#monstrsball

[pinkinsect]

hmmm sae & ness for character bingo? :3

hi kennedy :3

sae:

no bingo yet,, I would've marked "im obsessed with their character arc" but we have yet to have a full arc for him yet. I want to Know. I Want To Understand Him. as far as working better as a dynamic. what particularly interests me about sae is how he was as an older brother to rin when they were younger, compared to how he is now. so yeah i actually do want to know more about sae as an individual, but really like how it's reflected in his treatment of others, if that makes sense? i don't have much to say about sae i just rotate him in my head hoping something will appear.

ness answered here :3

[freakurodani]

getting silly with @runayachi in the server tonight

[zentriii]

chihayafuru is SO good, i forgot how much it resonated with me when i watched the anime two (?) years ago but reading the manga has reminded me it hits Hard. and the characters are all so wonderful.

YEAHH the themes it has going on have me on the floorr. like it's so real in an achingly beautiful way i can't ever get over it

i think i watched s1 a few months ago and it still gets me in my feelings if i think about it for too long. and you're so right the characters are all so incredible and it's something so wonderful !!!

[runayachi]

hi lyz :] i don't actually have anything specific to ask you, i just joked about sending you an ask so i am here. i know headcanons are not your thing but do you have any uhhh [flips through notes hurriedly] runayachi thoughts??

hi kennedy :3c here's a thought: runayachi kissing...

runa is the sort of person who cries when other people cry! this means that when yachi starts nervously crying runa starts crying in sympathy. then they both start crying until yachi's like "why are you crying" and runa's like "idk why are you crying" and that usually gets them out of it.

both yachi and runa like stationary but they have vastly different opinions on it. yachi uses fancy mechanical pencils for everything but runa only uses one certain type of pen and fifty different highlighters. the first time they end up in a stationary shop they're both internally like "um...wtf" at the other's purchases but are too polite (read: nervous) to say anything about it. eventually they figure out that liking stationary doesn't mean having the same opinions.

i've mentioned this in the server but yachi is the sort of person who has like five different types of pads and three different types of tampons in her bag at any given moment. meet-cute (???) where yachi gives the nervous johzenji manager period supplies in the bathroom.

[homosubtext]

ok rey lowkey... all time mow is one of those bands for me too

listening to hit album Nothing Personal (2009) and suddenly i am 13 years old again in a very hot and crowded concert venue getting beer spilled down the back of my leg and almost overheating and passing out

[conartisthaiji]

hiiiii lyz, how about 15 & 56 for spotify wrapped? :3

hi kennenedy :3c

15. loveable by jo yuri

56. croquis by kwon eunbi

[eurydicees]

"east," sleeping at last & oikawa, chapters 370-373

[monstrsball]

The night before Iwaizumi leaves for California, his mother gives him a gift. It's wrapped delicately in yellow wrapping paper.

Iwaizumi has a feeling he knows what it is.

"I know it's last minute," She says, sitting next to him on his bed in his childhood bedroom. "Your bags are all packed, I don't expect you to make room to take it with you or anything, of course." She watches him, hands folded in her lap. "Ah, and you'll probably think it's embarrassing any-"

"Mama," Iwaizumi interrupts, fighting back a little smile at her fretting. "Let me at least open it before you try minimizing it."

"Right, right." She laughs, waving her hand. "Of course. Go on then. Open it."

Iwaizumi doesn't take his time tearing it open.

It's a book. A scrapbook, Iwaizumi guesses. It has his name handwritten in both kanji and hiragana on the front. It's a little smaller than the other scrapbooks his mom has on her shelf. The binding is a dark forest green.

The only sound in the room is the flipping of pages. Iwaizumi takes his time to study each page, his chest feeling a little tighter the more he flips through the book.

Iwaizumi knows his mothers have always taken lots of pictures, ranging from polaroids to digital. His aunties too but he still finds himself surprised by the amount Sachiko has collected in the book. Including pictures she must have received from other people because neither of his moms were present at said event.

The pages are simple. Each one has about two to five (depending on the sizes of them) pictures on it. They're decorated with stickers and little notes written in his mom's graceful handwriting neatly squeezed where they can fit and still be legible.

