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Everyone, don't forget to watch Legacy on Ice on Peacock today and donate to U.S. Figure Skating Family Support Fund.

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Alysa Liu photographed by erxn.photography on instagram

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Alysa Liu performs to Promise at the 2025 US National Championships, placing first in the short program with 76.36 points. This is her first national championships since her retirement from competition in 2022. Liu was a 2-time National Champion in 2019 and 2020.

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Totally wild how a girl I used to skate with/"coached" when she was 5 is now on US Nats Jr. podium and I can no longer skate due to severe chronic illness. Life isn't fair, huh.

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My worlds colliding again. This is a brilliantly written piece on a fascinating topic.

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Team Japan: 2022 Beijing Olympic Figure Skating Team Event Silver Medalists

Congratulations to Kaori Sakamoto, Wakaba Higuchi, Yuma Kagiyama, Shoma Uno (absent), Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara, Misato Komatsubara, and Tim Koleto! 🥈

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2024 Japanese National Championships: Top 12 Women

Kaori Sakamoto 228.68

Mao Shimada 219.00

Wakaba Higuchi 206.40

Mone Chiba 205.69

Rino Matsuike 204.00

Mako Yamashita 200.25

Rinka Watanabe 198.55

Rion Sumiyoshi 197.53

Saki Miyake 196.55

Kaoruko Wada 195.63

Hana Yoshida 195.27

Yuna Aoki 194.07

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Having dreams crushed by disability is such a deeply traumatic experience, the realization that you’ll never be able to do the thing you want most in life because your body isn’t able to handle it. Waking up the day after you received the news and feeling that utter sense of heartbreak in your chest. Watching people go on and do those things while you sit on the sidelines, forced to watch bitterly. That feeling of being trapped, imprisoned by your inability to do what you love. The grief, the anger, the sadness. All because your body doesn’t allow you to.

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Disabled and chronically ill people are allowed to enjoy things and do things they like (if they’re able) while still being sick and disabled. Yes, even if they aren’t employed. Hope this helps.

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As someone with an undiagnosed disability (99% sure its fibromyalgia) that I've had since I was a little kid, I've never understood why adults feel the need to enter the Pain Olympics whenever a kid says they're in pain.

I cannot tell you how many times an adult told me over the years that "you're too young to be in that kind of pain" or the classic "wait until you're my age", insinuating that I was a little bitch who could never grasp what true pain really is.

Just yesterday I was in class and a guy near me mentioned that his back hurt, which our teacher heard and said "you're too young, just wait until your 50s, then it'll really hurt", and I hear this guy very quietly say that he has scoliosis.

It's so annoying. Why do you need to win the Pain Olympics? Why do you need to prove to a child that your life is harder than theirs? This is the reason I didn't know I had chronic pain until I was 16

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"Disabled people can do everything abled people can!1!1!!" I'm gonna have to ask you what you think disabled means

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Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

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Do you have a disabled neighbor who receives benefits because they can't work but you see them playing a sport with their child, doing yardwork, or doing other physical activity?

That doesn't mean they're faking their disability.

If someone can do physical exercise for an hour on a good day, that doesn't mean they can do it on command for eight hours straight then do it again the next day and the next and the next and the next.

Disabled people should not have to perform their disability to your standards.

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HIS FACE IN THE KISS & CRY I'M DYING!!!

Nobunari Oda performs to Matsuken Samba at the 2024 Japanese National Championships. It is his first performance at Nationals since his retirement in 2013. Oda, who was the Japanese National Champion in 2008, is now 37 years old. He landed three clean jumping passes in his short program (4T3T, 3A, 3Lz) and placed 5th with 84.53 points.

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This series is so funny. I feel blessed to have been the editor for volumes 5-7 of the English release.

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Love seeing people read and enjoy my translation babies! ^_^

Today’s Manga: “Correspondence from the End of the Universe” (“Hate no shoutsuushin”) by Menota

-Localization: Seven Seas Entertainment -Translation: Kathryn Henzler -Proofreader: Krista Grandy -Lettering: Nicole Roderick -Cover Design: M.A. Lewife -Copy Editor: Leighanna DeRouen -Senior Editor: Jenn Grunigen