i have to say this but seeing tom daley’s husband cheer for him when he won the gold recently, makes me think of every ship in hq!! with one of them in the jnt and they win the gold too…
OSAMU FUCKING CRYING IN ONIGIRI MIYA BC HIS BROTHER AND HIS BF WON THE GOLD
akaashi who doesn’t hysterically cheer often is also fucking crying and he immediately calls bokuto later
and the same goes for hirugami with hoshiumi, lev with yaku, tendo with ushijima, or kita with aran
and then you have sakuatsu and kagehina crying on the court while embracing each other
but also bc i’m a multi and rare shipper the same would happen with sunakomo, atsuhina, or kenhina with kenma reacting live on twitch and hiding in his hoodie bc he’s crying, or atsukita and kita’s grandma is handing him tissues so you choose what you want to imagine lol
I’VE BEEN CRYING BC OF TOM DALEY AND HIS HUSBAND SO EVERYONE IS CRYING OKK
Aran: No, I don’t. You two call me that. But anyway, if Atsumu sets to Gin, we’re both on the same side, and it’ll look like it’s going to me again.
Atsumu: I can do that. Only kidding by the way, I am Atsumu.
Aran:
Aran: Why do I associate with you two.
Hinata: We have to get along! If the four of us don’t figure out how to work together, the Vice Principal will throw us in detention for forever! Or worse, Daichi-san and Suga-san won’t let us play volleyball!
Tsukki, to Yamaguchi: He has got to sort out his priorities.
Coach Yamiji: Now, Bokuto, stand here and repeat this four times. I am a volleyball player, not a baboon brandishing a ball.
Bokuto, in emo mode: I am a volleyball player, not a baboon brandishing a ball.
Bokuto: *looking confused*
Bokuto: Aghaaaaaashi, what does brandish mean?
Yamaguchi: Why are Hinata and Kageyama sprinting to the gym?
Tsukishima: Because that’s what they do. When confused, race to the court. They’re volleyball idiots.
Karasuno first years, in their third year:
Tsukishima, exasperated: Hinata, how could I have suffered three years of being on the same team as you and still think short people can’t fight on the court?
Hinata:
Hinata, beaming: Tsukki, did you just give me a COMPLIMENT?!
Tsukki, walking away: No.
Hinata: You did! Tsukki! I knew you cared!
Tsukki: You are delusional.
Yaku, after yelling at Lev: Do you understand?
Lev: Yes.
Yaku: Yes, senpai.
Lev, confused: There’s no need to call me senpai just because I’m so much taller than you, Yaku-san.
Yaku:
Lev:
Kuroo: Well, that’s it then. Guess we need to find ourselves a new freakishly tall middle blocker. Because Yaku is going to murder him.
Kenma, sighing: Lev is an idiot.
Inarizaki second years after a loud Miya twin fight got them kicked out of the stadium:
Gin: If you make us go through this again, I swear, I will-
Atsumu, the captain: What, vice-captain? Bench us?
Osamu: Ban us from practice?
Gin: No. But I will call Kita-san.
Miyas:
Atsumu, nervously: You wouldn’t.
Gin: I would.
Kosaku: He would.
Suna, recording the whole thing: Ohhhhhhhhhh, you two are in deep shit.
Semi, after ranting about Shirabu: Well, I hate it! I hate him, but I don’t, and I hate that I don’t! I feel like I’m going insane!
Tendou: Ha! Conflicting feelings. I’ve been there. Don’t worry about it! You’re just as sane as I am.
Semi:
Semi: Great. Thanks.
Yamagata: Okay Tendou, I don’t think you understand just how absolutely NOT reassuring that was.
Tendou: You all just don’t appreciate my wisdom and insight! Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean everyone has.
Iwaizumi, done with Oikawa: Oh my God Oikawa! What is wrong with you? Is there anything but volleyballs bouncing in that empty head of yours???
