Masha's Roulette #13: Happy Birthday Nishinoya Yuu!
Welcome to the 13th issue of my weekly random grab-bag of recommendations newsletter, where I will show you some things to read and some things to listen to, and my solemn promise that at least one item in here will be new and interesting to you.
I am writing this from Ohio because my flight home leaves right at the time I usually send these out on Monday. But by the time you receive this email, it will be October 10th, the birthday of Nishinoya Yuu from Haikyuu!!. Also Naruto, but I don't have any fanfiction recs for Naruto.
First, Some Things to Listen To
I actually really like the Burnout Syndromes album Fly High and Hikari Are (the 4th and 5th Haikyuu openings) are from, because every single one of their songs sounds Exactly Like That and it's great. This one's a particular favorite, and so is this one. Unrelated to this theme a song I really like just got added to my rhythm game and I'm very excited about it.
Now, Some Things To Read containing Nishinoya Yuu
Silica Sand by lilien passe
Rating: G Word count: 32k Pairing: Asahi Azumane/Nishinoya Yuu
Summary: Overworked, over-stressed programmer Azumane Asahi works on the top floor of a Shinjuku skyscraper. Nervous around his coworkers and terrified of the long drop on the other side of the window, Asahi falls into a miserable routine, only to have it broken one day by a simple message on the outside of the glass. AU.
Azumane Asahi's Big Gay Romance by jibrailis
Rating: T Word count: 13k Pairing: Asahi Azumane/Nishinoya Yuu
Summary: The air-con gets cranky, Asahi gets a job, and Nishinoya gets his man.
Come and take a walk on the wild side by Authoress
Rating: G Word count: 4.6k Pairing: Asahi Azumane/Nishinoya Yuu
Summary: There’s a bloodcurdling scream of terror, and then Noya remembers that, right, there’s a new person moving into the apartment next to him. Oops.
(in which Noya is accidentally the Worst Neighbor Ever, Asahi loses twenty years of his life to stress, and Rolling Thunder is the star of the show.)
Vienna Waits For You by Pouler
Rating: E Word count: 152k Pairing: Asahi Azumane/Nishinoya Yuu
Summary: "It was the day before Nishinoya Yuu's twenty-second birthday, and he had never been more convinced that he'd reached the end of the better part of his life." A story about losing many things, finding some of them again, and realizing the rest wasn't really lost after all.
why mess up a good thing, baby? by YaelaTheWordsmith
Rating: M Word count: 21k Pairing: Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke
Summary: Neither Ryuunosuke nor Yuu are quite prepared for everything that follows from a drunk decision one night - not for the thrill of sleeping together, and not for the pain of falling in love with each other when Yuu's job means that Ryuunosuke only sees him after months at a time.
Please send in recommendations using this lovely form I created (using the Rec Center's form as a model). Am taking recs for fics, articles, interesting long blog posts, anything you think would appeal to other readers of Masha's Roulette. I need more recommendations! I did not get many of them!
I'll be back next week with more things to listen to and read!