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Waiter! Waiter! More yuri please!!

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it kills me sometimes that itaru could see suspicious ziplock bags filled with questionable white powder or a disassembled gun lying at the coffee table in room 103 and a birth certificate about a guy named mikhail ivanov that has a picture that if he tilts his head just 25 degrees to the right, has the shape of chikage's half-smile and. instead of confronting to chikage about it, he just tells him to not hog the entire table (complete with a whiny tone) and then go back to his gaming cave yeah

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Act 8 was fun

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Chikaita stay winning

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Here are my drawings for ChikaIta week 2023 !! i forgot to post them here earlier whoops

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In every universe it's always you...

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They're both SO unwell it circles back around

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"we need weirder queers" you guys couldnt even handle asexual people in 2016 (and probably still cant handle them)

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I'm probably gonna get yelled at for saying this but sometimes something isn't a real problem in fandom, you just learned a Japanese word describing a general fandom practice and got scared and decided it meant "The Bad Ones" of that practice

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♟️7.27

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incoming!

rinharu-ist (me) is about to have a rinharu thought:

it's been 2 years since the release of free! the final stroke part 1 and i still think of that scene where we're watching haru through a viewfinder during an ?interview and when he's asked, "what changed your life?" it immediately switches up to a scene of middle schooler rin...

...and both of them are in detention over some stupid, probably disruptive argument they had during class. classic rinharu. but that's also exactly it - that's as close as we'll get to our stoic, moon-coded boy nanase haruka admitting that it was rin, specifically rin, who changed his life for the better.

i want to crawl into haru's brain and open all the rin-shaped boxes that lie there like i'm a child waking up to presents on x'mas morning. i want to open the box that hides the first thought he had of rin. i want to greedily open all his rin-shaped boxes in chronological order to piece together the way his mind processes rin's very existence; to bear witness to how the person haru initially thought of as annoying or a bother, eventually became one of the most important people in his life.

i also want to understand the inner-machinations of his mind pertaining to ALL THE YEARS haru thought he lost rin or hurt him, and how he wanted him to know he wanted to swim with him, ergo he wanted him back (in his life) at all cost.

how the entire franchise ends with a scene of them standing across from each other on opposite ends of the train tracks in, where was it, hungary? just like they had when rin first bumped into haru after moving to australia.

the first reunion at the train tracks in japan split them apart for years; this second reunion at the train tracks in hungary will keep them together forever.

even if you don't think the kind of relationship rinharu has is inherently romantic in any way, you cannot deny that it is love.

and this is why i love rinharu I REST MY CASE.

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Rin's message to Haru from fanbook

A sight we've never seen before

Our reunion was "destiny".

You think so too, don't you?

I came to be agitated by your swimming.

But then before I even realized it your swimming saved me.

My feelings from that time. The sight I saw. I will keep swimming with them engraved in my soul.

Hot and intense, until the day I burn out.

I'm ready. Ready to keep swimming forever.

There are no limits. We can go anywhere.

Since it's us, I'm sure we can.

Come on, let's race, Haru.

So we can keep seeing "sights we've never seen before" over and over again.

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COME. ON.

so in the recently released Free! fanbook, there's a huge character relationship chart showing the relationships between the 2343984 characters in this damn series.

Most of the arrows pointing from one character to another are solid and indicate, based on the color, how the first character views the other. Some of them have dotted lines connecting them, though, showing that they feel the same way about each other.

Haru and Rin both share a dotted line that says "Destined to swim together forever"

💙 ❤️

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i gag when i think about the line "so that's why haru quit swimming competitively, because he hurt rin". holy fucking shit. like what do you mean haru stopped doing what he loved the most in life because he thought he hurt rin with it? what am i supposed to do with the fact that haru will always choose rin, even over water and swimming? and the fucking depressed look in his eyes, like he shared the same broken heart as rin? literally changed my life. HAUNTS me to this day.

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i respect everyone's rights to shipping whoever they want, but (yes i'm gonna pull up this image aGAIN) you can't say the creators of free! didn't ship rinharu because what. the hell. was this. this is irrefutable

ALSO.

nobody can convince me these separate covers weren't drawn from the perspective of them looking at each other............WITH VEILS

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