Salty Dog X~Kazuya Minekura Illustrations
Official Twitter - July 15, 2020
T/N: As of the 2018 season, Masahiro Yanagida is now the Captain of the Japanese national men’s team.
Haikyuu Finale
As the manga announces the date of its final chapter, various cast members past and present share their thoughts
Kosaka Ryoutarou (1st Tsukishima)
My life changed because of my encounter with Haikyuu. Thank you so very much. I love this series.
I’m looking forward to the final chapter!
Please do not repost my translations
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Now Playing: #HQPlaylistContributors ft. Marks
Presenting the remarkable @nonnegative, one of our writers for the #TSUKKIYAMA booklet! They adore birds, as well as pop and indie music!Spot them at:
> https://twitter.com/nonnonnegative
> https://archiveofourown.org/users/Marks/works
Sneak a peek of their fic Keep It Like a Secret below:
“I probably should get going,” Yamaguchi said, hours later. Tsukishima blinked blearily and rubbed his shoulder, still warm from where Yamaguchi had fallen asleep on it. “We both have work tomorrow.”
“This would be easier if we just lived together,” Tsukishima mumbled.
Yamaguchi went still. It wasn’t like he’d been moving much, but it was like the air stopped circulating, a heavy change in the atmosphere, the same way it did right before a thunderstorm. Only instead of them getting soaked by the rain, Tsukishima had put his foot in his mouth.
He stood up, a desperate noise rushing through his ears as his stomach lurched. “Yamaguchi, I —”
“I just always thought you wanted your space,” Yamaguchi interrupted. He stared at Tsukishima, suddenly awake.
“What?” said Tsukishima intelligently. Then, like a scholar: “Huh?”
Anonymous asked:
I hope this isn't a bothersome ask, but since I ship JKRM too I was wondering if you wouldn't mind just sharing your thoughts and opinions on it? What you think of their dynamic, why you like it, just anything really haha,,
slugtranslation-hypmic answered:
Oh jesus, this will require an essay. I’ll stick it below a cut because it will get long. (There are also some spoilers for unreleased chapters.)
COVID-19: No, We’re Not All in This Together
The pandemic, the protests, and why racism endures as a public health crisis
By: Ylonda Gault
My daddy used to say: When America gets the sniffles, Black people catch pneumonia. My dad didn’t invent the saying but he used it to explain everything from the war on drugs to the 1990s national recession. Even as a child I knew what he meant. In other words, the country’s history of institutional racism and unjust policies make every part of Black life — including economic growth, fair housing, health care access and more — exponentially harder than it is for others. Today, as worldwide protests against police brutality continue and COVID-19 ravages the Black community, we see clearly that old sayings are so often repeated because they bear truth.
The pandemic, a danger for all, is lethal for Black people, who’ve died at a rate of 61.6 per 100,000 people, compared with 26.2 for whites. Yet, this peril is not new. We’ve been brutalized for generations. The murders of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and George Floyd, to name but a few, are only an extension of plantation overseer violence and Klan lynchings that have been hallmarks of our 400-year existence in America. In recent weeks, the streets have erupted because structural racism is — and has long been —the public health crisis that no masks, sanitizer, or social distancing can remedy.
With widespread mandated sheltering and business shutdowns, the serious and potentially deadly infection — caused by a virus for which there is no known cure, vaccine or treatment — has meant lost income or job loss for some and, for others, a huge inconvenience. But research shows that Black people are much more likely not only to get infected with COVID-19 — but to die from the disease because racism undergirds our health care systems, workplace policies, and the environment. — Indigenous and Latino communities are also more vulnerable.
That’s not because we are, as a race, doing something to cause infection. We’re not to blame. Nor is it because we’re unhealthy as a group, or because of something in our biology.
Why are Black communities hit hardest?
Institutional racism is the pre-existing condition that has left Black communities far more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others. While many think the racist barriers to Black people’s rights and freedom came to a close with the end to enslavement, they have not only persisted — but grown more entrenched. From Jim Crow segregation, voting and housing discrimination, to heavy-handed policing, generation after generation of targeted bigotry has led to a lack of equity in health care, housing, education, and opportunity. For example, for Black people who work in the service sector; their jobs put them at greater risk of getting COVID-19 — as does the environment. These circumstances are not the result of bad luck or poor choices; they’re created by a long legacy of racist policies that have put Black people in harm’s way and made our communities more at risk from the virus that causes COVID-19 than white people
Of course, chief among the risk factors is the barrier to health care access. Black people who work in low-wage jobs usually lack insurance, leading to delayed or bypassed essential health care services — because of the cost. We’re also more likely to live farther away from medical care and face language barriers. And Black people and other folks of color are distrustful of health care professionals because of historical mistreatment. The U.S medical establishment has a history of exploiting Black folks, Latinos, and Indigenous people by performing medical experiments on them without consent, and even stealing their dead bodies from the grave for research and profit.
