#MOD MUSE IS SO SORRY

[thenightpool]

rinharu wrapped 2023

We almost can't believe it's already time to bring out the kadomatsu again! 2023 just raced by, didn't it…?! Let's take a moment to look back on everything Rin & Haru (and their fans!) have achieved this year.

🌸 Archive of Our Own

The Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka tag on AO3 now holds 3,674 works!

That means 173 new fics were posted this year. (There might've been more than that, but it's hard to keep track of creators privatising their older fics!)

And the Night Pool's AO3 collection is up to 90 works!

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🌸 The Night Pool

Here at TNP, we revived @sakurathon, a cherry blossom-centric event! This year, the event received 40 works by 19 lovely participants.

Since it was such a big success, we're bringing the event back on April 27th & 28th 2024.

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We also held the aquatic-themed Unleashed Blue, during which 20 participants created 51 (!!) otherworldly works for us.

With permission of the creators, we lovingly collected them in a 400+ page commemorative zine. You can download it on linktree

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Writers filled an impressive 35 prompts during our prompt meme Make a Splash! that we held in honor of Haru's birthday.

Read the fills on AO3

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Rin & Haru's Big Warm-Up, our monthly prompt event, received 16 new works on AO3 across the year & more on socials.

Check out our collection on AO3

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We also kicked off rinharu fandom's very first bang: MEDLEY!, a mini + reverse hybrid bang that will start posting in March!

(Psst. Sign ups are still open for a few roles!)

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We held 3 training camps – super fun writing retreat weekends – over on our Discord. We have 4 more retreats planned for 2024!

If you'd like to join us for the next one(s), here's the info

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We posted 33 new fanart translations!

Here's the link to our masterlist

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And finally, The Night Pool beat out Harurinralia to win our Ultimate Rinharu Moments Tournament that we held back in April on both Twitter and Tumblr!

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🌸 Other Fandom Events

It's been a busy year!

In July, @starstarfairy hosted Wave Of Memory (@rinharumemories) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Free! The event ran in two wave on tumblr and Twitter and combined polls, fan memories, and all types of fanworks.

@sweetheavenfics helped us run the RH-friendly @soumako-week in September!

@ryu-outsider hosted the month-long daily prompt event Free!cember here on Tumblr. It welcomed the entire fandom. The event was promoted by eleanorenchanted and run via hashtag.

And @rinharuweek ran for a full 10 days this year in celebration of the show's anniversary! They are just wrapping up.

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🌸 Official News

Free! turned 10 in 2023. Omedetou gozaimasu!

Free! The Final Stroke Part 2 broke all of the series' previous records in the box office, bringing in over 1 billion yen

It also finally made it to Crunchyroll.com for the US & select others

Miyano Mamoru & Shimazaki Nobunaga fed us (+ fanartists' inspiration) well by shouting "HARU!!" and "RIIIN!!" at each other before hugging passionately during the 10th anniversary event at the Saitama Super Arena

We got tons of amazing new art; including a cover illustration for Free! The Band Live's Ever Blue performance in Yokohama, Animedia's July W-cover, Sweets Paradise's promotional art, and Kyoani's 10th anniversary event's illustration

Rin's ripped jeans (+ THE ANKLETS) in the Matsukiyo & Cocokara's Top Of Summer collaboration launched a thousand fanworks

Matsuoka-senshu, Nanase-senshu, Kirishima-senshu & Yamazaki-senshu represented Mizuno at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka

Spoon2Di recently restocked volume 78 & 85 on their webshop, and Akiba Pass Shop opened pre-orders for some gorgeous tapestries featuring said art

Karatz, Bikkuriman Choco, Iwami & DECOL all bumped Rin up to 2nd place in character listings (where he belongs!!)

Last but not least, KyoaniShop bankrupted us all by releasing amazing new merchandise (and also did not try to hide that Rin is the Free! series' 2nd protagonist, either…)

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Thank you so much for being here with us in 2023. We hope it has been a wonderful & creative year for you. Here's wishing you an even more rinharu-filled 2024!

[greenscreen-dress]

Does anyone know of a mod / datapack / any kind of project in the works related to making the new Trial Chambers easier to configure? Specifically messing with the spawners to make them easier or harder: generating more mobs at a time, letting me run a Chamber like there's five other players generating mobs in there, but in singleplayer... That kind of stuff. I don't care as much about messing with the trial spawner / vault loot tables, but ideally that'd be an option too. I know these configs exist in the game, you can set them for individual spawners that you place yourself... At least. I think ^^;

I'm trying to make sense of stuff through the Minecraft Wiki but I am absolutely not a coder or modder or anything lol. I just want all those options laid out in a nice button-toggle-able GUI, like when you're creating a custom flatworld.

