruto’s efforts are often things we’re only told about off-screen rather than shown.

It’s always Sasuke who is framed as the one who loves Naruto more, who is more attached, and who is more obsessed with their bond.

It’s never Naruto being held accountable for mistakes he makes in their relationship or being the one who has to reflect and change. The responsibility for fixing their relationship always seems to fall on Sasuke.

This rant isn’t mine, I only copied and pasted it because I wanted you to see the kind of crazy things some people are saying.

I genuinely love your fics so much. The way you write is amazing, it’s painful, emotional, and completely addictive in the best way possible. I always find myself wanting to read more because you know how to capture the characters’ struggles and emotions so well.

I especially love your portrayal of Sasuke. You don’t try to make him perfect or erase his flaws, you write him as a complex, broken, and imperfect human being. That’s what makes him feel real, and it’s exactly why he has been my favorite character for so long. Characters don’t have to be flawless to be loved...sometimes their mistakes, pain, and growth are what make them the most interesting and that's why i love reading your characters sm.

Please don’t let the negativity from some people discourage you, if someone wants a story written a certain way, they can fuck off and create it themselves instead of attacking someone else’s work.

Keep writing the stories you want to tell. There are people who truly appreciate your work, your creativity, and the emotions you put into every chapter. Your fics are so loved, and I hope you continue sharing them with us💕🙏🫂

Thank you so much for this message—and for the kindness of sending it. I really do appreciate it, especially given the context.

I suspect, from the writing style and the recurring phrasing, that the "rant" you've copied is not actually from multiple people but from one person who has been sending variations of the same argument for some time now. The "it's always Sasuke" refrain, the claim that Naruto is never held accountable, the insistence that the story only ever shows Sasuke in the wrong—it's a single, persistent voice that keeps returning, not a chorus. And I think it's worth naming that, because it's easy for an author to feel like they're being besieged from all sides when it's really just one very motivated person with too much time on their hands.

As for the substance of the rant: the claim that "it's always Sasuke" and "never Naruto" is simply untrue, both within A Lapse in Judgement and across my body of work. His flaws are present in the text, dramatised rather than moralised, and the fact that some readers don't see them because they're not delivered with a neon sign is a reading issue.

And the rant is, once again, based on a tiny sample of my work. I've written twenty-one stories. The person sending this rant has either not read those stories, or has chosen to ignore them because they don't fit the "bias" accusation they've decided to make. Either way, their argument collapses because it’s selective.

Your point about Sasuke is right. Characters don't have to be flawless to be loved. Their mistakes, their pain, the slow, difficult growth—makes them feel real. I write Sasuke as a complex, broken, imperfect human being because that's what he is, in canon and in my head. It’s also of your own free will that you continue to read the works where I express him as such. The idea that portraying him that way is a betrayal of his character is bizarre to me. I just don’t want to flatten him into something less interesting.

Thank you again for this. Messages like yours make the whole endeavour worthwhile. 💜🫂 please have a faboulous gif of James!

Meanwhile, Sasuke is always the one hurting Naruto, the one who has to change, take accountability, chase after him, prove his love, and basically do all the emotional work. Naruto never has to meet him halfway because the explanation is always that he already did years ago, or he's traumatized, or he's tired from chasing Sasuke for so long. But once again, that's all stuff we're just expected to accept without actually seeing it

I don't know if you're aware of it, but this is genuinely the impression a lot of Sasuke fans get from your writing in the lapse of judgment and the arrangement fics

I do wonder why you keep coming back to write these messages and you reference two of my works when I have a portfolio let me check, twenty-one.

Did you read Between Shadows which is half a million words of where I made it very clear Naruto infringed on Sasuke’s autonomy and Naruto chased Sasuke across the solar system? Have you read some of my WIPs where Sasuke and Naruto’s relationship is examined through different lenses? Have you read From Ember and Ash where Naruto is desperate to keep Sasuke until realising the way he’s taunted Sasuke had lead him into a desperate spiral so he’ll keep Naruto close to him at all cost? Have you read All my unmarked places where Naruto chases after Sasuke several times, or Say My Name where he’s so obsessed with Sasuke he’s willing to runaway with them to Earth? Or Muse where Naruto chases Sasuke? Or Fish Bird where Naruto chases Sasuke AGAIN. Are you even faintly aware of the canon material where Sasuke says he wants to make up for some of the things he did?

It reads like a no. And it sounds like you're projecting some personal issues onto me rather than just moving on. Because as I've said before, and I'll say again: I care very little about this opinion. It's my work. You're free not to read it.

What I cannot fathom is why you keep writing these rather stupid messages instead of, I don't know, having a life and reading something else. Tell me, anon: do you genuinely think I'm going to change the story because you keep sending me these sad and pathetic asks? Because the stats on A Lapse in Judgement and The Arrangement indicate you're in the vast, vocal minority. You're not a "Sasuke fan" at all. You're just someone with apparently too much time on their hands who wants to send unpleasant messages to people who provide fandom works for free. You don't even have the courage to do it from your own account.

The impression people have of you, is that you’re immature and need to move on. You’re coming across as obsessed with sending me these messages, and I’m afraid I will just delete other messages that reach my inbox of this ilk, because frankly, they’re boring and this conversation is boring.

✌️ tiny phone person, get therapy.