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#qinni #qinniart

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I FEEL SO INCREDIBLY LUCKY!!!!!!!!! 😍 i got a shoutout from veiled asmr, an asmr creator of whom i've been a fan (fangirl?) for several months. 😍😍😍 but it wasn't actually "luck"...

i got the shoutout by going to this website called favv.co. i cannot believe such a wonderful website exists at all. how is it possible??!!?? 😳 i truly can't believe it!!! the website gives you a way to get a video shoutout from korean social media celebs. so that's what happened here. i asked veiled if he could give me some motivation because i am trying to create a comic. i'm a writer who is working with an artist to make a comic. but i've never made a comic before. it's difficult for me. making comics is my biggest goal/dream, but it sometimes feels like it's never going to happen. the comic i'm making now is not yet ready for the public to read, and it won't be ready for a long time. since this is my biggest dream, i'm constantly sad that i haven't been able to make it happen yet. 🙁

but a little bit of motivation goes a long way. i am sincerely grateful to veiled for giving me a motivational comment. i actually got the video yesterday, but i didn't watch it until today. i was too nervous to watch it at first. i finally gathered the courage to watch it. he started out by apologizing for being late. you know what? I DON'T CARE!!!! i am not mad one bit!! i'm so happy to have this video. 😊  then, he said my job was awesome!! yes it it is. i agree. being a comic creator IS awesome, which is why i really want to do it for a long time! 😄 and he said "i'm proud of you!" that meant so much to me. i appreciate that, with all my heart. i am overjoyed that he said that.

he said that he doesn't speak english well. it's okay. guess what? i'm an ESL (english as a second language) teacher! (yes, i know how to use proper grammar when i want to. lol) i am used to listening to people talk who have a lower english skill level than he does. he also said "i'm watching you." uh-oh. i definitely can't give up now... i have to succeed... i have no choice! haha. 😂

and... at the end, he did a combination of a kiss and a peace sign??????? 😳 it was the cutest thing ever. that was so sweet!! i'm dying!! *falls to the floor*

thank you a MILLION times to veiled for making this video. i can't believe it. it doesn't feel like it's real. 😖 i feel shy when i'm watching it, as if he can somehow see me. 😫 hahahahahahaha. anyway, you should go follow him on youtube and instagram. his youtube channels are "Veiled ASMR SJ" and "Veiled 승주", and his instagram usernames are veiled.asmr and seungjuuuuuuu. 

#veiled asmr #veiledasmr #me #I'M DYINGGGGGGG

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hey... i wanted to spread the word about this kickstarter project that needs more funding!! it’s a documentary about japanese manga creators!! please click the link to learn more. it’s so interesting to me... i really want this documentary to be created because my dream is to write manga. (working on it now...) if this gets funded, more people would be able to learn about the lives and struggles of manga creators, and that is important, in my opinion!!

#manga #comics #mangaka #manga art #japan #crowdfunding #kickstarter

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handy tip 🌱

there’s a new error with themes going around, if you’re trying to save your theme and it’s saying some shit about referencing non-https URLs, how you can fix it is

go into the html code for your theme 

press control H to bring up the search box, and type ‘static’. 

look for any urls that begin like  ‘http://static.tumblr.com

simply change the ‘http’ to ‘https’ 

you shouldn’t need to do it for urls that dont include the ‘static’ part, but if it still doesn’t work you can try replacing all instances of ‘http’ with ‘https’

theme should save~

pls reblog to signal boost c:

#this post saved me!! #trying to make a new blog!! #more info later...

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$2 MILLION REACHED!!!!!! the news of the kyoani arson attack affected me in a deep way, and it's been difficult for me to figure out how to recover emotionally. i still haven't recovered. but this campaign is the one thing that makes me feel slightly better. (slightly) almost 60,000 people from around the world showed their love and support for kyoani by donating money, and the total had gotten to 1 million in less than 24 hours. i think it was sometime in the middle of the night when i was asleep that it crossed $2 million. it hasn't even been a week. this studio really is special. their animations touched people's hearts, including mine. giving back is the least i could do after they gave so much to me.

