"JUST FRIENDS" DON'T LIVE LIKE THAT,
They don't look at each other,
With love in their eyes,
With hopes to settle down,
For the rest of their lives.
history hates lovers - oublaire
Yuuri’s birthday is hereeee 😭💖
Happiest birthday to our beloved pork cutlet bowl, we miss you 😭
I love him so much
MAPPA just showed artwork at their VAX Malaysia panel featuring Noriko Itou, Tadashi Hiramatsu, and Manabu Otsuka of Victuuri of the rings and it looks like there is a little detail we didn’t know about. The inside of the rings features a snowflake engraving! Each ring only has a half of the snowflake though, so of course, in order to get the full one, you have to have the pair.
‘They’re a pair’ takes on a whole new meaning. Wow. This is absolutely lovely. ♥ ( twitter source )
Also that picture of Victor and Yuuri looks like an engagement announcement they’d post on social media. Sweetest boys!!
yuuri “wait are you taking a picture of me?” katsuki
❀ cutie ❀
august recs
here are the fics i read this month that i recommend :)
some flowers bloom dead (series) by anon - T - 124k (complete) - cw: violence, temporary major character death, anxiety, depression, self destructive behaviors, referenced suicide attempt
summary: yuuri, the lord of the underworld, has an arranged marriage to victor, the god of spring, who wants to kill him. "aka the weird hades and persephone retelling" without the greek worldbuilding.
edit: this fic has been removed from ao3
love born in the eye of the storm by ScribblerQueen1 - T - 14k (complete) - cw: alcohol use
summary: "after a snowstorm cancels their return flight and all the hotels are overbooked, yuuri decides to detour home to wait it out. he offers to let other stranded skaters stay at yutopia, he just didn't know one of them was victor nikiforov."
sweet like love (soft like pain) by postingpebbles - M - 24k (complete) - cw: car accident, injury, sexual content
summary: "when the entire world has no idea that figure skating rivals yuuri katsuki and viktor nikiforov are in a relationship, viktor can't do anything at all when yuuri gets into an accident and is rushed to the hospital."
up in the air by Lisettola - G - 3k (complete) - cw: anxiety
summary: starts with victor sitting next to yuuri on an airplane, ends with them planning a date. very cute!
i feel we're close enough (i wanna lock in your love) by JMonCheri - T - 20k (complete) - cw: violence
summary: rival superheros + pining roommates + friends to lovers all rolled into one.
"can i borrow that book?" by Linisen - E - 13k (complete) - cw: explicit sexual content
summary: "booktuber victor finds himself without a book to read halfway through a six-hour flight. luckily, the cute boy next to him seems to have just finished his. they can just trade books right? maybe that will give victor a good reason to talk to him too."
life with the dull bits cut out by thishasbeencary - T - 9k (complete) - cw: none
summary: actors au, friends to lovers, secret relationship, fandoms, and fluff (plus a little bit of angst)
all the missed chances (wait for me, i'm coming) by Carpe_History - T - 97k (complete) - cw: alcohol use
summary: "the day that victor nikiforov found Yuuri was life-changing. he followed yuuri katsuki, a new senior figure skater, on victor's own newly created incognito twitter account. on the other side of the world, the day @ ice_love_life followed yuuri on twitter, was filled with more important things. Yuuri had come in second at junior worlds and won a large enough sponsorship to afford a new rink in the US and was living with a new roommate and skating with a new coach. he noticed the account and, at phichit’s urging, followed back."
YOI Fic Reclist (Part 1?)
Ask and you shall receive (ノ^ヮ^)ノ*:・゚✧ I said this was gonna be mostly underrated fics but I feel like a lot of these… aren’t… super underrated? Oh well, whatever. I tried; just have these random fics I love from my bookmarks. ❤
september recs
here are the fics i read this month that i recommend :)
the act of falling by widomauk - E - 17k (complete) - cw: explicit sex, alcohol use
summary: "a role reversal! victuuri where yuuri is a five-time world champion and victor falls in love with him"
maelstrom by feelslikefire - E - 43k (complete) - cw: alcohol use, explicit sexual content, hospital
summary: a loose groundhog day time loop au. (victor is kinda an asshole towards the beginning)
2 bd, 2 ba, 791 sq ft, pets OK by hellodeer - G - 3k (complete) - cw: depression, anxiety, mention of suicide
summary: "Yuuri turns Viktor’s cold, neglected apartment into a home."
