#but also seasonal anime curse is “after the show ends or is deemed bad everyone forget it exists”

[no1ryomafan]

I think something I’ve fully come to realized now that I’ve finally committed to a Gundam show and peep into the fandom is that Gundam has such a odd popularity as a mecha in the west because it’s ABSOLUTELY more known now but no one really *watches* it.

I think it’s not just cause “some people just got into it for gunpla side” even though there’s absolutely people who don’t watch the show, just build mechs, but because as a whole it’s been more recognized as a mecha and the west for whatever reason really finds mechs unappealing even still unless it’s “one more about the characters and not the robots” despite gundam LITERALLY having characters which once again makes being a mecha fan all the more infuriating.

[verbalvittles]

How Does This Work Again?

12/31/20 4:22pm- So! I'm at my parents house, and I was supposed to be waiting for a call from a psychiatrist that I've been trying to be seen by for like two months now. This is all well and good, except, I haven't had the anti-depressant I'm supposed to be on for about a week now  (which I  ran out of on Christmas, the day after which was Saturday, so, the weekend, the week after which apparently everyone works half days anyways because it's the holidays) As to why I ran out of them, well, I had gotten both prescriptions filled close together because "eh, might not be a bad idea to have an extra month's worth of an important medication given today's socio-political climate" ANYWAYS, unmedicated adhd-brain notwithstanding, I had laid down on my parent's couch to take a quick nap because the last week of self-medicating has been just a bit on the exhausting side, and my phone, curse it's underperformative single tiny speaker, happened to slide into the gap between the upright and horizontal cushions, muffling said speakers already lacking signaling abilities. This is all as much my fault as anybody's of course, I could've, say, not expected that my phone would be able to wake me from a floxetine-withdrawal-other-drugs-not-compensating-well-at-all hazy nap, I could have not self-medicated at all, I could have not expected things to go more smoothly at the offices of the people deeming me mayyyybe worthy of be helped before it's bad enough to be an emergency during the holiday season, I could have thought through all of the myriad implications of every possible thing that could go wrong at precisely the wrong times with the abundance of free time I definitely don't spend trying to educate myself, help my parent's out around the house, take care of my own house, spend time with the single person i'm not related to that I have regular interaction with, and otherwise try to pursue healthy coping activities such as making music or hiking or writing. yeah. Definitely could have done better on my end, no two ways about it. Then again, the last decade of my life has been spent trying and failing to self-destruct because of something I don't really feel like reiterating yet again, but in a way that could conceivably not be my fault. like cancer. only I keep not getting it. i should probably stop trying. anyways once again, maybe I should stop expecting the system that managed to fuck me i don't even know how many ways but we can start with letting me get raped in prison and then housing me in the same facility as one of the people I reported abused me, or all the seemingly endless ways they have of crushing your soul into nothingness. ice cold showers in solitary confinement, being watched 24 hours a day like a zoo animal on constant observation for four months as they literally parade people through your area to show them what it's like to work in a jail, or show them the conditions they are contracting to work with, but not ever any sort of media, because that would be something they can't have complete control over. heaven forfend. but they're professionals, they get paid for this. this is their job. only it's also my life. and when your job involves fucking around with another human being's life and getting paid for it, mistakes happen. So I get to a headspace where I accept that my literal survival is dependent upon other people's acting in the best interests of their paychecks. How fucked is that?

[bentenharuki]

What do you think about the "quick" Kageyama and Hinata?

Hi there :) 

Thank you for your question, it’s always cute when I receive one of those. :)

Well… it’s complicated to detail what I think of it. The quick is one of the standard attacks in volleyball, and the one you regularly do between setters and middle blockers. In itself, it’s a given Kageyama has to set a quick with Hinata, also because it was Lord Kageyama suggesting immediately to the team to have Hinata as a middle blocker exactly in order to do it.

Of course we talk about a fiction, so Furudate used to made the quick “possible” by giving Hinata impossible jumping power and velocity.

While the “closing eye” thing is in everything a FICTION, because it is simply impossible to jump with eyes closed and maintain a stability and space awareness in mid air (and also it’s impossible to spike and lose balance with eyes closed), the “Kageyama’s part” of the quick, namely the perfect pinpointed accuracy, while it surely is a stretch, may NOT be impossible in reality.

I’ll try to be more precise.

