#pro volleyball

[clubhoops]

Caitlin Clark pulled up to watch Indy's new pro volleyball team, The Ignite.

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

women's pro volleyball in the USA. Had no idea this was a thing until 2 hours ago. This match happened last Saturday, I think. Omaha is playing San Diego right now, and Grand Rapids defeated Atlanta earlier this evening.

[thmadethis]

The Professional Association of Volleyball Officials Convention 2023 logo 🏐

I got a chance to work with PAVO last year and create a unique logo for their show! A fun logo that includes a number of references to Florida's lively and colorful city. Out of every logo I've made I think this one had the most revisions I've ever made 🤷🏽‍♂️ That's the business! It turned out great though. The last two images are concepts that didn't make it. RIP

🌟This is what I do! ☝🏼 Wanna work together? DM or message me through my site 🔗 IN BIO!🌟

[lib-arts]

YOU CAN’T SEE THE DIFFERENCE

[iwaoiness]

In the Argentine volleyball team, arriving late for training comes with the Blanco's famous penalty of thirty-three laps around the block, and captain Javier's fifteen-minute reprimand. Oikawa has only been late on rare occasions, yet even his most charming flutter of eyelashes couldn't exempt him from the punishment. He endured it, unfortunately accompanied by the teasing of Matias and Bruno—those two, inexplicably, are the only ones who are punctual alongside the captain.

However, that day, when Oikawa arrives ten minutes late at one of the Olympic Village gymnasiums, almost out of breath, his hair disheveled and still wet from the quickest shower he has had in his thirty years, he doesn't hear Javier's ché, boludo tardón that always starts his reprimands, nor does he hear Blanco loudly instructing Tomás to get ready with the stopwatch and the punishment sheet.

That day, everyone stares at him with wide, blinking eyes. The ball Bruno was holding slips from his grasp, the sound of its bounce being the only thing breaking the sepulchral silence.

Oikawa frowns, tilting his head slightly.

"What?"

"Hermano," Matias arches an eyebrow with genuine curiosity, though his eyes sparkle with amusement, putting Oikawa on high alert "since when do you play for the Japanese national team?"

This further confuses Tooru, who blinks.

"The hell are you talking about, boludo?"

The libero points to his shirt and Oikawa looks down.

Oh.

He's not wearing his favorite blue training shirt, but a slightly baggy black one at his shoulders, with the Japanese flag stitched on it at his heart.

And then he remembers this morning. How they woke up late, almost stumbling because neither of the two damn alarms went off. How they rushed to the shower, too small for two tall and strong adults. How Tooru had a fit of giggles when Hajime mistook the cherry lube for his after-shave lotion. How they quickly got dressed in the first things they grabbed, barely glancing at their clothes, before kissing, wishing each other a good day, and running off to their respective teams.

Oh, la concha de la lora.

Oikawa's eyes widen comically, and he ignores the tug on his neck as he quickly raises his head. Feeling the heat boiling on his face, he now meets the playful gazes of his teammates—even Blanco coughs to hide his smile.

"This has a completely logical explanation!" he stammers, glaring at Matias as his devilish grin widens.

"Really? And that logic is tall, dark skinned, and part of Japan's technical team, Toto?"

But when Tooru, his face now completely red, opens his mouth to protest, a solid knocks on the door interrupts.

Everyone turns to look, and Oikawa sees Iwa-chan standing in the doorway, just as embarrassed—if not more so—than him. Instead of his regulation black shirt, he’s wearing Oikawa's blue one, tight around his torso, with the Argentine flag in the center.

"Sorry to interrupt," he apologizes with his accented Spanish. "Can I borrow Tooru for a second?"

"All yours, Hajime!" Bruno chimes in, nudging Tooru forward playfully, sticking his tongue out as the setter glares daggers at him.

"But don't keep him out too long. The penalty waits him" José Blanco requests, widening his smile as Hajime nods firmly before taking Tooru's hand and pulling him outside, ignoring his childish protest.

...

i love them with my whole heart

u can find me on my ao3 🍉

[bnnywngs]

hinata: i'm home! ugh it takes so long to go anywhere in this city

kenma, sipping tea: welcome back. isn't it normal?

hinata: no??? why would it be normal? i used to go from home to school faster than this and i lived on the other side of the mountain

hinata: and by BIKE!

kenma, tokyo born: i wouldn't know

hinata, country bumpkin:

hinata: yeah, nevermind, i forgot you're a city boy

[ogaybitch]

The last chapter is about how Izuku realizes something is missing in his life and wants to catch up with Ochako again since they barely talked during these 8 years. It makes no sense because do phones not exist in mha universe?? Why would they never have a chance to talk all those years? Why wouldn't they try to talk??

