Watched another couple episodes of Yuri on Ice. Wasn't going to post about it but this conversation sucks.
It's kind of funny to watch right after listening to Bill Simmons Channel 33 podcast about sports movies, where they go through and name all the standard Sports Movie Plots and story beats and stuff. Cuz it totally hits a bunch of them. Athlete starting to get over the hill, nobody believes in him, cocky upstart with tons of natural talent looks like he's going to overtake him... But then he gets a new coach, rediscovers his joy in the sport, as he begins a last resurgence on his career his new attitude on life also enables a new romance and/or new romance gives him a new attitude on life. That's like, how many Kevin Costner movies? The show is plainly very conscious of sports movie tropes. And yet, sports movies are also a pretty hyper masculine genre, the hero may let out his sensitive side, but only to his new lady friend, and only in certain ways.
Which is why I find Yuri on Ice so interesting. Yuri is a pro figure skater, he's like 23 now which is getting on the older side for skaters, and his last competition was a disaster. He comes back to his hometown for the first time in 5 years to reconsider what he wants to do next. The show even structurally seems like it's teasing the audience a bit here, when his cute female friend pops up in episode one and we're told he hasn't seen her in years, anyone familiar with sports movie tropes has got to immediately be like, "Ooh, ok, he goes back to his hometown, rekindles a flame from his youth, gets his mojo back, this girl is obviously the romantic interest." Except that she's married, has 3 kids, and Yuri doesn't mind a bit, cuz it grows slowly obvious that Yuri's gay.
We never really have Yuri's childhood spelled out, but in little glimpses we see he was kind of a scrawny kid who did ballet, then he started figure skating as well, his friends were mostly girls, and he obsessed over the professional figure skaters right along with them. The pictures of figure skaters up on the walls of his room aren't just sporting aspirational figures, they're also his childhood crushes. He's basically already had his whole Billy Elliot story, grown up, and become one of the best figure skaters in the world. And while there's a mix of sexualities among the skaters, they're not exactly a masculine bunch, they're all a bunch of artsy ballet types.
So on the one hand you have this story that's really hitting all the marks of a sports comeback story. And there's lots of focus on Yuri as an athlete, working out, managing his strict diet, practicing his jumps and technique. But all the language's changed, instead of hyper masculinity and stiff upper lips the focus is on like emotional, artistic expression, male beauty and sensuality. And Yuri's blooming romance isn't with some cutie back home, it's with his new skating coach, a man that he idolized back when he was an amateur.
It does some other cool things too. Sports movies are usually more about the underdog outsider, but Yuri's already a pro. So things like the pressure of social media, the difference in how the public perceives him (one of the best in the world!) vs. how he perceives himself (the worst at the whole tournament), and the social weirdness of a bunch of kids coming of age and competing against the "old" athletes that they used to watch on TV. And I like how the show really constructs the skaters in their own little social world, even though they don't all like each other they're all stuck in hotels competing at the same places, and fans are crazy, so they hang out together, and some of them date, and the rest of them gossip about how that guy totally got dumped and now this season he's doing a whole tragic romance theme to his short program, lololol.
Yuri on Ice is really good, people should watch it.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I'm out with a wholesome bunch of bros and brosephines, all a decade younger than myself. My chances of having sex in public are essentially nil this years!
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Watched another couple episodes of Yuri on Ice. Wasn't going to post about it but this conversation sucks.
It's kind of funny to watch right after listening to Bill Simmons Channel 33 podcast about sports movies, where they go through and name all the standard Sports Movie Plots and story beats and stuff. Cuz it totally hits a bunch of them. Athlete starting to get over the hill, nobody believes in him, cocky upstart with tons of natural talent looks like he's going to overtake him... But then he gets a new coach, rediscovers his joy in the sport, as he begins a last resurgence on his career his new attitude on life also enables a new romance and/or new romance gives him a new attitude on life. That's like, how many Kevin Costner movies? The show is plainly very conscious of sports movie tropes. And yet, sports movies are also a pretty hyper masculine genre, the hero may let out his sensitive side, but only to his new lady friend, and only in certain ways.