Notes like "you gave your poor mother a fright the first time you came into the house with one of these" under a photo of Iwaizumi proudly showing off a jar with a beetle in it and "i'm surprised you convinced tooru to go, lol" by a photo from a fishing trip Iwaizumi took with the other third years.

"This is one of my favorite pictures," His mom says, watching as Iwaizumi flips pages over his shoulder. She points to a picture of the two of them when they first moved into the house. He was only three. They're sitting on the front steps together, neither of them are looking at the camera. He has his arms wrapped around hers and is looking up at her as she laughs.

And he breaks.

"Oh, Hajime." She says softly, pulling him into a tight hug. He tucks his face into the crook of her neck and she strokes his hair as he cries. He feels like he's five again, crying because he accidentally squashed a bug when he was trying to catch it. Ten, crying because he was sick with the flu and thought he was on the brink of death. Thirteen, crying because he and Oikawa had a fight and he thought he would never talk to him again.

Eighteen, crying because he's leaving the country tomorrow and it suddenly hit him that he doesn't know what he's going to do without his mom.

He doesn't say that though.

He doesn't tell her that he's scared, scared that he's going to crash and burn in California, scared that his friendship with Oikawa won't survive the distance, scared that everything is going to go wrong because he left.

Or that he's really going to miss her.

(Maybe he should have told her that.)

-

That night before Iwaizumi spends his last night in his childhood room, he wraps the scrapbook up in the hoodie that Oikawa gave him and tucks them both into one of his bags.

He thinks about where he's going to put it in his dorm room when he gets to California.

[hqrarepairtournament]

And the results are in - KuroMikaShou won the Polyam Tournament! Thanks everyone for voting! I hope you had fun!

[luckyswamps]

tagged by @shimamitsu for 5 songs ive had on repeat

1. Club Classics - Charli XCX

2. Yeah x10 - Challengers soundtrack

3. Nice Mover - Gina x Performance

4. Supersoaker - Eartheater

5. Oh God - Jerskin Fendrix

tagging @sliceofdyke @mangomybeloved @monstrsball @ghostfreckles @rolling-raccoon if you want to!

[pinkinsect]

KANA-BOON - silhouette // blue lock - chapter 94 // mitski - everyone // blue lock - chapter 155 // KANA-BOON - silhouette // blue lock - chapter 9, chapter 256 // toby fox - undertale // blue lock - chapter 9, chapter 256 // toby fox - undertale

team effort with @barousagi <3

[freakurodani]

adri i've been thinking more about oikawa getting rejected in silly ways, specifically what you were talking about with oisuga. and i think him getting rejected because suga didn't even realize they were on a date is even funnier if they DO end up dating later as adults.

oikawa sharing that he actually had a huge crush on suga in high school and suga is just like "haha, what?" and then he thinks about it and is like "oh my god." bc now it all makes sense dfdsflds.

just a thought. you got the oisuga gears in my brain turning. <3

ehehehehehehe i love getting gears turning :D

But YEAH ishajshsba i do get immense joy from suga being like "wow! we were like ships in the night, right? Could you imagine if we spent more time together as teens, maybe we would have started dating sooner"

and oikawa is withering and he drops the news like "i asked you out. we went on a date, but you didnt realize it was a date"

and suga takes in the information, "i see" gets up and starts walking out of the room and oikawa says

"wait, where are you going?"

"to give my degree back i dont think i deserve it" bc he can be a drama queen too 🤭

[zentriii]

SO! i don't have a link for it other than a tag on my blog (https://www.monstrsball.tumblr.com/tagged/vampire!oikawa%20au) with some posts about it. it's just something i've been cooking up with my friends in discord fjdjs. i've been meaning to make a post actually explaining things more... maybe this will get me to do it. but it originated from me thinking about oisuga with human suga & cringefail loser vampire oikawa. and then it turned into an iwaoisuga thing bc of who i am as a person

sjdkfk if you saw me in your notifs reblogging a bunch of your posts in that tag no you didn't-

anyways if you ever make a more in-depth post about them pls tag me, i don't even go to the oisuga/iwaoisuga side of this fandom but i'm very interested !!!

