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I'm so picky with what I read in the Naruto fandom. People recced me some no doubt great fics -- but I saw the pairings or the summary and backbuttony I went. ~___~;;; I wish I could be the kind of person who enjoys any kind of plot or pairing as long as it's IC and presented in a convincing way (it sure would mean I'd get to read more than the same plot rehashed for the hundredth time), but... well. i'm not. There are things that I just don't read, no matter how well it's presented.
Pairing I actively look for and will read even if the writing's not that great:
-NaruSasuSaku.
And that's it.
Pairing I love but which also gets on my nerves when their issues aren't adressed or they're OOC:
-NaruSasu (Naruto: not a weepy uke, not a moron. Sasuke: not that good at caring for people, not secretly a romantic, not about to decide that his brother matters less than some buttsex and flowers. Also see: rivalry and why it won't magically stop after a bout of "lovemaking", and, if post-timeskip, betrayal issues)
-ItaSasu: hello, incest=not normal, hello, obsession/hate/betrayal issues, not fluffycute. (but ohsohawt/dark/gutwrenching if done right...)
Pairing I can read about and like, if they're written by authors I trust:
-InoSaku
-LeeSaku
-LeeGaara
-NejiHina
-NejiShika
-ShikaTema
-Sandcesty pairings
-...NaruNeji and NaruGaara, I guess... but it has to be very IC, and treat Sasuke right. If there's even one whiff of bashing, or any kind of "...Sasuke who?", yay back button.
-KakaIru and KakaGai : only when highly recommended to me. Frankly, I don't really care about Kakashi's love life. (also, hatehatehate dickless!uke!iruka and childhoodfriend!iruka and OMGSECRETLYANBU!iruka)
Pairing I like in the background but which I won't bother looking for as main pairing:
-KibaHina (aw cute)
-ShikaIno
-ZabuHaku : It's so perfect in canon, I really don't need fanfic to *snrk* fill the holes.
Pairings I can tolerate (mostly because I don't really care about them):
-KibaShino (dunno where it came from, also kiba seems very straight to me, but ehh, whatever)
-Any pairing with Shino (blah)
-Any pairing with Tenten (she's so... empty. If we knew more about her, maybe i'd be more interested, but right now...)
Pairing that fill my "eee, pretty crack pairing" needs:
-NejiSasu : eee haughty rivaling genius jerks, eee pretty pretty ukesex.
-NaruSasuNeji: so hard to imagine the dark-and-angsty duo without a Naruto on top. XD
-TemaIno: mrrr bitchy!lesbiansex. See, they would just need Shika to push them at each other, hoping to be left the hell alone -- and bingo. (though they'd probably team up on him XD haha, as if he would protest)
Pairings I don't read:
(not begrudging your right to read them and like the dynamics -- but I don't like the dynamics, or I prefer them with someone else)
-SasuSaku.
-NaruSaku.
I don't read Sakura with only one of her boys (whereas I can read the boys together) because :
1) she loves Sasuke, I can't see her not loving Sasuke, which means that I can't see her realistically falling out of love with Sasuke and in love with Naruto, even if, post-timeskip, their relationship is a lot closer and kinda flirty. (even if the fic manages to convincingly develop her changing feelings, I'm a Sasuke fan first and foremost. I hate hate hate fics where she "sees the light" and "dumps" him to shack up with Naruto -- in these fics, it's usually a "well he got what he deserved/he didn't deserve them anyway" thing and I can't stand that. even when it's not, I hate seeing him left behind -- and fics where she moves on after his death are WORSE)
2) Sasuke doesn't really notice her. He will protect her, but he doesn't understand her, and his relationship (rivalry/friendship of equals) with Naruto matters a lot more to him than his relationship with Sakura (adoration from someone weaker than him) She's important to him, but (romantically or not) Naruto's a lot more important -- almost as important as Itachi. Any romantic relationship he would have with her or anyone would take a backseat to these two dynamics.
-NaruHina. (cute. Like puppies. Ergo, booooring. Also, no Sasuke. Major turn off, that.)
-random MaleGenin/Sakura: too often Sakura-Sue, also usually Naruto and Sasuke are background characters.
-Kakashi/any of his students -- wait, any teacher / any student. (yes, sera, that includes Yondy/Kakashi) I can read Teacher/Student in Harry Potter (snarry anyone?) but in Naruto, I just can't stand the thought. It's just -- no. Aside from the ethics, they first saw their brats when they were twelve. Whne you're an adult, even if they grow up pretty, you don't consider someone you met at twelve attractive unless you're a pedophile. You just don't. And it bothers me here for reasons I can't entirely explain,but which also include teacher/student ethics.
-Itachi/anyone but Kisame or his brother -- and even so, if it's anything but mindfucky and totally messed up and angsty as hell and definitely not a happy-ending kind of story, it's the back button.
-SasuHina: ... I already ranted about that, I think. Just -- blech. where the hell did it come from?