Which is why I find Yuri on Ice so interesting. Yuri is a pro figure skater, he's like 23 now which is getting on the older side for skaters, and his last competition was a disaster. He comes back to his hometown for the first time in 5 years to reconsider what he wants to do next. The show even structurally seems like it's teasing the audience a bit here, when his cute female friend pops up in episode one and we're told he hasn't seen her in years, anyone familiar with sports movie tropes has got to immediately be like, "Ooh, ok, he goes back to his hometown, rekindles a flame from his youth, gets his mojo back, this girl is obviously the romantic interest." Except that she's married, has 3 kids, and Yuri doesn't mind a bit, cuz it grows slowly obvious that Yuri's gay.
We never really have Yuri's childhood spelled out, but in little glimpses we see he was kind of a scrawny kid who did ballet, then he started figure skating as well, his friends were mostly girls, and he obsessed over the professional figure skaters right along with them. The pictures of figure skaters up on the walls of his room aren't just sporting aspirational figures, they're also his childhood crushes. He's basically already had his whole Billy Elliot story, grown up, and become one of the best figure skaters in the world. And while there's a mix of sexualities among the skaters, they're not exactly a masculine bunch, they're all a bunch of artsy ballet types.
So on the one hand you have this story that's really hitting all the marks of a sports comeback story. And there's lots of focus on Yuri as an athlete, working out, managing his strict diet, practicing his jumps and technique. But all the language's changed, instead of hyper masculinity and stiff upper lips the focus is on like emotional, artistic expression, male beauty and sensuality. And Yuri's blooming romance isn't with some cutie back home, it's with his new skating coach, a man that he idolized back when he was an amateur.
It does some other cool things too. Sports movies are usually more about the underdog outsider, but Yuri's already a pro. So things like the pressure of social media, the difference in how the public perceives him (one of the best in the world!) vs. how he perceives himself (the worst at the whole tournament), and the social weirdness of a bunch of kids coming of age and competing against the "old" athletes that they used to watch on TV. And I like how the show really constructs the skaters in their own little social world, even though they don't all like each other they're all stuck in hotels competing at the same places, and fans are crazy, so they hang out together, and some of them date, and the rest of them gossip about how that guy totally got dumped and now this season he's doing a whole tragic romance theme to his short program, lololol.
Yuri on Ice is really good, people should watch it.
Kana
I literally binged all 12 episodes over the course of the last 24 hrs
Victor x Yuri OTP skate like a beautiful dream we were born to make hsitory
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The lights legitimately might have done a lot to keep her warm. But that's something I always consider when performers are outside.
I missed the performance but I hope it wasn't really that bad :-(
no dude it was awful.
She opened with ald lang sine which was fine...
But then it transitioned to you got me feelin' emotions... to which she audibly asked two of the dancers to help her down the stairs, started talking into the mic about how there was no backing track for this, and the music just kept playing as she half-heartedly sang a few bars every 30 seconds or so... but all her high notes were sung perfectly, because they were part of the track, not her.
Then the second song came up which was right off the album, and she just doubled along with herself for a while until she gave up and the refrain was sung by the reccording.
It ended with her saying "it never gets better than this" into the mic before walking off stage.
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The lights legitimately might have done a lot to keep her warm. But that's something I always consider when performers are outside.
I missed the performance but I hope it wasn't really that bad :-(
no dude it was awful.
She opened with ald lang sine which was fine...
But then it transitioned to you got me feelin' emotions... to which she audibly asked two of the dancers to help her down the stairs, started talking into the mic about how there was no backing track for this, and the music just kept playing as she half-heartedly sang a few bars every 30 seconds or so... but all her high notes were sung perfectly, because they were part of the track, not her.
Then the second song came up which was right off the album, and she just doubled along with herself for a while until she gave up and the refrain was sung by the reccording.
It ended with her saying "it never gets better than this" into the mic before walking off stage.
Watched another couple episodes of Yuri on Ice. Wasn't going to post about it but this conversation sucks.
It's kind of funny to watch right after listening to Bill Simmons Channel 33 podcast about sports movies, where they go through and name all the standard Sports Movie Plots and story beats and stuff. Cuz it totally hits a bunch of them. Athlete starting to get over the hill, nobody believes in him, cocky upstart with tons of natural talent looks like he's going to overtake him... But then he gets a new coach, rediscovers his joy in the sport, as he begins a last resurgence on his career his new attitude on life also enables a new romance and/or new romance gives him a new attitude on life. That's like, how many Kevin Costner movies? The show is plainly very conscious of sports movie tropes. And yet, sports movies are also a pretty hyper masculine genre, the hero may let out his sensitive side, but only to his new lady friend, and only in certain ways.
