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I’d like to thank Yuri on Ice fanfiction authors for helping me to love Christophe Giacometti.

I never really had beef with him, tbh. But he did stress me out and give me second hand embarrassment watch the show the first few times I watched through.

Fanfiction gave him so much depth and I was like, “oh yeah he’s just a guy”

Additionally, when I first watched the show I was 19 or 20. Pretty young. Yuuri, Victor, Chris, they all seemed to so grown up. As I type this is am in my mid-twenties, the same age as Victor was for most of the show. Can confirm based on the people I know and the young men I am friends with that Chris’s behavior was extremely on brand for a 25 year old man. 😂

I dunno. I’m just glad that I never turned down a fix just because Chris was one of the main characters. All the stories where Victor and Chris are besties?? Top tier. 🤌🏻🔥❤️‍🔥

Like, look at him!!!

🚨Big Dumb Baby Alert 🚨

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Summary:

Cadence - the flow or rhythm of events, especially the pattern in which something is experienced,

example: the frenetic cadence of modern life.

Call it bad luck. A family curse. A twist of fate. A coincidence. A guy having five too many beers before getting behind the wheel of his truck. A downside, as well as a risk, to loving the freedom riding motorcycles can provide. Call it whatever you want. You can decide on a reason, the result is still the same. The end of one career. The rise of another.

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Sooo this is the link to my first published fic. And my big Yuri on Ice piece.

I started working on it back in like, 2017 - not long after I watched the show for the first time.

It has grown and changed a lot over the years, grown with me from a story about loss to a story about the rediscovery of hope.

It follows Otabek and Seung-gil, though other members of the cast make appearances throughout the story.

My goal is to have a whole collection posted someday. But for now my primary fo us is to just finish this story. :)

I don’t update too frequently but I promise, my works are always in progress. 💛

So strap in for this ride and enjoy a story.

P.S. I tried to cultivate a story anyone can read, regardless of the degree of familiarity with Yuri on Ice. So even if you aren’t really a part of the fandom, check it out anyways!!

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I love Leo de la Iglesia so much.

Yes he's just a minor character, as many of them are in Yuri on Ice. But that's one of the things that was so special about that show, at least for me. He may have only gotten one short program that we got to watch, he wasn't one of the final 6 to make it to the final, so we saw very little of him. But they had such a way of making him, as well as many others, a thought out and relatable boy.

I watched that show when I was very depressed, majorly struggling to understand why we're all here and what the point off at this was. When getting out of bed was a mountain instead of a molehill and I didn't think that life was going to really get any better. Watching Yuuri Katsuki go through similar issues, realizing that we are often our own worst enemy, that was all really great, helps me a lot. But there was something about Leo.

He's 19, I was 20 or 21 at the time, so we were pretty similar in age and that was really nice. Yuuri and Victor seemed so much older than me, older than I was really able to see myself as. 21 was hell. I couldn't imagine myself as 27, as Victor. (As I type this is am in fact 27, going on 28 in the spring. 💛)

19 year old Leo de la Iglesia. A minor character in a short show that in many way saved my life and certainly saved me from myself. I still don't know exactly what drew me in to him. I'm usually more of a fan of the dark, brooding, angry but is secretly quite soft characters. And Leo... he isn't that.

His name is Leo and he is a Leo and he's just this ray of sunshine and he loses his brain cells when Phichit and Guang-Hong are with him. He cares so much about his sport and the other people in it and he wants to do well but I think they did a good job of showing that he doesn't want to succeed because of other people's failures but because of his own growth.

I wanted to write this really well thought out post about how great Leo is but all I can think of to fully describe him is:

☀️🦁♌️🏠⛸️😁🥰✨💛☀️

So yeah, to summarize: I just think he's neat. He deserves all the love that I bet he will never get because this fandom is dying.

If you're still here, if you're seeing this, I love you. I'm sorry that Mappa hurt us. My fic Cadence isn't dead. It is very much alive and I will update as soon as I am able.

I'm glad you're still here.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk about Leo. :)

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I think what I love the most about Yuri On Ice is the fact that it kinda breaks a lot of clichés and stereotypes we've used to see in movies or even series on the same genre.

The more evident one, and also the one I love the most, is the fact that uses the "me vs me" kind of conflict, where the main character (Yuuri) is also the main antagonist, which is something we don't usually see in commercial media. This and the use of "rivals, not enemies" is what gives me most joy when watching the show, even a few years after its release.

The sports/competition genre in media is plagued with a main character who is mostly bullied by their rivals who think they're better, and this MC has to overcome themselves and prove that they're, in fact, better and stronger than the rivals and usually they beat the others up in a fierce competition that, most often, ends in a magnificent failure from the rivals and gives the MC and their gang the victory.

In YOI this doesn't happen.

Yuuri doesn't win the gold medal. Yes, he does give us a spectacular performance that breaks Viktor's own record, but he doesn't get gold.

Even though we're all rooting for him and his potential engagement with Viktor, he doesn't get first place. But we're not upset with this either. We're happy that Yuri P did get gold despite his struggles and his doubts and his anger. We learn to love every single character (yes, even JJ because he also has his redemption arch) because the show itself shows us that they're all real, with their struggles and their own fears, and makes us, the spectators, closer with all the competitors individually, even if we're not actually watching their competitions (as in the case of the girls, who are also skaters but we never see them skate).

