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#reblog #india #so proud #reading this made me think of this phrase #phoenix rising from ashes #so damn happy

hey don't cry okay India became the first country to reach the south pole of the moon by the successful landing of chandrayaan-3 leaving it's colonizers who kept making fun of us for trying in dust <3

Devi Vishwakumar is one of the best main female characters and I will deeply miss her.

I love how unapologetically messy and chaotic she was. It was a wild ride seeing her make some questionable decisions. It was great to see a woman of color allowed to be messy and entangled in romantic affairs. It was amazing to see Tamil representation and how it focuses on family relationships and how difficult it is to handle cultural and generational differences. Ultimately, NHIE is about a teenager navigating grief and such a traumatic event. Devi and Nalini’s relationship was extremely complicated but perfectly illustrates how difficult it is to raise your kid when you have been raised differently so seeing their relationship grow and evolve to such tender and supportive bond was such a beautiful journey to have witnessed.

Devi was messy, cringey, confused, frustrating but also funny, driven, smart, kind and deeply human. She was allowed to make mistakes and try again until she figures it out. Her growth this season was so brilliant to see and she’s going to make many more mistakes in the future but already has such great support system in her life. Has learned to value herself and her worth. I love she got to have her romantic ending, her dream school and loved for all of her messiness.

I will miss Devi and every character in NHIE, as a show is definitely one I will rewatch multiple times and I cannot wait to see what Maitreyi does with her future because she’s brilliant.

Haikyuu Couples

DaiSuga- The Domestic Couple

Kyouhaba- The Angst Couple (No gif of them… yet ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )

IwaOi- The Tough Love Couple

KageHina- The Skinny Love Couple

TsukkiYama- The Galaxy Couple

KuroKen- The Shit I’m in Love w/ My Childhood Friend Couple

LevYaku- The Micro and Macro Couple

BokuAka- The Polar Opposite Couple

HanaMatsu- The Solace Couple

Aoniwa- The Beauty & the Dork Couple

#reblog

Art by Lily景怡

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.

There was an *attempt* at something comic-like but honestly I got sick of trying to make the panels look like each other 🤷🏻

... But also now I want a glowing laurel crown pls

Imagined what it’d be like if they started dating in canon verse AND I’M BURNING

also

Babysit they said. It’ll be fun they said.

Hinata Shouyou’s Successful Diving Receive!

All of this is beautiful. Look at Hinata. He learnt how to float goddammit! and Kageyama is a proud bf 😭