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[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

Just dropping a reminder that 20_truths, a compilation of essays detailing twenty random facts about Naruto characters/pairings/groups, is doing extremely well and currently accepting claims.

In the past three months, over eighty essays have been compiled, all of which are ridiculously good.




Completed Essays

Aburame Shino and Tenten by tao_empress
Aburame Shino and Tenten (2) by tao_empress
Deidara by nil_chan
Deidara and Tenten (AU) by cerridwene
Gaara and Temari by fujiwara_san
Haruno Sakura by xskadi
Haruno Sakura and Hyuuga Neji by angels_requiem
Haruno Sakura and Hyuuga Neji by wolfieziri
Haruno Sakura and Rock Lee by nil_chan
Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke by a_white_rain
Hoshigaki Kisame by demonoflight
Hoshigaki Kisame and Uchiha Itachi by _michael_sama
Hyuuga Hiashi by angel_drake
Hyuuga Hinata by angel_drake
Hyuuga Neji by shootingstars
Hyuuga Neji and Hyuuga Hinata by lexkixass
Hyuuga Neji and Rock Lee by lexkixass
Hyuuga Neji and Tenten by angels_requiem
Hyuuga Neji and Tenten (AU) by angels_requiem
Hyuuga Neji and Tenten (AU) by istoria
Hyuuga Neji and Yamanaka Ino by dianoetic
Hyuuga Neji, Tenten and Kankuro by sonnie_skies
Hyuugas by rurounigochan
Inuzuka Kiba and Yamanaka Ino by nightambre
Inuzuka Tsume by spaceghostrulz
Jiraiya by annwyd
Jiraiya by rhole and intravox
Jiraiya and Tsunade by desmonthesis
Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru by cynic_in_charge
Jounin and Special Jounin by duelist
Kaguya Kimimaro by nil_chan
Kaguya Kimimaro and Tenten by nil_chan
Kankuro by gabbie_is_uke
Kunoichi by creepy_crawly
Mitarashi Anko by acanti
Mitarashi Anko by scoured
Morino Ibiki by istoria
Nara Shikamaru and Temari by cureless
Nara Shikamaru and Temari [redux] by cureless
Nara Shikamaru, Temari and Tayuya by lady_zip
Orochimaru and Uchiha Sasuke by fujiwara_san
Rock Lee and Hyuuga Hinata by tao_empress
Rock Lee and Hyuuga Hinata by tao_empress
Rock Lee and Tenten (AU) by istoria
Rock Lee and Tenten (AU) by lexkixass
Sand Siblings by bag_no_jutsu
Sasori by nil_chan
Shizune by angels_requiem
Team 7 by a_white_rain
Team 7 by splintered_soul
Team 8 by thano
Team Gai by lellian
Temari and Uchiha Sasuke by tora_chan
Uchiha Clan by creepy_crawly
Uchiha Itachi by incarus_song
Uchiha Itachi (AU) by lexkixass
Uchiha Sasuke and Barrel by fir_kun
Uchiha Sasuke and Tenten by tao_empress
Uchiha Sasuke and Tenten by tao_empress
Uchiha Sasuke and Tenten by wingsover
Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto by a_white_rain
Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto by aishuu
Uchiha Shisui by fujiwara_san
Umino Iruka and Hatake Kakashi by creepy_crawly
Uzumaki Naruto and Gaara by nil_chan
Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke and Gaara by creepy_crawly
Yakushi Kabuto by ambientlight
Yakushi Kabuto and Uchiha Sasuke by fujiwara_san
Yamanaka Ino by dianoetic
Yamanaka Ino by nightambre
Yamanaka Ino and Nara Shikamaru (AU) by dianoetic
Yamanaka Ino and Nara Shikamaru by nightambre
Yondaime Hokage by angel_drake
Yondaime and Hatake Kakashi by serenityrages
Yuuhi Kurenai and Mitarashi Anko by rurounigochan
Yuuhi Kurenai and Sarutobi Asuma by cureless
Zetsu (AU) by wolfieziri




If you are interested in participating, the request thread is here. You may request a character (ie Neji, Ino, Itachi), pairing (Shikamaru/Ino, Naruto/Hinata), or group (Team 8, Akatsuki, Special Jounin). For more information, check out the user info or the FAQ. You can direct any comments or questions to this post.

Comments

[linkandluigi.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I think I'll check some of these out.

By the way, your icon is amazing. I think that's a Tenten pairing I support.

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

Awesome. And, concerning the icon, thanks. I'm still waiting for someone to write me an epic Tenten/Mousse fic, but there was a drabble written for me (http://tempest-arashi.livejournal.com/19439.html) by the lovely tempest_arashi, if you're interested. XDD

[0x.livejournal.com]

*looks at the first one* I don't get it, it's a numbered list, that's not an essay. Are these fictions?

[0x.livejournal.com]

ooookay so your facts, are actually fiction made up by the author. wow, that's some bad nomenclature right there. I was expecting, y'know, essays about facts of the characters, a character analysis, something. It's an interesting and unique way to create some fanfiction though.

