#i hope you find this anon!!

[shinymixedbag]

@the anon wanting to learn japanese: fellow japanese learner here! i recommend the bunpo app. it helped me get the hang of the language pretty quickly. and if you want extra practice for kana, lingodeer is helpful, but it’s not much good for anything else. as for books, the genki ones are famous, but personally, i find them confusing, so not much use to me. i prefer somatome—really like how kanji is organized in those books. good luck!

Thank you for this sweets!  ^.^

[roronoaxd]

For the ask about a fic, 2, 4, and 11 for in all this bitterness, you stay so sweet?

2. what scene did you first put down?for the most part, even if i visualize a certain part in a story, i try to write in order. only for certain stories have i written out of order. that being said, lol.... this entire story was based off a headcanon post i did a year prior, so it was all put down before i started writing, therefore this was definitely written in order from start to finish. :) however, if we’re talking the initial idea/headcanon... the first part i put down was kuroo rescuing daichi from the aquarium. 4. what’s your favorite line of dialogue?the writing of this fic was totally self indulgent and then i tried to use a kurodai week prompt to justify that lol. it’s all my favorite, but if i had to choose:

“…yeah, so have you ever heard of aquamarine? It was once said to be made from mermaid tears.”

“No, I’ve never heard it. I’ve also never really seen a merperson cry…then again, why would you cry underwater?”

“True.” Kuroo laughed, glancing past Daichi and towards the open ocean.

I think this was my favorite because it foreshadowed the climax of the story? Like I’m pretty sure right after this, shit went down lol. I was also going to take this and have Daichi cry for the first time later, but I didn’t. 

11. what do you like best about this fic?

besides the fact that i finished it? i like how freeing it was to write? it was the little mermaid meets free willy lol, adding some but not much, adventure and i really wanted daichi to discover himself. with help from kuroo, daichi was able to explore his curiosity as well as discover and find love like what he’s seen in his fathers realtionship. all of that, paired with his relationship with gramps ukai, really helped daichi grow in this story. i like that.