"Hello I am making a world and I would like the Trial Chambers in it to follow This general recipe, thank you goodbye"... surely there's a tool out there being worked on for this scenario? If there is, plz let me know so I can stare longingly at the GitHub/Modrinth/etc page for it until it's available :D

[mutantkacheek]

personally, im feeling (Very Cautiously) optimistic about the neopets buyout? netdragon shut down jumpstart, so it would have died otherwise. i guess that’s better* than it just dying.

on crypto: i’m glad they seem to be dismantling/repurposing any work done on neopets metaverse. dominic law, the guy who bought neopets, was the head of neopets metaverse at neopets before he bought it out, hes like an investment guy as far as i can tell(?), and the pc gaming article about the buyout mentions he was talking about how neopets is perfect for web3 gaming on twitter within the past few months. obviously that’s a bad look. however, looking at his linkedin profile, his background doesnt seem super tech specific to me, and from what i can tell the metaverse/nft/crypto bubble is bursting anyways. with the announcement they’re shelving any nft projects for now, i’m hopeful they truly dont plan to pursue any more in the future.

i get the impression from the faq that they are genuinely interested in pumping money into the website itself, moreso than netdragon/jumpstart were. i’m not really against them developing more apps or w/e if they’re genuinely restoring the site and creating content for it as well.

i may eat my foot on this though, only time will tell

[c-kamo-archived]

“Alright” I say to myself. nervous and excited for my date with choso this afternoon. I got up from my bed and walked towards my full length mirror. Standing across from my bed. Staring at myself in the mirror, i gave myself a few light slaps on my cheeks to the the blood flowing.

“Time to get to work!” I walk towards my closet, selecting a variety of clothes to choose from. Trying each and every piece, mixing and matching to see which outfit I’d finally come to like. In the end of all of my searching, I was finally happy with this outfit;

I head downstairs into my kitchen, grabbing the basket that I had set out yesterday night. Adjusting the basket to my approval. “There!” I say out loud.

Walking towards the fridge, I start to pull out the various fruits and vegetables I had cut out for today. Placing each and every fruit and vegetable into a certain position into the small containers I had brought to preserve the food. Next, I grab water, some candy, and various chips that I thought you might like. I smile to myself, proud of my creation and effort. “Oh! I almost forgot..” I head towards the fridge once again, bending down to my freezer and pulling out a Cabernet Sauvignon, Moscato, and a Pinot Noir. I grab my phone out of my pocket and dial your number “Hey choso!…umm, I’m ready to be picked up whenever you are! I’m all set on my side” I say over the phone.

[Mod speaking: I apologize for the late response, I got called to come into work early today, and I’m just getting off my shift 😔 I promise I didn’t forget]

I get out of bed and look through my closet for my outfit for my picnic with Lex. I go through almost my whole wardrobe trying to find something and I settle on this for my outfit.

I walk to my kitchen and grab the pastries I made for the picnic, some chips, and a few sodas if we decide not to drink the wine. Then I grab the Merlot and Sangiovese to put in the picnic basket I bought for today.

I feel my phone ring, see it's you and pick up. “Hey, baby, I just finished packing everything, and I'll be on my way in a few minutes. Send me your address, please, my love.”

[eoncafe]

IM NOT DEAD. ill take requests for tadc so...send them in

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

just watched the new Haunted Mansion with my mom and listen I know he's a dickbag but DAMN if Alistair Crump didn't give me some Kuro villain vibes

love the look, love the accent, love the backstory, black magic bits almost reminded me of Aleister (which is funny considering the similar names)

but unlike our Aleister, I wanna kick Alistair right down into his grave too

loved your performance mate but BYE BITCH

[ask-the-all-consuming-void]

Sonic said once that every world has its end, and so we should live life to the fullest in the time we have. Any thoughts on that?

I think that he is a hypocrite.

[arachnoheaux]

psa angel's not a poor little thing who needs help all the time↷

[kitakami-zorua-kin]

Togekiss mail: a basket full of macarons that look like dittos with different facial expressions

Huh - wha- uh. Alright, I guess...? Thanks! I'll share these with the rest of the Ruchbah Squad - the kids are gonna love these... ... Oh shit Ortie's gonna kill me there's no way it's this late in the day already - forgot to eat lunch again, shit-

Thanks! For the uh - the macarons, they're - they're real cute. The rest of the squad'll love them. And- unintentionally, thanks for knockin' me out of the hyperfixation.

