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Free! | RinHaru | TGCF

[redxblueihateloveyou]

hii!!! i wanted to ask what are you top 5 rinharu scenes? :D

Hello:) Oh hell, this is kinda hard. I guess you mean like from the anime, not like from all the rinharu moments? So I can’t pick like cds and books and etc stuff, right? If so, then I’m gonna say and I don’t know in what order tbh but:

1. The meeting with australian parents. It was just priceless for so many reasons. I can’t even decide what was the sweetest part in all of this. It was just a gift that kept giving xD Firstly, they saw Haru and immediately knew that it was him, cause he’s just the way Rin described him including his beautiful eyes, then we found out that Rin has talked about Haru all the time and how much he adores him, then we found out that Rin asked for them to make Haru mackerel.

Then was just my favorite when Russel asked if Rin has a girlfriend yet, instead of just normally saying no, Rin went “ehhhhhhh... well...mmmm” and they were like “I guess he’s a late bloomer.” and I was like “no, he bloomed just fine, when he was 13 he had a dream where he undressed Haru to suck on his shoulder” lmao

I’m still 100% sure though that Lori knows :D

Also, cause at first Haru just couldn’t believe that Rin wants to include him in such private thing, but then we know how Haru was hurting cause he always wanted to be a part of Rin’s world and he missed this part, so it was so touching how he was trying so hard to catch and understand everything they were saying, and then how he was looking at little Rin’s pictures... I cry, poor baby even forgot to eat.

2. The sakura scene. No matter what happens in Free! nothing will ever beat the most romantic scene on the show. They can unsuccessfully copypaste everything, but a scene like that nobody will ever get.

And this literally looks like a classic kdrama thing where the main couple realise that they love each other and they’re the only one in the world. It’s the classic in a heterosexual romantic animes too.

The last part obviously for the gem, but the whole scene from the very beginning to the very end was the classic scene that everyone has read in fic from that meme where they’re both yelling at each other, but then one screams “BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, YOU MORON!” and the other one is stunned lmao That was basically what happened, but they couldn’t put it that way, but everyone thought about it lol I think there was even a fake subs for that on youtube.

Haru softly smiling and his eyes shining when his crybaby Rin is back with his “I just wanted to swim with you” is just the cutest thing ever. Plus, I love how Rei was so done with them in that scene, this was just a cherry on top haha

3. The bench scene. Starting with Haru dropping his fried mackerel once he heard somebody say “Rin”, then busting into the room and being like “what? is something wrong with my bae?” and emergency calling him in the middle of the night. Like why did they cut after Rin picking up the phone, I wanted to see Rin’s face when he heard Haru saying to him “meet me on the bench in the park” and hanging up xD

Rin’s heartattack when he thought Haru was interested in Gou is just LMAO Haru was looking at him like he was speaking engrish haha

But one of my favorites of course because of the moment when Haru says that Rin was the one who made him want to have a future, a future with him. He was like “YOU MADE ME WANT ALL OF THIS... and NOW YOU’RE GONNA JUST DROP ME, LIKE HELL YOU WILL, YOU.. YOU PRETTY PIECE OF MEAT.. i mean, shit”. I think he himself didn’t expect that he would get so emotional himself. He clearly didn’t even think anything logically through (cause actually it was pretty dumb to think that Rin would’ve suddenly quit now for basically no reason), he was that scared at the mere thought. Imagine that.

And Rin just made it even better when he decided to even the score so Haru wouldn’t be the only one putting his heart out there, he clearly saw that Haru was abashed by this, so Rin went and said that just swimming with him would be enough for him. Do you not get? He just wanted to be with Haru before he leaves, and fuck the party.

And god, Haru was so fucking cute when he said “just that is enough?”. Like “Really? Just me?” Just.. just look at this cupcake.

You’re enough, baby, have you seen the way he looks at you? Did you not get the you’re “the shining” from his essay?

4. Hotel in Australia. First, why nobody talks about the fact that Haru didn’t even want to go and change the rooms, he didn’t even ask for it? And damn, he looked so sad when Rin said that he’s gonna go and ask for another room, I’m dying

The bed talk was pure magic. From the Rin who was like “didn’t I tell you how much I adore you. I know it’s like for the 4th time today, but still". I love how Rin said everything just so so right, that it hurts. How he still remembers the day they met (frozen he held his breath haha). I love how he blushed and smiled so happily when Haru quickly said “me too”. All the Haru’s realization that apparently Rin feels the same way as he did all this time. How Rin said that he even forgot that he lost, cause all the feelings were washed away and he only thought of how amazing Haru is. How he inspires him to move forward and how much easy it all is when he’s there with him and how he wants a future with him, so they could feel like this every day.

I mean he described it all so tempting, that Haru was like “I really want all of that”. And I can tell that he wanted it from the very beginning, he just same as Rin didn’t know it how to formulate all that he feels, but at that moment all the puzzle pieces started to finally come together.