Oikawa, winking suggestively: Well, Iwa-Chan, I could make your head just as empty as mine. Just tell me when and where.
Iwaizumi, watching Oikawa strut away: *iwaizumi.exe has stopped working*
Matsukawa, dying of laughter with Hanamaki: You know what, I agree with you about our dear captain on so many counts, but you can’t deny: he’s got style.
Shiratorizawa third years attempting to help Tendou flirt with Ushijima:
Reon: Well, we can start simple. Try telling him a joke? You’re good at that.
Semi: Pffft, Wakatoshi wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him, jump serving volleyballs at his face.
SIX OF CROWS HAIKYUU!! VERSION just slammed into my brain at top speed and refused to leave.
First version that came into my head was this: Kuroo as Kaz, scheming and always thinking several steps ahead and manipulating others, friends and enemies. Bokuto as Jesper, powerful and has a presence, loves the adrenaline of a fight (or facing a wall of three blockers, whatever), and loud and cheerful (most of the time). Oikawa and Iwaizumi as Nina and Matthias. I probably don’t need to explain to you who is who and why. Matthiwaizumi, of course, lives to a ripe old age, happy and in love with Ninoikawa. That’s what happens, yep.
I ran into an issue with Inej and Wylan. Because to me, Akaashi is quite similar to Inej, quiet but calculating and dangerous and threatening when they want to be. Independent and supportive and unfalteringly loyal, but also keeping their counterpart honest/humble/etc. And Kenma reminds me of Wylan in that he’s not super dedicated to and in love with volleyball in the same way as the others are, like Wylan was not used to the life that the others led before Kaz pulled him in. Also, Kenma is very smart and good at thinking strategically. Wylan was very good at engineering and math, and I feel like Kenma’s video game prowess would lend itself well to learning about technology systems. And Kenma is the least physically threatening out of these six, like Wylan was among the crows. But the way the ships work, Kenma should be Inej and Akaashi should be Wylan… well, it’s an AU, anyway. Akaashinej can be pining after Bokutojesper. And after pulling him in, Kazuroo falls for Wylenma.
Terushima is Kuwei. Smart and flirtatious. Makes Kenma extremely angry by flirting with Kuroo excessively. Tried on Bokuto at first, but Akaashi and his knives put an end to that very quickly. Daishou would probably also work, plus, it would be hilarious to have him flirting incessantly with Kuroo.
Second cast of Crows (maybe they’re rivals with the first cast… ):
Well, the image of sakuatsu as helnik (matthias helvar x nina zenik? I think?) wouldn’t leave my head. Hate each other at first, warm up to each other, Sakusa/Matthias lets their guard down for the first time with Atsumu/Nina, who break their trust to save them, and when they meet again, Sakusa/Matthias absolutely hate Atsumu/Nina and hate that they still have feelings for them. Atsumu/Nina had been longing to see them again but when provoked, physically or otherwise, absolutely refuse to take that lying down and immediately fight back. Classic enemies to lovers to enemies to allied enemies to lovers. The basic staple of sakuatsu, really.
Now that I’m attached to sakuatsu helnik, might as well make it a national team (+friends) party. Hinata strikes me as the perfect Wylan, except maybe that Wylan was never that exuberant. But Hinata is so nice and friendly (unless you insult him) that he would be horrified by the cruelty and death that the Crows live with on a daily basis. But then, once he got used to it and started to really love and care for his friends/teammates, he would be the fiercest and most protective of all. Also, can you just imagine the national team looking at Hinata after he casually suggests murder a la Wylan, like, “oh my god, we’ve corrupted him,” and then having a miniature crisis? Also, he starts with natural talent, albeit with an uncontrollable disadvantage that he then turns to his advantage, becoming better than anyone hoped he could be. Hinata had extreme athletic gifts, but the disadvantage of his small height. Wylan had dyslexia but also extreme intelligence and knowledge. Plus, everyone wants to be Hinata’s dad, like how Kaz adopted Wylan.
