hargrieve’s fics recs — april
this is a few days late, because I got caught up in real life! IN PERSON!! what a privilege!!! I read a little less fic in april too for the same reason, but I still recommend the following titles with my whole chest. I am a rarepair enthusiast, but there’s a sakuatsu and another sunaosa fic down below. happy reading :)))
FANDOMS: HAIKYUU!!
gorgeous short(ish) one-shots:
no more keeping score, now i just keep you warm by comfortcharacters @/comfrtcharacter on twitter
atsumu/hinata, past kagehina; rated T+; 3k words; 1/1
hinata and his relationships with his two setters, pre- and post-timeskip
I loved this story because it featured romantic atsuhina without diminishing the valid and important relationship between hinata and kageyama
unwalked by limeprint @/kuroy4ku on twitter
konoha/washio; rated Gen, 1.3k words; 1/1
konoha akinori introspection, between high school and timeskip
they/them konoha [feral yelling] also lots of cameos from the other teams
konoha thinking about volleyball, goals, sticking to things, and washio
heartwrenching writing; I love this author
Foresight by sifuhotman @/ginjimahitoshi on twitter
akagi/ginjima; rated T+; 15k words; 1/1
established akagin, part of subtle inarizaki things college au series
akagi is about to graduate and doesn’t know what he’s doing with his life. (this is ship-focused and not that short, but I’m categorizing it here bc a significant portion of it was focused solely on akagi’s struggles)
this hit HOME for me because I, like akagi, am about to graduate university and I do NOT know what I am doing with my life somebody help me
seriously if you are about to graduate or are at a similar transition stage in your life, even if you do not care/know akagin, I highly recommend this fic because I think it helped me a lot to process the changes in my own life
longer ship-focused fic:
kiss me more by yuzubalm @/yuzubalm on twitter
sunaosa; rated M; 15k words; 1/1
suna and osamu timeskip friends with benefits AND feelings, but of course they don’t talk about their feelings
author’s descriptions are SO INCREDIBLY TENDER they really k-worded me
very much recommend this if you are feeling pandemic loneliness and want to project into ~love~
running from lions by caandlelit @/caandlelit on twitter
konoha/sarukui; rated T+; 8k words; 1/1
sarukui is head over heels in love with konoha. he’s trying to say something, he really is
author does both sarukui and konoha justice. sarukui is Down Bad, but author maintains his sense of humor and, in a meta sense, the fact that he is a side character in haikyuu. a sweet high school get-together about a compelling little dude whom I love
I think this is my favorite fic from this list
clown fic:
Flushed by suzzzan @/tossysauce on twitter
akagi/ginjima; rated T+; 2.6k words; 1/1
here’s the summary: “So. Gin’s abs were going to ruin Akagi’s life. // Fuck.”
and here are two of the tags: “akagi has a gay crisis” and “gin has a hot bod”
take from those what you will
i laughed out loud like five times. A+ clowning of inarizaki volleyball club, esp akagi and atsumu
WHAT IN CARNATION by precious_red @/actuallyatsumu on twitter
sakuatsu; rated M; 11k words; 1/1
hanahaki/flower disease au, but make it clown. atsumu catches feelings and hanahaki disease for his fwb sakusa but refuses to say anything. 10+ thousand words of atsumu trying to sort it out like a dumbass
this is the first line: “Atsumu starts coughing up flowers while Kiyoomi’s dick is down his throat.”
CLOWN O’CLOCK atsumu how can you be so stupid
lots of puns and bad jokes. I laughed a lot reading this
recs I received in my inbox: (I have not personally read all of these)
Fidelity series by 5yenwish (iamacamera)
tsukkiyama; rated E and T; 15k words; 2 out of 2 in series
summary: “In their twenties, after years together, Tsukishima and Yamaguchi's personalities begin to clash.”
guiding stars by daedalust
hirugami/hoshiumi; rated T+; 102k words; 19/19
same author as the hiruhoshi fic I put on the list last month!
Pokemon Stars by Sleepy_Dormouse
tsukkiyama; rated T+; 389k words; 110/150
from the recommender: “It’s a tsukkiyama fic that’s still ongoing (consistent updates, not abandoned) and it’s my personal favourite Haikyuu fic.
tag by rasmirato @triforce-of-weird
tsukkiyama; rated M; 25k words; 7/?
from the recommender: “I love not-so-secret mutual pining for this pair, so the fic basically details the ways their relationship evolves, sparked by some flirtatious late night texting heh”
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