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heyitsyn · 4 years ago

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Keeping Up With Seijoh Ep. ∞

a/n: this made me tear up a bit ngl bc haikyuu always hitting us with ‘theres no next year for us’ typa bull like BLS TAKE PITY ON MY SOUL AND STOP TIME AND KEEP MY BOYS TOGETHER :(((((((

it has an infinity symbol bc this is in the future so there isnt really an episode number

for more seijoh content, check this masterlist out!

anon:

the third years coming back to seijoh the following year for a surprise visit, and watching over practice cuz they were in town for break. being impressed on how kyo has calmed down (a bit), kunimi actually giving a sh-, yknow the deal. just the growth of their kouhai makes them 🥺🥺 but THEN- Y O U walk in with the team’s bottles n the small gasp that comes out of your mouth when you see them. they GAWK cuz you’re maturing SO well (stfu oikawa- my eyes up are here) and just 🥺🤲

SO LIKE UNLESS YOURE NEW TO MY BLOG YOU KNOW THIS FINNA BE A SAD ONE BC SEIJOH THIRD YEARS ARE MY FAVORITE BOIS AND THEM GRADUATING MAKES ME :(

oh god here comes the tears

it was something you knew was coming since yanno, third years and all that

but you were so sure you had more time left before it happened

didnt you just join the team and met them like yesterday?

nope love you met nearly a year ago

and they made quite an impact on you in the short term you were together

so during the day of graduation

it wasnt really a school day since it was mostly for third years and the whole ceremony but kouhais could come so they could send off their senpais

you already called each third year the night before, nearly 2 hours per boy, to talk to them and cry with them so you didnt have to cry during the day

but ofc

you were sobbing already when you saw your captain walk up and get his tube with the diploma inside

they tried to remain strong as they sat in their seats but a single glance at you and the team at the stands above, the tears were already either forming or full out slipping

i know yall finna beat me up for this but im not really familiar with the other third years in the team bc theyre not really shown in the anime or manga that much so i dont have a good grip on their character so can we pls pretend theyre not in here?? omg pls dont kill me though

the ceremony felt like a long time for the seniors but when it was finally over, they ran out of that building and yall did too and you bolted yourself into the arms of your captain

oikawa held you tightly against him and he didnt care about being seen by his fangirls, who were waiting outside for him, or the others who wanted to have you to them too

‘i love you, y/n-chan’

he mumbled and you nodded

‘mhm. i love you too, oikawa-san. i love all my boys’

YALL MY HEART IS BREAKING BC OIKAWA ACTUALLY MEANT IT THIS TIME AND YOURE STILL OVER HERE THINKING THAT HES JUST SAYING IT AS A FRIEND LIKE IM-

iwa ripped you away from him and your face was buried into his chest

but it didnt last long since the others got a little impatient and just joined the hug turning it into a group hug

‘i dont want you to leave!’

kindaichi sobbed and kunimi sniffled, holding on tighter to the backs of his senpais

even kyo was sad but hes a tuff boy so he easily hid that behind his usual frown and glare

after seeing their parents and reassuring them they would be home soon, you started your trek towards your usual hang out spot

the second and first years were walking ahead of you while the third years fell back in step with you in between them

mattsuhana flanked your left while iwaoi were at your right

the tears were now gone but sniffles still filled the area and everyone was still down in their spirits

you held tightly to the warm big hands of iwaizumi and the soft touch of mattsun’s hand as if you were clutching your life-line

but you knew no matter how tightly you held on to them, they would still go and eventually leave you behind

the ramen shop was filled with another round of tears as everyone realized that this would be the last time seijoh og would have ramen here

‘WE DONT WANT YOU TO GOOO~~~~!!!!!!’

kindaichi sobbed while kunimi aggressively shoved noodles in his mouth to hide his hiccups

you refused to eat because you were so sad that you were scared you might end up throwing it all up later so you settled on relishing your time with the boys

oikawa was busy talking to yahaba and telling him tips and tricks for next year while iwaizumi was consolling the others who were crying

that left you to harshly wipe off the tears and focus on the jokes that matsuhana were telling to help and lighten up the mood

‘think of it like this! you won’t have oikawa and iwaizumi fighting anymore!’

well,,,,,

that kinda made things worse

geez makki stfu!!!!

you bursted into full tears and you sobbed, loudly and freely

‘WAAAAAHHHH!!!!!’

you wheezed and then continued to cry

everyone flinched and got startled at the sight of you crying

theyve seen you cry before but not this intensely and sadly

‘DONT GO!!! OU-OUR FAMILY’S GONE!! ITS B-BROKEN NOW!!!!’

you wailed

everyone is so used to seijoh antics that they didnt even bat an eyelash when everyone started crying

‘damn it, i was trying not to cry!’

iwa growled and buried his face into his hands to hide the pain in his eyes

‘come here, y/n-chan’

mattsun cooed while sobbing and you went straight into his arms and his arms tightly wounded around you

he pressed kisses on your neck to calm you and he whispered promises to keep you from thinking that you would be alone

the boys were all still crying even when you paid for them and at the exit, everyone wouldnt let go of each other

ngl it was a weird sight of seeing these boys just hanging on and hugging the others and you were tightly pressed against makki’s chest

