emilian thinks about skating

"the past is not a chain, but a thread. pull it, and it may lead you home."

[berrypandas]

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emilian | he/they | 20 | ao3

hi there! this is my blog for my new hyperfixation, figure skating. my f1 blog is pitlanewrites, and my 'main' blog (that i never post on) is dreamsoftheworld. don't follow it. i do nothing there.

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my favourite skaters are ilia malinin, mikhail shaidorov, alexandra trusova, lara naki gutmann, rion sumiyoshi, and ami nakai. they are my skrunklies and if you hurt them i hurt you.

about me and my blog

this blog serves as a companion to my figure skating fanfiction, linked above. it is advised not to interact with or follow this blog if you are uncomfortable with real person fiction.

i've been a skating fan since october 2025. if i seem to know a lot it's because of autism. i follow men's and women's singles skating closely, but i don't know a lot about pairs and ice dance.

other things i like include chess, formula one, and video games. my favourite video game is chants of sennaar and i have nearly 4000 hours on the sims 4. i have also been playing a lot of terraria recently.

i am currently a university student majoring in language and linguistics! my first language is english and i'm at a B2 level in french :) i also know very minimal spanish, māori, dutch, and korean, and i am currently learning japanese!

please do not share my work anywhere where its subjects could stumble upon it by accident. please keep rpf to spaces known for it.

while i write explicit fanfiction, i prefer to keep discussions of sex away from this blog. all posts with themes that may go beyond what is considered 'safe for work' are tagged with 'nsfw'. minors are politely requested not to engage with these posts. adults are welcome to discuss these in DMs :)

[berrypandas]

Hi, dearest President of the #shailinination)))

Stumbled on this and somehow....did Misha really used the word "console"?🤣

"I'll try to console him": Mikhail Shaidorov supported Ilia Malinin after his Olympic failure.

Published:February, the 16th, 2026, 1:35 PM

The OG Press Service published an interview with Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov and reported on the failure of the competition's main favorite, Ilia Malinin

The biggest surprise of the event was the performance of two-time world champion and evident favorite Ilia Malinin. The American skater, a close friend and age-mate of Shaidorov, fell twice and missed three jumps, finishing at the shocking 15th place in the free skate and eighth overall. Malinin, who had won gold in the team event with Team USA, made no public statements after his performance. Shaidorov also hadn't seen Malinin since the evening of the final, but said he was looking forward to talking with him on the important competitions ahead for both of them. "When I see him in the future, I will definitely try to console him. Ilia is a great athlete, but above all, he is a wonderful person. I want to support him because we have been walking side by side since juniors. I am incredibly grateful to Ilia and figure skating for bringing us together. We are a big family that not only competes with each other but also brings together different people to develop figure skating. We are developing this sport together, and in the future, there will be many competitions where we will continue to do so."

https://www.nur.kz/sport/olympiad/2344056-postarayus-ego-uteshit-mihail-shaydorov-podderzhal-ilyu-malinina-posle-provala-na-olimpiade/?utm_source=web-share-api

i don't speak russian, so i have no idea whether he used 'console' or whether that word means something different in russian.

[berrypandas]

do u have an image of ilia's and misha's colantotte necklaces im curious now

ilia wears a different colantotte necklace that doesn't look similar to misha's now, but here's another one he has

and here's misha's!

[berrypandas]

Ilia giving an interview about realizing it’s ok to be different and being proud of who he is, and then it being released on the first day of pride month…….thinking thoughts

🤨🏳‍🌈 ilia roman malinin i know what you are

all the same i'm glad he seems more comfortable in himself <3 we love you ilia

[berrypandas]

openly queer figure skaters at the 2026 winter olympic games, for pride month

there were seven openly queer figure skaters at the milano cortina games—six men and one woman. two of these skaters are singles skaters, one of them is a pair skater, and the other four are ice dancers. here's a bit about all of them!

paul poirier

paul poirier is an openly gay ice dancer from canada. he and his skating partner, piper gilles, are the 2026 olympic bronze medallists, three-time world silver and two-time world bronze medallists, two-time four continents champions, and five time canadian champions. paul also has a sixth canadian championship with former partner vanessa crone.

filip taschler

filip taschler is an openly bisexual ice dancer from czechia. his skating partner is his sister, natálie taschlerová. they are three-time czech national champions and two-time four nationals champions. they came 15th at the 2026 olympics.

guillaume cizeron

i don't want to talk about this guy either. he's french, he won the olympics, both he and his partner are shit. instead, let's talk about someone else, who wasn't at the olympics, but deserves the recognition more.

guillaume cizeron gabriella papadakis

gabriella papadakis is an openly bisexual retired ice dancer from france. she is the 2022 Olympic champion, a 5-time world champion, 5-time european champion, and 7-time french national champion. she is an advocate for same-gender ice dance, and has recently written a book, 'pour ne pas disparaître'.

kévin aymoz

kévin aymoz is an openly gay singles skater from france. he is a seven-time french national champion, and came eleventh at the milano cortina olympics. he is also a nine-time grand prix medallist, one of which was a bronze medal in the grand prix final in 2019.

