A himbo at its finest

Hey hey hey, what’s up, my name is Stan! I’m here, I’m queer, and I am entirely too neurodivergent to even remotely pretend otherwise lol, a pleasure to meet you! Figured that I should get my work out there since I’m an artist and writer! Hope you like it here where my mind is basically just Bokuto and Bokuaka all day long! (I like other Haikyuu-related things though too!) And feel free to chat with me, I love getting to talk with people! My main blog for my art and fics from more of a variety of different fandoms is @HetaCon so feel free to check that out too!

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Hey hey hey guys! I so should’ve done this a lot sooner but I am now so here we go!

This is a side blog I started for all things Haikyuu and I’m really excited to share my art and stories with people!

Most of my content is art and writing so they will be under the tags #stan art and #stan writing respectively! My post will be tagged with the ships I feature as well as the characters! With my writing, I post them on AO3 (under HetaCon) so all appropriate tags, warnings, and extra information needed will be on the AO3 post itself when you click the link. A lot of my writing is hurt/comfort so it’ll probably be a good idea to check the warnings!

I may not have a lot of bigger concepts or whatnot that I have on here but I do have a massive soulmate au I’m writing, Soulmates of Sleep, which is fittingly tagged under #soulmates of sleep! I’m also writing my Bokuakakuroken AJR series, a collection of stories mainly focused on Bokuto’s journey learning how to cope with his neurodivergency and mental health, which will be tagged under #bokuakakuroken ajr series. There’s a loose storyline but it’s not crucial to read in order, it’s just all set within the same universe!

One final thing, I do know what jobs people have post timeskip but I don’t know the events of it! I’m only caught up to season 4 because I’m mainly an anime watcher! So I’d appreciate it if you guys don’t spoil anything for me and I will put spoiler tags on some of the most important events from the anime! Post timeskip stuff will be tagged under #post timeskip but all I mention and write about are my general knowledge about their careers (mainly because of Sakuatsu)

Edit: I’ve now read through the rest of the series but I’ll of course still tag all of my timeskip stuff so that I don’t spoil it for others!

And of course, if you guys want to chat with me, I’d love to meet y’all, I really hope you can enjoy your time here!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,230

Pairing(s): Ennotana

Summary: Ennoshita doesn’t really make a big deal out of his birthday. Tanaka will not accept that.

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Hey guys, it’s been a while! I know I haven’t posted any new Haikyuu stuff for a year but I wanted to at least write something for Ennoshita’s birthday again as has become my little tradition! Working on this honestly got me started thinking about the next story for the soulmate au again though so I might try to write some more for that soon, it’ll mainly just depend on if I have the time and my brain will cooperate with me!

Anyways, this was the story I’d planned to write last year but ran out of time for! I may or may not work on it a little bit more after today

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 100

Pairing(s): Ennotana

Summary: It’s Ennoshita’s birthday once again

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Hey look, it’s my annual fic for Ennoshita’s birthday!! It really snuck up on me this year so I didn’t have time to write the original concept I had planned but I figured I could always save that for next year’s! So I decided I would just write something sweet this time around!

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I wasn’t really expecting this to be the next thing I posted about but my dad called my sister and I about an hour ago and informed us that one of my grandparents was admitted to end-of-life care today and is likely going to die this afternoon. We knew something like this was possible because we’d gotten news that something was wrong last night but I wasn’t expecting it to be so soon

So I’m likely going to be a bit of an emotional wreck in the next few days or so. You guys don’t have to do anything with this information, I just wanted to let you guys know what’s going on

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #83: Ninomiya Shintarou

Date drawn: September 24, 2024

We've got something even more rare here, two coaches in a row! Come to think of it, this also means there've been two Ohgiminami characters drawn pretty close together, with Akki being #79

Also we're officially caught up guys, this is the most recent one I've done! I didn't do any in October because I was partaking in an Inktober challenge on my main blog this year, and I've also had to be careful with my hand lately cause it's been hurting if I push it too hard. I'm not sure when I'll get to the next one but considering that I'm already so far in, I'm absolutely set on seeing this entire list through to the end, so this definitely won't be the last! We still have 57 more characters to go and some of my favorites haven't even come up yet!

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

I'm so happy with this one, the lines turned out so clean and it just was a Good Art Day when I was working on it! Definitely one of my absolute favorites so far!

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #82: Saito Akira

Date drawn: September 17, 2024

Just as with any of the girls, it's rare for any of the coaches or assistant coaches to come up, so it definitely mixes things up when I get to draw one of them!