‘dont cry, y/n-chan. we’ll be here, always. just a 4-hour ride to tokyo’

he promised but you shook your head

‘--too far’

you mumbled and he was able to make out a few words and he laughed

‘i swear you’ll see us in a few hours’

it took a few words of assurance from makki and eventually mattsun and iwa joined

oikawa stayed back because he already wanted to walk you home and iwa knew you were the one that was the hardest for oikawa to tell his plans to

waving them good bye, you fussed and made sure everyone was not crying anymore

‘you text me the moment you get home, all right? and kyo-san, let the food in your stomach settle before-’

‘before i take a bath-yea i know’

he rolled his eyes but he smiled lightly before hugging you

‘go home now, y/n’

he pushed you towards his captain but you pulled away one last time to give each boy a kiss on the cheek

their lips trembled, especially the third years, and wanted to keep their tears in but they rocket launched to space

yanno that one part in season 1 when kiyoko told them to work hard and then they just snot-rocketed and cried

oikawa interlaced your fingers as you both walked towards your house and it was quiet

you were sus bc it was too quiet and oikawa would usually be either skipping, humming a tune, or just yapping his ass off

but right now

he was quiet, slouchy, and,,,, not oikawa

you looked up to see his face and you knew it wasnt just the graduating part

it was like,,,, he was nervous

you squeezed his hand and that got his attention

‘oikawa-san, whats wrong?’

he suddenly stopped and your linked hands caused you to also stop so you watched him stare down at his shoes and you blinked at him in confusion

‘oika-’

‘y/n, tell me to stay’

he,,, sounded like he was begging

pleading

desperate to hear you say it

‘why should i?’

you asked and he finally lifted his eyes to stare into your eyes

he gulped before further explaining himself

‘coach got me a volleyball scholarship’

he whispered and your eyes widened before you launched into him for a hug and pulled back to cup his face

‘oh my god! tooru! a scholarship?! im so proud-’

‘in argentina’

he finished and your eyes dimmed, the lifted corners of your lips falling into a frown

‘o-oh’

you stuttered and pulled your hands away but he grabbed them, placing them back to his face

‘but if you dont want me to go, i wont-’

‘NO! what?! tooru, its your dream! you and iwa-san wouldnt stop talking about that match with argentina and-and you want to go there! dont you dare let that slip away!’

you scolded frantically however oikawa’s face scrunched before he started crying

‘i-i can’t! y/n, i’ll be alone! its so far away! far from iwa, far from you-’

then you reached to your tippy toes and kissed his nose then leaned back with a big smile

‘no matter how far, ill always be right here. im always going to be here, waiting for you’

you mumbled and oikawa hiccuped then leaned his forehead against yours, eyes clashing that was so full of love and fear

‘then dont you worry, y/n-chan. oikawa-senpai will work really hard and he will come back and make you happy’

he whispered and you pulled him even closer to give him the biggest hug

‘im looking forward to it’

TIMESKIPTIMESKIPTIMESKIPTIMESKIP

ONEYEARONEYEARONEYEARONEYEAR

truth to be told with guilty conscience, the third years havent really been in touch

yes theyve called and messaged but there wasnt a normal kind of communication, especially with oikawa

but they decided to go over there during a simultaneous week break for universities in tokyo and iwa, makki, and mattsun pressured oikawa to fly back to japan just for a week to visit

‘iwa-chan im so broke righ-’

‘fine, we’ll see y/n ourselve-’

‘OKAY FINE! HERE! IM BUYING THE TICKET NOW SEE?!’

bahahaha im sorry i love oiks so much its not even funny

they agreed to not tell anyone, even coach, to surprise you all and to see your faces of surprise bc mattsuhana are little shites and they love to mess around

it was a normal day during practice

yahaba was teaching some first years how to serve while watari was giving exercising tips on how to bend their knees without shrieking in athritis

kyotani was doing jump serves while kindaichi and kunimi tried to block him

it was a normal day

the former third years knew the ins and outs of the place and oikawa still had his keys of the gym since he never gave it back so they were easily able to sneak in

they sat on the bleachers and observed everyones growth which really blew them away and took them aback by how much they improved in little time

like kunimis actually huffing and throwing a mini tantrum bc hes so into it and hes mad he didnt get that block right

they also noticed the larger amount of new recruits and based on their practice, it looks like they would be in good hands for the next few years

however, the true shock settled in when this happened

kyotani cursed loudly when the ball hit out but yahaba scolded him for saying a bad word in front of the first years

‘kyotani, dont say that anymore! its not good to teach the babies bad words!’

he ranted and the college boys shared a look of caution and fear, bracing themselves for kyotani’s normal screaming and tantrum for being called out

but they were the most surprised when the bleach-haired boy simply glared at him and turned away to go pick up another ball to hit

‘did,,,, did kyoken-chan-’

‘was he just calm right now?’

