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EDIT: Because I got fact checked on this back when I made it but people still like this original post sometimes, this is pretty much semi-headcanon because apparently UCI are chill with accepting people outside normal school terms. That said, there is no canon confirmation of where he was for the rest of his degree, so who knows. It would make sense if he spent his whole degree at UCI though. So like?? I don’t even know what I think anymore aha

I just spent like an hour or two trying to figure out if Iwaizumi is a college sophomore in Japan or America and basically I hate to be the bearer of this news (because I love uci!Iwa) but I’m now 99% sure that Iwaizumi is still studying in Japan during 395 and I had to share this information because surely SOMEONE else has wondered this and I just spent the better part of my evening researching it (read: doing very basic maths with great difficulty) so I’m going to put my results here which i spent even longer writing i hate myself why do i do this

Let’s start with the basics: - Iwaizumi’s birthday is 10th June 1994 - Ushijima’s birthday is 13th August 1994 - They both graduated March 2013 at 18yrs old - Ushijima then went on to debut in the Japan team - Iwaizumi then went to university - The 395 flashback is set during the 2014 World League - In 395 Ushijima is 19, Iwaizumi is 19 (3 months earlier)

NOW Firstly, the 2014 world league took place from 23rd May ~ 20th July IRL, Japan lost by an absolute fucking landslide in the first round, so they only played until 29th June

RIGHT SO Tendo saw the article on Ushijima’s game assumedly very soon after it happened (ie almost certainly during the 2014 games season, also because Ushijima was still 19)

When Ushijima says he went to visit his dad, it was 3 months earlier. If the world league was from May ~ July, then that means he went to Irvine at some point from Feb ~ April, but most likely Feb ~ March. Either way though, he definitely went AFTER January and BEFORE May 2014. This allows for Ushijima to have played in the World leagues and been 19 AND for him to have met Iwaizumi at 19 three months earlier when he was in America to watch his dad’s team play.

Now the university. In Japan, schools and universities start in April and end in March. In America they start in September and end in June.

Let’s say Iwa went to Uni in America after graduating in Japan, his timeline would have looked like this: March 2013 (18) Graduate Seijoh September 2013 (19) Start Freshman year Feb~April 2014 (19) STILL A FRESHMAN

Therefore, Iwaizumi MUST have gone to a Japanese uni, which would make his timeline look like this: March 2013 (18) Graduate Seijoh April 2013 (18) Start Freshman year Feb/March 2014 (19) End Freshman year > now considered a Sophomore(?) Feb~April 2014 (19) a 19yr old Sophomore using his end of year holidays to go visit Utsui in America

Those of you with faster brains than mine probably got there five years ago, but it took me working out both options laboriously by hand to figure this out because I’m dumb

That said, I do still have some doubts I realise that the timings are iffy (and tbh, I’m actually not super sure if in Japan they would start calling someone a second year before the second year has officially started??) but they still fit better than they could POSSIBLY fit if Iwa went to an American uni Also, Iwaizumi literally says he’s always wanted to talk with him and if it was “today” he had time. That doesn’t exactly sound like something someone would say if they had to come from the other side of the world… 

Maybe he did a year abroad in his second year or something, I don’t even know. All I know is that I’m pretty sure he’s not a UCI sophomore, and this brings me great sadness.

even if you only reblog, that’s enough

1st of February, 2021

i was debating on whether or not i should post this on tumblr but seeing as there haven’t been posts about this yet, here it is. i’m exposing my real location and nationality but it doesn’t matter.

if you have been active on twitter, you may already know #savemyanmar is trending. long story short, there has been a military coup. several nations have released statements but i want to share insight on what’s happening in the country.

memes about a coup have been circulating around for a couple days and when i slept at 2 am last night, we were still under the rule of the National League for Democracy (NLD). while they are not technically democratic, they are the closest we’ve got. when my mother woke up at 6 this morning, she was notified that the country was now under the rule of the military.

banks services are no longer available. wifi was cut at around 7-8. some people got wifi again earlier but many got it barely thirty minutes ago. this is bad for businesses especially ones that require international communications. additionally, international students like myself are experiencing anxiety; how do we pay for and attend classes if we’re not sure wifi is a given?

myanmar has a long, complicated history with military governments. the last time the military went into rule was in 1962 and only stopped in 2011, following the 2010 elections. there was a huge protest in 1988 lead by students that resulted in lots of death. during the military junta, resources like rice, water, oil, were scarce. the gist is military rule is bad for us.

all of my followers are not myanmar citizens, i’m sure but as part of the international community, please help us. here is a petition that you can sign (although i’m not sure if that can do much). there may be protests in front of myanmar embassies so look out for those. most of all, please help spread awareness. 

the people here are coping with dark humor, primarily in the form of memes but we don’t know how long this rule will last, even though the official statement said only a year. here’s something that pretty much sums up our coping mechanism:

again, even a reblog helps

here you can find donation links, petitions, how to educate yourself, etc.

if you can afford to donate: official george floyd memorial fund here minnesota freedom fund here stephen lawrence charitable trust here the NAACP legal defense fund here black lives matter here

petitions you can sign: justice for george floyd here, here & here get the officers charged here reclaim the block — minneapolis here justice for breonna taylor here, here & here justice for ahmaud arbery here, here & here pass the georgia hate crime bill here **if you are international and aren’t able to sign, here are some zip codes to use: 90015 — los angeles, california  10001 — new york city, new york  75001 — dallas, texas 

text or call: text “JUSTICE” 688366 text “FLOYD” to 55156

get in contact with the district attorney and minneapolis mayor. leave a message demanding that 4 officers including derek chauvin (badge #1087) and tou thao (badge #7162) be arrested for the murder of george floyd.  minneapolis mayor’s office, jacob frey: (612) 673-2100 minneapolis district attorney, mike freeman: (612) 348-5550 OR [email protected] minneapolis PD emails: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] you can find the email template here

breonna taylor was murdered in her sleep by policemen (jonathan mattingly, brett hankison and myles cosgrove) who raided the wrong house and shot her 8 times. call the louisville mayor’s office and police department to demand that the police be fired and charged. louisville mayor’s office, greg fischer: (502) 574-2003 louisville metro police department: (502) 574-7111

undercover cop, jacob pedersen of the st. paul PD was seen smashing windows as the catalyst to many of the riots that occurred in minneapolis. email the st. paul PD and report his actions. st. paul PD email: [email protected] proof of smashing windows here proof it was pedersen here

want to learn more? i strongly recommend the book “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by reni eddo-lodge. you can find an extract here.

The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same. We are all one people, but we live as if divided.

ATLANTA

LOUISVILLE

HOUSTON

BROOKLYN

DALLAS

RICHMOND

BALTIMORE

CHARLOTTE

DETROIT/and here

OAKLAND/SAN JOSE

This is Kwame Tu, more commonly known as Stokely Carmichael. He was one of the original freedom riders; a prominent member of the black panthers party; part of the revolutionary socialist pan-african movement of the time. He was one of the leaders targeted by the FBI for destruction by COINTELPRO.

He coined the term ‘institutional racism’ and came up with the term ‘black power’ in the first place.

He died of cancer in 1998.