#shib sibs

[youremysputnik]

nbc interviewed the shib sibs 😭😭 come back besties please

[angels-fs-sideblog]

Got to meet the Shib Sibs today!

[swanmaids]

Lalwen for the ask please :D

Thank you! I don't know if I have many Lalwen thoughts, so this will be fun!

one aspect about them i love

There's not tons written about her, but choosing to brave the ice automatically makes her interesting to me! Shib says that she was motivated by love of Fingolfin, which is definitely nice (love a positive sib relationship) but I wonder if other factors affected her decision too. Was she a kinslayer too? I don't think it's impossible. Did she really, really want to punch Feanor in the face? Also very possible.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

This is an absolutely pedantic nitpick, but - she doesn't appear in Silm proper, only HoME. That said, I think most people have adopted her into their personal interpretation of Arda, including me.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

War of wrath balrog-slayer Lalwen? War of wrath balrog slayer Lalwen.

as well as

one character i love seeing them interact with

Fingolfin! I think they had a very close sibling bond that Fingolfin was eager to recreate with his own kids - and in a sense did, with Turgon and Aredhel.

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

Her closeness with Fingolfin makes me wonder about how she felt about her other siblings. If she lives until the War of Wrath, which I imagine she did, what was her reunion with Finarfin like? Very emotional, or did they have nothing to say to one another?

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

Often went seal-hunting on the Ice with Aredhel, and was very good at it.

[figurelifeflirt]

2022 JGP Poland stage 2 entry #22

Junior pairs short program

Sierova/Khobta(UKR)

Thoughts: I forgot that Violetta’s dress is white underneath. I like the green but not the white underneath.

Campillo/Martos(ESP)

Thoughts: me, wanting these two to succeed only because I love Carolina’s outfit.

Golubeva/Moore(AUS)

Thoughts: What is Anastasia’s natural hair color? Because the brown suits her better. I don’t why she even let the blonde come in.

Loewenherz/Loewenherz(GER)

Thoughts: I’m beginning to think my issue with brother-sister teams is only a Shibutani thing. Because these two grew on me super fast. I love Taschler and Taschlerova. I love the Peals. Maybe I was just tired of the Shib sibs winning everything and being overhyped.

Junior pairs free program

Sierova/Khobta(UKR)

Thoughts: This is a much better outfit for Ivan than the short program outfit.

Campillo/Martos(ESP)

Thoughts: Carolina’s outfits are still spectacular. But Miguel needs a different haircut. He doesn’t even look his age!

Golubeva/Moore(AUS)

Thoughts: This golden dress is probably one of my favorites for Anastasia. And Hektor does know to make facial hair appealing.

Loewenherz/Loewenherz(GER)

Thoughts: I liked Robert still. Even in suspenders, I liked him. It was Sonja’s outfit that I had trouble with this time.

[amakumos]

some of my faves are kaori sakamoto, JUNHWAN CHA <3, YUNA KIM (LOVE her skating sm i always rewatch every day i am dedicated. 🙏), YUZU OFC, the shib sibs too they’re so cute i love all their skates, i also have to mention tessa and scott moulin rouge that skate OH MY. literally JAW DROPPING it’s insane one of my faves FR!!

i also RLLT love watching aljona + bruno pyeongchan free skate,, it’s so addicting i can’t help but watch it ALL the time.

oh my GOD YOU ARE SO ME WE LTRLT HAVE THE EXACT SAME FAVES?? TESSA AND SCOTT MOULIN ROUGE CHANGED MY LIFE WHEN I WAS WATCHING IT I FR WAS SITTING THERE IN SHOCK

omg THE SHIB SIBS!!! their pyc skate to paradise was so good i loved it so much .. and YUNA SO REAL OF YOU adios nonino was life changing she should’ve been the sochi ogm💔💔

and JUN FANS RISE UP!🙏

[noa-nightingale]

Grocery Run: The Shib Sibs ✨

Tragically, neither Ryan nor Shane mentioned the Shib Sibs, Maia and Alex Shibutani, in the Top 5 Beatdown episode about the Olympics so I rewatched the Grocery Run episode with them as guests and I wrote a list about it.

The episode was filmed in the Before Times and I was a tiny bit alarmed how weird it was to me to see them walk around a grocery store without masks.

I learned what broccolini is.

This screenshot from during Steven’s introduction of Maia and Alex is just really delicious and satisfying. Idk I just love how it looks and the idea behind it.

Loved to hear them talk about how they met Steven and how they spent time together in New York.

“This is what friendship is all about, guys.” - “Just going places and eating things.” <3

The entire interview is just so interesting - I don’t know much about figure skating and it was interesting to hear about it in general and about Maia’s and Alex’ personal journey.

Alex: “We need some salt, we need some kosher salt. I don’t know if it’s coarse or fine though” - Maia: “Mneh, it’s fine” Lol

Maia: “And loving it doesn’t mean that you’re happy all the time.” - Steven: “So you’re not happy all the time, Maia?” - Maia: “Coconut water!”

I love how Steven keeps asking them what they think about him and what their favorite thing about him is. And tbh he deserves all the compliments.

The low-effort Grocery Run sign delights me for some reason (and also that it looks like Grocery Pun from far away).

