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ayahne · 8 years ago

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i can’t write, i say as i write 8 pages on Word

I discussed this simple little idea i had with @adelmortescryche from 2AM to 5AM and now it’s not a little idea. A lot of ideas thrown mostly randomly together on the same fic idea i will never write cause i write baaaad.

I call it : EdRi!!! On Para-Ice

- When Yuuri arrives at Wayne State to major in buisness and become a pro skater, he meets the four people with who he's going to share lodging.

- Ling is his age, he's a Xingian diplomat son that want to keep it low-key, and he's majoring in political science. He's a funny, eccentric kind of guy, and he makes Lan Fan mad.

- Lan Fan is « totally not » his body guard, and she's majoring in chemistry. She's a strange blend of calm and hot-temper. He likes her.

- There's also Phichit, ; he's younger, but so nice and enthusiastic ; he wants to do photography. (he's Thai and doesn't speaks much english, but everyone helps him and stick colored notes cards to everything and he learns quickly).

- And there's Edward Curtis, who is half cyborg, hot tempered, foul mouthed and full of shit and loyalty. He's younger than him, but more advanced than him in his studies. (« He's a genius », explains Lan Fan.) They got on like a house on fire.

- Strangely, even if they're so different from each other, they share the apartment fine. Lan Fan and Ed go run in the mornings, Ling cooks, Yuuri and Phichit go to the ice ring... They fit.

- Ed is a bit hyperactive, and when Lan Fan is too occupied to spar with him, he gotta finds something to do. (« No Ed, you can't punch people in the face. ») He visits Yuuri and Phichit at the ice ring, and he tries a bit of skating ; it's challenging, he likes it.

- Yuuri starts to teach him simple figures : a single-toe-loop, a sit-spin... Ed spend his time falling on his face because the automails are destabilizing him, but he's tired and happy when he masters a new move. From there, you can't stop him. Skating becomes the escape to his problems, and the guilt he feels.

- He comes to every of Yuuri's event to cheer him on ; he manage the panic attacks like it's nobody's buisness, and Yuuri starts to feel more confident. It's great time, they have fun.

- But one day, there's an accident ; the huge score board fall on Yuuri that just finished his routine. They have to amputate his arm.

- Ed has lived this before, and acts quick. He's there through everything, the hospital ride, the hospital stay, the therapy. With the others, he persuades Yuuri to get an automail (« Hey, we match now. ») He never let him wallow in his depression, and he puts him back on his skates with his therapist acceptance.

- They fight, with all the others, through Yuuri's terror of the ice, and slowly, slowly, he finds back his love for the ice ; he starts to skate again, to being confident. Ed does it all with him, he's his crutch. (« I miss two limbs. If i can do it, you can do it better. » And Yuuri does.)

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- "dude you can fucking make a quint and fly on the ice " says Yuuri "dont care still jealous" answer Ed, and they laugh and Phichit posts it on instagram

- Yuuri's like, welp, if you can do it, I should at least try and everyone screams NO because he's older than Ed. Except Ed, who's rolling his eyes being like, he could totally do it, he's older than me and just as flexible.

- They're both ULTRA flexible

- Cue Ed teaching Yuuri how to make some of his fighting moves on ice

- Cue Yuuri teaching Ed more quads

- All those EdRi comments. The first few are just fujoshi slobbering over them and their bromance, then someone who actually knows something about skating figures out what they're seeing and they sCREAM.

- And the skating fandom has a meltdown.

- Phichit posting out of context photos, like warming up when they're in weird yoga poses, and it seems a bit more intimate than it is.

- With tags like '#MySmolSonsBeFlexi' '#MustNotLetEdSeeTagsHeWillSlayMe'

- Phichit and all the others being DEADLY TIRED than his frighteningly prodigious friends not getting recognition just because they've got automail.

- Doesn't people realise that automail makes it harder ?

- “It's easier with automail ?” * Ed proceeds to detach his own arm and dump it on the stupid fuck's lap who crumble under the weight. * “Try lifting something that weight more than yourself higher than your head, and even spin with something ressembling grace when you have a brick instead of an arm”.

- Pole dancing class as part of the automail recovery therapy. Yuuri smiles, and he's like, this was totally for medical reasons.

- The ports gets cold and hurt when they're too long in the ice ring, so for when they train Phichit knitted them horrible arm socks (and leg sock for Ed). Knitting is not Phichit forte, and the mitts are ridiculous at best.

- Yuuri's favorite is a kaki monstruosity with purple polka dots, orange stripes, and some brown squiggles that are supposed to be flowers.

- Ed's are one atomic pink with red hearts on it, and a blue one with barely recognisable hamsters.

- The photos of them with it become viral.

- He decides to go back to competing, and he slays the handisport section. He wins all of the gold medals in the juniors, and then in the seniors.

- He's got a new coach ; she's pretty, kind and maternal, attentive to his anxieties and the fact that Ed is basically is contra-phobic object ; she's perfect, and exactly what he needs. Her name is Gracia Hugues.

- For his galas, he always do something with Ed (and either they do funny shit things, either they some mind-numbing show of skills mixing Ed's talents in flying martial arts and Yuuri's adaptability- anyways they're breathtaking)

- There's a fanbase dedied to their bromance, and some people do RPF with them.

