#so his reference doesn't count 🙃

[mithrilwren]

Cheers to one of the more stressful weeks I've had in recent memory - I'm sorry if anyone is waiting on a Passerine update, it's going to be a little late while I try to sort out a ridiculous job application kerfuffle.

[amorelray]

#3. Haikyuu🏐

The biggest thing that brings me back to Haikyuu over and over again is the relationships and synergy between all of the characters of this show. I see friends, best friends, teammates, acquaintances, rivals, mentors, teachers, & more. It all feels so true and so real.😊

As someone who was a manager for a Softball team🥎 for 3 years in highschool - this show felt very reminiscent of that time. The reason being was that all of it felt very similar to what I experienced as well (and sometimes, even better).

I also love that in this show, it feels like there's somebody for everybody. For example, I'll explain some of my favorite characters: 1. Sugawara🍷 - the abosolutely fun loving, sweet, caring, and chaotic vice-captain - who, honestly, encourages and sometimes starts the shenanigans of the team. The Captain trusts and loves him regardless, but if anything is going to get done properly - don't ask Suga😂 (Refer to the time Ennoshita was put in charge when Daichi had to take care of something) 2. Nishinoya🌞 - an absolute BALL of energy. He's like the definition of "Chaotic Good" was thrown into someone's entire being. I say this because while he has so much energy - he's so incredibly focused and good on the court. One of my favorite moments was when he told the team that he's there to support them - that they can count on him to be their defense. He's a character that usually is in high spirits, but actually has a sense of focus and competitiveness to him that doesn't allow his goofy attitude to get in the way of winning and being an amazing libero for his teammates. 3. Akaashi🙃 - the definition of quiet, internalized anxiety. I love this character so much for so many reasons. He gets made fun of sometimes by the fandom who have deemed him "apathy-kun," but the truth is that he's actually just very anxious and very analytical. He is the grounding for Bokuto who's an absolute MESS of emotions at all times. Akaashi keeps his in check in order to deal with his ace and captain properly and I love that he's such a dynamic character because of this. He's a lot underneath the surface of what he's first presented as within the story and it made me so happy to see that there was more to him than what met the eye.

Overall - I really think that I could go on and on about the characters of this show, but that's just to name a few. I loved celebrating with them when they won, crying when they lost, encouraging them to get better, and letting myself get lost inside a show unlike I really had before. It was the first show that brought me to a "fandom" or encouraged me to truly pick up a manga, and for that - I'm eternally grateful.🧡🖤

[random-writing-panda]

||•~ Growing pains ~•||

(Older)Damian Wayne x Reader

*My GIF

I’m finally getting better at making fic’s longer. As always I hope you guys enjoy it and that my inability to spell doesn’t reflect in my writing to much🙃 

Word count: 1.4k

Warnings: little bit angsty

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Damian starts to develop feelings towards his best friend, he doesn't understand what these feelings mean so who better to go to but his big brother Dick?

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Damian hated this class. Out of all the classes he had to waste his day attending, this one was the worst because the one person who made school bearable was on the other side of the room. So, he was stuck sitting next to morons who only wanted to talk to him because he was Damian Wayne.  

He was zoned out not paying any attention to the class, he didn’t need to, he knew more about the subject then the teacher did and that left him to doing the one thing that had seemed to take over his life recently, drawing you. He sat there sketching lines onto his book glancing up to look over to you as you sat with your face resting in your hand looking half asleep. Damian smiled to himself as he looked back down to the sketch. No matter how many times he drew you he could never make it perfect, never fully capture the beauty you hold.

It had been almost two months of Damian drawing you. You had found one of his sketch books and were so shocked at how talented he was, the detail was incredible, so obviously as his best friend you begged him to draw you.  

∞∞

“No.” he sighed  

“C’monnnn Dami please! Just one sketch. It’s just one please!” you grab his arm and he squirms a little.

“Oh sorry... I forgot the touching thing. But seriously please? Just draw me once.” you pull you hand away and give him puppy dog eyes. You were the one person he listened to, not a lot, but more than anyone else.

“Fine. One okay?” he looks over to you and smiles as you start clapping and smiling.

“Thank you Dami!”  

∞∞

He had finished the sketch and just looked at it just wasn’t good enough, it was missing something and he couldn’t make it look perfect but you had seen him stop so you practically ran over to him and sat next to him and ran your fingers over the edge of the paper and you had smiled so much, you seemed so happy.  

