#anti makoharu shippers

[fromzerotoeuphoria]

Why do (some) Mako/Haru shippers gotta be like this?

These are the reasons I barely go on Twitter anymore. I can't even share an opinion without antis getting triggered, blocking me and then LYING ON ME.

Me innocently sharing my (polite and respectful) opinion on my own profile:

Random triggered mako//haru Stan:

*subtweets me then blocks right after*

*proceeds to LIE on me to their followers*

(yugyeom sweetie let me get you out of there)

Me, literally never having brought up "sexual tension"/"the fence scene"/"Australia":

They really claimed RinHaru was not only "d3@d" but has been for "a long time." Please explain to me then the Haru Being Hung Up On Rin Starting Days movie, Haru being once again super emotional with Rin during The Bench Scene in Take Your Marks, Rin canonly being the only one who could've helped Haru discover his dream the way he did, Haru telling Rin he was the reason Haru could even step forward towards the future, Haru wanting to continue to share future experiences with Rin, and so much more. And this is all after Season 1, which was pretty much Haru being obsessed with Rin and trying to get over him but failing miserably and so they make up in ep12.

If RinHaru is a dead ship, please explain to me how mako//haru isn't 10x more dead, let alone even breathing?* All of this reciprocated chemistry and infatuation between RinHaru and RinHaru only (within the Haru ships), yet the ship is supposed to be dead? Lol Haru would beg to differ.

Tbh they have a right to vent on their own Twitter account, just like I have the right to share my opinions on my own account. But whereas I was respectful and didn't invalidate the other ship, they were the exact opposite. But honestly, what actually upset me was the fact that this person had to blatantly lie about what I said. Says a whole lot about their ship, just sayin'.

Anyways LoveSickRuby: RinHaru is going to the Olympics together. RinHaru is out here THRIVING and being the closest Haru-ship to canon. Sorry boo, I didn't make the rules 💋

*me saying this is NOT invalidating mako//haru. i'm pointing out how i believe there is multiple times more chemistry between rinharu than mako//haru, so if you say that rinharu is dead then it surely means that mako//haru is dead, too.

[having-conniptions]

Free! The Final Stroke SPOILER (I guess)

So, I read a short synopsis of the movie and

Uhhhh

Are we really back to RinHaru drama??

Bc I swear if they kill MakoHaru and SouRin and make it all about RinHaru again then I'm not even gonna bother finishing my season 3 rewatch (which I am doing to catch up with the story so I can watch the movie)... and I'm not gonna bother watching The Final Stroke either... I'll just hope that someone posts a Makoto compilation with all his clips from the movie and then I'll watch that... kinda sad because I do want to see all the characters again but if it's just gonna be RinHaru relationship drama I really can't be arsed... I'm so tired

Disclaimer: I am not a Rin anti (plz I love him) and I do not have a problem with the movie being mainly about Haru and Rin. But there is a difference between the movie being about Haru and Rin and it being about RinHaru.

RinHaru shippers don't come for me I have nothing against you, that ship is just really not for me and I would elaborate but I don't have the time to write an entire essay right now k bye

[heavensenthearty]

For the salty ask.... number 5 👀

TW // Homophobia, racism

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

I think there were few occasions when that happened. Back at the time when I didn't think things too deeply, I think there was the Inuyasha x Kikyo ship in the Inuyasha fandom. I shipped InuKag since the beginning and even as a child I could tell who was going to be endgame, so I wasn't bothered by what others shipped... until I found a blog that redacted and role-played a criminal trial against Kagome for... well... her character 😶

After that there was the MakoHaru ship in Free!. Nothing too serious there, I just thought the characterization in the fics was too OOC.

Then I joined the ATLA fandom 😑

The flashbacks say I used to be laid-back and forgiving when I first joined the fandom. The thing is that I can't remember what that felt like. I used to be the way I was in the Inuyasha fandom, a "if you're good, I'm good" mentality in regards of ships. K@t@@ngers broke me first.

And they did so when we weren't even talking about ships. See?! 👇🏽

This is a chat I had once with a K@t@@nger, I'm the one saying that I was working on a collection of pro-LGBTQIA blog articles, the K@t@@nger is the one telling me that's sick and blocking me.

