Sukiiii here’s layk my part two-ish well something of the sort HAHAHAHA
How are yaaa?? Fine and well, I hope since people, family and friends are getting sick here—left and right, btw You play genshin? I PLAY GENSHIN TOO!! Yes Asia server, Imma send u my UID tmrw since Im alr lying down as I type this HAHAHAHA okay setting that aside
OKAY I’VE FINALLY CAUGHT UP and Read both chapter two and three and Prince Kiyoomi 🥰🥰🥰🥰 OKAY BUT I LOVE HOW each prince have their own secret/problem. Just waiting for Akaashi’s and Ushijima’s 🤭🤭🤭🤭 but alas to be Airi in your story rn ahahahaha—:”D screw being a lady of a high status lemme be a maid who falls for Prince Kita and have a forbidden love story 😍😍😍😍 HAHAHAHA
I mean Kiyoomi, I love you but Shinsuke, I love more HAHAHAHAHA okay but can we talk about why an arranged marriage usually happens and why a girl (yeah cursing her will take too much and the other readers are alr doing it HAHAHAHAHA) like Iris is married to Kiyoomi whom she doesn’t deserve btw—I smell a scandal that can disrupt the not so peaceful royal family even more. I alr have my theories and suspicions but Imma keep them at bay first and read a few more chapters or atleast before the reason is revealed.
OKEI THEN Do I see a sprout or a Seed Planted for YN’s Char. Development at Chapter 3? Like when she smiled and Suna couldn’t read it, is that a sign or like a foreshadowing of her slowly just slowly like superr slowly growing—It’s too early-ish for an actual growth but I smell a foreshadow or a little sprout but at this point I think Im just sprouting nonesense—haha—get it? Lame? Yeah ik but I still laugh HAHAHAHA
I have no words for suna—laykkkk—nada, it’s just too much rage and whatnot cuz laykk—Oh so you’re just gonna promise to care for YN in exchange for using her and breaking her heart??? Ano yon pang palubag-loob kay YN?.? (To Make her feel better in English to anyone else actually interested in reading this long ass ask)
I feel bad for Princess Maiko though—she reminds me of the main character of Empress Ki except she isn’t a maid nor does she lose her fam (Idk if she gonna grow but hey Im rooting for her just don’t do anything stupid to help and plot to hurt YN or else screw u HAHAHAHA) and as the saying goes (Honestly idk I prolly just made it up) “The Royal Harem/Family is not for weak-willed/hearted or for the innocent, else you suffer” and Princess Maiko is layk the living example of this
BUT I DO NOT feel anything LIKE NOTHING at all—not a single shred or an ounce of sympathy for Iris—no girl and when you said we’re gonna hate her more? Let me guess—she does one of these or all of these; annoy YN or embarrass YN or taunt or even take Suna away or well fk him during their honeymoon (wouldn’t be surprised—Im sure Suna will find some stupid excuse to disappear anyways)
OKAY THAT is all for this super duper long ask—Always stay safe and keep urself healthy, hydrated well fed and well rested!! amd ofc always Take Careee!!
With lots of love,
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HEADPHONES ANON AHSJKA I WAS GONNA ANSWER THIS A WHILE BACK BUT IM SORRY I REPLIED LATE :<< also, yes, I’m fine! lots of family friends here are also getting sick, but thankfully I’m safe from covid rn and I hope you are too! YES BESTIE I PLAY GENSHIN DROP YOUR UID LET’S GO PLAY! I’m excited to play with you omg (but heads up that I’m not great at it, I’m a newbie and I might be slower in keeping up. aka I get lost a lot and my game loves to glitch and freeze so it’s a fun experience to coop with me <33)
YES TO BE AIRI. IMAGINE BEING THE BEST PRINCE’S LOVE OF HIS LIFE. LIKE WOW. how to be airi rn. and hmm yes, there’s definitely…something behind Kiyoomi and Iris’ marriage that’ll be revealed soon. also theories? yes yes, I’m listening if you ever wanna share! HELP THE SPROUTING NONSENSE PUN AHSJAA but yeah, it’s foreshadowing! I agree it’s too early to make her grow that fast and at this rate, like I’m going to break her completely first, and we’re not at the stage yet where she totally breaks down. but yeah, the part about her smiling and rintaro not knowing what it means, it was foreshadowing that she’s getting better at hiding her feelings…and mayhaps even being manipulative towards rintaro… omg yeah, pampalubag loob for YN like no thank you, Rintaro. but at the same time, the truth hurts a lot, I kind of understand why we stick to the great fantasy even if it’s a lie. YN hurts less when she just lets herself be happy in his arms and decide to overlook the fact he has someone else in his heart sobs
oooh for Iris being more hateable in the future, you guys will definitely just what she does! or more like, what is rintaro gonna do that involves iris. HEHEHEH. omg take care too, have a nice day / night <33
