To the anon asking for fic recs, I’m sorry I accidentally deleted your ask!
And yes, this is a fic finder blog but I’m thinking this could also function as a fic rec blog if someone asks for fics revolving around a theme or a trope or a pairing or something. You didn’t specify any, so here are some of my own favorite (mostly Victuuri) YOI fics. Note that I tried to limit the rec with one fic per author but be sure to check out their other works and you’ll find more great stories! :)
Completed
a great desire to love by lily-winterwood / @omgkatsudonplease [T, 21.7K]
For some strange, inexplicable, fantastic reason, Yuuri Katsuki and Viktor Nikiforov are trading places. Kimi no Na wa AU
A Practical Guide to Winning the Olympics by Anna (arctic_grey) / @finleighsaid [E, 106.2K]
When pair skater Yuuri Katsuki’s career comes to a scandalous end, he does not expect the retired pair skating legend Viktor Nikiforov to suggest that they compete together. But taking on a new skating partner is full of trial and error, and the skating world doesn’t know how to react when the Katsuki-Nikiforov duo, against all odds, starts doing well. The last thing either of them should do, as they strive for their last chance at greatness, is to fall in love. Yuuri knows he is damaged goods, and Viktor knows his body is starting to fail him. They have competitions to survive and medals to win. No, falling in love is out of the question; they’re just very good friends. And even if Viktor felt something, he’d never act on it, and even if Yuuri happened to be hopelessly in love, he’d be mortified if Viktor ever found out.
“Well,” Viktor said, “let’s summarise: I’m pushing thirty, have a bad ankle, and haven’t skated competitively in three years. You’re barely out of a doping scandal, coachless, and on the JSF’s blacklist. Hell, Yuuri – we might as well go for it, then. What on earth do we have to lose?”
When Viktor put it like that, it seemed to make an awful lot of sense.
Again and Again by grayclouds [T, 2K]
In most of Yuuri’s cycles, love comes slowly.
Quicker with Victor, if he’s there.
All Things Beautiful by @stammiviktor [M, 69.7K]
The voice is like bells, sharp and clear yet somehow infinitely soft. Warmth caresses Yuuri’s face and a shudder wracks his frozen frame.
“You’re okay now. You’re safe.”
(In the glacial waters near the North Pole, two worlds collide.)
an ever-fixed mark by @katsukifatale [E, 4K]
Yuuri is absolutely gorgeous. Viktor could write poems about the soft pink that paints his cheeks and nose. He could pen lyrics about the slope of Yuuri’s smile and the way he bites his lip to try to keep the laughter inside. The sparkle in Yuuri’s eyes would be enough to give hope to even the most lovelorn soul. The warmth of Yuuri’s body pressed against his and the bubbling heat of the feelings he induces in Viktor would be more than enough protection from even the harshest of Russian winters.
Yuuri laughs again and ducks his head, embarrassed, and Viktor covers his mouth with his hand because he thinks he may have said some of that out loud. Oops.
“Be My Sex Coach, Victor!” by @lucycamui [E, 86K]
Yuuri Katsuki has always been his own worst critic, and a series of unfortunate short-lived relationships has him convinced that he flubs things more in the bedroom than out on the ice. So, of course it would turn out that the ridiculously charming Russian he’s matched with online is a pornstar.
But perhaps, a ‘professional opinion’ is exactly what Yuuri needs…
Blackbird by sixpences / @thetwoguineabook [M, 102.6K]
The year is 1942, and Europe is at war. Captain Victor Nikiforov, an intelligence operative for the NKVD, has been trapped in Berlin by the German invasion of the USSR. Posing as a Nazi industrialist, his days are spent charming information out of Axis diplomats to try and keep the Red Army fighting another day.
Yuuri Katsuki, a foreign-educated bureaucrat in the Japanese Embassy, has secrets of his own concealed beneath his unremarkable demeanour. When he uncovers Victor’s real identity, it will alter the course of both of their lives forever.
Call Everything on the Ice… by @shysweetthing [E, 50.2K]
Victor learns Japanese while in Hasetsu. He doesn’t tell Yuuri, and things get dicey when he overhears Yuuri and Mari talking about him in Japanese. Repeatedly.