And this was after they SUPPOSEDLY tried to apologize for doxxing me when I was raising awareness about Venezuela's crisis.

Yeah, as you heard it. They doxxed me for that, encouraged their followers to send me GIFs of Chavez giggling and posts supporting Che Guevara — (who was an homophobe) — and all of them just happened to be K@t@@ng shippers. (I took a look at their profiles myself.)

Small world, huh?

Then there was the "You probably date your oppressors" comment, a take that I probably will die mad about since it is such a ✨PERFECT✨ thing to say to someone from a country in dictatorship.

And then when they said being Latina didn't make me a POC, and then when they came to my inbox to say I probably didn't shower because I live in Venezuela, and then when after all of that they had the audacity to ask me whether I was white.

So... yeah... like we say in my country, K@t@@ng and its shippers can go a j*der a otra parte.

I want to clarify that I know not all K@t@@ng shippers are like that, and even I follow K@t@@ng artists on Instagram because I like to draw and it happens that I am the kind of person that learns from the ones with more experience than me at something, but I guess I'm not very much okay knowing there are so many... anti-Venezuelans in that side of the ATLA fandom.

Huh, so this is what it feels like to have a villain origin story 🤔...

Anyway... after K@t@@ngers, there were Z*kkas.

Fortunately, I haven't have that much bad encounters with them. I don't how because... I haven't been very chill after everything they have done to my LGBTQIA mutuals 🤨. Maybe it's just that I put the same amount of energy they put in Z*kka in my mlm ships from other fandoms, so they can't say I dislike mlm ships 🤷🏽‍♀️

It's funny because most of my mlm ships are bi or they involve a bi character, and Z*kkas are known for being awfully biphobic 🙄 And people don't have to take my word for it, they can see the asks they sent to bi Zutara shippers. Or to the aro/ace, wlw, and mlm Zutara shippers.

What makes me sad is that when Z*kka first had its popularity boost, I was kind of happy and curious, I wanted to see if I could warm up to it with fanon content. (I have shipped things with less.) Z*kka shippers k-worded Z*kka for me. They k-worded it!! 😡😡😡

Salty asks!

[stardustizuku]

Can we talk abt the fandom's lack of creativity when it comes to shipping? Almost everything is solely Dekubowl and that's cool and all but what about bakubowl? kamibowl? MOMOBOWL?? Like c'mon fandom there are more characters that need loving as well 😥

the dekubowl actually goes far back into fandom history. It was the fandom’s poor attempt to do damage control when it came to ships. 

You have your sheith and your klance, your makoharu and your rinharu, your usuk with fruk. it’s bound to happen. 

when this fandom was still an embryo i took a peak, and no one knew exactly what was going to be what. no one knew who these two big mlm couples would be, sincebnha escapes a bit the usual formula,  and they didnt want to get into a fight. Most shippers came from relatively chill fandoms, so they thought it would work…

“We ship everything!” to avoid getting into fights. and well, it worked for a while. 

turns out bnha got…a bit bigger than expected. 

the dekubowl has been declining slowly as the entirety of the fandom went to each corner and it became obvious who the two big ships were. and even when the dekubowl has been milder now…you can see who exactly runs it. often tddks, who hate bakugou and just want him to lose lmao -i was one at some point shrugs-. 

but since im a deku stan more than anything, i’m okay with it. 

thats the main reason behind the dekubowl. its not an exclusion of characters, it’s more of a phenomena that was bound to happen somewhere, and bnha was the one place to a large enough cast, a lovable enough mc, and an undefined “partner” by the beginning of the series. 

on itself its a very peculiar case lmao. 

REGARDLESS -sorry for the tangent- the fandom really lacks creativity when it comes to ships. 

This is coming from someone who was in the hetalia fandom way back when -throw stones at the end of the essay please- and let me tell you it’s falling incredibly short. 

Back when fanfiction.net was a thing, you could only list one ship -TWO WHEN THE UPDATE WAS RELEASED and that was like…woooow-. So people would throw ANYTHING at you. 

And that was a very pleasing way part of reading fics. You got to explore new ships, and could see the writer’s personal taste shine through. I liked it it was fun. 

