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Fic Preview: Love is the Ground We Dance Upon

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“I have a playlist with interesting options, but I also have some themed ones we can check, if you have an idea for a genre or theme.”

Yuuri followed him and together they settled against the boards. With a few flicks Victor opened the playlist section of his preferred music app.

“Can I?” Yuuri asked, reaching for the tablet.

“Sure, have a look.”

Biting his bottom lip, Yuuri scrolled through the lists until he stopped with a frown.

“Uh, Victor? What’s with this playlist?”

“Hm?” Victor took a closer look at what Yuuri was staring at. “Oh, it’s a collection of songs we could dance to. At our wedding.”

“You mean for our first dance?” Yuuri didn’t wait for an answer. Instead, he opened the selection and looked it over, his face lighting up with excitement.

“Yes, these are all just ideas. I’ve been saving them over time, and whenever I found a fitting one, I added it.”

“Wait—over time?” Yuuri stopped scrolling and looked at Victor. “How long have you been collecting them…?”

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I had the honour of getting to write a fluffy slice of life fic where Yuuri and Victor plan, practice and dance their first dance at their reception for the Vows of Grace (a Victuuri wedding themed) zine 💜💙

The zine‘s Twitter account (linked above) has a preview for all the lovely contributions ♡

Preorders are open ♡

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(for @yoituuri and @starryfeathers. I accidentally deleted this whole thing once so hopefully it doesn’t happen again/ it’s not rushed. I hope you enjoy you two, and anybody else who reads this!)

I made a post about my favorite boy Victor not too long ago, and I mentioned a shot in passing that I really loved, but because it wasn’t the focus of the post, I didn’t go into it. I would like to now. Here it is:

This is the first glimpse of Victor we get within canon. Well, beyond the opening sequence with Yuuri watching Victor skate as they grow up but I think we can all agree that was outside of canon and can be discarded here.

Anyway.

It’s a damn good first glimpse. As you’ve probably already noticed, Victor’s eyes are covered. Deliberately. Dude fuckin does a twirl and the camera is framed in such a way that we don’t get to see his eyes until he looks up for the cameras. That’s an interesting touch, for several reasons. 

First, when a character’s eyes are not visible, it implies something is hidden within them. A trait, motivation, true emotions, etc etc. 

Secondly, the fact that we can’t see Victor’s eyes until he turns to the cameras with that fake-ass media smile. In this scene, we’re being treated as the public. Victor is immediately hiding from us and the rest of the world. You know, something he does all the goddamn time.

Victor is scarily good at masking. For those who don’t know what I mean, masking is the act of hiding one’s true personality, desires, and/or emotions to conform to society. I mask due to past trauma. Victor masks to meet public expectation. 

You’ve probably guessed already that masking is incredibly unhealthy–it’s repression, after all. If it gets bad enough, you’ll stop knowing where masking ends and you begin. Sometimes it takes me months to figure out how I feel about something because I need to sort through so many layers of masking and anxiety and doubt. It’s really difficult sometimes. 

We see tons of lovely examples of Victor masking throughout the show. Here are a few off the top of my head: 

(^absolutely terrified vitya trying to be smooth)

(^living up to his press image)

(^so incredibly upset on so many levels but he doesn’t dare show it)

(^pissed enough that yuuri picks up on it. and then acts dishonestly w/ yuuri by trying to come off as pleasant)

(i love that yuuri is comfortable enough by this point to call victor out on his bs. if you’re gonna get mad, get mad) 

(you can actually see Victor’s hand shake if you watch the scene. boy is so pissed and he’s holding it in)

etc etc. 

Victor is actually incredibly reserved in all the emotions he shows, especially if it’s anger or sadness. For most of the series, he only lets himself go in front of Yuuri or alone. Victor hides from himself, he hides from Yuuri, and it helps no one in the end. 

The beach sequence, actually, is important to this idea too. As we know, Victor asks Yuuri what he wants them to be. 

