#i kind of wanna experience this more bc AAAA I WANNA WRITE THAT BEAUTIFULLY

[hua-fei-hua]

rereading a fic (bc i'm trying to typeset it so i can print it before my parents come back from their trip) and UGH it's so good

[suckishima]

what are the top 3 chapters!!

alakjdajd tbh they fluctuate bc i’m REALLY bad at picking favorites, but the ones that come to mind and that I actually like Know the chapter numbers and what happens in each etc, are 298 (guide), 364 (if i wasn’t alone...), 365 (endings and beginnings part 2), 369 (food becomes muscle), 371 (on the other side of the world), and 387 (the greatest opponent)

I know that’s a lot more than three lmao. 298 and 369 are probably actually my top two, but it’s hard to choose lol.

(i started writing WHY i like each one and it got super long lmao, so if you wanna know my general thoughts on each of these it’s under the cut)

298 i love bc the character development is seemingly so simple but it makes me CRAZY. Tsukki is a character I relate to a ton and reading this one for the first time was really cathartic for me. The way there’s only a few lines of dialogue to help emphasize the impact of the flashback panels from Tsukki’s perspective and to actually get to see the respect he has for Yamaguchi, but also how he’s learned from him in how to go for the things he wants. Like, we’ve spent the WHOLE series knowing for a fact that Yamaguchi looks up to and admires Tsukki, but haven’t seen much about how Tsukki sees Yamaguchi other than the confrontation at the Tokyo Training camp, and it’s so rare to see Tsukki feel like he can open up - even to us as the audience we rarely see it. So to see him say “he’s always been one step ahead of me” and then the panels that actually SHOW Yamaguchi taking those steps past him??? fuck, like that’s just such good storytelling. We get to see Yamaguchi’s journey through Tsukki’s eyes and feel the respect there that previously we had only assumed probably existed, and then it doubles to let us see how Yamaguchi’s journey impacted Tsukki too. It’s about how they’ve grown separately and together and then the final “sometimes it’s actually kind of fun” like, aaah!!!

364, oooo tbh this MIGHT be the best written chapter in the series imo. structurally, it’s SO good - i made a post about it when i reread it a few months ago too, so I won’t ramble forever here. but as a standalone single narrative of just this chapter, it’s stunningly done. heartbreaking of course, but the writing tbh is practically awe inspiring. it takes hinata’s original, ultimate goal of just staying on the court, builds it up to it’s highest point, and then it punches us in the gut with it. absolutely fantastic stuff. and i will NEVER get over the little tagline at the end of the chapter that says “the sun rises and - “ while hinata (our sun) is hunched over on the floor. like DAMN. i know this is one of the few things furudate said they had planned from basically the beginning and ugh wow did they deliver.

and then 365 is of course, the fall out. these two go hand in hand and work off each other beautifully. we see all the evidence that had been in our face before, silly fun hinata things right? NOPE turns out it’s a major, life changing lesson!! and god takeda’s entire speech is SO good. i’ve talked about this one a lot bc his “this is still volleyball” speech is basically every single one of my favorite hq!! themes wrapped up into one. how hinata’s hunger is what caused him to fall bc he was too hungry and did’t stop to take care of himself along the way, and that every moment is connected and is all still volleyball,,, yeah. and then just ooof the very last page where there’s all this noise from the court and hinata looks at the doors as the close and then it’s this silent shot of them being closed. the IMPACT of that is so goooooood. catch me crying when this gets animated and i can actually hear those sounds out loud and instead of in my head loll

369 is kind of another sister chapter to those last two, it’s the final high school chapter where we finally get some of the last bits of character development for some of them. the third years bow and say goodbye, NO one on the team apologies for doing something wrong, tsukki wants to watch kamomedai’s blocking (!!) and kageyama wanted to take this team further (!!!), daichi thanks takeda. takeda says “nothing is over! nothing! not one thing for any of you has ended today!” and the ukai says “let’s go eat” !!! and then theres the shot of them all eating, ukai bring hinata his food while he cries into his bowl and ukai’s “food becomes muscle” lines aaah, so good. so so good, and a GREAT continuation of takeda’s speech from 365. they’ve all come so far and learned so much, but there’s still more food to eat, more experiences to share and more ways to grow stronger

