you just get it, professor

merionettes @ ao3

[rikuryu]

ending montage from the nhk special "rikuryu: futari no kiseki" which ran last week. you can watch the whole thing on bilibili here.

feel free to share/repost the translation but please credit this tumblr if you do!

Riku: [Ryuichi] is serious and considerate of others, but thinks for himself too. He truly lives his life for skating. I'm really glad we were able to come this far together. It just feels natural to be at each other's side, like... I don't know what I'd do without him.

Ryuichi: No matter what form it takes, even if it's not competition, as long as my body will move I hope for even one more day to skate with Riku-chan. She's the best partner in history. The only partner for me. If I were reborn to skate again, I would definitely want to it to be with Riku-chan.

[seaoforcas]

can’t leave them out. i love them so much

[edgecallskating]

Team Japan going on a real emotional journey in the Kiss & Cry when Yuma's scores came up. I don't know who was screaming more, me or Kaori Sakamoto.

[e-laureanar]

[apoemaday]

What Our Dead Do

by Zbigniew Herbert tr. John Carpenter

Jan came this morning —I dreamt of my father he says he was riding in an oak coffin I walked next to the hearse and father turned to me:

you dressed me nicely and the funeral is very beautiful at this time of year so many flowers it must have cost a lot

don’t worry about it father —I say—let people see we loved you that we spared nothing

       six men in black livery        walk nicely at our sides

father thought for a while and said—the key to the desk is in the silver inkwell there is still some money in the second drawer on the left

with this money—I say— we will buy you a gravestone a large one of black marble

it isn’t necessary—says father— better give it to the poor

       six men in black livery        walk nicely at our sides        they carry burning lanterns

again he seemed to be thinking —take care of the flowers in the garden cover them for the winter I don’t want them to be wasted

you are the oldest—he says— from a little felt bag behind the painting take out the cuff links with real pearls let them bring you luck my mother gave them to me when I finished high school then he didn’t say anything he must have entered a deeper sleep

this is how our dead look after us they warn us through dreams bring back lost money hunt for jobs whisper the numbers of lottery tickets or when they can’t do this knock with their fingers on the windows

and out of gratitude we imagine immortality for them snug as the burrow of a mouse

[sid3buns]

" I am me - Felix Hugo Fraldarius. There is no one else. "

[english-idylls]

Some snow scenes in Claude Monet’s paintings.

[merionettes]

actually. need to l/b to do a real utena program. geoff brissaud can be the rose bride.

[pas-daccord]

still in love with the nerd who made this amv

[theskatingarchive]

Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud (FRA)

2026 European Championship Free Dance (122.34)

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

TT post by @ lenaolson14 (she/her).

[merionettes]

aside from the quite literal crimes. i will never ever ever forgive fournier-beaudry/cizeron for what they did to lopareva/brissaud's momentum. the way french fed dropped l/b cold... watching their BJORK PROGRAM to BACHELORETTE and thinking about the crimes that i am ready to commit. lmao.

[theskatingarchive]

Josefin Taljegård (SWE)

2026 European Championship Free Skate (106.55)

[thotkumi]

[merionettes]

here is the thing. i know this is a minority opinion among fans. i know the judges advised them to expand their range. but. BUT. i Love the soppy julie marcotte programs for m/k. i've rewatched the 2022-23 you'll never walk alone/sleeping at last 1-2 punch at least a dozen times. they just have soooooo many feelings!!!! that you can see and touch!!!!!!! wah...........

[merionettes]

euro pairs thoughts:

LOVE the swiss kids. they've got a future.

will i ever get tired of an arrival of the birds program? i will not.

MEATLOAF..........

you know what. meatloaf hell yeah.

"we could be looking at the olympic champions" shut your MOUTH. that is my children's olympic gold medal.

[merionettes]

sasha selevko truly bishounen styled this season... like that should be the slutty antagonist in a shoujo manga from 1998