Naruto 1 to 57

I'm pretty sure Naruto is one long thing without defined season ends and starts but I've made the (maybe wrong) choice to use the wikipedia seasons so I can take breaks along the way and I finished "season 1" (episodes 1-57) and here are the incoherent notes I made on my phone during that time.

Episode 16 This is a BL, right? Naruto and Sasuke are obviously boyfriends.
Do Sasuke and Naruto ever just realise that they love each other and settle into it? Is every arc going to be "we hate each other" "we're going through a thing and we're bonding" "we've been through a thing and love each other" and then a new arc starts and they hate each other again? I hope not. I want them to love each other. I'm not even just being ship-y about it, I'd love to see them form a real platonic friendship where they stop being dumb boys about it. There's SO many episodes, surely that's where it's heading at some point. Please.

When I start an old anime, so everyone else already knows where it's going and because I have stupid anxiety and in this case because there's SO much of it that it could go anywhere, I feel weird getting openly attached to characters, like I'll be "wow I love them" after 20 episodes and then it turns out they're a creep or whatever and everyone else already knows about it.
I dunno, it's stupid.

Naruto - "you don't have the privilege of telling a person what they're like" 

It took 47 episodes of Naruto before I cried but hoo boy did Hinata and Neji's fight do it. She's shy and quiet and doesn't really want to do it but she changed her mind and she's trying her hardest and it's not working when it needs to but she keeps trying but then that fight, even though she didn't win you can't call it a failure. I love her so much. And how she always saw that Naruto believed in himself even though everyone was just laughing at him and rejecting him. She's so precious I love her😭
What is it with people telling Hinatas they can't do things!?

Hinata, Rock Lee, Akamaru💖💖💖

when he saved that squirrel I died💖

Episode 49 Rock Lee's backstory. No ninjutsu, no genjutsu less than average taijutsu but he practised like crazy over and over and now he has amazing taijutsu. 
"Even though I may not have talent, I'll exceed genius with my efforts"

"I think that I'll never become stronger even though I strive and strive"
"I'm so afraid I can't bear it" - Rock Lee
"There's no point in making the effort if you don't believe in yourself"- Guy sensei

In his fight with Gaara it wasn't effort and trying to better himself that hurt him, it was comparison to others, wanting so badly to beat Neji and Sasuke. But even more so it was Gaara's dick move of crushing his hand and foot. 

So, there you have it lol. I'd love to add to these phone notes but my memory doesn't work and I left it too long to do this. Part of why I'm doing this is to hopefully improve at formulating my thoughts and writing about things I like and as the mighty Jake taught us, being bad at something is how you get sorta good at something or whatever so yeah I wanna try but if I can only occasionally make a crappy note and that be all it is then that's fine too but if I don't at least make the crappy notes then I'll never get better at it *shrugs*

Sparks

Bilbobasso performed Amor outside the forum last week and even though we didn't get the best view (we were too busy buying chips first) it was still very impressive.

I love taking photos of bright things in the dark✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

I also took some video from a few different sections of the performance which is in this vlog.

Sovereign House

I keep hearing about how there are various plans by various people to "develop" Anglia Square and I'll be so sad if it any of it gets taken down. It needs some care but the architecture is so cool and, in my opinion, Norwich doesn't need any more "luxury apartments" and Anglia Square doesn't need gentrifying.
I love the whole thing so much but I'm especially in love with Sovereign House at the back. I realised that I hadn't been up there in a while and it'd be one of those things where I sit at home being sad about how much I love it but never see it again so I wanted to take some photos and video of the area.

Back home, looking at what I got I definitely want to go and take more photos. See if I can get some different views and I also realised I've never been upstairs, where the cinema is, I don't even know if you can get up there anymore but I want to find out and maybe get to see it all from some different angles.

I don't know anything about architecture but I know that this is awesome and it often feels like we just blindly hate on anything built in living memory but it'd be so sad if we lost it all.

Here's a post about it by someone that maybe does know about architecture.

I love it so much.

Look. At. These. Tall. Shapes.💖

It's a different issue but I do also love graffiti. Even if it's Garfield.

This post is like a flashback to the old days of the blog when I'd walk around taking photos, I'd like to do more of it again. But I also like that the blog is turning into a manic mixture of things too (^^)