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Since Twitter is going down, I’m back baby ;-;

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Whoa

tumblr is basically a gay bar in a mental institute

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Of course Yuri has issues 🤭

YOI Prompt : Secondhand heartbreak is worse than heartbreak.

Go. Make what you want of it

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Really?! Can I get some details please if you don’t mind? T-T @weeheilandcoo

YOI Prompt : Secondhand heartbreak is worse than heartbreak.

Go. Make what you want of it

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Don’t wanna be that person but..why is there no TaeKook content these days? My heart is hurting :(

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Jeon Jungkook.

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YOI Prompt : Secondhand heartbreak is worse than heartbreak.

Go. Make what you want of it

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#Thor: Love and Thunder: 

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I should stop shipping people. It does nothing but make me sad about my own stupid lil heartbreaks and suck overall.

I’m going to stick to shipping fictional characters instead.

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Exactly what I was talking about on my last post :’)

this is the most tender heartwarming thing to happen in cinematic history

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I cry everytime I watch the Stammi Vicino Duet and then Yuuri running to Victor in St. Petersburg. Even after all this years, such is the hold Yuri On Ice has on me.

Is it just me?

Just me?

Okay 🥲

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if there’s anything i love in this world, it’s Victor Nikiforov and his slutty, slutty jinbei wearing

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Screaming, laughing, crying, throwing up.

All cause this is TOO BEAUTIFUL

“Who knew that you’d be up in here looking like you do You’re making staying over here impossible Baby I must say your aura is incredible If you don’t have to go, don’t”

I entirely blame Lambiel’s performance for introducing me to this beautiful cover of Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music”

-Do not repost anywhere!-

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This is the reason why the Yuri On Ice fandom is still going strong even after all these years.

Random YOI thoughts

(Because I’ll never be done interpreting this show)

I think one of my favourite things about YOI is how they managed to create such rich, nuanced, layered characters despite the entre show being just 12 short episodes. A lot of the characters appear one way on the surface but they’re really something different and it’s illustrated so brilliantly:

Yuuri - As the main character he obviously has the most development. On the surface he’s anxious, lacking in confidence and self-belief, but there’s a whole other side to him who is determined, confident, impulsive and competitive to the max. Over the course of the show he has to take on the show’s bad guy - his self-esteem - and with Victor’s help reconciles these two very different sides to himself. Yuuri’s story isn’t just about him finding love, or finally starting to succeed, it’s about him coming to accept himself, know himself and appreciate himself. His story is bookended by his dime-a-dozen skater comment – at the start he believes this to be the case, oblivious to the fact he is his country’s number one skater by a huge margin. At the end he repeats the statement, but the delivery is so different, it’s like it’s become a personal joke to himself because he now knows his worth, he’s gently teasing his past self for thinking of himself like that, and it’s another sign of his acceptance of his whole being.

Victor - Although Yuuri’s the most developed character, I believe that Victor is the most complicated character due to the masterful, purposeful misdirection of his introduction. When he’s introduced, he’s smiling and winkng to the cameras, gives a perfect performance at the Worlds and poses – again smiling – with his medal afterwards. He appears in total control of a very successful life. When his path finally crosses with Yuuri there’s another little misdirect - Victor’s face is unreadable as he watches Yuuri’s video, and when he arrives in Hasetsu, he’s accompanied by a literal cold weather front…So when it’s turns our Victor is happy to be in Hasetsu of his own accord we’re relieved to learn he’s not an antagonist (as he was extremely briefly framed to be), and don’t examine much of the behaviour exhibited in his introduction (it’s designed to try to stop us from noticing his smiles are fake). But his overly friendly and flirtacious behaviour with Yuuri leaves us wondering about his true intentions. We’re left wondering at times if his actions are sincere or selfish. We soon realise he is sincere but due to us not having all the information we’re still left puzzled by his behaviour until Barcelona, when his character snaps into sharp focus - rather than being the happy, confident and in control athlete at the top of his game we were introduced to, Victor is actually a depressed, lonely and rudderless mess who took no pleasure or happiness in his successes, and put on a facade to deflect attention away from how he really felt. He was desperate for companionship and love and normal human interaction, and he jumped at the mere prospect of just having some adult fun with Yuuri (who being in drunk and confident mode at the banquet hadn’t been intimidated by his celebrity or deferential to him in any way). I think Victor was thinking he’d do this for himself - go to Hasetsu and have fun with the cute figure skater who treated him like a human being, not an idol - but probably dreamed of something more than just a fling. He wasn’t in love with Yuuri yet, but he was dreaming about it. When Yuuri didn’t act how Victor was expecting once he got to Hasetsu (treating him as an icon rather than a person at times), Victor panicked and spent several episodes figuring out Yuuri and adjusting his behaviour accordingly, falling completely in love with him along the way. Victor’s arc doesn’t have as complete an ending as Yuuri’s does though - while Yuuri finds himself by the end, Victor although older is still lost and figuring himself out - going back to skating to keep Yuuri happy, despite not being over-enthused by the prospect, is a throwback to his earlier behaviour of doing things he doesn’t really want to in order to keep others happy. And he remains reserved around most of the other characters with his facade still firmly in place - unless Yuuri’s around that is.