Which is why I find Yuri on Ice so interesting. Yuri is a pro figure skater, he's like 23 now which is getting on the older side for skaters, and his last competition was a disaster. He comes back to his hometown for the first time in 5 years to reconsider what he wants to do next. The show even structurally seems like it's teasing the audience a bit here, when his cute female friend pops up in episode one and we're told he hasn't seen her in years, anyone familiar with sports movie tropes has got to immediately be like, "Ooh, ok, he goes back to his hometown, rekindles a flame from his youth, gets his mojo back, this girl is obviously the romantic interest." Except that she's married, has 3 kids, and Yuri doesn't mind a bit, cuz it grows slowly obvious that Yuri's gay.
We never really have Yuri's childhood spelled out, but in little glimpses we see he was kind of a scrawny kid who did ballet, then he started figure skating as well, his friends were mostly girls, and he obsessed over the professional figure skaters right along with them. The pictures of figure skaters up on the walls of his room aren't just sporting aspirational figures, they're also his childhood crushes. He's basically already had his whole Billy Elliot story, grown up, and become one of the best figure skaters in the world. And while there's a mix of sexualities among the skaters, they're not exactly a masculine bunch, they're all a bunch of artsy ballet types.
So on the one hand you have this story that's really hitting all the marks of a sports comeback story. And there's lots of focus on Yuri as an athlete, working out, managing his strict diet, practicing his jumps and technique. But all the language's changed, instead of hyper masculinity and stiff upper lips the focus is on like emotional, artistic expression, male beauty and sensuality. And Yuri's blooming romance isn't with some cutie back home, it's with his new skating coach, a man that he idolized back when he was an amateur.
It does some other cool things too. Sports movies are usually more about the underdog outsider, but Yuri's already a pro. So things like the pressure of social media, the difference in how the public perceives him (one of the best in the world!) vs. how he perceives himself (the worst at the whole tournament), and the social weirdness of a bunch of kids coming of age and competing against the "old" athletes that they used to watch on TV. And I like how the show really constructs the skaters in their own little social world, even though they don't all like each other they're all stuck in hotels competing at the same places, and fans are crazy, so they hang out together, and some of them date, and the rest of them gossip about how that guy totally got dumped and now this season he's doing a whole tragic romance theme to his short program, lololol.
Yuri on Ice is really good, people should watch it.
Kana
I literally binged all 12 episodes over the course of the last 24 hrs
Victor x Yuri OTP skate like a beautiful dream we were born to make hsitory
Truest love
second only to JJ x JJ
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Watched another couple episodes of Yuri on Ice. Wasn't going to post about it but this conversation sucks.
It's kind of funny to watch right after listening to Bill Simmons Channel 33 podcast about sports movies, where they go through and name all the standard Sports Movie Plots and story beats and stuff. Cuz it totally hits a bunch of them. Athlete starting to get over the hill, nobody believes in him, cocky upstart with tons of natural talent looks like he's going to overtake him... But then he gets a new coach, rediscovers his joy in the sport, as he begins a last resurgence on his career his new attitude on life also enables a new romance and/or new romance gives him a new attitude on life. That's like, how many Kevin Costner movies? The show is plainly very conscious of sports movie tropes. And yet, sports movies are also a pretty hyper masculine genre, the hero may let out his sensitive side, but only to his new lady friend, and only in certain ways.
Which is why I find Yuri on Ice so interesting. Yuri is a pro figure skater, he's like 23 now which is getting on the older side for skaters, and his last competition was a disaster. He comes back to his hometown for the first time in 5 years to reconsider what he wants to do next. The show even structurally seems like it's teasing the audience a bit here, when his cute female friend pops up in episode one and we're told he hasn't seen her in years, anyone familiar with sports movie tropes has got to immediately be like, "Ooh, ok, he goes back to his hometown, rekindles a flame from his youth, gets his mojo back, this girl is obviously the romantic interest." Except that she's married, has 3 kids, and Yuri doesn't mind a bit, cuz it grows slowly obvious that Yuri's gay.
We never really have Yuri's childhood spelled out, but in little glimpses we see he was kind of a scrawny kid who did ballet, then he started figure skating as well, his friends were mostly girls, and he obsessed over the professional figure skaters right along with them. The pictures of figure skaters up on the walls of his room aren't just sporting aspirational figures, they're also his childhood crushes. He's basically already had his whole Billy Elliot story, grown up, and become one of the best figure skaters in the world. And while there's a mix of sexualities among the skaters, they're not exactly a masculine bunch, they're all a bunch of artsy ballet types.