5. Like I’ve already said here. The fence scene holds a special place in my heart for many reasons, Haru’s sass, Rin’s voice, the fact that they absolutely lose control and forget how to breathe and think when they’re this close to each other, but mainly cause it was the moment when it all went down the hill for me.

[hitomikisugi]

[slice-0f-anime]

You know what's crazy?

In The Final Stroke pt 1, Haru saying "you always show up in front of me all full of yourself, drag me into all of these things... and then Rin, in the end, you always just suddenly disappear"

Bitch WHAT. The censorship goes crazy right here omg. Haru just said the censored equivalent of "you always show up, drag me into stuff, and then LEAVE ME" and that's so????

This part of their fight is just so raw because Haru wasn't ready to throw everything away to get better and was fine with that as long as he still could swim with everyone. And then Rin says he's going pro and won't be swimming freestyle, and Haru just absolutely breaks down. Mans is ready to throw everything away because he thinks Rin is going away again.

"suddenly disappear" my ass, Haru is terrified that Rin is leaving him and that he won't get to swim with him again. So much so that he literally falls to his knees and feels like he can't breath.

I rest my case.

[fruit-and-smoke]

Has Rin ever seen Haru cry? The way Haru cries, I mean, curled up in bed or on the floor, silently stifling the pain as much as he can

[pastelnightgale]

The way I could write an essay about my love for RinHaru...

[pisces-core]

[fruit-and-smoke]

Soumako bookshelf 💚

[no-passaran]

Sometimes I wonder if native English speakers appreciate how much more comfortable the internet is for them than for the rest of the world

Like, you can go on tumblr and simply read stuff in your mother tongue? Amazing. Go on youtube and you don’t have to replay some sentences ten times to try to understand what they’re saying? Incredible. Look for practically anything on google and know that there will be a fuckton of results that you can read without having to spend half the time looking up words in a dictionary? Fascinating. Make a post or send an ask without panicking that you’ll make a silly mistake or that they won’t understand what you meant? Unbelievable.

[no-passaran]

@dovalayn I did. I’ve studied English for about 10 years and I have the official diploma for the C2 level (the maximum for a non-native speaker) given by the University of Cambridge.

But it’s still my 3rd language and there will be always things that escape me, mainly the slang. Always. Because you know you are always less than the majority. And it’s tiring.

That’s all I’m saying. It would be nice for once to not have to make the effort. And effort is something that no matter how many years of English class I take will always be there.

But not everyone can do that. Some people can’t afford private English academies or are bad at languages, and they should still be able to exist online as well. Why are you so bothered by people not speaking English perfectly? Or by people posting on the internet in other languages??

Since you think my English isn’t good enough, I’d like to see how you do in your 3rd language, and if you don’t get tired after a while 🤷‍♀️

[gringoslur]

@dasakuryo

[dasakuryo]

I hope @no-passaran doesn’t mind me going on a sort of tangent here, but the fact English is a lingua franca is, like it or not, permeated by features of linguistic imperialism.

Native English speakers are used to having the world, and by extension all non native speakers, accommodate to their language. If someone doesn’t know English then said person is uneducated, isn’t wordly, is not qualified enough. If a person doesn’t pronounce English like a native, they’re pronouncing it wrong. Tourists are expected to speak perfect English and be proficient in it to avoid any inconvenience to native English speakers when travelling abroad to English speaking countries (USA and UK particularly, yet interestingly enough we are demanded to speak in English when these people visit our countries). These are all mindsets and situations that exist and are part of the broader context, in which English does operate on linguistic imperialism grounds on a global scale; I’m going to quote Phillipson really quickly:

Linguicism: the ideologies and structures which are used to legitimate, effectuate and reproduce an unequal division of power and resources (both material and non-material) between groups which are defined on the basis of their language (i.e., of their mother tongue). This condition is best seen within the broader context of linguistic imperialism - an essential constituent of imperialism as a global phenomenon involving structural relations between rich and poor countries in a world characterized by inequality and injustice.

Language expansion is considered an essential part of a core country’s policy of extending its power and influence in order to achieve its imperialistic strategies. Phillipson holds that the legitimization of English linguistic expansion has been based on two notions: ethnocentricity and educational policy, with ‘ethnocentricity’ being the “practice of judging other cultures by standards of it own.” These two practices have been used to impose a distinction between languages. It has also been a way to promote the notion of the assumed inferiority of secondary languages with respect to the norms determined by the dominant culture.

Phillipson takes this notion one step further with ethnocentricity transformed into that of ‘anglocentricity’ with the consequence that the dominance of English is justified in terms of such oppositions as superiority/inferiority, civilization/backwardness, progress/regress, the first element of which is constantly attributed to the dominant English language.

According to Phillipson education serves the imperial center by having three functions: ideological, economic and repressive. The ideological function serves as a channel for transmitting social and cultural values. In this role English is regarded as a “gateway for better communication, better education and higher standards of living.” The second function – economic – legitimizes English as a means of qualifying people to contribute to their nation and operate technology that the language provides access to. The third function – repression – serves to dominate languages.