That would make Kageyama Jesper. They both have fantastic, utterly precise, superhuman (literally in Jesper’s case) aim. Kageyama is definitely impulsive at times, but although I can totally see him gambling away all his money, I feel like that would be more because he had no idea what was going on and someone conned him into it, rather than Jesper’s addiction. Their personalities are almost complete opposites, but they both come alive the most during high pressure situations (fights/games) and perform at their best in them. They can both be offensive, although Kageyama is mainly just blunt, while if Jesper is insulting, he’s probably doing it on purpose. They both encouraged their counterparts in their own ways, and convinced them that they were valuable despite their perceived disadvantages. Kageyama was the first to treat Hinata as a serious opponent and rival, and to take him seriously. Jesper was one of the first to make Wylan feel like he was more than his inability to read and that he was, regardless of the disadvantage, incredibly smart and special. They both were condescending at first to Hinata/Wylan but grew to respect them and care for them.
I’m not sure who would be Kaz… no one on the national team really strikes me as scheming and manipulative enough to be him… Maybe Suna, but I like the idea of him as Inej. Inconspicuous at first, especially compared to their colleagues, underestimated, but very skilled. Plus, the whole Thief of Secrets thing really suits Suna’s tendency for collecting blackmail. If anyone on the national team is collecting information to use against people to gain an advantage over them, it would probably be Suna. Ship-wise, that would make Osamu Kaz but… Osamu is not like Kaz in the slightest. He’s all impulse and Kaz is all calculation. Personality wise, if we spread the candidate pool to be Japanese-born volleyball players at the Olympics, Oikawa would definitely be Kaz. Scheming, strategically turning his weaknesses into strengths, manipulating, thinking ahead, bringing out the strengths of his team, and very powerful and frightening in his own right. Ship wise though, I feel like Oikawa and Suna wouldn’t last a day. They would probably destroy each other. Maybe Iwaizumi and Osamu are two of the Dregs that come along with the group, but don’t participate in the actual heist, staying on the ship instead. There were a few of those in the book; I think Rotty and Dirix were supposed to go but one of them died when their decoy ship was attacked by Pekka Rollins. There were others but I forget who.
Komori can be Kuwei. I don’t know how smart he is, but he doesn’t have a prominent partner he’s shipped with, and I can see him flirting with everyone for the fun of it and making everyone else really mad. He and Sakusa are probably not cousins in this AU.
I left out Hoshiumi, Ushijima, Hakuba, Yaku, Hyakuzawa, and Aran, which makes me sad, but I couldn’t think of a role that would fit them well. Ushijima is (I think) their captain but he is way too himbo to be Kaz (@ him and Kageyama discussing gravity in South America). Hoshiumi would be a good Jesper but Hirugami Sachirou is too experienced and calm to be Wylan. Hyakuzawa could be Wylan, but he doesn’t have an obvious partner, I don’t remember very much about Hakuba except that he’s huge, and Aran isn’t calculating enough to be Kaz, stoic enough to be Matthias, outgoing and purposefully charming enough to be Nina or Jesper, or innocently inexperienced enough to be Wylan. I included Bokuto in the previous set of Crow volleyboy musings, so I won’t count him here. Yaku is probably waiting at the Crow Club/Slat to take care of everyone when they get back and yell at them for being stupid and reckless.
Or, using a similar cast of characters, Atsumu and Osamu split up Kaz’s character (Atsumu is the schemer and manipulator, Osamu handles the logistics of being a leader - he has his own business, he’s used to records and numbers, plus it would probably have been very useful for Kaz to have a doppelganger to use as an alibi), Sakusa and Komori split up Kuwei’s character (Komori is the chaos, Sakusa, the university graduate, is Kuwei’s scientific prowess; they can be cousins here), Suna, Hinata, and Kageyama as Inej, Wylan, and Jesper, and Ushijima as Matthias. We’ll bring Tendou on to be Nina: he is very out there and not afraid to be himself, and I can totally see him sacrificing his relationship with Ushijima to keep them both safe, and Ushijima being so hurt and confused by Tendou’s betrayal that he keeps a distance when they’re reunited and accidentally comes across as aggressive.