(The subtitle of this fic should be: Victor Nikiforov really needs a hug. Luckily, he gets one. Eventually.)
Crowned in Silver by @adelth [M, 6K]
“Anonymous asked:
Okay friend, here’s a fun idea. YOI AU where everything is the same, but Viktor never cut his hair.”
crust and sugar over by @shanastoryteller [T, 36K]
Katsuki sits cross-legged, clearly in no hurry to go anywhere. “What’s your name? I’m –”
“I know who you are,” he cuts him off, then blushes, then hates himself for both those things. Katsuki looks surprised, and Yuri can’t think as to why. He’s a nationally ranked figure skater. He’s Yuri’s favorite figure skater.
~
Yuuri and Yuri become friends and Viktor develops a crush.
Entwining Fates by rinsled05 / @dreaming-fireflies [T, 27.1K]
Imagine if Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, after the demise of you-know-who, started accepting foreign students in an effort for greater unity among wizarding communities around the world. Imagine that, in this changing climate of diversity and social acceptance, Hogwarts also decided to host an exchange programme with select students from Durmstrang Institute and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic for a semester.
Imagine, then, if a young Japanese wizard by the name of Yuuri Katsuki had transferred to Hogwarts to escape his past, just in time to meet a Russian Quidditch player who would blow open the very doors he was trying so desperately to close.
A story of love, magic, and teenagers trying to find themselves.
Eros, And Other Love Stories by FullmetalChords / @phoenixrei [T, 10K]
Eros. Yuuri understands it in theory, of course. He’s seen what must be hundreds of movies about the very topic, but never really understood them. Never understood why the protagonists of these films make such fools of themselves for sex, or why they fall head over heels in love with the first pretty face they see. He nods and smiles and sighs along with the rest of them… but he’s never related to those characters’ struggles. Not even a little.
What is wrong with him?
–
A character study of Japan’s ace, Katsuki Yuuri.
for better, for worse by @stammiviktor [18.6K]
Yakov quirks an eyebrow. “Vitya, we are not having some grand ceremony.“
“It doesn’t have to be grand! But the registration office? Signing some papers? Where is the romance in that?”
or: The Trials and Tribulations of Viktor Nikiforov, Six-Time World Champion and Wedding Planner Extraordinaire.
Friendship!!! Is Magic by afrai [T, 10K]
Haruhi said to the stranger, “The food’s good, isn’t it? Have you tried the small quiches?”
She’d spoken English on the assumption that most people in the room would likely understand it, but when the man turned it became apparent that he was Japanese. Haruhi knew this because she recognised his face. It was the face of Japan’s ace skater, Katsuki Yuuri.
“K-K-Katsuki Yuuri-senshu!” Haruhi clapped her hand over her mouth, feeling the blood rise to her face.
“Ah,” said Katsuki. He was different off the ice. His spectacles reduced the impact of his eyes, and the shape of his face was somehow softer, less distinctive. “Do I know you?”
Yuuri makes a friend. Viktor hates it.
Gossip, Chinese whispers and Misunderstandings by womanroaring [M, 8K]
Series of short stories relating to how certain (often perfectly innocent) scenes in Yuri On Ice would have looked from the outside. And just the gossip and stuff that would have surrounded them.
Heels Over Head by @amarokster [E, 36.7K]
Victor attempts to find his feet in Japan but finds himself becoming obsessed with Yuuri’s instead as he fails to decipher the mysterious puzzle of Yuuri’s constantly exposed ankles.
AKA “I went to Hasetsu and all I got was this lousy foot fetish.”
I Write Sins, Not Tragedies by @cuttlemefishwrites [E, 53.6K]
Things would be a little easier if Yuuri wasn’t so in love with his husband Viktor, especially considering they have an arranged marriage. Two years after their wedding, Yuuri and Viktor are incredibly in love, but can’t seem to get over the hump of their platonic union to consummate their marriage! Good thing Yuuri is the most (in)famous erotic fanfiction author of the Love in the Streets fandom. Now, he’s got the support of the Internet to figure out how to seduce his husband, if only he can continue to keep their identities a secret. Or, the AU in which everyone thinks Yuuri and Viktor have the perfect marriage full of adventurous sex when, in fact, Viktor sleeps in the guest bedroom and Yuuri writes erotic fanfiction to quench his thirst.