- Ed browsing deviantart and diying a little bit (but save the nice, bro, safe ones on his phone.)

- Yuuri reading fanfictions, selecting the crack fics and the AUs to laugh with Ed, Phichit and Lin. (and Lan Fan. She's there, silently laughing)

- They're so much more low key about the bromance than Phichit and Yuuri that people have a lot more opinions about their bromance. And are sure it's a romance.

- Yuuri obviously finds it hilarious.

- Ed and Yuuri doing shit like this on purpose.

- One day on tv, some jackass ask if he doesn't miss his limbs, and Ed answers "thats equivalent exchange" while looking at Yuuri. The shippers goes mad, Yuuri goes awww cause he knows Ed meant it very innocently

- They only pop up in Phichit, Ling, and Yuri social medias because they dont take vids themselves or photos and even less post them

- One day, there's an hORRIBLE rant made by a dude that says that Ed and Yuuri are lucky to have found the other because who would want any of those disgusting cripples

- and they're a bit hurt but not much because they told themselves the same thing since they got their accidents

- But Phichit sees red. He takes THE photo.

- the one after the showers after practice, where you can see skin, soft scars, glinting metal, muscles and cloth making it SFW, and no comment under it like he use to.

- It broke twitter

- (Yuri totally roasted the guy that DARED insult his idol.)

- Roy Mustang is an ex-man-single prodigy. He was adored by the public. When he retired, he decided he wanted to go into Amestrian politics (ie, the Army).

- He's the one that presented his old buddy from the army, Maes, to Gracia. (people all around the world whined when they announced that it was Maes marrying Gracia and not him.)

- Roy isn't sure if he's happy for both his friends because Maes became 1000% more annoying after meeting Gracia. (That's a lie, he loves them both and is more than happy.)

- When he became a state alchemist, his fans where like “fire alchemy ??? U SURE ?”

- Yuri Plisetesky is a die-hard Yuuri Katsuki fan, and he finds it unfair that

1. no same sex couple on the ice, and it sucks because those two could do some pretty awesome shit

2. Ed doesn't compete because not enough money and he don't care much for the competition ; he's there for the fun and for Yuuri

3. he'd love to skate on the same ice as Yuuri but, eh, handi sections and mainstream ones doesn't mix. He hates the federation so much.

4. no one knows about the handi athletes apart of Yuri and Otabek (because he whines at him) and he finds it the most irritating thing in the world, it's a TRAVESTY.

- And just, one day, he goes to Yuuri's ice ring, and he watches him, film him for future reference and manage to catch on film a *quad axel*.

- And the regular skaters, they're like "wait what" when they see the video of the first quad axel in history

- "but we don't know that guy"

- and Yuri goes in a screaming rant about how they're all stupid, it's “FUCKING YUURI KATSUKI YOU HEATHENS HOW DARE YOU FORGET HIM HE COULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST RIVAL FOR GOLD IF NOT FOR THAT ACCIDENT HE HAD TO LEAVE MAINSTREAM SKATING AND NOW YOU DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HIM?!”

- And one day, Viktor, dense fridge that he is, find irl EdRi doing some figures in a public ice ring. He goes to Yuuri, says something like you skate nice, have you considered going pro, and ed punches him because the dunce doesn’t remember sharing the ice with Yuuri

- "I was too fucking kind i should have decked him with the metal one"

- Yuuri is nrgh between "he punched Viktor" and "am i that forgettable"

- Yuuri's also like Ed No Ed Stahp. While smiling happily because spiteful savage Yuuri. Who doesn't want Victor to get hurt, but he forgot.

- "We said no punching, Ed"

- ”Ed we talked about this.”

- ZE discussion they have all the time ; "Can i punch that dick in the dick" "No u cant"

- And he can only punch people if Yuuri is okay with it because everyone deem that if Yuuri thinks a dude deserve to be punched then he deserves it.

- If Yuuri thinks it's time to punch someone then it's time. Yuuri's everyone's moral compass. Except he isn't a good moral compass, because sometimes he's sassy and spiteful.

- Yuuri with really long hair after he stopped mainstream mens singles.

- First he was too depressed to cut it, then he realized it's easier for the automail. The hair gets stuck less in the joints and if they're long you can take them out easier.

- Phichit doing artistic© photos of tanned light hair Ed and pale dark hair Yuuri and destroying Instagram

- Al and Ed have been apart since they were 8 and 10 and they had the failed transmutation that left Al in a coma for 3 years with nearly no memories of his brother, and Ed without limbs.

- They went to different foster families ; Ed with Izumi and Sig, Al with the Rockbell. And Al doesn't remember Ed much, only what Pinako told him (he loved you more than anything, he was persuaded the accident is his fault)

- Olivia Armstrong is Ed social worker. The whole Briggs team work in social services.

- Ed refusing to search for his bro cause he's sure Al hates him, and, sure, Ed hates himself but not to the point of subjecting himself to that.

- Yuuri comforting him when he has nightmares about it, not saying a thing when Ed cries at night cause he misses Al.

- Phichit stalking the whole internet to update Ed on how Al is doing.

- Al being so admirative of E.Curtis works in "Alchemy Actual". Pinako wince in the background.