You’d have crack ship all the way through, everything was free game. You did have the “default ships package” but most people played around, and threw them out of the window. You’d have a myriad of ships in the background, and it was AWESOME 

that’s why i hate it soooo much when they do this kind “default ships package” of thing in bnha. Always choosing the same things, always going through the same path. 

it standardises things and i hate it.  

i once read a very good tddk fic, because it had such wild ships i was having a BLAST with it. bakugou was dating kirishima and ochako, i think kaminari was dating sero, and tsuyu …i dont recall prob mina?…it was wild and i loved every second of it.

 And i have the vague idea -dont take my word for it it’s expeculation more than anything- that it’s because of anti culture. it’s permeating in a very toxic way. 

because you’re not allowed to ship this because its toxic, you’re not allowed to ship that because its straight, and you’re not allowed to ship what not because age gap, power dynamics, canon content, non canon content, it’s cliche, it’s ooc, it’s harmful for lgbt people, its stereotype it’s this, it’s that…

in voltron -for example- no one is allowed to ship ANYTHING other than klance. and because for some reason those shit holes are coming to bnha, they’re creating fear in the community. They don’t want you to ship anything other than what their “default ship package” has told you its okay. 

that’s why everyone attacks  you if  you think ts*chako is bland. that’s why everyone thinks you’re weird if you ship hawksdeavor, that’s why everyone riots when you say you ship bkdk. 

that’s why we can’t get more ships that the default ones. 

this purity culture is killing creativity. i know artist that don’t want to draw stuff that isn’t “safe”. writers who don’t want to cross the line. 

and its pretty damn awful. 

for people who claim to be protecting and creating wholesomeness, they sure are killing creativity in here. 

It also doesn’t help that bnha has underdeveloped characters and sexism keeps popping up in fandom, but that’s another can of worms and this response is already super long lol. 

[sailoriasake-blog]

I'm a makoharu shipper but....

I feel like if rinharu was in an actual relationship, Rin would be protective over Haru to the point where it’s overbearing. Also, Rin is too competitive and probably will get jealous easily. On the other hand, Makoto is perfect for Haruka! I mean they even grew up together 💓 (I’m not anti-rinharu, just a thought!)

[iightwoodbane]

Idk if you're still doing honesty hour but headcanon(s) or au(s) you can't stand for any of your 4 ships?

with makoharu i’m a bit more chill so i don’t get annoyed by most of the headcanons but AUs/headcanons for ichiruki and touken that involve the girls being abusive towards the guys piss me off. i’m not talking about anti’s who say that TK or IR are abusive (they’re not) but about the shippers who take some very few instances of shoving or kicking and involve them in e v e r y single scenario. touka and rukia both used that to motivate the guys but some people take it to the next level as ~comedy relief~ 

honesty hour 👀 anon or not I have to answer

[fromzerotoeuphoria]

This MH Shipper Tho...

So last week I made a post about how Haru gets sentimental when around Rin which I had originally posted to Reddit (before I got my Tumblr account). It wasn't too popular on Reddit as there are many more MH shippers there than RinHaru shippers, which is totally fine; I didn’t care about the post being popular (I figured it wouldn’t be), I really just wanted to share my thoughts and love about RinHaru with the world. 😁💜🌸

The rules of the subreddit clearly specify "No Hate Comments" and "No Ship Bashing." If you read my post, even on the Tumblr version I don't even mention any other ship and certainly don't hate on any other ship. It was merely an appreciation post of RinHaru that discussed how Haru gets especially sentimental when around Rin.

I literally wrote this disclaimer in my original post:

But of COURSE, that’s just too much for some people and they still get triggered.

Disclaimer: This isn't an anti-Mako//Haru post but it is an anti-Mako//Haru shippers who are immature, hateful and hilariously insecure about their ship. This isn’t towards all Mako//Haru shippers, esp those lovely and chill ones. To those I send my love (because I appreciate y’all and also love my big squish Makoto 💚).

So this afternoon I get a notification that I have a comment on my Reddit post:

I didn't want to just assume this person was a Mako//Haru shipper, because they could've been an anti-shipper in general, so I checked out their profile first because I like confirming things rather than jumping to conclusions and making assumptions.

