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fixed it for you

do u even know how frequently I’m going to make gifs and posts for the oa. no. you do not know. I’m on mobile can someone add that tweet that’s like “unfollow me right now this is the only thing I’m going to tweet about for months”

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after being on this website I’m not actually surprised in the least

“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”

it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing

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PSA: Cellulite and stretch marks are normal. The only reason we’ve been told that they’re not is because companies want to sell you products to reduce, minimize, or eliminate these very natural body characteristics. Your body is not a photoshop picture. Stop beating yourself up for being human. 

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yup you’re not alone here bud. I did laugh it off and I still find the whole thing kinda ridiculous in a lighthearted sense. The vibe I got was relatively lighthearted but on a more serious note I would agree with you. It wasn’t sexy, or attractive, or whateverthefuck he thought it was, it was creepy and vaguely disturbing.

I sincerely hope it was played for laughs more than anything, because I would not call that fanservice. (And honestly, I don’t want to think of yuri on ice as a fanservicey anime anyway. They’re not baiting us or teasing us and it all feels very genuine and fluffy and I love it for that.) I wonder what part Chis will have to play in the next few episodes. Reading this, I’m a little concerned because if his character is going to be taken seriously, I’m gonna get a lot uncomfortable real fast. Not that creepy characters can’t be done well I just....ಠ_ಠ

I guess above all I just want the writers to treat it right. If he’s for comedy, stick to that. If he’s not, it had better be addressed that he’s creepy and over the top. I don’t want to see this kind of behavior portrayed as benignly alluring, or the touching thing remotely acceptable.

That said, the whole time I was watching I was just grumbling to myself that yruri could skate rings around him any day because yuuri is a pure and wonderful human being and his emotional development is so touching and precious.

YOI EP 6: Chris

So after last night’s episode I finished it feeling a little… off. My fluff, heart-squeezing quota did not feel filled. I didn’t end it feeling like I’d been purified. That���s okay: that’s not what the show’s aim is to do. It never set out to be all rainbows and hugs (okay maybe some – a lot of hugs yes please). But the more I thought about it the more I kept thinking about Chris’ performance/presence.

A lot of comments were going around about the suit, and about the animation team’s budget going on one particular part of his anatomy (cough), but for some reason his performance left me feeling… strange.

I wondered, at first, if that was just me. If I was having an issue with it because it was overt (male) sexuality, and that it was my own kind of prejudice or aversion to a sexuality that wasn’t the ‘cutesy’ kind of thing we have seen so far from Viktor and Yuuri. But after a conversion with @mamamyshka I’m starting to think it might not be.

What first struck me as wrong was when Chris started touching Yuuri. You could see Yuuri was uncomfortable. At first I thought maybe they had a shared history, but I thought that was probably the case only in the way that Yuuri and Viktor had competed against him. This was different, though. This felt… I won’t say predatory because that’s too far. But it felt inappropriate. I felt uncomfortable for Yuuri. I wonder if partly it’s related to how Yuuri has been made almost androgynous in the way he thwarts binary gender constructions, and so it felt, somewhat, like the typical scenario of a man touching up a woman. 

I’m not going to get into that; what I will say is that Viktor touching Yuuri and Chris touching Yuuri was different. Viktor touches Yuuri because Yuuri touches him; their relationship is one of shared, mutual skin-ship, and the physicality of it is underlined by a deep emotional connection and relationship built on trust and care and concern, and, also, attraction. Chris’ touch did not feel like that: Yuuri was uncomfortable by it. He tensed up and reared away. He did not return it, and it was not a touch that was warranted. It was not the forehead press and the hand-holding and the back hugging. 

Chris touched Yuuri because he could; because Yuuri was there and he is small. It felt like every man who thought they were somehow entitled to touch someone because they were a man and/or confident with their sexuality. But there’s a difference between being comfortable with one’s sexuality and then actually acting towards people in an unwarranted sexual nature.

I get that Chris is a foil to Yuuri. He is some kind of embodiment of the extreme version Yuuri is trying to become comfortable with. But, again, a difference: Yuuri’s transformation and growth is about gaining an understanding of sexuality and gender and if he fits in or not, and understanding that if he does not belong to a regimented, binary sphere then that is okay. Chris is not so much about sexuality as much as it is about sex. And there is a deep, deep difference between those two.

Chris’ performance, and that line he said (we all know what he said) felt cheap to me. It was shoved in our faces – both in dialogue and literally by Chris’ physical presence. Maybe I’m a hypocrite, and that I only want this kind of thing when it is tempered and part of an emotional, connective sphere, not just carnality and slight perversion. Maybe this is the male version of ecchi, and we’re supposed to be grateful that we could literally see and hear everything. 

I didn’t… feel grateful. I didn’t find what happened sexy. I felt like the show, for a few frames, had been brought into a sphere that didn’t feel wholly safe. Did anyone else?

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own. They do not reflect anyone else. If you have an opinion, I will gladly hear it in a constructive manner.

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what do birds do 

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MORE PHOTOS HERE

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When you hear people talking shit but you’re so fabulous and you don’t care so you just-

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i totally love Georgi Popovich’s performance

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this is honestly me rn

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He needs love and support damn it

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that witchy abuse survivor feel when

I draw more strength from looking at the moon for ten seconds than my mom has ever instilled in me. honestly the moon is a great role model. what an icon.

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ok gays on ice fans, have you seen the movie blades of glory?

this one here

yes, that is an actual scene from this movie.

It’s not actually gay but (there is a lot of homoerotic humor now that i think about it but not in a making-fun-of or nasty way) it’s legit hilarious as fuck and one of my favorite movies if you love ice skating, or if you loved dodgeball or spaceballs, go watch it please

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Here I am, standing in front you now but you can’t see me.

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yuri on ice ep6 spoilers!!!

homeboy: *literally grabs his own butt on live tv* homeboy:''I think i'm gonna come''

Me: keEP that to yOURSELF