Drive-By Update

[redbrunja]

It is clearly the final month of school; I'm stressed, my to-do list needs two sticky notes to get everything on it, etc.

So if I haven't replied to your comment, it's probably because you wrote something that will take me more than two seconds to respond to; don't worry, I'll respond. Just... not right away.

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Secondly, the latest fandom_secrets post was so incredibly wank-tastic and troll worthy, that it deserves it's own WTF commentary. I'm not going to go into details, except that I have something brief to say about the Sasuke/Sakura/Hinata/Naruto (not in the fun orgy way) secret, since people on my flist are already talking about it:

1.) Sasuke/Sakura and Hinata/Naruto ARE NOT correlated variables: one can happen without the other.

2.) Stepping back from the details of the pairings themselves (since I think everyon already knows my opinion on that), wouldn't it be incredibly problematic if they both happened? Doesn't that send a horrible message to both girls and boys about how girls should just endlessly pursue the object of their desire? And boys should just go 'oh, okay' regardless of who THEY want to be with, because those girls spend so much energy on them? It takes (or it SHOULD) two to tango and neither Sasuke nor Naruto has shown that they are romantically interested in Sakura and Hinata, respectively. Which leads me to point three:

3.) Kishimoto is not writing a romantic adventure manga. Arguing about which pairing will be canon at this time is pointless because Kishimoto has not given us ANYTHING CLOSE to a clear canon signal about what relationships will end up being canon (one-sided crush does not equal 'will be canon'). This is not Avatar: we don't know how Team 7's romantic lives will work out and it's actually somewhat probable with Kishimoto's emphasis on nakama that we WILL NOT get a bunch of pairings in the epilogue (please god).

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Thirdly, I watched Star Trek on Sunday and it was the most awesome movie I have seen since Iron Man. Longer post to follow... sooner or later.

Comments

[strange_quark]

Er, wow, that secret. Sasuke/Sakura is about fifty different shades of problematic, whereas Naruto/Hinata is, like, only five or so. I never really understand why people find a need to pair these two, because each of them are about two completely separate things. Each relationship would be completely different! I guess it ties into a need to make sure everyone gets their happy ending and make it all nice and neat, without any hurt feelings, but I feel no such need. In my opinion, some things would work and other things wouldn't.

Besides, I'm really starting to think that there aren't going to be any definitive endgame ships.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah, Kishimoto likes tying things up neatly, but they really aren't automatically linked.

Personally, I really REALLY hope there aren't any ending ships, but that feels like too good of a writing for Kishimoto.