But sure enough:

OMG ahahaha y’all this person was so triggered by my post—a post that had absolutely no hate towards Makoto nor Mako//Haru—that they made not only one, but TWO posts that broke community rules by ship hating because of it. AND those two posts were the only posts they ever made on Reddit, ever. 😂 

Literally, all my original post did was give some rare RinHaru appreciation in the subreddit. And the post was even tagged as “Shipping” and had RinHaru in the title. And still this person willingly clicked on it knowing it was a ship post about their notp smh. 

Even in my response to them, I didn't hate on any ship. Yet even then, they're still mad and then try to turn the blame onto me:

Imagine being so insecure and overly sensitive about your ship that the very appreciation of a different ship, one that never invalidates your otp nor Makoto, triggers you that hard. Lol YIKES.

Needless to say, both of their posts were removed for breaking the rules of the subreddit.

Here’s the thing: I’m new to the Free! fandom so I wasn’t here when the ship wars were at their worst. So when I come across all of the Rin and RinHaru hate when I dive into fandom posts, it hits me like if it was new, because no matter how long ago it was, it’s still hate. Hate that still crops up today, which I see frequently on other areas of the internet. 

I tend to write a lot of “posts” addressing this hate or defending RinHaru, but it was originally just for myself and my private blog/diary. Now that I have tumblr, I’ve debated many times whether or not to publish these defenses of RinHaru since the ship wars aren’t nearly as bad as they were before, and a I’m sure a lot of the haters have moved on to (hopefully) better things. Yet every time I feel like maybe its unnecessary to write these long meta posts about RinHaru or posts that address hate coming from mh shippers, I run into something like this, either on YouTube or apparently now Reddit (even though it's against the rules). 

So you know what, I’m not gonna feel bad about addressing RinHaru hate anymore, even if it's from the past because it still goes on today. Also, I know how hard it is to see the hate as a new fan, and seeing people defend Rin and RinHaru is always comforting. Hopefully it’s comforting to others, too.

Anyways, pseudo-venting sesh over.

BONUS: this person really hates Rin lol

[cominatchacleopatra]

Some very obvious observations: 

 The people that are getting irritated with the makers of vld are just mad that the show isn't being written the way they want it to go. So they cry "bad writing" because they can't use their critical thinking skills. 

 Allura's age was hella obvious since the first episode which is a teenager in her late teens. People suddenly being appalled and ceasing to ship shallura now is ridiculous because it doesn't really effect their lives too much. it's just a fictional relationship that probably won't matter 5 years down the road. You can stop if you like but this ship is not inherently bad just because of an age difference. 

 Too many people are caught up in that toxic mob mentality that all content should have no problematic aspects to them but life doesn't work that way because real life is very nuanced and you have to find what works for you. 

 Learn what pedophilia actually means. Because if you keep using it incorrectly it loses impact of the real definition. (pedophilia is a real serious issue that I personally have zero tolerance for)

If you look through the tags and see the blogs abandoning shallura, 4 times out of 5 they ship klance. If you look in the Kallura tag you will see more anti kallura posts made mostly by people that ship klance. people getting the most worked up about Allura's age are klance shippers because they think Allura will get in the way of their ship. 

 klance shippers are super insecure. So they will attack/reject ships that they deem wrong under the guise of "social justice", like kallura or sheith. It's fine not to like ships but don't harass others just because you don't agree with them, especially when they are minding their own business and not directly bothering you. Just enjoy your ship and stop being so insecure. 

 When I first started watching voltron, klance and sheith had an intense rivalry but now it has spiraled into an all out war on what's morally perfect.I mean this feels very similar to rinharu vs makoharu in free! but the only difference is that both sides were more honest about hating each other. I mean the worst thing that ever came out of that was... actually nothing but bitter feelings really. hmmm. 

 Closing words: do no harm but take no bullshit. Don't start none and there won't be none. Liking things in fiction does not equal to condoning it in reality. And ship what you want and have fun.

[fromzerotoeuphoria]

Addressing Haru’s Emotions Towards Makoto vs Rin (Season 1, Ep 11 & 12)

(ft. my low quality first attempt at gifmaking) 

So I was innocently looking up Rin and Haru meta on Google (I’m addicted to RinHaru meta plz send help) when I came across this little thread that tried to discredit RinHaru by comparing Haru’s emotional confrontation with Rin in S01E12 vs Haru’s emotional “thank you” to Makoto in S1E11.

