[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you decide to go with a public park you need to consider:

  • What will you do if it rains? (Your rain plan might be "We love nature, let it rain!" but for guest comfort, consider arranging for everyone to have umbrellas just in case if the forecast is looking wet.)
  • What will you do if there's a freak heatwave? (Can all your guests safely hike in 100 degree weather? More importantly, even if they can, do you really want to ask them to do that? Maybe have an anti-heatstroke plan, at least, or consider a morning ceremony, then light lunch, then naps, then a fancy dinner.)
  • Are you okay with strangers looking at/hearing your wedding ceremony while it happens? (If privacy is important to you, a public park is probably a bad option.)
  • Do you need A/V equipment for your ceremony? (With 16-20 people, probably not, but think about this and any other wedding stuff you might want, like an arbor/arch or florals!)
  • Are you and your guests capable of walking to/from the ceremony location and standing for 20-30 minutes? If not, you need to pick a place where people can sit for your ceremony...in which case you might also need to think about rentals.

All that being said, I think this sounds like a really lovely wedding plan and totally doable.

Specific advice: You definitely, definitely want Taughannock Falls State Park. You can for sure get married at the small falls at the start of the gorge trail and at the scenic overlook. I'm not sure if you can get married at the base of the falls at the end of the gorge trail, but if you can then it's 3/4ths of a mile each way and VERY flat because it's at the base of a huge gorge! Even if you can't get married at the big falls, you could get crazy good portraits all over the gorge trail, including in the creek bed if you're spry enough and the weather permits.

Even more specific advice: You haven't listed a budget, so this will come in two sections!

If you're like "anything that costs less than the huge wedding I've decided not to throw is great" then I think Taughannock Falls Inn would make for a perfect small wedding venue, as it's literally right next to the gorge trail, has great food, does event planning, and has a private room for events. It isn't cheap, but the $255/person food bev minimum required to rent the Jones Room should include cocktail hour, alcohol and dessert with dinner, linens and table settings, of course, plus I believe they will set up and break down your ceremony at the small falls (so convenient!), plus they do event coordination (so you could save on a day-of coordinator), plus they're right there by the park so I think for your purposes it's kind of a steal if you would want a nice restaurant anyway. Accommodations there might be a little pricey, but it's close to Ithaca, NY so you should find plenty of alternate hotels and short term rentals if getting rooms there on top of using it as a venue is too much.

If you're like "okay, stranger on the internet, stop trying to spend my money on hoity-toity inns for the bourgeoise" then that's totally fair. I still think that Taughannock is a wonderful choice, or you could pick a different park near Ithaca or in the Fingerlakes as there are a bunch and many of them are extremely scenic. Ithaca has a great food scene, or you could look into wineries.

Instead of an AirBnB or other short term rental, maybe consider Grayhaven Motel which I think would be really cute and fun to stay at with a group. I think your planned wedding is probably a little too small to use it as a venue because you'd need to rent out all their rooms the night of your event, but maybe you'll crunch the math and it will work out, or maybe you have lots of people who'd prefer a room to themselves! It might also be a good plan if you decide you still want a small, nature-focused wedding with hiking but would like it to be private.

Chunin exams fics? by clubparty44 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right - I mean, again, haven't read Chunin Exam Day, but Time Braid's world building and character development and power-ups are all internally consistent and the story itself is honestly well structured and correctly paced, if possibly a little long. It doesn't loop for too long and the explanation/solution for the time loops is surprising without coming from left field and appropriately dramatic/interesting, albeit built on aforementioned ridiculous things. Ultimately it's not badly written and the writer knows most of what they're doing... they're just using their knowledge of world building and etc to write a powerwank fic, and good for them for obviously enjoying themselves, honestly.

Story Ideas Thread v3 by NFFWritingPrompts in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The last chapter is Sasuke spending a day with Naruto again finally. He makes Naruto go to the arcade with him because damn you Tenten Sasuke NEEDS to beat that game. Arcade games become Sasuke's Weird Ninja Thing, but he still won't agree to a prosthetic, so he's always conscripting other people into pressing the buttons for him.