As happy as you were with the picture Damian just couldn’t let go of the fact something was missing, so he tried again, using the picture of the two of you that he kept in his room as a reference.

It drove him crazy, whenever he saw you there was something so beautiful that he just couldn’t capture in his drawings and eventually after every day you spent together, he would sit down and draw it.  

Over the two months he had filled up the entire book with memories and whenever he looked through his sketchbook he was filled with happiness and something completely unexplainable.

“Damian since you seem to be paying attention what is the answer to the question?” the teacher asked trying to embarrass him. It backfired quickly when Damian answered correctly without even looking up from his book. The class tried to stifle their laughter as the teacher turned red and tried to continue with the class.

Damian shot his eyes up to look at you again and he heard your laugh after what had occurred and he just smiled back at you. He didn’t know what was happening to him.

How he felt about you confused him which he hated Damian absolutely hated not know what was happening especially when his own feelings are what were confusing him. He needed to know what was happening and he couldn’t work it out on his own... he needed help...  

∞∞

He was never going to let Damian live this down. Damien actually asking for someone else's help.

“I swear Grayson. You will never utter a word of this conversation to anyone is that understood?” Damian scowls at Dick as they sit across from each other.  

“Sure, okay fine what do you need help with Damian?” Dick slouches over resting his elbows on his knees.

“Whenever I’m with Y/n... I feel weird.” Damian says trying to piece together the words.

“Weird? What do you mean weird?”  

“If I knew what I meant I would have said that wouldn't I Grayson? Uh forget it.” Damian goes to stand up.

“No! Hey Damian, I'm sorry come on I want to help.” Dick says standing and gently puts his hand on Damian’s shoulder, “Just talk to me try to explain it?”

“Fine... when I’m with her I...I just...I feel like I’m happier... I feel like a better person and I feel...okay I mean actually okay.” Damian sat back down and but his head in his hands. “And... there is just something unexplainable and...I don’t understand... my entire life i have know exactly how to feel and how to respond... how to turn off my feelings...but I can’t and I don’t know how to deal with it... i don’t even know what it is!”

“Heh... sounds like you're in love.” Dick lets out a small almost sad chuckle. “First love...wow”

“Love?-”

“Yeah love it is what happens when people-”  

“I know what love is Grayson!” Damian replies hastily and rolls his eyes, “I just didn’t know it felt like... this...”

“It’s love. It feels like love. You just know!” Dick says almost like he was confused  

“No Grayson. I don’t know that’s why I came to you.” Damian knew people didn’t understand but at this point they didn’t even try to understand that he couldn't process emotion like other people, they just brush it off.

“I’m trying to be supportive but how do you not know what love is like? Any kind of love?”

“Well Dick some of us didn’t grow up perfectly.”

“Perfectly?! Perfectly really?? No one in this house grew up perfectly! Except maybe Alfred, but that’s beside the point!”

“Yeah well you could be less of a dick, Dick.” Damien stood up and walked away without a second thought.

∞∞

“I will never understand the need for a bed the size of a normal room.” You laugh as you fall back onto Damian’s bed and lay there looking up at his ceiling.

“I don’t get it either but its comfortable.”  Damian raises his head and puts his pencil on his desk.

“I agree maximum comfort levels. I should sleep over more.” you smile and watching you on his bed his face heats up and you move around on the bed and walk over to him.

You sit up on his desk and look down at Damian’s sketch book.

“Is that me?” you move to grab the book, but Damian gets to it first and slams it shut.

“Nope.” his eyes meet yours and he smiles, “Not you at all.”  

“Hm I don’t think so, I'm pretttyy sure that was me.”  

He looks down and he tried to stay calm. Did you hate him? Did you think he was creep? Were you going to stop hanging out with him?

“Let me see it!” you laugh and try to grab the book.

“No!”  

“Please?”

“...Fine...”

He hands the book over to you and his hand brushed yours and you smiled.

You open the book to the first page and see a beautiful sketch of your day out at the beach with him, you flip over the pages one by one and are met with an entire book full of drawings of you.

“Damian...”

That was it you thought he was a creep.

“These are so amazing...” you reach the end of the book and find a page with your sketch in a box in the middle of the page.

“Sorry...this is weird...” He looks at the wall and straightens up in his seat.

You reach over and place your hand on his cheek, you run your finger over the side of his face.

“What are you talking about? They are amazing Damian what are you embarrassed about?”

