#rinharu cosplay

[declawedwildcat]

It is complete! 🏴‍☠️ Now that all chapters of We Sail Together are out, here are the design sketches for how I picture Rin and Haru looking in both eras. (You can open the pics in a new tab for an even closer overly-detailed view)

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[museaway]

Happy 10th anniversary to my beloved Free! fandom. When I was struck down by a fever in late 2017 and decided to watch the anime, I had no idea the ways the fandom would influence me. So since @rinharumemories is a memory event, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to finally write a love letter to the fandom! 💙❤️ 

(Adapted from this twitter thread!)

After my fever-inspired crash-course, Free! fell out of my head for a while, but Rin never did. The following year, I watched a cosplay tutorial for him on YouTube and decided to watch Take Your Marks. I saw The Bench Scene. Suddenly I had an OTP!

My first-ever rinharu friend, Rubi, encouraged me to write fic and kindly beta read for me! I was neck-deep in anxiety at the time because of another fandom and Free! was refreshing. My anxiety was so bad that she actually screened the comments on that first fic to make sure I could read them without spiraling.

I found more shippers & joined the Sakura Pool discord, where I would meet my dear SweetHeaven! Su & the other friends I made there helped shape @ficwip's early days as a hashtag game, and (along w/friends from SPN & VLD) were some of our discord's initial members.

When I was designing the ficwip discord, Aenya was kind enough to share tips for role-based channel permissions & let me pick her brain about modding a year-round space! Her advice was invaluable, an absolute lifesaver. 🙏🙏🙏 

Around this time, through the original #ficwip game on Twitter, I met fellow writer @matsuoka-lin and we got to be friends. (During the pandemic, Lin would join the ficwip server and we would recognize our Aquarius bond ♒)

Late into 2018, I was still writing rinharu fic, and I also participated in Inktober, with a good number of the images being rinharu themed. It had been years since I’d drawn, but those two brought it out of me. Sadly, that December, the VLD finale hit during my very first @rinharuweek and launched me back into the VLD fandom for a couple of years. I never finished my RHW '18 entry. But I never forgot Free! or rinharu, and definitely not Rin, who was my profile pic more often than not. 

Flash forward to 2021. Su won a fic giveaway & prompted me to write a rinharu amnesia fic. I worked on it across 11 months. That awoke my muses, and I ended up writing rinharu hanahaki for @ficwip's 5k!

Last August, I was days away from announcing a fandom-wide SPN event when I recalled my dream of a rinharu bang and mentioned it in passing to Lin. We talked for eight hours straight. By the end of the conversation, @thenightpool had been born. 

We started TNP with the humble goal of five participants in our first event, a mermaid-themed fic & art fest. We had months to prepare! Then something happened with FS2 and we scrambled to launch a Halloween fest that we pulled off thanks to incredible contributors. They formed the foundation of the TNP discord, which is set up a lot like ficwip’s to be a year-round little creative community. We’ll actually be launching our own version of fw’s writing retreat weekends later this month! 

The merfest, which got renamed Unleashed Blue, blew past our expectations — as did Sakurathon, a dormant event that we revived for a weekend in April. UB ended up with 52 entries; we’d hoped for maybe 15. Sakurathon was such a success that we rescheduled it immediately. Right now, we have a prompt meme running, and have events scheduled through 2024! 😅 

In addition to @thenightpool, we’ve formed @iwatobievents to promote events across the Free! fandom. And we’re running events there too, for Nagisa and Soumako. Because what is sleep!! 

So the TL;DR is that the rinharu fandom helped give @ficwip life, has inspired me as a writer and artist, led me to my best and dearest friends, and will make a big dream come true later this year: I’ll finally be running a rinharu bang! 💙❤️

And I still have a Rin Matsuoka icon.

(eta: I did, up until the day I posted this. It may temporarily be changed to another favorite character!)

[thenightpool]

You're invited to a weekend of Halloween-themed rinharu shenanigans. One month is a quick turnaround time, we know, but we got excited about the upcoming bluray release date and thought we'd throw a party.

what can I make?

anything with rinharu + a Halloween or fall/autumn theme! Zombies, vampires, ghouls & ghosts, mummies, haunted houses, fall/autumn motifs, pumpkins, witches/wizards/magic, werewolves, masquerade, abandoned pools, trick-or-treat, dares, costume parties, body swap . . .

any type of fanwork: fic, art, gifsets, edits, poetry, recipes, cosplay, AMVs, fanmixes, etc.

make something new, or share a previously published work that fits the theme!

no minimums and no content restrictions

posting

share your work any time from October 28th - October 31st

add it to our masterlist

use #rinandharushalloweenparty on Twitter & tag us @thenightpool here on tumblr

Sign ups will remain open through the end of the event! You can join us at any time. There are absolutely no penalties if you can't finish. Please sign up whether you are planning to create something new OR share something you've already made!

rsvp for the party!

