Lady Lys

Salut peeps! Still popping by once upon a blue moon to tell you that, yes, I'm alive (well, at least mostly so) and also to ask you how are you all, lovely people! 

I-I....Read something

I love chicken

@TXD
Here's what I could find

Name: Unknown
Class:Well, he is Unknown we know nothing about his hierarchy
Family: I SAID I KNOW NOTHING!
Species: (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Habits: Being Bland
Notable abilities: Can shapeshift into owl and banana
Favourite Food: lewd banana
Habitat: umm... likes a bird stand and sometimes like to hang on a tree
Other Special Abilities: can reply in one line/emoji/word/symbol

@Philip Spasovski Guess who am I?

@Lys

Hi Iris!!!! 

P.S. RED HOW THE HELL DON'T YOU KNOW GILES!? Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Giles of the 'Giles, I accidentally killed Spike, it's ok right?'. that Giles. From Buffy. OMG I love Buffy. 

Well, joking aside, we should all have a re-watch day (or week, or month....) for the oldies but goldies!Like Buffy, Charmed, Sabrina and all those cheesy 90s TV series!     

Hi my loves!  

How are you my beautiful people? I just realized it's been ages since I last came here! I missed you!!      How's life been treating you darlings?

Ding Ding! Aaand we finally get to the sequel we were promised would never come ladies and gentlemen! 

Haven't read it yet and prolly never will if my hold on sanity remains strong. After all I'm still me, and Lys'd rather gargle turpentine than read the umpteenth nonsense on Hinata. But I'll try to come here often just to cheer you on and praise your strength (you are seriously a strong, awesome and brave bunch of gents and ladies).

But I JUST have one most astounding and perplexing question to pose to you all, dearest people: How many Hinata's fanboys will fall into a deep and dark depression due to her lack of bewbs?   

What happened? Mastectomy? Yet another genjutsu? Just bad art?

(will there finally be death and destruction? Keeping my fingers crossed! Give me good news! PLS tell me if Nardo finally kicks the bucket )

'Course he tried to. Pity for him that I'd much rather stop reading Naruto altogether and read only Sakura-centric fics. 

Tho I'm still baffled that given how much hate Sakura gets for behaving like a stupid teenager with a unhealthy crush (like, hello Bella Swan and a good solid half of young adult literature), Hinata-the-professional-stalker and I-dont-care-about-my-clan-only-Naruto is praised to hell and back. I guess the fandom is what the fandom is.

AWWW. Nardo is back again? IDGAF. Let's not GAF. Let's be superior and giggly and Christmas-y.

Deck the halls with boughs of holly,

Fa la la la la, la la la la.
'Tis the season to be jolly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Fill the mead-up, drain the barrel,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
Troll the ancient Christmas carol,                         (I was sorely tempted to rewrite it as Troll the stupid Kishimoto, fa la la la la, whatever)
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

At this point.   Fill the mead-up! Let's get drunk! And be happy 'cause the Swiffer Duster is nowhere to be seen!!! 

Burrito/Nardo 2.0 is not worthy enough for us to get angry or frustrated. Let's be merry and not GAF. Let us say 'best of luck mate, don't get too panicky when the boat goes down down down ;D'.

FA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA. 

LEL.   Someone must not sell as well as he imagined he would be. 

Oh boy, am I glad I never bought anything Nardo-related. 

BTW, randomly browsing the TUMBLRRRRR I saw something about the Kishicash continuing the horrific Burrito thing. Please someone tell me this is not true. Really, please, the quality of my sleep depends on it. /s

whah. One leaves for a day and?! Peeps, hell, chill!

well, rather than squabbling can't we just say: check the bloody borders like a maniac? 'cause it doesn't matter if the terrorists were migrants or frenchmen or citizens of a random country what is important is to block the bloody monsters who come and go from Syria like it's nothing. 

plus the thing with fake Syrian passports is grave, it's one thing to take refugees in, it's another not to know precisely who is who. That's not being uncharitable, that is protecting ourselves and our territories, for the sake of all who are inside them, not only EU citizens. And also, the extremists, and the authorities know who they are, need to be plucked one-by-one by the authorities.