Like seriously.

In this chapter we find out Izuku and Ochako haven't been talking much after they graduated from the UA. Izuku stayed where he was to become a teacher at UA while Ochako travels the country with Tsuyu, Momo and Iida for her Quirk Counseling Expansion Project.

While physically meeting up would be hard considering the circumstances, there's nothing stopping them from calling or FaceTiming. Ochako and Iida were Izuku's close friends, it makes no sense for them to cut ties; especially with the fact that we saw a panel of Izuku and Ochako talking during their last years of UA so it's not like they grew apart after the war that exchanging numbers when they graduated was not a possibility anymore.

This chapter, their circumstances still don't change: Izuku doesn't want to quit being a teacher and wants to keep teaching at UA and do hero work on his off days, and Ochako still has her project to focus on so she will continue traveling the country. Meaning if they plan on catching up, their ways are going to part one day again anyway and they'll have to use phones to keep in contact. Which brings up the question why they didn't do it from the beginning.

It's not like they forgot about Izuku: the whole ex-Class A has been funding his billion dollar mecha suit for years. They could spare cash for Izuku but they didn't bother giving a call? No group chat? They couldn't even email bro??

The other possibility is they DID keep in contact, which contradicts everything going on about Ochako this chapter. If Izuku and Ochako did keep in contact with each other during those 8 years, why would Ochako start seeing Toga in her dreams only when she saw Deku when he became an active hero again a couple of months ago? Because that's the only thing that changed about Izuku. The reason Ochako started seeing Toga in her dreams was Ochako subconsciously reminding herself that she still has feelings for Deku. You're telling me she wasn't yearning all these years they talked until she saw Deku with his new mecha suit? "Toga" waited till Deku had the suit to appear??

This would mean she has feelings for Hero Deku and not Izuku himself. Which is bad because we had Izuku saying "even if I had OFA I'd still want to be a teacher" in this chapter. So ...what now?

Ochako wasn't hallucinating Toga for 8 years. It only started happening when she saw Deku again. If she's been in love with him for all these years, why didn't she continue talking to him after they graduated? For Toga to appear now, Ochako has to have never talked to or seen Izuku even once in at least years so Toga's reappearance as a reminder of her feelings and guilt makes sense. At the start I'd understand them not having the chance to chat much since they were both probably busy with her starting the foundation of her project and him going to a university to become a teacher, but it's been 8 years? Izuku has been a teacher for years. She was still funding his suit but never called him to check up on him? They were best friends. She obviously still cares about him. Even without the romantic aspect, why wouldn't she keep in contact? Her bottling up her feelings never stopped them from interacting normally before so that's not the reason. So why?

"They didn't have the opportunity because of work" doesn't make sense because they're still busy to this day with their work. Heck, Izuku's going to become even more busy now that he's going to spend his off days doing hero work. They couldn't talk before but now they can, even though nothing changed about their circumstances?

"Giving special treatment to everyone means that no one is special to you. Show your special people that they are special" was what made Izuku reach out to Ochako again. How is Ochako a Special People if Izuku didn't even try to keep in contact with her? You can stop talking to your colleagues but you talk with your friends no matter what. Izuku was treating her like she was a colleague from his last job, not his best friend. Because again, they were best. friends. He still cares about her too. Izuku didn't even make the minimum effort of keeping in touch with her. Suddenly she's one of his Special People? Chapter 431 Izuku's special treatment for her was upgrading her to a friend status??

The "I want to talk to you more" would make sense if they had been talking in the first place. But they didn't even bother. And suddenly they care now? "The Deku Who Does His Best" didn't even try getting in touch with his friend after they graduated? This was Deku's best??

"Deku probably didn't want to bother them when they're so busy" Early middle school Deku can chase after his bully, even when Bakugo was pushing him away, because he was Deku's Image of Victory and he had faith in him, but last year middle school Deku can't ask for his close friend Ochako's number even tho she's literally his Hero? Izuku had NO excuse to stop talking to her. They. Were. Friends. Even calling once a week was enough. FaceTiming once a month was enough.

