Happy Birthday, Temari! 8/23

"A scary but yet beautiful smile"

- Masashi Kishimoto

its probably impossible to have too much fun drawing hair

i should make a nsfw draw blog

Seriously tumblr.
I dont ever ask you guys for anything.
But this is a time where we need your help.
Please.
Call. Email. Reblog. 
SOMETHING.

Things that matter. Pass ‘em on.

I heard his story on NPR. His mom raised him to “not see color” etc. And the cops beat  the hell out of him when they pulled him over. It took seeing him in jail beaten half to death for her to see that race matters every day.

Wow. I am a half black male raised by a white mother…but I’m fortunate to be Canadian. This stuff doesn’t happen here. I’m treated the same wherever I go in this country, and have had very few people assume anything about me because of my ethnicity. That wasn’t a luxury I was given when I lived in the US for 3 years. It’s mindblowing how race is still a serious issue in many parts of the country south of mine. If the cops did anything like that here they would all be held accountable, discharged, and jailed. Wow.

No racism in Canada, huh? Better tell that to First Nations folks and THESE dudes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzcfDInl6XQ

"I would like for no protesting going on," Michael Brown Sr. said during an interview on Hot 104.1 FM, a hip-hop radio station in St. Louis. "We just want a moment of silence that whole day. Just out of respect for our son."

Brown went on air this morning with the Demetrious Johnson Show, which runs from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Michael Brown’s funeral is set for 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 25, in a church in St. Louis that can accommodate up to 4,500 people. Three White House officials, Rev. Al Sharpton, and thousands of community members are expected to attend.”

you know how the meme goes

kakayam where kakashi picks on yamato is funny but where are all the fanworks of kakashi admiring and worshiping yam like he deserves

Technology in Naruto is pretty interesting. With shinobi using chakra for warfare, and the most common building materials in Konoha seemingly being wood and rotting metal, it’s easy to overlook the fact that the Naruto world has some pretty advanced technology. Kishimoto once stated that he would never put guns into his universe, but that didn’t stop him from putting a satellite into space. Or correct me if I’m wrong here, but those are satellite dishes mounted to the roof. And don’t they generally require… a satellite in space to broadcast?

For that matter, the Naruto universe has television. We see Tsunade receiving messages from messenger birds, but here are the lords of the five countries communicating over television. It wouldn’t be odd for them to have telephone technology as well. They have optometrists and glasses, they have photography, they have plastic. Which means that somewhere out there, in the Naruto universe, there are factories and refineries. They don’t have cars, but they have industry. And the technology is distributed unevenly enough that we don’t notice its prescience in Konoha.

Konoha even has electricity, but where does their electricity come from?Do they have nuclear power plants? Wind turbines? Solar energy? Do they generate electricity through some unknown-to-us process using chakra? Kishimoto only ever addresses how chakra works in the Naruto universe, but there is an odd mix between chakra usage and industrial technology in his universe. The top left panel features what look like batteries. The kanji on them mean “electricity”. Looking at the map of Konoha, I didn’t spot any obvious factories. But the electricity has to come from somewhere. And what about water treatment plants? They have running water, but when Sasuke and Naruto fight on the hospital roof before the timejump, they destroy what appear to be water tanks. And looking at the map of Konoha, there appear to be more water tanks mounted on the roofs of other large buildings. So the question is then, does Konoha have flowing water and sewers, or are they reliant on water tanks for all of their water usage?

Shinobi villages are exceptions rather than the norm in the Naruto universe, and my guess is that outside of Konoha… ninja and chakra manipulation are rare. Konoha may even be one of the more rural places in this universe, especially in comparison to say, Amegakure, which has skyscrapers.

Which… when you think about that bridge-builder Tazuna from the beginning of Naruto, there’s a pretty big discrepancy in technology and building techniques. But in the end, it’s not that different from our own world. I assume if you’re reading this on tumblr that you live in technologically developed cities for the most part. But there are places even in technologically developed countries where people still live off the land, or live with a mix of modern technology and rural techniques. So it’s something to think about in the Naruto world.

lohrendrell

i always thought that even though their world has technology konoha doesn’t use it as much as other places

because it is a hidden village afterall
and don’t using water/electricity supplies require the city to connect to other cities? so like they found a way to mimic the outside world technology but in a lesser scale
probably using chakra
or some not so advanced tech
so they could have electricity/water tech while still maintain the place hidden also they might be against bringing advanced tech because that could destroy the nature around konoha

where’s that screencap of that random guy in naruto behind gai and kakashi walking around with an ipod

Here have some doodles from twitter…