So on the one hand you have this story that's really hitting all the marks of a sports comeback story. And there's lots of focus on Yuri as an athlete, working out, managing his strict diet, practicing his jumps and technique. But all the language's changed, instead of hyper masculinity and stiff upper lips the focus is on like emotional, artistic expression, male beauty and sensuality. And Yuri's blooming romance isn't with some cutie back home, it's with his new skating coach, a man that he idolized back when he was an amateur.
It does some other cool things too. Sports movies are usually more about the underdog outsider, but Yuri's already a pro. So things like the pressure of social media, the difference in how the public perceives him (one of the best in the world!) vs. how he perceives himself (the worst at the whole tournament), and the social weirdness of a bunch of kids coming of age and competing against the "old" athletes that they used to watch on TV. And I like how the show really constructs the skaters in their own little social world, even though they don't all like each other they're all stuck in hotels competing at the same places, and fans are crazy, so they hang out together, and some of them date, and the rest of them gossip about how that guy totally got dumped and now this season he's doing a whole tragic romance theme to his short program, lololol.
Yuri on Ice is really good, people should watch it.
Kana
I literally binged all 12 episodes over the course of the last 24 hrs
Victor x Yuri OTP skate like a beautiful dream we were born to make hsitory
We made it to the hotel with 15 to spare and are watching this dick Clark Ryan Seacrest thing. And I found a single of best Damn root beer which has alcohol in it and is surprisingly delicious without having to buy an entire sixer.
Happy new year! I hope!
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O kana here also cause while checking out yuri on ice in YouTube they helpfully reminded me about this Johnny Weir routine from many years ago and I was like FUCK I KNEW Yuri's short program costume reminded me of something
Watched another couple episodes of Yuri on Ice. Wasn't going to post about it but this conversation sucks.
It's kind of funny to watch right after listening to Bill Simmons Channel 33 podcast about sports movies, where they go through and name all the standard Sports Movie Plots and story beats and stuff. Cuz it totally hits a bunch of them. Athlete starting to get over the hill, nobody believes in him, cocky upstart with tons of natural talent looks like he's going to overtake him... But then he gets a new coach, rediscovers his joy in the sport, as he begins a last resurgence on his career his new attitude on life also enables a new romance and/or new romance gives him a new attitude on life. That's like, how many Kevin Costner movies? The show is plainly very conscious of sports movie tropes. And yet, sports movies are also a pretty hyper masculine genre, the hero may let out his sensitive side, but only to his new lady friend, and only in certain ways.
Which is why I find Yuri on Ice so interesting. Yuri is a pro figure skater, he's like 23 now which is getting on the older side for skaters, and his last competition was a disaster. He comes back to his hometown for the first time in 5 years to reconsider what he wants to do next. The show even structurally seems like it's teasing the audience a bit here, when his cute female friend pops up in episode one and we're told he hasn't seen her in years, anyone familiar with sports movie tropes has got to immediately be like, "Ooh, ok, he goes back to his hometown, rekindles a flame from his youth, gets his mojo back, this girl is obviously the romantic interest." Except that she's married, has 3 kids, and Yuri doesn't mind a bit, cuz it grows slowly obvious that Yuri's gay.
We never really have Yuri's childhood spelled out, but in little glimpses we see he was kind of a scrawny kid who did ballet, then he started figure skating as well, his friends were mostly girls, and he obsessed over the professional figure skaters right along with them. The pictures of figure skaters up on the walls of his room aren't just sporting aspirational figures, they're also his childhood crushes. He's basically already had his whole Billy Elliot story, grown up, and become one of the best figure skaters in the world. And while there's a mix of sexualities among the skaters, they're not exactly a masculine bunch, they're all a bunch of artsy ballet types.
So on the one hand you have this story that's really hitting all the marks of a sports comeback story. And there's lots of focus on Yuri as an athlete, working out, managing his strict diet, practicing his jumps and technique. But all the language's changed, instead of hyper masculinity and stiff upper lips the focus is on like emotional, artistic expression, male beauty and sensuality. And Yuri's blooming romance isn't with some cutie back home, it's with his new skating coach, a man that he idolized back when he was an amateur.
