#Lolo and Nik

[sunskate]

omg

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[purple-jupiter-ascending]

SHUT UP!!!!!!!

They did it!!!!!!

[ninicaise]

when they first met laurent and nikandros's rivalry was one-sided bc laurent was just like really busy at the time with what he believed to be his impending inevitable death and whatnot. post-canon though when nikandros has warmed up to laurent it is laurent who now has beef with nikandros bc laurent's best friend is damen 100% but damen's best friend is nikandros. so you see the issue. "but damen is laurent's husband!" laurent doesn't give a shit. his best friend has another best friend who isn't laurent that shit is embarassing!! and nikandros must die about it

[cheryls-blossomed]

Ice dance is really paying the price for the relatively clean senior men’s free skate in the Grand Prix Final… Torino 2006 claimed so many ice dance victims, but apparently we are still not done here in Torino.

[autumncalls]

No but I literally had just finished watching the men's free playback with that great podium feeling so happy for Keegan just to switch over to ice dance and see that choice™ of a score

[raininyourblackeyes]

Ice in Torino really said "no lifts" today 😵

[thisthisthisandthis]

apparently none of my frantic liveblogging upon getting off my flight and checking isuresults dot com went through. good. some history is meant to be erased

[brandymuses]

I cried watching them on that podium. They deserve this after all these years of hard work and constant obstacles.

[macaroni-rascal]

I’d say do the same with the Canadian men and women ice dancers but… what’s the point there’s no tangible contest (tho if you feel like it I’m here for the snarky tags all the way, make me laugh-cry!)

(men: Scott, poje, Paul, Nik , Patrice, victor kraatz) (women: T, Kait, piper, lolo, Marie, Shaylynn)

Men: It's Scott first, a truly giant never ending chasm, and then Paul Poirier, and then Poje, Patrice and Victor Kraatz are all sort of tied for third place, Patch and Victor because they are from a different era, and Poje cause that boy was just a hot damn mess and with no finesse or knee bend, plus he twizzled like a skater from the 90's.

Women: Tessa first, a slightly less giant chasm than with the men, Lolo, a medium chasm, Piper and KWeaves in similar spots for different reasons, and Marie and Shae Lynn last just for the time they were ice dancers.

[tutuandscoot]

Some unwarranted/not asked for thoughts from worlds so far

In no particular order that shit cramps my style

• Loena is terrible. I’m sorry I want an underdog/non- skating dominate nation to win but not her. Not like this. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN GIRL. Learn how to dance if you are gonna spend the whole time whacking (fuck you pc look what you’ve done) her arms are a fucking mess, she had zero performance quality till the last 10 seconds, and not even based on this performance- her jumps in general are not great.

• YAYYYYYY KAORI

• isabeau my darling put some hairspray in your fringe and stop idolising the Russians

• Katia made me cry and will forever be under appreciated for her artistry fuck you isu

• these camera angles in general SUCKKKK

• I wanna be Deanna when I grow up

• still obsessed with her dress

• Why is the music so quiet I can barely hear it

• fuck you Romain (no reason)

•Hi Scootie Patootie 🥰

•I hate the RD theme, rules, everything. About it

• Love Christina’s dress

• Love that they did something not cheesy

• but unfortunately I just don’t think they will ever have star quality- they will never not be vanilla and as good as Scott is he can’t fix that

• dance is literally just Paris skating for people who can’t jump at this point

•so. Much .posing

• literally had to watch 2 hours of vm to undo what I just watched.

•fuck you romain (still don’t need a reason)

• FG gotta do something about that rash (I’m referring to their RD costumes)

• I refused to watch gilorier but then @macaroni-rascal said they were so fucking slow so I had to watch through my fingers and I still hate them and Christ if they ever win a world title I Will consider a life of crime and who the fuck let her out in 3/4 latex tights????

•fuck you nik - reasons (sorry LoLo but a shit result is what he deserves and you’re his partner /sticking by him so sorry I hope your last comp ever doesn’t not go well not bc of you but its a team sport 😕)

• in summary *Ron Swanson crying screaming “I hate *almost Everything”*

[sunskate]

omg 🥰

[twizzleenthusiast]

the way i want marjo and zak to win but also lolo and nik to win but also for both of them to go to worlds but the math ain’t mathing!!! torture…

[ninicaise]

nikandros: your "babyboy" just flogged several people, damen

[sirenwalker]

here to update from nhk trophy. I FINALLY GOT LAST PLACE......... in men's )))):

adam/matteo/gabriele/tomoki winner's of my heart <3

i truly thought my ice dance fantasy team couldn't get worse after skate canada when only ~30 people did worse than me, but I have truly outdone myself with the results from idf where only 9 people managed to choose a worse team than me lmao

[lunalilith19]

I know you've spoken about how interesting Scott and Tessa's charts are when you read them together and see how they balance and their strengths make sense etc. Are there any current or recent ice dance teams charts you also find interesting or really well matched?

Chock and Bates and Lolo and Nik have a lot of supportive connection and seem really good together in their charts.

interesting teams -Stepanova and Bukin have a yod together which is really similar to VM in some ways- there's that sense of him being the key to her lock, and it's a connection that's hard for them and anyone else to understand, too - only it's pretty clear in Stepbuk's composite chart why they are more like family and not romantic.

there have been a couple of teams who had charts that look like they might not last, and they did split. so when some of those same aspects show up in another team, i'm always curious if they'll last, and if they do, what factors they have that keep them together.

hard Uranus aspects in the composite to personal planets, especially Venus, can make things unstable. but it's more common to see in junior teams - teams who stay together long enough to establish themselves as seniors usually have more stability than that.

Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck have Venus square Uranus in their composite and the Sun isn't aspected, so there are some signs that this might not be a long haul connection. they do have some more positive aspects, so we'll see. i hope the best for her sake

[gofigureelectra]

I love that the peacock stream came back only just in time to see Lolo and Nik’s scores… like seriously, wtf happened that they got -2.0 and went from starting in 4th to falling to probably 6th….