Political Jon

Taka meeting Team 7

Suigetsu: “so this was your old team?”

Sasuke: “yeah.”

Naruto: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘WAS’?!”

Suigetsu points at Kakashi: “And that was your sensei?”

Sasuke: “yeah.”

Suigetsu: “what did he teach you?”

Sasuke: “chidori.”

Suigetsu: “….and what else?”

Naruto: “HE SHOWED US HOW TO WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM AND AS ONE UNIT AND TO ALWAYS RELY ON EACH OTHER AND THAT WE ARE COMRADS AND FRIENDS AND WE NEVER LET OUR COMRADES DIE!!”

Suigetsu looks at Sasuke.

Sasuke: “yeah none of that happened.”

Connected by time and tide

Not a new theory since many have already theorized about the meaning of Native Americans and their culture and what it has to do with this story. What we know is that Native American culture is brought up very often by Ms. Grant, we have a totem pole right behind our dormitory, there are Hopi prophecies and references to animals and spirit guides left right and center.

What is interesting is the connection between Native American history around Arcadia Bay, the town and its wealthiest and most powerful family – The Prescotts.

The Prescotts are currently building a huge estate complex in the forest behind Blackwell, and as we know from Ms. Grant, the area around Arcadia Bay once used to be peacefully shared between Native Americans and the pioneers that colonialized this place. Without fear or violence, she says they found a mutual symbiosis and thrived together. Which is far from is happening in Arcadia Bay right now.

Everyone in Arcadia Bay knows that the Prescotts are nothing but trouble and the game emphasizes that many want to leave the town. It also tells that Prescotts own pretty much everything the light touches. The people are no longer in peace and thriving – they are either owned by the Prescotts or want to leave because the town no longer offers them jobs or safety. The homeless woman says that “[the good] days are dead, like anything in [Prescotts’] way” and Kate says that “There’s something evil about the Prescotts (…) Something to do with death”.

The Prescotts have stirred the peace and Arcadia Bay decided it was time to stop that. Indeed, Arcadia Bay may be – as few already noted – referred to as a sentient being. Samuel does this a lot when you talk to him throughout the week.

Samuel is one of those I believe has a connection to the world around him. He seems to almost communicate with the fauna around Blackwell, and in his mysterious sounding way tells Max things about Arcadia Bay and her powers. Yes, Samuel doesn’t explicitly know about Max’s powers, but I believe he does know about Arcadia Bay wanting to fight back.

He buries the birds that died near the Tobanga and does so by creating a cairn above them. “We’ll find out if the souls of the birds move on” he says, “Unless it’s fate…Then it doesn’t matter”. The same kind of cairn has been seen by the cliff at the end of Chrysalis, where Max has no idea when and why it was built. I am assuming Samuel has something to do with it, but what – or who – lays buried there is a mystery. Since he tells Max to stay on her path, that she’ll find what she’s looking for and that “Rachel is waiting too”, it seems like he knows Rachel is gone – like he seems to be waiting to know if the spirits of the buried birds have moved on. He just doesn’t know anything else.

Samuel is also the person who confirms that the Doe is Max’s spirit animal. “Could be a sign of your destiny” – Max’s destiny was to find Rachel and find out what happened to her and the other girls. In Dark Room, Max proceeds to ask Samuel whether he thinks we all have a destiny, to which he replies that yes, we do, “in many different timelines”. He says that Kate believed something different, but simply needed more helpful spirits like Max. Rachel is Max’s helpful spirit. After her passing, she took the form of Max’s spirit animal to guide her to the truth. Only Max could see her, and she has been guiding Max all along throughout the game.

When Max calls herself powerless, Samuel states that she is the opposite of Max. He always tells her to keep prying - to keep doing what she is doing – and warns her not to get stuck in the Vortex Club. He doesn’t believe anything ever ends, “especially time”.

Samuel senses something bigger is coming to Arcadia Bay and he doesn’t like it at all. As we can recall from earlier, he said Max and Arcadia Bay “are connected by time and tide”.

The Prescotts are disrupting the peace and quiet of Arcadia Bay and it is trying to fight back. That’s why Max has gotten her powers – think of it not as a curse but as a gift of power. Some historians claim that different Native American tribes living in places where tornadoes happened often had “an ability to turn or reroute storms away from people in their path” and that “such a person with the right knowledge or personal power could do this”.

Some Native Americans know when a tornado will strike, because nature and the land around them talks. They simply have to listen. That way, they can warn their people in time. Native American elders say that “Tornadoes are not evil; they reset the balance in nature”.

The Prescotts tipped this balance and unbalance is what rules Arcadia Bay right now. To cleanse the land once ruled by peace, it is spawning a tornado to do so. The land has been talking, with weather changes, animals acting out of it, dying. In alternate timeline, the tornado was still going to happen, but Max didn’t receive her powers because she never triggered them. She never tore a photo, she never had the need to save Chloe that day – she was partying with her enemies from the other timeline. The tornado is happening because the Prescotts are in power and dark things are taking place in Arcaida Bay  - but in the original timeline, we have the means to help people and maybe, just maybe, tip the scales back without the need for a tornado.