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hey lia!! hope ur doing well :) im an abc as well and ive found that my studying habits are getting worse and worse due to procrastination and stuff, and its rlly bugging me bc i can feel my grades slipping but i dont wanna let my parents down yafeel?? and like ur obviously hella smart so i was wondering if u cld recommend some good study habits/tips/ways to survive college etc. while maintaining high grades? okok tysm
honestly it’s really hard (as abcs we often have SO much internal and external pressure put on us) but there’s only so much we can do about our grades you know. like yeah sure feasibly you could study 18 hours a day for all your classes but it’s not gonna happen. some tips that have helped me in my classes, as a fellow chronic procrastinator who can only work productively under the crushing pressure of deadline:
i really think the most important thing you can do is develop a schedule and STICK to it. for me, it means that i’m in class from 9 am or 10 am until 4 pm most days, and then work until 6 pm, go to the gym, and then have dinner with friends, and if necessary, (it usually is) i go to the library for as long as i need to. this is vaguely flexible because sometimes i can skip a class or two, or skip work if i need to work on something else. try getting into the habit of routine. even just showing up at the library for a couple hours makes me at least 80% more productive than i’d be if i went back to my dorm and did work all night.
know that courses are not all created equal. in some, participation is important so you need to do your readings weekly and speak up a lot in discussion. in some, the exams are entirely lecture based, so you need to show up to lecture but don’t need to focus so much on the readings. in some, participation isn’t weighted at all and all you’re graded on are papers and exams, so you can skip discussion. you don’t have to do everything 100% of the time to get the A, you can skip lectures and be fine, you can skip discussions and be fine, and don’t let people tell you that’s the only way to succeed. it’s about being smart in your studying and not wasting time and energy on shit that isn’t important. just make sure you’re keeping track of important deadlines and dates for exams or papers or projects.
get to know your limits, and schedule accordingly. this is really important for procrastinators like me. for example for one of my law classes i never keep up with the readings and only start studying the week before, but i space out the readings to be able to do 100 pages or so a night in addition to my other homework, and i still get A’s on the exams. for research papers over 10 pages, i schedule out one day JUST to read papers and books and sources, and then schedule out one day JUST to write. i’ve finished 15 and 20 page papers this way easily. if it’s under 10 pages i require only one day. this is what’s feasible for me, and i know that other people can either read/write faster or slower than me. so it’s important to try and figure out what works best for you.
i know people who are constantly studying and never doing anything else and they’re no better off (grades or otherwise) than me or my friends. it’s all about studying smarter not harder and even as a procrastinator you can be academically successful!! ’m gonna take my own advice a bit bc i procrastinated on writing an essay due tmrw by answering this ask skdghskdgs but good luck and i hope this helps! please don’t put too much pressure on yourself, i’m sure you’re doing great and it’s all gonna be fine!!!
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Wrote a teeny thing for @inbetweenwars, who shared some lovely headcanons with me the other day :’)
Now on AO3!
It’s the last night of summer vacation during Kageyama’s third year at Karasuno High School, and everything is terribly wrong.
Well, alright, not that wrong. He hasn’t been informed at the last minute that he’s been kicked out because of his grades, or that the volleyball club is disbanding, or that Oikawa has become their new English teacher, or anything. But there’s been an unease growing and gnawing at his stomach for the past month. It’s been making him very grumpy. And tomorrow, he’ll confront the source of it once and for all. He’s not sure what’s going to happen.
The cold hard facts are that tomorrow, along with returning to school, they will return to volleyball practice. They’re the much lauded Karasuno third years, they’ve brought the team to Nationals twice already, he’s their captain (Tadashi is the vice-captain, now, and thank god—Kageyama would die if he had to give all those inspirational speeches to all the first years, but Tadashi usually handles it for him). There is so much riding on their shoulders.
And Kageyama—he’s out of practice.
It’s not for lack of trying. He’s kept up the same training regimen he always has throughout the summer, morning runs, weights, drills, spiking practice. All his solo skills are in top shape, as usual.