[general-kalani]

"Cover them up Slut."

"Make me."

[bee-bee-kyuu]

I... Perhaps.

I'll... Sleep on it, perhaps.

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MY BLOG AND MY PINNED POST

WHY IS IT FURRET THEMED???

SO I GUESS I CAN NEVER LEAVE ROTOMBLR FOR A FEW HOURS. GREAT.

And yes I had fun SULKING to myself in a cave. 10/10 I will do it again.

[theofficersacademy]

Sorry! But this is going to be a long one.

With 100 skill points and my 5th year anniversary coming tomorrow, I think it's time I do this. As of today, I will be dropping Celica from TOA. I had been coming to this decision for the past few months now, and at least wanted to reach the 100 point threshold before I did. She's made it so far, after all!

These last five years of writing Celica have been an ABSOLUTE joy, and I'm grateful to each and every person who has written with her, and have helped me to better appreciate this character I've genuinely come to adore. But I also recognize my passion in exploring her simply isn't as strong as it used to be, and though she is still VERY much a beloved character to me (my favorite, of anyone in FE), I think it's time for a break.

I've experienced so many things with her in TOA, and Celica was the first muse that taught me the joy of being wholly passionate about a character. That wasn't quite something I had experienced before, and I'm grateful for the experience of finding this group, discovering her, and coming to know that amazing feeling.

I can be nothing but satisfied with such an amazing run. Thank you all for the memories, and for caring about this beautiful girl along with me. Till next time!

Celica has been dropped and is now available!

- Mod N

[boxten-a-musique]

[New Pinned]

[EST. 7/21] | [Mun is +18]

Ask/RP blog for Boxten from Dandy's World! More stuff under the read more so it isn't cluttered up here.

(Note: all the base "lore" of the blog is new, so please take a reread even if you aren't new here!)

I do not support the creators, never have, and do not want anyone interacting with my blog who do.

OOC:

Both mod and muse are +18, however the blog itself is +16 and up– please do not interact if you're under 16! While there's no NSFW allowed, Common themes might include Swearing, Body horror/psychological horror, ect!

Mum used they/them, and any ooc dialogue will be denoted with a zombie (🧟) emoji and the #ooc tag!

My main is @autohavenwreckerz , and that's where I might follow other blogs at, but please please do not follow my main if you aren't +18 or have your age in your bio!!

IC:

This blog tries to follow canon as closely as possible, so here's a general timeframe of the blog to keep people up to speed:

(*Note: a lot of this was changed from the previous pinned– if you had an ask relating to the previous “”lore”” I had for my blog I've gone ahead and deleted it as it is no longer relevant; I'm sorry!!!)

> Post Gardenview shutdown, while this was due to a dangerous working environment for staff, the toons don't exactly know this; they just know their show had been shut down and in all the flurry, they were boarded up into the establishment.

> The askblog takes place during the game; They don't really know what's going on (aside from dandy, of course, who's been off being a freak.) so they all just sort of follow dandy's que to dive into the lower floors of the establishment in order to retrieve ichor. What dandy's doing with it, nobody knows.

>All toons are alive on this blog, as of current writing, but only Boxten is ask-able/relevant.

> The elevator will come back up after a few days, so the “runs��� aren't like actual gameplay where you just keep going until you die.

> All the twisteds are weird, failed experiments/clones/whatever.

[forbidding-souda]

Hii!! May I please have some headcannons with Gundham, Kazuichi, and whoever with a gyrau s/o!!! Please and thank u!!

Gundham Tanaka and Kazuichi Souda with a SHSL Gyaru S/O

here's another gyaru s/o fic i did with mondo, shinguuji, and kaito! it was rather recent too since when was i posting in 2022 what the fuck. i didn't add any characters because i realized i had three that i have already done so there's more mwahahahahaha

i love gyaru's rawr rawr i'm so excited to write this ty anon

-Mod Souda

Gundham Tanaka

❤ It's clear you two are a couple. You both have a very eccentric way of speaking which makes you guys such a good couple wow, nobody is surprised when you tell them you're together. They can probably guess that. With you two having voluminous hair and heavy eyeliner, it's as if your aesthetics were compatible. Though being in two different subcultures, the overlapping stylistic details adds a charm to the times you've walked together hand in hand. Your both overdramatic way of talking makes people group you together.