#kyoani #kyoto animation #anime #prayforkyoani #helpkyoaniheal #kyoanistrong

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i made a post about helping kyoani after the horrific attack, and seakittens pointed out another way to help out:

If people want to support KyoAni, they should buy digital goods, not give to an unofficial gfm. https://twitter.com/zetsubouzhainu/status/1151765219976368129?s=19

i looked at the tweet and i can see why it’s a good idea to buy digital goods, but i also think the gofundme is a good idea. i have had a past experience with gofundme where i donated money to something that turned out to be a scam, and they gave me my money back without me having to ask or do anything. you sent me this message many hours ago, so by now, this campaign from sentai filmworks has dramatically increased its success. the campaign has received 1.2 million dollars in less than one day, which is absolutely huge!!! and sentai posted an update that said they are partnering with gofundme. if you think about it, gofundme doesn’t want a million dollar scam being run on their platform. that would damage their reputation. so i’m sure they are watching this campaign closely to make sure the money will go where it needs to go.

EDIT: i just saw that gofundme has tweeted about this campaign and made it the pinned post at the top of their twitter!! awesome! so yeah, they are endorsing this, which means they will want to keep a close watch to make sure the money is being used responsibly.

#seakittens #kyoani #kyoto animation

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hi, everyone. i wanted to let you all know, in case you haven't heard yet, what happened to kyoto animation/ kyoani. it's disturbing.

someone set fire to the kyoani building, and multiple people were killed, and multiple people were injured. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190718_32/

there is a fundraiser set up by sentai filmworks, so please go here and give what you can, and share, as well!!! https://www.gofundme.com/help-kyoani-heal let's all show our support for kyoani. we can show how much we care.

honestly, i've been crying about this. i was beyond devastated when i learned about what happened. i can barely believe it. it feels like a nightmare. kyoani is known for their beautiful art and animation, and i have also heard that they treated their employees well. i don't take for granted when people work hard to create a show i like, and kyoani happens to have created my #1 favorite anime that i have ever, ever seen, and that's "free!". if you have been following this blog for a long time, YOU KNOW how much i love free!. i remember the "swimming anime commercial." i remember learning that it would be a real anime. i remember the way i felt when i watched the first episode. when i watched the first episode, i was ecstatic. i was afraid to watch the next episode because i didn't think i would love the rest of this series as much as i loved that first episode... but i did!! i got heavily involved in the fandom, i created a sideblog about my favorite ship, and i excitedly followed along with the series. there is a whole lot more i could say, but basically, the show brought me so, so, SO much happiness!!!!! and not only that, but it gave me inspiration for story ideas of my own. these days, i'm very busy and don't have time to be super involved with the fandom like i used to. but regardless, i am incredibly grateful that free! exists, and i am grateful for every person who did their part to work hard and create this anime.

kyoani created my favorite anime, and they created many other anime as well. kyoani has brought happiness to people around the world who love the anime they have created. this is why kyoani is so important. so when i found out that someone attacked the studio and killed people, i couldn't process it. i can't understand. i will never understand why someone would feel a desire to attack kyoani, which has delighted and inspired countless people around the world. i'm someone who is trying to create my own manga, my own stories, my own characters. this is my dream. my dream is to create fiction, but there are some times when i am reminded that the fictional worlds we create aren't real and there is a real world that is extremely painful. i hate being reminded of this real world. it makes me question my dream. it feels pointless. i feel like, what's the point of me controlling my fictional world when i can't control the real world? i have to remind myself that fiction is still important. it's hard right now, but i am trying to convince myself that i should keep trying to create my fictional world. if you have been inspired by kyoani to draw, write, voice act, or anything else, i hope you will stay inspired and don't let yourself become depressed about what's happened. although, i am telling myself that as much as i am telling you.

#kyoto animation #kyoani #anime #animation #japan #me

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IMPORTANT Easter message

(If you don’t have time to read my looooooong post, please watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbrsAF2_BOk and you will get the same message! Not that I made the video... but I really like it.)

Hello! (YES, I'M USING CAPITALIZATION WOW LOL.) I hope you all had a happy Easter. I did!! I spent the day doing things with my family (which is why I didn't write this post earlier). But I had been planning to write an Easter message, so here it is, finally. Actually, I wasn't completely happy this Easter. Yes, I liked going to church and doing things with family. But I was also incredibly sad because of the Sri Lanka terror attacks, which killed churchgoers and other people. A huge number of people died. I don't want to check the latest number right now. The point is, I had been planning to write an Easter message that was cheerful and uplifting. Now, I can't. Yet, this holiday is so important that I have to say SOMETHING. So I am in a weird position where I feel a need to talk about this holiday that's supposed to be happy, but I am not coming from a place of happiness. I am not sure what to say right now. I'm making this up as I go along.

