#I also posted this on twt

[w1cksters]

side eye.

(og pic from @/airctchr on twitter/x :3)

sorry for the lack of posting recently, more art coming soon! (possibly, I recently started classes again)

[heartorbit]

MWAH!

[lazylittledragon]

if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about

[tecochet]

mary jane's husband and his boyfriend

[opikiquu]

[girlatrocity]

touya's dance

[ink-ghoul]

🌻 Skin Commission for GoodTimesWithScar 🥀

It's always so much fun to work on these, I hope you've been enjoying Secret Life!

[freshfrenchtoast]

Kageyama's backstory only being revealed near the very end of the series is really interesting from a meta perspective.

For reference, his chapter is 387 out of 402. That's 96% of the way in.

To contrast, other characters like Tsukishima and Yamaguchi's backstories are shown in Chapters 87-88.

Now, we do get the explanation for his "King of the Court" title in Chapter 6, at the start of the series, but we don't see how he got to that point, or why he started playing volleyball in the first place like Tsukishima's and Yamaguchi's stories show.

It creates this situation where, despite being the deuteragonist, the character our protagonist, Hinata, is practically glued to the entire series, we barely know anything about him.

We don't even know he has a sister until that point whereas other characters' siblings like Natsu, Saeko, Akiteru, Alisa have all made appearances way before then. Even Oikawa's sister, though we don't see her, we at least know she exists because of Takeru.

He's both closed off to us (the audience) as well as the other characters in the series, and this results in them finding him rude or disliking his character in general (see: the "Kageyama is abusive" discourse that somehow keeps popping up even now).

Chapter 387 takes place in 2018 and was published in 2020 so it takes him 6 years of in-universe time and 8 years of irl time to really open up.

And the catalyst for all of this is Hinata fulfilling his promise of beating him.

You see, another thing to note is that, whenever Hinata thinks of Kageyama, he's always looking at him from behind.

His internal image of him is someone who's always up ahead, someone he needs to catch up to, meaning Hinata can only see one side of him, he cannot see all of Kageyama until he catches up and passes him.

Which he finally does here.

In this shot Hinata is finally the one who's looking back at Kageyama. At this moment, Hinata (and by extension the audience) can see him for all he is, can see how he was just a lonely boy who's been waiting for someone to meet him where he is, to keep running alongside him and not quit the race.

Someone he doesn't have to go easy on. Someone who would actually tell him to hurry up instead of slow down for a change.

His someone better.

[soaked-doors]

one of those nights

[beefzerky]

and suga's never letting him live this one down

[soranker]

DEEP💥SPACE💥PLANET💥FUTURE💥GUN💥ACTION❗️

[soapyakships]

the giftedray

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[tedzyrotten]

vessel air guitar will never not be funny

[lesbyers]

Madeleine is so important to Claudia not just as a companion but also as the only person to see her as a woman and not a child, or a pet, or a puppet. She has her own agency and is her own person when she’s with her, no one else does that for her, not even Louis. Louis has a love for Claudia like nothing else but it is a love that does not do her justice. She’s a child to protect like a father or she’s a sister to argue with like a child. She’s not a free woman of her own agency. Even in death she will become something hazy and painful for him, but never a whole woman, only fragments of grief.

[murkying]

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