Oh give me a break.

{gif from google}

Disclaimer before we dive in:

Now, I know this was posted by antis back when the shipwars within the fandom were at their worst, but I still wanted to address this because I myself am new to Free! and the fandom (I discovered Free! a couple of months ago in mid-July), and being so new to the fandom, these kinds of comments hit like they’re fresh, ya know? I know for me, finding posts of people defending both Rin and RinHaru against the hate really brought me comfort as a baby in the fandom, and I know there are new people coming into the fandom who may feel the same way.

Also, although many of these tumblr posts were written years ago, I still see this kind of stuff active on the internet: on youtube, anime forums, and even kpop forums, believe it or not. So there are still people out there who think these kinds of ways and say these kinds of things, and hopefully addressing posts like these will help highlight the inaccuracies in this kind of thinking...while, again, bringing a sense of consolation to other RinHaru shippers out there.

Makoto is my lil-big squish and I appreciate the MakoHaru friendship, so in no way am I trying to undermine their relationship because it is important (and there’s no way you can deny that Haru does love Makoto at least platonically). So though I may come off strong towards these types of MH shippers, it doesn’t mean I’m talking about all MH shippers and it’s certainly not towards Makoto. I will, however, place things in a proper perspective because I see a lot of exaggerating and misrepresenting going on in order to undermine just how much Rin means to Haru (which is baffling to me because it’s so obvious and CANON just how strongly Haru cares about Rin and wants him in his life).

And YES, I’m a RinHaru shipper. There is a possibility of ship-bias, but I do my best to be fair. Plus, I love these boys.

Well, let’s get into it.

(tl;dr in bold & at end of post)

...but telling Makoto “thank you” and that he “appreciates him being here for him” is overwhelming to the point that he can’t even look at Makoto while talking and feels the need to run out of his room in the middle of the night, the night before their super important relay.

So the scene with Makoto being referenced by OP is the MakoHaru scene in S01E11 in which both Makoto and Haru are in their hotel room the night before the big tournament. They’re in their respective beds, and Haru opens up to Makoto and thanks him for always being there for him. Feeling embarrassed as well as being unable to sleep, Haru leaves and goes for a run.

Then of course, the climactic scene of the whole season: Rin and Haru’s final confrontation. No need for me to summarize it because we ALL know what goes down:

last gif brought to you straight out of a shoujo manga ;D

Comparing Haru's reactions between these two counters is erroneous because so much about them is different, and thus Haru is coming from totally different places emotionally. 

These are two different situations under completely different circumstances (with two different people who hold different places in Haru's heart. Again, different). With Makoto, you had a sweet, heartfelt moment in which Haru opens up his heart to his best friend and thanks Makoto deeply (in his Haru-like way) for always being there for him, for being someone he can always depend on and lean upon for all these years.  With Rin, you had a culmination of so much raw emotion and misunderstanding between two friends who cared about each other—but thought the other person didn’t reciprocate—finally coming to a head-on collision. This has Haru in a completely different mental and emotional state when he confronted Rin than when he was with Makoto in their hotel room. 

Haru went through a whole freakin' lot over the years, even just in Season 1 alone. He just experienced an "existential crisis" of sorts in eps 8 and 9 after Rin told him he was never going to swim with him again, and Makoto was a big part of why Haru was able to overcome that feeling of blackness and discover his enjoyment in swimming relay (Rei and Nagisa and their team-manship being the other part of the reason). Makoto has been THE constant support in Haru's life, always supporting him from the shadows and taking care of him without ever asking for anything in return. I believe that in the excitement, anticipation and emotions of the entire team's journey thus far that brought them to that hotel room for their big tournament, Haru began thinking about everything that led up to such a big moment in their lives. And he knew that the major support in his life right there in the hotel room with him, and in this poignant moment, Haru expresses his gratitude.