- Al finds it hard to connect E. Curtis to his brother because E. Curtis is notoriously secretive. No one knows anything about him.

- Al doesn't watch ice-skating, and isn't much a fan of phichit-chu. And no matter how many times he falls on a video of Edward C. he can't connect either of them to his brother. Pinako's starting to wonder if he's ever going to realise Ed-on-screen and Ed-the-alchemist is Ed his brother. She shighs in exasperation and wonder why he's so dense.

- May being Ling's pint sized badass little sister (one of many but his favorite even if loves giving her shit)

- May is irritating and wonderful and god he wishes he could introduce her to Al.

- May find Al by herself and is like “... most beautiful boy i've ever seen in my entire life omg”

- She posts photo of her and him on insta, and Phichit send them to Ed, he becomes crazy.

- Al being in a perpetual state of “Wait what” concerning her.

- “Beautiful girl came out of no where to talk to me and flirt with me and take pictures with me what'

- She starts talking alkahestry and suddenly he doesn't register her pretty face anymore she's clever who cares about pretty I can talk about alchemy with her !!!

- May finds him adorable

- Cue budding romance while their big brothers are having aneurisms on the side. Yuuri, Phichit and Lan Fan finds it hilarious.

- And at LEAST Ling can interact with his sister and NOW AL but ED REFUSES and he is sad and frustrated so he goes skating cause he has too much energy and "you can't punch people for the lolz Ed"

- Yuuri just sighs and pats him on the back while Ed screams at the sky and goes throwing quads all over the place.

- So frustrated he tries a quint toe loop, but "not a quad axel, i'm stupid but not dumb, only quadsuki can do that"

- Ed having super nice automail that Yuuri offered him with the skating money ("look, we match !", he says, a twinkle in his eyes, echoeing what Ed told him a few years ago.)

- Since Ed doesn't want to see the Rockbell and has a « 0 interaction » policy, Yuuri found that guy that lives in a remote part of Australia that does incredible machinery. They go once a year with the gang.

- Ed considering himself « toxic » to those he loves. Lan Fan decked him in the gut, Ling rolled his eyes so hard it had to be inscribed in a book of records, and Phichit insulted him in Thai. He tried this bullshit with Yuuri exactly once and never did it again.

- Mari straight up hit him with a pan. She reminds Ed of Izumi.("My foster mom hits me with her pan, too.")

- Following that sentence, people start to be suspicious about his foster mom, until they figure out Izumi and Ed love each other. Their love is just... violently displayed. And filled with martial art montages.

- Izumi and Sig already have a biological son when they adopt Ed. Aoi is totaly enamored with his « big brother »

- They adopted another child, a little girl named Nina. Her dad tried to kill her, and as of such she's sick. Her and Al are the reason he started studying organic alchemy in more depth.

- Envy is Ed biological punk rock but so nice older half-brother. He's androgynous and loves confusing people. ("Are you a girl or a boy ?" "no.")

- Envy avoids Al cause he feels guilty too. He felt he shoud have been there for his two lil bro, no matter how angry with their dad he was.

- When Ed and Envy gloom together, Lin/Phichit/Yuuri/Lan Fan comes to hit them and like "no we love you yes we said love shut up, up, we going petting rabbits"

- Hiroko, Izumi and Minako being BFFs and drinking together. It terrifies everyone. They comiserate about their spawns.

- Izumi's kid is in awe of Mari (as he should)

- EdxAngst + Yuuri/coming-to-terms-with-his-anxiety

- "Where did your... special style of skating came from, Mister Curtis ? *behind, a video extract where Ed is doing a double backflip on the ice, before launching into some capoara moves while Yuuri smiles and just cartwheels for the lolz*"

- Roy calling Ed “a backflipping maniac”

- Cuts to Ed doing a triple back flip and a single hand cartwheel or something right after. Just to see the expression on Roy's face.

- Roy having ten cardiac arrest a day. Riza laugh in the distance. (She laughs at his pain all the time)

- "Curtis, when your in an ice ring you spend more time in the air than on the ice, it's not natural"

- One of Phichit most liked photos is one of Yuuri and Ed twirling Elicia around

- Even if Ed isn't an official competitor, he has die hard fans, that calls themselves « Ed's Homunculi », and they're led by 5 people that nicknamed themselves with the primary sins.

- Yuuri snickers at just their mention. Ed complains all the time. (« NO FUCK LET ME GO IM NOT EVEN A PRO DONT PuT YOUR BOOBS IN MY FACE DONT EAT MY HAIR WTF. Why are you all so DISTURBING »)

- Envy founded the fanclub because he finds this deadly funny, now he’s mostly in charge of the social medias. Ed is horrified.

- Scar is married to Lust and follows her everywhere, to every competition sighing all the time.

- THE PRESIDENT OF HIS FANCLUB IS THE FUCKING FURHER OF AMESTRIS

- The idea of Amestris’s Furher being enamored enough with Ed's skating to give himself a stupid nickname kills all of his friends of laughter inside

- Aerugo is near greece

- Xing is in east asia

- Creta is near italia

- Drachma is between finland and sweden

- Amestris between germany and poland, and Ishval between poland and Austria

- Father couldn't arrange another full country array, and eventually decided to let it go.

