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The whole Haiykuu!! fandom is full of "durrhurrhurr they are all so KINKY! Pro level BDSM kings! LOL" and I'm just sitting there going "I guess this is the first time I kinda don't want all that much smut in a fandom..." - it's all so wildly out of character.
(But yeah, I've given up trying to read anything in this fandom for a reason... Just yesterday, I thought "Hey, I could try again finding a fic I like" and then I gave up frustrated after digging through 15 pages of things I definitely didn't want to read. And that was after filtering out most of the things I didn't like.)

Kuroo is such a sweetheart when it comes to Kenma! He's always so concerned for him and tries to motivate him and everything. I think them being so close is one of the reasons a suspiciously large amount of people who ~just happen to be~ Kuroo/Tsukki or Kuroo/Daichi shippers obsess about Kenma being asexual/aromantic so much.

I absolutely agree re: Kuroo and Tsukki's interactions. People have really stuck to the whole training camp arc a lot when it comes to the base for that ship - but that's what I don't get. Relationship- and character-interaction-wise, the most defining moment in that arc was the meltdown between Tsukki and Yama, imo. Not the "I train with you and tease you a bit because that's what I do" Kuroo was doing to Tsukki. Sometimes it feels like people have read a very different manga than I have...

Yamaguchi and Tsukki and such an interesting pair to me (friends and pairing both) because yes, at the very beginning it does look like it's a very unequal relationship with Yamaguchi just tagging behind and Tsukki not caring, but that theory simply doesn't hold up. At the very latest, once you get to the flashbacks to when they were still younger, it's pretty obvious that it's not even remotely a onsided, unhealthy relationship.

But I find it generally amazing who terribly wrong a lot of people get the characters' personalities in the Haikyuu!! fandom.

I can't ever ship Yamaguchi/Yachi because Yama/Tsukki is my absolute OTP and I really love Yachi and Kiyoko together. (So it's the same reason I couldn't ever ship Kuroo/Tsukki. Both Kuroo/Tsukki and Yama/Yachi break up three of my OTPs at once. That's not good OTL.) I mean, I get it why Yama/Yachi is a popular ship now but the way a lot of people suddenly went "IT'S TOTALLY CANON and if you don't ship it you're stupid" was pretty annoying.

I'm totally okay with your bitching haha! I'll just say that if you reply, it'll be a while until I can reply back. Need to sleeeep.

The whole Haiykuu!! fandom is full of "durrhurrhurr they are all so KINKY! Pro level BDSM kings! LOL" and I'm just sitting there going "I guess this is the first time I kinda don't want all that much smut in a fandom..." - it's all so wildly out of character.

To be honest I'm perfectly okay with smut in this fandom, as they are at an age when, especially for young guys who are gay/bi/pan/whatever you happen to headcanon them as, sexual things start happening. I mean, seriously imagine in the case of TsukkiYama, they presumably walk home together every day, they're literally velcroed to one another, if they were going out that would be some heavy UST to deal with, especially because I can't imagine them abstaining from kissing and making out and stuff.

But that's mainly why I feel like the majority of this fic should be like first time/figuring shit out kinds of fic. The only couple I could kind of buy being together for a long time is Oikawa and Iwaizumi, because they already fight like an old married couple (a physically abusive one? :P), so they sometimes get a pass, but honestly most of the smut I see in this fandom is just so OOC because it's like fandom forgot entirely that these are high school boys. They're not blowjob masters or champion ass eaters or fuck machines, they're awkward and horny and (fandom wise at least) in love for the first time so write them that way darnit! D:

Kuroo is such a sweetheart when it comes to Kenma! He's always so concerned for him and tries to motivate him and everything. I think them being so close is one of the reasons a suspiciously large amount of people who ~just happen to be~ Kuroo/Tsukki or Kuroo/Daichi shippers obsess about Kenma being asexual/aromantic so much.

This drives me fucking insane too. In what universe does Kenma give off an "asexual/aromantic" vibe? I'm kind of personally offended by that characterization, because it seems as if people are saying that if you aren't a stereotypical sex-crazed high school guy that you must not have any feelings about that whatsoever. And even asexual people will sometimes have sex with the people they love, so it's not like that would stop them. I feel so frustrated in this fandom because all the characterizations in fanon are so one-note. Kenma obsessed with videogames and not into competitive sports? Somehow we'll make a huge leap of logic and say he's aromantic/asexual! Kuroo has a sly grin and gels his hair? We'll make a huge leap of logic and say Kuroo is an experienced sex god! Yamaguchi feels bad about himself because he lags behind his peers? He's a self-destructive cutter with suicidal depression now! Nishinoya gets bruises during practice and doesn't make a big deal about him? He's got masochistic tendencies in bed! (This one absolutely fucking floors me, especially with how freaking gentle I imagine Asahi would be, I can't see Asahi lifting a finger to hurt a fly.)

ARGHHHHHH. So much of this fandom sends me straight up the wall.

I absolutely agree re: Kuroo and Tsukki's interactions. People have really stuck to the whole training camp arc a lot when it comes to the base for that ship - but that's what I don't get. Relationship- and character-interaction-wise, the most defining moment in that arc was the meltdown between Tsukki and Yama, imo. Not the "I train with you and tease you a bit because that's what I do" Kuroo was doing to Tsukki. Sometimes it feels like people have read a very different manga than I have...