(Sidenote: a confession of gratitude =/= a love confession, folks. I've seen people hype up that Shimizaki called it a “confession” from Haru to Makoto, and that Utsumi agreed, and so they somehow equate it to a "confession of love" when…sorry luvs, but no. In the same statement Utsumi says, "…it is a confession to his best friend.[…] this is the first time he openly expresses his feelings of gratitude for that consistent support." It’s a confession of gratitude, not non-platonic “love.”) [x]

And Haru being Haru, he doesn’t often express himself emotionally. The hotel scene was one of the few times Haru ever verbally expressed to Makoto how deeply he appreciates him, and of course, as someone who doesn’t express their emotions or feelings on the regular, he was embarrassed. I agree that it’s totally sweet and makes you uwu because Haru expressing his emotions is uwu, and the fact that he did it to his best friend Makoto who's BEEN deserving it makes it even more UWU. I totally understand how this scene is precious to MakoHaru shippers, and it should be for it was a very sweet and heartwarming scene between the two best friends (and it was about time Haruka expressed his appreciation to Makoto).

That being said, trying to use an exaggeration of what actually happened in that scene as ammo against Haru’s feelings for Rin is just...not it. Haru didn’t leave the hotel room solely because he was embarrassed about thanking Makoto, and certainly not because:

...telling Makoto “thank you” and that he “appreciates him being here for him” is overwhelming to the point that he can’t even look at Makoto while talking and feels the need to run out of his room in the middle of the night, the night before their super important relay.

 ...as OP claims. There were other factors that played a much more significant part in Haru feeling “overwhelmed” and causing him to “feel the need to run out of his room in the middle of the night before their super important relay”—one of those factors being said super important relay.

We know Haru is nervous about the tournament and can’t sleep because of it—Makoto even calls him out on this. Then shortly after, when Haru runs into Nagisa out in the town, Nagisa and Haru go to a nearby playground and Nagisa also asks Haru if he’s can't sleep because he's nervous. Haru tries to dodge the question (he doesn’t want to admit it, very on brand for Haru), but when Nagisa admits that even he’s nervous—and has been so since they got onto the bus—Haru is shocked and asks, “You are??!” He’s surprised that he wasn’t the only one feeling nervous about the tournament, which confirms Makoto’s observation from earlier: that Haru is nervous about the tournament and can’t sleep because of it. This along with him being embarrassed are why he goes out for the run. (But honestly, it makes way more sense to the story that it was primarily because of his nervousness about the tournament that he left the hotel room, not because he was embarrassed thanking Makoto).

Also, just pointing out: Nagisa reveals one of the reasons why Haru is nervous about the tournament (and therefore one of the reasons he can’t sleep):

Nagisa: “We’ll be racing Rin-chan tomorrow. That’s probably why you’re nervous.”

I know that some shippers out there (*eyes OPs*) would love to tell themselves that it was all just Haru feeling so overwhelmed with emotion from merely telling Makoto that he appreciates him, and that Haru just couldn’t handle sharing these emotions with the one he luvvvs so he runs out into the middle of the night because it’s all just TOO OVERWHELMING...

...but, that’s just not how it actually was.

YES Haru was embarrassed from expressing his appreciation to Makoto, but he was also nervous and anxious about the tournament—and about racing against Rin. Remember, the last time he raced Rin in ep 7/8, Rin won and told Haru he’d never have to swim with him again. That left Haru in a black hole; yet on the flip side, when he had raced Rin in middle school and won, Rin said that he was quitting swimming and in turn, Haru also quit competitive swimming because he thought he hurt Rin. So in Haru's mind: "beating Rin = losing Rin, which means I get hurt BUT ALSO Rin winning = never swimming with him again/losing Rin, which still means I get hurt." So you can imagine the apprehension, anxiety and nervousness Haru is dealing with from all these different uncertainties. (@skania​ explains Haru’s internal dilemma regarding beating Rin very well in this post; seriously you guys her Free! Meta is everything I'm in love with her posts, please go check her stuff out.)

 Haru being embarrassed with Makoto does NOT mean that, as the mh shippers in the OP are insinuating, Haru doesn’t actually care about Rin because he wasn’t “overwhelmed” with emotion enough to run from the situation, but instead was “just fine” during his confrontation with Rin. 

i still can’t get over the fact that Haru gets through the entire end scene with Rin face-to-face just fine (where they’re yelling about feelings and Rin’s crying on him and everything’s so amped up between them)

Umm…did you guys just skip over this entire scene that was legitimately the most emotionally-charged scene in the entire season?

