YoI insanity in big 2026

yes, this is mainly a plisetskiy/nikiforov sideblog no, you are not morally obligated to do anything about it

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I might be brave and shit thinking and yappinng about plov in 2026 but this is for sure sideblog material. Because I remember how people can NOT behave

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Today on: compositions i can't pull

[stonegoddex]

what if we admitted to each other that it's not always really romance that we want. What if we admitted that what we're really craving is intimacy and society taught us romance is the only way to get it.

[lesbiantahani]

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

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Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

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John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

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“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

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letters from Medea, salma deera

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Ok, onto my interpretations of Viktor Nikiforov and why I don't buy his uwu personality and how it tracks with Pl0v. Read tags, do yourself a favour

I deadass think he hit that mid life crisis early as he is a professional athlete in a field with performance expectancy as long as middle ages peasant life. IE not long so him not even being 30 plays well into that

not to mention that he admits that jumping higher than his head every time is exhausting and took all there was in him.

On his personality: really think his sweet exterior is 20 thousand layers of curated media training. I know that it is magical world were homophobia is not as present but it's a hard sell. It is russia in 2010s, which admittedly was not as bad but nowhere near as accepting when he was a rising star. But here comes at play other local specialty, you can be enough of the state pride to be forgiven many things. Such as being flamboyantly queer on national tv

And yet acting against the grain would be weighting on psychie imo. Being perceived as both immoral rule breaker and one to be above it. The issue is "above it" part. My vision is that living on this edge and overabundance of available options leads to dark places unless you have internal compass and normal feedback. And Viktor being both immature manchild he is and hitting that midife crisis could just roll from casual idol flirting with juniors (like it was with Kris) to walking the line closer from there.

That's where the Yuriy comes into this, he is bright and very motivated which is very nostalgic for Viktor. He is really trying to look bigger than he is and yet still folding(living legend laurels and whatnot), which Viktor likes bcus he loves nothing more than being looked at with awe. So he keeps it up, tangling the connection more, because it's both fun and he has access. I honestly dk what exactly goes down the year that Yuriy graduates into higher echelon and adult division but my guess would be something either physical or close enough to it.

Hot take or not and I AM NO EXPERT on the topic but I think Yuriy full on displays the grooming victim behavior, topped with oversexualised "welcome to the Madness" where he is I guess freshly 16. (which is soo muccch diff yeh /s) But honestly involving your first clear cut friend into a rather on the edge of the fall show sounds like rebound and last ditch effort to prove something about you being desirable.

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My shuffle keeps stabbing me repeatedly in the chest so everyone in the tag gona suffer with me. Today's Pl0v lyrics is:

But with you it's easy and painful, like a bite of a rattlesnake

Wake up in the night with a gloomy knowledge that takeoff is free.

Against the rainbow splatter the flurry of stars and cut up your cheeks,

Fly, little heron, - universe's chest is tight like a drum

Translated excerpts from song Журавлик - Олег Медведев

I can't get over the splash of stars that cut cheeks. It lines up so well to harsh snow and ice crush that you get while skating. And ice crystals on high speeds can really really hurt

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Oh and ofc bird motifs, what else can fit more, right Yurochka ;-;

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My shuffle keeps stabbing me repeatedly in the chest so everyone in the tag gona suffer with me. Today's Pl0v lyrics is:

But with you it's easy and painful, like a bite of a rattlesnake

Wake up in the night with a gloomy knowledge that takeoff is free.

Against the rainbow splatter the flurry of stars and cut up your cheeks,

Fly, little heron, - universe's chest is tight like a drum

Translated excerpts from song Журавлик - Олег Медведев (original lyrics under the cut)

I can't get over the splash of stars that cut cheeks. It lines up so well to harsh snow and ice crush that you get while skating. And ice crystals on high speeds can really really hurt

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[Barcelona checkpoint, Victor Nikiforov is dead]

Continue?

[yes] [no]

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[08]

Oh wow fighting dirty is it. Immature asshole, like wow Yuriy improved, better piss him off so he would struggle with that pure and zen program of his

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Rewatch notes [01-03]

yoi is actually worse than I remember in terms of Yuriy

And also thousand more times heartbreaking, episode 3 kinda broke me. The fact that he walks away just based on seeing how Viktor looks at Yuri skating is ;-;

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And also Yuri's interpretation of eros program more or less overlays on what I see going on with Viktor lol. I do genuinely think he is that kind of guy. Free poet and whatnot. Chasing the high of adoration and challenge

[05] I am getting progressively more convinced that I did not remember wrong and Viktor Nikiforov is actually a fucking prick and a show off

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thing thats good: yay

thing thats bad: aww

thing that has both genuinely amazing pieces of storytelling and abysmal dogshit slop both happening like entirely interchangably:

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Reason for tagging pl0v instead of yk regular spelling. That's a word for a traditional dish in the country which tag I do not want to invade. It would be peaceful for both of us. They live happy life without reading my doomed stuff about figure skating and I live better without them having me mass reported for whatever

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Also if you can read russian and like Viktor/Yuri P do yourself a favor and go read if you haven't yet. It's best writing I read in a while

Все что я хочу by Jelise_A

157k of actual painful slow descent into fire

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the age issue of Victor x Yuri(o)

I’ve read some posts about Victor x Yuri(o) relationships being extremely problematic, so here is what I think about it.

Yes, it is problematic.

Have you seen ‘Queer as Folk’? Not an American version (which is amazing!) but the British one? Nathan is fifteen in that version, as opposed to 16 yo Justin (tell me if I’m wrong). Problematic.

People do problematic things in stories and in real life. But is the age difference itself a problem or something else? Like toxicity, pressure. I think it’s the latter. Maybe it’s better to work on awareness, spreading helpful information, resources?

I have nothing to say about the age of consent except that I doubt it works in the situation when the problem actually arises. It goes like this: two adequate people, who know the law and want to have sex, they can talk to each other and are able to wait until it’s actually legal, or work around it somehow, I don’t know, by writing erotic fan fiction… oh, yeah, one of them can’t probably write or read it yet.) If they don’t - 

Back to characters. 

What would Yuri tell you if he wanted to have sex with Victor and you said he is too young yet? Nothing pleasant, I assure you.

Would Victor do it? He could… In real life, he wouldn’t because homosexual relationships are already stigmatized in Russia so he wouldn’t want to worsen it and to the time Yuri is old enough Victor would be so retired that I doubt they would still go for it. But in the anime, it’s not a problem so I imagine he could. Besides, the legal consent age in Russia is sixteen. And Yuri is sixteen.

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Marina and the Diamonds - Teen Idle

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Yeah so anyways reason I even bothered to make a blog is I reached boiling point in my suddenly resurfaced obsession.

And I've been just thinking about the inherent tragedy of whole plot from Yuriy's POV.

You follow a guy who promised you help (which is already sorta heartbreakingly desperate), you arive there and what exactly happens? You lose your fucking name to a guy that hasn't been in this equation for as much as few months. Now you are named something that is not considered a full name in your native language, pointedly hinted at your place in this. Second, tolerated at best.

And you keep agreeing for this whole thing, clutching teeth and taking this humiliation ritual just on an a chance that you can earn attention. Outperform someone's free will to do whatever they wish to. To get care by force.

You don't go through it only on the sense of entitlement. I'm sorry I don't belive that Yuriy Plisetskiy is just THAT much of a brat.

Yes he is a prodigy but he is lonely to the bone, he has his cat, skating blades and grandfather in another city. Ofc he would cling to any semblance of warmth

And another "sorry", I don't belive in Viktor Nikiforov's character enough to just accept he's super nice person. For reasons I'll go into in separate post