The deaths of all those people in Sri Lanka reminded me that everyone's time on earth will end eventually and there is something more after that. I know you might not believe it. If not, I hope you will think about it some more. I wanted to tell you, you were created. There is a Creator out there. God created the universe and everything in it. When He first created everything, it was perfect!! Humans, animals, plants mountains, rivers... everything was wonderful. Then, the first humans, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God because they decided that they cared about themselves more than they cared about God. That's when everything went wrong. The world is messed up today in so many ways, because of Adam and Eve's sin. However, we are no better than Adam and Eve. We all have done bad things we shouldn't have done. We aren't perfect. Adam and Eve sinned, and so did you. Don't even bother telling me about how some people have sinned more than you have. You are responsible for your own actions, so you have to admit that you have done wrong, instead of only thinking about how someone else is worse than you are.

If you're wondering why this terror attack in Sri Lanka happened, like how there could be something so horrible in the world, it's because of human beings' sins that messed up everything and caused the world to have a variety of horrific problems. Even after we die, we can't just decide on our own that we are going to be with our creator, God. We don't deserve to be with Him. He is holy and perfect, unlike us. Who are we to claim that we deserve to be in Heaven with Him? We just don't have a right to declare that. It doesn't make sense.

There's only one way out of this. Someone holy and perfect had to take the punishment we deserved for our sins. God made a way. He sent His son, Jesus, to live on earth as a human. Jesus is actually a form of God/ a part of God/ someone who has the qualities/attributes of God. So that's how He became the only human ever to go through life without sinning. He never did anything wrong. He went around and performed miracles and taught people many things. He told everyone that He was the son of God! And that made people angry, and he was arrested, and tortured, and then killed on a cross. He had the power to escape. He could do anything He wanted. He's God, after all. He willingly let himself suffer and die when he could have avoided it. He didn't deserve any of this. It's not fair. He did this for YOU.

Three days later, He rose from the dead. He appeared to many people, and you can read about it in the Bible... it's fascinating!! But the point is, Jesus is more powerful than death. The entire concept of death is something that's below Jesus. Death has been defeated by Jesus. He is risen indeed!! He is in Heaven, with God, alive and well, still as all-powerful as ever.

I am really upset about the terror attacks. I'm not happy and cheerful right now. I'm just not. But I still wanted to get this message out to you. Even though I feel so negatively right now, I need to tell you what I know is true, and these are good things. You are important. You are special. You are unique. You were created by God. You're not an accident. Your life is worth living. You were created for a purpose. You were created in God's image. God loves you so much. He sent His son to die and take the punishment you deserve. He loves you despite the sins you've committed. He has forgiven you. He wants you to be with him forever. You don't have to earn salvation. It's a gift, given to you out of love. All you have to do is A, B, C. Admit to God that you are a sinner who needs forgiveness. Believe that Jesus is the son of God, a perfect person who came to earth, died on a cross, and defeated death by coming back to life three days later, and He did this to take on the punishment for all of humanity's sins. Call on Jesus to save you. You will be saved from eternal separation from God (hell) and you will also be saved from your own sinful nature. What I mean is, okay, you will still inevitably sin sometimes even after you accept Jesus as your savior... but much less than before. With God's help, you will make better choices. You will make a positive impact in the world, because you are now aligning yourself with the creator, God, living out His will, following His teachings. And He is so much smarter and wiser that you, so much holier than you, so much more powerful than you, so much more loving than you. Following Him is worth it! Or else I wouldn't be sitting here writing all this stuff, trying to tell you all of this. I really needed to tell you all about what Easter means to me. I spent so long writing this that midnight passed and it's now the day after Easter... whatever. It's so important, I had to say it. And I hope that I was able to make you a little more happy/uplifted even though these terror attacks have happened. I wanted you to know that as painfully bad as the world is sometimes, there are still good things in the world, and I just told you about the very best thing.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:16 and 17. Please remember these verses!!! https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+3&version=NIV

Bible Gateway, which I just linked to, is a website that has the entire Bible for free. It's full of tons of resources so that you can learn more about Christianity. Here is their blog post for Easter, where they explain the importance of Easter: https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2019/04/he-is-risen-indeed/

The Story is a short animated video that shows you the same things I was just talking about. I know that I am too wordy, so maybe you'd like to watch a video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gfIvN9zv4

The Story Maker is the children's version. It's still good for people of all ages, though. I like it even more than the regular version oops If you watch both videos, you get the same information given to you in two different ways, so you will understand it better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbrsAF2_BOk

I'm done!!! Thanks for reading. If you have questions about Christianity, you can message me. Also, you should pray... praying can be done at any time. You can do it out loud or silently. Praying is talking to God. The A, B, C thing I mentioned before is done through praying. You should pray and tell God about how you feel, and ask Him for help and guidance. He is listening!!