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's bad nomenclature at all. The community is based on a meme that challenged writers to come up with twenty facts about their favorite characters based on their canon personalities. They are essays in numbered lists, using imagination and interpretation to extrapolate on the characters themselves. They are facts that could be true. I mean, why would you want to read about canon facts when you could find those just by reading the manga or the databook? That would be quite boring. These essays are character analyses (in their own way), and I think all of the writers have done an absolutely fabulous job so far.

[0x.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at it with a strict definition: a fact is true, fiction is not. I'm quite certain no professor in the world would consider a numbered list to be an essay. It's a specific format.
If I see something called 20_truths and everything inside it is not true about the character (because it is not canon) you're gonna make me a bit surprised. That's three examples of mis-named fanfiction.
It's not a character analysis because there's not really any analysis going on. It's telling a story on characters from the author's imagination. I looked at the KakaIru one, and it said "17. Iruka can't read. The words don't work for him." That's neither a fact, a truth, an analysis, or even plausable.

[0x.livejournal.com]

I take English very seriously! Where is my Grammar Nazi icon????

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Oh come on now, don't tempt me to try to do a LeeTen 20_truths, I've already signed up for a bunch of other ones that I'm behind on D:

Besides I'm more into NejiTenLee anyway

Maybe I'll just work on that ficbunny where Lee and Tenten hook up and Tenten loves it at first but then Lee gets so TERRIFYINGLY ENTHUSIASTIC about being the best lover that he can possibly be that he starts EXHAUSTING her from sex.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me, but does it seem like Tenten has the most personality when she's around Lee? ANYTHING FOR TENTEN GAINING SOME PERSONALITY, I MEAN SHE'S STARVING FOR IT T_T

I don't like most threesomes but Team Gai WORK so well together that being the sick freak I am I like to imagine they'd work as well in bed

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I don't actually mind NejiTen, I've just always felt like LeeTen was more fun. Also, spending her early teenage years having to keep up with Gai, Neji, and Lee in training is obviously perfect preparation for Tenten to keep up with Lee in bed.

Yeah I'm not too big on ROMANTIC NEJI myself, if he's not asexual he's probably birdsexual or something. GaixBig BirdxNeji all the way

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

I just love Sakura and Lee way too much as friends to ship them romantically, I think--Sakura is Lee's goddess and his goal and all that, and somehow it'd be kind of disappointing if he were to actually get her. Because Lee is like that. Tenten, on the other hand--it's sort of ambiguous as to whether they're really just friends ♥

And oh man I hadn't known she'd put Sakura as a "desired opponent." That is so freaking cute afdjskl MAYBE I HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT THAT.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Of course, Lee/Duck is OTP.

stop me before I friends you and subject my flist to more sweet, sweet Naruto babbling

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

friendsed like whoa & also because you like the kittonbee lovins

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

I only wrote the book on them (http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/110950.html) or at least the ship_manifesto essay and man do I need to write more fic on them :X

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Seriously YoruSoi is like my favorite pairing ever, omg. HOW DOES IT MANAGE TO BE SO CUTE AND SO FUCKED-UP AND SO TRAGIC AND HOPEFUL AND AMAZING ALL AT THE SAME TIME WTF.

And yes, I wrote that essay, clearly we are destined to frolic through fields of fandom together~~~

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

What I don't think you're getting is that they are figurative truths. They are possibilities, which, in truth, is what a lot of these characters are.
They are speculations on canon, things that could be true -- in actuality, the point was to formulate "facts" that you could neither prove nor disprove. (You cannot even disprove the Iruka example using evidence from canon, however implausible it may be. Do you ever see him reading anything? No. Does he know how to read. Probably. But that author chose to interpret canon in a specific way.)

And many professors would definitely consider a numbered list to be an essay, as an essay is defined as a short work that treats a topic from an author's personal point of view. (Yeah, I busted out the Wikipedia. But there it is in black and white.) Does it not fit the definition just because the points are numbered?

I think you're taking this whole thing far too literally -- relax. Use your imagination. And if you'd rather read about stuff that's true in the most literal sense of the word, well, there's always the manga and the databooks. This community isn't for you.

[0x.livejournal.com]

Next time your teacher asks for an essay and you had him a list, tell me what grade you get, mkay?

Just cause you can't disprove something doesn't make it a fact.

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

I've actually had many professors who were insanely cool about the format of essays, and, as an student interviewer of med school applicants, I've seen essays written in all sorts of formats. I've written a good number of essays in my time at school, in various different formats, and what I've learned is that it's the content, not format that most professors worth their salt will care about.

There really is no need to get so snippy about all of this. I'll say it one more time: if you don't like it, don't read it. I don't really care to argue more about it otherwise.

[wolfieziri.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling you're missing the point she's trying to make, but that could be just me.

[kylara.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I first joined the community under the impression that it would be a compilation of fact-based essays, and was rather disappointed at, first, the format expected, and then at all the outrageous crack that broke out. I like crack as much as the next fangirl, but I think what came out on the community was too much, and not nearly what the advertisement suggested it would be. A good portion of those "facts" were AU or based on RPs (same thing in the end, usually).