Yurio’s development is – on the surface at least – more straightforward and conventional. He’s a pubescent teenage boy who’s full of angst and bravado and desperate to prove himself in order to measure his worth. Our first impression of him is one of arrogance and ego. Where his development becomes more complex is when we consider the inner workings of his character and how that eventually affects his goal. It’s easy to just read Yurio as the impatient boy genius out for gold, but it’s much more than that. Yurio’s home life is hinted to be not so ideal for a 15 year old - his father doesn’t seem to be around and his mother is distant. His main emotional support - his grandfather - lives hours away from him and Yurio - still a child – has just been thrust into the adult world of figure skating on his own. The media has all but crowned him to be Victor’s successor, which sounds great on the surface, but to an isolated boy with all that pressure on him, it must have felt like part of his agency was being taken away from him. Yurio tries again and again to assert himself as a being different to Victor - he’s the “Ice Tiger” not the “Russian Fairy” after all. He goes out of his way to act as differently as he can to Victor as well, so instead of being full of cool, confident smiles, he’s almost permanently belligerent and hot-headed. Much later he goes on to pointedly tell Victor that not all skaters look up to him (even though he clearly does). Yurio’s so busy rather childishly trying to show everyone that he’s his own person that it’s easy to overlook the sheer scope of his dedication to his craft and his admiration for his fellow skaters. He pays close attention to everything and has a firm handle on Yuuri’s strengths and weaknesses long before Victor probably does. He learns that to give a good performance he must be willing to act a part, and so in performing Agape he leaves himself open to becoming the “Russian Fairy” he doesn’t want to be, because he knows the program elevates his skating. He also grows his hair out because he feels that once puberty hits, his aesthetic will probably end up changing like Victor’s did (from the new art we know it didn’t - he just got a bit more muscular), He has to use every advantage and every part of himself in his performance. His actions at the Grand Prix Final as well are fascinating. He deeply admires Yuuri as a skater and like Victor knows that there’s a well of untapped potential in Yuuri. Yurio as a dedicated student of his craft wants to see this and doesn’t want Yuuri to bow out with his long-coveted gold, so in the end Yurio’s sole motivation for getting the gold isn’t to win it for himself, but is to stop Yuuri from retiring. His performance isn’t perfect as a result of this desperation and we can interpret his tears at the end as him feeling he might not have done enough. In the end his willingness to give his all to his programs, and he dedication to win the gold not for himself but for Yuuri’s sake is at complete odds with the Yurio we first meet - Yuri Plisetsky prickliness is mostly just a front - behind that front lies a dedicated athlete and artist with surprisingly little ego.

I won’t write as much with the next few characters because all the rest are far less developed, this is just some notes:

Otabek - he arrives looking quite indifferent - aloof and almost bored. We soon find out he’s perhaps the hardest working of all the top flight figure skaters with a mental tenacity that is truly admirable. He has fought tooth and nail for every success.

Chris - Poor Chris. We’re introduced to Chris as a bit of a joke character who is probably a bit of a sex addict. In reality Chris, who has been desperate for his shot at being the number one has spent so many years focused on Victor as his rival, that once Victor is no longer there he badly miscalculates and basically blows his last chance to become number one by allowing Yuuri, Yurio and JJ to surpass him. While Chris shrugs off his early under-performances, we can see just how gutted he is in the Kiss and Cry at the Grand Prix Final. He is devastated and is doing his best to hide it.

JJ – JJ is a character with surprising depth. Initially we’re introduced to this brash, unlikeable teenager who seems to have all the confidence of a fully grown man. He’s from figure skating royalty with a legion of fans and a beautiful fiance. He is honestly intolerable and most of his competitors have little time for him given his rather mean-spirited treatment of them (dismissing Yuuri to speak to Victor and mocking Yurio being two examples). But then everything changes and we see a very different person. JJ has been privately buckling under the weight of everyone else’s expectations. He’s worried that Isabella will leave him if he underperforms and is – surprisingly – very aware of just how talented his fellow skaters are. It leaves us wondering how much of “JJ Style” is actually a coping mechanism. It’s very telling that despite how grating he might seem to most people, when the pressure gets to him and he completely screws up on the world stage, his girlfriend and parents are genuinely upset for him, and he has the guts to keep going despite what’s just happened. If we do get to see him again I hope we find out who JJ really is behind all the posturing and gimmicks because those closest to him genuinely love him no matter what.

Phichit – he’s probably one of the most straightforward characters in the show and I feel that with him what you see is what you get. That’s not a criticism in any way shape or form, because I feel that everyone needs someone like Phichit in their lives. I wonder just how much more neurotic and withdrawn Yuuri would have been if he hadn’t had Phichit in his life!

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one of my all time favorite YOI tropes is Hiroko treating Victor like he’s her son. There was one fic I read where they had a picture of the Katsuki family on their website, but it was a really old picture. and so they decide to take a new one, and Victor was like “Oh, I’ll take it” and she’s like NONSENSE VICCHAN YOU’RE PART OF THE FAMILY TOO!! and Victor is so touched.

sometimes “found family” is just you, your fiancé’s family, the rabid emo teenager you train with, and your poodle.

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Mappa took ‘he was a skater boy, said see you later boy’ way too seriously 😑

2016: Are the anime skater boys gay????

2021: Are the anime sk8r boys gay????