#yuri's thoughts & rambles

[ispridestillasin]

sometimes i think about the fact that Michael and Adam really came out of the cage Like That. like they could gave easily gone for revenge (and I would have cheered them on if they did) but instead they decided to go get hamburgers and look at the sights around the world and Adam was going to get them a job (even though I'm pretty sure two seconds in Michael would've killed the first customer to be rude in Adam's presence). if that isn't love then what the fuck is???

[aleeyenn]

would you ever believe in butch lesbian firey do you see my vision

YEAAASSSSSSSSS OH MY GOD IVE BELIEVED IN THIS FOR MONTHS NOW BUT I FEEL NO ONE WILL LISTEN… I AM SO GLAD YOU UNDERSTAND ANON. I LOVE BUTCH LESBIAN FIREY. BUTCH LESBIAN FIREY FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! i headcanon both firey and leafy as non-binary lesbians i need the world to know this

[undedkat]

Lucy has so many lesbians obsessed with her that at this point I’m starting to wonder if Natsu is secretly a girl.

[genericaces]

wes!illyria asks! collecting them into one place here:

they would have been incredible! their illyria and wes duologues are already really great and have this play-like feel to them. i always thought there was a sort of rosencrantz and guildenstern vibe there, and in my s5 au with infinite resources we're hiring sir tom stoppard to write a bunch of arcadia-style, physics-themed conversations between them on grief and being. what do you mean he has better things to do then write for my fantasy tv show

this is true! i was just thinking that in the fic i'd like to write, i really want fred taking a physicist's approach to her grief, getting into stuff like multiverses and chaos theory as a way to cope. really hammer home the astronauts vs. cavemen metaphor, yknow

i always interpreted it as him getting flustered because of the "guess i've always had a thing for older women" thing, which is honestly a wild thing to say in front of a bunch of strangers lmao!

yeah, he's american! i think i'd personally keep the accent because it's more devastating the more similar illyria is to her shell. i also always interpreted fred!illyria as having an american accent because... muscle memory, i guess? idk, i feel like there's a lot of interesting questions to explore about where illyria's host ends and where she begins.

(ie. pronouns, for instance! i'm partial to the [not necessarily canon-compliant] headcanon that illyria was worshiped as a god of incomprehensible demon gender which best aligns with she/her in modern english, but is ultimately divorced from the body she's in. i just like the gender fuckery of wes!illyria using she/her, though he/him wes!illyria also accomplishes something similar in a different way. which, to go back to the original question: how much of illyria is innate? how much does she absorb the 'essence' of her host? how much does she absorb other people's interpretations of her host? these are the questions that keep me up at night.)

[luckycloverforducks]

In the swap AU, Velvette isn't quite ? an abuser like Val, esp not to Vi/Vaggie but she's a shitty boss and a toxic 'friend' to her

Velvette would never hit Vaggie/let her be hit, and she'd always make sure she's physically okay, but she'd disregard her feelings and limits if it serves her own needs, and Velvette would use the fact that she has never hurt Vaggie physically to prove that she doesn't mistreat her, because she genuinely believes so to an extent.

In her head it's like, sure, Velvette doesn't always treat her the nicest, but she has never abused/mistreated her, I mean, she's never laid a hand on her! She's never hurt her no. 1 star, Right?

[dol-dee]

Realistically I don't see this happening at all but hear me out.

Avery actually gets too attached to Dee and forces her to become her lawfully wedded spouse.

Which means she'll end up pining for her own wife like a total loser AND she still wouldn’t be able to physically bully Dee into submission. So Avery just accidentally traps herself in a marginally more toxic marriage than the average silent generation/baby boomer wedlock

Now tbf I make it sound really easy but I think Dee would have an all around miserable time. Avery would still be a ticking time bomb after all. One thats definitely bound to explode when all of her chivalrous courting attempts fail to garner the response that she wants

[nonameidentified]

God really gave me the weakest soul, I got giddy and jumped around the room on the mere fact that a yuri manga (well manhua, but let's not split hairs here, yuri is yuri) with over 500 chapters exists.