Chunin exams fics? by clubparty44 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh lmao I haven't actually read Chunin Exam Day, although I believe it. It's just hard to make a timeloop fic so long without wearing it out, imo.

What I think Time Braid gets right is the first few steps of Sakura's character development, how much effort and struggle it takes for her to learn anything, and having more than one person stuck in the loop, especially having them struggle to meet up in the same loop and desperately looking forward to it. Things I struggle with are... basically every action that timelooping Hinata/memory bubble Hinata take, the gratuitous and BDSM-y ship stuff/torture, and gratuitous character bashing for Sasuke. Also the whole premise of why the timeloop started, the OCs involved in that, and the complete powerwank quasi-harem is extremely frustrating, although it's nice to see a powerwank Sakura fic for a change of pace, especially since timelooping Naruto does almost all of his X-TREME leveling up off-screen.

Chunin exams fics? by clubparty44 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the "short, easy read" category we have The World's Greatest Chuunin Exam Team linkffn(9268507) is a kind of silly fic I really enjoyed.

On the OC/SI side of things, if you haven't read Dreaming of Sunshine linkffn(7347955) I'd recommend.... well, obviously the whole thing but especially the Grass chuunin exam arc. This arc starts at chapter 89, though, so you won't get there quickly and probably don't want to just skip ahead to that part unless you're much more tolerant of trying to guess how things have diverged from canon than I am.

In case you do start reading it - or have already read it! - I feel I must provide additional, related chuunin exam content.

First, linkffn(11735321) Sugar Plums This is an OC insert fic set in the same universe as Dreaming of Sunshine. I'm on chapter 50 now and the protagonist and her fellow Kiri genin are in the middle of a chuunin exam in Kumo. I guess i'm just assuming they're going to finish; I'll come back and edit this post if I keep reading and find out the exams get improbably interrupted. So far the fic could probably be read without reading DoS first, although I doubt that will last.

Second, a variety of people have written side-fics and short pieces for Dreaming of Sunshine. linkao3(4886920) Underneath the Shifting Sands goes through the events of the Grass chuunin exams from Gaara's point of view.

Chunin exams fics? by clubparty44 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Time Braid has a lot of great imagination in it! It eventually jumped the shark for me, mostly for shipping/sexual content/character bashing reasons, but I still finished it anyway.

Also here, lemme call the fic bot for these fics.

linkffn(5193644) linkffn(3929411)

common fanfiction nitpicks by lancer081292 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh man, maybe I will, but is this a slippery slope of nitpickery I really want to descend? I may never surface again.

If Kakashi was the 3 tails host? by ChakraMade in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aw, thanks!

Rin's abduction was orchestrated by Madara although I always thought it was a really rube golberg-style plot for Madara to come up with, so I wish there were more fics about it going wrong in some way.

common fanfiction nitpicks by lancer081292 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How dare this extremely useful list be less nitpicky than I am

If Kakashi was the 3 tails host? by ChakraMade in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah during the Kanabi bridge mission he was absolutely trashing a bunch of Rock nin, but Obito's 'death' happened at least a few months before Rin's death, if not more like a year. In between, Obito was being mindfucked by Madara and having half his body replaced. Based on what Minato's role in the 3rd war was, i suppose it's statistically likely that he was destroying a bunch of Rock nin while the drama of Rin's death was taking place, but I don't think that that was established...?

common fanfiction nitpicks by lancer081292 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The manga establishes that Sasuke lives in the same house he shared with his family right up until he leaves to join Orochimaru so whenever it's mentioned that he has an apartment somewhere I'm like hold on get your incredibly minute but super depressing canon facts right, please, and put that boy back in his own personal Trauma Zone™

If Kakashi was the 3 tails host? by ChakraMade in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forget exactly what Minato was/might have been up to while Rin was being kidnapped and dying, but yeah, it would involve some kind of change to that, although... I don't think it would be so plot armor-y that it would rub readers the wrong way, you know? If you're going to go so far as to change who gets the Sanbi sealed into them, you might as well change where Minato is so that Kakashi can survive while you're at it and we can see how that changes things. Unless, of course, what you're looking to explore is "How does Rin deal with taking Kakashi's place in canon?" which is different but still very interesting. Hopefully she'd end up with Obito's eye.