If It’s You by by Kiranokira / @kyashin [E, 16.3K]
Yuri turns and brandishes a damp sock at them. “Don’t let him sweet talk you into doing porn,” he tells Yuuri. Then he grimaces and mutters to himself in Russian, “I can’t believe my life has reached the point that I have to say things like this.”
Just Hold On (We’re Going Home) by @kiaronna [M, 23K]
Where Yuuri remembers the banquet, Viktor forgets, and Yakov Feltsman has his own plans.
“I’ve been made aware of your recent break with Celestino Cialdini, and would like to offer you a trial period where you train under me, in St. Petersburg. There are only three conditions: you will board with another one of my students, you will take ballet with Madame Baranovskaya, and you will help me coach Yuri Plisetsky, who refuses to listen to my criticisms of his spins.” Yakov nods at this point, leans forwards and looks Yuuri in the eye. “I will charge no coaching fees.” With a deal like that, even if it means he has to face Viktor again, Yuuri has no choice but to agree.
katsuki_fc wrote by tetsurashian [G, 12K]
Just because Yuuri isn’t big on social media, doesn’t mean his fans aren’t.
(aka a social media fic)
Katsuki Yuuri: Ascended Fanboy by exarite / @gia-comeatme [T, 8K]
“And wow, that was a beautiful Viktor—I mean, a beautiful Quad Flip by Viktor.” Yuuri visibly winces and he momentarily covers his face. Morooka glances at him in concern but Yuuri shrugs it off quickly and shakes his head as he continues, “Really, others try to do it, but no one does a Quad Flip quite as well or quite as clean as Viktor—if they even manage to land it.”
Or:
AU where Yuuri goes into commentating instead but he still has a Huge Gay Crush on Viktor Nikiforov and everyone can tell.
Law Firm of Katsuki, Nikiforov & Chulanont by @n3rdlif343va [E, 71K]
Welcome to the Law Firm of Katsuki, Nikiforov & Chulanont where the sexual tension is higher than the fees.
Yuuri, Victor, and Phichit are long-time friends who decide to form their own law firm. The trio has found remarkably success, despite the constant bickering between Yuuri and Victor. When the sexual tension between these two best friends erupts, bringing them crashing together in a drunken one-night stand, the fate of their new firm becomes uncertain.
on growing; by @crossroadswrite [T, 139.2K]
Yuri Plisetsky glares at him with all the righteousness five year olds possess, and says in heavily accented and clumsy English. “Be more gooder, stupid!”
And then he storms out in a sweep of blond hair and blue and red lights from his Sketchers.
(Or: in which Yuri Plisetsky is Victor Nikiforov’s bratty five-year-old and nothing is the same.)
On Online and Offline Love by @alexwspark [M, 32.7K]
Gaming/Streaming AU: In which Yuuri and Victor are gamers, head over heels for each other, and hoping to one day come face-to-face. Of course, when two whipped, adorable fluff-balls are involved, shenanigans ensue…
overture for two (me & you) by oh_fudgecakes [E, 21.7K]
Plagued by his poor performance at the GPF, Yuuri’s disastrous free at Japanese Nationals ends not just in eleventh-place, but deals him with a lasting injury, resulting in him retiring before the events of the show. He becomes a commentator, determined to move on from his uneventful skating career. Yet, a series of chance meetings with a smitten Viktor and his own yearning for the ice keeps drawing him back to competitive figure skating.
In which everything’s different, but it all ends the same anyway.
Philia by anonymous [M, 8K]
Yuuri and Victor are roleplaying non-con when they’re caught out by a furious Yuri, who thinks Victor is attacking Yuuri for real. Even after it’s all explained, Victor has to mend his relationship with Yuri.
It’s a slow process, culminating in several days of small disasters at Worlds.