It does some other cool things too. Sports movies are usually more about the underdog outsider, but Yuri's already a pro. So things like the pressure of social media, the difference in how the public perceives him (one of the best in the world!) vs. how he perceives himself (the worst at the whole tournament), and the social weirdness of a bunch of kids coming of age and competing against the "old" athletes that they used to watch on TV. And I like how the show really constructs the skaters in their own little social world, even though they don't all like each other they're all stuck in hotels competing at the same places, and fans are crazy, so they hang out together, and some of them date, and the rest of them gossip about how that guy totally got dumped and now this season he's doing a whole tragic romance theme to his short program, lololol.
Yuri on Ice is really good, people should watch it.
Kana
I literally binged all 12 episodes over the course of the last 24 hrs
Victor x Yuri OTP skate like a beautiful dream we were born to make hsitory
Truest love
second only to JJ x JJ
Yurio x Pirozhki
I like how
Well, it's not like anime isn't full of fucking dopey teenagers
But I like how everyone totally recognizes what a dopey pain in the ass teenager Yurio is
He even walks around staring at his phone all the time.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
The lights legitimately might have done a lot to keep her warm. But that's something I always consider when performers are outside.
I missed the performance but I hope it wasn't really that bad :-(
no dude it was awful.
She opened with ald lang sine which was fine...
But then it transitioned to you got me feelin' emotions... to which she audibly asked two of the dancers to help her down the stairs, started talking into the mic about how there was no backing track for this, and the music just kept playing as she half-heartedly sang a few bars every 30 seconds or so... but all her high notes were sung perfectly, because they were part of the track, not her.
Then the second song came up which was right off the album, and she just doubled along with herself for a while until she gave up and the refrain was sung by the reccording.
It ended with her saying "it never gets better than this" into the mic before walking off stage.
her routine perfectly encapsulated the year
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I know that this will likely be an amazing year for me, professionally.
I also know that I am going to despise what the world is becoming.
My life goal is to be rich enough to not feel the pain personally, and hopefully be wealthy enough in 3 years to fund the team that kicks trump out of washington.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Watched another couple episodes of Yuri on Ice. Wasn't going to post about it but this conversation sucks.
It's kind of funny to watch right after listening to Bill Simmons Channel 33 podcast about sports movies, where they go through and name all the standard Sports Movie Plots and story beats and stuff. Cuz it totally hits a bunch of them. Athlete starting to get over the hill, nobody believes in him, cocky upstart with tons of natural talent looks like he's going to overtake him... But then he gets a new coach, rediscovers his joy in the sport, as he begins a last resurgence on his career his new attitude on life also enables a new romance and/or new romance gives him a new attitude on life. That's like, how many Kevin Costner movies? The show is plainly very conscious of sports movie tropes. And yet, sports movies are also a pretty hyper masculine genre, the hero may let out his sensitive side, but only to his new lady friend, and only in certain ways.
Which is why I find Yuri on Ice so interesting. Yuri is a pro figure skater, he's like 23 now which is getting on the older side for skaters, and his last competition was a disaster. He comes back to his hometown for the first time in 5 years to reconsider what he wants to do next. The show even structurally seems like it's teasing the audience a bit here, when his cute female friend pops up in episode one and we're told he hasn't seen her in years, anyone familiar with sports movie tropes has got to immediately be like, "Ooh, ok, he goes back to his hometown, rekindles a flame from his youth, gets his mojo back, this girl is obviously the romantic interest." Except that she's married, has 3 kids, and Yuri doesn't mind a bit, cuz it grows slowly obvious that Yuri's gay.
We never really have Yuri's childhood spelled out, but in little glimpses we see he was kind of a scrawny kid who did ballet, then he started figure skating as well, his friends were mostly girls, and he obsessed over the professional figure skaters right along with them. The pictures of figure skaters up on the walls of his room aren't just sporting aspirational figures, they're also his childhood crushes. He's basically already had his whole Billy Elliot story, grown up, and become one of the best figure skaters in the world. And while there's a mix of sexualities among the skaters, they're not exactly a masculine bunch, they're all a bunch of artsy ballet types.
So on the one hand you have this story that's really hitting all the marks of a sports comeback story. And there's lots of focus on Yuri as an athlete, working out, managing his strict diet, practicing his jumps and technique. But all the language's changed, instead of hyper masculinity and stiff upper lips the focus is on like emotional, artistic expression, male beauty and sensuality. And Yuri's blooming romance isn't with some cutie back home, it's with his new skating coach, a man that he idolized back when he was an amateur.
