lierdumoa | More nighttime meta

Brought to you by THE FANDOM THAT ATE MY LIFE #2.

And falafel.

Here's the odd thing about Naruto. I watched it and thought it was adorable. I wanted cute slash fic. Then somewhere around ep. 20 I was overwhelmed with the incredible flaming gay.

About halfway through ep. 87, I was giggling at the completely crapassed fake techno playing in the background of the fight scenes.

Every four seconds I'd find myself thinking, "Dude, why the hell are they...oh, right. Sports anime."

And somewhere in the middle of all this I blinked and realized I was completely in love with all the main characters.

I've gotten two vidbunnies for the fandom in the past week. One, "Bad Reputation" to Naruto (of course. Still not sure if I want to do the Halfcocked cover or the original by Joan Jett. The second I outlined yesterday -- "That's All" by Phil Collins & Genesis to Sasuke.

For all my loving the fandom, I can only take it seriously under very special circumstances. Because it's ridiculous. I want to pinch it's cheeks and pat it on the head, or just cackle maliciously at it, and every so often I find myself unexpectedly cheering because for all that it is ridiculous, it still manages to be AWESOME.

Now, look at the two songs I mentioned. One is 80's chick rock. The other is early 90's soft rock. With synthesizer. Synthesizer. I can't take either of these songs particularly seriously because they are both ridiculous.

And yet, for some reason, when I combine fandom with song, I am able to take both seriously. I'm not laughing at the synthesizer or the screaming antiestablishmentism (not to be confused with antidisestablishmentarianism). Yes, I did just make that word up -- the former, not the latter, someone else made the latter up. Where was I?

Right. I'm not laughing at song or fandom. Suddenly, I'm finding myself acting completely (not to mention scarily) earnest.

Because Naruto may be yellow snow, not for eating, 98% of the time, but there's that precious 2% where he's pure, pure gold. And Sasuke? I look at him and think, "OMGLIFESOHARD." But then I pair him with this song and all I can think about is how much he loves Naruto. The gold one, and maybe even the yellow snow one. And how he can't change himself because he's so twisted and fucked up (and young and nubile) and yet that doesn't stop him from loving Naruto.

So much.

Like I love this fandom.

Well, I've got to do laundry.