But Kageyama isn’t just a solo player anymore, not by a long shot. The last two years have taken him and reshaped him, and turned him into something so much more. He’s a team player, now. He’s someone’s partner. In some ways… one half of a whole.
He grits his teeth, as he tosses a volleyball into the air in the dark of his room, lying flat on his back in bed.
The other half of said whole has been on vacation for an entire month now, their whole summer break. While Kageyama and the rest of Karasuno have been training hard, Hinata has been off in America with his family, probably stuffing himself full of food and becoming lethargic and slow.
Deep down, Kageyama knows this is probably not true—because nothing could ever make Hinata Shouyou, of all people, lethargic and slow. Moreover, none of them can begrudge him this, because Hinata almost never gets to see his dad (who works abroad in Hawaii, where they’re currently vacationing) or have their whole family together, so—Kageyama wants to be happy for him.
But what’s going to happen? They haven’t practiced the quick in a month, and Hinata hasn’t been there to work on his reflex-timing receives, or blocking, or any of it. And it’s their last year, together, and—
Kageyama’s phone buzzes on the bed next to him. He nearly drops the volleyball on his face in his hurry to grab it, because there’s no one else who’d be texting him at this hour.
SHOUYOU
cant wait 2 see u tmrw <3
Kageyama crushes his face into his pillow, as a series of complex emotions he still doesn’t understand or fully welcome overtake him.
They’ve been texting back and forth during the break, kind of a lot—way more texting than Kageyama has ever partaken in before this point in his life. But on the last day of school, before summer started, and Shouyou left on vacation, they’d ki—Kageyama screws up his whole face and wriggles around in bed for lack of a better way to let out his feelings—they’d kissed.
Alright, well, more like he had accidentally smacked his mouth into Hinata’s, and then Hinata had jumped on him without warning, and Kageyama had already been off balance. The whole thing had resulted in a fairly painful impact with the pavement shortly thereafter.
Hinata had left with his mother and sister that night, so Kageyama was left with bruised knees and a baffled heart, though maybe not as baffled as it might have been a few years ago. He likes Hinata. And Hinata likes him back. That much is clear, as evidenced by his now frequent and abundant use of heart emojis.
KAGEYAMA
dumbass
SHOUYOU
idiot!!!!!!!!
I waited all summer 2 SEE U again
i’m gonna beat you at sprints at practice
KAGEYAMA
Bull fucking shit.
I bet you’re totally out of shape.
I’ll kick your ass, stupid Hinata.
Going to sleep, goodnight.
He almost adds, sleep well, but then doesn’t. It’s too much. Hinata waited all summer to see him? Kageyama doesn’t know what to make of this, so he turns his phone off and aggressively tries to fall asleep.
In the morning, when he turns his phone on, he has one unread text:
SHOUYOU
did u miss me?
Kageyama chokes on nothing and goes to brush his teeth.
He’s just about ready to head out the door when there’s a knock—familiar, more of a frenzied tapping, no real rhythm to it. He whips his head around to stare at the door. That’s…
The knock comes again.
“Co—one second!” Kageyama manages to say. He’s the only one home. He dumps his breakfast dishes in the sink and hurries to open the door.
There, standing on his doorstep, is Hinata Shouyou.
Kageyama freezes in place, like maybe, if he stands still enough, Hinata won’t see him.
“Hi…” Hinata says, eyes darting around a couple different directions, before settling on Kageyama’s face. Crap, he saw him. “Hi, Kageyama!”
He looks different.
Kageyama knows that’s a stupid thing to think. It’s only been a month, since he saw Hinata last. But they’ve never gone that long without seeing each other, not in all the time they’ve known one another. There’s always been summer training camp and even the times Hinata will bike over the hill to practice together, and then there’s school, and spring and winter break are too short to count as real breaks, and last winter Hinata had even surprised him by showing up on his birthday with hot cocoa mix and anime DVDs—
A month ago, they’d kissed, and now Hinata looks different.
He doesn’t look any less in shape than he had when he’d left, Kageyama notes—his shoulders are still surprisingly wide for his small body, his chest is broad, his arms are well-built, and his thighs are—well. They’re, um, good. And stuff. They’re really good.
But he’s… tanned, a little bit, and Kageyama spots freckles, which only ever just barely started to appear during summers in Tokyo. They were never given enough time to fully show, but now they’re everywhere it seems like, on his cheeks and nose and forehead, his forearms. They’re so small, but when Hinata grins it’s like Kageyama notices each one, individually, in their perfection.