It does some other cool things too. Sports movies are usually more about the underdog outsider, but Yuri's already a pro. So things like the pressure of social media, the difference in how the public perceives him (one of the best in the world!) vs. how he perceives himself (the worst at the whole tournament), and the social weirdness of a bunch of kids coming of age and competing against the "old" athletes that they used to watch on TV. And I like how the show really constructs the skaters in their own little social world, even though they don't all like each other they're all stuck in hotels competing at the same places, and fans are crazy, so they hang out together, and some of them date, and the rest of them gossip about how that guy totally got dumped and now this season he's doing a whole tragic romance theme to his short program, lololol.
Yuri on Ice is really good, people should watch it.
Kana
I literally binged all 12 episodes over the course of the last 24 hrs
Victor x Yuri OTP skate like a beautiful dream we were born to make hsitory
Truest love
second only to JJ x JJ
Yurio x Pirozhki
I like how
Well, it's not like anime isn't full of fucking dopey teenagers
But I like how everyone totally recognizes what a dopey pain in the ass teenager Yurio is
He even walks around staring at his phone all the time.
Honestly
Last episode spoilar
i know it broke the mold to NOT have Yuri win gold and also keeps Yuri and Victor together as both romantic partners, as coach/student, AND as competitive rivals, which is all very good and multifaceted
I know that this will likely be an amazing year for me, professionally.
I also know that I am going to despise what the world is becoming.
My life goal is to be rich enough to not feel the pain personally, and hopefully be wealthy enough in 3 years to fund the team that kicks trump out of washington.
O kana here also cause while checking out yuri on ice in YouTube they helpfully reminded me about this Johnny Weir routine from many years ago and I was like FUCK I KNEW Yuri's short program costume reminded me of something
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Also Johnny Weir: total fan of the show
The reddit threads on the show had some really handy comments by some skating mega-fan about different skaters on the show or their outfits and what they're referencing.
I used to always watch skating when I was a kid but I haven't for years, so it's been kinda funny coming back to it a bit. I'm like, wait, quadruples are just like, a thing everybody does now??
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
O kana here also cause while checking out yuri on ice in YouTube they helpfully reminded me about this Johnny Weir routine from many years ago and I was like FUCK I KNEW Yuri's short program costume reminded me of something
snip
Also Johnny Weir: total fan of the show
The reddit threads on the show had some really handy comments by some skating mega-fan about different skaters on the show or their outfits and what they're referencing.
I used to always watch skating when I was a kid but I haven't for years, so it's been kinda funny coming back to it a bit. I'm like, wait, quadruples are just like, a thing everybody does now??
Alas I'm not appreciative enough of the sport and the difficulties of all the techniques. I only am into figure skating every 4 years during the Winter Olympics. If you have a link to a particular informative Reddit postu with skating context wud appreciate
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I missed the performance but I hope it wasn't really that bad :-(
My resolution this year has nothing to do with humility, apparently.
Come at me, 2017.
What you got?
2017 you're back in my good graces
we made it to Saturn Valley in Earthbound
we ate so many nachos and chicken nuggets and spinach dip
tomorrow we're gonna make omelettes and drink mimosas
fuck yeah adulthood!
#MyAvFace
Stranger Things done.
I am feeling.. a lot of things.
But most notably.. WHEN IS SEASON 2?!
it's a hell of a ride!
No shit that last episode and those last 15 minutes!
It's kind of funny to watch right after listening to Bill Simmons Channel 33 podcast about sports movies, where they go through and name all the standard Sports Movie Plots and story beats and stuff. Cuz it totally hits a bunch of them. Athlete starting to get over the hill, nobody believes in him, cocky upstart with tons of natural talent looks like he's going to overtake him... But then he gets a new coach, rediscovers his joy in the sport, as he begins a last resurgence on his career his new attitude on life also enables a new romance and/or new romance gives him a new attitude on life. That's like, how many Kevin Costner movies? The show is plainly very conscious of sports movie tropes. And yet, sports movies are also a pretty hyper masculine genre, the hero may let out his sensitive side, but only to his new lady friend, and only in certain ways.