“You don’t think I'm creepy for having a sketch book full of pictures of you?” Damian laughs and leans into your hand.

“No... it's so sweet.” you look down trying to force words pass the lump in your throat. “It’s nice to have the guy you like take that much interest in you...” you mumble to quietly.

“You like me?”

“Yeah...maybe...a little bit...”  

“Good.” Damian stands up and tugs you off the desk and hugs you. “Because... I think I like you too.”

“Damian?”

He pulls back.

“Yeah...?”

“Can I kiss you?”  

He smiles and you lean into him and press your lips against his and you slowly close your eyes,grasping your waist tightly he pulls you closer to him. The moment seems to last for an eternity and once you pull away you rest you head on his chest.

“Just one sketch huh...?” you look up and Damien rolls his eyes at chuckles.

“Just one sketch.”  

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Never realized how petty and shady Elton was. Like seriously he's out here subposting shade which everyone figured out who he was refering too. Also, dude is a hypocrite. He KNOWS he used Sam and Colby in his thumbnails back in the day and the second he realized girls went for single Colby more, he was all he used in the thumbnail all to gain "likes". He's also switched his content numerous times from pranks to ,EXPLORING, to haunted investigations. I would understand if A. He'd never changed his content and that's what he was known for and B. Sam and Colby ACTUALLY uploaded a video in similar fashion by crossing off a bucket list item but nothing has happened..Hes threatened by them because he knows damn well there are other youtubers that do similar content.

Exactly. Did he honestly think people wouldn't know, or at least assume who he was talking about? The thought of them "imitating" him never crossed my mind and the second I saw that post, I knew he had to be shading them. The fact that he actually went and replied a confirmation to a commenter who said the same is just...so unbelievably dumb of him. He still at least had a hint of plausible deniability up to that point.

You are so right about him using them for views back in the day. He also got mad in the past about his view count being down in videos they didn't appear in, but is now claiming that he doesn't make videos "for the views," so he's a hypocrite all around.

Even if they did do a bucket list type thing and started crossing items off-he did not invent the concept. Bucket lists have been around since that movie was made, and travel youtubers have been using that as a basis of videos for almost as long. They seem to really be into making content that sets them apart from everyone else, so I'm sure they wouldn't copy his film and edit style, and if anything, they could cross promote and even collab in the future which would only help him, so why on earth would he do this? You're right, I think...hes threatened. 🙃

[amorelray]

#8 Haikyuu🏐

I unfortunately don't have much more to add about the manga than what I said about the anime...so, I'm just going to reiterate what I said about that: The biggest thing that I love about Haikyuu are the relationships and synergy between the characters of this manga. I see friends, best friends, teammates, acquaintances, rivals, mentors, teachers, & more. It feels very true and real.😊

This story feels like it has somebody for everybody and I love that! For example, I'll explain some of my favorite characters: 1. Sugawara🍷 - the abosolutely fun loving, sweet, caring, and chaotic vice-captain - who, honestly, encourages and sometimes starts the shenanigans of the team. The Captain trusts and loves him regardless, but if anything is going to get done properly - don't ask Suga😂 (Refer to the time Ennoshita was put in charge when Daichi had to take care of something) 2. Nishinoya🌞 - an absolute BALL of energy. He's like the definition of "Chaotic Good" was thrown into someone's entire being. I say this because while he has so much energy - he's so incredibly focused and good on the court. One of my favorite moments was when he told the team that he's there to support them - that they can count on him to be their defense. He's a character that usually is in high spirits, but actually has a sense of focus and competitiveness to him that doesn't allow his goofy attitude to get in the way of winning and being an amazing libero for his teammates. 3. Akaashi🙃 - the definition of quiet, internalized anxiety. I love this character so much for so many reasons. He gets made fun of sometimes by the fandom who have deemed him "apathy-kun," but the truth is that he's actually just very anxious and very analytical. He is the grounding for Bokuto who's an absolute MESS of emotions at all times. Akaashi keeps his in check in order to deal with his ace and captain properly and I love that he's such a dynamic character because of this. He's a lot underneath the surface of what he's first presented as within the story and it made me so happy to see that there was more to him than what met the eye.

Overall - it's so much fun to get to know these characters and celebrate with them when they win, cry when they lose, encourage them to get better, and allowing myself to get lost inside a "feel-good" story about a boys volleyball team. This was actually the first Manga that I every picked up because I loved the show so much🖤🧡