the courtship ritual of the hercules beetle
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | the courtship ritual of the hercules beetle |
| Author(s): | kittebasu (chanyeol) |
| Date(s): | November 2014 |
| Length: | 66k+ words |
| Genre(s): | Future Fic |
| Fandom(s): | Haikyuu |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | on AO3 |
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the courtship ritual of the hercules beetle by kittebasu is an Iwaoi Haikyuu fanfic.
Summary: Tooru is pretty sure he could manage the mating habits of a mosquito. It’s the mating habits of people he can’t seem to get right.
Reception
As of October 2020 the work has over 6000 kudos and over 2500 bookmarks on AO3. It is considered one of the "classic" Iwaoi fics by fans of the ship to this day.
It's so believably heart-wrenching and you just go on this journey with the characters and when it's done you feel tired but good. The end is so rewarding. - @HeyMellieJellie[2]
Stumbled across this fic on someone else’s rec list, and dove right in without realizing it was over 60k words...but it was so worth it. Oikawa is an entomologist, Iwaizumi is an Olympic volleyball player and is avoiding him. There is humor, there is angst, there are postmodernist time period switches, this fic is a ride and I love it.[3]
A Tiktok referring to reading this fanfic as "hot girl sh*t" has been made.
Related Fanworks
- “Then he’d kissed him back in earnest, curving into Tooru with so much concentration that Tooru had been overwhelmed” by Amalas
References
- ^ Ask by Amalasdraws on Tumblr 10.09.18, Archived version
- ^ tweet by @HeyMellieJellie
- ^ "Shinsun's Haikyuu!! master fic rec list". Archived from the original on 2024-07-11.