Presence by kakikaeru [G, 25K]
Atop his platform the Kuninotokotachi smiled, raised hands that were white and clean. He spoke clearly and evenly in his own flowing language, giving benediction and reassurance to the camp of refugees that had been accumulating in this village in Calabria in the last four years. Victor didn’t know Japanese, didn’t understand what was spoken, but the soft voice washed over him like a river, seemed responsible for the gentle breeze that blew into the proceedings and disrupted the intentions of the merciless sun. A young man in blue under a white umbrella, with his eyes shining, and a smile in his words.
Christophe tugged on his elbow. "Did you hear me, Victor?”
“Mm?” Victor shook his head, trying to clear it.
“I asked if you were ready to meet him.”
Victor Nikiforov, reporter for the New York Times, goes to Italy to interview a shinto priest in exile, and makes a friend.
Songs About Your Boyfriend by cryingoverspilledvodka [T, 17K]
Victor didn’t understand Katsuki like Yuri did. It was impossible for him to do so. Victor had never had an idol, never had someone to look up to. He had set all the records himself. Katsuki and Yuri had Victor, and thus they had each other. That was something just between them, something that Victor couldn’t be a part of. It may not be marriage, but it was a commitment in itself. Or it was to Yuri. And anyway, Katsuki wasn’t married yet.
Yuri is in love with Victor’s ambition, deeply in love with Victor’s skating- and stupidly in love with Victor’s fiancé
Stay Close to Me by @dasedandconfuzed [T, 11K]
At the Grand Prix Final, Yuuri misses the podium by fractions of a point. Embroiled in a skating controversy, he tells himself he’ll prove his worth in the World Championships, but there’s a long time in between.
Or: Vicchan lives.
Stuck on You by La_Temperanza [T, 6K]
“…What,” Yuuri says and opens one pensive eye to look. From his point of view, it’s upside down, so it takes him a half-second to realize Viktor has affixed a sticker to his shirt. Not just any sticker, but one that has a stylized doodle of Viktor giving a thumbs up with the words ‘Good job on showing up!’ written in an obnoxious bubbly purple font underneath.
Yuuri thinks it’s the most patronizing thing he’s seen in his life.
(Or the one where Viktor praises Yuuri with stickers, Yuuri is his usual overthinking ball of nerves, but it all works out in the end.)
Take Care by phoenixwings [T, 2K]
Yuuri Katsuki is an alpha.
He hates it.
Growing up, he never thought he’d present as anything. Classmates would talk about what they wanted to be — in hushed tones, since it wasn’t considered a polite subject for children—and could spend hours discussing why they were so sure they were an alpha or how this one thing that happened this one time definitely meant they were an omega.
Yuuri just wanted biology to leave him alone.
The Dragon Prince and the Winter Swan by @sophia-helix [E, 121.2K]
Yuuri Stark is a noble son of the north, returning to Winterfell in disgrace after the latest disappointment in his checkered tourney career. He hasn’t given up his dream of becoming a knight, but maybe it’s time to find himself a new path, settling down at home.
Prince Victor Targaryen is the greatest swordsman in Westeros, but he no longer finds joy in competition. Things are uneasy in King’s Landing, where politics are shifting and dangerous, and he seizes the chance to escape north in search of the young man who came so close to beating him in a tourney last year — and was so beguiling at the banquet afterwards.
Together they begin a journey to the great tourney of Harrenhal, with intrigue, honor, friendship and love along the way…and inevitable political conflict ahead.
(A Game of Thrones fusion with 90% less grimdark)
the merry-go-round of life by fireblazie [T, 9K]
It is 1998, and Yuri is dead.
—In which Yuri is a ghost, and Yuuri and Viktor are the grim reapers assigned to help him cross over before his soul fades away into nothingness.
Those Second Thoughts You Asked For by @akisazame [T, 7K]
The first time Victor skips backwards in time, he is fourteen years old.
Wings by @maygunbun [G, 3K]
The walls of Tokyo belong to street artist Katsuki Yuuri, though no one but him knows that since he always leaves his work anonymous. But this all ends when Viktor Nikiforov, world famous painter (and possibly Yuuri’s biggest obsession), comes to town for an art exhibition.
A picture speaks a thousand words, and theirs tell the story of a beautiful meeting.
we have loved the stars too fondly by @thehandsingsweapon [Not Rated, 10.4K]
“We live in a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in miracles?”
