#Yuuvic

[hanase]

My prompt by @rosereleasestheart for the @yuri-on-ice-action event! It's NSFW so I can't upload it here but you can see the full version on Twitter!

[striveattemptfail]

yuuri katsuki/victor nikiforov, G, ~600 | for @viktuuri-week: day 6 – happiness i nearly missed this event but i'm glad i got to dust off this old wip to celebrate anyway (ಥ‿ಥ) thank you to harky for the quick beta<3 any other mistakes are mine read on ao3

In interviews, and generally in public, Yuuri always says his happiest memory is landing his triple axel for the first time.

It happened back when he was in high school when Yuuri was practicing a bit (a lot) after hours because he was determined to land the thing before he took his skates off for the day. Yuuko had finished closing up everything but the rink itself at Ice Castle, and Takeshi was hanging around waiting for her.

“Yuuri,” he called out, “I will drag you off the ice myself if you don’t stop! It’s way past closing time already!”

Yuuri huffed an annoyed breath before yelling back, “Yes, yes! Just one more! I promise!”

(He’d been so close already. He knew exactly what he had to do—he just hadn’t pushed his body enough yet to do it.)

So Yuuko stood next to Takeshi with a sigh, and Takeshi crossed his arms as they watched Yuuri circle around the rink again.

Yuuri picked up momentum, leg swinging forward to catapult himself into the air and—

—he landed it.

Yuuko clapped in celebration. “Yuuri-kun! You did it, you did it, you did it!” she shrieked as Takeshi whooped and hollered next to her.

And Yuuri was breathless, flushed from the exertion and the overwhelming feeling of accomplishment.

He did record himself landing his first triple axel thanks to camera footage from Ice Castle. Unfortunately, the video had gotten lost over the years but, “I’m sure Yuu-chan and Nishigori-kun would be happy to attest to that night!”

However... that’s just his public answer when it comes to his happiest memory.

His honest answer is the first time Victor fell asleep on his shoulder.

They were at home watching TV after dinner at Yu-Topia, resting after a long day of practice and training, and Victor sat next to him on the tatami. Makkachin had long since fallen asleep across his and Victor’s laps, snoring softly as Victor petted the pooch’s head.

By this point, he and Victor had finalized the choreography to his Free Skate, the steps finally approved by Victor’s tremendously high standards. Yuuri’s excitement must have been obvious, because once they packed up to leave Ice Castle, Yuu-chan had teased him about the goofy look on his face.

(He had been relieved that she only mentioned finally finishing the choreography, and not that he was immensely pleased to be the reason for Victor’s satisfied smile. Takeshi had already joked that he was falling knee-deep in his childhood crush on Victor in front of Victor. Yuu-chan at least had enough tact to keep Yuuri’s budding feelings a secret.)

The moment happened when the weatherman ended his report. As Yuuri continued to quietly watch the news, he felt Victor’s head land gently on his shoulder.

He had immediately stilled, blood rushing in his ears, and murmured, “Victor...?”

The only response he received was the sound of Victor’s soft breathing. Yuuri shifted, as delicately as he could, to look at Victor’s face, and was met with the peaceful expression of his coach sound asleep.

Yuuri could swear his heart was beating so loud he could barely hear it over the voices of the news anchors. His cheeks were warm and he had to remember to breathe normally when his breaths came out shallower than usual.

He eventually turned to look back at the TV with a small smile.

And with a body aching from a day’s hard work, a full belly, a dog on his lap, and a man he realized was dangerously close to falling in love with sleeping peacefully by his side, he thought, I think I could live the rest of my life like this.

[rikeijo]

Hello! :) Hope I don’t seem like I am trying to cause drama. 😅 I would like to ask how different and / or similar is the YOI fandom in Japan compared to the English fandom? Another thing I’m curious about is how do Japanese BL / GL fans view view Western shows with LGBT+ characters? For example does The Owl House have a lot of GL fans or do they not really care about the show?

Hello! Thank you for the message!

I don't think that it's trying to cause drama... In case of YoI and all the very unusual things that happened with this IP, if we try to understand why it happened, imo, it's impossible to see the whole picture without taking into consideration how Jp anime industry&fandom perceive LGBT+ related stuff.

The main difference is that, in case of anime like YoI, in Jp, majority of people think "fujoshi" when they see it, not "gay representation/ LGBT".

This is a quote from an article I happened to read recently (link) that answers a lot of your questions. A person, who works for a company that specializes in BL marketing, talks about Jp and Asian BLs.

"In Japanese BLs there is a lot of settings and cliches expected to appear in the story. There is so much that I'll only give you an example here, one that is difficult to explain in words - for example, the seme (the man that leads in the romantic relationship) is cool and the most popular person in the class, and on the other hand the uke (the man that is led) is more plain, and a bit of an natural airhead - this pattern is one of the classics. In BL, part of the culture is to enjoy those settings and story templates.

(...)

