very sexy indeed
Chapters:
1/1
Fandom:
Haikyuu!!
Rating:
General Audiences
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi, Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio
Characters:
Tsukishima Kei, Yamaguchi Tadashi, Hinata Shouyou, Kageyama Tobio, Nishinoya Yuu, Azumane Asahi, Tanaka Ryuunosuke, Yachi Hitoka, Sawamura Daichi, Sugawara Koushi, with cameos from the other four
Additional Tags:
Comedy, Crack, i don’t know how else to describe this, implied daisuga, implied asanoya - Freeform
Summary:
‘For about the thousandth time that month alone, Kei wondered if he would’ve been better off setting up a cage fighting club. Delinquent boxers might’ve been quieter and better disciplined than this lot of hooligans.’
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Tsukishima Kei’s bar for acceptable behaviour from his teammates is in hell. Somehow they still manage to disappoint him.
I don’t know what happened. There is no excuse for this. Please suffer along with Tsukki as his teammates prove once again that they have one collective braincell, and it’s on strike.
I stumbled across this article today via a news alert on my work laptop (I wouldn't usually touch the Telegraph with a bargepole).
The gist of it is that new reprints of early Discworld books are being issued with a note to the effect of 'These books were written in the 1980s and may be reflective of the values of the time'.
Predictably, the comments are full of people insisting that Pterry's works should never need any kind of warning because they are all perfect and amazing and how dare anyone be critical of them, which is PRECISELY WHY SUCH A NOTE IS IMPORTANT FFS.
This very blog is testament to my love of Discworld, but I'm also very aware of its flaws, which are especially apparent when rereading them 40 whole entire years after the series was started.
The earliest books are rife with 'funny foreigners' and colonialist attitudes. Yes, later novels addressed some of the in-universe racism, but that doesn't erase Pterry's own colonial-influenced writing from the '80s and '90s.
I'm currently reading Reaper Man, which includes a minor character analogous to native Americans, and his speech is played for laughs while no one comments on Mrs Cake referring to Howondaland people as "heathens".
There are tons of 'primitive' cultures for the protagonists to discover and observe, like white Brits on safari. There are 'funny' foreign accents to laugh at. Just about every leading character is described and/or illustrated as a white human from a culture analogous to England.
That's not forgetting the fatphobia I keep commenting on, and the descriptions of less-than-perfectly-attractive women as if they're a disappointment to the world somehow and have to make up for their appearance by being talented or special in some other way.
I love these books. I have loved them for most of my life. But to insist they are perfect or to refuse to view them with a critical eye is to be guilty of that very same colonialist thinking - that the British view of the world is the correct one.
Can't let British people have air conditioning because first they'd call it something twee like "the climate fixer" and then in 20 years they'll call it "the climb" or "the climmy"
French kids would call it "le climot", frustrating language officials who would prefer they call it "machine pour le contrôle du climat froide à l'interieure de l'édifice"
As a person living in Britain, I’ll bloody well call it whatever you want if it means I can sleep without having to replace my mattress with a massive sponge. I might even stoop to ‘Freedom Eagle Heat Eliminator 3000’ or whatever you lot across the pond like to use for product names these days.
I capped my daily Reddit usage starting last weekend because I spent too much time scrolling, but if Reddit thinks it’s because of their recent nonsense, I’m cool with that.
I can live without animal subs, it turns out.