After an academic career at MIT and Oxford, Yuuri Katsuki eschews job offers at places like NASA and CERN to go work at the Very Large Array in what Phichit Chulanont lovingly calls The Actual Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico, monitoring radio frequencies from light-years away. He’s loved the stars for as long as he can remember, and the universe feels so big sometimes that Yuuri is sure it would be a cruel mistake for humans to be all alone.
Enter the latest scientist to join the staff of the VLA, enigmatic Russian genius Victor Nikiforov, around whom Yuuri’s entire universe seems to bend to make room, and the strange, recurring dreams Yuuri keeps having, where something like love carries him across the stars.
Does love travel faster than light? Do souls?
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
Winter Song by @proantagonista [E, 146K]
The set of Yuuri’s mouth softened into a private smile as Victor squeezed his knee beneath the table. His hands were bare, free from the gloves he so often wore when they were together on the rink, and the heat of his palm burned straight through the denim of Yuuri’s jeans. He slipped his own hand beneath the table and found Victor’s. Hidden from sight, their fingers began to flirt and play. A secret conversation all their own that needed no words.
Yuuri was aware that at some point—a moment in time he couldn’t quite place—Victor had become his boyfriend.
There wasn’t a single instant when it happened. It was a slow awareness, as if Victor had silently been asking the question for months now, and Yuuri had been giving him the answer a little more with each passing day.
you can have my everything by @spookyfoot [M, 4K]
3 times Yuuri strips out of self interest and 1 time he strips out of love.
yuuri!!! on fire (the superhero au) series by @hinatella [T, 124K]
A detailed exposé of what working with an ex-villain is like, as told by a very distraught Yuuri Katsuki. (P.S.: it isn’t the fact that he’s an ex-villain that Yuuri is close to losing his mind.
WIPs
A Thousand Shattered Mirrors series by @omgkatsudonplease, @exile-wrath, @braccii, @inkhallucination [E, 88.1K]
FBI Supervisory Special Agent and profiler Yuuri Katsuki is called out to New York City with his team to investigate the gruesome murders of several young Asian men. However, as more bodies turn up with increasingly uncanny resemblances to him, Yuuri must confront the possibility that he may be at the heart of the killings — or the killer.
Bear Your Soul on the Ice by SassySalchow / @diedraechin [M, 199.5K]
At age fourteen, Katsuki Yuuri had been determined to be Japan’s next great figure skating hope, but with no coach that would never happen, so his ballet instructor packs him up off to Russia to train with Yakov Feltsman. The Yakov Feltsman, otherwise known as the coach to rising figure skating star – and Yuuri’s idol – Viktor Nikiforov.
Black Ink by Anonymous1313 [Not Rated, 59.2K]
Being together was what nature had dictated them to be. Alpha and omega. Their families had thought so too, agreeing to marry them to one another once they were old enough. A joyous union between the Nikiforovs and the Katsukis.
But Viktor had decided that they would not be controlled by what their parents had set out for the both of them at a time in the past when neither he nor Yuuri even knew the other existed.
“I was hoping as soon as you turn eighteen, you’d… sign the termination contract.”
Because after all, he and Yuuri were no good for each other.
…Right?
–
“If… if that’s what you really want.”
"It is. I’m sorry.“
But Monsters are Always Hungry, Darling by @orchids-and-fictional-cities, @iruutciv [E, 213.5K]
“You do this, you do. You take the things you love and tear them apart or you pin them down with your body and pretend they’re yours.
So, you kiss him, and he doesn’t move, he doesn’t pull away, and you keep on kissing him. And he hasn’t moved, he’s frozen, and you’ve kissed him, and he’ll never forgive you, and maybe now he’ll leave you alone.”
A brutal murder on Christmas Eve abruptly pulls one Detective Nikiforov out of a holiday he was just starting to tolerate, and forces him to come to terms with demons he’s been pretending not to see. On that same night, a man walks into a bar and waltzes into his life, lighting a spark that grows into a monster of its own.
Here Once and Back Again by Cbear2470 [E, 77.2K]
“What?” was all Yuuri could say as a numbness froze over his body.