-Gaara/Sakura, Ino, Tenten... anyone not Naruto or Lee or his sibling: Hello, Gaara is a borderline sociopath, and definitely homicidal. he doesn't even notice Sakura as anyone but someone who would have died for Sasuke (okay, might notice her there)... and someone who makes him think of Yashamaru. oops, no brownie points there. Gaara only reacts positively to very few people (the rest of the world is in his "ignore until they make themselves enough of a nuisance to bother killing them" folder), and besides he needs to seriously work at his crazies before he can consider "liking" someone. Emotionally speaking, he's about FIVE YEAR OLD -- a severely abused five-year-old -- and he doesn't understand caring. Whenever I see a "kunoichi-sue heals Gaara's soul/teaches Gaara what Love is", I weep. We're looking at years of therapy here, not at moonlit promises. Gaara+romance=nooooes.
-really, REALLY random pairings for the hell of it, like (haha sorry Kirin XD) Kisame/Hinata, or Kabuto/Ino or stuff like that : eh. If they don't even meet in canon, I really can't be bothered. (exception: that one NejiKankuro I recced a while back -- but then it was held up by the plot and the settings, not only by the character interaction. It was a "never would have happened if the situation were different" thing, not a OTP thing.)
Genres I don't read:
-Naruto was raised by Kakashi/Jiraiya/Iruka/an OC and now he's TOTALY DIFRENT YEY. I understand the urge to make Naruto's past less awful, but without his past and his struggles to be acknowledged and his refusal to be swallowed by his OMGangst, he's... not Naruto anymore. Thus, boring. Same goes for "Itachi didn't go on his rampage" and "it wasn't Itachi who killed the Uchihas" fics -- very few of them fully understand and use the changes it would mean for the village structure, and for Sasuke's evolution.
-- NARUTO IZ SECRETLY SMARTER THN SHIKA N UBERSKILLED N ALL DEEP N STUFFN NOONE CAN UNDRESTAND HIS PAIN = ... wtf. Who's that pod person? I want canon!Naruto back!
-Next Generation stories, Self Inserts, Original characters as a focus (one exception: The Way of the Apartment Manager. now that's an OC done right. read it. :p)
-School fics: one of the major interests of Naruto for me is the world in which it takes place -- chakra, enemy countries, village politics, seals, ANBU and everything. You take that away, it becomes very boring and generic.
-Crossovers that make no fucking sense. XP
-Fics that sound more like "Friends" than like life in a ninja village -- where the biggest problem is who dates who, where EVERYONE ends up paired off at the end even if it makes no sense, and where no one ever spilled a drop of blood in their life.
-... more to be added...
(not counting, of course, fics containing blatant OOC, character bashing and caricaturing characters, horrible grammar and spelling skills, ANs in the middle of the story, and the like, which are just bad writing no matter the genre. :p)
I'm so picky with what I read in the Naruto fandom. People recced me some no doubt great fics -- but I saw the pairings or the summary and backbuttony I went. ~___~;;; I wish I could be the kind of person who enjoys any kind of plot or pairing as long as it's IC and presented in a convincing way (it sure would mean I'd get to read more than the same plot rehashed for the hundredth time), but... well. i'm not. There are things that I just don't read, no matter how well it's presented.
Pairing I actively look for and will read even if the writing's not that great:
-NaruSasuSaku.
And that's it.
Pairing I love but which also gets on my nerves when their issues aren't adressed or they're OOC:
-NaruSasu (Naruto: not a weepy uke, not a moron. Sasuke: not that good at caring for people, not secretly a romantic, not about to decide that his brother matters less than some buttsex and flowers. Also see: rivalry and why it won't magically stop after a bout of "lovemaking", and, if post-timeskip, betrayal issues)
-ItaSasu: hello, incest=not normal, hello, obsession/hate/betrayal issues, not fluffycute. (but ohsohawt/dark/gutwrenching if done right...)
Pairing I can read about and like, if they're written by authors I trust:
-InoSaku
-LeeSaku
-LeeGaara
-NejiHina
-NejiShika
-ShikaTema
-Sandcesty pairings
-...NaruNeji and NaruGaara, I guess... but it has to be very IC, and treat Sasuke right. If there's even one whiff of bashing, or any kind of "...Sasuke who?", yay back button.
-KakaIru and KakaGai : only when highly recommended to me. Frankly, I don't really care about Kakashi's love life. (also, hatehatehate dickless!uke!iruka and childhoodfriend!iruka and OMGSECRETLYANBU!iruka)
Pairing I like in the background but which I won't bother looking for as main pairing:
-KibaHina (aw cute)
-ShikaIno
-ZabuHaku : It's so perfect in canon, I really don't need fanfic to *snrk* fill the holes.
Pairings I can tolerate (mostly because I don't really care about them):
-KibaShino (dunno where it came from, also kiba seems very straight to me, but ehh, whatever)
-Any pairing with Shino (blah)
-Any pairing with Tenten (she's so... empty. If we knew more about her, maybe i'd be more interested, but right now...)
Pairing that fill my "eee, pretty crack pairing" needs:
-NejiSasu : eee haughty rivaling genius jerks, eee pretty pretty ukesex.