#easter #happy easter #christianity #jesus #god #bible

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hey everyone... pillowfort is a new website, not fully developed yet, that might provide a useful alternative to tumblr. i just signed up. my account is here: https://www.pillowfort.io/sachiprecious but there’s nothing on my account yet lol. but the point is, i know i haven’t been active on tumblr lately. and when they changed the rules regarding adult content, i think that was a big mistake and had a negative effect on this site. so i don’t know if i’m going to make a big effort to be more active on tumblr. i might, i might not. maybe i will come back to this site and do more things. i might post once in a while. but i will say, the site i am currently most active on is twitter: https://twitter.com/sachiprecious 

Registrations

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Note that if we receive a high number of registrations within a short time frame we may have to close again temporarily– we’ll let you know if that happens, and work to get registrations reopened again soon.

#tumblr #pillowfort #pillowfort.io

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Hi please help me to not live with my rapist I’m going to break.

This is me going to be explaining everything that happened to me in detail about the subject mentioned above. It’s just me ranting and letting it all out so just ignore this you don’t have to read it. But If you wanna help hear me out. Warning it may get p graphic. Ok so. My rapist is a family member of mine. A sibling. He’s been making me do sexual acts since I was 5 (+ some other people.). At first he was just molesting me. Then he started raping me. He did it with himself then painful objects around the house. Hell he did it in front of my parents and they never noticed. He forced me to suck him off and other disgusting things like that. It was happening for years. As I grew up I started to be able to defend myself, but he didn’t stop trying. Trying to manipulate me and touch me in any way he could. I was so disgusted and ashamed. I never wanted to tell anyone about it. My parents found out this year. Because a psychiatrist manipulated me to tell her about it and since I was 17 (it didn’t matter I’d be an adult in 2 months to her) she reported it to the police. She wrote them 1 single sentence and put me in danger. The police just came to our front door and gave them a piece of paper requesting my presence with my mom. With that one sentence abt it. He could’ve hurt me. What if my parents weren’t home? What if they didn’t believe me? I had to explain to them suddenly all the horrible things that have been happening to me when I’ve never properly talked about it to anyone. Can you imagine how scary and uncomfortable and how horrible that situation was for me? Of course that thing denied everything and we went to the police. They did nothing. Then social services got involved. They did nothing. Okay. My mom and other family members say they’ll figure it out. I’m still stuck here. My parent’s won’t kick him out and expect me to keep living here and be patient because he’s “their son.”. They even said if it was anyone else they’d kill him. Like. Thanks. And now I’m here still. Stuck in this god damn house. With that god damn thing right next door. The walls are thin too so I can actually hear his disgusting voice right now laughing and talking to his friends. While I here suffer and cry and deal with all the shit I had to and still have to go through. I’m tired. I wish I didn’t want to live so badly so I could just end it all. I can’t do that though. I want to live. I want to be happy and comfortable and safe. This isn’t the whole story but the basic important things are here. Nobody can help me. Except you. If you have just 3 dollars to spare you can buy me 1 ko-fi. ( https://www.ko-fi.com/cutiepatoodieart ). How it works is you buy me a ko-fi which is 3 dollars (you can buy more if you want) and I get those 3 dollars. If all of my followers gave me just 1 dollar I’d be able to move out and live well. So I’m begging you again to help me. Because I just can’t do it anymore. But I realize this is a lot to ask and you don’t have any obligation to do so. But if you are in a position to help someone please do. There are so many other people who need help. Give to charities,help people you know,etc. Just please be kind. I wish I didn’t have to ask for money like this. I’d rather work for it but I’m not able to right now because of my disability and illnesses. I don’t know if anyone even read this but if you did thank you for listening to me. I never talked about it like this. I just have to let it all out and sadly ask for help because my own family doesn’t want to even though they easily can.

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#omg #hahahahaha #lol #90s #nostalgia #i remember it all!!!

