I Will Keep Trick-or-treating Until They Stop Giving Me Candy. (AND YES I DO PUT EFFORT INTO MY COSTUME!!!!)

Hello! Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to five other writers 🥰

Thanks for the nomination, Angela! 💙💜

Since I got started in 2009, I've written tons of fanfictions and I love all of them, but I will only include those I posted on AO3 because I deem the ones from before as no longer relevant (plus the old ones were in my first language lol). That means I only have Yuri!!! On Ice fanfictions on this shameless self-rec list.

Because the Hydrangeas weren't yet in Bloom - a one-shot about Japanese flower language and how it applies to Yuuri's and Viktor's gala costumes

A Song of Fiery Birds and Endless Winter - a cute little romance that explores "what if Yuuri and Viktor meet at the Olympics?" with lots of figure skating including homages to the skaters that inspired the YOI characters, and a sensible presentation of mental illnesses. It's my only non-canonical YOI fanfiction albeit still canon-verse. Ended up in an anti-rec collection because Yuuri was too fanboyish (make of that what you want).

The Instruments are in Harmony - a one-shot about the making of Yuuri's free programme

Beneath the Shine of a Thousand Spotlights - a multi-chapter narration about Viktor fighting depression and creative burnout right before he became Yuuri's coach. Although this story flopped gloriously, it's very dear to my heart not only because Vitya is but because I wrote the whole draft during a time when I contemplated stopping writing for good.

Last but not least, my special extended novelisation Can You Hear My Heartbeat, which is my love letter to Yuri!!! On Ice. Prepare yourself for flirty coaches, hanging out that's actually dating, Japanese culture, fantastic figure skating, awkward actual dates, steamy dancing lessons, explorations of sexuality, kinky!Eros and a loong summer of mutual pining.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUURI

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YURI!!!!!

Saw this tweet and thought it sounded like something that would happen to them

Anxiety can be pretty shitty

GOOD LUCK! You’ll do amazing! ^^

One of the big tests that i have spent 4 years preparing comes in 2 days and i'm kinda sweating myself

So whenever i'm stressed out i'd enjoy drawing Rengoku enthusiastically cheering so i could feel better TwT

a comic about cuddles

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This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

Matryoshka Yuuri is ready to go into ceramic oven!!

A few times Viktor tries new things in retirement

1) Weed

As you might imagine, Yuuri is extremely, extremely anxious about it, and looks up countless Reddit threads on the do's and don'ts for first-timers. They end up cutting a raspberry-flavored edible into eighths, and despite Viktor whining after a half hour that he "doesn't feel anything", Yuuri doesn't allow him to have another helping (not yet, at least).

His cautiousness ends up being a good idea because only 5 minutes after Viktor's sulk-fest over being denied, his azure eyes go vacant and he scoots right to the edge of the couch. Just as Yuuri makes to ask if he's alright, Viktor whips his head around, eyeing the side of his face with unnerving focus.

Yuuri pokes his cheek and his fiance gives a slow, delayed giggle, before, inexplicably, placing both hands on Yuuri's jaw and leaning over to peer directly into his ear.

"Vitya?!" Yuuri squawks, pawing at him a bit. 

"Yuuuuuuuuri, why didn't you tell me that your ears made such fantastical, seductive music?!" Viktor demands in a purr, with a hint of outrage. "I always knew you made musicality with your body, but this....THIS..."

Yuuri never finds out what he means because Viktor trails off and stands up, abruptly, and then begins marching in the direction of the kitchen (where they'd laid out a variety of snacks, in case he got the munchies). Or he tries to march, rather, because every lift of his foot takes four times as long as it normally would, and Yuuri bursts into giggles and records a video of him trying to traipse across the room, clumsily.

An hour later, he's petting Viktor's bangs while his fiance throws up, having gorged himself on too many snacks at once. Loyal Makka is on his other side, cocking her head at his nonsensical babbling. Despite his stomach upset, Viktor seems elated, already talking about "a take two, except this time, I can try to quad flip while high!"

2) (Gourmet) Baking

It's not that Viktor had never baked pre-retirement, but the things he'd tried making were pretty simple, at least by his standards: cookies, brownies, and one time, matcha-flavored cupcakes that the two of them had demolished in one sitting.

But he'd never attempted the formidable challenge of French pastry making. Specifically: Kouign-amann, an endeavor that nearly shatters all of Viktor’s confidence and leads to more than a few teary meltdowns over how many turns of butter-folding, exactly, were required to achieve that elusive texture.

(On his seventh failed attempt, Yuuri tells him that it seems as perfect as one could possibly hope to achieve and a sense of dawning comprehension befalls Viktor, who is floored to realize that his fiance might, in fact, be an unabashed liar.)

As with everything good in the world, he ends up turning to YouTube for visual help, and thanks to the comments section of one particular video, Viktor ends up making a version that he, Yuuri, Yurio, Georgi, and Mila finish over the course of just two hours.

Viktor happily rubs his stomach, reveling in the fact that he can now eat whatever the hell he wants, AND that he now has the freedom to make his fiance all kinds of indulgent treats that he'd never had the time to learn how to make, beforehand.

"I mean, it turned out alright, don't look so pleased with yourself, geezer," Yurio grumbles.

Both of his cheeks are bulging, and he's already reaching for a third slice. 

3) Video Games

This endeavor is one, admittedly, that Viktor is not exactly enthused about, but he is still committed to it. Because learning how to play even one video game decently well means that he's not totally excluded from Yuuri and Yurio's fierce face-offs (which are usually also marked by virtual appearances from Phichit, Otabek, Leo, Mila, and Sara). 

After much back-and-forth (and lots of ranting from Yurio, who is less than pleased that "the geezer's gonna be purposefully bad at it, all so you can cuddle his pouting away, Katsudon!” *retching noises*), they decide on Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

Try as he might, Viktor just does not have the patience to sit through all of Yuuri's thorough explanations around the gameplay objective and world-building elements.

And it's not to say that Yuuri is a bad "coach"; his fiance is incredibly patient with him, not showing even the slightest hint of frustration when Viktor asks, for the tenth time, what the goal of this particular quest is, again. 

By this point, even kind, sweet Sara looks liable to kill somebody, and after a good hour-and-a-half of his best efforts, Viktor decides to have mercy on Yuuri, sheepishly admitting that "maybe Viktor Nikiforov and video games just don't go together".

A collective sigh of relief is exhaled.

"It's Viktor Katsuki-Nikiforov", Yuuri then smugly reminds him, and he beams in response, ecstatic that his fiance is already so eager to address him as such when their wedding is still several months away. 

Viktor rests his head on Yuuri's shoulder, suddenly not feeling that bad about letting "the experts" resume their gameplay. Maybe not everything he tries in retirement needs to be a wild success; Yuuri will still be there, regardless.

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"Turn this into a fic" my brain whispers, as I quietly sob about the number of WIPs I already have in rotation.

If you have headcanons about things Viktor might try in retirement, feel free to let me know!! I ADORE the idea of him truly allowing himself to grab life by the horns, with Yuuri at his side (and the pressures of his career behind him) 💓

What is this? A crossover episode???