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There's a open pairing challenge of Maes Hughes from FMA + Olivia Benson of L&O:SVU over on the pairing list that ate fandom.

I'm not gonna take it, but I hope someone else does. Cause that pairing would be awesome.

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I finally got around to watching the new opening and ending sequence of Naruto. I'm still about 7 episodes behind, but I'm spoiled so skipping to #130 just to watch the credits wasn't a big deal.

For both the opening and ending I love the animation, but I don't particularly like the music. The opening grates on my ears. The ending is less harsh, but I still don't care for it.

The animation, though... whee! At least Sasuke's only in a little bit of the opening, considering we'll have to sit through god knows how many flashbacks during the episodes themselves. The rest of it is pretty cool. And the ending credits just tickled my Naruto/Sakura fangirl heart.

I'm kinda worried about how fast the anime is catching up to the manga, though. That spells badness in the future-- either more delays that break away from canon like the silly race episodes, or breaking away from the manga entirely, or cencellation. ::pout::

In a Naruto mood today...

Recently I came across this wallpaper website and have been happily browsing high quality Naruto wallpapers for an hour. There's about 850, and all of them are decent to good. No outright sucky ones.

I saved a bunch, but I wanted to point out these:

Color version of that teen!Naruto pic where he's got a hair-covering forehead protector.

randomly constructed wallpaper that isn't all that great except that it has Naru/Saku kissing in the bottom left corner. Makes me want to write fic.

Angsty baby!Naruto makes me cry. (his eyes are so uber-blue... did he go to Arakis and overdose on The Spice something?)

Teen!Kakashi is pretty.

Kakashi is just pretty all the time. ...darker hotter version of the same pic which I now dub HOTTEST KAKASHI PICTURE EVER.

the boys of Naruto as... bandits? pirates? I dunno. But it's cool. And for once I actually find Sasuke attractive. I'm actually kinda crushing on him here.


ETA:

Naruto image with very good color work.

Everyone loves Gaara pics!

Everyone loves the 4th Hokage.


Jumping fandoms a bit: This Roy Mustang wallpaper will never not be hot.

Fanart is evil. Evil.

For example: I was innocently browsing when I came upon this picture.

And now I'm brainstorming Naruto pirate fic ideas.

The current thought is to go more like Waterworld than PotC.

Evil, I tell you.