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THIS IS GORGEOUS OMG <3333333

oh, it’s been a loooong time since i was here!  let’s fix it with a Midnight Cinderella commission for felischia

#artwork by others

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free! dive to the future episode 12 liveblog/review thing

*loud sigh*

i am DREADING watching this episode. one reason is that i don't know if this is the end... the end, forever??? i don't know!!! i really hope not!! ;__; the other reason is that because this is the season finale, i know it's going to be emotional!!! there's no way a free! season finale will not be emotional. the other two were. XD

but i have to watch the episode. as much as i am terrified to watch it... i must. i've got to do it. >__<UUU

so here we go!!!!!

please read my previous liveblogs as well. i've been reacting to everything this season!  (episode 1) (episode 2) (episode 3) (episode 4) (episode 5) (episode 6) (episode 7) (episode 8) (episode 9)  (episode 10) (episode 11) and THANK YOU VERY MUCH to anyone who reads my liveblogs. thank you for taking the time to read them!!!! <33333

watch ep 12 officially on crunchyroll: http://www.crunchyroll.com/free-iwatobi-swim-club/episode-12-dive-to-the-future-775643

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the episode starts out with some BEAUTIFUL animation!!!

i think it's so cute that haru was fascinated by water ever since he was little.

yesssss i was waiting for that shot of little haru smiling!!! i already posted that screenshot here on my blog. XD if that doesn't absolutely melt your heart, then... you have no heart!

makoto cooking??? THAT'S SO ADORABLE <3

i would be happy to eat burnt toast if makoto made it. <33333

;___; omg omg omg that is so sad. he didn't help his friend. so i bet that is a major source of guilt for him. and, i wonder if that's some kind of foreshadowing...??? maybe haru and/or rin will be forced to make some kind of difficult choice between swimming and something else. i'm not saying that'll happen in this episode but maybe in the future (well, that's assuming there is another season)

hahaha, the muscle lovers have brainwashed ayumu!!! XD

yaaaaaay i am actually seeing ikuya and hiyori again!!!! i love them! ^__^

rin's surprised face at seeing natsuya again hahahaha

"you're late haru... just like me lol" -rin

"it's been so lon--" SLAP. what a warm welcome???

i feel like there should have been a theme song by now...

ikuya and natsuya about to race each other while remembering all those memories ;__; this episode is so emotional already lol.

*very dramatic music*

HAHAHAHAHA that out-of-date phrase came back. those random laughing people are like "who is that old fool??"

that little screenshot of ikuya and natsuya sleeping while leaning against each other UGGGGHHH that was a really sharp knife in my heart <3

hiyori is so excited for ikuya, awww.

*awkward panting*

yay i was hoping ikuya would win, just because i think it's funny that natsuya lost to his little brother!!!

THAT HANDSHAKE TURNING INTO A HUG I AM DONE. I AM DONE WITH THIS ANIME. IT'S BAD FOR MY HEALTH. I CANNOT BREATHE WITH ALL THESE EMOTIONS GOING ON. ;___; ;___; ;___;

NATUYA'S CRYING?!?!??!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!? WTF WHY ARE YOU CRYING, STOP THAT, NOOO THIS IS TOO PRECIOUS. he really is so proud of ikuya!!!!! ^___^

lol now ikuya's crying and his little shaky voice, aaaaaaggghh. i hate this show so much. this show is too dangerous for my heart. i can't survive all this. why are all of these characters such wonderful angels???? WHY???????

i think asahi is starting to cry too lol

all right, that's a good stopping point. well, i'm done. ...wait... whaddaya mean there's more time left in this episode??? whaddaya mean that i haven't even watched half of the episode??? oh no, i have to keep watching!!! i don't think i'm ready for this you guys

"haruka-senpai and the rest have really dived into an incredible world." no, rei, they have DIVED INTO THE FUTURE!!!!!! =)

you couldn't have just walked AROUND them???? -__-

this guy's bright orange hair bothers me...

that confident look you get on your face when you are aware of how awesome you are and how powerfully bright your hair is:

"you cant gain that kind of strength without throwing something else away." uhhhh well that's creepy. what did kinjou throw away? (his sanity???)

ryuuji believes you basically have to give up everything, even your friends, to make it in the competitive world =( he's obviously still feeling guilt about what happened with his own friend. what's interesting is that we don't know how haru feels about what ryuuji just said. does haru agree?

rin is so cool that he has his own cool new music now hahaha.

haru looks suprised that rin did so well??? he shouldn't be surprised! rin is amazing <3

haru looks nervous??? (to be honest, i am nervous too lol. my heart is beating fast...)

he had a late start? i couldn't tell. XD

i am seriously freaking out over this animation. i just love it. the animation in this show is wonderful in general, but i feel like the animators take extra care in doing haru's swimming scenes. those scenes always look gorgeous. (even when haru's swimming isn't as fast as normal...)

everyone looks so sad about what happened with haru =(

asahi is so cute. XD he's so awkwardly funny!!!

sousuke startling rin... hahaha

hmmm, rin and sousuke are talking about sousuke swimming in a race in the future. does this mean there will be another season???

