Konoha Training Grounds

Let me introduce myself a bit as I'm new around here...

I discovered shifting just over two years ago now, when I was at the lowest point I’ve ever been in my life and I downloaded TikTok on a whim. Shifting saved my life.

I’m in my late 30s, which seems to be significantly older than most shifttokers, haha. It’s a bit more difficult to tell on here but I’d imagine it’s much the same. Makes me feel ollldd.

I’m AuDHD.

I haven’t used Tumblr for AGES. Probably about a decade. I’ll learn how to make my posts pretty again but for now they’ll be pretty basic.

My DRs:

Naruto! Pretty much my only dr. I didn’t even know who my s/o was when I started my script, I just knew that the Naruto series had carried me through life from my late teens and I was in love with the world and the characters.

Once I started scripting I realised who my s/o was and things started to click into place. It always felt like I was remembering rather than creating, which was an amazing feeling. I haven’t seriously edited my script for about a year, and the little tweaks I do make every now and then is when I remember some other detail. I’m locked in to this dr like a homing missile. There’s no stopping me. It has everything I’m missing in this reality and there’s no way I’m going to pass up a chance to experience everything I’ve ever wanted.

I do have a vague desire to shift to Star Trek (specifically DS9) at some point. But Naruto first.

My Naruto DR:

Don’t ask me why (because I really couldn’t tell you), but this dr doesn’t ‘start’ for me until I get yanked into it from another dimension by Kakashi’s mangekyou sharingan when he starts training it again at the end of og Naruto. I basically fall out of the sky, hit a few branches on the way down, and then wake up in Konoha’s hospital. This is the point I initially intend to shift to - I first wake up in my dr in hospital, lol. So my dr self is from a different reality than my dr, if that makes sense? I guess you could call my dr portal fantasy or isekai.

I am pretty much the same version of me that I am in this reality. I’ve just scripted in a healthier body (goodbye, comorbidities!) and some light cosmetic tweaks. I come from a reality that doesn’t use chakra (the same as here - it's basically an au of my cr), but I learn how to once I’m in my dr. My life in the reality I come from was slightly different than mine here so I've a different skillset. And I’ve also aged myself down. A case of having to at this point because I’m quite a bit older than my s/o now, and I’d like to have more of my lifespan back to enjoy it there :)

It’s a 3d reality. Everything and everyone is ‘real’ (I know ‘real’ is subjective but for want of a better way to explain). It’s not 2d animated. People are flesh and blood. You know what I mean xD

I plan to permashift. I might come back here once, if I feel like it. But once my Naruto life is over I’ll be shifting to a wr to reflect and get ready for the next existence.

There’s a fair amount of little details I’ve scripted in that reflect the kind of life and relationships that I crave. QoL upgrades, haha.

I’ve scripted out Boruto timeline/plot. I really don’t like it. The mass memory change thing stresses me out LOL. Plus I hate the Boruto version of Konoha. I fell in love with og/shippuden Konoha. I don’t want high rises and trains and video game consoles. But that links in with some of the QoL upgrades mentioned above. For me, as a burnt out neurodivergent living in a late-stage capitalist society on a planet that’s being destroyed, I don’t want to experience anything close to that in my dr.