#russian coach

[sbeana]

fencing au doodles . I lowkey don't like this one but I think gids shirt is funny

[moonlightseve]

So we see that Viktor is the one that does Yuuri’s hair (at least some of the time) because of that photo during the credits, and that makes me wonder, who does Yuri’s hair?? Braiding is somewhat difficult, especially so tightly and far up on the head, so it doesn’t make much sense for Yuri to do his own hair when he already needs to be concerned about competing.

I therefore propose two possibilities:

1.) Some of the time, it is Viktor that does it. He had long hair for quite a while and knows how to take care of it. He and Yuri know each other well. Yuri, for all of his grumbling, genuinely respects Viktor and his talents, as we see through his insistence that Viktor choreograph his program and return to Russia to coach him. I feel it’s quite reasonable that Viktor would be trusted to do his hair.

2.) It’s Yakov. Yakov, the old man with no children of his own, who pours his heart and soul into the skaters in his care. Viktor’s family is (at least to me) likely not in the picture, and Viktor grew up spending incredible amounts of time with his coach. Viktor is talkative and affectionate and his relationship with Yakov reveals quite a deep bond — Yakov may have been the one to style Viktor’s hair before competitions as there was no one else to do it for him. When Vitya leaves and he has another young skater to look after, it makes sense that these skills would transfer over. He’d be the one standing at Yuri’s back, carefully parting his hair into sections and ensuring he is presented as best as he can be. Viktor ties Yuuri’s skates as if preparing his soldier for battle — what if Yakov’s version is styling their hair?

[kakesuki]

Have to share my new skk obsession after watching the haikyu movie. So, new haikyu AU with our favorite duo, the double black. Little headcanons about their overall positions!

Firstly, I am convinced that Chuuya would be the main attacker. Obviously given his size we would think more of a libero, and I have no doubt that Chuuya could receive without too much difficulty because buddy is solid; with strong arms in addition to being fast, but no. The man is, in the manga, used to destroy adversaries against whom no one can do anything, when the situation degenerates; like an attacker, an ace, who will demolish the block of three in front of him because he has the fucking physical strength to do it. To just slam the ball against their arms and make them crack anyway. For me he would also jump super high, but that's because I go with the mentality of "in his work he literally controls gravity" so for me even when adapting it in a universe without powers I always have to note that. Chuuya would therefore be a complete player with remarkable physical abilities who could provide both defense and attack (even if his strong point remains attack, once again I take his abilities into account in bsd and adapt. In the manga he is very complete and he is an adversary with remarkable power and techniques, literally the PM's best martial artist.) but the fact that he loses his temper quickly will perhaps do him a disservice.

Otherwise to make up for it there is the our bandage on two legs, Dazai. And here too I would say that it is rather obvious. Already because Dazai in the work never really attacks himself, he makes sure to get others to do it for him and manages to make the enemy suffer without having to fight himself (typically a passer. ) but also because it is precisely the role of the “tactician” who calculates everything and reacts. The one who touches the ball the most but also someone who must open the way for the attackers. Physically he doesn't have the strength to demolish block's like Chuuya, even more because I genuinely imagine him to have a poor physical health, and so they complement each other. (I could also have put Dazai as a libero, since it is the role which cushions/removes the power of enemy attacks thanks to his receptions but that aside the role does not suit him at all. He was born to be a passer .)

[lobaznyuk]

started complaining to my dad about the jay clark situation and he said to me "lucy. at some point you have to tell yourself; 'i can't let a sport ruin my life'" LMFAO???

[caterpillarinacave]

I think I´ve seen this film before and I didnt like the ending

[postcard-from-the-past]

Russian Imperial Romanov family on a coach

Russian vintage postcard

[ilovespec]

Ловите еще одни мои тупые артики 💋

Catch more of my silly art 💋

Bontà

Agafya.

Squalo :D

[starscelly]

as a red wings fan whose bitch ass stupid fucking gm just signed kane again i feel your pain so bad i am so sorry

brother (gn) we r shaking hands.... may we both ignore an inevitable big part of our respective teams as much as humanly possible going into this next season. amen

[polishedjellyfish]

Ashley Wagner has something to say about Eteri’s claims of innocence 

[dreadmilf]

*on the table, crouched like a little goblin n talking big w my hands* OKAY but a steddie au in which Steve and Eddie join forces as the first same sex Olympic figure skating pair and they hate each other initially because Eddie’s a free bird and Steve’s a micromanager but then they just realize they’re stupid into each other and and and AND!!!! FALL IN LOVE OOPS!!