"nagisacchi" ^__^

"kissme?" looooool

omg there are so many more races tomorrow. but there are only a few minutes left in the episode!!! a lot needs to happen in just a few minutes!!

"bye-bye!" ugh why is every single thing that happens in this show so cute???

what was makoto about to ask haru???

marinka date???? <3 <3 <3

hmm, so haru really is bothered by what ryuuji said earlier

makoto and rin are laughing like "our son is so precious." XD

the three seagulls are on a date too??

rin saying he'd support makoto, awww that's so sweet!!! <3

haru yelling and scaring the birds away... what did those birds do to you, haru????

and omg, rin and makoto were totally caught off guard by that!!!! (well i was too o___o)

haru is running into the ocean... in order to turn into a merman?!?!?!??!! (i have been thinking about mermen all season, you know.)

"what kind of teen drama is this?" it took you this long to figure out that you are in a teen drama, rin?? XD

ummm for real where are they going though???

there are seriously like three minutes left in the episode. ... ... how is everything going to fit into three mins?

haru's speed surpassed albert's?!?!? wasn't albert the alien god?? wow...

ryuuji is trying to sit there and analyze why haru lost, but... dude, it's kinda your fault!! you're telling haru some weird stuff about "giving something up" and it made him nervous! =(

"he keeps talking about stupid stuff like friendship and bonds..." IT'S NOT STUPID, IT'S FREE!!!!!!

okay. so i'm at 21:40 and the entire episode is 23:40. rin and haru have not raced yet?!?!?!?!

finally!!! here it is!!!!!!!

hey, there's some new song sung by the voice actors playing in the bg???? i'm feeling emotions again...

let's dive... to the future!!!!!!

hmm, crunchyroll must be having techincal difficulties. instead of playing the rest of the episode, they are showing random pictures of the characters. this technical glitch must be fixed immediately.

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oh. it's not a glitch. it's the ACTUAL EPISODE. THE ACTUAL EPISODE CUT OFF RIGHT BEFORE HARU AND RIN'S RACE. WHAT THE F@#^@$&#%%!%#^@^#^$#^@!@#$#%#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE WAITED ALL SEASON TO SEE THIS RACE!!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING, PEOPLE WHO CREATE THIS CRAZY SHOW???!?!?!?!?!?! WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO US?!?!?! WHY????? WHYYYYYY????????!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!   >=(

*tries to calm down?*

"blue destination," that's what this song is called.

haha i like the samezuka guys doing the same silly-looking pose.

huh? there's a scene with just a few seconds left in the episode? what could possibly happen in this amount of time?????

nanase is in the lead?? okay, but... that doesn't really answer the question of who won the race. it's possible that rin could catch up. but i guess if he did catch up, they would have said it?

the god alien sees that haru is setting a new record! hmmm are you jealous??? =)

"see you in 2020" ?!?!?!?!?!?!? so i have to wait two years to find out who won the race??? -__-UUU

wait, wait... that means... FREE HAS NOT ENDED!!!!!!!!! IT'S NOT OVER!!!!!! THIS ISN'T THE END!!!!!!! omg omg omg omg!!!!!! you guys. i didn't know this. i didn't know if there was going to be any more. wow wow wow!!!!!!! i finally got my reassurance!!! <33333333 oh my goodness!!!!!! this is extremely important to me!!! like i have said before, free! is my #1 favorite anime ever. i didn't want it to end right now. i need more!!! i'm so incredibly happy that it's not over yet! that makes me feel a lot better.

okay now. it's time for me to sum up not only this episode, but the season. first, the episode. this was an exciting, heart-thumping episode. i was nervous about everyone's races!!! especially rin and haru's, but... it was a disappointment that the race wasn't actually shown. i'll assume haru won because they mentioned that he was in the lead. but i'm not 100% sure!!!

ikuya and natsuya were lovely. i really liked that scene when they were hugging and they were clearly so proud of each other!!! it was so touching!! this is why i love this show. <3 and i was happy to see hiyori again too. everyone was reunited. everyone was realizing what their dreams are and finding their confidence. so it was an important episode;.

and... MARINKA!!!!!! i will be honest and say that i really wanted a makoharu moment. but i've gotta say, marinka is nice too. =) it was really funny to me how rin and makoto were both laughing at haru at the same time. they each gave haru the encouragement that he needed in that moment. they really got him fired up. when he suddenly yelled into the ocean, i was like "O__O uuuuhhhhh..." but it's good to see haru feeling motivated!! ^__^ the shot of the three of them lying together in the water was something that i think instantly became iconic.

