Stop y'all, Kishi knew what he was doing.

Aww )). That's so sweet of you to say. <3

You know what stings a lot sometimes

By watching this tik tok, and the whole situation with the ending is not seem as the tragedy that it is

It's just turned into a joke like "they're married women but are so gay for each other woah"

Sometimes I wish a Naruto remake could be done just with the homophobia more explicitly and people could see the ending for what it truly is

Confront them. Sure, don't if you don't want to. But if you have the mental wavelength to do it, do it. That'd be one way to change the status quo, wouldn't it? If you don't like something, change it.

It's understandable that one might want the homosexual theme to be more explicit for it to gain more recognition and acknowledgement from fandom. But it would also mean running the risk of making the storytelling less complex, less artful, less impactful. The beauty is in the details after all. I love the subtlety of the story, and it makes me appreciate Kishi's storytelling that much more, to see the nuances that register on the mind and make me introspect deeply long after I have watched or read it. There aren't many stories that affect me like that and I won't want to change that special thing about this story that makes it so narratively elevated, so different and so unique in its genre. This story doesn't need to be changed for dull audiences to get it. The dull audiences should ideally endeavour to get up there in order to fully understand this story. They should work on their comprehension and perception. They should do the inner work. This story upholds a high standard of storytelling, and I would hate it to be lowered just to suit the lenses of people who think effort and introspection are beneath them. Why pander to such an insensitive and close minded audience? The implicit nature of the story is compatible with characters' obscured conflicts. The storytelling suits the characters. Why change it just so chumps can get their two cents worth jiggles?

My objective isn't just to make people see the homosexuality as that's just one part of it. I also want people to understand how beautifully this story is told, how granular the nuances are, what kind of effort it takes to think and write like this, the burden of responsibility to be able to treat such a stigmatised subject matter with utmost respect and sensitivity, to be able to understand the internal struggles of characters that even the characters haven't fully acknowledged, to see how their struggles are portrayed as delicately as their emotions themselves. I want people to learn how to be discerning, I want them to fine tune their perception. I want them to recognise patterns, and trust their intuition. I want people to be able to read between the lines, be more sensitive and empathetic and open minded. Everything is connected, that's the beauty of this story. And if you understand this story as it is, now that would be a 'litmus test' of what kind of person you are.

See, the way we understand stories is never an isolated phenomenon. It's not an isolated process. We need stories, we need good stories, we need all kinds of stories, to understand our own lives, our own selves.

Over consumption. System has made proper consumers out of people, that's how it functions, capitalism conditions people into becoming gross, disgusting pigs taking pride in consuming as much as possible, like Chihiro's parents. Capitalism by design undermines values of dignity, integrity, prudence, economy and doubles down on production for maximum profit. Giant, money hungry production houses such as Disney made the blueprint of media monopoly, rapid expansion and absolute maniacal control and got rewarded by the system that was designed to encourage maximum exploitation. They managed to create perfect oink oink piggies for their benefit and consumers eat their products with both hands in the disguise of 'choice' not realizing that in the hands of capitalism, the concept of 'choice' loses its inherent meaning and is reduced to a mere buzzword for manipulative marketing. Oh well. At least it's a step forward to have realized it. Just don't give them your money or your platform.

In a world full of Chihiro's parents, be like Chihiro.

By Faiz Ahmed Faiz

हम देखेंगे

लाज़िम है कि हम भी देखेंगे

वो दिन कि जिस का वादा है

जो लौह-ए-अज़ल में लिख्खा है

जब ज़ुल्म-ओ-सितम के कोह-ए-गिराँ

रूई की तरह उड़ जाएँगे

हम महकूमों के पाँव-तले

जब धरती धड़-धड़ धड़केगी

और अहल-ए-हकम के सर-ऊपर

जब बिजली कड़-कड़ कड़केगी

जब अर्ज़-ए-ख़ुदा के काबे से

सब बुत उठवाए जाएँगे

हम अहल-ए-सफ़ा मरदूद-ए-हरम

मसनद पे बिठाए जाएँगे

सब ताज उछाले जाएँगे

सब तख़्त गिराए जाएँगे

बस नाम रहेगा अल्लाह का

जो ग़ाएब भी है हाज़िर भी

जो मंज़र भी है नाज़िर भी

उट्ठेगा अनल-हक़ का नारा

जो मैं भी हूँ और तुम भी हो

HUM DEKHENGE (Transliteration)

Lyrics by Faiz Ahmad Faiz.

