#imeda answers asks!!

[maruyaaya]

*holds smol water gun to ur head* gimme some neomachus

hiiii i hope ur doing well and taking care of urself :D!!!

*throws blueberry muffin at u and leaves*

LMFAO well since i’m being threatened i suppose i must!! i think ive posted parts of this scene before, but never the full thing! it’s not completely finished (esp the ending which i want to add more onto bc i feel it ends very abruptly) but ive had no time recently so… this is what we’ve got

luckily my last final is dec 15th so i will be much more free after that. i’ve been missing the boys sm i’ve barely touched their google doc in all of december. i srsly need to stop procrastinating bc i have GOT to finish this research essay on queer exile bc that and my final exam are the last two things plaguing me for this semester

I HOPE YOURE DOING WELL ALSO!!!! rooting for you and hope everything is great!! i will take the blueberry muffin gleefully bc coincidentally, i baked a batch of chocolate chip muffins a few days ago

[totally-correct-idv]

What's your opinion on Hastur/Yhidra as a ship?

good in theory because two gods just decide to fuck but bad in reality because yidhra is a lesbian

[sunsumu]

HEY um ok so I dont usually request things but can I have one of nekoma x manager reader where the boys are in charge of their managers hamster and they took her out of the cage for a couple minutes and lose her so they freak out but really the hamster is chilling somewhere (obviously they find the hamster in the end)

i rlly am just using this account to get myself out of my writing slump. i’m just answering old reqs now lol if anyone wants to send new ones now i’ll try and get to those first 👍

the nekoma boys lose your hamster <3

it’s lev’s fault.

it’s always his fault

look, he just wanted to take the thing out of its cage and maybe pet it or hug it for a bit

how was he supposed to know that yamamoto was gonna choose that moment to send a volleyball flying at his head

the poor hamster got all spooked and it ran away

lev screamed

kai had to calm him down so he’d stop crying about how you were gonna hate him for losing the hamster

kuroo immediately took charge and split the team into multiple groups to search for it

too bad you chose that moment to walk into the gym asking about your hamster

“hey guys, i can take my hamster back now?”

“NO”

“what? why not?”

“what lev means to say is that we are having too much fun with him to give him back. yeah, OH and inuoka wasn’t there something you wanted to show y/n? y’know, very very far from here?”

“there was? OH there was! right, kuroo, i’m just gonna take y/n with me for a bit”

so inuoka (who’s now on distraction duty) was dragging you halfway across the school on a wild goose chase

yamamoto sprinted through the whole school to try and find the hamster

kenma just kind of sat there, still playing his game and pretending he was looking

yaku took it upon himself to crawl through all the tiny spaces the hamster could be hiding

sometimes being short is okay

about 15 minutes passed with no luck in finding your hamster

that’s when you returned with inuoka who was desperately hoping that they’d already found it

“hey uh, we’re back!”

“oh, hi y/n. i have your hamster here”

kenma held up his hand and your hamster was just chilling there watching him play on his switch

the whole team glared at him for a few seconds

“aw, kenma, i think he likes you”

“does he? he’s kind of cute”

as soon as you left, kuroo started yelling at kenma

“WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL US YOU HAD THE HAMSTER?”

“well you didn’t ask”

“IT SHOULDVE BEEN OBVIOUS”

“eh, it was funny to watch you guys run around”

kenma’s kind of a dick when he wants to be

-admin imeda 💞

[nightfuryobsessed]

I’m here for you {Short Story}

Summary: After the events of your heist, a friend from prison is let out on parole. With his nerves so shot, he needs a bit of help.

Tag list: @clanwarrior-tumbly @markired @whatsthepointofthisbloganyway @shannons-fucked-life @bribrifeefee @scarletender @rats-this-username-is-taken @ghosting30s @bumble-bitch-sanders @friendlyphantom @lildevyl @lum1natrix 

If enough people like this I might do another part

I drove through the long grass, the one that the prison was obviously too busy to deal with. I rolled my eyes before parking the car and got out, leaning against the hood of the car and played with the fairly large key that now hung around my neck. 

I looked up when I heard the doors of the prison open and watched as the Greeser themed male walked out of the prison. I smiled before standing up, lowering the key and walked up to the nervous male. I held my hand out to him before smirking and flipping him off, making him give an offended huff.

“It’s been a long time,” he says smiling and rubbing the back of his neck.

“A long time? I talked with you two days ago,” I say laughing before patting his head, watching as he huffed and blushed.

“Come on, you’re gonna be in my place for a while. At least until you get a job, savings account, checking account, and a house.”