[staishblackrose]

✨Gold Evolution ✨

Rin  Haru

[rynthaecosplay]

A few pictures from Coeur d’con this summer! It was a blast--even though it was a pretty small convention (one day, in a library) it was a ton of fun and there were a lot of people and fun activities going on, and the lake was right there--it was a hot summer day and my friends and I ended up jumping into the lake in our cosplays. After all, what better to do when cosplaying swimmers than swim? :p I'm Nagisa @sometimes-lucas​ is Rei Haru is Spork Cosplay (on Instagram and FB) and Makoto is killucos on Instagram

[pinkheart623]

[sadlittlepotatobean]

Hear my prayers

I want more Rin/Haruka content please

I wanna see cosplays, fanart, TTs, AMVs, CMVs, Skits, the who sha-bang please Tumblr answer my call

[antheriium]

HEY GUYS!

I have an ETSY as my main income right now!

I sell character letters (yes I do requests as well from books, video games, movies, anime) and such! Just choose the request if there isn’t a character you see!

I also sell cosplay Polaroids and each letter comes with a print!

[gxshiikii]

god the things i would give to date someone and cosplay our favorite ships and make fun videos and take cute pictures and the serotonin omfg

[cosplay-v]

Rinharu Week ～ Day 6: Change

Pokemon AU and a special note for Long-distance relationship

Akira & Leia

Nanase Haruka (Vaporeon) & Matsuoka Rin (Flareon)

As you may know, I’m living overseas rightnow, but during a breif time we could meet again and take some pictures for this event. It had been exactly how the promtp suggested. I’m glad to have that chance, which wasn’t expected nor planned, but still a nice one. We could do a lot of things we used to do, laugh, chat and of course this. I missed it.

It was a breathe of relief and to feel like I had a place to come back at. Not only with Leia, but with everyone else I had the chance to see.

I always saw this trope as something both lovely and heartbreaking, and it is. I had the chance to understand a little bit more, and living it is... beyond my expectations. I love being here just as I also love being there.

[sakurathon]

It's almost here! Join us for Sakurathon 2023, a weekend event celebrating all things rinharu + cherry blossoms 🌸

Sakurathon kicks off Saturday, April 29th when the clock strikes 00:01 AM in Japan (still Friday for a lot of us!) and will run all weekend.

Everything 🌸 cherry blossom-themed 🌸 goes

All types of rinharu fanworks are welcome: fic, art, graphics, mixes, cosplay, photography—even cookies!

Make & submit as many things as you like

New works only, please

We gently discourage upsetting/heavy themes (see FAQs)

Relaxed open posting all event weekend!

No sign-up needed to participate

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rules + faqs 🌸 how to post

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If you're over 18, you can pledge to make something and join us on @thenightpool discord! We'll remind you when the event begins.

[gurigou]

I hope you like our duo!

[rinharuweek]

It’s because of you

Day 8- Hope

Prompt-Road to the Future

This photo was taken at the famous bench in Iwami. We recreated the scene in Free! Take Your Marks where Haru calls Rin to meet him at this bench because he was worried thinking Rin was going to give up swimming again. I actually cried at this scene because it shows how much Haru cares about their dream, that it’s because of Rin he was able to continue forward. I was also amazed that Haru was the one to call Rin.

Nanase Haruka: Tori (Me)

Matsuoka Rin: Lessa

Photog: Mars

[staishblackrose]

“Closer...”

Inspired by this cute art  by the very talented @tomakehimfree. Your works are gorgeous *___* 

[i-am-the-hero-alfred-jones]

I’m a dumbass!

I made three cosplay askblogs the other day. . . 

AND FORGOT TO OPEN THE ASK BOX ON TWO OF THEM!!!!!

The ask boxes are open now. Please send me some asks while I regret my life’s choices. I’m planning to get into cosplay this weekend. 

@rei-ryugazaki-askblog

@ask-sharkboy-rin-matsuoka

@ask-the-water-lover-haru

[neizcosplay]

"The destined pair“ Rin x Haru 💙🐬🦈❤️ One of my favorite couple!