OMG YES!!!!!
Good!!!
black family excellence
This. I love this.
Bless these people, omfg this is so amazing!
don’t worry about what they are doing
worry about what you are doing
you are the sole owner of your achievements
spend less energy comparing your goals to theirs because it will never be a fair comparison
compete with yourself for yourself
The ending of Free! isn’t a shipping competition
Let me repeat that, just so we all start on the same page: the ending of Free! isn’t a shipping competition.
It isn’t about Rin vs. Mako. It isn’t RinHaru vs. MakoHaru. It is Rin and Mako, and also Nagisa and Rei, trying their very best to help a friend — a friend who is hurting, a friend who they love.
I don’t think Rin is stealing away Haru to Australia without the others’ knowledge.
I don’t think that Mako has given up on Haru just because Haru ran away from him.
I think they are all carefully working together for the benefit of Haru. Each of them are trying different things until something clicks. Until something works.
It is like picking up pieces of a broken cup and trying to fix it. It isn’t a quick process. You have to try all the pieces until you find the first one that fits. And when you get one piece in place, then you have to start working on the next piece. You do this piece by piece until the cup is whole again.
I don’t think Haru will magically be fixed in episode 12. Hopefully, it will be a step in the right direction. Hopefully, he can see that Mako wasn’t trying to hurt him in episode 11 and said what he did because he genuinely cares. Hopefully, Rin will be able to share the light that Haru shared with him last season.
As with so much else in this series, fixing Haru is a team effort. It will require Mako, Rin, Nagisa, and Rei. All of them. Remember, Rei and Nagisa gave Haru some of the kindest words and encouragement in episode 11, Makoto let Haru know he was loved, and Rin told him they were going to Australia with a smile. Perhaps while reflecting on things in Australia, a place where Haru is displaced from the bulk of his pain, he can let all those words sink in. Perhaps Mako telling Haru that everyone is doing this because they love him will finally begin to make sense.
Because when you find where one piece of the broken cup fits, the others will fall into place too.
It’s not a competition, it’s a friendship.
how to tell i am comfortable talking to you:
- i say things that make zero sense
- i say the random things that come to mind
- i act like a complete idiot when talking to you
- i use dumb emoticons
1.
I say, ‘I am fat.’
He says ‘No, you are beautiful.’
I wonder why I cannot be both.
He kisses me
hard.
2.
My college theater professor once told me
that despite my talent,
I would never be cast as a romantic lead.
We do plays that involve singing animals
and children with the ability to fly,
but apparently no one
has enough willing suspension of disbelief
to go with anyone loving a fat girl.
I daydream regularly
about fucking my boyfriend vigorously on his front lawn.
3.
On the mornings I do not feel pretty,
while he is still asleep,
I sit on the floor and check the pockets of his skinny jeans for motive,
for a punchline,
for other girls’ phone numbers.
4.
When we hold hands in public,
I wonder if he notices the looks —
like he is handling a parade balloon on a crowded sidewalk;
if he notices that my hands are now made of rope.
5.
Dear Cosmo: Fuck you.
I will not take sex tips from you
on how to please a man you think I do not deserve.
6.
He tells me he loves me with the lights on.
7.
I can cup his hip bone in my hand,
feel his ribs without pressing very hard at all.
He does not believe me when I tell him he is beautiful.
Sometimes I fear the day he does will be the day he leaves.
8.
The cute hipster girl at the coffee shop
assumes we are just friends
and flirts over the counter.
I spend the next two weeks
mentally replacing myself with her
in all of our photographs.
When I admit this to him
we spend the evening taking new photos together.
He will not let me delete a single one of them.
9.
The phrase “Big girls need love too” can die in a fire.
Fucking me does not require an asterisk.
Loving me is not a fetish.
Finding me beautiful is not a novelty.
I am not a fucking novelty.
10.
I say, ‘I am fat.’
He says, ‘No. You are so much more’,
and kisses me
hard.
“
| — | Rachel Wiley (via acynicalcunt) |