“Wait, why so long? And why with youse, ain’t that kinda weird,” he asks before I turned and got into my car. I started it and unlocked the passenger side door, watching as the newly freed man ran to get in. I waited for him to buckle up before pulling away from the prison, turning on the radio before finally answering his question.

“You need all that stuff because otherwise, you’ll end up homeless with nothing else. And you’re staying with me because I don’t want you in a hotel, or worse, and it’d be nice to have a guest. I’ll teach you how to make some chicken and dumplings.”

The raven-haired male was quiet before I heard him mumble about how he liked chicken and dumplings. I laughed softly before hearing a song come on, one that I felt matched Yancy very well.

“I think this’ll be your song. If you ever feel upset, you can listen to this one,” I say smiling, singing along to House of Memories and eventually, Yancy and I got into a singing competition.

By the time we got home, it was dark and the stars were muted by the city lights. Compared to by the prison the sky seemed empty, though I didn’t mind. I turned off the car and got out, helping Yancy with his things before walking him into the house, opening the door with my skeleton key, then helped him put everything away.

“Okay, tomorrow you have a day off so you can do what you want. But, after that you gotta get looking for a job, okay?”

I had turned away to face the closet, pulling out a blanket and pillow before turning and noticing the ex-inmate holding his knees close to his chest and tears streaming down his face.

“Hey, are you okay,” I asked worriedly, sitting next to him and putting the materials down. I gently put my hands on his face before making him look up at me, frowning when I saw just how upset he was.

“Why does yous care? Ain’t no body cares ‘bout me. Not my pops, not my mom, nobody. Why ca’e ‘bout me,” he asks, his voice breaking from his sadness and pain.

“Yancey Imeda Plier, I care about you and I will not give up on you. I know how much it hurts, and I’m sorry that they left you behind, but in my power to give you the family that you think you don’t deserve, because you absolutely do.

“You are my family Yanc, I don’t care what you might say, you are my friend and family. I will never, abandon you. I have hope for you. You have to trust in me okay?”

The larger male was quiet for a bit, spar the loud sniffles, before nodding and held me close, hugging me and making me smile. I wrap my arms around the other, gently running my hand through his hair and hummed softly, gently rocking him with a hum.

I could hear his soft sobs but sometimes people just needed a good cry to help get over whatever they’re going through. I didn’t mind either way, as long as he knew that I am here for him.

“I love you Yancey, and I’ll do everything I can to help you.”

[maruyaaya]

neomachus was already on my mind because i had just read chapter 2 of your fic, but i came across this song and when i listened to it i felt that it fit your characterization of neo so well i was actually shocked so i was compelled to share dgshdgjhfs

silver spoon demo be erin lecount (on youtube - i couldn't send the link here :'] )

I KNOW THIS SONG AND IM SO OBSESSED WITH IT!!! oh it's such a neoptolemus song honestly it makes me sick. the part of it that really gets me is "you were kind, i was cruel. in another life maybe i was you and i grew up into something good, somebody who could swallow love" because this is EXACTLY neo's view of telemachus and himself to me. neo intrinsically views himself as being incapable of love and that he ruins everything he touches and he looks at telemachus and he wishes that was him and in another life, maybe it could have been, but in this one, it's not possible. the whole sing fits so well i could honestly write a whole line by line analysis THANK U SM FOR SENDING THIS BC I HONESTLY HADNT EVEN CONSIDERED IT BEFORE NOW BUT OH MY GOD IT FITS SO WELL????

[maruyaaya]

this is both the best and most cursed thing ive ever made. goodnight

emo neoptolemus. based on this gem. he sends this to tele who either straight up dies or falls madly in love. or both... >:3

OH MY GOD???? HE’S SUCH A LIL EMO FREAK 😭😭😭😭 HES SITTING IN HIS ROOM BLASTING MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE i just know telemachus sees this and has a heart attack. this is the best thing ive ever seen in my life and im so serious

[maruyaaya]

ur so obsessed w me imeda leave me alone omg ur like obsessed w me its kinda weird we r like etho and joel in hc10 but im not actualky obsessed w u ur the obsessed one :/

ummmmmmmm im filing a restraining order as we speak leave me alone ur obsessed with me what the hell we’re literally like etho and joel but im joel and you’re etho because you’re obsessed with me FREAK!!!!! you want me so bad it makes you look stupid you want me sooooooo bad

[maruyaaya]

hi same anon here one more time very sorry i've been flooding your asks!! please dont apologize for the rambles i love getting to see people explain things they're passionate about and the thought processes behind their works! i completely forgot about joel planning to give jimmy time (even though joel is my main pov) that just makes a bigger ouchie (also if you'd be open to sharing those scenes that jimmy heavily misinterpreted esp the convo that jimmy fully left in the middle of (unless you have something else you want to do with that no pressure to share))! i will be continuing to rotate your works in my head for the next few hours at least. very very excited for the last life fic in the works too!! sorry again for spamming your asks i promise this is the last for now but thank you for answering and keep on being awesome!