Of course, in the West, there are also BL stories called M/M, which portray romantic relationships between men and they have a lot of fans in Jp. But according to Tsutsui: "In the West, those stories are created more in the context of LGBT and are of a different kind that Japanese and Asian BLs."

(...)

Also, in BLs there is a lot of taboos, called "jirai, landmines". If you detonate those because you lack understanding [of the BL culture], users will immediately go away.

One example of a landmine is when seme and uke swap places, called "reverse"."

Of course, YoI isn't BL, but fans of YoI ships have exactly the same mindset: one uke, seme(s), enjoying our fantasies, not interested in LGBT. Obviously, it's not 100% of the fandom, but the vast majority is really like that.

VicYuu (Victor seme, Yuuri uke) is the most popular ship (seme the coolest character x uke the main character "I'd like to read shojo manga, but they have women there and I hate those" template is the most popular fujo template for every story - for example, in case of JJK, the most popular ship is... Gojo Satoru x Itadori Yuji (15) with almost 700 millions views in total on pixiv). So, that Yuuri doesn't look uke enough and Victor looks like a "fa*got with fake eyelashes" (that's a quote), when he should be a masculine seme, in a lot of arts is one reason why fujos started to hate members of YoI staff. Just like that person in the article said - for fujos, it's a landmine. I've talked about it a few times before - one of the most hated YoI staff member is Mitsurou, and there is plenty of reasons why she was targeted, but one is that the way she draws Yuuri and Victor is more similar to how "YuuVic" fanarts are drawn (and often you can basically tell the ship by how the person draws the characters)...

I don't know a lot about The Owl House, but of course, it has fans in Jp as well - only, I think that those fans (of Western LGBT shows in general) are more from the progressive side and there is little overlap with classic fujos (so a kind of BL/dojinshi fan). Another example, the Witch from Mercury was also popular with the progressive people of Jp twitter and they were also bashing the IP holders because of the marriage controversy... Of course, more progressive people read BLs, too, but many are against being labelled as "fujoshi"... That's generalization, but fujos are those people who labelled and still call heterosexual love "normal love" - I think that says a lot.

In my observation, YoI's Jp fandom is in majority fujo-fandom (2016 was a few years ago...). In 2023, however, more and more people are more open and know more about LGBT+ stuff, so there is also growing "progressive" population of fans on twitter etc. and those people gravitate towards different shows/have different interpretations compared to classic fujos.

So yeah, generally & simply speaking, in Jp, fujoshi, BL =/= LGBT. And btw, as I was labelled fujo-hater in the past, I don't think it's "bad" that fujos like to feminize their uke so much to self-insert and fantasize about the masculine seme(s) loving them, effectively making the ship into a heterosexual ship, because that's what they prefer (although when a grown-up woman is fantasizing about a tiny teenager having sex with a man twice his age and size, well... I'm not sure it's healthy) but I just don't think that it has much to do with LGBT rights and being allies or anything like that, and that it's something that should be acknowledged, too.

[namchyun]

[nurikoesuki]

A sketch I did since 2019, but for various reasons, didn’t finish until today. They didn’t turn out as well as I wish they could’ve, but nevertheless, I’m glad that I finally finished it.

This is a redraw of the doujinshi “Boku no Ai wo Shitteru no mo Kimi Dake” by K-Doll, as seen below:

[bowldeepfannish]

2 of 3 fanart pieces for @yoi-pride-zine��. Victuuri in front of traditional Chinese and Japanese mandarin ducks & herons (symbols of long life, lifelong love & spousal happiness) and pan flag colours in the background... wearing rather wedding-flavoured ice shows suits glittering with pan colours again and some rainbow sparkles + duet accent colours :)

Leftovers are available for a limited time at https://loveandlifezine.ecwid.com/ :D

- Zine fanart 1 of 3 here

[jadefridamirai]

Reverse!AU Yuuri!coach Victor!apprentice

Another work in progress. I will finish all my drawing. I promise to my self.

[veryhiddenreki]

No one:

Me laying awake in bed: Yuri on ice should get a second season

[rhapeseuhans]

Pairing: Viktuuri.  Tags: Humor, romance, R-18 (censored) [My patrons have access to the uncensored version~)

“Yuuri Katsuki’s job is to deliver the bread that his family bakes, but his trips are always interrupted by Viktor the wolf.”~

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[tachimybananase]

Cuties ❤️

[seikuuru]

I made some Viktuuri icons in Animal Crossing style since I’ve been playing non-stop!! Viktor as a wolf and Yuuri as a bunny! I thought about making him a piggy but that’d be kinda rude omg, anyway feel free to use them if you want to!

[leeahnno]

I used to have a tumblr here under @/grrlee but I deleted it due to personal reasons. Here’s some of the old art that was on there. Posting this here just in case you find it on other sites. 

[starfruits-world]

3- Yuri!!! On field

[namchyun]

[omimatsun]

Some my old doodle.

[whattheheckcoleman]

i had the wonderful chance to participate in the @yoiscifizine !! i pretty pastel comic about a star sailor Yuuri and a fallen star Viktor 💖💖💖