In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

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Tsukishima likes to count Yamaguchi’s freckles, and he traces patterns in his mind the same way someone might draw constellations in the night sky. 

Only when they’re alone, and when Yamaguchi can’t see him stare. Usually at one of their houses, studying. They’ve known each other for so long it’s almost like a ritual. Their parents never seem to mind.

Yamaguchi almost always falls asleep while they’re studying. When they were in middle school, Tsukishima would try to wake him up. Come on, Yamaguchi, this is why you’re struggling in class. But now he just lets him sleep. Yamaguchi learns the way that he learns. 

At this point, Tsukishima puts on his headphones. Whenever he studies by himself he always listens to music. He likes all kinds so long as there is rhythm to it; he rarely pays attention to lyrics he just likes that place in his soul where music takes him.

When there isn’t music, there’s Yamaguchi, so much so that the two become linked in his mind. And when Yamaguchi falls asleep and Tsukishima puts on his headphones, he looks at Yamaguchi’s freckles and traces the patterns between them. Despite how much he loves music Tsukishima doesn’t know the first thing about reading musical notes but he thinks it must be like Yamaguchi’s freckles—somewhere in his skin is a song that plays and only Tsukishima can hear it. 

Someday, someday, he wants to trace those freckles with his fingers.

Someday.

 

A/N: A random Tsukkiyama short for no reason other than I really wanted to write something short and quick and this is what came to mind =D

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Anonymous asked:

What makes you like Hinata and Kageyama so much? I mean, not as a ship, but as characters?

Here’s the two big reasons that always come to mind: 

Hinata wants to be the best – but he doesn’t want that at the expense of others. And I think that’s really incredible, to want to not only stand at the top, but to pull others up with you as you go. He is just very clearly someone who cares about others – he invests time and concern into people he’s just met if he senses they aren’t happy. The really notable thing about this is that Hinata does get frustrated, sometimes even petty! When Kageyama beats him at stuff, he turns into a grumpy little shit. When they lose at the interhigh, he flips out. He sulks when it becomes apparent that he’s still got a long way to go. He’s not a saint, immune to negative emotions. But instead of putting blinders on and focusing on the fact that Others Are Better, he focuses on where he’s at and what he can do about his weaknesses. And then he supports and encourages the people he was envious of in the first place. 

He is becoming exactly what he wanted to be since the first page of this story, he’s even going beyond that; he is standing up in the face of people telling him he can’t do it, but not out of spite. He does it out of a drive to be his best. Even if he is sore about things sometimes, it’s never over people who tell him to quit. That takes a really good heart, I think, and a huge amount of courage. Considering where he started and how hard he pushes to get where he is now, even if he still has things to learn, that is an amazing feat of effort and willpower. 

Kageyama fucked up. There were some outside factors, yes, but Kageyama was just toxic to be on a team with in his last year at middle school. But, he wasn’t being cruel intentionally. Kageyama has behavioral issues because he has little to no concept of the way he comes across externally. He didn’t even seem aware there was a problem with himself – in his mind, the problem was that he was trying his hardest, and his teammates were not (not realizing that it’s because he was so far ahead of everyone in skill level). Thus: the unacceptable level of lashing out. But! By the time he starts at Karasuno, while he’s still not pleasant, he has changed. Given that we see him reflecting on the middle school match so much, Kageyama has realized that he did something wrong there, and wants to remedy it. And it is very, very hard to internalize that you messed up so bad you caused your entire team to turn on you in a national event, and then try to change, in the course of a few months. 

But even more impressive is the fact that Kageyama is honest about it. He admits that he is scared of being abandoned, which I think is a really hard thing to say to a group of people you hardly know (and this is in the middle of Tsukishima tearing him apart over it). Later on we see that Kageyama thinks the problem is literally who he is as a person (because he has a hard time understanding the causes of, and regulating, his outbursts). It takes all of Karasuno to snap him out of that – it’s an ongoing struggle for him. So I think this means two things: that Kageyama’s frustration seems to stem mainly from his perceptions that people are not trying as hard as he is; and that despite his total lack of self-awareness, he himself is trying his hardest to understand and improve his behavior. He is literally Doing His Best.

Finally, I also like very much that they are both dumb as rocks, because it amuses me greatly.

haikyuu!! hinata shouyou kageyama tobio thanks for coming to my ted talk there's obviously a lot of other smaller reasons i love them but these things feel really impactful for me i wish i was better at some of this stuff myself and that's why i admire these two so much anonymous esselle replies