Max received her powers to alter time and – what I believe – warn the people around her. We know that she got her power after ripping the photo she was supposed to hand in to Jefferson and that saving beings doesn’t alter anything. She can use her power to alter a blue jay’s destiny – saving it, she lets it live and later, the bird has made a nest, laid eggs – new life is starting thanks to Max.

The spirits guide her, the land grants her power to make a difference – tip back the scales or let the tornado cleanse it all. If Max can find a way to bust the Prescotts (and Jefferson with them since he is connected to Sean), the tornado may hopefully be prevented and the land will heal thanks to her.

If we instead choose to let the tornado happen, the land will be cleansed from what caused the unbalance and it will make way for people to start anew – which won’t come without a cost of wiping off the town.

P.S.: Many wonder how Chloe is tied in to the two choices we’re forced to choose from. I believe that if we let the tornado do its cause, Chloe will live and we will leave Arcadia Bay together with her. If we – and thus Max – find out a way of busting Sean Prescott and/or Jefferson through the events of Polarized, we may use this to go back to the start. If this means we need to let Nathan shoot someone – be it Max or Chloe – in order for the cascade of events to lead to Prescotts and Jefferson’s demise, then someone will get injured and possibly die. That someone can be Chloe.

It will be up to us – as Max – to choose how we want to deal with the bad guys. Both things come at a cost – so choose wisely.

My Top 15 Narusaku Moments

by mysterylover123

I never expected to like NaruSaku. When I first started reading the series, I was aware of the fandom’s big pairings (NaruSasu, Sasusaku, Naruhina) and I assumed they were the ones I’d enjoy. But reading the series, slowly, bit by bit, scene by scene, NaruSaku won me over, to become one of my favorite anime pairings. I’m sad they didn’t get together, but I still love the scenes they share, and reading fanfics and doujinshis about what could have been. Hope you enjoy this top 15 moments list!

#15. Ramen Stand Feeding Scene

What Happens: Naruto is injured and Sakura offers to feed him. He gets excited about this prospect, but they’re interrupted by Sai.

Why I like it: It’s this moment of intimacy between the two - kind of simple, but I like how Sakura initiates it and he blushes and accepts. Sakura is someone who likes taking care of other people, and Naruto is someone  who has never been cared for like this. They seem like a pretty perfect match.

#14. The Promise of a Lifetime

What Happens: Sakura asks Naruto to please bring Sasuke home. Naruto promises to do it, and this motivates him throughout the Retrieval Arc. Possibly much of the rest of the series.

Why I like it: It is not Sakura’s best move for sure, but it’s a sign of Naruto willingly putting her needs above his own, with no hope of her ever returning his feelings. It’s such a sweet moment of his promising her to bring Sasuke back, and seems to identify retrieving Sasuke as the barrier to them being together. I think he refuses to try and be with her until the end (or would have) because he wants her to choose him for him, not because Sasuke wasn’t available. 

#13. The 10th Question

What Happens: When answering the 10th question, Sakura isn’t sure if Naruto can pass, and is willing to throw away their chance this year to protect his dream of becoming Hokage. His resolve, however, inspires her to keep moving forward.

Why I like it: Sakura was willing to throw away her shot to protect Naruto’s dream. Naruto’s willpower inspires her to move forward, and later in this arc to cut off her hair and beat up the villains to protect him. They have such a mutually reciprocal bond. (Also, he liked her short hair, while Sasuke was said to like long hair. Symbolism much?)

#12. The Bench Scene

What Happens: Naruto, disguised as Sasuke, flirts with Sakura. She confesses her feelings and he realizes why he likes her so much.

Why I like it: Just as Sakura is feeling insecure about her ‘large forehead’, Naruto comes along and tells her he finds it charming and wants to kiss it. He’s attracted to the very feature she’s ashamed of. He likes even the parts of her she doesn’t like. And he empathizes with her need for belonging. 

#11. Naruto vs Gaara 

What Happens: Naruto finds the strength to defeat Gaara while fighting to protect Sakura.

Why I Like it: Got a real soft spot for characters finding their strength protecting their love interest. Here, Naruto is able to call upon strength he hadn’t known before and fight Gaara to keep Sakura safe.

#10. Love Confession

What Happens: To stop Naruto from dying for his promise, after hearing from Sai that he loves her, Sakura takes him aside and tells him she loves him. He believes she’s lying and shuts her down. 

Why I like it: Honestly, even though the story tells me her confession was fake, her blush and sheepish body language, along with all her attraction to and behavior towards him before this, convinces me this was real. But since it’s officially not, I’m ranking it a little lower. Still, it’s a full blown ‘I love you’, hard not to enjoy that. And I think she does love him, platonically or not. 

#9. Chunin Exams

What Happens: During the Chunin Exams, Naruto and Sakura both yell out their support to each other during their matches.

Why I Like it: Sakura’s able to beat Ino because Naruto supports her. Nobody at the time believes in Naruto to win, except for Sakura, who cheers him on. They’ve got each other’s backs.