Remember that security is NEVER only external or internal. 

From where I stand a genjutsu would be an even bigger cop out, I mean, let this series die without any dignity, 'cause it really doesn't deserve any. Milk has been spilled and dried and it smells rotten now.

I think the idea is believable and could even be worth investing in.....aaaaaaand that's precisely why Kishi won't do anything. I stopped expecting anything good from what he does.

Still, you can plan a fan fiction with this idea! 

Since me and Tsu are practically a diabolic duo.

You can't have me without her, or the contrary.

So HI PEEPS!

Hello Ladies and Gents! Temporarily back from the void of RL hardships and responsibilities. Lemme give my contribution to this pretty topic. 

I expected NS because it was what the narrative build up led us to believe. It's not like we were crazy or delusional, in fact, most people who care to be honest will tell you that they were certain the manga would end with NS.

What was really incoherent with the narrative was the epilogue (and not only because it was honestly ugly) but because it went against the previous 699 chapters and we were presented fait accompli with absurd changes that not even the ad hoc movie (which moreover was badly done) managed to justify.

Of course I never watched the anime, so all fillers, changes and poetic licenses SP took up to itself to make are mercifully unknown to me. And I intend to keep things this way. 

But all in all, none of us were crazy or delusional when we thought NS would be endgame, it was the logical conclusion of 15 years of narrative. Too bad logic perished in a nasty Hinata-flavoured explosion in Naruto-land. 

(...I feel very academic right now, all serious and objective and stuff  )

Ohhh! I like this thread! And I do hereby inform you to prepare yourselves - run you fools! - for what will be a LAP

I think we can analyze the whole mess in two ways:

1- Blame the author don't blame the characters, and this is all fine and dandy but after we've said that Kishimoto is a terrible horrible god-awful writer who can't even remain consistent to its bigger plots point we are not left with much else to say but continuing critiquing the author.

2- Try analyzing the behavior of the different characters as if they were almost - but not quite - real. I do actually prefer this one, even if we have to deal with some apparent schizophrenic behaviors, it is definitely more interesting and can be expanded and played with much much more.

Rather than blaming Sakura I'd be much happier to see people frustrated with her behavior. There were some great posts few pages back - but alas I'm too lazy to go back and quote them, do pardon me for that - with which I agreed completely.

Getting very frustrated with Sakura's behavior is fine, and even right, but blaming her? Not at all. It's exactly like blaming an abused woman in RL - with all the due differences between fiction and reality of course - someone who's sense of worth is literally zero and that, if we follow Naruto's storyline, no one really encouraged to put things in perspective and see how dangerous and toxic that person was for her.

I seriously don't remember anyone, not her family, not Naruto, not Ino or Kakashi or Tsunade or whoever else, telling her to really take a step back and analyze her behavior and realize how bad Sasuke's influence was impacting on her self esteem and her person in general.

In this she's very much like a dog, no puns or malice intended, but as a dog gets positive reinforcement for its 'good behavior' so did Sakura, she got 'positive' reinforcement too, because there is this toxic mentality of 'enduring' and so, good girl, endure it, endure it all, atta girl! Have a cookie!

I do believe she'd have some obvious self-worth and self-esteem problems, as said in a previous brilliant post, and that's the POINT of her character, because becoming 'stronger' doesn't simply mean learning to shatter the earth with a punch or becoming a physically stronger and deadlier shinobi, she had to overcome her psychological problems. We, I, thought she did, but nope apparently she tired, she almost did it, she was there, but she didn't succeed (we can thank the all-mighty 'pen-holder' for last the minute out-of-the-blue changes here).