Anyway, if you’ve reached the end of my Six of Crows/Haikyuu!! rant, thank you for sticking around! A gold star for you! ⭐ I love the volleyboys and the Crows (the Dregs ones not the Karasuno ones, although I love them too) very much and they take up much of my mental real estate.
More fic-based art for a fluffy christmas fic! In which tendou attempts to propose, but things don’t go as planned (the fic is polaroids & proposals by miracleboysatori on ao3 )
based on a fic I wrote to go along with this art (slow motion by miracleboysatori on ao3) in which both tendou and ushijima struggle with mutual pining throughout high school. it’s written in the form of journal entries & attempted confession letters.
DAY THREE-Road Trip-Toothbrush-Flowershop/Tattoo Parlour AU
Ushijima is a fully functional adult with a night routine, Tendou is a gremlin who would probably skip brushing his teeth if Ushijima didn’t remind him to.
“Your hands are shaking,” Tendou says casually, like he’s talking about the weather. Ushijima just hums in reply, afraid that one wrong word and Tendou will know what he’s done. So instead, Ushijima allows Tendou to hold his hand, even though he feels like he doesn’t deserve it.
Art for my incredibly talented friend @arminita-muscaria who wrote a fic for our mafia au hc and made me CRY (please read it! and read the notes bc it’s based off of a really good tiktok!)
okay so I’ve been gone for a minute because I was writing my first fic on ao3 but I’m back with more trash than ever! I really love crack fics and my friend and I thought up this absolutely GREASY premise and I just couldn’t help myself. I only included a few of my ideas in this post but let me know if yall like it and maybe I’ll do a part 2
Haikyuu!! Frat House AU
Bokubro is obviously a member of the frat, he’s also a minor drug dealer with Kuroo, and his room is L I T E R A L L Y DISGUSTANG, like Kuroo actually has a fear of Bokuto’s side of their room. People are baffled, BAFFLED when they find out that his boyfriend is non other than Akaashi, president of the most prestigious fraternity on campus. But what can akaashi say? he believes any guy who can drink his weight in vodka, take at least three different unnameable drugs, and still smile at him the morning after, deserves his attention.
Kuroo took one for the team when he rushed, and roomed with Bokuto. Needless to say, his quiet gamer boyfriend, Kenma, refuses to stay over. When they first met at one of the frat’s infamous ragers, they’d stumbled into Kuroo’s shared room, heading toward a drunk hook up. Then Kenma put his hand in something wet. And very much alive. That was the first and last time. Bokuto and him irritate everyone by constantly referring to themselves as “businessmen”, only to be immediately informed by Iwaizumi and Daichi that “selling drugs to high schoolers doesn’t make you business men”
Daichi didn’t want to be in charge, but duty calls and when you and Iwaizumi are the only sane ones in the house, well a man has to step up. Plus, it totally gains him brownie points with all of the trashy college girls that show up to their notorious parties. because he was totally interested in that, and definetly not in the chaotic silver haired boy from the competing fraternity. no he wanted nothing to do with Sugawara. It’s not like he catches himself openly fantasizing about him, and the whole house made it into a running joke.
Iwaizumi is also in charge, to no one’s surprise. he and daichi have the cleanest room in the house, not only that but he’s the only one who will do dishes. he’s exhausted. he’s also sleeping with Oikawa Tooru the single most irritating member of the prestigious fraternity suga and akaashi are in. but don’t mention it, don’t talk about the way he blushes when oikawa throws it back, and DEFINETLY don’t bring up the time Oikawa broke his knee sneaking out of Iwaizumi’s room, and spent an entire semester harassing iwaizumi on a bright pink motorized scooter.