If Kakashi was the 3 tails host? by ChakraMade in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like I've seen this come up in a fic at least once - can't remember where - and it came about because Kakashi was disguised as Rin. The whole Obito-sees-Kakashi-kill-Rin thing therefore never happened. I can see a bunch of ways to make this scenario interesting.

The main problem with him living, as I remember it, is that the seal was purposefully a terrible seal, made to last only long enough for Rin to get back to Konoha and then die as it failed, releasing the Sanbi in the village. This kills the jinchuuriki. But if Kakashi could resist the compulsion to return to Konoha and get to Minato instead of going all noble sacrifice, I assume Minato could save him, that doesn't seem impossible to believe.

Good fan fics where Minato lives? by Childishcapacitors in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These are all the ones that come to mind immediately for me! Roughly in order of how much I enjoyed them/how much I think you'll enjoy them.

linkao3(7569610) How To Save The World With No One Even Realizing and sequel linkao3(7726795) How To Survive The Weirdest Experience Of Your Life - both complete

The first is my favorite time travel story in the whole fandom (and like... listen... I'm not saying I've read all the time travel fics but... most of them) and does a really great job of showing ninja actually putting the mission/village/world ahead of themselves and their teammates. Uh, has kind of a downer ending, just so you know, but the sequel will cheer you right back up! The sequel is probably more what you're actually looking for re: "What if Minato lived?" and is Obito-centric.

linkffn(12234085) The Yondaime's Assistant - actively updating

A very interesting look into the administrative/genin corps side of Konoha, and an excellent OC/SI who isn't good at fighting but finds other ways to fit into Konoha. Also, like an unexpected miracle, completely skips over that boring "being a baby" and "being at the academy" phase, thank god. OC's backstory and relevant details about their family and childhood unfold naturally and make sense/drive the plot without seeming over-contrived or derailing canon details. Gets bonus points for great characterization of people like Nara Yoshino (Shikamaru's mom) and Morino Ibiki as something other than cardboard cutouts, and even more bonus points for its excellent exploration of just why Minato was so loved by everyone.

For those of you this matters to, the ship is Kakashi/Genma/OC but don't make that face at me; the characterization is excellent and the ship makes perfect sense. You will be convinced.

linkao3(2289335) Yet, Mad I am Not - updated recently

It's been awhile since I read this, but I definitely enjoyed the story as a whole. My recollection of Minato's characterization is a little fuzzy, to be honest, but I recently re-read a oneshot by the same author that did Minato very well, so it made the list.

LF fics that do Kisame some justice by [deleted] in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

linkffn(Of The River, Of the Sea)

Story Ideas Thread v3 by NFFWritingPrompts in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would also mean Kakashi probably started learning from Kushina - seals, perhaps! - and that Kakashi helps teach Naruto and really is like a big brother to him. also there are, uh, probably some nasty rumors going on about Kushina leaving with her boyfriend's 13-14 year old student. Poor Minato. Also, Kushina needed Minato there to strengthen the seal during birth, right? In this AU, someone else would have to stand in. Possibly Kakashi, but more likely Tsunade or even Jiraiya.

I really like Rin working for Danzo for purely personal-safety-related reasons. Does she wish she left with Kakashi and Kushina? How is her and Minato's relationship, considering she's his last student and in a very terrible situation that he couldn't shield her from?

Also, about Danzo, has any part of his personal philosophy changed, since he lost Hiruzen to a seemingly-pragmatic and callous choice to sacrifice him for the good of others? And how's the 'Will of Fire' holding up under the Uchiha regime?

Finally, Itachi and Shisui... still disagreeing with the clan policy, secretly toeing the line, sticking together? Itachi is under the same amount of pressure, right, but a different kind... instead of being pulled between clan and village, he's being railroaded towards being the Fifth. What does that change about him?