DO NOT APOLOGIZE IT ABSOLUTELY MAKES MY DAY!!

JOEL SAYING HE PLANNED TO GIVE JIMMY TIME WAS SUCH A ONE-OFF RANDOM LINE BUT IT STUCK WITH ME SO BAD bc jimmy just had no idea bc joel only ever said it after jimmy died.

i would absolutely love to share some bonuses from that fic!! i have the rest of the convo joel & grian have written out and it’s just dialogue, no introspection or anything bc i just wanted i have a basic idea of where that convo was going so bear in mind, very rough draft, no editing, just the direct thoughts from my head:

i wanted this scene to start off as being very antagonistic and thats what jimmy sees and then after he leaves, it becomes a little softer and kinder. despite the fact that i always write grian and joel as being so antagonistic towards each other, they genuinely do care about each other so much and they are capable of some softness with each other. i think it's important for their relationship that there is both love and hatred at the same time

another scene that isn't included in the fic but is in my head is one where okay so yk how the scene where grian and joel kiss starts with joel arguing with jimmy about grian? in my head, joel comes into that scene so pissed bc he was just with grian being all romantic or whatever and grian was treating him with a certain softness that joel doesn't think grian is capable of treating him with and he assumes that grian is treating him like he would scar. thats what gets the "because im not scar" outburst out of joel when he and grian are kissing. something about gribeans to me is that they understand each other better than anybody else but they also misunderstand each other a lot bc they assume the worst of each other. i dont think grian was projecting scar onto joel at all in that particular time (during other times, absolutely, but not this one). he was just treating joel with some genuine kindness and softness and joel misunderstood it bc he just inherently doesn't believe that grian is capable of that with him

a lot of the scenes that jimmy misunderstand are also i think bc he assumes the worst of joel and grian. like for example, he gets pissed that when he asks if grian is the boogeyman, joel answers for him but joel didnt intend any malice in it, he was just genuinely answering jimmy bc grian was out of earshot. however at this point, jimmy is so used to grian and joel excluding him that he immediately takes it as "they cant even be bothered to speak to me individually" and this isnt to say that grian & joel dont exclude jimmy in that fic bc they absolutely do (jimmy better than i am honestly bc its awful) but sometimes jimmy does just assume the worst of them

(take a shot every time i say "i think" about my own writing. its bc i dont actually ever write anything at all, the characters just speak to me)

the thing about my gribeans fics is that in my head, all the kinda “canon compliant” ones that i write take place in the same universe like in only my lover, joel and grian argue about last life and jimmy has no idea what happened in last life so it’s never explained, but in the last life fic that i’m writing rn, THATS the situation they were arguing about. it’s like the maruyaaya gribeans cinematic universe LMFAO

THANK YOU AGAIN genuinely it means so much to me and i really appreciate it <3 thank you for listening to me yap LMAO

[maruyaaya]

HELLO ITS ME AGAIN (kindred)

u made a post and tumblr wouldnt let me like or reblog it and i cant find it aahhhhhh :')

anyway go best friend! me and my last serotonin molecule are cheering you on XD

expect art spam too >:]

<3

HELLO!!! AHAHA I HAVE A HABIT OF MAKING AND DELETING POSTS IM SO SORRY sometimes i make posts and im thinking “wow this is a BANGER!!” and then five minutes go by and it feels like ive shamed my entire bloodline SO BASICALLY THAT HAPPENS A LOT

AND THANK YOU SM! IM CHEERING U ON TOO!! the art spam is my fav thing ever love it sm

[maruyaaya]

just read your wild life finale fic and i'm in the middle of the lim life bad boys fic and oh my GOD dude. i'm not a gribeans (groel???) shipper but i love reading and giving all dif ships a try and oh my godddd the way you write is incredible. the way you describe the sick and twisted way they love is so visceral and gut-wrenching and it has changed my brain chemistry for real for real. i love the characterization of joel that you've gone for he's so full of contradictions (it's amazing when authors/creators don't shy away from those contradictions and let a character be complex). also the difference with joel and grian's povs/thoughts in mitakesgf's fic hurts it makes me Unwell. jimmy's outside pov and the bad boys dynamics but with his underlying feeling of not fitting in with them urgggh. i love this so much it hurts thank you!!!