‘oh my god iwa-chan kyoken-chan got abducted by aliens!’

I SWEAR TO GOD ITS LIKE THE CURRENT THIRD AND SECOND YEARS GOT AN OIKAWA ‘IWA-CHAN’ SENSOR BECAUSE THE MOMENT HE SAID THAT, THEIR EARS TWITCHED AND THEY JUST KNEW

THEIR SENPAIS WERE HERE

their eyes were wide and their attention snapped towards the bleachers where indeed, their 4 fathers sat

‘OIKAWA-SAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

kindaichi screamed and he NYOOMED towards the stairs but kunimi grabbed him by the collar

‘come down here, senpais!’

yahaba urged and coach and naoi shared a look of initial shock but then transformed into happiness

it was nice to see the family together again

they quickly turned into a dog pile with the hugs that were given around like kyotani actually giving iwaizumi a hug and makki and mattsun affectionately ruffling everyone’s hair

the other first years were just staring in awe at the legendary third years of seijoh that theyve heard so much about

‘everyone, these are your seniors!’

yahaba presented and the 3 third years became very flustered but ofc attention whore oikawa soaked it up

‘yes, hello, my little disciples! you are my legacy so work har- IWA-CHAN!’

he was cut into his famous line when his best friend bonked him for being too self-absorbed again

‘waaa, l/n-senpai was right’

some first year mumbled at the scene and their ears perked up at the name

‘l/n?’

‘where is she?! y/n-chan!’

oikawa shouted and looked around

BECAUSE OF FATE

YOU AUTOMATICALLY MANIFESTED THERE

‘YES YOU CALLED’

okay no but you actually walked in just in time, carrying the crate of water bottles, focused on not dropping them so you didnt really see the others

they were silent not because they wanted to mess with you and see how long youd figure out that they were there

they were silent because of how BEAUTIFUL you became

you gained a few inches and your hair is now longer with your baby fat slowly melting away and you were also finally showing your growth with your body

the eyes that used to gleam with childish innocence was now mature and poised like a perfect lady

even the way you walked with a crate made it seem like a ballet performance with the grace at every step and the flowery aura you exuded

you have turned from a ridiculously cute and pretty girl to a beautiful goddess

AND YOU WERE ONLY IN YOUR SECOND YEAR HOW THE HELL ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO HANDLE IT WHEN YOURE FINALLY A THIRD YEAR?!

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE AMOUNT OF BOYS THEY HAVE TO WARD OFF?!

‘my god’

iwaizumi mumbled, flushing red and turning away to hide his fluster

‘beautiful’

oikawa whispered and he gulped, not remembering how strikingly attractive you are

‘have mercy’

makki whined softly, clutching his heart as it started beating fast and made his stomach feel all funny

did they act like this back in the day?

mattsun doesnt have control so he ran forward and you were just putting the crate down when you were lifted off of the floor and twirled around

so like yahaba waved off the others to go back to practice so its like not awkward to be standing around and see this happening

there was only one person who did this to you

‘mattsun-san?!’

you shrieked and you giggled happily as he put you down so you were able to hug him properly and eventually, catching sight on the others behind him

your gasp made them smile widely and you pressed a hand to your mouth to hide the shock and your overjoyed laugh

if they could take a picture of this and remember the amount of love your eyes held and the pure unfiltered happiness that swirled in those orbs

it was like they felt themselves falling in love with you all over again

‘oh my god everyone’s here too!’

you ran to them and jumped at the awaiting arms of iwaizumi and he was still the bara arm babie you remembered

‘i missed you, doll’

he whispered

‘hmmm,,,i missed you more’

he let you go and you skipped over to makki who engulfed you in his arms and you felt his soft brown hair because you remembered he loved it when you ran your fingers through his hair

‘youve grown! so much! you got even more beautiful!’

he exclaimed and you giggled, bashful at his compliment

‘hmm~, no i didnt’

he gave you a deadpan look and you chuckled before scurrying away towards the one you wanted to hug the most

he definitely got more toned and he got taller too

you didnt have any time to react since he grabbed you and squished you against him

‘youre here, oikawa-san’

he nuzzled his head against your neck

‘mhm, im here now, y/n-chan’

he placed a kiss on your nose and you scrunched your face but there was a big smile that was clear

then oikawa’s eyes trailed from your face to your,,, ahem,,, girls

‘jesus, y/n-chan really grew, huh’

he complimented and you blinked confusingly before trailing after his eye’s gaze and it landed on your chest and you punched him

‘urusai, oikawa-san! my eyes are up here! youre so perverted. pervert oikawa-san’

you pouted and moved to seek comfort in the arms of makki

‘hmm, oikawa’s perverted as usual. i think it got worse with all those argentinian women’

makki teased and mattsun joined to poke fun at their captain

oikawa whined and told iwa they were making fun of him to which his own best friend betrayed him and starting teasing him too

you simply watched on and your eyes watered, your sniffles catching their attention