Something—something wasn’t right. It was then he realized he couldn’t remember getting to the rink. He couldn’t remember even stepping on the ice to start his program.
He couldn’t remember.
He tried to remember.
*
As Yuuri is skating his free skate, he knows something is off. But, he brushes it aside, too focused on executing the program flawlessly.
It isn’t until after it’s all over that Yuuri comes to discover that he just skated his gold-medal winning, record-breaking program at the 2014-15 Grand Prix Final in Sochi. The very same final Yuuri had once upon a time placed last in over two years ago.
If You Can’t Take the Heat by mthothedestiel / @summersteve [Not Rated, 116.2K]
Stay tuned, coming up next it’s Top Chef: International! Join thirteen chefs from around the globe as they battle it out for glory and prizes in the one and only New York City (and share all their innermost thoughts along the way!) Who will emerge victorious, and who will burn out?? Heartwarming triumphs, devastating eliminations, and even ~forbidden romance~ are all coming your way on this showstopping season of Top Chef!
Kings in Couture by @slightlied / @forovnix [Not Rated, 24K] *on hiatus
Okay, okay. Ready.” Yuuri starts scribbling as the voice on the other end, someone from the Style and Trends department, relays instructions. “Sorry, can you please spell ‘Gabbana’?”
The person on the line promptly hangs up on him.
Awkwardly, he sets the phone back on the receiver. “Guess not.”
an inspired by the devil wears prada au; victor is the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, and yuuri is his new secretary.
my love is yours to hold (through every high & every low) by colorfullysarah / @ofviktor [M, 24.1K]
Memories are fickle things, Viktor and Yuuri knew this long before one night changed everything two months before their wedding. It’s easy to forget to grab the milk while out grocery shopping or which street that new restaurant they wanted to try was on. And it’s even easier to forget the world can be unkind when their hearts flutter with happiness.
What they never imagined was love could be forgotten in a single heartbeat.
…
Or, there’s an accident. Memories are lost and years pass before they’re found again.
This is what happens after.
Sixty Impossible Things by Wynn / @astreetcarnamedwynn [T, 103.6K]
???: why the fuck are you ignoring viktor
Yuuri: Who is this? What are you talking about?
??? its yuri dumbass and you know exactly what i’m talking about
Yuuri blinks at that. For a split second he wonders if an angrier asshole version of himself from an alternate universe, someone who spelled their name wrong and snubbed his nose at basic rules of grammar, had somehow found a way to pester him while he tried to prevent, by studying, at least one aspect of his life from crumbling into utter ruin. Then the split second passes and Yuuri reins in the insanity long enough to venture a rational approach.
Yuuri: Yuri who?
Three seconds later his phone rings.
*
Two weeks after his failure at Sochi, Yuuri receives a text from a mysterious number asking why the fuck he’s ignoring Viktor. So begins Yuri Plisetsky’s all out campaign to get Yuuri to fucking finally text Viktor and end his torment of watching Viktor pine, and so begins Yuuri’s descent into a wonderland of texting his idol, meeting his #1 fan(s), and slowly rebuilding his life with a little help from his friends.
Technically Arranged by @ajwolf84 [E, 77.6K]
Yuuri is a tech genius working in Silicon Valley, but he never would have gotten this far if not for the support of the Russian Royal family who offered him a full scholarship to the elite Rostelecom Academy and have been supporting his education ever since. Of course, this help didn’t come for free. He’s now considered a member of the Royal family, which isn’t so bad, other than the inordinate number of weddings he has to attend. There’s also the small stipulation that he is technically a candidate to become the Prince’s consort, but that’ll never happen…
The Next Level by @azriona [E, 352K]
The skating season continues (as skating seasons are wont to do), while Victor and Yuuri negotiate the shifts in their relationship, their careers, and their home rink.
Sometimes, things even go as planned.
to the water’s edge by @ebenroot [T, 84.6K]
Once upon a time, in a secluded tower that rests upon a cliff and is surrounded by tall trees, there lives a young man that faces a certain conundrum:
Katsuki Yuuri has fallen in deeply in love with a man he has never met.