FAHSFKDJA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! oh my god i saw this ask and had to stare at the wall for a little bit bc What The Fuck LFJSFKSFA THIS MEANS SM TO ME!! i am very Not Normal about gribeans (technically, yes, they are called gribeans i think that calling them groel is just a me and lisa mitakesgf thing but i just prefer the shipname groel LOL) AND IM VERY GLAD YOU GAVE THEM A CHANCE HAHA

i love writing them as toxic and unhealthy bc that's just what they are to me!! for grian and joel, love is the same thing as hunger is. they can show the worst parts of themselves to each other and know that they'll be accepted in a way that they'll never have with anybody else. they can be selfish and cruel with each other and it's okay because it will always be reciprocated IDK I JUST REALLY LOVE EXPLORING THEM AS A CODEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP i love them so much

I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU LIKING MY JOEL CHARACTERIZATION he is so fun to write for me because i don't really intend for him to be a good person when i'm writing him (though that's subjective for sure) he's selfish and contradictory AND THATS WHATS FUN ABOUT HIM TO ME joel is always an unreliable narrator when i write him. i love complex characters i love when characters are flawed i could honestly talk about the way i characterize joel for so so long i love him i love writing unreliable narrators <3

mitakesgf and i are such a duo she is the grian to my joel whenever one of us writes a fic, we add the other to the google doc we are interconnected and she appreciated this ask as well LOL

AND JIMMY!! he is my shayla he's my guy i love it when he's suffering HAHA i just think it's such a running theme throughout limlife that joel and grian would be off doing stuff together while jimmy was left by himself and i just had to write smth about it bc he feels like such an outsider and he knows that he doesn't fit in but he wants to. he wants to be a trio, not a duo and yet nothing ever changes for him bc he's so tragic to me

THANK YOU AGAIN OHHH MY GOSH i appreciate this so much thank you <3

[maruyaaya]

hi same anon here i just finished the lim life jimmy fic and oh my GOD (again but with more emphasis). jimmy's bitterness at being the outsider hit too close to home it was so good and the gribeans and all the unreliable narrator and the character interactions and bad boys being dysfunctional and-

HAHAKSDJSA THANK YOU SM AGAIN!!! jimmy in that fic is so tragic to me like he never gets what he wants he never gets to be part of whatever grian and joel have going on and he never even really knows what grian and joel have going on (he's the final boss of unreliable narrators in that fic)

i think one of the main things for jimmy in only my lover is that he gets really pissed at grian and joel for excluding him and yet, he can't stop himself from wanting to be included. because he has such a reverence for the two of them and all he wants is to be their equal even though he knows he'll never get it.

AND THE GRIBEANS OFC!!! they understand each other so well like i want there to be an aspect of you see how they get each other and you can't entirely blame them for excluding jimmy bc grian and joel share something that jimmy doesn't get about them.

the bad boys are so special to me theyre so dysfunctional i cant be normal about them i am so Not Normal about them

this is my excuse to ramble about only my lover a little bit but that fic is so special to me because i have so many notes on what was actually happening in all the scenes that jimmy witnesses in that fic and while writing, i'd usually start with that idea of what actually happened and then i'd twist it to be from jimmy's perspective and how he misunderstands things. one of the most notable being how jimmy gets really petty about neither joel nor grian offering to give him any time, but if you've watched joel's limlife pov, you know that he was planning on giving time to jimmy, he just hadn't told him yet. OR THE SCENE WHERE JIMMY LEAVES IN THE MIDDLE OF JOEL AND GRIANS CONVO like the way the rest of that convo played out is so vivid in my head but it's so important to me that jimmy just Never knows what they said because he's just Not part of that.

SORRY IDK WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT NOW IM JUST RAMBLING. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR ASKS THEY REALLY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME <3

[maruyaaya]

when you get this, please respond with five things that make you happy! then, send to your last ten people in your notifs (anonymously). you never know who might benefit from spreading positivity.

AW THIS IS SO CUTESIE

1: books <3 i love books so much i love reading and writing i’m going to read every single book ever written

2: all of my lovely friends both irl and on here i appreciate all of u sm

3: chocolate is like my fav thing ever tbh

4: I LOVEEEE WINTER BREAK!!! NO SCHOOL!!!