- Envy's real name is Nichola Elric

- Lust is Veda Campos

- Wrath is King Bradley

- Pride is still Selim Bradley

- Gluttony is named Emilio Abatucci

- Scar is Luca Campos

- Izumi’s kid is named Aoi Curtis

#yoi #fma #edward elric #yuuri katsuki #headcanon #crossover fic #fic #fanfic #sort of ????#my writing #even if i'm not good at english BUT WATHEV'

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cheswirls · 7 years ago

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a quick sum-up of che’s future career plans, bc reasons

im halfway through the dive!! anime show that came out this summer season, and i’m having a lot of thoughts, and plus i finished going through all the footage i missed today of skate america while i was at a bball game, and it’s made me realize different things i guess?

it might be mid-long length so its going under a cut, but to gain intereststart off, this is all about my desire to be an athletic trainer for the usa olympic center at colorado springs, co !

ive been an at(now when you see that abb. you know what it means hah!! not assistant teacher hmm) student since my freshman year of high school, and i’ve loved it a whole bunch. back then i was set on going to columbia U for their writing program, and i wanted to major in graphic design afterwards/during/it wasnt super planned out i was a fr. i didnt know what bfa or mfa stood for yet. it wasnt until end of sophomore year than i thought about being an at for realsies.

but i also still loved gd. so there was a confliction there.

junior year i took a break from working volleyball in the fall and did my one and only year of football and it was terrible primarily bc the team i worked with didnt know how to function as a group and half the group were selfless bitch whores but like thats another storyyy, secondly bc i jus really discovered i didnt care abt football at all. it was mostly for the experience and i gained it and i liked it bc i hung out w a lot of people from helping out w varsity (i was one of two our of the five juniors that had been there since my fr year and was only on jv bc it was my first year w football, but one of the seniors had to work a bunch so when they needed an extra person i was the one w the most experience so i was w them a lot,) point was it was fun!!! and you have fun w ppl you like that you dont work w all the time and i shouldnt say fun bc lots of times it was awful,

basically! it was fun being w the varsity trainers which were the seniors and the other junior that had been around since fr year. volleyball was fun but it had always been a one-at-student-per-team sport , so it was different jus being w other ats that shared the same team and not the same sport(which in the us is made up of at least three different teams, a fr,jv,and varsity). it was a more open environment and so it inspired a lot of talk with the at grad students we had that semester (we got 3-4 every semester in a partnership w the D1 uni in town, it was always cool to hear stories from them!) and anyway i remember talking w a couple of the grads one practice and we were discussing all the different occupations athletic trainers could have, and what they wanted to work with in the future, and the topic veered towards professional sports and the olympics.

i thought it was really cool when we were talking about it, and then we got busy and it flew out of my mind. i dont remember when it came back and became a focus, but sometime before my senior year, i had decided i wanted to work at the olympic level.

real quick i mentioned gd and the struggle, so to bring that into focus, my junior year i took a whole bunch of different tech classes (gd&i, compsci, webtech) and in one of those, i had the opportunity to go to a ... i cant remember what the term was for it, but it was kinda an event for gd students and it had a little competition and stuff, and it was really fun! nd you got a lot of info abt the community college hosting it and i learned their program was really good, so the gd versus at internal struggle continued, and i remember talking to my sponsor teacher (she actually taught all three of my tech classes that year aaa i loved her) about how i didnt know what to do and shit and i dunno what she told me but like, i think she was trying to be encouraging but she basically said it was up to me, like she didnt try and nod me into a direction, that i can recall.

so SOMEHOW bc i honestly cannot remember, by senior year i’ve decided that im gonna jus fuck it and pick BOTH and double major in gd and athletic training. AND i had it all planned out, where i was gonna get a degree in gd and open up an online business, and then go into a masters program for at and then enter into the olympic field.

by this point creative writing is still cool and a great hobby but i couldnt possibly double major AND have a minor that’d be too much. id still love to take a cw course tho one day.

basically a buncha crazy stuff happened that first semester but by winter break i had an acceptance letter to a uni a couple hours north of home with a good accredited undergrad program (accredited basically means you graduate w a masters in four years so its fasttracked which woulda been great but uh..) and by the time i found out that next semester that they were doing away with the accredited program i was already too emotionally invested to consider panic-switching(panic bc it was february and id already been admitted hah...) but i decided it’d be okay. basically if you dont remember/werent around one of my school’s head ats died in a car crash died around early october ‘16. she went to undergrad where i go now, and i’d talked to her about it september that semester wondering if she knew anything abt their program and uh surprise, she’d done the same program small world. after the funeral in november and a ton of thought i applied there. (november was.. crazy in general last year. rly crazy)

may was when i started adding on sports to the future olympics job, bc i started thinking about it and after finally getting a friend to watch yuri on ice, he started making his was through all of sochi’s figure skating stuff, and then the 2010 vancouver olympics, and i decided i wanted to recap a bit on that too.

the 2010 olympics was really my first experience with figure skating. i’m a west texas gal and so theres not a lot out here to get exposed to, so seeing these best-of-the-best class sports was fun, and the earliest experience i can remember of such. i was in fifth grade so i dont remember a ton, but i do remember being captivated by korea’s yuna kim, who won gold that year in fs. shes an fs legend at this point, so if you’re into figure skating and don’t know who she is, go look her up. you wont be disappointed.

