#test skates

[moss-on-a-pebble]

Some ice skating rink chaos

[hughesybear]

this team loves each other so much!!!!

[dozydawn]

Michelle Kwan and her coach Frank Carroll, 1993-2001.

[riding-the-sunset-bird]

Hi there! Going through multiple playthroughs in the game, I've noticed some things during the Happiness Moment in Step 3. Are the 2nd and 3rd dates you go with Cove are random? Or is it possible to choose the 2nd one at least? Since the 3rd date you can surprise him yourself with the new poppy location. I personally like going to the aquarium first, then the theater second because I think the scene discussing whether they would find each other even in another life is very sweet.

Hi hi~!

It's random, but you can reroll for it if you save and reload.

During the second day, after Cove shows up at the door and the MC meets him outside, save at this narration:

if Fond (or Crush but dating Baxter):

Then Cove chuckled as he pulled out another gift from behind his back.

if Crush and not dating Baxter:

Then Cove chuckled awkwardly. He didn't quite meet your eye as he pulled out another gift from behind his back.

The game rolls a random number the moment you get past this, at which point Cove will prompt the MC with one of the two other events that the MC didn't choose first. You should be able to get what you want that way!

[kandidandi]

hey kamdi

HEY CHOCO WHAT IF I WENT INSANE RIGHT NOW

[thesmallersnow]

rollin' around

[figureskatingcostumes]

Annabelle Morozov and Andrei Bagin's rhythm dance costumes at the 2021 Russian Test Skates and 2021 Internationaux de France. They skated to My Body Is a Cage by Peter Gabriel and Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

[manichewitz]

i feel like skateparks aren't necessarily for skating as much as they are for picking up a bisexual boyfriend

[tutuandscoot]

VM- Umbrellas of Cherbourg FD 2007

Every time you find new VM footage you haven’t seen before it’s like waking up on Christmas morning! 🥹

A couple of things I thought watching this:

1. It gives you new/refreshed enlightenment on the fact of so much of their lives they have spent together.. the competition/performance/interview/social media posts we see and are public add up to a lot but then you find something like this that you know happens but you don’t think about and this was only 10 years into a 26+ year partnership and to think they did this everyday and their favourite thing in the world was skating together..

2. I’ve probably said it before but I thought it particularly strongly watching this that it’s like when they skate/perform they are in a movie. It’s so hard to explain because they have the strongest, burning, intense intimacy you have ever seen its truly like nobody is watching them, but then at the same time you never once feel excluded from watching them, it never feels like they don’t want us to watch them, yet if we weren’t there/watching they would go about it anyway. And so I’m starting to equate them more with being/performing like film actors bc not only have the majority of us only ever seen them through a screen, but they are performing as if they don’t know there are people watching them.. they are just telling- being in the story for each other. So so so often- I personally and unbiasedly would say with every other ID team I’ve ever watched that there is not that honesty and conviction of the story the two are both in. The majority of it is projected outwards for performative purposes.. that is a valid form of performance and can be done very well and can carry the audience, but none can do what VM do.. I’d have to ask them if any of what I’ve said is accurate but again based on several the ways they have put it- “it’s about our connection to each other, playing off each other, putting ourselves in our bubble, they only want to see each other when they perform”.. it seems to make sense that we would feel that duality of isolation from their intimacy within the boards of the rink, yet also feel invited to feel every emotion with them. They skate in front of thousands live at a time occasionally (let alone the tv audience) but they have and project the intimacy of an old movie couple you are watching in a small, pitch black theatre..

It’s been said before but it deserves repeating- that CAN NOT be taught. And to have found each other and be blessed with that ability and chemistry.. it will just never happen again like this..

[theskategatsby]

Sofia Akatieva's dress at Russian test skates 2023>>>>

[rathockey]

my friend has covid... and I saw them on Sunday... augh...

[newdayslinguine]

Sometimes i dont get it when people talk about watching the same movie or tv show over and over again but then i remember that i will absolutely never get tired of watching how to train your dragon or listening to its soundtrack it is so joy inducing for me

[yaoigoddess9158]

Ugh….. I just seriously failed my skating test so if I get a bad score on the state test for school everyone can just count me dead and buried

Send prayers y’all, send prayers 🙏

[redraven25-stuff]

i can’t wait for my body to give up on me a bit after skating has calmed down to basically nothing and finals and state testing is over. i slept so much when summer break started omg. my jumps are an absolute shit show!! 4 events in 4 weekends!

[ponds-of-ink]

So uh

Until further notice, William is on thin ice thanks to the latest Tales leak.

Boy, am I glad I switched to AUs ages ago...