Their book! It was released in 2020 and is called Kudo Kids: The Mystery of the Masked Medalist. (And my question is: Did Steven actually get his copy?)

“There’s times when you don’t feel like doing this. And there’s gonna be times when you’re gonna be emotionally drained to the point of sometimes tears. I’ve been there, I don’t know if you guys have been there.” Every time I hear something like this I just want to tell him to take care of himself. :( The whole conversation after that is really interesting.

Brittney making sure that the smoke alarm does not go off lmao

They let him wear one of their medals and I am crying real actual tears. 😭

Steven’s shoutout to them at the end of the episode is so heartwarming: “They are honestly the most amazing, talented, humble, hard-working people I’ve ever met. I’ve been really admiring their careers and how they’ve been supportive of the Asian-American community at large. I know that they buy out theaters for all of the movies that we have that feature Asian cast or Asian directors and they also are just very vocal in the Asian community.”

It is a wonderful episode and I enjoyed rewatching it after not watching any Grocery Run episodes in a good while. It was a lovely look back on an earlier Watcher episode and I am almost a little bit nostalgic for that time. (Watcher is still a young company but still - a lot has happend between then and now.)

I read a little about what the Shibutani siblings are doing now and apparently they are not at the Olympics this year. I found an article talking about Maia having had health issues in 2019 (a cancerous tumor was found in one of her kidneys - thankfully she is cancer-free now! I really hope she is doing well!) and about what they are doing this year.

Here’s the article: The Shibutanis Won't Be in Beijing — Here's What the Olympic Siblings Are Doing Now

I am goind to end this with what Steven wrote in the episode description because it is really lovely.

“On today's episode of Grocery Run, we have the most incredible humans in the world, Maia & Alex Shibutani. Aside from their long list of accomplishments which you can easily track down on Wikipedia, I've had the pleasure of getting to know them as friends over the years. The one thing that impresses me the most is how much love and care they put into everything that they do from ice skating to their philanthropic work to their individual friendships.”

The episode has currently 102 663 clicks which is not enough, if you ask me - so if you would consider watching (or rewatching) it, I highly recommend it. Thanks for reading! 💖

[big-bad-bhardwaj]

Figure skating: The basics (Ice dance)

[just-friend-a]

Sometimes I think about how blessed the PyeongChang Olympics figure skating was because:

Before the Olympics I couldn’t decide who I wanted to root for to be on the men’s podium because I wanted Yuzu, Javi, Shoma, Boyang, and Nathan all to medal, but I was really happy with the podium and Nathan being able to have such an epic comeback in the freeskate and Boyang finishing close to the podium

Yuzuru and Javier are so pure and I love them and I miss them ugh

Shoma being an awkward bean

Adam Rippon’s team event free skate tho,,,, like just the costume was god tier

I know this is still touchy but I stand by the fact that Evgenia should have won ladies’

That said I’m still happy with podium and I loved Alina and Evgenia’s because it was obvious that there was so much tension but they were still supportive of each other

Mirai’s 3A in the team freeskate!!!!! Fantastic!!!

I don’t really watch pairs or ice dance but Virtue and Moir’s free dance tho,,,,,, two years and I’m still screaming

Also proud of Maia and Alex Shibutani for getting third bc they deserved it

Aliona Savchenko finally getting her gold medal w Bruno Massot!!

All of the footage from the practices

The!!! Gala!!!! Exhibition!!!!! Omg!!!!!

The gala itself and all the practices were so pure and I still love seeing all the videos of the skaters being dorks

Yuzu, Javi, and Misha’s exhibition programs tho 😍

Yeah so basically figure skating at the 2018 Olympics was fantastic and I miss skating + keeping up with international skating

[ourravenboys]

happy 26th birthday maia shibutani!

(7/20/1994)

[eight-edges]

HOLY SHIT Maia Shibutani just had a fucking tumor removed. All of this fs drama and somehow Maia potentially having cancer went completely under the radar.

She said the surgery was a success (the tumor was on her kidney, but the whole kidney didnt have to be removed) and there’s like a 60/40 chance that it was malignant. I hope she recovers quickly! ♥️

[youremysputnik]

whenever i hear paradise i think of the shib sibs and i get sad :(

[firstofall-howdareyou]

Day 4 :: A Skating Program that Makes You Cry 

I *in general* do not cry watching figure skating (probably something broken in me), but I don’t know if it was the stress of the night, some weird possession of Coldplay that their music gives me chills while also making me not like it, or what, but this program gave me the sensation of crying without actually happening. The build up, the swell, the ending - so powerful. 

[earthtojuli-art]

i’ve been playing around with different brushes and textures in an attempt to avoid writing papers (as one does).

here’s the lovely mia shibutani

[scotts-stretch-line]

The shib sibs out here DOING THE WORK

[cielrouge]

Alex Shibutani & Maia Shibutani skating to Coldplay’s “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” during the 2019 Stars on Ice Tour Part 1

[noa-nightingale]

A whole episode about the Olympics and they did not mention the Shib Sibs once??

They won bronze in 2018 AND you had them as guests on your own damn channel!

Annnnyyyways, it’s a good reminder for me to rewatch that Grocery Run episode. :D <3