‘eh? why are you crying, y/n-chan?’

oikawa asked while approaching you to wipe your tears with his thumbs

but you shook your head with a teary smile

‘n-nothing-just,,,, i missed you guys. an-and im so happy because its like our f-family’s back together and i just-i-’

you cried but it was out of happiness and their hearts warmed

ofc they felt guilty because they were aware that they werent as in touch as they shouldve been so you probably felt lonely and casted aside without any contact from your boys

but they know now to make sure you feel loved and cared for because as you keep saying, they were your boys

they were a family

seijoh is a family

and you love them

but they love you more

a/n: okay im sorry this is probably trash and all over the place and im crying and stressing but ive been writing in between my college alg homework and its been so hard like WHY IS NUMBERS SO HARD LIKE WHAT-?! but this has kinda been the baby of my break time and relaxing few minutes bc i procrastinate too much and i want to do something i like before i actually go insane and i promise PROMISE that once everything is cleared up i will edit this and im already working on the other requests so expect a few to be out by the end of the week or something like that!!

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fluffi · 3 years ago

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so should i reply in tiny font or just regular font?

hybe should do better in spreading out the comebacks of the groups under them :/ they're already at a huge advantage, might as well use it strategically. AHA streaming mvs is so convenient for a multi. the filler vids i could use in between could be mvs from the other groups that i stan. also you know what, i still haven't watched a single final performance bc im waiting for a friend to watch with me :D

i have a chinese movie recommendation in case you want something to cry over. i still love its ost and it's been months since i watched it. i'm not sure if you watched it already but more than blue. i've never cried over a movie as much as i cried for that one. the angst *chef's kiss*. i'd do anything to wipe my memory of it and watch it again for the first time.

also sungchan is mc-ing in inkigayo every sunday! and honestly, what the hell is nct hollywood :D but a part of me thinks it's just going to be a bunch of asians living in america like johnny that'll be a part of it. just a hunch tho. imagine having all 4 units coming back in a year with like 1 unit per quarter of the year. i'm not sure if sm even has the money to do this, especially when they filed bankruptcy recently.

and i've seen a lot of twitter memes saying taro's ghosted stans T_T alexa play ghosting by txt T_T sm come on give him smth to do, you're wasting talent.

the mall didn't burn down entirely (like from the outside it looked fine). the ventilation system caught fire so it was more internal—ceilings and all that. covered things with soot(?) and ashes so the entire mall was closed for nearly 2 years. and hey, i've experienced a school fire too back when i was younger. i, too, thought it was nothing but a fire drill until i saw the charred remains of the buildings behind our school : D thankfully, no one died.

the new nct track is for a samsung commercial AHAHA it's funny because nearly everyone uses apple TT_TT and the mv screams neo culture tech tho (well as it should lmao). yes, i was talking about that part in hot sauce but yes, it grew on me too.

ateez really know how to do a performance. they put the standard so high for me when it came to performing. their facial expressions and overall stage presence just impresses me. it's been a while since i've seen idols draw me to them by those standards.

ah, the long stan list! good luck in getting through it and i hope you do have fun as you go :] (also you can check out aurora by ateez and whiplash by tbz. the songs popped up in my head as i was typing this reply, you might like them)

ohhhh, what was the pd48 scandal? i don't watch survival shows so i don't know any of the stuff going on. would you care to elaborate? about their disbandment :(( i hope you're okay now tho! are the other girls still debuting in new groups? anyone eyeing an acting career instead of being an idol?

YES, A PATTERN IN THE BIASES (if you count an analysis of two ppl as a pattern, that is.) because it's the same pattern i have for my biaswreckers :D jake & seungmin, not only do they have the same animal to represent them, they have the same 'golden retriever' type of personality that just makes you go all soft. ygwim ;n; i wish i could elaborate but both boys just devastate me in the same level and my friends pointed out that they were quite similar in some aspects.

jaemin used to send really long bbl messages :< like if there was anything he loved most it was nctzens and it was obv in his messages. speaking of dream, album repackage news today! idk what to feel bc my hot sauce albums haven't even arrived yet :D + i'm dead br0ke.

how do you even manage to read 30k TT__TT i cant handle long fics bc of my attention span :D also, yes, i found the user now, i'll check if i'll like their works soon. <33

YES YOU SHOULDVE BEEN THERE T_T what a day that was. i think seungmin is still sweet and active in bbl. not a single cent goes to waste with him. also i think i'll post the drabble some time this month.

and oml seungmin vs jake :o let's see how that goes O.O XDD

clickity-clackity AHAH do you have a mechanical keyboard? :c i wanted one too but i haven't got around to saving up for one. but yes indeed, typing asmr v relaxing \m/

sunny hyuck day, fullsun sunday, fullsunday T_T feels were very strong that day. i kept seeing edits on my twt tl and i would just s o b : D i've only stanned nct for a year but i've seen him grow so much i just wanted to crie i love him sm :') yk my mom didn't cook spaghetti for my birthday, but she cooked for hyuck's? : D

and i checked ur recs blog and indeed, full of nct T_T

also have i mentioned that your desktop thing amuses me so much HAHAH i got confused for a sec if i had twt opened or tumblr. plus, i've been wanting to mention that i noticed that our mobile themes are opposites. black and red, white and blue. it's cute XDD <3

help, people have been telling me that our asks are long but i highkey love it. i added a ‘keep reading’ for the mobile users though, sorry in advance hh.