And then he lists off all these options before essentially asking to go out with him, but in a way that says he’s too scared to do it outright.

Now, this is partially to gauge Yuuri’s feelings towards him, but it’s also highly revealing of Victor’s self-worth. He’s willing to put on any mask, any persona to be with Yuuri. Yuuri, of course, doesn’t want this at all. 

🚨 HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP ALERT!🚨

And looking at Victor’s reaction (guarded surprise)

This may be the first time Victor has been asked to just be himself. 

So if Victor was a world champion at 16

(boy is 15-16 in that article)

He must have been skating for a while beforehand. We can probably approximate by saying he started competitions around the time Yuri did, which I estimate to be about 12-13. However, Victor does say this 

And if we’re to believe him, 27-20=7, and therefore something happened at the age of 7 to force Victor into backing away from others and working himself to the bone. Uhm, wow. I don’t know how accurate it is to say that, but regardless, he’s been in the public eye for a long fuckin time. 

Victor has spent this long fuckin time building an image: elegance, confidence, charming yet untouchable. The perfect playboy, in a way. This is the person he presents to the public. I think he’s been masking like this for so long he forgot that this isn’t who he is–Victor has the ability to be all those things, but it’s not who he is. Victor is excitable, bubbly, caring, vulnerable, depressed, lonely, hardworking…Yuuri, by asking Victor to be himself, released a metaphorical floodgate on Victor’s emotions. He’s broken that carefully crafted persona. 

Victor is now publicly goofy and affectionate

(i love how he hides his face a little here…how cute and shy while showing off that he’s yuuri’s)

And can drop his composure comfortably 

(also vitya always wears gloves to competitions until they get the rings and then victor keeps the gloves off completely :v) 

I love that Victor’s relationship with Yuuri has allowed him to find himself again, and peel away those masks to live and breathe and love as he was always meant to. 

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PSA: dont use l33t speak in AO3 tags

[image ID: an AO3 tag that reads ‘implied suicidal thoughts’ but with exclamation marks in place of the letters i]

if you do this, congrats, you’ve totally defeated the purpose of the tagging system!

AO3 is not tiktok. it is not run by a mega-corporation that sanitizes content for advertisability and shadowbans or deletes content. it’s an ARCHIVE. 

by doing this, it means people won’t be able to exclude or include your tags. and if they use a text-to-speech reader, you’ve made it ten times harder to understand. 

this goes for tumblr too!! if you put “su!c!de tw” anybody who has “suicide tw” blacklisted will still see your post. it’s not a warning if the words aren’t able to be read or recognized by the systems.

no hate if you’ve been doing this! just fix your tags and don’t do it in the future.

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girl help in order to obtain the exact content i want i must create it myself

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baby Yuuri & baby Vicchan

inspired by “Sleeping Staś”, 1904, by Stanisław Wyspiański; my second Yuuri fanart inspired by this artist

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I’m still not over the IceAdo trailer

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Art by  pakoya_pako

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So I rewatched Yuri on Ice twice within 2 weeks. I miss this series so much and I miss my little Russian warrior. That’s why I drew him dressed in something cute. I’m quite happy with the result, since I’m not the best colourist when it comes to digital art 😭 I used a lot of references for colours of this.

Hope you’ll like it!

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Art by  hg2_on

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Blessings  ⛩️✨ One of the designs for January’s patreon postcards <3

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Art by  nejimanejima

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Soon as I posted this last time, I noticed I’d made the hands too small. Didn’t stress about correcting it right away, as I didn’t figure it’d get any more reblogs than usual, which is Not Many. But it stinking blew up. Well, compared to usual. And every time it got reblogged, I’d twitch a little in annoyance because I still hadn’t fixed the hand thing. 

So here. I FIXED THE HAND THING. 

I think. It’s better than it was. 

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They will be okay……right?

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“Let’s end this”