#8. Minato Scene

What Happens: Minato sees Sakura healing Naruto and asks if she’s his GF. He says kinda and she doesn’t deny it. He says she reminds him of Kushina.

Why I like it: Naruto and Sakura don’t deny that they’re dating when asked. Minato notices that she’s similar to Kushina (since Naru wasn’t raised by Kushina, this doesn’t even have the potentially creepy ‘wants mom’ aspect). Instead it’s just ‘this girl could make my son a good wife’. It’s really cute. 

#7. Shippuden Reunion

What Happens: Naruto and Sakura reunite after a few years apart. They’re all grown up now. She blushes at him and he tells her she doesn’t look different.

Why I like it: Sakura finds him attractive now that they’re all grown up. He’s always found her pretty, so he says she looks the same. I wouldn’t be into the pairing if it didn’t seem like she was attracted to him too, but she clearly is right here. It’s great. 

#6. Yamato Line

What happens: As Sakura is healing Naruto, Iruka says the above rather ambiguous line, hinting that he was about to ‘you love him’ or something similar.

Why I like it: There’s some very well-placed ambiguity here, gently implying that Sakura’s feelings for Naruto are not platonic any more, or at the very least extremely powerful. 

#5. Someone Precious

What Happens: After training for a while to impress Sakura, Naruto happens on Haku, who asks him if he has ‘someone precious’ that he’s training for. He realizes he does.

Why I like it: This entire arc is so focused on how having someone in your life you care about is key to success in life (also the whole series). For Naruto, this is Team 7, predominantly Sakura at this point. She’s “someone precious” to him. (I also enjoy her helping him complete the task, and him complementing her strength. It’s sweet).

#4. Heaven and earth scrolls

What Happens: Iruka explains how Naruto has the ‘earth’ scroll and Sakura the ‘heaven’ scroll. They basically complete each other.

Why I Like it: I love pairings that are able to complete each other and encourage the other to do their best. This seems to be saying that Naruto and Sakura are two halves of the same whole and will make each other better together than they would be apart.

#3. CPR Scene

What happens: As Naruto is dying, Sakura in a desperate mood and determined to save him gives him CPR and pumps his heart back to life.

Why I like it: She proclaims that she wants him to achieve his dreams and pumps his heart until he revives. She literally holds his heart in her hand and presses her lips to his. She makes his dreams come true.

#2. Heaven and earth Bridge

What happens: Naruto goes out of control with worry over Sasuke. Sakura, feeling like this is her fault, runs over to him and is accidentally injured by Kyuubi. Later on, she lies to Naruto to make him feel better, but when he learns that he hurt her he resolves to try harder to control himself.

Why I like it: It’s a great scene of concern on her part for him, and it showcases his concern for her. I also enjoy the bit where he compliments her for her medical prowess and strength, but flubs it up by calling it ‘monstrous’.

#1. Invasion of Pain

What Happens: During the Pain Invasion, Sakura is desperate and calls out for Naruto. Once he saves the village, she goes up to him and hugs him (post tsundere moment) and thanks him.

Why I love it: It’s just sweet and simple. It feels like in this moment she really chooses to be with him, and shows her appreciation for him. He looks so happy and surprised at finally being hugged by the girl he likes, and it’s very pure. Even Hinata smiled at it, she seemed happy. I enjoyed it so much and it makes me smile.

YES YES YESSSS

this is actually on the wikia omg

tobirama moodboard

Genius prank 😂😂😂😂😂

[WHEEZE]

Sarada wtf is wrong with you

DAD= NO GLASSES

MOM = NO GLASSES

*SEES PICTURE OF KARIN WITH SASUKE AND SEES GLASSES* 

KARIN = HAS GLASSES *THINKS OMG KARIN IS MOM BECAUSE I HAVE GLASSES TOO*

… SHE JUST TURNED INTO ALL THE ANTI SASUSAKU FANS WITH THE KARINS DAUGHTER BULL CRAP

Reality vs fangirl see it

😂😂😂😂

Basically

and by the way, I love the style colors (it’s look hard to paint for me) and the felling, will you share the progress you made this? and what program you use to line and color-paint this?

This beast is finally done o(-( 

we were supposed to animate a page from a children’s storybook for class, and like a chump I chose the highly complex illustrations of Beatrix Potter;;;;;;

Anyways, I actually really like how this came out, especially for how much time I had (a week) and how little experience i have with this program :0

So anyway here’s something funny about Daenerys’ “madness”: in the books Barristan Selmy doesn’t reveal himself to her immediately, hides his identity and is eventually discovered by Jorah. Then Barristan tells Daenerys that he chose NOT to follow Viserys because he did show signs of madness just like their father. Then proceedes to tell Daenerys that he had observed her under a false identity to find out whether she was, like Viserys, her father’s daughter, but he didn’t see ANY SIGNS of this “madness” in her. Barristan Selmy. A man who spent all his life by the Mad King’s side. Didn’t see any signs of madness in Daenerys. So there’s that.