That's why I'm a bit perplexed by what some people say, I do understand and agree that she isn't blameless, saying that would be stupid, but the 'she made her bed, now she should lie in it' attitude is a bit cruel, at least imho. I pity her, I pity her very much, she's stuck in a ugly situation and she doesn't have the strength the psychological fortitude, or even the stimuli and the help, to get out of it.

When dealing with a situation such as hers it's easy for a 'stranger' to think she should get out of it, that the decision to get out of 'it' should be an easy one to take, but in truth when one is in the loop it is not easy to get out of it, especially if she lives in an environment that doesn't help her at all, and that is even detrimental as it pushes her in the exact opposite direction.

As for guilt-tripping Sasuke.....(she might have tried, I honestly don't remember and should go back to check the chapters, but I'd actually rather go gurgle some turpentine) I don't see how that would even come to be, I mean, he really really doesn't give a fig about her, she could be hysterically threatening to fling herself off the Hokage mountain and he wouldn't spare her a second thought. Those two, as they were developed by the author, are clearly WRONG for each other, a proper textbook case of toxic relationship.

As for the issue of Sakura's fan defending her until and beyond reason, you are right - I just spent one odd hour trying to psychoanalyze her behavior into something that makes sense and this must account to something - you are absolutely right! But as said before it's because many of us perceive she's been given, again and as always, the shortest end of the stick and in that ends-backward finale, hers is the really sad story.

Hinata has all she ever wanted even if she lacks the grey matter to understand that her 'ending' was quite pathetic, and Naruto, if he de-glues his bum from the Hokage's chair, has a super-moe subservient (scarf-knitting and cake-baking) wife that thinks the sun shines out of his as* and two healthy children, however ugly and unlikeable. He has a family, he has his position as the Hokage, and apparently he's still in contact and in good relations with Sasuke. That's pretty much all Naruto wanted, even if the girl is the wrong one and all seems kind of 'wrong'. Everyone else in Konoha is married and eventually spawns children and, unrealistic, cavity-inducing and cliché as it sounds is mostly happy.

And Sakura is still the practically single-mom housewife, with loans on her back and a Houdini-esque husband, whom she hadn't even seen for 13 years before the start of Gaiden and who goes away again just the day after returning for the first time, and he didn't even return all that willingly, but came back due to circumstances out of his own control......

Peeps, sincerely, as the super-corny, unrealistic, cavity-inducing and cliché finale....one must admit hers kind of sucks. This is what I perceived from Naruto 700 and onwards, it might very well be my interpretation of things, but be as it might be I do truly think it sucks, and that's why I'm frustrated with and aggravated by Sakura, that's why I pity her, but blaming? Nah.

Or we could simply say that this is all Kishi's fault, but that would mean I spent an hour writing about nothing....

And where would be the fun in that? And more importantly, this fandom and this place, practically a year after 'THE THING', should be more or less deserted because after some time talking about how bad of a writer Kishimoto is - and I do think he is bad, I do, I do, I do - there would be simply nothing more left to talk and debate about, and honestly I'd rather see this place not abandoned.

Now, I'm beat and I'll happily march off to bed. I hope the english wasn't too contorted, and G'night/G'day/G'afternoon to Y'all. 

.....so he had incestous feelings for his brother?

Oh. When you think Naruto can't get worse......it always gets worse, and worse-er and worse-er and worse-er......     Apart from being a (failed) blatant attempt to empty fujoshi's pockets, this is really really the bottom of the barrel. A barrel that's on the other side of the planet, because to arrive there we pretty much dug straight into the mantle, through the core, and back again. 

(I have no beef with ItaSasu shippers, we are all free to ship what we want and like, but that ship should remain where it belongs. In fan fictions.)

.....so, hey.

(I'm still alive)

at this point a Pakkun Hiden wouldn't surprise me.......

ZOMG, stop, Kishi, you pinky promised that that kitten Gaiden would be your last work. Liar, liar who lies. (should have expected that tho...)