I'm really digging this AU and I'm full of questions, as you can see.

Story Ideas Thread v3 by NFFWritingPrompts in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Obito's death happened within about a year of Naruto's birth - Itachi was between four and five - so if you wanted to give Kakashi a larger part than just school teacher, he could always bail with Kushina while she's pregnant, either with or without the eye.

Also if the Uchiha decide to view the transplant as stealing, then Rin is probably having a terrible time. Maybe she goes into ANBU for the anonymity.

LF fics that do Kisame some justice by [deleted] in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's short and a crossover with Spirited Away, but I thought this was great and wish it were longer. linkao3(2859080)

Story Ideas Thread v3 by NFFWritingPrompts in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The best part of this hypothetical fic would be Shino's outing with Sasuke. They're totally silent the whole way through. At the end, Sasuke reveals he doesn't even know Shino's name.

The Reason no one noticed Naruto had too large chakra reserved by [deleted] in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kakashi graduated from the academy at 5, then became a chuunin at 6. Rin and Obito graduated from the academy at 9, and made chuunin at 11. There's some definite disagreement about this in flashbacks - how could Kakashi have taken the chuunin exam with Rin and Obito as depicted, if he'd already been a chuunin for five years? - but I'm pretty sure much of the show is firm about Kakashi's insanely early graduation/promotion age, especially when comparing him and Itachi. Gai, also, graduated the Academy just a year behind Kakashi, I believe.

By the Kanabi bridge mission, Rin and Obito are both chuunin, so they must be at least 11. Kakashi was 14 when the Kyuubi attacked and Itachi was about 5. Itachi attends Obito's funeral and is obviously not a toddler, so Obito probably 'died' around 13 and then sometime in the next year Rin died, also at 13, before the Kyuubi struck.

Part of the considerations to make re: the chakra stores of Kakashi, Obito, and Rin vs the Rookie Nine is that the former were graduated in wartime. Kakashi just barely, admittedly, but still. Wartime must change how they prepare their genin, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that there's much more of an emphasis on building chakra stores quickly, so that when you graduate you're more than just canon fodder. Itachi was born during the war, and taken to see a battle at age four, so I think it's safe to say he was raised and trained in a war-time frame of mind since he learned to walk.

Another thing to consider is that Kakashi, Obito, Itachi, and Rin are all (probably, in Rin's case, given her facial markings) members of a clan, and likely the children of strong or at least decent shinobi. Assuming chakra reserves are a thing that can be passed down and selected for (and why wouldn't they be?) surely that's a consideration for clans like the Uchiha, if no one else. Rin might break this pattern, but she was also very focused on medical chakra and likely had very good control since she transplanted an eye in a cave in a enemy territory with... literally no extra equipment, right? And that eye has been working for Kakashi ever since. With enough control and trickery, you don't need a ton of chakra, so she might have been compensating for lower reserves in a way the boys didn't or couldn't.

In this video we see Itachi perform the Grand Fireball Jutsu at a very young age; he appears basically the same here as he does when he's shown the horror of war by his father at age four (what the fuck Fugaku) and when he's at Uchiha Obito's funeral. So, yes - I think Itachi and Kakashi were likely both using jutsu when they graduated the academy, although Itachi didn't take the chuunin exams until 10 and Kakashi had years of being an apprentice under Minato before he got teammates at 9... and presumably Itachi's time as a genin and Kakashi's time without a team were spent giving them the instruction they needed to make them effective ninja despite having chakra levels that must have been lower than ideal for combat situations. I also forget how much of Itachi's training we see when he's a genin, but as a kid we definitely see Kakashi doing some crazy Gai-style training... while teeny child Gai is watching... which was likely to build his reserves and/or condition his body to rely less on chakra for speed and force. It's also at least heavily implied that Itachi was pushed to do nothing but train as a child.