The word "essay" is very misleading, and frustrating to someone who is actually looking for, you know, essays. :[

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

It seems silly to defend myself and the community, but if you'd read the userinfo and looked at the examples of what the community was aiming toward before joining, you would have known exactly what we're all about.

[kylara.livejournal.com]

It's not silly to defend yourself, but when I first joined, it was off an ad that said there would be "essays." And yet there is not a single essay in that community. I also joined when it first opened, so there weren't any in-community examples to see what would be going down. I remember there was a link to someone else's 20 facts list for Harry Potter, which I found extremely confusing, because a list of 20 facts isn't, to any degree, an essay, which was what the community was supposedly for.

It was impossible to know what the community was about because you said there would be essays and there weren't. It's deliberately misleading. If you want to appeal to people who want the sort of thing your community is doing, then please, call it a "list of 20 facts" and not an "essay."

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

It's also a bit silly to be arguing semantics, when, as I've stated before, numbered lists can be considered essays. (If I'm not mistaken, there are a few excellent essays written in such form.) It's not the usual five-paragraph, MLA format you'd hand into a teacher, but, look. This is fandom.

The first paragraph of the userinfo states: "... 20_truths is a compilation of essays detailing twenty random facts (originating from the imagination of the authors) about Naruto characters/pairings/groups. Simply, it is their view of said character/pairing/group in a comprehensive, numbered list."

I really don't see how it could be any less misleading.

[kylara.livejournal.com]

I would like to see where a numbered list is considered an essay, and who considers it an essay. It's true that essays can come in various forms, even non-literary forms, but that does not necessarily make a numbered list an essay.

"Essay" means "to try." The trial can be for various effects, (to show, to argue, to persuade, to prove,) but it must be an attempt at getting it across -- through analysis. And again, that can take many forms. George Orwell and Martin Luther King Jr. were both excellent essayist, and I never read a traditional MLA essay by either. One of Orwell's essays was written something like a story, but it analyzed a situation in Orwell's life through personal inflection and, most importantly, it tried to show the reader what he had learned from it. There was a point to it, there was a conclusion, there was meaning that he tried to show the reader.

The same "trying" applies to all forms of essays, be they written or non-literary.

A statement that Iruka can't read isn't trying anything. It's a statement. It sits there, alone, unanalyzed, by itself. A list of such statements still isn't an essay.

Now, here's something else. A statement like that above, that Iruka can't read, is also a claim. That is, it's a portion of an argument. Thus, if it were part of an essay, the claim would need to be backed by evidence and by analysis in order to try to prove it.

Now if someone did all of that for each numbered "fact," then it could be an essay -- with numbered paragraphs.

[0x.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[0x.livejournal.com]

The word "essay" is very misleading, and frustrating to someone who is actually looking for, you know, essays.

WORD. That's exactly my point.

[istoria.livejournal.com]

essay(s)
~ A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author.
~ Something resembling such a composition: a photojournalistic essay.
~ A testing or trial of the value or nature of a thing: an essay of the students' capabilities.
~ An initial attempt or endeavor, especially a tentative attempt.

As per definied in the dictionary. As composition is not defined by strict parameters, the word essay is not as restrictive as you make it.

[0x.livejournal.com]

I was expecting an essay (http://kaskait.livejournal.com/35399.html) about facts, not a list about fiction. Is that really so complicated?

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

The format of essays is serious business. LOL.

[istoria.livejournal.com]

You said the word was wrong to use. I am clarifying with the definition of the word. There is no complication involved. It's just fact while yours is an opinion on what an essay should be.

[angels-requiem.livejournal.com]

Tenten/Mousse is probably the greatest crack crossover pairing ever, in my honest opinion.

And, dude, look, I will write you a Lee/Tenten one. For being so cool. XD

[nephilim.livejournal.com]

Oh, looks like fun. I joined. :)

[secludedly.livejournal.com]

This is stupid. These aren't even true facts.

[atsuka-chan.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed these! Very interesting! So much in fact I might join! ^_^

[blooming-cosmo.livejournal.com]

O.o I don't see what's wrong with the community. I find it all clever and more interesting to read than the standard essays. Format doesn't matter. Content does, and the people who have written for the community do a marvelous job doing so. I hope there are more that follow. Your icon does kick ass btw.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

I find the whole concept of 20_truths very interesting and I think a lot of great work has been turned out there (and I really need to get to work on some of the characters and pairings I've signed up for!). Some of these complaints are kind of ridiculous. However, to forestall such complaints in the future...maybe you should include a polite note in the userinfo that if people are looking for analytical essays, they should go elsewhere, as what appears in 20_truths is more like fanfiction?

Just a suggestion; it might prevent this kind of wank in the future. I personally have no issues with 20_truths--I was briefly confused at the beginning, but after looking at examples, I quickly caught on, and I'm not upset at the lack of analytical essays or anything.

[alabapoy.livejournal.com]

Haha, these complaints amuse me. I would like to join, but I really don't have the time. -___-;

Is it just me, or are your posts in this community always hits? Haha. Cool. 8D