Ushijima doesn’t really care enough to be in charge. Mans is a FARMER if you catch my drift, and he makes fat stacks off of his “business” with Kuroo and Bokuto. once spent the entirety of his rush week in a maid’s costume. but hey he’s not complaining, it did get him the attention of that really weird dude from his leisure cooking class. he and Tendou are possibly the only couple that have it all figured out so kudos to them, three years strong
the miya twins are living frat legends, and they have been since their first party, at which Osamu got wasted and punched an equally wasted atsumu in the face for “breathing too loud”. Atsumu seems like he sleeps around a lot, and maybe he did, but the guy won’t stop simping for a very reserved chem major named Sakusa. sakusa gave into atsumu’s begging once and woke up on a stained mattress in Vegas for his trouble.
Terushima is also there, making each party a little bit more chaotic and sleeping his way through ever girl on campus, except for kiyoko and yachi, the other guys were oddly protective of them. make no mistake though, terushima was a loveable himbo, who made extra sure that safe, sane , and consensual relations were his top priority. during hell week, he had to poop in a target dumpster, but daichi and iwaizumi didn’t keep a good look out for him, he narrowly avoided getting arrested. NARROWLY.
Nishinoya and Tanaka rushed together. it went exactly how you think it did. Daichi and iwaizumi swore up and down that if they weren’t desperate for new pledges, they would’ve never let those two in after they set the toilet on fire. Tanaka got really smacked one night and took a vow to abstain from any hook ups until he and Kiyoko (the hot girl from that one sorority) were engaged. Noya holds him to it and it’s actually really wholesome. Noya on the other hand is battling a low grade obsession with the anxious design major from Akaashi’s fraternity. everytime Asahi gets inebriated he’s instantly the life of the party, and if Noya wasn’t already in love, that time drunk Asahi took his clothes off and swam in the city fountain with him really cemented it.
kyoutani hates that little snot from the other fraternity….what was his name? mini oikawa, super prissy and whiny….YaHAbA. Kyoutani won Iwazumi’s admiration when he took his rush like a champ, obliterating keg stands and hair removal alike. everyone thinks it’s really funny because they’re basically the same person down to the snotty, prissy, irritating boyfriends they won’t admit they have.
Ennoshita is the mini daichi, and he’s a simp for Tanaka. constantly pulling him back from fights, and rubbing his back when he throws up. maybe someday Tanaka might notice….
Lev is possibly the dumbest rush they have ever received and also the most fun. his natural talent for shotgunning and dangerous drunken adventures, makes him a favorite. he ripped his pants in front of the entire student body during his rush, on purpose. like he wanted it to happen. still to this day, no one understands why. he’s been simping for yaku as long as he’s been in college, so two whole months. to the outside world, it looks like the angry little man wouldn’t think twice about the lowly freshman, but lev’s been in enough closets with him to know that that’s just not true.
kindaichi just adds to the madness, he’s an anxious peacemaker with an epic talent as a lightweight, and a massive crush on his apathetic roommate, kunimi. Kunimi regretted joining the frat the first time he watched Bokuto peel string cheese with his toes.
Hinata and Kageyama are rushing at the same time. Tobio Swageyama is made for Greek life, but Hinata can barely do a keg stand. So naturally they are paired together through the rush callenges. This results in the loss of no less than six pairs of pants, a completely bald (no eyebrows) Kageyama, and an upside down lower back tattoo reading “boke”, sometimes they get a little too spicy at parties and take the whole “kiss the homies goodnight” thing to a whole other level
“As far as I am aware, it is not out of the ordinary for people to smile when they are happy.”
“Yeah? Well I’m happy too, Waka, I’m happy too.”
A bit more of a sappy quote for Ushiten because they are so pure and I actually love them! It’s times like these that I question why I haven’t drawn them before… Thank you for the request @pls-nu! This series is getting pretty big now, I love it! And to think I started it as a one off thinking I wouldn’t draw anymore…
If you want to see any other pairings in this style, let me know!
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