honestly, both works. tiny font saves space but regular font does more justice for my poor eyes haha. its your call!

hybe comebacks :( yeah enhypen got lucky because they came back right before cb season so they got three wins (yay)! on the bright side, txt just got their first win and bts has six wins, so it all works out i guess. omg yes, the streaming thing is perfect. i stan like 20 groups so i have a never-ending cycle of filler mvs and its always so helpful. ooh for the final performances - you wont regret watching any of them! literally wild, kingdom's budget and talent are wild.

ooh, I don't watch any cdramas lmao. i want to but i can barely finish kdramas. if its a movie ill watch it! ive never heard of more than blue but ill check it out <3 where can i watch it?

yes yes i have just realized that sungchan is yujin's co-mc! i watched their special stage (which is literally adorable) and was today years old when i realized that the dude is sungchan pls. nct hollywood was so unexpected and i still have mixed feelings about it now. LMAO JUST ASIANS LIVING IN AMERICA...help. that would be interesting (?) but the concept reminds me of those horrendous awesomeness tv shows. lets hope sm pulls this off well and proves me wrong. lmao all 4 units coming back would probably happen, but i hope none of them get overworked :( i constantly feel like mork lee has four clones :'( also...sm filed bankcruptcy??? dang, what happened?

ugh omg yeah shotaros talent is seriously being wasted in the basement right now. as for fires, scary T-T i wasnt that fazed by them until the australia wildfires happened, and i learned about the consequences of fire and got really scared. its good that the entire mall didnt burn down though! although its weird that no one is opening it :( schools really need to tell us the difference between drills though, it might be dangerous for those rebellious kids.

yeah i just realized that the nct track is an endorsement which partly explains why i cant listen to it. the mv's visuals are stunning!! the set and people are so gorgeous aa i cant

oh yeah im not an atiny but i have acknowledged since 2020 that they have one of the best, if not the best stage presence and expressions on stage for 4th gen. i think their only worthy competitor would be stray kids actually. theyre truly one of a kind and all of them are cute especially that yeosang guy. i will definitely check out your song recommendations though!

oof the pd48 scandal is extremely complicated. to condense it in a few statements: all of the girls' rankings have been rigged since the very beginning and it was rumored that they already had their end group before the show even started. it was like this for pf48 and pdx101 (group x1) which was why x1 disbanded within a month of debuting, and izone were on hiatus for like 4 months. im not the best at explaining stuff like this haha, but i think you get it. you can check out yt or search up 'pd48 scandal', a ton of articles and videos. as for new groups, nothing has been made clear yet. theyve only made instagram handles for now and appeared on variety shows haha. as for acting career, hyewon was supposed to do acting but was forced to join pd48 so maybe she'll continue acting afterwards? nothing is confirmed yet!

lmao two similarities, its okay it counts. ah, true, i can see their similarities now that youve mentioned it, as well as how jeno is kind of like that. however, i am currently attached to jaemin so we'll see what happens from there hehe. i swerve easily.

jaemin on bubble grr, that would be a whole experience. from the bare minimum of vidoes ive seen for him wbk jaemin is so whipped for czennies. ah yes repackage! i saw the post on instagram and went to the comments to see everything screaming ‘iM bROke!’ and it was lowkey hilarious lmao. kpop is really trying to suck our money T-T.

ope the longest fic ive read is like...40k words i think? and it was by jeonginks. ill read anything eiko produces lmao, theres always so much substance in her work. ooh, tell me what you think of luvdsc’s stuff, i just finished binging their entire masterlist lmao.

seungmin vs jake yeah, i havent been catching up on skz enha content because im still obsessing over the dreamies but when that saga is over then im going to focus on my ults lmao (which might include dream soon, hehe).

yes yes i have a mechanical bluetooth keyboard that i use to connect to my computer! it literally sounds amazing lmao, its only 10am here but i feel like im going to doze off from the clickity clackitys already. i cant wait for you to get one! tell me when you do, we can match hehe.

hyuck is an aodrable brat please. hes like the best comedian of nct at this point, so hilarious and filled with variety i love him. he rose up my bias list pretty fast too. LMAO YOUR MOM IS SO COOL I LOVE HER ALREADY. if only my mom would cook for my ults’ borndays.

yes my rec blog is a mess right now, ill organize it soon haha.

omg thank you and yes my website theme is one-of-a-kind. even i get confused when i open it or edit it, and i constantly get comments about it. also i just realized our opposing theme colors and i love it! its adorable.