While I don't have any particularly strong opinions on Saito, the one thing I do know is that I like him a lot more than Washijo lol

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

It's so strange how just the smallest of lines can improve things so much, like the tendons on the neck or, as I had started doing from this point on, the nostrils. It makes it a bit easier to indicate the angle, especially with dramatic angles. This one isn't a dramatic angle but even here it still made it look better

It isn’t perfect but this one turned out pretty good! Also, cropped hairstyles 😔

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Characters #80/81: Miya Atsumu and Miya Osamu

Date drawn: September 3, 2024

This one’s a bit special because we have not one but two characters, here’s the Miya twins!!

I had decided going into this challenge in the first place that when I got one of the twins, I was going to draw both of them together for a couple of reasons. First was that because of the fact that they’re twins, they have the same facial features and so I felt it wouldn’t be the most exciting doing each of them separately. Second was that I figured this would be a good opportunity for me to practice drawing the interaction between two characters and practice my proportions, cause that can often be the biggest challenge of drawing two characters in the same space

I have too many feelings about the Miya twins and their bond to get into here but just know that I love them and they make me want to cry /pos

(Also shameless self-promotion, I wrote a timeskip story on AO3 centered on the two of them that I think turned out pretty good if anyone wants to check it out! And just in case it’s unclear, which hopefully shouldn’t be the case, Atsumu is the one on the left and Osamu is the one on the right!)

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #79: Akimiya Noboru

Date drawn: August 31, 2024

So you know how we all have that random background character in the series that we’re absolutely obsessed with and every single time they appear, our brains just get flooded with all the serotonin? (No judgement, I’m not at all an exception here, his name is Ennoshita) There’s just this one little guy that each of us gets attached to for some reason or another, you know what I’m talking about right? For my sister, that character is Akki

Honestly I’m not sure how she ended up getting so attached to him in the first place but regardless, I don’t think she’d disagree with me if I said he’s one of her favorite characters and she loves watching the Ohgiminami match purely because that’s the episode he shows up in 😂 For the past year and a half, every time I mentioned doing more of these drawings, she’s always asked me “Has he come up yet?” and I kept having to tell her that he hadn’t. She didn’t even say his name whenever she asked me, I just knew exactly who she was talking about because she got so excited when I told her I’d added him to my list! But now he’s finally here and I showed her the drawing and she liked it!!

I do personally really like Akki as well so I get it, he’s very sweet and supportive of his underclassmen. And I honestly just have a soft spot for him because seeing him now always reminds me of my sister and I love my sister (don’t tell her I said that though, she’ll say I’m being all sappy /lh)

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #78: Teshiro Tamahiko

Date drawn: August 29, 2024

From what little glimpses we got of Teshiro, his vibes are neat, at least in my opinion! Without spoiling anything, I just find it so cool how he so openly can admit to not feeling ready to do something and then still managing to do it despite his own expectations

I realized I have a lot more to say about this character than I thought so along with the screenshot comparison and my thoughts on the piece, I’ll also have my thoughts on Teshiro’s character under the cut

Cropped haircuts come to make me struggle once again 😔

As promised, I have a lot to say about the character and why I find him so interesting so here we go!

I don’t know, I feel like there’s always something a little strange about when people say that you should always tell yourself you can do something because if you expect to fail, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and you will fail. I just feel like to an extent, that mindset stops being helpful because it implies that if you have anxieties about something, you’re doomed to fail every single time just because you’re worried, and for people like me who have anxiety, that anxiety never just vanishes. It’s not the occasional feeling here and there, it’ll always be there to some degree even as we learn how to better cope with it

And if we go based off the assumption that we should always feel confident in the things we pursue, it indirectly sends the message that we shouldn’t even bother with attempting to do anything outside of our comfort zone, and for people who are anxious about a lot of things in life, that means we won’t do anything. There have been plenty of times where I’ve expected things to go poorly and blow up in my face and that I wouldn’t be able to pull it off, and yet I still try and a lot of the time it ends up working out just fine if not better than I’d hoped for!

There’s something refreshing about seeing a character be so blunt about not feeling that they’re prepared and not having that be treated as a mentality they need to “fix” or reframe. And I think that there’s value in acknowledging our own shortcomings, whether merely perceived or otherwise, because it gives us something to work on improving. Whether it be with an actual skill itself or merely with our confidence in our skills, recognizing that we don’t feel capable of doing something helps us in starting to work through it

A lot of my own self-confidence was built from trying to do things despite feeling I couldn’t, and each success helps solidify that I actually can accomplish more than my brain might fear

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #77: Tanaka Saeko

Date drawn: August 25, 2024

Saeko is literally one of the greatest big sisters ever and Ryuu is so embarrassed about her cheering him on because she absolutely does it partially to embarrass him but he truly loves and appreciates her just as much as she does for him and if that ain't what siblings are all about, I don't know what is!