also you're so real for spreading your iwaoisuga agenda <3 their dynamic is so good i think you've converted me

[runayachi]

i know that we love to talk about how much kageyama learned from suga, but it's important to remember that it went both ways, because suga learned from kageyama as well.

when we first meet suga, he's (quietly) shouldering the blame for asahi and noya leaving. kageyama shows up, and suga's relieved that there's a setter better than him because he won't have to handle that responsibility of guiding the ace, of getting the ball to his spikers. he thinks that maybe he can fall back into the shadows, because karasuno has a genius setter now, so what use would they have for a regular one?

and yet.

kageyama wants to fight suga for the position. "the gap in experience between us isn't that easily overcome!" "suga-san, you better not be doing this to give me the position." he knows he's good. but he still respects suga, as a senpai, as another setter, and kageyama knows that he has shortcomings in areas that suga excels at.

and he says as much to suga. and suga promises to fight him for that starting position.

by the time the shiratorizawa match comes around, suga has gained so much more confidence. but he admits that he's still scared of being blocked and he does not have the same unwavering faith in his spikers (in himself) that kageyama does. he acknowledges that it is a relief having kageyama there.

and yet he steps onto the court anyways.

because suga doesn't give up. even when he's scared (not anymore).

and what happens is this: suga goes to spike (something he is terrified of) and tendou blocks him. and suga simply promises to do it again. and when the time comes, suga runs forward without hesitation, and tendou leaps to block him, because to him, the ball has to be going to suga.

(and then it doesn't, and tendou realizes he was wrong, and suga's smiling and promising to do it again.)

when we first meet suga, he's relieved that there's a better setter than him.

in a few months' time, that is no longer the case.

[homosubtext]

🐰!! ily 🫶

kendy monstrsball you have seen me chew drywall and throw up over fictional characters. i should be no level of intimidating to u hun

tell me if u think i’m intimidating if u want :D

[conartisthaiji]

hiiii lyz, very very curious about "kanorunayachi 365 so fresh" :3333

hiiii kennedy :3 i wanna preface this by saying that this is kind of "they would not fucking do that" territory,,,sorry but i live to make insanely self-indulgent content

“Are you on the run from something?” the girl asks. She’s trembling in the passenger seat like she can’t quite believe that she’s here. 

Kanoka looks at her. Takes in the red staining the girl’s small fingers, the red splatters on the girl’s cream sweater. 

“Are you?” she asks in lieu of responding. 

The girl presses her lips together and looks away. 

Kanoka sighs and turns her gaze back to the road. 

Silence settles in the car. The girl looks at her fingers, then half-heartedly wipes them on the edge of her sweater. 

Kanoka has a small pack of wipes in her jacket. She pulls them out and wordlessly offers them to the girl. The girl takes them silently and starts wiping at her hands furiously, like maybe that will get rid of her sins. 

It stays silent, until the girl screams, and Kanoka sees someone fall in front of the car in the same breath. 

“No,” Kanoka says, already stopping the car, because she might be a criminal but she’s not a killer. 

She and the other girl scramble out of the car to see another girl blink dazedly up at them. 

“Are you okay?” Kanoka asks. 

“No,” the girl says. She giggles. “I wouldn’t have fallen in front of your car otherwise.” 

Kanoka looks at her first passenger of the night. She shrugs in response. 

The fallen girl giggles again. “I’m so tired,” she says, like it’s a confession, or a prayer. 

Kanoka peers into the girl’s light brown eyes. 

“You have beautiful eyes, by the way,” the girl says, while Kanoka studies her pupils. 

“Do you have a concussion?” her first passenger asks, and holds up two bloody fingers. “How many fingers am I holding up?” 

“Two,” says the girl on the ground, and then she giggles. “I’m okay, seriously, trust me.” She tries to get to her feet, falls back into Kanoka’s lap.

Kanoka’s first passenger of the night squats down to look at the girl. “Are you sure?”

The girl stills. “Maybe,” she says softly. “You know, you’re really pretty.”

[send me the title of one of my wips and i'll post a snippet!]