Hum dekhenge, hum dekhenge

Hum dekhenge, hum dekhenge

Hum dekhenge, hum dekhenge

Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekhenge

Hum dekhenge

Woh din ke jiska wada hai

Jo lauh-e-azal mein likha hai

Hum dekhenge

Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekhenge

Hum dekhenge

Jab zulm-o-sitam ke koh-e-garan

Rooi ki tarha udd jayenge

Hum mehkoomon ke paaon tale

Yeh dharti dhad dhad dhadkegi

Aur ahl-e-hakam ke sar upar

Jab bijli kad kad kadkegi

Hum dekhenge

Jab arz-e-khuda ke kaabe se

Sab but uthwaye jayenge

Hum ahl-e-safa mardood-e-haram

Masnad pe bethaye jayenge

Sab taaj uchhale jayenge

Sab takht giraye jayenge

Hum dekhenge

Bas naam rahega allah ka

Jo gayab bhi hai hazir bhi

Jo manzar bhi hai nazir bhi

Uthega anal-haq ka nara

Utthega anal-haq ka nara

Jo main bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho

Aur raaj karegi khalq-e-khuda

Jo main bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho

WE SHALL SEE (TRANSLATION)

It is set in stone – that we will see

A promise of a day that is so

Written on the eternal wall

When the king-mounts of violence

Are as if cotton flakes soaring away

When we who have never been heard – beneath our feet..

This land will lub and dub in each heartbeat

When the crowns of the oppressors

Will be cast upon by the thuds and grrs of thunder

When from the word of the ruler to the home of the ruler

All lies will be taken away..

When we the truth seeking, subjected unworthy of the sanctuary

Will be seated among the most worthy

All the crowns will leap in ridicule

All the thrones will come tumbling down

Only One name will remain

The One who is the absence and the presence

The One who is the visual and the visualizer

A calling will rise “I am the truth” shall be declared

I am the truth and you are the truth..

And each one of God’s creatures will rule

“Who you are – and – who I am too..”

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One domino has fallen, and you bet we are coming for the next. This is the beginning of the end.

Witness the annihilation.

Witness the rage.

Witness the truth unfolding.

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No. I am not optimistic. I just can't witness another attempt at maligning or misrepresenting my precious story. Especially by Hollywood, that fuckass, filthy place filled with fuckass, filthy people. And of course they are bankrupt of new ideas and stories and they don't wanna experiment because moviemaking has become a whole ass business, purely business, and only well established stories get the green light from producers and investors. Why? Because it is a safe business bet. Studios know these big, familiar heroes make massive amounts of money at the global box office. Instead of taking risks on original ideas, they repeat the same superhero formulas to guarantee profits and protect their legal ownership at the same time. That's it! That's why these hollywood studios keep making hundreds of fuckass superhero trash movies so as to prevent their character rights from returning to the original comic book creators.

Kishimoto I don't know what to say to you, congratulations I guess, since I know you have always been a cinephile, but this live action remake is not such an accomplishment as you think, my love. What you have already accomplished is more than enough, you have literally changed lives for the better and that's more than anything current hollywood can make happen. I don't want my precious story to be touched by the reprobate hands of Hollywood. Please take it back Kish. Haven't you broken my heart enough already? Do you want to see me sob?

honestly narutotiktok is the WORST. 99.9% of people on there have never ever touched the manga. when people try and post SNS meta on there, they’re immediately shunned by the algorithm and only get 10 likes maximum. but as of recent, a narusasu edit has blown up on tiktok and has gained 600,000k likes (nearly ONE MILLION!!!!) so perhaps people are getting there?

i like to think that in 100 years or so from now, naruto and sasuke’s relationship will be discussed in literature classes (instead of shakespeare’s romeo and juliet) and it will be wholeheartedly discussed and accepted for what it truly is.