5: and i love tragic pathetic wet cat fictional characters i love u neoptolemus you are such a lil freak <3

[maruyaaya]

i hadn't even considered this ship until like a week ago but you got me hooked on neomachus. im obsessed with them. the snippets you posted are amazing and when you post the fic i will be running to read it so fast

SADKASD THANK YOU!!! im so glad to have you as a neomachus enjoyer. the army grows. they're so silly and i'm so glad people can see their potential

[maruyaaya]

hihi ^^ i just read your oikawa and noya fanfic and can i ask how you thought of them together? i have never thought of them but now i think that they are cute!

YESSIR!!! if i am to be so very completely honest and real with you, anon, i came to the idea of shipping oinoya because they are my top two favourite characters in haikyuu 💀 (akaashi is third <3). idk one of my fav things ever is just to take my two fav characters in a media and ship them together. hence mizuan (pjsekai), donjay (dc), ranaya (bandori), etc etc. so i will be honest i was entirely selfish in my idea for my oinoya ff. BUT i am nothing if not devoted to my rarepairs (i make up 21.4% of the ranaya tag on ao3 LMFAO some poor ranaya fan just trying to find content and they keep coming across my annoying gay ass 💀💀) so before i devoted myself to writing 17k words about oinoya, i needed to think about if this actually made sense to me.

and boy it did.

so the first thing i’m thinking is “dude do oinoya even interact in canon???” and they do! well, sort of. they have indirect interactions if that makes sense. oikawa aims his serve at nishinoya and nishinoya remarks on multiple occasions that he thinks oikawa’s serves are so cool. there’s this little bonus sketch where noya even wishes that oikawa would always be the one serving.

like guys i think it might be a little gay to be so obsessed with another players serves.

and that’s where the concept for my fic came from. the idea was literally just “what if oikawa’s practicing his serves and nishinoya finds him and they just start practicing together?” and then they slowly fell in love doing that. the main driving force was how much they both respect the other as a player. i feel like they both respect each other’s skills, but (at least, in the beginning of the fic) don’t quite like the other as a person. like they’re on opposite teams, oikawa’s dramatic ass considers it a principle to hate everyone on karasuno, noya doesn’t like oikawa’s “pretty boy attitude”, and they just don’t really like each other. however, they both think the other is a really fucking good volleyball player so they both resign themselves to practicing volleyball together; you don’t need to like someone to acknowledge that they’re good at volleyball (as said by noya himself in the fic)

the very first time i came up with the concept of them practicing volleyball together, the first person who heard about it was, of course, oli (akur000 on tumblr) because they are always the first to hear my fic ideas. then the idea slightly evolved in the tiktok dms of one of my irl friends, sanja (who does not have a tumblr but i love her just the same (she also proofread my google translate spanish in the fic with her four years of high school spanish)), and honestly the fic just grew from there. i started writing, the title came to me while i was listening to the crane wives song allies or enemies bc it just immediately struck me as a song that fit them esp in the context of my fic. “now listen close // you owe me ears for dropping eaves // forget it all // you caught me in a moment weak” and “what happens now? // do we have another go? // do we bow out, and take our separate roads? // i’ll admit i’ve had my doubts // but i want to be let in, not out” and “all is fair in love and war // but i can't fight with you anymore” which fun fact! i almost made the title of the ff be that last line of “all is fair in love and war” but then decided that i didn’t make oinoya antagonistic enough for that title so we ended up with are we allies or enemies? (this will be the death of me)

so let’s talk canon basis. there isn’t really much of one, but there is a little bit! so as mentioned, nishinoya often talks about how cool he thinks oikawa’s serves are. he’s eager to receive them. example below. he even mentions that when he was in middle school, his team went up against kitagawa daiichi and there was a guy who “could serve really well”; i don’t think it’s a stretch to say that he is very likely referring to oikawa.

so we know nishinoya respects oikawa but what about oikawa? what does he think about noya? well we get considerably less from his side, but that’s not to say that we get enough! while watching the shiratorizawa v karasuno match with iwaizumi, oikawa refers to nishinoya by his name. this is notable only because oikawa doesn’t do it for other members of karasuno. you can see in the below image that he calls tsukishima “four eyes” and even refers to hinata as “chibi-chan”. (kageyama is, of course, mentioned by name but honestly he’s a whole other basket of worms). nishinoya is mentioned by his name. not by a nickname, his number, or a describing feature. what this means to me is that noya stood out enough as a player to catch oikawa’s attention and he made note of it; he remembered nishinoya. oikawa doesn’t learn the name of every member of every rival time he plays (why would he?) but he does remember nishinoya’s and i think it’s likely because he admires nishinoya’s skills. noya stands out to him as a particularly skilled player. oikawa’s petty, but he recognizes when someone is good at volleyball.

