Merchant Of Blue Death

I tried to read the first volume or Boruto and I put it back on the shelf at Barnes and Noble. TO me it was a huge betrayal of both Naruto and Sakura. Even with Ch700 you could see how bad Hinata was for Naruto. Instead of putting her foot down when Naruto began working all hours as Hokage she just let him do what he wanted to do. Had it been Sakura that was married to him what do you think her reaction would've been the first time he sent a shadow clone to a family function, even a small one like a school holiday? If the new trend is to tease readers and viewers of Boruto with saccharin scenes of our favorite characters sharing a moment here and there as well as depicting each of them showing some form of regret in not giving themselves a chance then it's a flawed strategy in regaining the same people they alienated in the first place.

Personally I could care less about the canon francise's because of how badly Naruto and Sakura's marriages turned out. Seriously, Naruto is a kitten of a father that can't even personally attend his own child's birthday but sends a clone in his place. Sasuke is even worse staying out of the village for months and years at a time to the point his only child views his best friend as her father because Naruto was the only male that was constantly in her life. 

The more I hear of the original story being revised and changed to line up with the final movie of Naruto and the canon couples the more I lose interest. I still have my manga from 12 years ago that still have Naruto proclaiming his love for Sakura as in a romantic way and not the same as he loves ramen. A few years ago a young lady named Emma Watson asked the author JK Rowling about her choices for who ended up with who at the end of her series of books. Rowling admitted that the marriage of Hermione and Ron was a big mistake that made absolutely no literary sense at all, a selfish bit of indulgence. The flipside of that is Kishimoto and SP doing all they can to remove Kishimoto's earlier comments about Naruto and Sakura as well as changing the manga volumes to line up with the official ending and continuation series. Is anyone holding their breath waiting for him to admit that he screwed up the story and screwed the fans?

Since that's never going to happen I say bring on the affair and divorce fan fiction stories. At least in our stories Sakura actually loves the real Naruto and not the perfect, can't do any wrong phantasm that Hinata is in love with. In my opinion she's worse than any of Sasuke's fan club. While they all try to give him things to celebrate his birthday and Christmas, not once while they were in the academy or afterwards did she ever do the same for Naruto. If she had really loved him she would've actually given him something without fear. she would've stood up for him when Sakura or Ino insulted or hit him. She never did anything but watch from the shadows because she was shy, more like afraid of what others would think  of her. At one time I was one of those that wanted Naruto to fall for her because of the anime. When I began reading the manga my viewpoint changed and what I saw of her made me realize how shallow she was. Where she was fainting at his touch or stuttering as he looked at her Sakura was beginning to see how much potential Naruto actually had. She was ready to raise her hand in the first exam not because she was scared for her safety but scared that Naruto would fail the test and lose any chance of being Hokage. As it's been pointed out in this topic, Sakura and Naruto grew closer over time but Sakura began believing that he would be Hokage and would do everything she could to help him reach that goal and dream. Hinata never did much to get close to Naruto and there was never enough to win his affection let alone his attention as a possible lover. 

If there is a manipulative reason for SP's new trend continues I say bring out the affair and divorce stories. Better yet, let's have more stories like "Love Can Be Different" where Naruto and Sakura rediscover their feelings for each other after the deaths of their spouses.  

NetFlix's reboot of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It just started streaming a couple hours ago and I've so far watched the first 2 episodes but I'll give it a 9.5. My one complaint is that the end title song was changed to a a piano instrumental instead of Fly Me To The Moon. Everything else is great so far. 

Found this while I was recently in the hospital. It's from FFN's news feed,

"Doc manager per doc life limit has been extended to 365 days (1 year) from 90 days based on doc edit date. We still highly caution that doc manager not to be used a lifetime storage device."

This might help in the short run.

Thanks for the replies, they mean a lot to me. As I said, I'm not looking for hugs and soothing words but I just needed to vent. Everyone's words, both here and in PMs at FFN, are greatly appreciated. Your words have helped me to start working past my block as well as one other, a time travel fic. It's slow going trying to regain the speed I usually work at and my ideas are scattered but I am back at it. 

The trouble with me and my story is that it's AU and as such basic canon is somewhat left in place but that AU has to be built from the ground up. That includes even the way characters behave. That's why it's so easy to get a block and why one reader not paying attention to what you're trying to say can knock you off track or kill a story if you let them. I refuse to let them. This is my story and not the readers. I know how arrogant that sounds but I'm of the mind that asking in an AN or poll as to what the reader's want as to pairings, jutsu's, summoning critters, and other things the story ceases to be yours and becomes the readers; 

Anyway, thanks for the words of support and letting me vent.

Personally, I write my stories with Open Office save them to the proper story folder on my PC as well as to my laptop and several flash drives. My final editing is done online on the FFN site. I can understand if you've changed PS or lost your original; files that one would have to take the above steps to preserve one's work but a chapter's lifetime in the FFN's doc manager is only 90 days. That's the reason I began maintaining story folders on my machines in the first place. 

For some people, like myself, a purge can be a blessing. It would erase anything that I felt was subpar and a reason to rewrite a missing story to a higher standard. I have found that no matter how close I look my stories are still full of simple mistakes. Anyway, back up your work often an keep them in a safe location, It would be a shame to lose favorite stories because of something beyond our control as we've lost too much in the purges a few years ago as well as writers removing their work for whatever reason.