in 2012 was the london olympics. i remember a lot from it, like watching the opening ceremony with my parents and seeing the queen jump out of a helicoptor(which is like,, still cool to this day wow) and being fascinated my michael phelps and all the swimming he did so grandly. it was also my first real exposure to diving. the oldest i could recall anything abt the sport was at a pizza hut somewhere.. in town i think, and i was w my best friend at the time and my mom was there so i think maybe we were on the way back from the lake??? sounds right, i think. and we were talking abt how i always held my nose when i went underwater bc i didnt know how to not get water all up my nostrils and be underwter(and i still dont to this day aha) and she mentioned like, joining a diving team would be cool! would help me get over it and all! and i like recalling it dunno what she was talking abt bc we lived in dirt city nothing so i highly doubt there was or is any sort of diving sport happening. swimming, yeah maybe, there were lessons at pools and bodyworks areas around town, competitive teams im not sure tho, but not diving like at all so??? dunno.

so my next and technically first real experience with it was watching the london olympics. and i thought, wow, this is so neat!! i watched from that one day like the opening events, and i think i was old enough to search online like yea i had a laptop by then so i looked up the schedule for the things i wanted to see most of, and i ended up watching i think most of the diving events (i missed a couple for.. archery, i think? maybe?) and absolutely loving it. iunno what it was, maybe something i never thought i could do?(bc not hold my nose?? while i dove???????? scaryy) but i enjoyed it a bunch.

i was older when sochi was a thing, my 8th grade year. i was able to appreciate things a lot more. when i tuned into events, tony hawk and snowboarding were the main focus, but figure skating was on a lot as well. i had a tv in my room by that point, so if i didnt like what was playing on the main tv, i could go watch another event. i learned a lot of names and faces through that, and so while my bff was watching it our senior year if i was with him id point out skaters and their nationalities and stuff, like yuzuru hanyus always been a modern day household name w figure skating, but i leanred abt him BECAUSE of the sochi olympics, and he was one of the ones i’ve never forgotten. i really really liked it, so much that i watched worlds after, and around the same time my fr year, i tuned in to just the worlds championship again. i didn’t pick up trying to watch grand prix(which is their regular season, for those unaware) season until my junior year, and most of it was day-or-two-late videos from youtube, since the ice channel i think it a paid-for thing (i still dont know much abt it hah) and nothing was on tv otherwise, aside from the skate america event. but since that first time after sochi, ive always been around watching worlds fs near the beg of each year. i’d familiarized myself by senior year with the fs world, and actually,

early (i think march?) of my junior year, i searched up trying to find a figure skating anime at the time. and what did i find?? ginban, the only figure skating anime at the time. i watched like maybe all of one episode, it was abt a girl who shared her body w the ghost of a former figure skater while she was competing in events, and it was.. okay? lackluster, in the animation dept, but it was a 2005 show so.. yeah.

so after that i was like kk that wasnt good lets find another. and i didnt. not yet, anyway. instead, i found an announcement for violet evergarden’s animated adaptation, and yuri on ice, a realistic adaptation of the sport of figure skating. thats bolded bc its important. i found that shit abt yoi before it even had a promo poster, certainly before the pv came around that got everyone hyped up. i found it bc i was looking for figure skating in the first place. in fact, i think when the pv came out and got popular, i didnt even relate it to the upcoming fs anime i’d read about previously. it took me a bit to connect the dots.

watching yuri on ice at the same time as the gp 2016 season was surreal, but really interesting. i got my bff into it before the second to last episode came out, and i only remember that bc he finally showed any interest when he found something on twitter abt it being gay (newsflash/// hes gay, and before yoi his fav show was no6 bc that was as close as it got. he still rly likes it, we both do, but his solid favc is now definitely yoi. representation matters and all) and was like well now i HAVE to watch it and i was all yes it ends soon so pls. and he watched it twice in a weekend, and thrice before the finale came out, and then a few more times after that, iunno how many times but certainly more thn i have(i went back after the .. maybe ep 10? w/e ending had the after party reveal that changed everything, so i went back to analyze everything before the next ep) and between the week of 11 and finale 12, he started watching the sochi fs competition, and then the 2010 after the show ended w ep 12.

seeing this great fs show and getting a friend into the world of figure skating really renewed my love for it all. before the semester went out i went back and watched the reruns of the sochi fs stuff. and by may i’d decided i wanted to cosider that to be the sport i worked with.

with diving, it took a similar twist. in the form of the rio 16 olympics. i was all over that shit, i downloaded an nbc app on my phone so i could watch events live while i traveled with volleyball to a tournament in dallas and while i was at practice w them at home and generally jus away from the house and a tv. i planned that shit out had a schedule and everything for what i was watching live, and a lot of it was swimming, but a whoooole lot of live stuff was the diving.

in the hotel room in dallas the tv would always be on to w/e olympics events were airing at the time, either track or diving tho, one or the other, or recaps. quite a few girls ended up in the room in the evening and we’d all do stuff and watch in passing at the same time, and it was suuuuuper fun. watching the chinese women perform flawlessly and walk away w all the gold was fun, but finding a good commentator to actually say such was a disheartening challenge( one of the most memorable moments w live commentary that year was hearing a woman say of one of the chinese ladies that she’d done better before, after they revealed her personal best score ever like rly cmon be unbiased and jus passionate abt the sport youre covering pls.