so what we get is a mutual respect between oikawa and nishinoya. they both think the other is good at volleyball. another thing from canon that pulled me into them is the way they are the members of their respective teams with the biggest reputation (though i’d say noya is second on karasuno reputation wise bc obviously kageyama has the biggest reputation on karasuno). i don’t think anyone will debate me on oikawa having the biggest reputation of any seijoh member. he’s feared by other miyagi schools and for good reason. i think nishinoya’s reputation is clearer in the manga than it is the anime, but there are so many occasions where karasuno is about to start a match and someone in the crowd goes “lol who tf is karasuno?” and someone replies “idk but they have kitagawa daiichi’s kageyama tobio and chidoriyama’s nishinoya!!” like i’m not even joking that the phrase “chidoriyama’s nishinoya” is uttered so many times when spectators are trying to figure out who karasuno is. i only have two examples that i can pull from the manga off the top of my head, but trust me that it happens a fair few times. oikawa and noya are both known to be really good players.

and honestly? that’s kinda the extent of the canon basis of their relationship. so then what can we discuss next? well, we can discuss what exactly about that makes such a good dynamic and why i think they would genuinely work as a ship/couple.

oikawa and nishinoya both love volleyball. they're both incredibly skilled and they love playing, but i think that out of the two of them, nishinoya is the only one who actually likes volleyball (at least, as of 2012/2013 canon). this is part of a longer oikawa character analysis i could write, but i think that though he loves volleyball more than anything and no world exists where he would allow himself to quit, during high school (and middle school too), he stopped enjoying it and focused more on "becoming great" rather than "having fun". it's not until the brazil trip where he meets up with hinata and remembers that volleyball is fun that he regains that like for volleyball. i think a very strong theme in haikyuu is the loving vs liking of volleyball as evident in characters like hirugami. volleyball is everything to oikawa.

oikawa is willing to sacrifice everything to succeed. he wants to be the best, he wants to win. volleyball is absolutely everything to him. he goes pro because he cannot fathom a life where he isn't putting absolutely everything he has into volleyball. he'll bleed and he'll bleed and he'll give everything. that's why he loses his enjoyment for volleyball. he loves it, of course he loves it, but he doesn't like it because it's so painful to him. and yet, he can't understand ever giving it up.

nishinoya, on the other hand, does love volleyball, but it isn't everything to him. he quits volleyball because his friend quit. he likes volleyball, but he can give it up. he doesn't go pro because he likes volleyball as a hobby. he would never want to do it as a job because i think it would rob him of the enjoyment he has for it. nishinoya likes volleyball because he gets to play with his friends. he doesn't have that all-encompassing obsession with volleyball that oikawa has. for him, volleyball is about the game, not the result. he just wants to play.

so the idea of putting oikawa and nishinoya face to face is really interesting to me because you have two players, both extremely talented and with the ability to go pro, but only one of them wants it. you have oikawa, who doesn't think he has a future if it isn't to do with volleyball and then you have nishinoya, who could never professionally pursue volleyball because it would destroy everything he loves about the game. i didn't have the opportunity to explore this in my ff, but something i was really thinking about oikawa looking at nishinoya and seeing someone who could go pro, but doesn't want to and he just doesn't understand it; a part of him is convinced that nishinoya is throwing away his talent. he just doesn't get it and this could be such a big point of contention between them.

(i will be potentially writing another oinoya fic where i can explore this specific concept more bc frankly, i'm obsessed with it 🤞🤞)

both oikawa and noya are very passionate about volleyball. they're both also very passionate people in general. they're very overdramatic. like out of their entire teams, they're probably the only people who would care about "fraternizing with the enemy" or whatever tf they get so dramatic about in the fic (tanaka would probs have an intense reaction at first but i think that would just be his general distaste for oikawa). like you cannot tell me that if some other member of seijoh was dating a member of karasuno, oikawa wouldn't throw the biggest temper tantrum ever.

i think that oikawa is a character who isn't used to playing the "straight man" in his dynamics. because he's around iwaizumi so much, he's often the one who gets to be the silly one while iwaizumi tells him to shut the fuck up. around nishinoya, he has to occasionally be the straight man which i think is a new role for oikawa and one that i found kinda fun to explore. like you get oikawa, now faced with someone who has so much energy that it looks exhausting and he starts thinking that maybe he finally gets why iwaizumi always seems so fed up. it's a fun dynamic to explore and it's not one that's very prevalent in most oikawa ships so it's something a little different.