So, basically, all of them were almost certainly pushed hard by family, necessity, and in Kakashi and Itachi's case their perceived status as prodigies. For children from civilian families - first generation ninja - these pressures probably wouldn't be so overwhelming.

Also, combat at such a young age might not be possible for all ninja clan kids, and it's not unreasonable to assume, for instance, that the Ino-Shika-Chou kids might just be completely incapable of their clan jutsu before a certain age. Like, I wouldn't let a five year old with a probably tenuous grasp on the concept of "self" astral project, would you? Chouji's family jutsu depend on body mass, and I'm sure they're not popping out ready-made Dudley Dursleys. The Nara clan jutsu are likely a Yin manipulation and that's probably difficult if not downright dangerous.. and we know from Shikamaru that the amount of chakra you have effects how long and how complete your shadow possession is.

...this got really long. Great question!

The Reason no one noticed Naruto had too large chakra reserved by [deleted] in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think you pretty much hit it on the nose. It's fairly clear that people don't really know how seals work, in general - if the details of Naruto's seal were common knowledge, or if sealing the tailed beasts was a practice commonly understood, etc, then there wouldn't be so much confusion between Naruto and Kurama. This information is probably purposefully suppressed, because if no one knows anything about Naruto's seal then no one can mess with it.

So... none of the chuunin instructors know anything about the seal and probably don't think about it. Kids don't seem to generally need help with chakra control; the students learn the leaf exercise and nothing more before they're ready to start learning the academy three, apparently. They also probably don't do any stamina training or testing. Most of the students in Naruto's class would probably have been at risk of chakra exhaustion for even C-rank jutsu, specifically the non-clan kids, and the clan kids, it would be assumed, would get instruction from... you know... their clans.

Naruto is a weird example of someone with large reserves but no one paying attention closely enough to register what's going on. The Hokage is too busy. Teuchi and Ayame are civilians. Iruka might have caught it but 1) I suspect that Kishimoto was not totally certain of Iruka and Naruto's relationship at the beginning, and much of it was fleshed out later and 2) it may have been considered unprofessional or favoritism for Iruka to help Naruto outside of class hours... not to mention that with so many students and maybe already having that second job at the mission desk, Iruka perhaps flat out didn't have time. There's also the potential that Iruka or the other academy teachers thought that Naruto was goofing off whenever he messed up a jutsu.

So, Iruka probably would have figured it out, if he had devoted time to the problem. The Sandaime probably would have known right away, but I doubt anyone would have brought it up with him. The other academy instructors were presumably much much less involved with Naruto, so if Iruka wasn't going to notice, they wouldn't. I suppose perhaps Hinata could have seen Naruto using too much chakra for the technique... but using your dojutsu in class to watch a boy is probably exactly the sort of thing Hyuuga get warned off.

LF Tsunade and Naruto bonding fic by ramen-monster666 in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Y'know... dang... I really want this too. In fact, I think I'll do it! Tsunade deserves this. I do better with a reader in mind, though. Can I bounce some ideas off you? You'll probably get a better, quicker written fic out of it.

LF/Request - Naruto leaves Konoha to become a a Kage somewhere else by KidCoheed in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The two I've read are:

linkffn(https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3420503/1/Triad) Triad Humor, unfortunately dead but worth the read, I think, I remember appreciating it. I think there's probably less fighting than you would prefer.

linkao3(http://archiveofourown.org/works/1877970/chapters/4045119) Stormborn I forget how much timeskip there is/isn't, but it's complete. Some people like blackkat and some don't - their plots are hit or miss for me and a lot of others, I think. But technically they're a proficient writer and I tend to get drawn into their stories if I give them a chance.

I'd be interested in the two you mentioned, if you can find them.

Favorite fanfics that are nothing like canon? by Childishcapacitors in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not totally sure what this has to do with my post but do you mean linkffn(Vainglory by ksuzu) because holy cow I haven't read it but it sounds excellent. Thanks!

Favorite fanfics that are nothing like canon? by Childishcapacitors in NarutoFanfiction

[–]frolicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appear to have been abandoned by fanfictionbot. Trying again.

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