Linguistic imperialism calls attention to the potential consequences of English teaching worldwide when center country ideologies are embedded in instruction, having the effect of legitimizing colonial or establishment power and resources, and of “reconstituting cultural inequalities between English and other languages.”

[Cited and paraphrased from

-Phillipson, R. 1992. Linguistic Imperialism. Oxford. Oxford University Press. -Phillipson, R. 1988. Linguicism: structures and ideologies in linguistic imperialism. In J. Cummins and T. Skutnabb-Kangas (eds.), Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle. Avon: Multilingual Matters.]

It’s… interesting, for the lack of a better word, how non native English speakers must even accommodate to native English speakers, when in actuality non native English speakers far surpass natives by several millions and, if anything, it should be them who ought to change, not us.

English becomes our second/third/etc language, we use it with several degrees of proficiency, being affected all the time by our L1, or all the other languages that we might know, we are constantly building on our current interlanguage and gaining a better grasp on how to operate with English. When we talk or chat with other NNE speakers with whom we don’t share a language, we make ourselves understood, we manage to sort any misgiving in communication, if we make a mistake we re-phrase, re-arrange, express things in another way. We are communicating, we still get our messages across despite some slips of the tongue, little mistakes or even a few errors here and there.

We are able to engage, through the use of English, in cross-cultural exchanges, in cross-linguistic exchanges that are allowed by using English as a lingua franca. We are making the language ours, we’re reclaiming the language that for so long was used to shush us down and we’re using it as an asset, we’re using it as a weapon, we’re using it so our voices cannot be silenced any more.

Our messages do get across, they can be understood. When native English speakers claim our Englishes aren’t clear, or we aren’t making any sense, they are really not making the extra effort. In short, many are uncapable of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural exchanges and communication. It’s easier to say we don’t make sense, and by extension snuffing us out, than paying attention to what we are saying.

And we don’t only have to defend our languages and our cultures in a globalised world (in which the normalised culture is that of the center), but we also have to use English as a tool for doing it.

And we should be allowed to express ourselves, exist online without having to constantly accommodate to native English speakers. Because no matter how good our English is, how proficient we are, someone is always going to argue we aren’t good enough, that we aren’t trying hard enough.

[hellxatt]

when i’m almost being converted to makoharu but then i remember the official art of rin biting haru’s shoulder

[story-kat]

Art by Rotta

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[whensharkinlovewithdolphin]

Rinharu domestic fluff makes me swoon 💙❤️

[tomakehimfree]

comfy cuddle session

[whensharkinlovewithdolphin]

“Kiss me on the mouth and set me free. But please don’t bite.“ — Bite, Troye Sivan

Somehow I find this lyrics strangely matching this art.

How they’re about to kiss. How Haru always wants free. How Rin’s sharp teeth could bite and leave marks on his neck and shoulders.

[mrmnn]

let’s do some weird stuff

[sadisticssre]

Maybe my home will be found there..

[bishie-chan]

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[lexazqqc]

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[ichorknight]

felt like doing one of these

[ichorknight]

rinharu warriors i am nosy and i want your take. we all know rinharu is endgame but since we’re almost certainly never going to see it onscreen, decide when you think it most likely happened (ages after athens are guesses)

offscreen during the final stroke part 2 (18 & 19)

immediately following the final stroke part 2 (19 & 20)

during haru’s rehab year following the final stroke part 2 (19 & 20)

athens tournament (20 & 21)

olympic career following athens tournament (24 & 25)

near or during retirement from olympics (34 & 35)

post retirement from olympics (35+)

Voting ended onMar 8

[fruit-and-smoke]

I voted, but I didn't justify my answer, so here we go.

Their relationship is stable at the end of FS2, but I don't think it's long enough given their history.

They would both become especially protective of that connection and make sure to keep it free from chaos as much as possible, but life goes on, things change, and at some point, they won't just be young men with an ambitious dream anymore.

There will be many more things to think about: contracts, bills, a home, a partner?, children?, retirement?.

"Do I want to push my body to the limit, or do I want to save it for what's to come?"

They'll meet many more people throughout their lives; they'll start receiving wedding invitations.

"A friend already announced that next year will be his last season" "Who was it? Albert?, Kinjou?, Natsuya?"

"Isn't it too soon?" "Is it too late?"

And everything would be shaken up again because they'll want to be together, but the demands will widen the gap between them.

What will happen when they have to leave the water? Who will Haru be if he doesn't swim? Who would Rin be without a dream?

"What are we if I want to be with you for the rest of our lives? What do we have to do to make that happen? What will happen if we don't make it happen?"

And then it would happen, with certainty and without fear. It wouldn't be conventional, it wouldn't be what's expected of them, but it would be what they want for themselves.

All this to say that I chose option 5, but it could easily include option 6 as well if you want.

Don't get me wrong, they would start f*cking after the Olympics, okay?