and i think oikawa really likes that about nishinoya. i think he absolutely loves watching noya be so exhilarating and full of energy off the court and then immediately becoming silent and focused when he stops onto the court. i think he would find noya's serious demeanour while playing to be very attractive (taking volleyball seriously is a major green flag for him).

another part of their dynamic i like to explore is the confidence levels. oikawa appears to be very externally confident, but internally, he doesn't really believe any of that; he's actually very insecure. nishinoya, on the other hand, is externally confident and it's true. he has confidence in his abilities and though he is always willing to learn more, he, at least, knows that he is good. i think that noya would be able to help oikawa a lot with that part of his insecurities because nishinoya admires oikawa so much. i think they work together in that sense.

they’re both also always so eager to learn! they always want to improve, they always want to get better. yaku says that that’s what makes nishinoya such a terrifying opponent. they both have a very intense drive to improve. and that’s something they could do together; they can practice together and teach each other. you can’t tell me that noya wouldn’t absolutely love showing oikawa how to do his rolling thunder move and oikawa would get such an ego boost when noya would ask him to show him how to better his libero sets.

and ugh i absolutely love the idea of oikawa moving to argentina and then noya, who is in the process of travelling the world, visits him in argentina. noya would absolutely go watch oikawa’s games and whenever noya comes to visit, oikawa has to bring him onto a court to play some volleyball. the whole argentina team knows noya by name and i think they’d love to bring noya in for a little practice game from time to time. noya, while travelling, sends oikawa pictures of him doing obscure shit in the countries he’s in (eg: the one that noya sends asahi of him fishing in italy LMFAO) and oikawa’s team thinks that they’re the funniest things ever. it’s like “tooru, where is your boyfriend now?” and oikawa points his phone at them to show them a picture of nishinoya hugging a penguin in fucking antarctica or some shit.

also guys can we talk about how the ship name for oikawa/nishinoya might be oinoya, but they could also be called noyaoi which guys… that’s the funniest fucking thing ever. like are u kidding me?? this ship is called no yaoi and you don’t ship it??

i’m so sorry i rambled for so fucking long 😭😭😭 i could talk for longer on oinoya but i fear i have written far too much on this post. basically tl;dr oinoya is a good ship with a really good dynamic and i think more people should consider it seriously.

[maruyaaya]

Hey Imeda! I am Low! I read your Pandalily fic recently and I adored it! I saw that you haven't had this account long and since I can't peruse/stalk your account to satiate my curiosity I've decided to inquire here :) I hope you don't mind.

Do you have any specific Pandora or Lily headcanons you can share? Do you have any WIPs in the works? Do you have any songs you are listening to on repeat right now? What are the top 5 ships that are giving you the most insistent brain rot currently?

And finally, I am done pestering you and I'm wishing you a day full of wonder <3

OMG HI LOW!! yes absolutely i am always happy to talk about pandalily they are my beloveds <3 yeah i set up this acc relatively recently bc i wanted a fresh start for my ao3 and i haven’t really had the chance to do much on it yet (i am unfortunately a full time university student) but i am so happy you sent an ask bc i am always excited to talk to ppl!! feel free to send more asks or even dm me for whatever reason!!

i’m gonna do the pandalily headcanons last bc i have so many of them, but firstly do i have any wips:

oh i ABSOLUTELY have wips. i actually am the worst at starting wips and never finishing them, but as for main ones i’m working on rn, i have a prongsfoot wip that’s currently around 50k words 75% done, a marauders x daisy jones & the six au, a (you have to hear me out on this one okay bc i know nobody ships this but me BUT HEAR ME OUT) friends with benefits sirius x barty fic that’s about half done, and another pandalily fic that is basically just taking shape but i don’t have much to say about it yet (im actually just the worst multishipper ever and i ship my favourite character, sirius, with every single person who dares to so much as breathe in his direction)

songs on repeat

ok so i am totally willing to just link my spotify, in fact: here and i have a pandalily playlist in the works here, but specifically, i’ve had never love an anchor by the crane wives, three by sleeping at last, and funeral by phoebe bridgers on loop over and over as well as the entire daisy jones & the six album.

top 5 ships giving me brainrot

1. PRONGSFOOT!! prongsfoot is forever in my head as one of my fav ships ever

2. pandalily! i absolutely adore their dynamic and the little version of them that i have created in my head

3. rosekiller. i think this is a relatively unpopular opinion but i am so intrigued by their dynamic and i’m currently in the process of drafting a LONG fic about them but i haven’t done much work on it yet