ive always been super fond of the diving scene. it may not be as much as fs, but honestly, i wish i grew up in an area w a diving team now, or wish i could try it out now, bc thats how much fun it seems. i still wanna go up to the big city like 30min away from uni and learn to ice skate in the civic center there, but hands down if i had to pick a sport to join tomorrow or die i’d pick diving.

so also by may, and throughout the culmination of senior year, diving was the second sport on the olympic to-train-for list. you get a five-year contract w the olympics, now i think it’s usa as a whole and i think its by center so say, if i get a job in colorado springs i cant apply in another five years to chula vista or even like lake placid, but iunno for sure. the five-year thing is involved somehow bc i’ve heard it from a physical therapist and trainer-that-works-in-a-sports-med-clinic duo in one body named sarah, who’s been contracted out from the clinic by my high school since junior year also, bc she knows people who’ve worked w the olympics, and then another from church that worked w olympics that knows my family uh iunno how well but i know of him, i think he also works in the clinic as some sort of on-hand surgeon but a diff person than who sarah knew. so its five years somehow and then i’ll take my bfa in gd and open my online business and do that from a studio at home and look after my owl/cat pet combo.

since may, it had been ‘olympics, with either figure skating or diving’. and it stayed that for a long time. now, since a couple weeks ago, and this is again while gp season is happening for fs, its diving. i wanna work w the usa olympic diving team as their team athletic trainer, and i cant do it this summer bc i have to have completed two years of uni, instead of a certain standing, like be a junior, but so NEXT summer, before my senior year of uni, (i came in a sopho so 6 sem only ah) i’m applying for an internship at the center in colorado springs, and that’s the team i hope i work with.

now i tell people, diving, but if i get offered figure skating, i’ll take it, but diving is the goal now. if i love it and wanna continue professionally, great, i can do that and have an online gd shop. and if i decide i want something different? i’ll work olympics and then join w a professional-level figure skating i actually dunno how it works. coach, and their skater in turn. coach, with multiple skaters under them. a culmination of diff usa skaters. w/e, something in the professional fs world.

and thats uh, thats it! dive has been so much fun to watch, and i realize i talk a lot on here about working w basketball and being an at student in general and the vast majority have no idea what i mean, so hopefully this clarifies. thank you!!

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"while tessa was injured in 08, he had girls throwing themselves at him and offering him a lot of $$$ trying to lure him away." Do you have more details about this? Did Tessa know?

i think i’ve talked about this before? i cant find the post anymore tho and my vm tag is too damn long lol. this is just c/p’ed from an old msg in my outbox i sent someone once:

basically when tessa had her first surgery in 08, scott was actually skating with a bunch of different girls at canton to practice and keep his skills up. he was generally really frustrated and unhappy about the whole thing though because a lot of those girls were juniors or just not very good yet. (as an aside, i think he just really hates skating with anyone who’s not tessa. i’m p sure he even said so in the book? he skated with emily samuelson for a while in 2010/11 while both tessa and evan bates were out with injuries and he lasted like a week before he noped right out again) so team canton kind of started hunting around outside the rink for senior-level ice dancers for him to practice with and thats when everyone started speculating and gossiping that tessa was permanently injured and had to retire and him looking for a new ‘practice partner’ was just code for him legit looking for a new partner. which is when he started getting offers from all over the place and girls would come out to canton to ‘practice’ with him but it would really be a try-out. a lot of those girls’ families were rich and had money too and they’d get him really expensive gifts and tell him they were willing to pay all his training/living costs. it was all super manipulative and underhanded and we all should’ve realized marina wasnt shit back then tbh. anyway scott figured out what was happening eventually and he was really worried that tessa would hear about it and get the wrong idea so he just straight up refused to skate with anyone else until she came back. thats where marina came up with the idea of sandbags, which were like hugely impractical and not that much help in the end but they didnt really have any other choice bc he just wouldnt skate with anyone else.

tbh i always kind of thought their rift in 09 was partially because tessa did hear rumors about scott trying out with other girls and was prob really hurt by it all, but just bottled it all up inside instead of confronting him about it bc they’re so weird and emotionally stunted about each other. they always talk about that time like it was the WORST THING EVER and it seemed deeper to me than ‘we didn’t talk for a month and forgot how to communicate’. also scott was like super doting and affectionate toward her that whole season, like even by his standards, and it always felt kind of like him trying to show her his commitment and devotion to her or whatever. idk im wildly speculating here lol. anyway i always wonder what he would’ve done if tessa did have to retire in 2008 - on one hand he’s by far the most talented male ice dancer of his generation and you don’t just throw talent like that away. i don’t think igor/marina would’ve let him just trash his career like that. on the other hand, he refused to even think about exploring his options in 08 and maybe lock in a back-up for the olympics and he really seems like he would’ve just been miserable without her. staying with her was a risky thing to do and i rly wouldnt be surprised if he had marina/igor in his ear encouraging him to just dump her and move on. which is why i get like reflexively defensive when people talk about what a douche scott is? a lot of other 20 yr old guys in the same situation, right on the cusp of their careers, would’ve made a different, more selfish choice. i know i whine abt them a lot, but their unwavering loyalty to each other is honestly one of the best things about them and its why i rly have zero patience for skaters who dump their partners so unceremoniously once the next shiny thing comes along

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9 fame ads that miscarried

They have the potential to realize millions, but when the fames choose to jump into the advertising water, theres always the risk that it could miscarry. Here are a few examples of when thoughts started abysmally wrong:

1. Kendall Jenner

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Kendall Jenners Pepsi ad was attracted after it made contention. In the ad, Jenner is interpreted approaching a police officer and handing him a can of Pepsi as a proof carries on.