#long post #also im listening to love song right now haha i love it so much #also sorry for not answering yesterday hhh i got busy last night #「 asks 」#moots — [♡] ;#toffee — [♡] ;#neo-shitty

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adtwixt · 5 years ago

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A growing family results in an extensive mug and glass collection, but small, angled shelves not only store excess items, but add a contemporary, decorative twist to your kitchen.

8. Cork it in the cabinet

Though cork boards are not necessarily visually appealing, they are practicalespecially when installed inside your cabinets. Cork measuring spoons or cups, recipe notes, or lists describing the content of the cabinet to save time and to eliminate confusion.

A video demonstrating how to easily execute this project can be viewed below.

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9. Over, under, around the shelf

Put shelves on your shelves by attaching them onto stands and placing them atop another one; wire rack baskets serve as additional storage under the shelves. This drastically increases your storage and looks fairly stellar.

10. Attractive chalkboard with a functional purpose

Small chalkboards create a vintage, French cafe feel in your kitchen, and work wonders when you write measuring equivalents on them. Never turn to google again for when you need to turn a cup into tablespoons.

11. Never give up on the lid again thanks to cabinet hooks

There is no denying that finding a lid in a cluttered cabinet is a dreaded task that often results in giving up on the item entirely. Sticky hooks will not ruin your cabinets while they hold onto lids, though, and reduce the clutter of the cabinet.

12. Make use of an awkward corner cabinet with hanging hooks

A lazy Susan is not the only way to transform a corner cabinet, but hanging hooks allow for pots and additional utensils to hang in an organized harmony that expands the space of the room.

13. From the office to the kitchen: file rack storage

Even the sleekest of kitchen equipment, like baking sheets, can pose problems in terms of storage and organization. File racks hold them neatly and firmly in place, and more than one rack can be placed in a cabinet.

14. From dinner to space for a function: folding wall tables

If you are somebody who loves to entertain or simply hates moving the table to efficiently mop or sweep the floors, you must invest in a folding wall table. These are easily installed by professionals or are easily able to become a DIY project; a tutorial can be viewed below.

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15. Roll through stress with a rolling cart

Not only can these be fairly cute and add a decorative element to the room, it greatly expands storage. Cooking books, extra pots, Tupperware, and crockpots are only a few of the items that can rest on these carts. Shop for one now on Amazon.

16. Peg it on the wall

A peg board often possesses a futuristic appeal that serves the purpose of storing important kitchen tools, like strainers, pots, slotted spoons, and spatulas. A backdrop over the stove makes cooking a breeze, while one over the sink doubles as a dish rack.

Follow these tips to make sure it turns out flawless!

17. Improve efficiency & expand counter space with a magnetic knife strip

A magnetic knife strip looks modern as well as elegant, and can make even amateur casserole cooks seem like filet mignon chefs. By eliminating the need for a chunky knife block, counter space is increased, while wall space is utilized effectively and attractively.

Space for a knife collection to grow is possible with these strips, but a cutting block would need to be replaced or even doubled.

18. Save empty six-pack holders for ultimate refrigerator storage

Aside from protecting the environment, holding on to six pack holders is a great way to store bottles in the fridge, like condiments, dressings, juice, soda, and even yogurt. This keeps similar items together and reduces the time cramming everything onto the shelves, which also eliminates the risk of spills or breaks.Buy a few six pack holders on Amazon here.

19. Plastic container obsessed?

You may want to purge your never-ending collection of plastic containers, as theyve probably built up over the years. Get rid of any ones that wont seal, have cracks, or are entirely stained.

Once you get rid of those ones, stack the containers by size. Then, you can purchase a divider to store all of your lids (also by size)! This will give you easy access and visibility to all of your storage containers.

Tip: Make it a goal to replace all of your plastic containers with glass ones over the next year to help cut down your use of plastic.

20. Keep bags out of sight

We always recommend re-using plastic bags that you get from the grocery store, but it can be challenging figuring out where to store them so that it isnt a complete eyesore.

Well, why not DIY your own storage container? Take a canister and, using a utility knife, cut an X-shaped slit in the middle of the lid. Cover the container with your favorite cardstock and decorate it with sticky letters (or paint the words on if youre excellent at lettering)!

Then, you can roll your plastic bags together in a tight circle and put them in a canister, and thread the first bag through the slit. Think of how a tissue box works thats the same concept youre using here. Voila!

Is Your Kitchen Organized Yet? Well, It Should Be

To finalize, innovations to organize your kitchen are fairly endless and undoubtedly simple to execute. Most of these solutions are easily done in five minutes, while some of them may take a few hours to complete.

To sweeten the deal, costly professionals are rarely needed to complete these projects, but have adapted to incorporating them into their practices. Items once deemed as junk convert to their new purpose by saving space in every corner of the room, adding decorative elements that never interfere with functionality, and generally just eliminate the stress associated with kitchen clutter.