371 mostly, i just love the brazil arc and there’s just this feeling of sadness and loneliness that carries throughout the chapter that’s almost kind of haunting, but it also has this feeling of purpose too. this one is harder for me to explain lol, but it’s like a test for hinata to see if he can learn to be okay, to prove to himself that he has what it takes to make the right choices to make sure he’s okay as much as possible. it’s something i really relate to on a personal level - “being okay” in a lot of ways is a choice, and i love how this chapter is the beginnings of us seeing that for him. and then!! oikawa showing up at the end as like hinata’s reminder of home is just so good lol. things are weird and different and he’s in a different country, but volleyball is still fun - and hinata isn’t alone, he isn’t the only guy who traveled the world for his dream

and then 387, ah what can i say about chapter 387 that hasn’t been said before lmao. i love how it both recontexutalizes AND emphasized every single kageyama moment from the entire series. it’s such a great use of flashbacks, it doesn’t give kageyama more depth, it shows how that depth has been there the entire time. and it just really solidifies the importance of his relationship with hinata and how integral their bond was for BOTH of them to get better. the second to last page where it’s showing kageyama’s middle school years and we’ve just read the “somebody even better will come” dialogue a few pages back, and then we see kageyama alone, and alone again, and alone to become the great king, and rejected from shiratorizawa, and then the bottom left cell is just the karasuno gym, a volleyball in the air and a big “I’M HERE” that we know from context is hinata, and he’s unknowingly fulfilling kageyama’s grandpa’s words. like aaaa!! THE PANELLING, THE WRITING, THE IMPACT!! i’ll be saying this until i die lmao, but haikyuu is a masterpiece and furudate is a genius at panelling.

[owo--bot]

Heya, I've just read all 27 chapters after a purely random click on your profile and I wanna praise just how beautifully you managed to insert such heavy topics in a friends to lovers kind of story.

At first I simply thought of the reader as naive and quite childish and humorous, but as the chapters progressed I started to associate various mental health problems with her behaviour; the encounters with the "worm" (whom I can't recognise as any tokyo rev character but I'm really curious who he is supposed to be. Maybe I missed some hints) made me think of the reader as a bit autistic. I have a lot of experience with people with ASD so I'm not sure if I'm just overthinking her behaviour based on my previous experience or if you intended for our minds to wonder to various mental issues. Stress, trauma, mental development impediments and such can alter behaviours in such a peculiar way so I like the elusive feeling that the character gives off. She doesn't have a label put on her from the start so you're pulled in to find out more. The relationship with sanzu is so beautifully portrayed and it doesn't feel forced at all, but again he is a hard to read character so I'm always left wondering what he thinks, feels or plans. I wonder just how much he knows about her past since the reader almost always makes references to her past through her jumping to conclusions, dark thoughts, separation anxiety, tendency to infantilize herself in order to avoid responsibility... but he never seems to react too much to any of that and he seems to know how to navigate through it already. I'm also wondering for how long they've been together, once again, maybe I lost some details since I did the reading at night.

I hope this doesn't upset you. I really like the series so I'm wondering if you already have it all planned out or if you have a posting schedule so that I can follow the story.

I am sort of a tumblr veteran so I'm not that young and I'm mentioning this because I find it funny that it's been ages since I've last send an ask to an author, but your writing inspired me to interact again, so I hope this reached you well.

Have a great day <3

AAAA WHAT THANK YOU SO MUCH ;w; ♡♡ this literally just made me SQUUUEAL, honestly that's the best kind of praise bc that was one of my main objectives when I started writing this

And so the worm—they're actually not a TR character at all, they're just an OC so sorry if that was confusing lmfoahdjs but also yes! I did leave it vauge to some extent on purpose, there are allot of overlapping symptoms in terms of mental health so it definitely could be interpreted differently for each person but as far as an actual answer for that goes, it won't be touched on for a pretty long time considering how my pacing has been :,)

And hhhh that really means allot bc I find myself thinking about allot while writing is if it feels too forced or not, so thank you! And you touched on a whole bunch of stuff that I really can't wait to make more sense of but as of right now the only thing I can answer is in one of the birthday pt chapters it's mentioned they've been together for a few years n_n

And no no no! It didn't upset me at all honestly it made me really happy to read this so thank you so much!!! But as far as plot goes, it is planned out but my posting schedule is kind of all over the place, it's normally one chapter per week depending on the wc but this one should be up by tomorrow or Sunday!

AND AAAHH I wish I could put into words how happy I am to hear that!!! I really appreciate all of this so thank x100 it made my day :,)))!♡ have a wonderful day!! ♡