Haru literally has tears in his eyes as he finally [and “desperately”] reveals to Rin how he really feels [x]:

Did you not hear how just seconds earlier, Haru was literally shouting his feelings to Rin, and how before that he momentarily fell back into a black hole at the thought of never being able to swim with Rin again?

Did you totally miss how even Nagisa pointed out that Haru wasn’t in the condition to swim their relay at their "super important tournament" because he was so devastated about Rin? Did you not watch as Haru risked his relay race at said "super important tournament" to go look for Rin—”running with abandon”—and reconcile with him?

Did y’all not watch the same anime as the rest of us in which the whole resolution is Haru and the rest of the guys willingly getting disqualified at the super important tournament just so they could have a chance to swim relay with Rin again?

Are you guys so obsessed with your ship that you willingly blind yourselves to what’s actually going on in the anime outside of your otp?

 Like I said above, Haru was in different emotional states in these two scenes:

With Makoto, Haru is embarrassed from emotionally opening up and expressing his appreciation for Makoto—something he does not usually do—coupled with his anxiety and nervousness about the relay.

With Rin, Haru is in pure relief that after all of this time, after all of these years, Rin feels the same as him and that he’s finally able to reconcile with his friend. 

What did the OPs expect, for Haru to run away from Rin in that scene because he’s so overwhelmed with emotion? Haru ran after Rin—he was DONE running away from Rin, and with Rin running away from him. This entire episode was about their reconcilement, not them running away from each other yet again. Haru is finally free from the emotional weights of his unresolved conflict with Rin, and what OPs claim to be Haru being “just fine” is in actuality Haru being utterly relieved and happy. Throughout the season, Haru had been wanting to feel free, but it wasn't until he and Rin reconciled that he actually achieved that freedom.Can you really deny the emotion in Haru’s eyes and smile during this scene? I mean, just look at him:

Do you really think KyoAni is going to have Haru be “jUsT fInE” after he finally made things right with the friend who had been haunting him ever since elementary school?

BOTH scenes were emotional for Haru. BOTH scenes were important for Haru, and for his friends involved. BOTH interactions evoked strong emotions within Haru because he loves and cares about BOTH Makoto and Rin.

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Tl;dr: Haru was much more (expressively) emotional in the entirety of ep12—let alone in the confrontation scene with Rin—than he was in the hotel room with Makoto. No one can honestly deny that, it's all over the animation and soundtrack and directing of the entire episode. This isn't a knock to Makoto and doesn't mean Haru cares about him any less than he actually does. However, the entire season was about Haru and Rin reconciling + the power of friendship, so of course their reconcilement would be the climax of the show. In addition, throughout the whole season Haru had such powerful emotions when it came to Rin, so it makes sense that their reconcilement scene would be one of the most, dare I say the most emotional scene in the show. That's not bias, that's just merely how it is.

[stardustizuku]

I’ve been in fandoms ever since I was in seventh or eight grade. I’m kind of a veteran and have seen the shift in how fandoms consume ships in the last few five go six years.

Ship wards have always existed. M/M war ships have been specially prevalent, and that’s understandable to a certain degree.

Back then it was Us/Uk vs Fr/Uk, then came RinHaru Vs MakoHaru. Finding the division was kind of obvious. And if you didn’t like it you simply had to unfollow a bunch of people and follow new ones.

And genuinely thought this was how it would be forever...

Until it wasn’t.

For some reason people started shippers bg just one m/m ship. The “definite one” and while it was okay, I feel like it had a bad impact as a whole on fandoms. They started to believe just ONE could be the Ultimate Ship (tm) and the result was...that when new shows with more than one possibility of ship came up...

As an anti you lose your humanity by harrasing people over fiction, and as a shipper you lose because you can never win against antis.

The war between Sheith and Klance was one I had seen countless of times at the beginning. It happened with free, with hetalia, even black butler. I didn’t think about it much until the word “pedophilia” showed up...

And in that instant I knew it. They were playing dirty.

It happened again in boku no hero and-...

This is not a real war. Not one you win, but one everybody loses.

Back then the argument “I ship this, and it’s better”

Now it is “I don’t ship YOUR ship and yours is horrible”