Barriers to preventive health care — again, a primary outcome of structural racism in the U.S. — mean Black and Latinx communities also have higher rates of health issues like diabetes, heart disease, and lung disease. People with chronic health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were hospitalized six times more often than otherwise healthy individuals infected with the coronavirus during the first four months of the pandemic, and they died 12 times more often, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The public health disaster facing Black communities is the result of hundreds of years of U.S. policies that bolster white supremacy and marginalize Black people. But the pandemic is just a single symptom of the nation’s public health disaster. What is being played out over the past few weeks, as people take to the streets to protest a national pattern of violent over-policing, is another.
Why protest during a pandemic?
Just as structural racism created fertile ground for COVID-19 to take root in the Black community, it has also helped plant the groundswell of pro-Black organizing across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s murder May 25. Black people, for whom racial profiling and stop-and-frisk policies are a way of life, don’t need a viral video to prove their realities; police have killed roughly 1,000 people a year since 2015, according to The Washington Post’s real time police shooting data base. While many outside the Black community see the recent spate of killings at the hands of police as random and unrelated — “a few bad apples,” so to speak — the pandemic and police brutality are two crises inextricably linked. Both are killing us. And both seem to be unrelenting.
It’s Shakespearean that as he lay dying — a white police officer nonchalantly kneeling on his throat, Floyd can be heard in a plaintive whisper: “I can’t breathe.”
Black America has long been suffocated by racist and dehumanizing policies. Certainly protests have erupted in the past, in response to the brutal murders of Black people by the police — notably, the 2014 murders of Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in St. Louis. But none have gripped the national and global attention of what is happening now. The volume and breadth of outrage is magnified — at least, in part — because the added dimension of COVID-19 deaths has created a perfect storm.
Unlike Ferguson demonstrations, for example, when protesters of late carry placards that read “Stop Killing Us,” the statement has implications far broader than police violence. And the simple phrase, Black Lives Matter, hits different now, too. There will always be detractors and deniers who reflexively counter that “all lives matter.” But there’s a new resonance to the BLM phrase, and wider acceptance among white Americans of what it means to “matter” — and with it, a deeper awareness of the unjust conditions that disproportionately keep the rest of the world from understanding all the ways that Black lives matter.
Announcing TsukkiYama Week 2020, which will take place from August 23-29! Each day will have two prompts, one general prompt and one AU prompt. Please vote for which prompts we’ll use here! The poll will close on July 8th.
Brief overview of the rules!
- Tag your content #tskymweek2020 so we can see it!
- SFW content only, please!
- Polyamory is fine, but please include TSKYM!
- Check the FAQ for more details!
Thanks, see you guys again in a month! 😊
Haikyuu!! Playlist: Childhood Friends to Lovers Contributors
We are thrilled to announce our list of contributors for Haikyuu Playlist: Childhood Friends To Lovers! We are so excited to work with these amazing creators!
Stay tuned to find out more about our contributors! We’ll be posting more about them under the #HQPlaylistContributors tag.
You can check out their social media accounts under the cut:
Anonymous asked:
me sending that ask about ramuda's crimes: how much of a problem is my problematic fave
slugtranslation-hypmic answered:
As big of a problem as can be. 10/10, Ramuda, keep it up.
“My partner and I were looking to foster a child, so we decided to attend some parenting courses. There were about five different couples in the class. And we were doing this ‘ice breaker’ thing, where everyone shared their reason for wanting to become a foster parent. When it came around to one guy, he sort of shrugged, and said: ‘We already have three kids, but there’s an extra seat in our minivan.’ Everyone started laughing. The whole room relaxed. And that’s my first memory of Larkin. He was attending the class with his wife Katie, and I was drawn to them immediately. They were just such obviously good people. We started eating lunch with them on our breaks. We’d visit them on weekends. One Halloween we were trick-or-treating with their kids, and Larkin sat me down on a stoop, and asked why we hadn’t fostered yet. That’s when I told him about my health problems. My mother had given me a kidney transplant fifteen years earlier, and it was beginning to fail. I was on heavy dialysis. I needed blood transfusions. Soon I would need another kidney, but I couldn’t find a match. I never asked him. I’d never do that to someone. But the next day Larkin called me and told me he wanted to be tested. It was a miracle. We were a perfect match. We went through months of preparation. But four days away from the surgery, my blood test showed an abnormality, and we were suddenly unmatched. It was devastating. I felt like giving up, but Larkin kept pressing me to consider a paired donation. He offered to donate his kidney to an absolute stranger, if the hospital would find me a match. And they did. Larkin gave his kidney to a woman, and I received one from her husband. I was forever changed by this man. Larkin is someone who truly lives his life for other people. Not only did he give me the gift of life. But he’s shown me what it means to be a human on this earth.”
#quarantinestories
listen i know im a jakukrai/matenrou blog but gendice has me feeling things on this monday evening so this is todays content.
antique-romantic