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‘Never drink in a flat-roofed pub’: how the old joke became a reality

The rapid closure of Manchesters postwar estate pubs once seen as a vital part of the community is leaving neighbourhoods without a social anchor

English postwar estate bars are often seen as a joke: Never drink in a flat-roofed pub, the saying goes. But these pubs whether theyre 1930s-style redbrick structures with pitched roofs and large beer gardens, or forbidding cubes of wood and brick that squat in the shadow of tower blocks are now at risk. Theyre being closed and converted into shops or apartments, boarded up and left to rot, or completely wiped from the map, leaving a cleared site and an empty car park.

Theres a huge level of threat: these pubs are dropping like flies, says Emily Cole of Historic England.

In Greater Manchester, pub closure has been hastened by the citys regeneration. The breweries have no interest in the pubs, says photographer Stephen Marland, who has been documenting their demise. The community does, but very often the local authority wants the land eventually. So theyll gladly let them die away.

In the past, the pub acted as the community anchor, says Martin Dodge, a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Manchester. Now theres nostalgia for the English pub, but thats not going to pay the rent. If you dont go and buy your beer there, its not going to survive.

Remnants of another Manchester

On a visit to Manchester a few months ago, I passed a boarded-up building not far from Oxford Road. Its first floor was painted grey and its roof pitched steeply into a sharp peak. An old CCTV camera pointed in the direction of the door. This was the Gamecock, an old estate pub which, judging by its overgrown car park, had been closed for some time. Surrounded by sleek university buildings and refurbished flats, it seemed a strange and intriguing remnant of another Manchester.

Another of the citys lost estate pubs: the Railway Hotel in Longsight is now a mini market. Photograph: Stephen Marland

In his blog Manchester Estate Pubs, Marland photographs pubs just like the Gamecock. He thinks pubs are almost a barometer of community and how a community is doing. If a pubs doing well, then the communitys doing well.

But Marland is also drawn to them because they are under threat, and sees his work as an act of preservation. Photographers are always photographing things that are on the way out, so its there as a record of something that no longer exists.

[Estate pubs] are seemingly minor pieces of architecture but theyre of great importance and should be treated that way.

He feels the demise of estate pubs is due to factors including changes in patterns of leisure activity, the rise of supermarkets as a source of cheap alcohol, and the increasing real estate value of their sites its more economically viable to build apartments on a pub site than to keep it going as a business, or even a community resource. He believes councils in Greater Manchester are buying up pub sites for future redevelopment, leaving whole deserts of publessness in certain neighbourhoods.

The Clarendon, Collyhurst, one of Manchesters few estate pubs still in use. Photograph: Stephen Marland

Marland started his blog in 2015 after Historic England called for contributions to their project on postwar pubs. Cole, the senior investigator on the project, says: One of the reasons our project was initiated was because weve been finding that pubs of the 60s and 70s, but also the 50s, are the ones that tend to be demolished around the country.

She feels theyre neglected partly because people dont tend to appreciate modern architecture in the same way they would an older pub. So I think theyve come to be seen as characterless buildings, particularly in terms of their interiors. But actually what weve been finding is that when they were built and opened they were actually far from characterless. They were very exciting in many cases.

The rise of the estate pub in Manchester is closely entwined with the expansion of the city in the 20th century. This partly came from the slum clearances in the city centre when significant numbers of people were moved to housing estates on Manchesters outskirts. Dodge says that when the inner-city neighbourhoods were bulldozed, the places that survived were the church and the pub. They were these isolated survivors and then this [logic] carried over into overspill estates. So the pub and the church get carried across from these old communities into new communities.

A necessary thing

What are you, a tourist who takes photos of pubs? asks a local drinking on the front lawn of the Happy Man pub when I take a photograph.

Its a sunny afternoon in Wythenshawe, south Manchester, the day after the terrorist attack in Manchester Arena, and, while large parts of the central city are cordoned off by the police, theres a relaxed, mellow feeling at the Happy Man.

The Robert Tinker pub opened in 1967, serving an underprivileged housing area off Rochdale Road, Collyhurst. The site is now derelict. Photograph: Robert Smithies for the Guardian

Wythenshawe was initially planned in the 1920s as a garden city development that would accommodate a growing population and those moved from the inner cities. The ethos of Wythenshawe was not just to rehouse people, but to try and change the social conditions to remake people. And the pub was seen as a necessary thing, Dodge says. A map drawn up by the Manchester Corporation in the 1950s shows existing and proposed pubs for Wythenshawe: 45 of them. Each site was reserved for a different brewery who would design, build and run the public house.

Breweries had their own architectural teams, and also commissioned [external] architects, and they had a great feeling for how a pub should be designed, Cole says. They made them very particular to their environment.

In Wythenshawe, for example, theyd be built in redbrick, and styled to fit in with the housing. And from the late 60s on, pubs began to echo the design of brutalist estates and high-rises, and were often slotted together from the same concrete as the modern housing that surrounded them.

A couple of minutes up the road from the busy Happy Man, another pub, the Mountain Ash,looks empty.

The Woolpack in Salford has been closed for nine years. Photograph: Karl Whitney

The landlord, Roy Heer, opens the side gate. From the street, the pub closely resembles blueprints I had seen from Manchesters city archives, but from the rear its obvious that it has expanded significantly over the years. Heer says they have stopped opening during the day on weekdays, and instead open at 6pm. Margins are tight, but he has planning permission to put bed and breakfast rooms on the first floor.

