#jesus i think my heart jumped a quad axel when I read that

[saotome-michi]

figure skating au fanfics are interesting to read because you can usually tell if the author's knowledge of it mainly comes from yoi or casually watching the olympics every four years when you get gems like:

the main character saying that they might participate in three competitions for the grand prix if it'll improve their standing which is impossible to do. like everyone is restricted to two, the only way you'd get a third is if you couldn't attend one of the original two that you were scheduled for because idk you had covid or something.

the main character saying that they're trying to do a quad axel. A Quad. Axel. A jump that only ONE PERSON IN THE ENTIRE WORLD has landed in competition and that only happened A YEAR AGO. and this character isn't even a pro skater!??? They're competing in the intercollegiate!!?? Not that there aren't good skaters in the intercollegiate, on the contrary there are many, many extremely skilled skaters, but if you can even ATTEMPT a QUAD AXEL then your character should be going pro. Or like, you should have tons of people trying to convince that character to go pro and the country should literally be trying to recruit them because a QUAD AXEL??????????