"The war matured Deku" we calling not bothering reaching out to your loved ones maturing now? They've been through a literal war together but reaching out to them is too childish?? Wtf maturing has anything to do with keeping contact with your friends???

"Killing Shigaraki changed Deku" is also bullshit excuse because while that did change Izuku, that change including ignoring your friends existence makes no sense. What even is the correlation?? If anything, Izuku should have been in contact with Ochako the most because her program literally did more for Tenko and Tenko's wishes than anything Izuku ever did. They should have been brainstorming ideas for upgrading her program so it's the best it can be. They were supposed to be bonding over not being able to save their villains.

While Izuku was busy remembering Tenko's last words "do your best" which was about Tenko trusting Deku to help the oppressed, bring justice and prevent people from ending up like him as an encouragement to go talk to a girl he didn't try reaching out to for 8 years, Ochako was putting in the work creating a program that is being considered one of the most essential aspects of current society.

"Deku's guiding the future generations" in the most prestigious school almost no one is able to join?? People like Shigaraki don't end up at UA!? He's guiding people who already want to be heroes and help people??? That scissors face kid is there because the granny held his hand, Tenko ended up as Shigaraki because the granny didn't hold his hand. Izuku's guiding people who got lucky instead of finding the unlucky and saving them! He was supposed to be the one to hold their hand when no one else did! He was supposed to show the society not just the UA kids, that anyone can be a hero! He was supposed to Save to Win!! He promised Tenko to do his best!!!

He became a teacher because there wasn't much he could do otherwise with no quirk, now he has an opportunity but he chooses to stay a teacher? What do you mean Izuku is going to do hero work on his off days?? It feels like Izuku is happy about the suit only because it made it possible to spend time with his friends instead of getting to be a hero again.

Deku was the type of person to keep in contact with his friends no matter what. Deku was the type of person who would use the opportunity the gifted mecha suit gave him to go save people he couldn't save as a quirkless person. Deku was the type of person who went out of his way to save people. Deku was the type of person who was selfless. Deku was the type of person who would keep his promises and do his very best and then go beyond that.

Where has Deku's spirit gone? No wonder he's content being just a teacher. He didn't miss being a hero, he missed being with his friends. We spent the last chapter of MHA watching Izuku focus on anything but being a hero. He's still a good person who wants to help people when he can but now he has no drive, no seek for going "Plus Ultra"... Izuku is no longer Deku OR Dekiru now. He's Midoriya Sensei. Which is confusing because this is the story of how he became the greatest Hero.

[tobiyoyo]

i love the haikyuu time skip so so much and consider it one of my favorite time skips in media ever. but i think the only thing that does make me a little sad is that nishinoya doesn’t go pro. imagine it. him playing for argentina too. the Dynamics that it would spawn

[national-womens-athleti]

TMU Volleyball Media Day.. Got The Whole Team

[iseathegalaxy]

it was a great game 👏🏻

[r0ryy]

FatT Pinup Week Day 1 - Beach Episode 🏝🏐

Cass and Jacqui would kill in the Counterweight pro beach volleyball circuit (the beaches are fake but the competition is real I'm your host, Kevin Vacation)

[mayoiayasep]

i love haikyuu but also there was so much that could’ve been done with the female characters in that series and i’m forever bitter about it

[millipedish]

Woo. I just finished Beastieball and add this to the list of monster taming greats

[moocowmoocow]

This Nebraska Wisconsin volleyball match might kill me.

[vargamornight]

i just remembered when i was in the eighth grade my middle school was having some kind of giveaway and the way you got a prize was they put little targets on the ground on the other side of a volleyball net and you had to hit the target for the thing you wanted to win. or you could just hope, i guess. but i am, and this feels like a brag but it's literally just a statement of fact, so fucking good at volleyball it's not even funny.

so my mom and i went to the thing and i asked her what prize she wanted. there were mp3 players, sweatshirts, coupon books, that kind of stuff. she said she wanted the sweatshirt. since i was on the volleyball team i got one hit for free so i went up, hit the sweatshirt target effortlessly, and brought it back to my mom. and now that i think of it, y'know, that would've been a really good time for her to be like "wow that was amazing, thank you for doing that for me when you could have won something for yourself" but no she was a wretched ungrateful bitch who never gave me a compliment in my entire life, leading me to be an olympic level athlete at 20 with no idea that that was out of the ordinary because nobody ever fuckin said anything