Whilst it is true that we want Yuuri to win his gold medal and be the best and beat the rest and himself -ehem and get his official engagement with Viktor ehem-, we're not completely sad that he got silver. And that's because we also wanted Yuri P to win. Or even Phichit or Otabek, because all of them worked hard to get to the finals and we're happy for them. And it's just like in real life, were we support athletes from somewhere else around the world when they're at a competition and we want them to win gold, even if we don't know who they are or where they come from.

And that's the whole beauty of YOI. It doesn't give us that sickly, toxic relationship between rivals we're used to see in Hollywood movies, and we see that the characters are actually friends outside competition and hang out together when they can, because that's how it's supposed to be in real life. Just because someone else is better at something than you doesn't mean you have to hate them and be mean to them. The positivity of the show is also something to love.

And of course there are a lot of other factors and qualities to remark, but this one, this is what makes me come back and rewatch it over and over again even after actual years of me not watching anime anymore, and it's because it has become more than just a story with animated characters; it has become a whole philosophy in itself, a way of life.

And that, my friends, is what makes a story worthy of being a cult classic, one that I'm sure we will all remember when we're older, and one that will live in our hearts for many many years to come.

Because we were born to make history.

And we are still making history 💙💜

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So I wanted to watch the first ep. of YoI as a pause/reward between studying and at the very beginning at the GPF I noticed a guy in a familiar jacket and … I’m probably very late to this realisation, but is this the elusive Cao Bin?

Guang Hong in his national jacket for comparison - I didn’t find a back view.

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I'm just listening to music at work and the lyrics "where's all the talent i had last decade? Another 'gifted kid' that burned out in the 10th grade" really got me thinking

Victor Nikiforov and Yuuri Katsuki would go above and beyond to make sure that Yuri Plisetsky never, ever has to experience that sentiment.

They remind him that there's so much more than skating. they take him to do things even if all Yura does the whole time is complain because he needs to have established a life off the ice so that when he gets to their age he isn't having the same breakdowns that they did. They want to help him learn from their mistakes so badly. They'll do whatever it takes to make sure that Yuri knows he has value on and off the ice, that just because he is a skating prodigy doesn't mean that is the only value that he has in life.

They both know form experience what that feels like and they aren't going to let it happen to Yura, even if it means hours of yelling between the angry teenager who just wants to be "left alone" and Yakov, who wants to kill the older skaters for "sabotaging" Yuri.

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I love Seung-gil and Otabek and the rest of the cast of Yuri on Ice.

Except Mickey. Fuck Mickey.

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I was just thinking about it and now I want to know if anyone else picked up on this (apologies if someone else has already posted about this, it’s just driving me crazy)

After Yuuri has issues in Russia during the Rostelecom Cup and sees how well JJ and Yura skate he decides to change his jump composition for Eros at the final. He changes his quad Salchow to a quad Flip because he needed the additional points if he wants a chance to beat the others, right? 

Putting aside the fact that JJ has a break down and gets such a low score and Yura breaks Victor’s long standing record, if Yuuri had decided to leave it the way it was he would have scored above Yura (final score) and taken gold. Yuuri was pulling over 100 points on average with his original technical base score and it would have gotten him the win. 

There was no way to predict that JJ was going to shatter under that pressure. So he made the right call. I know that Yuuri making the choice and no longer doubting himself is such a big victory, easily a bigger one than taking gold. But still. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this??? 

What do you think? 

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I'm not saying I've created an intricate backstory for Seung-gil Lee where he has absentee parents.

But I'm not not saying it, ya know?

(I'm so sorry Seung-gil.)

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Random but relevant: I headcanon that JJ's tramp stamp was a drunken mistake

You're gonna sit here and tell me this man was like, "Yeah a tramp stamp of my initials is a wonderful idea."

Like

SERIOUSLY?!

No.

I cannot accept it. He had to be drunk.

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I absolutely adore how comforting Yuri on ice is, it’s like a hot cocoa with marshmallows on a cold winter morning.

No matter what you feel or how many times you watch it, the anime envelops you in it’s comforting embrace and takes you through this heartwarming journey with protagonists who are humanised to such an extent that one can find solace in their feelings, emotions and most importantly how they prioritised constant struggles that one has with their own mental health.

The way the anime progresses Victor and Yuuri’s relationship and how stirringly they both fall in love with each other, slowly and irrevocably makes me feel both content and joy. ❤️🌸

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Welcome!

Hello there! Welcome to my new Yuri on Ice blog! 💛💛💛

I've been posting about the show, the fandom, and my fics on an old blog for a few years now but I decided it's time to clean up my digital space. If I am going to have an online presence, I am going to make it a space that I enjoy spending time in.

I'm going to go through my old blog and reblog my favorite posts from there here. :) So, anything you see created by @probablyscreamingintothevoid was created by me - this is just my new space to create in. If you have any questions feel free to let me know but really, I just hope you enjoy being here!

I love this show very much and I am so excited to go through all my old posts and remind myself of all the things that I love about it and maybe even find some old ideas for writing that I have forgotten about.

Anyway, welcome!