[cosmiclion]

One final thougth and then I'll finally go to bed: instead of investing our energy in insulting Mappa we should invest it in thanking the talented creators for blessing us with such a beautiful story. Good night y'all.

[obstinaterixatrix]

I have a Beloved Pal who is absolutely obsessed with a main character from a mainstream anime that I don’t like and her birthday’s coming up so I’m looking thru mercari for plushies of her guy while making a face like I’m eating a lemon

[another-corpo-rat]

i consistently forget i made Victoria strong as fuck and then get delighted with the thought of her grabbing one of Hansen's lieutenants with one hand and tossing that bitch across the room

[calibabii21]

to this day I have yet to find an anime that makes my heart race the way Yuri On Ice does😪

[eyriedescent]

honestly speaking back when i watched yoi for the first time while it was airing, i disliked that they chose not to let yuuri take the gold at the GPF. i thought it was a decision purely made to set up a second season, and as such, pandering.

now that i’m not 13 though, i’m having different thoughts. yoi isn’t really a story about an underachieving skater redeeming himself in front of his idol at the competition where he faced one of the lowest moments of his life. yuuri wasn’t really underachieving to begin with, and he didn’t need to redeem himself by clinching first.

it’s a story about finding reasons to come back to, and continue doing, what you love. a story about accepting and improving yourself — putting into words how to help those you love adjust to your needs, realising there are people who love and support you all around you. about realising how to be there for them the way they have been there for you. it’s about finding someone who loves you in new and exciting ways, and is willing to put in the work to be with you because you too show your love to them in new and exciting ways. it’s about making the world realise what was in front of their eyes. it’s about realising the person you’ve been all along. yuuri’s theme for the season was an exploration of love. they really could not have put into clearer terms what the show’s about.

it’s such a good show that rings so deep about coming to terms with yourself and growing into a healthier outlook as someone who’s spent much of their life embroiled in internal conflict over their own mental health issues and queerness. and even so, it’s lighthearted and ridiculous and fun to watch. it was a cultural phenomenon and a story i still love viscerally.

[tonariofjananda]

This was my participation piece for the @yuriolympics2023 ‘s first prompt, “Memory.”✌️

The fic covers things that will happen in Season 3 (including a theory that I’m treating as 100% canon tbh, lol) so if you’re not caught up with the manga, please keep that in mind :)

[selfrinsert]

*KICKS the door open FLIPS a table etc* JENNIFER’S BODY ASMORIS AU

[kitkatsudon]

So. Today has been a weird day.

Rambles below, because I’m in my feelings but that doesn’t necessarily have to be your problem.

The first thing I saw when I woke up today was that Ice Adolescence had been cancelled. The second thing piece of news I received, within a few minutes of this, was that my Grandma had passed away.

The second thing is more personal, and I haven’t come here to talk about that - I suppose more than anything it’s to give context on today’s slightly weird vibe, and why I’m feeling perhaps more nostalgic than I would be normally.

Perhaps as a distraction, I want to ramble about YOI.

Though now I’ve sat down to actually do this… where do I start?

Though my internet presence is very TKEM-focused nowadays, since its release, YOI has always been incredibly dear to me. It came out just as I had found out that my family were going to be moving across the country (and ok, in the UK that’s maybe less of a big deal than if I lived in a larger country, but I was 14, and 14 is a horrible age, so it was still a big deal to me). YOI came out in late 2016, we moved at the beginning of 2017, and I joined a much smaller school with… let’s say less choice for the people I could make friends with.

I was, technically, adopted by a friendship group, but it took a long time, some falling outs within the group, and me learning everything there ever was to know about BTS despite having no real passion for music-based fandoms for me to really feel included. The friendship group I’d left behind was much more diverse in terms of interests, and we thrived on mutual sharing and acceptance of each other’s interests. This new one was more kind of “conform or fuck you,” and I never quite managed to conform properly.

All that is to say… while I didn’t really have friends, in 2017, I had YOI and its fandom. While I was dealing with the huge changes in my life, I was comforted through it by, more than anything else, lurking around the YOI fandom. I had my first forays into posting things online using Google+, of all things (my parents didn’t let me have social media, but I could access this using my gmail), and they were drawings I had done of YOI characters, even a hand-drawn anecdote comic thing, and just… it was rudimentary, but you gotta start somewhere, right?