And is he—is he taller? Not by much… but Kageyama distinctly remembers, with a clarity that is so vivid it’s startling, exactly how much he had to bend in order to press his mouth to Hinata’s, and it seems like—less, now, and that’s shocking, too. He knows Hinata’s grown a bit, they all have. But suddenly, he can see it.
He’s always found himself looking at Hinata, ever since he’d first encountered him across the net in middle school. He can’t keep his eyes off Hinata. But now that he finally understands why it’s always been that way, it feels like Kageyama is really seeing him.
Hinata laughs a little, almost embarrassed, and Kageyama realizes how hard and how unblinkingly he’s been staring. Then Hinata runs a hand through his hair, scuffing his palm against the back of his neck, and Kageyama notices it.
His mouth falls open.
“What?” Hinata asks, and yep, he’s definitely self-conscious. There’s a blush rising to his cheeks.
“Your… your hair,” Kageyama says. “What’d you do to it?”
Hinata squints at him. “I cut it.”
“That’s not—I mean, I can see that, but—” Kageyama stares some more. Hinata’s hair is still more or less the wild mess it’s always been, but now the back and sides are buzzed short. It makes Hinata look a little bit older, too. Not a lot, but enough. Enough to remind Kageyama, again, how Hinata has grown so much in other ways. Maybe not vertically; but he’s Karasuno’s ace, now, their Little Giant; and he fills out the title just as much as the old one did (more, Kageyama thinks, but he’s biased).
He’s Karasuno’s ace, but he’s Kageyama’s… something else. He’s a lot of things, to Kageyama. He’s Kageyama’s partner, and maybe his future, and he was gone for a month, but now he’s back. And he’s different, but somehow still exactly the same.
They are standing close, separated by nothing more than the doorstep. Kageyama reaches out and brushes his fingers over Hinata’s hair where it’s now short, and finds it’s still soft, just in a different way. He scratches his fingers against it softly, mesmerized. Hinata sighs, smiling, eyes fluttering closed.
This time, when Kageyama kisses him again, it’s much less of an accident. It’s slower, and fortunately less painful, and Hinata doesn’t jump on him—but he does slide his arms around Kageyama’s waist, and Kageyama hugs him back. It’s the first time he’s ever hugged Hinata, outside of team victory dogpiles.
He runs a hand through Hinata’s hair, and softly rubs his fingers over the new parts, and Hinata giggles and asks, “Do you like it?”
“Yeah,” Kageyama says.
Hinata squeezes him even harder in response.
“I practiced a lot while I was gone,” Hinata says into his chest. “Beach volleyball! I found this team of college kids and I couldn’t understand a word they were saying, except for one girl who spoke some Japanese—they let me play with them! Gwaaah, I forgot how hard it is to jump in the sand! Their setter wasn’t as good as you, obviously, but…”
It might make them late for their first morning practice, which is the worst possible thing they could ever do, but Kageyama lets Hinata babble on about playing volleyball on his vacation, grunting occasionally, content to just stand there and stroke Hinata’s hair a little longer. All the irritation he’s had building under the surface, all the anxiety that they somehow wouldn’t be able to pick up where they left off, fades. He wants to stay standing there like that until it’s gone.
As Hinata, and his stories, finally start to wind down, Kageyama mumbles into his hair, “I guess I kinda missed you.”
“Huh?” Hinata asks.
“Nothing,” Kageyama says, “come on, you’re going to make us late for practice.”
Hinata glances at the time on his phone and yelps. “Kageyama! We gotta go, hurry up!”
“Leave your bike here,” Kageyama tells him. “You can come over tonight and get it, anyway.”
Hinata beams up at him. “Okay!”
They start off walking, then jogging, then inevitably racing the rest of the way to school, and Hinata narrowly beats Kageyama, to much cheering and then subsequent collapsing on the gym steps. Kageyama doesn’t even have it in him to try and kick him.
Mostly, he’s just happy—that they’re back at practice, that they’re both still in top condition, that everything between them is still the same.
Then Hinata sits up, laughing gleefully. He sweeps his hair out of his eyes with a kind of casual ease Kageyama isn’t used to seeing from him—wild on top, short on the sides. Kageyama’s face goes all hot. When Hinata catches his eye and grins, just for him, he feels like he may combust altogether.
Correction: everything between them is mostly the same. But the different things, Kageyama is pretty sure he likes those, too.
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