She's really fun to write too, I've been enjoying whenever she comes up in the Ennotana story I've been working on for the soulmate au (It'll be done at some point, I've written too much to not finish it-)

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

I love this expression and absolutely knew I needed to redraw it! It's just so fun!

It’s a bit strange that we’ve gotten every other Karasuno second year and Saeko at this point before we’ve gotten Ryuu, he still hasn’t come up actually

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #76: Shibayama Yuuki

Date drawn: August 24, 2024

Shibayama is such a cutie, I love him so so much 🥺 I have very fond memories of writing him in the Yakulev soulmate story and his friendship with Lev gives me life!

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

I am really happy with this one and I think I did a good job with the face shape and features! The lines came out really clean too

Aside from Kenma, I seem to have continued the trend of redrawing the Nekoma characters from scenes in “Land vs. Air”/“The Path of the Ball” lol, not sure why that keeps happening without me realizing it, it’s not a conscious decision I’ve been making

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #75: Okudake Seiji

Date drawn: July 4, 2024

While it’s not my favorite game, I do find the Johzenji match very enjoyable and I think there’s something really interesting to explore with the dynamic between Okudake and Terushima. We only see a single flashback of them interacting but it has a surprising amount of potential story to it

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

I’m really happy with this one, I think it turned out pretty accurate! I’m especially proud of the hair

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #74: Kamasaki Yasushi

Date drawn: June 19, 2024

It’s my birthday buddy! I have a bit of a special fondness for Kamasaki specifically because of that but I do also find him amusing, him butting heads with Futakuchi is genuinely funny. It’s a bit of a bummer that his was pretty close to being posted on our actual birthday but there’s not much I can do about it in the end, that’s just the luck of the draw with this randomized challenge!

A screenshot redraw as usual, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

The angle’s admittedly a bit off but I can’t get them all right, the artistic learning process would be a lot different if every piece I made turned out exactly the way I planned for it to. Other than that, I genuinely think I did a good job with it, I think the hair was probably my favorite part to draw, though the face shape probably is a close second

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #73: Iwaizumi Hajime

Date drawn: June 15, 2024

Hey, this looks familiar! Like I had mentioned with Oikawa’s, I copied this drawing over from my sketchbook to the card stock on my graduation cap that I showed several months back, and how fitting it was that this was the last character that got pulled before I graduated! It felt like the perfect send off and yet it was completely a coincidence as every character is randomized and I never know which one I’m gonna get! I couldn’t help but think it was fate :))

Anyways, love Iwaizumi, such a fantastic character and I adore his relationship with Oikawa. There’s a reason I ended up writing their soulmate story second after all!

As per usual, it’s a screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

This is the part where I sort of noticed that spiky hairstyles were becoming a little easier to draw, mostly because I’ve found a good workflow/method for doing it! I don’t think it’s ever going to be the easiest for me to do but it’s becoming much less difficult and that’s all I care about honestly

I still find it fascinating seeing how my style differs whenever I do these redraws, particularly the eyes I think. I’m not really sure why

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #72: Ojiro Aran

Date drawn: June 15, 2024

I have a question for anyone who watches the English dub like I do. Did it seriously throw anyone else off when they pronounced his name as “Alan”? I guess it technically makes sense but it’s so jarring for me, I always pronounced it in my head like the name “Aaron”! Those two sounds just have completely different vibes to them, idk

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

This one was definitely a challenging one, especially because I really struggled with finding a good photo of the stage actor! I think I managed pretty alright all things considered! My struggle with cropped haircuts continues though

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #71: Sakunami Kousuke

Date drawn: March 31, 2024

Here's Sakunami! I'm actually a bit curious about how many liberos we're up to at this point

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

The screenshot would usually be better quality but Sakunami's in the background of this scene so this is basically the best we'll get! That said, I think I did pretty good with the expression! There are definitely some things I feel I could've done better on but isn't that always the case?

For some reason I struggled a bit with getting this one done after finishing up the last one, which may or may not be apparent. I did get it done though so I'm considering that an accomplishment!

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Randomly Generated Haikyuu Character #70: Misaki Hana

Date drawn: February 28, 2024

Misaki's entire dynamic with the Johzenji boys is honestly so hilarious and I adore her, she takes absolutely none of their nonsense like the queen she is <3

We've done it y'all, we're officially halfway through my list of characters with this one!! I'm a little surprised I managed to get so far into this despite having started these nearly a year and a half ago. Considering I've made it so far, I really want to see about bringing it to completion so I'm going to try my best and keep going!

Screenshot redraw, comparison and my thoughts under the cut!

So happy with how this one turned out!! It's honestly such a good way to mark the halfway point of this little (as if 140 characters is little lol) challenge for myself! It was surprisingly difficult to find a good front profile reference of Misaki's stage actor but luckily I managed to do it!