CIA:MissionReports\Katsuki\Log by CreativeSweets - E - 30k (complete) - cw: explicit sexual content, alcohol use, violence, guns, anxiety
summary: "Katsuki Yuuri, aka Peaches 'n' Cream, is a dime-a-dozen honeypot agent for the CIA. He's not sure how he's convinced so many people that he's halfway competent, but at least the pay is good—when he's not getting shot at, that is."
Homeward Bound to Russia? by ScribblerQueen1 - G - 5k (complete) - cw: none
summary: "AU Where Vicchan doesn't die but ends up very far from home instead." very funny and sweet
3 timers and a necromancer by longlosttimelady - T - 12k (complete) - cw: death, hospitals, comas
summary: "Everyone is born with three timers, one for when you acheive your life goal, one for when you meet your soulmate, and one for when you die. Most people's death happens last, Victor's happens first. Luckily Yuuri is secretly a necromancer."
#BestSkaterDoggo by relcutantlyback (AzaWhite) - T - 3k (complete) - cw: alcohol use
summary: "In which Yuuri gets drunk, calls Vicchan the best doggo, accidentally starts a viral Twitter war, and somewhere along the way also manages to catch the attention of Victor Nikiforov?"
empty spaces between stars by astudyinrose - E/M - 227k (complete) - cw: mention of sexual assault, alcohol use, explicit sexual content, mention of abuse, depression, anxiety
summary: they both get drunk at the sochi banquet and wake up the next morning married and in the tabloids. this results in a fake-real-marriage situation with lots of pining
sexy french depression by counterheist - T - 4k (complete) - cw: depression
summary: victor gave up school to follow skating. yuuri did not. victor is insecure
hello there! i was wondering if you could recommend me some fics- i’m into post-canon fics that revolve around victor and yuuri’s life in russia and competing against each other like the husbands vs husbands world championship you had on your may recs. i’ve actually found it hard to find many like these in my search and have read all the one i can find and didn’t know if you know of any. even if they don’t have competition in them just their life in russia is okay too. (:
sorry for rambling! if you have any i’d greatly appreciate it and tysm for being an active ficrec blog nowadays! super helpful!<3
hi! thank you :) i don’t read a ton of these but here are some that i have read and that i could find.
all of these are post canon, but don’t all focus on the competing aspect
The Real Podium Family (series) by WinglessCrows - T/G - 186k (complete) - cw: anxiety, panic attacks, alcohol use, implied sexual content
summary: "Follow Yuuri and Viktor as they go through competitions, starting from Viktor's comeback to the end of the Olympic season."
call everything on the ice... by shysweetthing -E - 50k (complete) - cw: alcohol use, anxiety
summary: "Victor learns Japanese while in Hasetsu. He doesn't tell Yuuri, and things get dicey when he overhears Yuuri and Mari talking about him in Japanese. Repeatedly." this one starts during canon and lasts through post canon
like love, like everything by windupbirdgirl - T - 7k (complete) - cw: none
victor doesn’t realize he and yuuri are engaged. takes place a full year after canon ends.
in search of silver lining by karasunotsubasa - M - 14k (complete) - cw: sexual content, animal death mention (vicchan), anxiety
summary: soulmate au where you can feel your bond form over time in your mind. very sweet! takes place the season after canon, where they live in st. petersburg.
this curious condition called love by xtwilightzx (blackidyll) - T - 16k (complete) - cw: anxiety
summary: "Yuuri has done the transcontinental uprooting of his life twice before and it's never easy, but this time there are photos plastered all over Victor's social media, explorations into Russian cuisine, shenanigans with the Russian figure skating national team, calls and messages from friends and family, and Victor, always. Victor, on the other hand, mostly copes by watching Yuuri adapt to life in St. Petersburg"
to have and to hold by WretchedArtifact - T - 4k (complete) - cw: injury
summary: victor is injured during his free program at the pyeongchang olympics
2,872 points (95% upvoted) by kevystel (aiden_ng) - G - 1k (complete) - cw: none
summary: post canon reddit ask me anything! (plus the rest of the fics in this series)
Victor “The Milkman” Nikiforov: the man, the meme, the legend by bosbie - T - 13k (complete) - cw: brief violence
summary: very funny fic in post canon where they live in st. petersburg
summary: "Yuuri's moving in was a complicated process. feat. mason jars, Yurio cooking, Victor not cooking, Phichit's black market deals, old clothes swapping, and suspiciously vague descriptions of Saint Petersburg."
i'm so sorry that this took so incredibly long for me to post, so hopefully i will get more requested lists done soon before midterms start
history repeats itself
rb with your favourite thing kim seokjin has ever said