While everything that Hinata does starts from IMPOSSIBLE premises (his jumping power, his endless stamina, his impact, are ALL impossible things, they are all “superpowers” which could not exist in reality, because even given someone could be that equipped in a game, those qualities wouldn’t be manageable for ENTIRE games. I mean even if we’d give it and concede to the Awful Midget to be that fast and quick and jumpey, he WOULD NEVER ENDURE IT as long as Furudate pitch him to do in games. Not only that. Even accepting he might do it - only as a superpower, but after all this is a manga - Awful Midget Boku No Hero Karasuno still weightless and frail (remember all the times his weight is nothing for people impacting or sustaining him in games) so even given that his “impossible” velocity could be a factor, he would still have NO POWER, no IMPACT, no WEIGHT in his attacks, resulting them in being in a very short while useless. As useless as he is, I mean.

And that is the Hinata’s part of the quick, the impossible, ultra fictional, ultra irritating part.

As for Kageyama’s accuracy, it certainly is stretched by Furudate, but NOT THAT MUCH.

Kageyama is deemed as a prodigy, and it’s clear in his depiction he has what doctors (real doctors) call “ultra focus” skill.

The setter role has many requirements for being performed at the peak, and one of them is definitely a perfect touch (call it “sensibility in touch”), a perfect precision (the instinct to understand how balls fly, how they fall and rise, how they weight and direct themselves after being touched, and so on… all things YOU GET TRAINED FOR UNDERSTANDING when you play setter), and a great surrounding awareness, which means you can understand, memorize, get used to and from then PREDICT by being used to the way your own teammates AND YOUR OPPONENTS are showing to move around you, to taylor to them or against them your tosses.

All those things which Lord Kageyama has innate in himself, and in abundance (hence his super talent quality, which is rare, but which happens in real sport), you see he has also TO TRAIN them, and they don’t come just “by magic” from above.

Kageyama trains hard to adjust his God given skills to the games he’s in, and that makes him THE PERFECT SPORT ICON. He has more talents than others, more than everyone else in Haikyuu, (that’s canon from Furudate tabs), but all his talents would not be of use if he wouldn’t train them and himself hard, which he does (he trains MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE).

He tries, he fails and then he does it.

In manga and anime, this happens a MILLION times. Not only: even when he performs the specialties of his, he cannot do them “in eternal”. He gets fatigued, and from fatigue his spectacular abilities get diminished.

THAT’s REALISTIC.

I was just watching this morning on tv the 7th episode of Season 3, and once more I realized how perfectly humble and ethic with his work Lord Kags is. When Trash Sugawara (I cannot stand him) spikes after Nishinoya’s toss, and Kiyoko looks at Lord Kags all fidgeting on the bench aside her, clearly because he thinks what he has seen was cool and he’d like to do it too, she asks him to do it as well later, and what Lord Kags says back to her is one of the millions reasons I adore him for.

He says HE CAN’T YET DO IT, because he has not trained himself to do it. Surely if he trains he will be able to do it (there’s nothing he can’t do after all), but yet he can’t because to acquire a new ability in sport you have to TRY it. YOU HAVE to. No matter how great your talent is.

That’s what parts Kageyama from the awful midget, who suddenly acquires new skills “by magic intervention and intuition” (namely, Furudate adds to his “set of things” a new stuff like he would be kind of a Super Sayan or something).

And that’s what makes me LOVE Kageyama and HATE with a passion Hinata instead.

Hinata is completely fictional and a stain on real volleyball.

The whole of Haikyuu gets vulgarized in its depiction of volley anytime Hinata exists and does anything on court and outside.

Characters like Lord Kageyama instead (and like Tsukishima, Oikawa, Ushijima, Tanaka… I could go on…) always are an ode to volley because they are REALISTICALLY depicting what it takes to be a great player without adding the “superpower magic” to the mix, which I despise IN FULL because in sports you don’t need magic… you only need time to prefect and polish yourself with determination and focus and passion.

Kageyama is a talent which MAY exist in real life (and in fact people as supremely blessed and skilled as him have existed and are EXISTING in volley, and in other sports), but his curse “partner” simply is an excuse for kids to think in sports superpowers may exist.

They do not.

Hinata is a bait for people who don’t have a clue about sports life to fall in sympathy with to buy the manga, but at no step in the story he is AT all a realistic presence.

He is just an arrogant, insufferable, pompous and spiteful bad mark on volley, created by a sinner mangaka to make money out of an ordeal of simplistic, not very brained, absolutely not volley loving “fans”.

So in the end, the quick of Kageyama and Hinata is just a way for Furudate to make the unaware and the simpletons cheer for the midget, till the point many of them will become fans which will BUY the story and making him rich. It has to happen in order to give The Orange Curse a role, but it is widely fictional.

If you want to experience a real quick in Karasuno, take a look at what Lord Kags does in combination with Tsukki.

THAT’s REAL VOLLEY.

And their combo, the Tsukki + Lord Kags’ one,  is something golden which I dearly love, actually.