the scene in the theme song (which didn't even play today?!?) where haru is screaming and looking like he's turning super saiyan (lol) was about haru's scream in this episode!! mystery solved. =)

so how'd i feel about this whole season? umm... EXCELLENT!!!!! everything was amazing!! the characters' relationships and emotions!!! the music!!! the animation!!! the voices!!!! just... everything. i am impressed with this anime, as always. i have so much appreciation for all of the people who put it together, because i like everything about it. that's why i didn't want to think about it ending. when i saw that it was coming back in 2020, i became very, very eager to know what would happen in the future!!! i want to dive to the future...

#free! #free! dive to the future #anime review #anime reviews #anime liveblog

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if you’re having a bad day, please look at cute little haru’s cute little face to make you feel better!! <3

(this is from the official website’s page about episode 12!)

#free! #free! dive to the future #haruka nanase #nanase haruka

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****ohhhhh the nostalgia!!!!!****

i remember how much i fell in love with the commercial and wanted SO BADLY for it to become a real anime. then i became very sad and heartbroken because i genuinely did not think it would happen. =( then, not only did it become an anime, but it became my favorite anime that i have ever watched. <3

Remember when “Free!” was just a commercial and called “swimming anime” and then got made into an actual anime

#free! #free! dive to the future #CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN 5 YEARS WTF. #anime #fangirling

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free! dive to the future episode 11 liveblog/review thing

hey, i’m not super late this time. XD yay for me. but actually, i’m not happy. i'm sad!!! the reason i’m sad is that this season is almost over. ugh i am so upset ;__;

my previous liveblogs:  (episode 1) (episode 2) (episode 3) (episode 4) (episode 5) (episode 6) (episode 7) (episode 8) (episode 9)  (episode 10)

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loooooool both girls glanced into the tokyo crowd for just a second and immediately found their perfect guys!! XDDDD

haha the newbies are so excited to meet makoto. they're all thinking like "HEY I WANNA TOUCH HIS HAND FIRST"

it's a little sad that makoto, rei, and nagisa are together but not haru =( i just want them all to be together again!

eating a good meal is the first step toward working toward your dreams? uhhh okay

that is the most muscular lock screen ever  o////o

"muscle freak" perfect name lol.

HAHA WOW: "i tried calling you a million times, but i could never get though." "that's because i was ignoring you."

"i know everything about you" is never really a comforting thing to hear someone say.

kids these days are saying "all the rage with the youth of today? lol wtf.

why does haru look sad when he thinks about iwatobi swimmers about to compete in tomorrow's tournament??? [EDIT: later i realized, he thought he would miss it. he hadn't yet thought about trying to get rin to drive him there.]

everyone around the whole table copied nagisa's pose. that was so cute. XD

rei giving nagisa a little pep talk is the sweetest thing ever!!!! ^___^

"i like the ones who struggle as if their lives depended on it" well you seem like a nice person...

"GOU-SAN!!!!!!!!" lol calm down man!

"my brothers talk about you all the time" hahahahahaha awkward

yes, rin has cleavage. this is an indisputable, scientifically proven fact. i just wanted to point that out.

THE GIRLS HAVING AN INSTANT FRIENDSHIP AND HUGGING IN THE BACKGROUND I AM DYING OF LAUGHTER.

i heard "cool down" so clearly. i love the fact that japanese has so many english loanwords! =)

wait, huh? what is happening? haru and rin talking on the phone, and then rei getting something from a vending machine, and then nagisa in a hotel room wondering where rei is, and then it's suddenly the next day??? that was weird. so many abrupt scenes.

now, rin is kidnapping haru??? rin kinda has a devious look on his face lol.

haru had a TINY little smile... it was so small but was there... i think.

haru wanted to cheer on his old teammates ugh this show is so sweet that it's giving me cavities.

rin and haru didn't tell anyone they were coming? omg, perfect. they wanted to suprise everyone aaaaaah i am getting so excited i hate this show.

sousuke is here too yaaaaaaay =)

wait, what was sousuke going to say?? don't cut to another scene.

this is the third time rei has disappeared and people were wondering where he was. it happened at the beginning of the episode, then it happened with nagisa in the hotel room. now it's happening at the tournament. hmmm...

