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November 6, 2024 • Wednesday

• 10 days of productivity — COLLAB CHALLENGE WITH @winryrockbellwannabe !! • Day 8/10 •

📝 Iris's study time: 2h 30min

📝 AJ's study time: 5h

I worked on an analysis assignment my English prof gave us. It acted as both an assignment and also a revision of half the syllabus since technically we had to review the chapters in order to do the assignment. I like English assignments, they're always so interesting :D

🎧 Viper — Derivakat

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me entering a group chat and zeroing in on some poor unsuspecting new friend

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sweater weather [tsukihina]

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sweater weather [tsukihina]

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November 4, 2024 • Monday

• 10 days of productivity — COLLAB CHALLENGE WITH @winryrockbellwannabe !! • Day 6/10 •

📝 Iris's study time: 5h

📝 AJ's study time: 4h

We're back! Took a few days off coz I fell sick 😭 I truly think there's a curse on me, coz why is it that whenever I start any challenge on Tumblr, I immediately fall very ill after a few days? We shall never know

Anyways! I completed another long and excruciating chapter today about process scheduling in operating systems, which was pretty interesting!! The study session with all my younger cousins really motivated me :D

🎧 no body no crime — Taylor Swift

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fasjhghajf got a new firefox addon that lets you set themes to automatically switch to between specific times, set it to switch to Scary Red at 1am to scare me into going to bed and it works I got startled so bad when it suddenly changed to thsi fajgghasfj

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enemies to lovers

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I told my students they're allowed to be creative and don't have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like "what if I don't have roommates or what if I don't have hobbies" and I'm like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won't fact check you!

So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud

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I love the fix-its. I love the AUs. I love the missing moments. I love the canon compliants. I love the canon divergents. I love the drabbles. I love the song-fics. I love the crack fics. I love the smut fics. I love the crossovers.

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band au

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Kageyama's backstory only being revealed near the very end of the series is really interesting from a meta perspective.

For reference, his chapter is 387 out of 402. That's 96% of the way in.

To contrast, other characters like Tsukishima and Yamaguchi's backstories are shown in Chapters 87-88.

Now, we do get the explanation for his "King of the Court" title in Chapter 6, at the start of the series, but we don't see how he got to that point, or why he started playing volleyball in the first place like Tsukishima's and Yamaguchi's stories show.

It creates this situation where, despite being the deuteragonist, the character our protagonist, Hinata, is practically glued to the entire series, we barely know anything about him.

We don't even know he has a sister until that point whereas other characters' siblings like Natsu, Saeko, Akiteru, Alisa have all made appearances way before then. Even Oikawa's sister, though we don't see her, we at least know she exists because of Takeru.

He's both closed off to us (the audience) as well as the other characters in the series, and this results in them finding him rude or disliking his character in general (see: the "Kageyama is abusive" discourse that somehow keeps popping up even now).

Chapter 387 takes place in 2018 and was published in 2020 so it takes him 6 years of in-universe time and 8 years of irl time to really open up.

And the catalyst for all of this is Hinata fulfilling his promise of beating him.

You see, another thing to note is that, whenever Hinata thinks of Kageyama, he's always looking at him from behind.

His internal image of him is someone who's always up ahead, someone he needs to catch up to, meaning Hinata can only see one side of him, he cannot see all of Kageyama until he catches up and passes him.

Which he finally does here.

In this shot Hinata is finally the one who's looking back at Kageyama. At this moment, Hinata (and by extension the audience) can see him for all he is, can see how he was just a lonely boy who's been waiting for someone to meet him where he is, to keep running alongside him and not quit the race.

Someone he doesn't have to go easy on. Someone who would actually tell him to hurry up instead of slow down for a change.

His someone better.