Fists Up

@uchihacollector​

;;  UH. Hmm. Let me give it a shot. I’m going to try and break down how I see her and how I developed her, so I think this is going to be more of a guideline to how I write her.

Note: I get salty. I get really salty. So take this all with a grain of salt. :D Also, “you” is in general, not “you” as in you, Lady. Or anyone in particular. Just the general “you” that likes to ruin my favorite girl.

1. Pay attention to her canon development.

The Sasuke-worship ended after the chuunin exams. The vanity and concern to her appearance ended after the chuunin exams. Inner Sakura merged fully with “Outer” Sakura because she slowly gained confidence to be herself.

To expand on this – in Classic Naruto, she’s closest to being herself when she interacts with Naruto and Ino, not when she interacts with Sasuke. So when she interacts with Sasuke post-Shippuden, her actions should closer resemble how her 16-year-old self treated Naruto than how her 12-year-old self treated Sasuke. You cannot have her revert back to her pre-chuunin exams self and claim you’re following canon, because you’re not. 

2. This means she has a temper. 

Sakura’s temper is so freaking present throughout the entire series. It’s only as she grows in confidence and becomes herself that she lets herself be free to show it. She grows to control it, adapt it, fuel it, use it for good, and let it fly. 

Writing her angry was one of the easiest ways for me to figure out who she is. she’s brutally honest with herself when she’s angry. Finding out how she responds when angry and when she’s flying in a rage helped me establish her foundation. I totally recommend everyone else to do the same.

That being said, I’m working on getting a presence on other platforms and I’ll be looking to share them here.

AO3

FFN

Pillowfort

Wordpress (my @nikkibradley​ blog is being exported here.)

Just letting you know: I want to go through all my answered asks and drabbles and post them over to AO3 for preservation purposes. I don’t necessarily trust tumblr at the moment and rather than leave it up for grabs, I want to save as much as I can. I won’t be touching the RP’s, those will remain exclusively on this blog. 

I’ll be hopping in IM’s or chatting on discord to make sure this is okay with you when I get to our verse(s). If you’re comfortable, I would like to ‘gift’ the fic on AO3 to you and credit your tumblr muse in the summary, but I’ll go over this again with the individual messages. Think of this as a heads up and public announcement in case you’re browsing AO3 and see some Sakura-centric things you might have seen before. :)

I don’t actually believe anything will happen to this blog, but I want to take the safety precautions anyway. It’s also been interesting to organize things and recall everything I’ve written over the past couple of years. 

Just letting you know: I want to go through all my answered asks and drabbles and post them over to AO3 for preservation purposes. I don’t necessarily trust tumblr at the moment and rather than leave it up for grabs, I want to save as much as I can. I won’t be touching the RP’s, those will remain exclusively on this blog. 

I’ll be hopping in IM’s or chatting on discord to make sure this is okay with you when I get to our verse(s). If you’re comfortable, I would like to ‘gift’ the fic on AO3 to you and credit your tumblr muse in the summary, but I’ll go over this again with the individual messages. Think of this as a heads up and public announcement in case you’re browsing AO3 and see some Sakura-centric things you might have seen before. :)

I don’t actually believe anything will happen to this blog, but I want to take the safety precautions anyway. It’s also been interesting to organize things and recall everything I’ve written over the past couple of years. 

😍

Support is well deserved! Your Sakura is the most IC Sakura I’ve ever had the pleasure to read, and the well-deserved evolution of a character that had been treated so bad in this messed up finale. 

I am still very salty about how this whole thing ended (like many others, I grew up with Naruto, and it accompanied me through a very hard time during my teen years… and thanks to Naruto I’m working as an illustrator and animator - I owe Naruto a lot.). Knowing that even my source of inspiration (yes, because the Sakura I draw and want to read and want to write is often modeled on your version) has my same feeling about this makes me think that maybe there’s still hope in this fandom, that she deserved more, and that, even with a great deal of effort, we could just put that Boruto shit aside and still have fun reading quality content in which kunoichis are not used as walking baby-makers (in a quite terrible environment/canonization).

Quality content like yours. 

So, you are the one to be thanked for bringing us quality content, @leafmedic!

;;  omgomgomgomg excuse me while I scream

I’ve been in the ks fandom for a long, long time. Not near as long as some of the big names for the ship, but long enough. And you are not a small name, you are someone I’ve respected so much with the content you create. It’s beautiful. Makes my day every time I see something new from you. I cannot express what that above sentence means to me.

First, it means a lot coming from anyone. Anyone on tumblr that looks at my Sakura and says “that’s her, that’s the one I want to write” is the biggest fucking compliment I could ever gain on this blog. Ever. But coming from you, someone I already respect and someone I already follow and someone I already admire, I can’t fathom it. I can’t even process it because it means that much to me. Second, I already said I’m familiar with you. I know your feelings on the ending. I know I write ships on this blog that you absolutely hate, and yet you still follow my blog, you still read my Sakura, and you still agree with how I portray her. I can’t– I can’t tell you what that means. I really can’t. 

I never thought I would have ended up receiving compliments from you: you’re a person I really admire, and this makes me all giddy.

Aside from popping a couple of arts once in a blue moon I mainly shit-post. So… not a small name? ME? Wow, really, I didn’t think you had me in such high regards.  Thank you! *blushes*

And, just as you feel,  it’s hard to express how this is making me feel right now. *fans herself!*

Surely, it’s a great confidence-boost, something we all need.

About the ending… well, I know my position is kinda clear and vehement (I’m very sorry if people may feel uncomfortable over it), and yes, there is a ship that really triggers me hard because of personal/familiar reasons, but… hey. It’s a ship, there are tags and I have all the means to avoid it and go ahead with my merry day. Aside from that, you’re not even following canon (that is one of the biggest issues with the couple itself), so even if reading such content may make me feel uneasy… as I said before, I can just skip it. The fact there’s something I don’t like, doesn’t make you less talented and doesn’t make your Sakura  “less Sakura”.

It’s always a blessing to have you on my dash, @leafmedic whatever the content. Hope to read more from you in the future.

Hugs, and keep up the hard work!

And thanks for all your nice comments. You really made my day!

Also, dude, your arts? Stunning. All of them. I’ve fawned over so many when perusing what I reblog on my personal, they’re amazing.