It became what I was known for, in my new school. It became part of me. That summer, my family went on holiday to Orlando FL to do the theme parks, and despite that having been something that I’d been begging to do for years, what I ended up being most excited about was the opportunity to go to Hot Topic and buy the YOI merch that they’d recently announced. I bought a T-shirt, a blanket, and a backpack, and although the backpack’s strap broke after a year of using it for school, I still have the T-shirt and the blanket, and they’re still special to me to this day. Back then, listening to the soundtrack on repeat, I’d decided that one day I was going to perform a dance routine to ‘In regards to love: Eros,’ and at the end of my first year of uni, that was something I was actually able to do. Was it good? Not really, I’m by no means a professional dancer, but I felt like I was paying homage to my inner… not quite child, more like my inner angsty teenager?

My whatsapp background is still YOI-themed. I still proudly display my Funko Pops and my posters in my bedroom at home. YOI is still my comfort show, and though I’m not usually one for rewatching shows, it’s still the show that I’ve rewatched the most. Even my username is a relic of my ties to the YOI fandom - though I wasn’t really using it much then, it’s something I thought up during the days when I was deepest in it, and I thought to myself “if I ever am brave enough to really start posting things online, this is the username I’ll use.” So even though the first thing I ever posted under the name KitKatsudon was the beginning of a BTS fanfiction on Quotev on all places that I was writing with a friend of mine at the time, it has its roots in YOI.

It’s sort of funny - once upon a time, I used to semi-joke that I couldn’t die before the YOI movie came out. Don’t get me wrong, my mental health was never bad enough that I had actually realistically considered not making it to Ice Ado’s release, but every time I said it, I did mean it. No matter how shitty I felt, I had to keep going, because I was going to have my bum in a seat when it eventually released in cinemas. I guess what this means now is that, unless Ice Ado is picked up by another studio, I’m just never going to die 🤷‍♀️ you’d better buckle the fuck up, mortals, because MAPPA has just granted me ultimate power.

What am I trying to say? I don’t really know. Maybe thank you, to the YOI team, for being such a positive force in my life. You gave me something comforting to hold onto while everything around me was changing, while I was starting my sexuality journey, while I didn’t have the close support of peers to help boost my mood. I don’t watch the show so often nowadays, but that’s because I save it for instances where I really need comforting. Maybe like today.

The story of Ice Adolescence may be over, at least for now, but I’ll always be grateful for what we did get.

[chibi-taylormoon]

Lets talk about this Yuri moment. This child got his interactions from dueling and savored the feeling of winning; z-arc's influence was strong in him from before Leo Akaba even found him. He's been alone, kids grew afraid of him and stopped talking to him. Look at his face when he mentions that, he's just a child that could've been taught that theres more than just victory in duels; he could've had friends he cherished and had a home. But no; Leo Akaba uses him for for the army and it makes Yuri grow worse with his thirst for power.

Yuri hates people, he likes to beat people, it brings him joy to overpower the people and turn them into cards. This is the z-arc influence in him and its a shame to see how worse Yuri gets after this moment when he duels Yugo and absorbs him. Yuri had the worst of the counterparts, pre-war the other boys had their family and friends- Yuri was completely alone. He had no chance of being a normal kid. He had nothing precious to him aside from his own personal joy of being strong.

Yuri is my personal favorite of the boys regardless though, if only the arc-v ending had a look into what its like for Yuri within Yuya maybe 3 months or so after everything. Theres probably a part of him that feels excluded from the other boys like he was with other children; Yuri did bad things, he enjoyed doing the bad things. But he's healing thanks to Yuya, Yuya told him he wants Yuri to smile; Yuya doesn't hold grudges and he would want to help Yuri as best he can. Yuri's development from being evil to helping Yuya and encouraging him to use his dragon didn't seem sudden to me; it was nice to see. Its like his way of atoning for the things he did. Basically, Yuri IS a good boy that again deserved so much better and with Yuya; he'd smile for actual joy.