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★mei ([personal profile] meitachi) wrote2013-07-27 02:22 pm

so that swimming anime

Who wants to talk about it? It's glorious and ridiculous and it's tempting me to write again, mostly because I need all the domestic BFF mothering hen/life exception stories about taking care of each other in different ways and being mutually dependent in not unhealthy but not quite healthy ways, and wordless understanding, AND ALSO UST AND OBLIVIOUSNESS.

I ship Makoto/Haruka, if it's not obvious. Yes, it's the dynamic that grabs me (surprise, surprise), but I would take more gratuitous crotch shots and shirtlessness and Rei/Nagisa antics and Gou (Kou!) and Ama-chan spouting nonsensical proverbs. And, whatever, Rin. He can show up and cause jealousy; he is my Sean Parker.

This is really my favorite dynamic. :D



Someone source this thing! I got it from tumblr, of course.

Someone hold my hand, I need guidance through my sea of feelings and need to write.
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[identity profile] forochel.livejournal.com 2013-07-27 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
PURPLE HAIRED HOMEWRECKER HISSSSHISSSS HISSSSS



YAY MEI WRITE FIC WRITE LIKE THE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND i am so excited :'3 :'3 :'3

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I've only just broken 1000 words and I'm absurdly proud lol. i haven't written in so long, Mishy. But the rest of this is going to be so painstaking, ugh. It's so much easier to read fic than write it!

I do approve of your name for Rin though. I only just realized he's voiced by Miyano Mamoru! (Like - Rin is Tamaki and Light? What? Mostly the Tamaki part breaks my brain. Tamakiiii.)
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[identity profile] forochel.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
WHOOOOOO GO YOU MEI!!! don't worry it's anime fandom 1000 words is super long. or ummm the more you write the easier it will come? which is such bullshit looool but it's how it worked in hockey rpf for me!

yeah, Light I can see but ... TAMAKI?

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
oh fond memories of Ouran, one of the few other anime where I preferred it to the manga. <3 So shiny and glorious. Apparently the 5th ep is delayed til past Aug 7 or 8 or some such? TIME TO WRITE. T__T

[identity profile] theafterimages.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I need to catch up on this. I watched the first episode and then never got back to it. >.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It is ridiculous but lots of fun. :D There's only 4 eps and the 5th one won't come out til Aug 7 or 8, so you have some time to catch up now! (I also forgot how short anime eps were lol)

[identity profile] kiku-cha8-8.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
FREE IS SO GOOD. I HAVEN'T BEEN INTERESTED IN ANIME IN FOREVER BUT IT'S SO TONGUE IN CHEEK AND PERFECTLY AWARE OF HOW RIDICULOUS IT IS

srsly how can anyone not love this anime, it has butt clenching in speedos
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[identity profile] forochel.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS IS A+ REASONING


and I fell out of my kitchen chair laughing when this happened, negl

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
oh my god SAME. the gratuitous fanservice is hilarious and I love how it totally lampshades a bunch of ridiculous tropes - like the fact that Haru and Rin were about to race in an abandoned pool with no water hahaha. I was shouting the same thing right before Makoto stopped them, facepalming.

On that note - Makoto. ♥ BUT REALLY, ALL OF THEM ARE GREAT. Except Rin. :( Sorry, Rin. I even like the captain of Samezuka's swim team who has an obvious crush on Gou! Adorable.

[identity profile] sharona1x2.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
If I were going to ship anyone in the show, it would be Makoto/Haruka. They're so adorable together. Makoto is probably my favorite character, so far.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Makoto is just fantastic. :D I'm glad so many people love him. He's probably my favorite so far too!

[identity profile] lady-androgene.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
THOSE PICTURES MAKE ME HAPPY. THIS SHIP MAKES ME HAPPY. THE FACT THAT YOU'RE PLANNING TO WRITE THIS SHIP MAKES ME HAPPY. I AM JUST SO HAPPY YOU, ME AND MISHY SHIP THE SAME THINGS OKAY. YES PLEASE I WANT TO READ MAKOHARU FIC FROM YOUUUU. DO IT DO IT DO IT.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS ANIME MAKES ME HAPPY. :D And that you and Mishy are so many of my other friends are into it, too! And that we all have excellent taste in shipping alksjfdk also Makoto.

hahaha I forgot how hard writing is and how much I hate every word I produce, but I am determined that this fic exist, so dammit, I will suck it up and write it.

[identity profile] intomorning.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
:O What is this swimming anime? I read your entry and clicked on the links and am intrigued!

Also, yay for writing! :D

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-07-29 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
hehehe you can literally just google "the swimming anime" and it will turn up all the relevant results. (The anime is called "Free!" which really...is impossible to search. Which is probably why they appended "Iwatobi Swim Club" to it, but really, "the swimming anime" is still the best bet lol.)

It is pure fanservice and hilariously great. The animation studio made a 30 sec ad a few months back and tumblr went nuts thinking it was a real anime that was going to be made and started assigning nameless characters personalities and ships and it was a huge fuss when it turned out the ad was supposedly all that existed (as an ad for the animation studio). But then the anime was actually made! And so far there's been four eps and it's been super fun. :D So it'd be easy to catch up on!

[identity profile] chaos-harmony.livejournal.com 2013-07-30 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought I had zero interest in this show, and then I saw this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByhP478ZPQI&feature=player_embedded), and NOW I MUST FIND IT, WHERE IS IT.

[identity profile] chaos-harmony.livejournal.com 2013-07-30 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, this is giving me awkward flashbacks to that time Fulbright Korea's orientation program had to share facilities with the (disgustingly attractive) visiting men's swim team from Japan, and how I found this out by colliding with one of them head-on in the water while I was doing my sad sloppy laps at the university pool.

... Well, it was more like his head collided with my boobs, so it's hard to say who got the better end of that introduction.
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[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-08-05 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
ahhhh so are you all caught up yet? :D Only 4 episodes but they were glorious ones.

haha yes that 30 sec ad was the glorious beginning of the rabid fandom and subsequent anime. Because, yes, the fandom totally did come first in this case.

[identity profile] chaos-harmony.livejournal.com 2013-08-05 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
YEP. I watched them all in one insomnia-filled go of a night.

... I still love Makoto best. I want one.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-08-06 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
I think ep 5 comes out this week? I forgot which day of the week it was though, possibly Wednesday.

Makoto is the greatest. I hope the new ep inspires me to write more. Ugh, why did I write them doing karaoke. I question my life decisions.

[identity profile] shadowfireflame.livejournal.com 2013-07-30 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
All right, I have seen all of them and now must wait foreverrr for the next one to come out, and it's sooooooooo good and slashy and I love it. Haruka's clearly the fandom bicycle, and what an attractive one he is. And yesss, domestic BFF mother-hening/taking care of each other, yes please.

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-08-06 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh, soon for the next ep, I think! Which hopefully will inspire me to write more. /o\ I started a fic and then got stuck.

Oh man, I totally thought Haru would be the fandom bicycle, and he's definitely in the two most popular pairings, but weirdly I see a ton of fanart that's Makoto/Haru, Makoto/Rin, Makoto/Rei, Makoto/Gou. Then again, maybe this is because I'm only mostly looking at Makoto stuff, haha.
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[personal profile] kitschful 2013-08-11 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
makoto/haru are the moooost married lskjdflrsjg just watched the fifth ep tonight cry this whole anime

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2013-08-13 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I just watched it last night and alskdgkjf MakoHaru feelings everywhere, yep. All those significant little looks. ♥!!