[sunskate]

this interview was a lot lol Madi talking about her partnership with her brother Keiffer

D: you had to deal with the ick factor of skating with your brother for years, and now you can be uninhibited. talk about the challenges of skating with your brother and when you have to do tango. be honest, the Shibutanis will never tell us, so -

Madi: the reason people didn't like us together as much as the Shibutanis is because we didn't have the cute factor, we had sex factor, and i don't think either one of us were that grossed out by it. our family in general is very huggy and touchy - we kiss each other on the mouth when we say bye. we're a very affectionate family. so for us we started so young that [skating together] was always a separate thing. it's not like if we were skated tango together i was actually thinking the thoughts that maybe people saw, so there was no ick factor for us, but we got a lot of comments that there was ick factor, and i was never very good at hiding my sexuality and being cute. so it just didn't work and at a certain point our coaches also didn't see an ick factor and had us skate to things like American Woman in a midriff (Zach laughing) and so at a certain point it just stopped working, and we called that quits. then i got to skate with Zach, and i got to fully embrace my ick factor, 😅 and then people liked it

[mollymarymarie]

Hi! just wanted to let you know that bird set free is so wonderful that I am unable to read anything else. Your talent is a blessing and a curse.

I just had to look up all the ice skating moves you mentioned and it’s so beautiful to watch, I trained in ballet for about 14 years as a kid and they are vaguely similar and I think that enticed me, like a little throwback you know. Anyway, I was just curious how you knew so much about it? Are you just extremely well researched or have you skated before?

Thanks love

Hi! Thank you so much!!! This is such a lovely ask!

And also I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED because I have ZERO experience as an ice skater (have never even worn a pair of ice skates). My Jobros bestie and technical beta @billsfangearring was the brains behind this operation!!

Going in, I knew basic things, like the names of certain jumps (like a triple axel or a quad Lutz) just from watching figure skating. But Billie was the one to tell me that there are requirements for certain elements in each type of program (we designed the whole Bird Set Free free skate entirely from scratch, even literally modeling the starting pose lol) and helped me figure out the best way to verbally describe those elements (how a jump starts, which side of the blade a skater would land on, etc).

So if it reads like I know what I am talking about, that is ALL thanks to Billie!

(Billie also helped me pick the music! Including recommending THE PERFECT SONG for a very important short program that is coming very soon 👀👀👀)

[aflawedfashion]

I’m catching up on worlds and I can’t believe there are still so many people in this sport who haven’t learned we shouldn’t be hyping the youngest athletes up to an unreasonable degree

[lunalilith19]

Ice dance coaches's sun/moon signs:

Every last IAM and MIDA coach has an earth or water sign for sun or moon if not both. earth is stable and solidifying, solid water= ice it's so literal 😅

IAM coaches: Marie-France - Leo sun/Taurus moon Patrice - Sagittarius/Virgo Romain - Cancer/Pisces Pascal - Taurus/Virgo or Libra moon Josee - Cancer/Cancer or Leo Benjamin - Libra/Cancer

IAMO coaches: Scott - Virgo/Sag Adrian - Virgo/Leo or Virgo Madi - Pisces/Cancer Cara - Pisces/Pisces Sheri - Virgo/Taurus Justin - Taurus/Cancer Alma - Capricorn/Cancer

MIDA coaches: Charlie - Scorpio/Scorpio Tanith - Cancer/Sag or Capricorn Greg - Scorpio/Taurus

a large percentage of male ice dancers have earth sign sun or moon, and coaches are mostly former skaters, so that could be related

when we look at other schools, it's not 100% - there are exceptions, but still - in a list of 23 coaches, only 1 definitely doesn't fit the pattern.

Igor Shpilband - Cancer/Virgo or Libra Pasquale Camerlengo - Aries/Aquarius Anjelica Krylova - Cancer/Virgo (slight chance of Leo) Barbara Fusar-Poli - Aquarius/Scorpio (slight chance of Libra, but, Scorpio seems to fit her so much) Marina Zueva - Aries/Pisces or Aries (i always think of her as a double Aries, but there is a chance she's a Pisces moon) Massimo Scali - Sagittarius/Virgo Luca Lanotte - Leo/Capricorn

[postcard-from-the-past]

Imperial Romanov family on a coach

Russian vintage postcard

[ilovespec]

What would my Yandere characters look like, only younger ones (it's like they're from my past story, or more precisely, the "demonic protector")