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[wafflelate]

Name: frolic
Age: late 20s
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Subscription/Access Policy: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm too new to the site to say. If you subscribe I'll probably sub back out of curiosity. I intend to post everything publicly.

Fandoms: Naruto is my only really active fandom right now! I hope we can start using naruto and also I'm heavily involved in the recursive community for Silver Queen's Dreaming of Sunshine, which you can find on DW at dreamingofsunshine 

Fandoms that are on the backburner right now include Leverage and Yu Yu Hakusho.

Fannish Interests: Fic writing, meta, and editing on fanlore.org. I also used to RP a lot but I left behind all my RP friends when I got into Naruto and still haven't run into anyone else.

Comments

[bushwah]

Naruto canon is a fairly typical child soldier comedy from what I've seen, but the fandom somehow manages to crank out absurd amounts of quality content on all kinds of themes. What do you do in Naruto fandom? Do you have any fav works you'd like to recommend? I periodically reread People Lie (cw abandoned work) and Lighting Up the Dark, ship Naruto/Hinata mostly as the codependent mess from People lie, and appreciate Sasuke's angst about his older brother immensely.

[wafflelate]

While answering this I got really involved in thinking about the current state of the Naruto fandom, so a wrote a post about that on my journal about that! Thanks for the great prompt.

As for what I specifically get up to, lots of fic and lots of thinking about Dreaming of Sunshine by Silver Queen, which I really can't recommend enough. It's a self-insert OC fic that uses its main character to explore Naruto's worldbuilding. Silver Queen started writing it with the goal of explaining why canon is the way it is. For example: assuming that sending one fresh chuunin and some genin after Sasuke and the Sound 4 was the best choice Tsunade could make, why was it the best choice? What worldbuilding can be backfilled in to explain that? Also, the current arc is about how the village deals with genin who don't make it onto jounin teams and exploring what was up with the Konoha Military Police when they existed. DoS has my favorite version of Sasuke ever.

As for non-Dreaming of Sunshine Naruto content that I could recommend...

Fanfiction

• Whose Allegiance Is Ruled by Expedience by edenfalling — A short story about a civilian's business dealings with Orochimaru. Also, uh, everything else by this author, frankly. Complete.
• Time Travel Tango, or, Rasa and the Cat by greenkangaroo — what I consider to be the perfect Naruto time travel story. Focuses on Kankurou. Complete.
• Sanitize by SageThrasher — An OC-insert who was a doctor in a previous life struggles with living in the Warring Clans Era; I would die for this fic. WIP.
• Freedom in the Eyes of Another by oroburos69 — An AU where the Land of Waves mission goes really, really wrong. Sakura-centric, very excellent. Complete.

Meta

• fineillsignup / yunyu recently put her Naruto meta up on AO3
• elenathehun wrote The Hyuuga Clan: what not to do about a year ago.
• Before Hokage and After: A Tsunade Analysis is an old piece of meta rendered unreadable without logging into the forum it's posted on but I have a google docs version I'd be willing to share privately to anyone who's interested.
• Tsunade in close-quarters combat is an old pimer for VS battles that goes really in-depth on how much damage Tsunade can probably do. It's on the same site as above but without logging in all you're missing out on are citation-style links like [2] that, so it's legible as-is.

[owolicious]

heck yeah, another naruto fan! hello nice to meet you :) you got me at yu yu hakusho

[wafflelate]

Nice to meet you too!!! My heart yearns for a good Naruto/YYH crossover. I wrote like 30k of one that I never published.

[kalloway]

Some day I'm going to get back to trying to do something with fanlore. The mecha pages need me.

But it's nice to see you and I'll add~

[wafflelate]

It's so nice to see you, too!! The mecha pages do need you but also they'll be there whenever you have the time and interest, no worries.

[texelations]

If you're interested in getting into RP here on DW let me know! RP is DW's largest user base currently. Mostly we have panfandom games, but I'm sure I can find some Naruto fans to link you up with.

[wafflelate]

Ahh I'm a little interested, but probably more in 1x1 because I'm probably too busy for a full group thing. Is there a comm for looking for 1x1 partners? I'd be all over that, probably.

[texelations]

That's cool, there's a lot involved in getting used to RPing in a new place, I think.

As far as getting started, I see people link this a lot to beginners starting out here, but you'll need to scroll down to "guides/advice" for starting out - that should really be first in this list, I think. There's a lot of info there, and I also have a guide to starting out myself here that I made to try and distill things a little better.

As far as finding people for 1-on-1 RP (or as we call it here, PSLs) you would probably have some luck at enablemeplz's monthly post. This is the most recent post's 1-on-1 ads, and it would probably be worth it to look through there and see if anything catches your eye. As far as posting there, you might want to wait until the December post goes up as most people only check this in the first few days after it goes up.

Do let me know if you have any questions! I'm happy to help.

[wafflelate]

Thanks so much! Gosh, mostly this is making me think about how desperately the roleplaying section of Fanlore needs work. What does "PSLs" actually stand for?

[texelations]

Private story line!

[wafflelate]

Fascinating omg.

[badafthunter]

Naruto ;A;

Adding you!

[wafflelate]

:D Adding you back.

[schneefink]

Hi! I recognize your name from DoS fic :) I didn't know there's a DW comm for it, neat.

[wafflelate]

Whoops I missed replying to this. Hi!! The Dreamwidth comm is suuuper new. Well, I made it a few months ago on a whim in case we needed it, but we only started doing stuff with it a few days ago.