The ad received a lot of backlash on social media with some accusing that it seen sunlight of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Pepsi at first stood by the ad stating: “This is a global ad that reflects beings from different strolls of life coming together in a atmosphere of peace, and we think that’s its significant letter to convey.

By the next day, the cola label changed its arium, and the ad was pulled and Pepsi apologized.

2. Scarlett Johansson

Actress Scarlett Johansson got major blowback from some devotees in 2014 after she became a “global brand ambassador” for SodaStream. She also appeared in an ad for the brand.

After it led public that the Israeli-owned carbonation product company operates a facility in the West Bank, some threw Johansson for working with SodaStream.

At the time of the dustup in 2014, Johansson defended her endorement, telling the Observer , “I stand behind that decision … I was aware of that particular plant before I signed. And it was better doesn’t seem like a number of problems at least not until someone comes up with a solution to the closing of that factory and leaving all those destitute.”

3. Michelle Kwan

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In 2014, U.S. Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan got into hot water with a Washington D.C. nutrition group who were opposed to her decision to endorse Coca-Cola for the Sochi Games, while also helping on the former first lady Michelle Obama’s Presidential Fitness, Sports and Nutrition Council, passed its “eat healthy” initiative.

“You cant do a photo-op with the first lady promoting employ the working day and sell disease-promoting sodas the rest of the year, an official from the group announced, according to Breitbart.

4. Rachael Ray

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Almost ten years ago Rachael Ray did an ad for Dunkin Donuts.

Around her neck, she wore a scarf that numerous envisaged searched a similar to a keffiyeh, a piece of fabric often worn by people in Arab countries. A black-and-white keffiyeh was the signature supplementary for former Palestinian commander Yasser Arafat.

Hundreds of mentions filled the website denounce the coffee and doughnut shop.

Dunkin said in a statement, Absolutely no symbolism was aimed. The fellowship then removed the commercial-grade because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee.

5. Ashton Kutcher

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In Kutcher’s 2012 ad for Popchips, he played a Bollywood producer by the name of Raj and used a phony Indian accent. It didnt take long for the corporation is pull the ad and problem an confession after it effected scandalize.

Keith Belling, founder and CEO of Popchips, posted the next statement on the companys website at the time of the accident: We received a lot of feedback about the date expedition lampoon we launched today and acknowledge all persons who took the time to share their point of view. Our team worked hard to create a light-hearted parody peculiarity a variety of references that was meant to provide a few titters. We did not intend to offend anyone. I take full responsibility and apologize to anyone we offended.

6. Mary J. Blige

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Although it never aired, a 2012 Burger King commercial-grade featuring Mary J. Blige outlined the singer directory the ingredients for the brand-new chicken snack wraps to the chant of her psalm Dont Mind.

The backlash was coarse. Fans accused the singer of feeding into stereotypes about African Americans and fried chickens, with Blige eventually calling the commercial buffoonery.

“I understood the laughter and the pranks and the stuff that was happening – you’re supposed to do that when something like that happens – but the thing that hurt me is when people were starting to say wicked, negative acts that didn’t have( anything) to do with that, ” she said in a statement to TMZ . “It exposed everyone and everything in my life and showed me who my friends are.”

Burger King claimed the ad was being plucked due to a music licensing problem and was “unfinished, ” the Associated Press reported at the time.

7. Rob Lowe

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In 2015, the DirecTV ads boasting actor Rob Lowe and his alter egos, were pulled after the National Advertising Division surfaced with several complaints from cable fellowship Comcast.

The organization recommended that Lowe’s signature line, “Don’t be like this me. Get rid of cable and upgrade to DirecTV, ” be removed as it “conveyed a comparative and unsupported advantage message.” The protector group also obtained no proof that DirecTV had “greater signal reliablity, ” “shorter customer service waiting time, ” and “better picture and sound quality than cable, ” according to the Los Angeles Times.

But DirecTV seemed to leave the door open for a possible releationship with Lowe in the future.

“We’ve talked with Rob about doing something else in the future, ” Jon Gieselman, DirecTV’s senior vice president of commerce, told the Los Angeles Times. “He desires the campaign. He’s wholly get into the characters.”

8. Nicole Kidman

Kidman stumbled some serious agitation in 2015 after teaming up to do an ad for Etihad Airways.

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants union, which represents 25,000 American cabin crew wrote an open letter to the actress, stating that her adjustment with the airline was in conflict with her persona as a United Society womens goodwill ambassador.

The union called Etihad “a company that the Wall Street Journal has publicly reported may burn ladies if they become pregnant and thrusts flight attendants living a life in custody in procure compounds.”