Mmmmhmmm. I feel like people took literally one interaction (a fucking brief one at that!) and just ran the hell away with it, for basically all the reasons that the secret!OP is stating. It's so obvious it's because people are enjoying the incorrect "sex god Kuroo" thing, and because they want to see Tsukki get plowed and for some reason Yamaguchi is unable to do it (in reality it's because "he's too ugly to do it, he doesn't fit the perfect seme archetype!"). (Come on, there are so many interesting ways to go with that too between Yamaguchi and Tsukki! Is Tsukki the one that wants it? Is Yamaguchi the one who wants it? Is it a switch from their normal roles? Who asks for it?)

Yamaguchi and Tsukki and such an interesting pair to me (friends and pairing both) because yes, at the very beginning it does look like it's a very unequal relationship with Yamaguchi just tagging behind and Tsukki not caring, but that theory simply doesn't hold up. At the very latest, once you get to the flashbacks to when they were still younger, it's pretty obvious that it's not even remotely a onsided, unhealthy relationship.

Exactly. Their relationship has a lot of unexpected layers to it, which fascinates me. I think it's pretty clear by now in the canon that Tsukishima gravitates to Yamaguchi as well, and it's not nearly the unhealthy, unequal thing that people have tried to make it out to be. (And again, I didn't think it ever was unhealthy, besides the fact that Tsukishima and by extension Yamaguchi, have some issues with bullying the other guys, but that was clearly both of them doing it.)

But I find it generally amazing who terribly wrong a lot of people get the characters' personalities in the Haikyuu!! fandom.

Yup. Same here. It just really floored me some of the weird fucking pairings that ended up becoming popular. For instance, where the hell did Kuroo/Daichi come from? Maybe I'm drawing a big ol blank but I honestly can't for the life of me think about where there was any interaction.

I can't ever ship Yamaguchi/Yachi because Yama/Tsukki is my absolute OTP and I really love Yachi and Kiyoko together. (So it's the same reason I couldn't ever ship Kuroo/Tsukki. Both Kuroo/Tsukki and Yama/Yachi break up three of my OTPs at once. That's not good OTL.) I mean, I get it why Yama/Yachi is a popular ship now but the way a lot of people suddenly went "IT'S TOTALLY CANON and if you don't ship it you're stupid" was pretty annoying.

Same here. I can see where the pairing might be cute to some, but I don't really personally get into it. It might have been different if I were able to look at it without the tumblr-war goggles and the spectre of Kuroo/Tsukki looming in the background because of how obvious the fans were being, but it would never be something I ship. But yeah, it would break up my Tsukki/Yama, Kuroo/Kenma, Kiyoko/Yachi groove way too much, and I just don't feel like it's a solid ship anyway. There is certainly nothing to declare it "canon". (Wtf, Tumblr actually fell for a translation hoax awhile back that declared Tsukishima and Yamaguchi had always been dating in a supposed "Word Of God" interview, and people took that bait hook, line and sinker, so obviously these other pairings don't have much substance to them. :P)

I'm totally okay with your bitching haha! I'll just say that if you reply, it'll be a while until I can reply back. Need to sleeeep.

No problem! I'll keep checking back for a reply into tomorrow. :)

To be honest I'm perfectly okay with smut in this fandom(...)

I don't have anything against smut in the fandom in general, but more with what you described - this kind of OOC super sex savvy kinkiness of high school kids. But a lot of people also completely ignore the setting (either with AUs or conveniently forgetting/ignoring the actual setting. I could go on a tangent about how so many authors in this fandom keep pretending that Japanese high school boys do all the same things American high school girls do - like listening to Tailor Swift the whole day, hang out on tumblr etc. but that is another thing entirely.)

This drives me fucking insane too. In what universe does Kenma give off an "asexual/aromantic" vibe? I'm kind of personally offended by that characterization, because it seems as if people are saying that if you aren't a stereotypical sex-crazed high school guy that you must not have any feelings about that whatsoever.(...)

I get having a certain headcanon, but that's the thing with a lot of headcanons these days: a) they're mostly based on already annoying stereotypes and only enforce them more than they already are and b)they get treated as fact as soon as they reach a certain popularity. It's the same with the Haikyuu!! trans headcanons that go around: The characters that get the trans treatment are almost always the ones with the gentler/meeker personality and the more "feminine" or cute looks. Like Suga, Kenma and Yamaguchi. But that's also another can of worms.

Come on, there are so many interesting ways to go with that too between Yamaguchi and Tsukki! Is Tsukki the one that wants it? Is Yamaguchi the one who wants it? Is it a switch from their normal roles? Who asks for it?

Exactly! There is a lot of variation possible because on one hand, we have Tsukki, who seems all cool and stand-off-ish but has issues with being passionate about things and on the other hand we have Yamaguchi, who is meeker at first glance and very much about pleasing Tsukki but is definitely able to put his foot down when he wants to. It's such an interesting, multilayered dynamic!

Re: Kuroo/Daichi - I guess it probably was one of those things where a BNF liked that ship and people kinda jumped on the bandwagon.

Yama/Yachi is about as canon as Tanaka or Noya/Kiyoko (or... just about half of the whole cast/Kiyoko, really) or Hinata/Yachi. Even if there is a bit of a crush going on, as long as it's not 100 % in a relationship canon by word of god, it's about as "canon" as any other ship.

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