Something I Love Most About Victor Is Just How Shameless He Is About Loving Yuuri.

Flowers for you! 💐

I’ll miss them forever

Okay, so this line?

Is not a direct translation.

It’s not wrong, I wouldn’t say - it’s just a different interpretation.

But the literal meaning is quite a bit darker.

Victor says 「自分の首を締める枷でもあった。」

“It also was a shackle closed around my neck.”

Like I said, the translation is not exactly wrong, but the original words make it clear that it made Victor feel like a prisoner, bound to his career/decisions against his will. You could even say that he felt like he was suffocating.

It paints a bit of a different picture, doesn’t it?

#6 Friendship

True friendship makes sure you don't share your food.

Happy 7th anni to Yuri On Ice!

i drew an au while waiting to board a flight a couple of months ago where yurio is the coach victor is the rival and yuuri just wants victor to notice him and i kind of revived it on twitter because i was bored 

i know captions dont load for everyone so yurio in this au is 26, victor is 18, and yuuri is 17, victor held off from leaving juniors for a year because of an injury but now hes back and after yurios titles, yurio takes yuuri as a student because if he HAS to lose his records its not gonna be to victor fucking nikiforov he is THAT petty what an Icon

still cant get over how scary yuuri was in jjs imagination!! ive always thought that jj and yuuri never got any scenes alone because jj was always lowkey terrified of him..

anyway eat your heart out @sathinfection

honeymoon reel 💖

When you were born to make history but your studio preferred shonen

when you're crying about the cancellation but remember how good YOI was to you

Scoring, Music, and Programs

So people new to figure skating through the YoI fandom may not be aware, but the scoring system used in the show is actually relatively new, having only been around a decade (and oh man watching the shitstorm that lead to the change was fascinating). A part of me thinks that the old ways really stands out among the oldest skaters - Victor, Chris, Georgi and to a lesser extent Yuuri, because they’re the last of the generation that would have had to adapt roughly during their transition from Junior to Senior. Yuuri is probably a BIT too young, since it changed in 2005, but he’d have seen its effect. 

Before the scoring change figure skating was, IMHO SUPER conservative, because it wasn’t a system of so many points for this, and so much for that. It was much more subjective and relied on the judge’s opinion of the program more. Yeah, the skaters would be docked for a fall, or if a landing wasn’t clean. But there would be times that seemingly flawless programs would get lower scores just because the judges didn’t like it. 

Music choices were a huge factor in playing to the judges… like I remember in the ‘94 olympics one skater used the instrumental theme from Jurassic Park, and I thought that was pretty bold when compared to the overwhelming number of Beethoven and Mozart pieces. 

Back to why I think it affects the oldest YoI skaters though… look at when they play with their music. They make bolder music choices in the short program: Intoxicated, Eros, Carabosse but fall back to more traditional/conservative in the free skate. (I do think Tale of a Sleeping Prince is a more conservative piece than Carabosse)

But look at the upcoming generation and their free skates - Minami does a boogie, Phichit chooses a movie piece that isn’t defined by western norms of music, Guang Hong’s Inferno, and Emil’s Anastasis all let them tell a story that nobody would have dared a decade ago because if the judge didn’t like the music it could affect scores. And since the Free Skate is worth more, that’s where the oldest skaters would have learned to play it cool and not rock the boat. 

It’s subtle, but I like that detail in how the age gap is presented in another way.