There are signs of construction on the roof of the pubs extension plywood walls, uPVC windows and tarpaulin. It had originally been owned by Wilsons brewery, but has since been taken over by a Chinese firm. Although the Mountain Ash had been one of many pubs Manchester Corporation painstakingly placed in postwar Wythenshawe, Heer felt the council were now letting the pubs in the area run down.

I gave up a good job to work here, he says.

The best pub in Salford?

On the other side of Manchester, situated between a busy dual carriageway and a quiet two-lane suburban road in the Pendleton district of Salford, is the run-down Woolpack pub.

It was assembled on site from prefabricated sections made in a factory in St Helens, opening in 1970 to serve the high-rise flats that surround it. The interior referenced the wool trade: pictures of ships hung on the wall, while the bar was constructed to resemble stacked bales of wool. Although the decor pointed to the past, the new Woolpack was a pub for a different time and a changing place.

The Woolpack has been closed for nine years, its owners having passed over the course of its life between breweries, pub companies and multinational corporations through a dizzying succession of acquisitions and mergers that led to the pub being put up for sale in 2008 in part thanks to the financial crisis of that year.

Bez from the Happy Mondays occupied the Woolpack to plant apple trees. Photograph: Rex

When it closed, members of the locality campaigned to reopen it as a community pub, but these efforts failed, and in 2009 Salford city council acquired the building and its grounds. The council has acquired other pubs in a similar way, often knocking them down, sometimes clearing the sites for housing. Stephen Kingston, the editor of Salford Starmagazine, thinks the Woolpack will probably go that way too.

Local resident Gene Houghton told Marlands blog: It was, and will always remain, the best pub in Salford. When these doors closed last year a community closed with it. People came from near and far, everyone knew each other and it was a pleasure to go to.

For now, theres still life in the Woolpack. In 2016, Bez from the Happy Mondays occupied the pubs grounds to plant apple trees. When he ran for election in the Salford and Eccles constituency in the 2015 general election, one of his campaign promises had been free food for the people of Salford. I was trying to say if we act as a community, theres no need for us to go hungry, he tells me. Apples are an amazing fruit, because its food, its medicine. Its everything, do you know what I mean? You can get pissed with it you can make amazing cider out of it.

A few months after Bez planted the apple trees, a local homeless charity for which hes a patron, Coffee4Craig, was granted a 25-year lease on the site by Salford city council. They plan to adapt the pub building for homeless services, or to clear the site and rebuild. But for the moment they keep a green shipping container in the car park and the building remains closed. Hopefully the pub is going to get rebuilt and used for community things and helping with the homeless situation, he says.

In the meantime, an enterprising scrap merchant has placed small signs reading Scrap Cars Wanted 100 on the first floor, while some of the roofs wooden frame is exposed to the elements as the building decays.

I remember what Martin Dodge said about estate pubs built in the 60s and 70s: Like the failures of the housing, the failures of the pub might be simply down to the quality of the construction that actually the reason that theyve become derelict and abandoned is that their lifespan simply ran out.

Was that true? The flats across the road had been refurbished, and the towers behind the Woolpack are now student housing; only the pub was shuttered and left to rot.

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‘Never drink in a flat-roofed pub’: how the old joke became a reality

The rapid closure of Manchesters postwar estate pubs once seen as a vital part of the community is leaving neighbourhoods without a social anchor

Theres a huge level of threat: these pubs are dropping like flies, says Emily Cole of Historic England.

Remnants of another Manchester

Another of the citys lost estate pubs: the Railway Hotel in Longsight is now a mini market. Photograph: Stephen Marland

[Estate pubs] are seemingly minor pieces of architecture but theyre of great importance and should be treated that way.

The Clarendon, Collyhurst, one of Manchesters few estate pubs still in use. Photograph: Stephen Marland

A necessary thing

What are you, a tourist who takes photos of pubs? asks a local drinking on the front lawn of the Happy Man pub when I take a photograph.

The Robert Tinker pub opened in 1967, serving an underprivileged housing area off Rochdale Road, Collyhurst. The site is now derelict. Photograph: Robert Smithies for the Guardian

A couple of minutes up the road from the busy Happy Man, another pub, the Mountain Ash,looks empty.

The Woolpack in Salford has been closed for nine years. Photograph: Karl Whitney

I gave up a good job to work here, he says.

The best pub in Salford?

On the other side of Manchester, situated between a busy dual carriageway and a quiet two-lane suburban road in the Pendleton district of Salford, is the run-down Woolpack pub.

Bez from the Happy Mondays occupied the Woolpack to plant apple trees. Photograph: Rex

Was that true? The flats across the road had been refurbished, and the towers behind the Woolpack are now student housing; only the pub was shuttered and left to rot.

Follow Guardian Cities on Twitter and Facebook to join the discussion, and explore our archive here

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