lewis gibson

lewis gibson is an openly gay ice dancer from the united kingdom. with his skating partner, lilah fear, he is the 2025 world bronze medallist, a four-time europeans medallist, and a seven-time british national champion. they finished seventh at the milano cortina games.

filippo ambrosini

filippo ambrosini is an openly gay pairs skater from italy. with his skating partner, rebecca ghilardi, he is a two-time europeans medallist, the 2024 italian national champions, a five-time grand prix medallist, and finished 12th at their home olympics. as of the 2026–27 season, he will now be partnered with finnish skater milania väänänen.

amber glenn

amber glenn is an openly pansexual singles skater from the united states of america. she is the milano cortina olympic gold medallist in the team event, a three-time US national champion, the 2024 grand prix final gold medallist, and a two-time world team trophy winner.

happy pride everyone!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[berrypandas]

something tragically ironic about gabi papadakis' memoir being titled 'so as not to disappear' and that same memoir being why she was removed from the olympic commentary team...

[berrypandas]

misha using the imperfect tense instead of the simple past to imply that he was dating ilia instead of met him was in fact on my 2026 bingo card

[berrypandas]

subscribing to the 'misha's colantotte necklace was given to him by ilia' conspiracy theory

[berrypandas]

everyone, who were the reigning olympic champions when you were born? i was born a month before the 2006 olympics, so the reigning champions, from the 2002 games, were alexei yagudin, sarah hughes, the Pairs Mishap double winners elena berezhnaya/anton sikharulidze and jamie salé/david pelletier, and marina anissina/gwendal peizerat!

[berrypandas]

Dearest Shailininking:)))

Since you are so reallyreallyreally great 👍 in ✍️, could I ask a question, why exactly Ilia and Misha have become so interesting for you, and even before all those Olympic-related male single FS "events"?💔💔💔

before there were the olympics there was worlds 2025. i fell for ilia first (i believe succession at worlds 2024 was the first program i watched of his) and got into figure skating because of him then fell for misha at cup of china this year. i saw a man with soft hair and braces skate onto the ice and my homosexuality pinged. and then i wanted to find out if this was anything, because i desperately wanted to find ilia someone to rpf with and i didn't really vibe with jun sorry jun. so i looked it up on ao3, as you do, and found one fic that talked about worlds 2025 and so i looked it up and immediately fell in love with them. and then the olympics happened and suddenly everyone else ALSO fell in love with them. so here we are. my shailinin you are so dear to me.

[whimsy-flags]

Some Pride Sharks! Enjoy~

[berrypandas]

look it's her!!

[berrypandas]

sometimes i think about how diana davis quit synchronised swimming even though she really liked it because skating was the only way she got to spend any time with her mother.

imagine your six year old being so starved of affection that they quit something they were enjoying just so they could spend time with you. and then you make them switch to a discipline you're not involved with because their disability impacted their ability to succeed in your favoured discipline. so really they don't get to spend any time with you at all.

[berrypandas]

Dearest Shainalinking))) just long ago wonder abt your opinion on:

Don't you see any similarity in MilanoCortina hugs btw OGM and #8 and those btw Sochi hugs btw OGM and #4 ( without mentioning names, everybody understands)? they are very much the same for me.

no need for hiding names—you mean shailinin and yuzuvier right?

honestly. i know next to nothing about yuzuvier, i couldn't tell you what hug you mean. but i think it's a different scenario. yuzuru was likely (i don't know for sure, i wasn't there) one of the favourites going into the olympics, and he won, while ilia was a heavy favourite and he didn't. i don't know whether javier was a favourite or whether he had an outside chance to win, but as far as i'm aware he didn't have the meltdown of his life and end up in 15th place in the free.

again, i don't pay much attention to yuzuvier, and the only performance i've watched from sochi is yulia lipnitskaya's schindler's list.

[berrypandas]

Ughhhh your latest fic was hot af 🥵🔥 no pressure to answer this on main ofc but what do you think they’d be into sexually and what kinks do you headcanon them having?

thank you!

i've said several times that i don't really want to have public discussions about kink and sexual things but i am happy to discuss with adults in other spaces (my DMs are always open :) beware i may autistically ramble).

[berrypandas]

as you find the string to strike within me

ilia malinin/mikhail shaidorov | E | 1.5k

Ilia wakes up hard. Luckily, Misha is sleeping right there in the bed next to him.

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[rinarthurs]

[berrypandas]

begging every new fan of skating to research team tutberidze and their history of abusive training practices, their endless cycle of young girls, the 'eteri expiration date'. if you've only seen eteri tutberidze with nika, then you haven't seen eteri tutberidze.

this interview (in russian, translation here) talks about the obsession with weight in the team tutberidze camp, especially the weight of young girls. the person being interviewed is kamila valieva, world record holder for both the women's singles SP and FS, who went to the olympics at just 15 years old. if you don’t know, kamila was suspended for doping for four years retroactive to 2021 after testing positive for trimetazidine. eteri and the rest of the adults were given no suspension.

for another example of team tutberidze's obsession with weight, here is a video of sergei dudakov, one of 'eteri's henchmen', talking about ilia malinin's weight. dudakov has never trained ilia, nor has he been involved with his career in any way.

for the countless girls who have suffered under team tutberidze's regime, please stop glorifying eteri and her henchmen.