Yuzuru Hanyu (and friends) skating to History Maker!

The business:

I was doing a sketch page but I had to stop they’re so in love oh god help me

#oh no!! #his LUNCH

"Give them back" by Mary Doodles

i feel like the obvious solution to the tension between “stede loving his very fancy and shiny pants is Good and Beautiful and he shouldn’t have to conform to a version of masculinity that was never authentic to who he was, that’s the whole point” and “shedding his old things is a sign of growth and narratively pleasing because he only obtained those beautiful things through money gained off systems of obscene human suffering” is that the newly actually-poor-not-just-broke stede and the crew should go steal new and even shinier clothes from rich assholes like the ones in e5

I’d call out “I’ll be right back! Love you!” Then leave. The one who starts meowing is my son.

i say treats and only one rabbit turns into a tiny hurricane slamming to my shoe

I say “Katchka!” and provided that none of the identical cats are Russian, only one tiny head will whip around.

Whichever one comes over and grabs my leg.

Try to pet them and the one that bites me is my bastard son, Toni Pepperoni.

offer broccoli to the roomful of cats to identify Nugget

I’d be so excited to have 100 new pets

I think they should redub yuri on ice but like properly this time. Multilingual VAs. Native speakers. Yuuri and Viktor supposedly communicate in English. Cool. Let’s hear it. I want everyone speaking the languages their characters would be for each scene. Yuuri speaks Japanese with his family, English with Viktor. Viktor speaks Russian with Yurio. I wanna hear Phichit speaking Thai. Subtitles exist and are useful. I want authentic dubbing. I wanna hear real accents. Please.

✨ how to get yourself a man by victor nikiforov ✨

1) fall in love with drunk japanese boy at formal banquet and fly across the world to capture his heart

2) ??? 3) marriage

A (probably not) comprehensive list of things Yuuri Katsuki did that broke Victor Nikiforov’s brain

There is a very very good reason that Victor Nikiforov falls so hard for Yuuri Katsuki. Honestly, I don’t think Victor stood a chance against this level of precious cinnamon roll chaotic good energy.

Viktor: Seduce me, Yuuri!

Yuuri:

I know there are multiple equally valid interpretations of Yuuri’s prior sexual history, and they are all Good Shit. I personally find it amusing to think he actually pulls a startling amount of tail, but he has no idea how to seduce because he has literally never ever had to try. He lives in a Beautiful Person Bubble, where there are simply enough girlies, gays, and theys that are 100% ready to throw themselves at him that our boy never has to chase. It just… happens for him.

And I picture Phichit explaining this to Viktor at some point and Viktor’s sexual frustration hitting a new and hilarious peak.

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

This is very soul filling to read. Thank you

My grandfather, who had a difficult time coming to terms with it when I came out, has been working very hard to understand me and my experience. About 5 weeks ago, he asked me, almost offhand, “why are you so sure that you’re a man?”

And I replied, “well, I could ask you the same thing.” And I moved on, continued, tried to explain why I feel the way that I do, but I don’t think he heard any of those things that I said afterward. 

Because six days later, we talked about it again, and this is what he told me: 

“I couldn’t stop thinking about what you said last week. Because all my life I identified it as ‘these are the parts that I have, and so I am a man’. But you’re living proof that gender is not limited to what is attached to your body, so I asked myself, why am I a man? And all I can say is ‘because I have no idea what it feels like to be anything else’. I cannot imagine what it’s like to be a woman. Or neither, or both, or any other gender. I have always been a man.”

And I replied, “that’s exactly what it feels like for me.”

So, shoutout to my cisgender grandfather, for stumbling upon the essence of being trans accidentally, with very little help from me. I love you, grandpa.

watching cis folks suddenly and comprehensively grasp the inessential nature of gender is always a joy

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know (most of us) love Yuri P for all his loudmouth comic foil ways. The audience can see he’s a poorly socialized teenager with about ten different complexes and possibly a frustrated crush on Yuuri K. But I would like to see more fic where is his attitude problem is an actual problem, because in real life a teenage boy being that rude that aggressively is going to suffer serious social and professional setbacks.

Teenage white boys do get away with a lot! But no one likes a disrespectful jerk. See: the way they all react to JJ (who actually turns to be a sweet but sheltered kid who’s overcompensating to project confidence. ~parallels~). Yuri P and JJ actually have somewhat similar abrasive hyperconfident personas, but Yuri P is given more leeway by his fellow skaters likely due to his age. And probably also his smaller stature. The day could come when people get up and leave when he walks into a room, because it stops being funny after a certain age. Or if one grows enough to be perceived as being physically threatening.

Like it or not, playing politics is a necessary part of life, we all have to do it. Learning to effectively manage one’s negative emotions and chaotic impulses is essential in getting ahead in life. You can’t cuss out your boss, and you can’t go around kicking people and yelling at them in bathrooms. My kingdom for when Viktor grabs Yuri P in episode 10. However complicated their relationship is, Yuri P is running out of road for people writing his ill manners off as kid stuff, and someone ought to be letting him know.

That face says “I’m about tired of this shit!”

(Also, I am in the camp that thinks Viktor is a sweet bean with Yuuri, and a steely-jawed professional with most everybody else. His behavior in Hasetsu with the Katsukis and Co., following and also kind of in the middle of his quarter life identity crisis, is not necessarily representative of his behavior before his breakdown or in general. His jetting off to Japan wouldn’t be widely considered shocking if he were known for flights of fancy or unprofessionalism. But more on him later.)

It would be hard to be unlikable in a judged sport. There’s already so much playing national favorites and reputation boosting and coach bonuses. Technical score is one thing, but judges can choose to see or not see certain mistakes. They push a narrative for entertainment value and also sometimes for personal gain. Sponsors would be trepidatious of someone who makes a habit of offending people, that’s just business. Rumors of unsportsmanlike conduct can be doggedly persistent. A certain collision at 2019 Worlds continues to get brought up online, and whether it was intentional or not doesn’t matter, there will always be people who speculate.

I’m just saying. I enjoy Yuri P as a character, and within the structure of a sports anime he’s a classic archetype. And iirc, at least Lilia is attempting to teach him some manners, so there’s that. In real life the urge to slap would be *so strong!* I am an adult who manages my unkind thoughts and reactive impulses, so I wouldn’t. But I’d definitely make every effort to avoid such a person. In fic, which people generally make the effort to imbue with more versimilitude, it would be nice sometimes to see him run up against the very real wall of Acceptable Behavior By An Adult Who Wants To Get Paid.

I have a feeling if Victor leaves Makkachin with Yurio for one day, Makkachin will annoy Yurio a lot but in the end of the day they'll get along :D