My body is ready.
Point blank.
Ok, so story time. I have never experienced a point in time where this was as powerful and as obvious as my freshman opening week back in college. They group everyone off and make you talk, people introduce themselves right and left, everyone talks about hobbies, and to me there was just this really cool vibe of, “Yeah, it’s easy to make friends, everyone is cool, yay!”
This quickly went away when I began to notice a disturbing pattern. I’d spend a while talking to someone only to mention something about my boyfriend (who by the way is now my husband) who also was starting at the same university with me. Usually along the lines of, “Yeah, me and my boyfriend both do this medieval fighting reenactment thing, it’s super fun. We’re hoping to start a club here,” because that’s pretty much all I could talk about at that point in my life. Almost immediately the face of the guy I was talking to would go from smiling and friendly to openly hostile, and he’d be like, “You have a boyfriend?” And after I gave any sort of affirmation, the person would instantly walk away and never speak to me again.
I was on a campus where the guy to girl ratio was 5 to 1, so as you might imagine, this happened to me way too fucking much in the span of a week. I was so fucking upset over it I remember sitting in my dorm alone in the evenings trying not to cry, feeling like an idiot and wondering why I wasn’t good enough for people to want to be friends with. A majority of my friends in high school had been guys, so the fact that these guys were solely interested in getting laid rather than making friendships really hurt (not to mention made me question a lot of the friendships with guys I already had). I had never made friends with girls easily (still don’t), and I was originally pretty pumped with the guy to girl ratio just because I much prefer to hang around men, so realizing that none of them would want anything to do with me unless it was for sexual reasons made me incredibly pessimistic about what my friendships would look like for the next four years.
However, there was ONE GUY the whole week who stuck around and stayed my friend. He ended up being good friends with both me and my boyfriend. We hung out all the time, joined the same clubs, went to parties together, etc. At the end of sophomore year, he actually came to visit our hometown (my boyfriend and I grew up in the same town but had attended different schools) and even stayed at my family’s house in the guest room. I was super pumped, because I saw him as a really good friend to both me AND my boyfriend. We were going to have like five whole days to hang out and show him the town, right? Come to find out, the only reason he’d been friends with me the entire time was because he was waiting for me to break up with my boyfriend so he could date me, and when that hadn’t happened after two years he actually got mad at me while I was letting him stay in my fucking house. He spent the rest of his stay telling me what a horrible person I was, how terrible my boyfriend was for me, and making me feel physically uncomfortable in my own home— literally telling me I owed him something for the two years he “put up with me.” To make a long story short, we haven’t spoken now in five years, and I don’t regret that at all.
Like I get it, the friendzone sucks, no one likes rejection. But holy fuck, I would much rather be rejected sexually than be rejected as an entire human being.
Free! -Eternal Summer- Cast Announcement: Rei
For the past few weeks, we’ve been teasing and hinting at the upcoming English dub for Free! -Eternal Summer-, and today we’re excited to finally begin our rollout of the dub cast! Starting today through Sunday, November 16, we’ll be unveiling new characters daily. The announcements hit first on the Free! -Eternal Summer- Tumblr and Facebook page, so make sure you’re following them for the most up-to-date news! Be sure to also sign up for our newsletter to stay current on all things Free! - Eternal Summer - !
(If you’re curious about the status of the Free! season 1 home video release and haven’t heard yet, be sure to check out this blog entry for the full explanation. We currently have no newer updates at this time.)
And now without further ado, our first cast announcement for Free! -Eternal Summer-, everyone’s favorite bespectacled beauty-loving butterfly boy: Rei Ryugazaki!
Rei (played by Daisuke Hirakawa in the Japanese version) is played by J Michael Tatum, known for such roles as Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler, Kyoya Otori from Ouran High School Host Club (another glasses boy!), and France from Hetalia. We know a LOT of you fans guessed that he’d play Rei, so if you got it right, congrats! ( ´ ▽ ` )ノ
Check back tomorrow for our next announcement!AHHHHHHH
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees lord!
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
hello we’re in 2014 and vegeta being an overly enthusiastic good father is still as hilarious a concept as ever
Urbance animated project is now on Kickstarter.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2088672139/urbanceYOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
[on diversity in media] I think its social responsibility. I think it’s our responsibility to stand up and say what we want. It think if you look at television in the past two years, it’s becoming the decade of the female. Like, all these new shows with female leads. Even if you look at television, as well as cable, as well as films, there’s been a resurgence, as far as the leading woman in Hollywood, which is great. And I think we’re also at the point now…you know, it’s interesting…x
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.