-NaruSasuNeji: so hard to imagine the dark-and-angsty duo without a Naruto on top. XD
-TemaIno: mrrr bitchy!lesbiansex. See, they would just need Shika to push them at each other, hoping to be left the hell alone -- and bingo. (though they'd probably team up on him XD haha, as if he would protest)
Pairings I don't read:
(not begrudging your right to read them and like the dynamics -- but I don't like the dynamics, or I prefer them with someone else)
-SasuSaku.
-NaruSaku.
I don't read Sakura with only one of her boys (whereas I can read the boys together) because :
1) she loves Sasuke, I can't see her not loving Sasuke, which means that I can't see her realistically falling out of love with Sasuke and in love with Naruto, even if, post-timeskip, their relationship is a lot closer and kinda flirty. (even if the fic manages to convincingly develop her changing feelings, I'm a Sasuke fan first and foremost. I hate hate hate fics where she "sees the light" and "dumps" him to shack up with Naruto -- in these fics, it's usually a "well he got what he deserved/he didn't deserve them anyway" thing and I can't stand that. even when it's not, I hate seeing him left behind -- and fics where she moves on after his death are WORSE)
2) Sasuke doesn't really notice her. He will protect her, but he doesn't understand her, and his relationship (rivalry/friendship of equals) with Naruto matters a lot more to him than his relationship with Sakura (adoration from someone weaker than him) She's important to him, but (romantically or not) Naruto's a lot more important -- almost as important as Itachi. Any romantic relationship he would have with her or anyone would take a backseat to these two dynamics.
-NaruHina. (cute. Like puppies. Ergo, booooring. Also, no Sasuke. Major turn off, that.)
-random MaleGenin/Sakura: too often Sakura-Sue, also usually Naruto and Sasuke are background characters.
-Kakashi/any of his students -- wait, any teacher / any student. (yes, sera, that includes Yondy/Kakashi) I can read Teacher/Student in Harry Potter (snarry anyone?) but in Naruto, I just can't stand the thought. It's just -- no. Aside from the ethics, they first saw their brats when they were twelve. Whne you're an adult, even if they grow up pretty, you don't consider someone you met at twelve attractive unless you're a pedophile. You just don't. And it bothers me here for reasons I can't entirely explain,but which also include teacher/student ethics.
-Itachi/anyone but Kisame or his brother -- and even so, if it's anything but mindfucky and totally messed up and angsty as hell and definitely not a happy-ending kind of story, it's the back button.
-SasuHina: ... I already ranted about that, I think. Just -- blech. where the hell did it come from?
-Gaara/Sakura, Ino, Tenten... anyone not Naruto or Lee or his sibling: Hello, Gaara is a borderline sociopath, and definitely homicidal. he doesn't even notice Sakura as anyone but someone who would have died for Sasuke (okay, might notice her there)... and someone who makes him think of Yashamaru. oops, no brownie points there. Gaara only reacts positively to very few people (the rest of the world is in his "ignore until they make themselves enough of a nuisance to bother killing them" folder), and besides he needs to seriously work at his crazies before he can consider "liking" someone. Emotionally speaking, he's about FIVE YEAR OLD -- a severely abused five-year-old -- and he doesn't understand caring. Whenever I see a "kunoichi-sue heals Gaara's soul/teaches Gaara what Love is", I weep. We're looking at years of therapy here, not at moonlit promises. Gaara+romance=nooooes.
-really, REALLY random pairings for the hell of it, like (haha sorry Kirin XD) Kisame/Hinata, or Kabuto/Ino or stuff like that : eh. If they don't even meet in canon, I really can't be bothered. (exception: that one NejiKankuro I recced a while back -- but then it was held up by the plot and the settings, not only by the character interaction. It was a "never would have happened if the situation were different" thing, not a OTP thing.)
Genres I don't read:
-Naruto was raised by Kakashi/Jiraiya/Iruka/an OC and now he's TOTALY DIFRENT YEY. I understand the urge to make Naruto's past less awful, but without his past and his struggles to be acknowledged and his refusal to be swallowed by his OMGangst, he's... not Naruto anymore. Thus, boring. Same goes for "Itachi didn't go on his rampage" and "it wasn't Itachi who killed the Uchihas" fics -- very few of them fully understand and use the changes it would mean for the village structure, and for Sasuke's evolution.
-- NARUTO IZ SECRETLY SMARTER THN SHIKA N UBERSKILLED N ALL DEEP N STUFF
-Next Generation stories, Self Inserts, Original characters as a focus (one exception: The Way of the Apartment Manager. now that's an OC done right. read it. :p)
-School fics: one of the major interests of Naruto for me is the world in which it takes place -- chakra, enemy countries, village politics, seals, ANBU and everything. You take that away, it becomes very boring and generic.
-Crossovers that make no fucking sense. XP
-Fics that sound more like "Friends" than like life in a ninja village -- where the biggest problem is who dates who, where EVERYONE ends up paired off at the end even if it makes no sense, and where no one ever spilled a drop of blood in their life.
-... more to be added...
(not counting, of course, fics containing blatant OOC, character bashing and caricaturing characters, horrible grammar and spelling skills, ANs in the middle of the story, and the like, which are just bad writing no matter the genre. :p)
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