welcome to hiraeth...

This is my love letter to SasuHina. SasuHina is the ship name for Sasuke Uchiha & Hinata Hyuuga from the Naruto series. A most peculiar pair to 99.9% of the world's population, but much like the name of this website, these two are so dear to me that they kind of feel like home — I always come back to them one way or another. Although I have long since lost interest in the Naruto series, I consider this pairing to be the most special, nostalgic and loved ship that I've ever had. Here you'll find longreads of me trying to justify shipping two characters who have never interacted, stuff I've made and links to some of my favourite fanworks. Please browse this site with an open mind.

27.01.22 - hello world

The original version of this site was created on 14/04/2020 — when I was laid off & stuck indoors thanks to COVID-19. It was hosted on FC2 webs and lasted only a few days before I became completely frustrated with my inadequate HTML/CSS knowledge from the early 2000s. Now that I've studied a little bit more, I wanted to try again, and so Hiraeth was (re)born. I tweaked the layout a little, but the main image is still the same as the original. It's from Kou Takamura's incredible SH doujinshi "Nemuri No Mori."

I'm kind of nervous to publish this site on neocities even though everyone I've encountered has been nothing but kind to me. Hostility in the shipping world has always been a thing but I'm way too old to engage with such things now. Please browse this site with an open mind. I 100% respect the canon pairings in naruto & the non-canon ones, so please respect my decision to go off the rails and ship two characters who have never spoken a word to each other. You can judge me and think I'm a loser behind closed doors but please don't send any direct hate my way.

If you got this far, thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you enjoy your stay.