He departs from the barn, quickly making his way back to the main building, where you wait on your phone. He doesn't have to look for you. Your appearance is eye-catching. Your loose shirt, a more casual one, is heavily wrinkled from how quickly you put it on this morning. You're not even wearing any of your iconic belts. You wanted to join him despite how early it was. Your eyes flick up to his once you hear him approaching. "Are you done?" You ask. You turn your head towards him, makeup still perfectly done (you focused more on that then your outfit, which you did last). Before he can respond, you squint at his name tag. "That's cute." He grumbles and unpins it. His mind was too busy for a proper conversation. He was logging all of the animal's names in his head and the medications and treatment they needed it. While you two walk, he places his hand on the small of your back, a simple form of affection to tell you he was still paying attention. But when you yawn, it breaks his thought process. "You're tired?" You nod. "Sorry, I didn't mean to yawn like that." "Nonsense. Perhaps we can arrange an hour of slumber." You nod. "Can it be more than an hour?" He hums, thinking for a second. "As many as you need, my dear enchantress."

❤ Oh my god if you wear more dark colors or purples (else a goshikku gyaru) you could absolutely be the same color palette as him. Purple and black pleaded skirt with eyeliner in your waterline omggg. Or a zip-up with skeletons on it.

❤ He absolutely loves your style, he adores anything vaguely alternative and subnormal. Ur definitely getting some more romantic nicknames like "my muse" or "my agony".

❤ Ya ya ya it's unhygienic but you can share makeup if you can't find something (aka you probably left your eyeliner in your purse but completely forgot).

❤ You will scream and cry when you tease your hair and then you go to visit animals with him and a giraffe just starts licking it.

❤ But the hamsters love your hair / wigs.

❤ You can probably convince him to wear more eccentric earrings.

❤ And necklaces. Omg matching necklaces. From the one dogtag he wears, you can convince him to wear a chain or a bunch of layers of silver.

❤ I doubt he has social media so he doesn't see your persistent presence, but he will take pictures of you with the animals for some posts.

❤ When you start using a bit of his lingo online no one questions it.

❤ Also in the scenario thing above I fought the urge to say you were playing dress to impress.

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Kazuichi Souda

❤ He was so nervous around you. He wasn't as bold as he was with Sonia. He'd give you compliments and then promptly walk away after you say thank you. It takes you and your boldness to finally get him to have a lingering conversation ("No, no, you get back here"). He's such a charmer, you loved the conversations, and whenever you gave him compliments back he was fighting the urge to completely melt.

❤ You post a lot of photos of you two together. You just love his pink hair and it tends to fit your layout perfectly. Some of them aren't just cutesy selfies, it's things like him with his jumpsuit tied around his waist as he's too focused on his work to realize you have your phone pointed at him. He's started to do the same to you. Taking pictures as you're posing yourself for your own camera. You love the candid photos he takes of you so much you end up posting them instead. He loves your online presence. He's gonna pick up the slang you use and it's gonna be funny LMFAO.

Upon entering the house, he spots you sitting on the couch with a sugary snack in your hand. You immediately smile. "Sorry," you say, "I couldn't help myself." He was planning on a real meal for tonight, but of course, you've indulged in the popular snacks you love so much. At least your well, that smile on your face says as much. He kicks off his shoes, leaving them scattered by the door. You study him for a moment, wondering if his sour mood is because of you or whatever job he had outside. "Are you good?" You ask mid chew. He eyebrows furrow a bit and he nervously scratches at his jaw. "I lost the necklace you gave me." "What?" "I took it off and I don't know where it went, I'm an idiot." You place your snack aside and stand, approaching him. "Dude," you place your hands on his cheek. "It's not that serious. I have a thousand of them. I'll get you another one." "But you gave me that one." "And I'll give you another 'that one'. You worry too much." He sighs, placing his forehead against yours, the small thunk drawing you back, but you don't pull away. He's constantly fearing offending you or disappointing you. But you always assure him that things are alright. The simple things he stresses over are never things that will push you away, and he needs to understand that.

❤ He loves it when you scratch his back with the long, decorative nails. Or when you massage his scalp when he's trying to sleep. His small, half-awake hums are soooo cute.

❤ He'll want you to do his hair. He trusts your stylistic abilities with his life. You're not going to be able to do the dramatic makeup on him, nice try. But hair yesss. He'll want to add small braids to your style as well.

❤ His work is a little too messy for you and if he gets motor oil on you you're gonna fight the urge to throw a fit. On your yellow shirt? Kaz. You piece of shit.

❤ ^ Frantic cleaning-related google searches.

❤ ^ On the rack beside the front door, you keep your shoes far away from his.

