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Loyalty that surpasses the stars. I have a lot of feelings about space and Laika  Patreon

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Did anyone notice in yoi ep1 that 80% of victor's fans in this scene were MEN.

there were only 2 women in this scene, which were interviewer and journalist.

BUT general fans(who weren’t camera men and journalist) are ALL MEN

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Catching up on inktober. Come on, Coach Cialdini looks so much like Dan Hibiki from Street Fighter, and yet somehow I’ve never seen anyone else commenting on it?

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More Victor Nikiforov for Inktober. Working on a more elaborate multi-parter next, so I probably won’t post it until it’s done.

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Inktober day 7. Just updating my avatar to, well, the hair I’ve actually had for years now. The next piece of Yuri on Ice art I want to do is more than I can pull off in one day, anyway.

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Inktober day 6. This is basically a prediction for a future Nendoroid figure. I have to go dust off my Copics because these fineliners haven’t got any decent neutrals to speak of, which is why Yuuri here looks too orange.

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Inktober day 5: Victor babysitting the Nishigori triplets. Inspired by a scene in this fanfic: Falling by @borntomake

Multiple figures interacting in one shot, and twined fingers. Two things that I find challenging. This came out pretty well!

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This started off as a sketch of Victor, so Yuuri here is looking a bit taller than seems quite right. Better use of photo reference this time, though.

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Yuri Plisetsky with Potya. I should use more of the page.

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Let this serve me as a reminder that staring at a photo reference doesn’t guarantee decent proportions if I don’t bother to sketch out the anatomy first.

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I’ve kept thinking about this one.

Why would Victor keep so quiet about his family?

It’s easy to imagine that the family had some alarming experiences early on in Victor’s junior years with some obsessive local teenaged skating fans. Let’s say... girls camping out on the lawn looking for a glance of Victor? Or someone trying to break in to their home to score a memento, or trying to steal the family dog or something?

And that would be enough for Victor to decide, OK, I’m not talking about my family in interviews anymore. And (as Victor does nothing half-assedly) he ends up stonewalling so hard anytime he’s asked about family that everyone learns to not bring up the topic.

After reading so many fanfics where Victor’s family turns out to be dramatically rich, poor, abusive, neglectful and/or dead, I’m starting to think the most unexpected thing would be if his family turned out to be… like… just pleasant, ordinary folks.

Like, Mom and Dad are loving and supportive but modest and don’t like to be seen as bragging about their superstar son. They have bland middle-class jobs and live in some nondescript suburb, just far enough away from St Petersburg that frequent visits are impractical. Victor’s been quietly Skyping them once a week to catch up since forever, even from Hasetsu.

Dad is a hockey nut, Mom breeds poodles, maybe there’s a sibling of Victor’s with a young family.

Victor takes Yuuri out to visit the folks for a family dinner at some point. Yuuri’s freaked out because Victor never really talked about his family so of course he’s imagining all kinds of crazy stuff (see: fanfic HCs as mentioned above).

In the end Yuuri ends up falling asleep on the couch after dinner, under a pile of cuddly dogs and/or toddlers.

Everyone is relieved that Victor seems to have found himself a nice, sensible, hardworking young man. “We were worried you would end up dating some crazy celebrity or a stripper or something!”

Victor laughs a bit awkwardly at that.

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Inktober, day 1. Let’s see if I can justify buying this pricey new sketchbook.

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It just occurred to me that there are TWO censored kisses that Victor gives Yuuri. Remember Victor kissing Yuuri's skate? That's a blocked camera shot too. I assume this is a Japanese TV standards-and-practices thing. Hopefully the movie means they don't have to censor things like this anymore.

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After reading so many fanfics where Victor's family turns out to be dramatically rich, poor, abusive, neglectful and/or dead, I'm starting to think the most unexpected thing would be if his family turned out to be... like... just pleasant, ordinary folks. Like, Mom and Dad are loving and supportive but modest and don't like to be seen as bragging about their superstar son. They have bland middle-class jobs and live in some nondescript suburb, just far enough away from St Petersburg that frequent visits are impractical. Victor's been quietly Skyping them once a week to catch up since forever, even from Hasetsu. Dad is a hockey nut, Mom breeds poodles, maybe there's a sibling of Victor's with a young family. Victor takes Yuuri out to visit the folks for a family dinner at some point. Yuuri's freaked out because Victor never really talked about his family so of course he's imagining all kinds of crazy stuff (see: fanfic HCs as mentioned above). In the end Yuuri ends up falling asleep on the couch after dinner, under a pile of cuddly dogs and/or toddlers. Everyone is relieved that Victor seems to have found himself a nice, sensible, hardworking young man. "We were worried you would end up dating some crazy celebrity or a stripper or something!" Victor laughs a bit awkwardly at that.

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You know what? I think I prefer Shocked Phichit over Vaguely Annoyed Phichit.

ユーリ!!! on Ice - TV & BD/DVD Comparison | episode 10

ep 1 | ep 2 | ep 3 | ep 4 | ep 5 | ep 6 | ep 7 | ep 8 | ep 9 | ep 10 | ep 11 | ep 12

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I'm guessing the fishing guy on the bridge. He's there every morning, and if a drunk naked Victor came running up to him screaming "WHERE IS CHIHOKO" he would probably just point up to the castle and think "Drunken hijinks eh? Looks like he's got something in common with his father-in-law."

How the Living Legend Fights Statues over His Fiancee’s hand

I believe most of you have seen fans’ writing about Victor getting jealous over Yuuri’s ‘ex-lover’ Shachihoko or ‘Chihoko’. If you haven’t, please read them because you will not understand what I’m talking about next.

So firstly, what is Chihoko? Shachihoko しゃちほこ (鯱) is a mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) and it looks like this:

And as you can see, they are VERY flexible. So when Yuuri taunted Viktor ‘Shachihoko is more flexible than you’ he actually talked about this half fish-half lion statue! Victor did not even get jealous to Yuuri’s human ex-lover, he got jealous over an effing statue!

But the story doesn’t stop there!

As you know, both Viktor and Yuuri were really drunk. And somehow a drunk Viktor is more extra than a sober Viktor. So he did what a jealous drunk lover do. He went to find and tried to challenge his rival ‘Chihoko’. But where is Chihoko?

That is the picture of Karatsu ‘Hasetsu’ Castle where Shachihoko or Chihoko lives.

So now, imagine a living legend Viktor Nikiforov. Imagine him climbing the Hasetsu Castle NAKED, challenging two ‘Chihoko’ he encountered, telling them “You maybe Yuuri’s past, but I’m his future!”

???!!!!! He is so extra I can’t take it anymore!!!!

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Everyone is laughing at Victor now, but virtually none of us non-Japanese fans knew WTF a shachihoko was either.