Which is why I find Yuri on Ice so interesting. Yuri is a pro figure skater, he's like 23 now which is getting on the older side for skaters, and his last competition was a disaster. He comes back to his hometown for the first time in 5 years to reconsider what he wants to do next. The show even structurally seems like it's teasing the audience a bit here, when his cute female friend pops up in episode one and we're told he hasn't seen her in years, anyone familiar with sports movie tropes has got to immediately be like, "Ooh, ok, he goes back to his hometown, rekindles a flame from his youth, gets his mojo back, this girl is obviously the romantic interest." Except that she's married, has 3 kids, and Yuri doesn't mind a bit, cuz it grows slowly obvious that Yuri's gay.
We never really have Yuri's childhood spelled out, but in little glimpses we see he was kind of a scrawny kid who did ballet, then he started figure skating as well, his friends were mostly girls, and he obsessed over the professional figure skaters right along with them. The pictures of figure skaters up on the walls of his room aren't just sporting aspirational figures, they're also his childhood crushes. He's basically already had his whole Billy Elliot story, grown up, and become one of the best figure skaters in the world. And while there's a mix of sexualities among the skaters, they're not exactly a masculine bunch, they're all a bunch of artsy ballet types.
So on the one hand you have this story that's really hitting all the marks of a sports comeback story. And there's lots of focus on Yuri as an athlete, working out, managing his strict diet, practicing his jumps and technique. But all the language's changed, instead of hyper masculinity and stiff upper lips the focus is on like emotional, artistic expression, male beauty and sensuality. And Yuri's blooming romance isn't with some cutie back home, it's with his new skating coach, a man that he idolized back when he was an amateur.
It does some other cool things too. Sports movies are usually more about the underdog outsider, but Yuri's already a pro. So things like the pressure of social media, the difference in how the public perceives him (one of the best in the world!) vs. how he perceives himself (the worst at the whole tournament), and the social weirdness of a bunch of kids coming of age and competing against the "old" athletes that they used to watch on TV. And I like how the show really constructs the skaters in their own little social world, even though they don't all like each other they're all stuck in hotels competing at the same places, and fans are crazy, so they hang out together, and some of them date, and the rest of them gossip about how that guy totally got dumped and now this season he's doing a whole tragic romance theme to his short program, lololol.
Yuri on Ice is really good, people should watch it.
i have that dvd etc
Yay and/Or boo!
Kana
I literally binged all 12 episodes over the course of the last 24 hrs
Victor x Yuri OTP skate like a beautiful dream we were born to make hsitory
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no dude it was awful.
She opened with ald lang sine which was fine...
But then it transitioned to you got me feelin' emotions... to which she audibly asked two of the dancers to help her down the stairs, started talking into the mic about how there was no backing track for this, and the music just kept playing as she half-heartedly sang a few bars every 30 seconds or so... but all her high notes were sung perfectly, because they were part of the track, not her.
Then the second song came up which was right off the album, and she just doubled along with herself for a while until she gave up and the refrain was sung by the reccording.
It ended with her saying "it never gets better than this" into the mic before walking off stage.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
That's fucking fantastic
Truest love
second only to JJ x JJ
Yurio x Pirozhki
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Happy new year! I hope!
Also Johnny Weir: total fan of the show
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I like how
Well, it's not like anime isn't full of fucking dopey teenagers
But I like how everyone totally recognizes what a dopey pain in the ass teenager Yurio is
He even walks around staring at his phone all the time.
her routine perfectly encapsulated the year
beautiful
I also know that I am going to despise what the world is becoming.
My life goal is to be rich enough to not feel the pain personally, and hopefully be wealthy enough in 3 years to fund the team that kicks trump out of washington.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Honestly
Last episode spoilar
But
That smug fuck teen winning gold on his first try
Aw hell naw
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i wonder how rich that would have to be
cuz the hurt's gonna be big
The reddit threads on the show had some really handy comments by some skating mega-fan about different skaters on the show or their outfits and what they're referencing.
I used to always watch skating when I was a kid but I haven't for years, so it's been kinda funny coming back to it a bit. I'm like, wait, quadruples are just like, a thing everybody does now??
NOT YET
Still 2 hours to go
OH MY GOD this IS incredible @syndalis thankyou for bringing it to my attention
Alas I'm not appreciative enough of the sport and the difficulties of all the techniques. I only am into figure skating every 4 years during the Winter Olympics. If you have a link to a particular informative Reddit postu with skating context wud appreciate
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2real
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I didn't understand until I unmuted it
holy shit that is hilarious