five past midnight

This was hands down the most research-intensive fic I've done in years... with barely 1.3k words to show for it HAHAHA research for this story took up 14 whole pages of my working doc, between video screenshots and other things.

Despite its length, I'm pretty pleased with how this story turned out. I first came up with the idea of writing a story about Nishinoya and the world last March, when he was revealed to us post-timeskip for the first time. Freedom is tied so intrinsically to Nishinoya, the ocean, and to Haikyuu as a story, and I wanted to pay it tribute here.

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here I am with yet another new fandom, and this time it's wildly different from all of my other fandoms... while still feeling like I've come full circle back to my kpop days. anyway, I got into i7 not expecting that I would want to *write* for it, but apparently... not... I should have known that I would tumble right back down rarepair lane since that's What I Do but I didn't expect to end up with a rarepair that would intrigue me so much even with barely any canon interaction... sighs... also of course the two of them are my favourites, so ending up shipping them was a natural progression. I guess.

at gloaming, featuring Izumi Mitsuki & Kujou Tenn!! Mitsutenn!! 

( mitsutenn manifesto (canon + fic spoilers within) ) 

2 years and a day to the moment I fell into Atsuhina hell, I finally wrote them! 

of course it was gonna be a MSBY Jackals fic. I've been thinking about writing them ever since Atsumu straight up called Hinata his spiker (to be fair, it actually translates more to 'our' spiker but I'll take it) and I was hoping Furudate would write their backstory in the latest chapter so I could fill it in but noooo Atsumu had to be all cool and go "Let's greet them properly" what the HECK dude look at how freaking proud of himself he was!!! SHOWING OFF HIS SPIKER LIKE THAT!!!!!! oh my GOD do you see that smile on his face he, MIYA ATSUMU, Arrogant Shitmuffin of the Finest, willingly took a step back from the limelight in a game against the top team in the country to let his spiker take all the spotlight!!!!!!!!! do yOU SEE-

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 I wrote an ennonoya again at last, after 2.5 years!

The highlight of this fic was definitely me jotting down the story idea on a Google Doc right after reading the chapter, going to bed, then waking up the next day to find that Alex/asofthaven had written the exact same headcanon. 

This was my third ennonoya, but it was my first time writing an ennonoya that involved and focused on direct interaction for an entire scene. All my previous ennonoyas have been character studies of some sort, so writing this one was both a challenge and breath of fresh air.

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Total year-long word count: 25668 (90303)

Word count by fandom:
MDZS: 12528, 6 fics + 1 translation
Haikyuu!!: 11293, 10 fics (81998, 36 fics)
Tsurune: 1847, 1 fic

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so yeah, I think I'm gonna combine my writing journals after all. it doesn't make sense to keep so many for so many fandoms o(-( 

mdzs hell has caught me entirely so here I am, back to writing after a full year, for a pair that's - amazingly - almost as angsty as, or even angstier than, laviyuu is.

chengxian.

in the span of two weeks I've written and published two whole fics, both easily longer than 1k. caesura aside, the last time I wrote anything of this length without wanting to give up halfway was.. um. herding cats last October. 

anyway, let me briefly jot down my thoughts on the two. spoilers for later chapters of mdzs within, so proceed with caution.

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this update is so delayed, i've been ridiculously caught up with schoolwork (and will be for the next month) but I really wanted to write a bit about molten gold before everything slips out of my mind.

manga spoilers ahead, so I'm placing it under the cut.

( >> molten gold ) 

this should probably count for an update for the post earlier, but since it's long past midnight, might as well. finished the fill at 1773 words, miyamiya - atsumu in the bedroom with a broken mirror. it's rated M and tags are deliberately omitted, so proceed with caution. 

spoilers under the cut. 
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posted the reincarnation au! got kinda excited so I posted it earlier than expected, but that's in part because I've missed posting stuff up in general lol... I still spotted a few parts that could have been better phrased, but couldn't really think of how to phrase it any better anyway... so whatever. this makes 52 fics in total, 8 away from this year's goal. 

more under the cut, I guess...

( forever is a mighty long time )all things considered, I created the doc on May 23, and finished it on May 30. since I was in such a bad writing rut last week (and for the whole month), I think this fic was a really good break all in all, and I'm pretty proud of it even though I'm also not 100% for it as I am for Ages.

edit [10.04pm]: included explanation of Sakishima.

so last night I couldn't write anything at all - I was really distracted by the Kuroyaku art that I'd discovered plus Futakuchi wasn't cooperating so I got a total of three lines in, which was frustrating because Futakuchi is actually one of the few characters I can write without much hassle orz

my current goal's to write lighter stories (with nothing in our hands-esque) (which I am very disappointed few people are reading because!!! that fic was so fun to write!!! and reading it also makes me smile stupidly!!! but I digress!!! I do understand why people didn't read/kudo it but anyway!!!) because every single one of my recent ones have been heavy, both in angst, plot and world-building. I need something... cheerier. maybe not so much giving up the mindless fluff and plots, but moreso in adopting a lighter tone.

WNIOH was an experimental fic for me and I was really pleased with how it turned out. it was surprisingly easy to write - too easy, actually, to the point where I had to take a one month break before I went back to my usual writing voice for the little bits and pieces (heck, even in bits and pieces you can tell that I'm not at 100% serious voice yet). 

I would have liked to continue writing in that style, but I was worried I would grow too used to writing that kind of tone, which would leave me with consistency problems when I went back to writing Timeless (a damn valid concern, and I'm glad I did it because I seriously struggled with writing Sunrise after that).

the dumbest part of last night came after I was already in bed.

( the dumb part )

speaking of, I track all mentions of Kuroyaku on Tweetdeck and recently there's been an influx of Kuroyaku-related tweets lol but it's all because of the light novel sketch. 

me: "Yeah y'all love Kuroyaku but do y'all read the Kuroyaku."

yes, me being petty.

in other news, I've been playing with the idea of organising a Kuroyaku week............ but time, muse and... well, time and muse. but I'm starved for content and since everyone loves Kuroyaku--

as ritzfics says, "there can never be too much kuroyaku, in fact, there's NOT ENOUGH KUROYAKU". 

I shall. um. keep playing with it first. and get more opinions.