The airline refuted the amount claimed in a statement: At Etihad Airways, we have become a world-wide, award-winning bos because we value our employees and we treat them with dignity and respect, ” according to Arabian Business.

9. Gigi Hadid

Hadids Versace ad had the young representation pushing a few borderlines and quite a few buttons.

The ad, shot dead by famed photographer Bruce Weber, boasted Hadid as a young mother of a son and toddler daughter. The boy put forward in awareness-raising campaigns looks to be about 4, and considering the fact that Hadid was 21 at the time the ad was shoot, she would have to have been a girl when she payed birth.

Fans were not in favor of promoting those lineage values.

Additionally, the toddler in the ad appeared to be series into her stroller, and considering the fact that the children in the ad were apparently bi-racial, several people took issue with what they interpreted as racist symbolism.

Comments left on the ad positioned on Instagram, when it was was exhausted, had beings accusing it of being weird, alarming and offensive.

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9 fame ads that miscarried

1. Kendall Jenner

Reuters

Kendall Jenners Pepsi ad was attracted after it made contention. In the ad, Jenner is interpreted approaching a police officer and handing him a can of Pepsi as a proof carries on.

The ad received a lot of backlash on social media with some accusing that it seen sunlight of the Black Lives Matter movement.

By the next day, the cola label changed its arium, and the ad was pulled and Pepsi apologized.

2. Scarlett Johansson

Actress Scarlett Johansson got major blowback from some devotees in 2014 after she became a “global brand ambassador” for SodaStream. She also appeared in an ad for the brand.

After it led public that the Israeli-owned carbonation product company operates a facility in the West Bank, some threw Johansson for working with SodaStream.

3. Michelle Kwan

Reuters

“You cant do a photo-op with the first lady promoting employ the working day and sell disease-promoting sodas the rest of the year, an official from the group announced, according to Breitbart.

4. Rachael Ray

Reuters

Almost ten years ago Rachael Ray did an ad for Dunkin Donuts.

Hundreds of mentions filled the website denounce the coffee and doughnut shop.

5. Ashton Kutcher

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6. Mary J. Blige

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The backlash was coarse. Fans accused the singer of feeding into stereotypes about African Americans and fried chickens, with Blige eventually calling the commercial buffoonery.

Burger King claimed the ad was being plucked due to a music licensing problem and was “unfinished, ” the Associated Press reported at the time.

7. Rob Lowe

Reuters

In 2015, the DirecTV ads boasting actor Rob Lowe and his alter egos, were pulled after the National Advertising Division surfaced with several complaints from cable fellowship Comcast.

But DirecTV seemed to leave the door open for a possible releationship with Lowe in the future.

8. Nicole Kidman

Kidman stumbled some serious agitation in 2015 after teaming up to do an ad for Etihad Airways.

9. Gigi Hadid

Hadids Versace ad had the young representation pushing a few borderlines and quite a few buttons.

Fans were not in favor of promoting those lineage values.

Comments left on the ad positioned on Instagram, when it was was exhausted, had beings accusing it of being weird, alarming and offensive.

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9 fame ads that miscarried

1. Kendall Jenner

Reuters

Kendall Jenners Pepsi ad was attracted after it made contention. In the ad, Jenner is interpreted approaching a police officer and handing him a can of Pepsi as a proof carries on.

The ad received a lot of backlash on social media with some accusing that it seen sunlight of the Black Lives Matter movement.

By the next day, the cola label changed its arium, and the ad was pulled and Pepsi apologized.

2. Scarlett Johansson

Actress Scarlett Johansson got major blowback from some devotees in 2014 after she became a “global brand ambassador” for SodaStream. She also appeared in an ad for the brand.

After it led public that the Israeli-owned carbonation product company operates a facility in the West Bank, some threw Johansson for working with SodaStream.

3. Michelle Kwan

Reuters

“You cant do a photo-op with the first lady promoting employ the working day and sell disease-promoting sodas the rest of the year, an official from the group announced, according to Breitbart.

4. Rachael Ray

Reuters

Almost ten years ago Rachael Ray did an ad for Dunkin Donuts.

Hundreds of mentions filled the website denounce the coffee and doughnut shop.

5. Ashton Kutcher

Reuters

6. Mary J. Blige

Reuters

The backlash was coarse. Fans accused the singer of feeding into stereotypes about African Americans and fried chickens, with Blige eventually calling the commercial buffoonery.

Burger King claimed the ad was being plucked due to a music licensing problem and was “unfinished, ” the Associated Press reported at the time.

7. Rob Lowe

Reuters

In 2015, the DirecTV ads boasting actor Rob Lowe and his alter egos, were pulled after the National Advertising Division surfaced with several complaints from cable fellowship Comcast.

But DirecTV seemed to leave the door open for a possible releationship with Lowe in the future.

8. Nicole Kidman

Kidman stumbled some serious agitation in 2015 after teaming up to do an ad for Etihad Airways.

9. Gigi Hadid

Hadids Versace ad had the young representation pushing a few borderlines and quite a few buttons.

Fans were not in favor of promoting those lineage values.

Comments left on the ad positioned on Instagram, when it was was exhausted, had beings accusing it of being weird, alarming and offensive.

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