4. dorlene. UGH MY OG ENEMIES TO LOVERS i am forever obsessed with them and i can’t believe i haven’t written them yet

5. normally i’d have jegulus around here i think but currently i’ve been having intensive brainrot about the idea of a dynamic between barty and sirius. i think they’re two characters who are very similar and yet hate each other and i think it’s really interesting to explore a two sides of the same coin dynamic between them and idk i have a lot of thoughts about them i could absolutely rant for a very long time abt the sirius/barty dynamic i have in my head

bonus bc it isn’t a marauders ship but my favourite ship of ALL TIME is soukoku, aka dazai/chuuya from bungou stray dogs. i like them a Normal amount (i’m crazy abt them)

and now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, here are a few of my pandalily headcanons that i can think of off the top of my head

first of all, my fav pandalily song is trouble by halsey. it’s literally them. that’s their dynamic to me

pandora’s much more open about her oddness and want for Blood while lily is more closed off about it. it’s still there—absolutely still there—but pandora kind of awakens it in her and helps her to realize that it’s okay to show that part of her

they met through james and regulus and often go on double dates with them

they absolutely get matching tattoos. probably ethel cain lyrics or something abt the inherent eroticism of cannibalism idk

my favourite headcanon is that pandora and evan are twins and evan tries to get lily the shovel talk when he meets her for the first time, but actually just ends up half in love with her bc he thinks she’s so cool

speaking of, evan and lily joke that they’re going to run away and elope so that evans name could be evan evans and pandora thinks it’s the funniest thing ever

bonus headcanon that evan is the older twin by a few minutes but pandora tells everyone that she is and he doesn’t correct her

they watched bones and all together and every 5 minutes they would whisper “this is so us” to each other

they absolutely LOVE baking together. they do it at least once a week and they make cookies or cupcakes or something and decorate them like pinterest photos and give them to their friends

they have two shared pinterest boards. one is really cutesy baking ideas and cute room decor inspo and the other is full of quotes abt cannibalism and blood and eating each other whole. they treasure both of these boards equally

lily is the biggest taylor swift fan ever and she makes pandora listen to her songs together. pandora moderately enjoys taylor swift, but will listen to her constantly to please lily. lily’s favourite song is this is me trying and pandora likes cowboy like me

they give each other flowers all the time (notably lilies ofc). pandora can’t stand to watch them die and always presses them and keeps them all in a little notebook with the date they got them

they’re obsessed with biting each other. like not even just during sex, they do it all the time. they’ll be watching a movie and pandora will just reach over and bite lily’s shoulder for fun

their favourite show to watch together is hannibal. they’re crazy about it. they rewatch it all the time to an unhealthy extent

they often say really strange declarations of love to each other in front of other people like “i want to eat you down to the bones” or “i want to rip open your skin and crawl inside your kidneys and sleep in there” and everyone around them just laughs nervously and can’t tell if they’re serious or not

i probably rambled much more than i needed to but i am always very excited to talk!!

[maruyaaya]

IMEDA IMEDA IMEDA!! I forgot to tell you yesterday, but i was reading this lovely Pandalily fic (it's a canon-compliant Pandalily one where they're both mothers (of Harry and Luna) married to Xeno and James. They find comfort in one another during the war from supportive mother's to sweet and secret lovers. it's so delightful and devasting) I guess this is a rec too because it's Pandalily and soul destroying, which i imagine you would enjoy!

Anyways, what i came here to say was that i listened to your playlist while reading that fic, and 'Born to Die' came on, and ugghh that song!!! Every line is 1. (so Pandalily coded) and 2. fit this fic and the moment i was on when it queued so perfectly!

Actually, this has turned into a rec as well. You should try it out when you have time and listen to your playlist and watch in the mirror as tears unconsciously stream down your face because i was in shambles. Devastated beyond belief. And i wanted to thank you for the treasure that is your playlist! I love personalized playlist and i need to make my own so i can start sharing them too!

OH IM FUCKING SOBBING ???? WHY WOULD U DO THIS TO ME ?$?&(&(!& i also put on born to die while reading it and oh my god i’m going crazy that was devastating! lily literally colouring pandoras life AND THEM PLANTING A GARDEN TOGETHER??? the ending actually just devastated me wtf WTF

born to die is one of my fav pandalily songs like “come take a walk on the wild side, let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain, you like your girls insane” ???? lana del rey actually wrote this song for pandalily i know this bc she told me herself

i’m devastated utterly devastated