❤ He gets you a lot of those glitter, bajeweled (or whoever it's spelled) reusable cups. He uses them a lot for himself though. He wanted an excuse to have them, and you definitely figured this out LOL.

[flash-cannon]

Hi!! Intro post!! Yes.

I'm Alvina! I guess you can call me Vi? I'm a Contest Star in Hoenn! Well. I'm going to be. I'm getting there! For the most part I just work at a pokemart

I prefer Clever Contests! I think they're cool! Not to be confused with Cool Contests. That's a different one.

Me and Ace- my Skarmory- are gonna be FAMOUS! Just you wait! And Clover my Oddish is going to help!!!!!!

Uhhhh. Might share some Mystery Gifts on here! For my friend! For her research. Yeah!

Oh and! She/They for me! Or none at all if you'd like! YEAH!! okay sorry gotta go

//getting into Contests in Emerald, so I figured making a character to help me through this would be fun lmao

Pelipper Mail is on! MA! Are off! No NSFW! Mod and Muse are both 18. Any blog with any canon can interact! Blog ran by @skrelpson. I also run @weather-ball and more! These two might be placed in the same universe later on.

//UPDATE THEYRE CLEVER CONTESTS??? NOT SMART???? HOW DID I MISS THAT. MY BAD LMAOOOO

[drgreysonmd]

(HOW WE FEELING ABOUT THE GREYSON FACE REVEAL TONIGHT🗣️⁉️)

(MOD💜TALK

Yo I was so excited I literally immediately started drawing him, and then hyperfixated all day and then did nothing but just sit in my feels. This is gonna be a long one about some blog stuff too, mates, so strap in!

@flamesque 's Mun LITERALLY had to hold my hand because I CRIED I was so nervous to see his face 😅🤣 it was the happiness of the game finally giving him all the attention I'd always wanted him to have, but the double edged sword of going

"Oh shit. Now everything I've grown so attracted to is officially wrong."

And so I had to sit here all day while I've painted and spoken to friends and fellow muns and just... had to really take a step back and think about how I was going to overhaul everything here too.

So the positive answer is- I'm SO EXCITED because I've already seen so many people talking about him and even my beloved @rose-tinted-kalopsia is planning on writing for him and maybe this means more fanworks for him! It's been very lonely in my little corner with just me screaming about how lovely he is and throwing out headcanon posts and snippets and art and

I get it. It can be hard to love a faceless man in a very visual game. No shade. I'm just happy and hopeful more people will engage in him as a character now!

I also think he's fucking ADORABLE. His glasses and his cute cheekbones and his grey blue eyes bc ofc he'd have grey eyes when his name is fucking Greyson (I swear to God everyone loves to hurt me with puns 🥴🤣) I'd love to see a little bit of a hairstyle change but I've already hit on that. Overall I love him. Very cute, 10/10, totally smashable. I'm getting Bedazzled Brendan Fraser vibes and I'm here for it.

On the less positive side- it's like saying goodbye to a very dear friend. This Grey, MY Grey has become somewhat of a very special blorbo to me. He ended up being like a half oc-half canon character and idek how it happened but it DID and here I lay very distraught and attached to him and it's a little heartbreaking to retire him, if that makes any sense.

It's been quiet here for a while partially due to personal stuff, but also partially due to my sensing the changing in the winds after the story update of No Morning. They've done a lot of lore building with him that while it doesn't give him any actual back story, it's changed or developed parts of his personality that really have diverged him from the Greyson we got snippets of early on. And I'm not mad about that mind you, he's still adorable and I will stand by him until my dying breath, but it's very clear that the Grey I've written, and the Grey they're writing now are diverging very quickly and I need to separate them rather than try and salvage a blend. It was bound to happen when the only thing we had to go on was as a side character in an anecdote, a side character in a single card, and a couple moments posts early on. 🤷‍♀️ (oh and that one Twitter interview).

I've contemplated making mine an OC (just another Dr at Akso) and keeping all the lore and backstory and stuff as his, and gutting this profile back to canon material ONLY, but once again that leaves it as very... well.... barren. I do believe there will be a lot more in store for him in the future, it's just gonna take a while (bc he's a side character so of course, it makes sense) so it might feel like I've kind of hurt or abandoned this place in the meantime, which is definitely not what I want either.

All in all there will obviously be some huge changes happening here, I'm just not entirely sure what they are yet and what that means for active threads too 😅 I have a lot of options so it's just down to figuring out which ones speak to me heart and Muse.

I realize this is probably all waaaaaaay more than you intended to ask so I'm sorry, but thanks for letting me gush all my feels out ahhhhhh♡)