"this is a pretty stupid thing to do!!!" rin says with a big smile on his face.

lol of course haru would say that something is "free."

all the people still stuck in traffic are like "we should get up and run like those guys."

rei needed to go outside and look at the butterflies. after all, the butterfly ghost has possessed him, you know!!

asahi's not-smooth backward hop on one foot, yeah i saw that.

awwww asahi and rei were such cute kids!!!!

omg i love this background music. it's so pretty.

perfect, rei just happens to run into asahi who is the perfect person to give him the advice he needs. "don't overthink it!"

so many reigisa flashbacks, i am too emotional uggghhh AND THE MUSIC IS KILLING ME.

yes!! chappy-senpai is here!!! it's true!! XD

“RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” -makoto

haha now haru is yelling too. that is so unusual, but it is SO CUTE argh.

i knew rei would be awesome!!! he was feeling some stress before the race, but i think asahi really helped him.

rin cheering for ai ;___; <33333

nagisa and ai are so serious lol. but i can't take them seriously because they are both adorable. <3

rei cheering for nagisa loudly and more passionately than everyone i am dead i am dead.

aww i wanted nagisa to beat ai but i am also glad that ai won hahaha (that makes no sense, i know)

now the tournament's over... i tend to feel nervous every time there is a small amount of time left in an episode, especially when something really happy has just happened. i always feel like something bad's about to happen (even though that's not always how it goes, i still feel this way!!!)

YESSSS YESSSSS YEEEEESSSSSSS HARU MAKOTO REI AND NAGISA ARE ALL TOGETHER AGAIN YES YES YES!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! i love these four. <3333333

"the whole time i was in the water, my heart was dancing." nagisa you are TOO PRECIOUS. STOP. JUST STOP. =)

sousuke is getting waaaaaaay too close to rin okay <33333

sousuke laughing is too much for my heart to handle, i don't know about you all. ;__;

"i would have regretted it more if i hadn't been here" haru awwwww. and rin talking about his bonds with his friends. it was such a wonderful thing to say!!!

the episode's over. hmm nothing bad happened like i felt. hahaha

just one more episode left!!! thank you, nagisa and rei, for narrating the previews for us. all the free! fans have appreciated it XD

so here are my thoughts: I LOVED THIS EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (well okay, i usually feel that way after free! episodes, so it's not surprising that i would say that hahaha.) this was an episode about friendship. yes, it's a common theme in many anime (and other stories in general), but i still like it, and i really ike the way free! does it. throughout free! in general, in all seasons, we've seen so much friendship beautifully illustrated and shown to us. it's not just characters TALKING about friendship (although there is a lot of that), but it's characters actually expressing their friendship in various ways, for example, haru and rin skipping their training in order to go and support their friends. we are seeing how much these characters mean to each other. i keep getting such a happy feeling throughout this whole series. ^___^ i appreciate the writers, animators, voice actors, and everyone else who came together to create this show, because i obviously love watching it and there are so many special moments that are heartwarming and touching.

the reigisa montage. i just... idk. that was... i am... *bursts into tears* there was this gorgeous music, and all these cute scenes with rei and nagisa... I LOVED IT!!!!!!!! <3 my heart exploded when i watched it. (maybe i need to go to the hospital for that?) those two are very, very, very sweet, and they are always so supportive of each other. the relationship that they have together is just so solid. they obviously have two different personalities, but they fit together very well and they both know that the other person will always care for them and be there for them. ;__; waaahhh i can't emotionally handle reigisa. reigisa is too overwhelming for meeeee!!!

here's something weird though: hiyori and ikuya have barely been seen in this show since their plotline got resolved. i know there are a lot of characters so there is limited time to squeeze everyone in. so i understand. however, it still feels a bit strange. i assume they'll show up in the next episode, though.

the next episode... ugggggh. i know it's the last one of the season. (hopefully not the last one EVER!!!!) i am dreading it. yes, there's the big showdown between haru and rin that i'm excited to see, but actually, i am not too happy about the next episode. i am going to have conflicting feelings throughout the episode. i am going to be both really happy and really sad at the same time. uggggh ugggggh ugggggh (uggggh is the sound of me groaning and suffering XD)

#free! #free! dive to the future #anime liveblog #anime reviews #anime review

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so... is... this... the end? the next episode will be the last one EVER????

is free! going to have another season or a movie or something after this??? i am almost afraid to even ask. i can’t bear the thought of free! ending. you guys need to understand how much this anime means to me. it’s just SO important to me!!!  i don’t want the next episode to be the last.

#btw i am gonna make my ep11 liveblog review post soon! #free! #free! dive to the future