#wookbutt09

[janeypeixes]

Hellooo. I just finished reading your High Speed 2 translation, actually I had read it before years ago, and I had a question! Were a lot of details changed in it, or do I just really not remember it? lol I'm sorry if you've answered this somewhere before, I'm on mobile, it's kind of hard to search that :-/ but ugh, thank you so much for all your work, what a hero, seriously!

hi! yeah i dont think i’ve gotten a question like this before. heck i didnt even talk about the movie after watching it....

the short answer is yeah, they changed quite a lot of things

i mean, we have entire characters missing (the two girls Aki and Satomi, and the dog Makkou), as well characters who never even appeared in the novel (Rei, their family members)

there were a few scenes that were pretty directly lifted from the novel, like the karuta-grabbing with the bottlecap

there were a few things that were The Opposite of the book, because haru actually did know how to cook a few meals

but otherwise, starting days really is an adaptation of the novel, in the true sense of the word

like, my biggest complaint with books-turned-movies is how they just skip scenes or change things in a way that dont make sense

and for this movie, it felt like they managed to grasp the ‘theme’ of each character’s struggle, but spun it into a ‘new’ story instead of trying to condense the novel into an hour and half. i was able to properly enjoy the movie for what it was, without needing to compare it to the book

also, the novels always had a... different atmosphere to them than the anime, (i sometimes wonder about what the author thinks.. that this is what became of their carefully crafted characters....)

(okay i am disappointed about not seeing That Beach Scene animated but like... that would’ve been way too heavy, and The Pool Scene was a worthy tradeoff tbh)

that’s all i’ve got off the top of my head, since it’s been a while since i last watched the movie, or read the books, so my memory is hazy on the details (my plan to edit + translate to hungarian is as good as dead at this point, being a working adult kinda sucks)

so all in all, both are great for their own reasons, but they’ve got little to do with each other apart from sharing the main cast of characters

[jungshiii]

Hi!! Your art is so good omfg. You're 18, right (I looked at your about me thing)? Are you plannng to go to school for grahic design or work in graphic design? I'm honestly just really curious cuz your stuff is like, actually legit very insanely good lol.

hii ♡ omg i’m flattered, thank you so much for your words 🤧💕 but actually I won’t go to a school for graphic design (even if it was my first choice), instead I’m goignto to go to university of languages for business and tourism and, if I’ll be lucky enough to find some extra courses for graphic design I won’t lose the chance to attend them. ✨

[jimiyoong]

Will Euphoria not be officially released? :-(

Euphoria is just something that connects ly series, it’s a song/video on it’s own. If they have a repackaged album after this it might be included there.

[harocat]

wookbutt09 replied to your post: I think my most unpopular fandom opinion might be...

For me personally I don’t think of them as Viktor and Yuuri, they’re these cute little puppy creatures that resemble them, and in some *cute* fan fics Yuuri and Viktor are the owners and the little Pocha and Pomvik just get up to cute stuff. Does that make it seem less weird? Or still no lol

No I mean, I get that. I know that’s what people do with them, and I’m fine with that, I’m just kind of 'I don’t really get the appeal’. Like if I wanted them to have pets I’d give them... normal pets, I guess? lol. 

I do think of them as Victor and Yuuri, or more like, just stylized art of Victor and Yuuri just like any other chibi style art. 

(As for the uncute fanfics aka the Pocha po/rn, we do not speak of that lolol.) 

[sugaships]

14 OiSuga! Please? lol

14. Eyes OiSuga

Oiks hated orange, he always thought it was far too loud, but he loved loved the soft amber of Suga’s eyes.

On lazy days, chores would be decided on who has the best puppy dog eyes (Oiks claims he has the best bish) but he finds himself doing more household chores on the weekend. 

Suga ain’t a morning person but when he does wake up first, he can’t help admiring Oiks doe eyes in the morning.

both of them have several subscriptions to several online makeup sites because you can never have enough face and eye masks. they learned to check with each other though, because double orders.

suga has the steadier hand and can make perf eyeliner wings, oiks swears he didnt marathon youtube tuts to perfect his

bonus: close friends know NOT to make eye contact when these two want a favor because it’ll either be totally ridiculous (Oiks) or dangerous (Koushi)

Send a number from this list or one of Suga’s ships (rare or not) and I will write a headcanon based on the word

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sorry about this being late, i thought i posted, turns out i queued them. ><

[jinlian]

I dunno if this is a stupid question but was Yuuri inspired at all by Yuzuru? Do you know? I just personally see some similarities but I don't want it to seem like it's just cuz they're both Japanese cuz that's not it... lol.

yuuri as a person and as a skater is pretty markedly different from yuzuru, but he does draw on inspiration from fair number of japanese skaters, including daisuke takahashi, tatsuki machida, and satoko miyahara. i’m sure sayokubo have mentioned others as well. he’s his own character not really inspired by one person – yuuri’s a bit of a conglomerate of sayokubo’s love for japanese figure skating.

their careers have had very different paths and obstacles, their backgrounds and their training are very different. their styles are different. yuzuru definitely thrives under challenges and crowd attention in a way that yuuri does not. i think there are a few similarities, too –  both of them are stubborn and challenge themselves bc they love what they do and want to be the best that they can be, for example. but i wouldn’t say that overall yuuri was primarily inspired by him.

that doesn’t mean there’s no love to be found for yuzuru in yoi though! there are still some nods to him in yoi – you can see yuuri in one or two of his old costumes that are definitely referencing yuzu, like the hana ni nare outfit, so it’s not like it’s a terrible thing to say there’s definitely love for yuzu to be seen through yuuri too (yuzuru can also be seen jj styling on a magazine in episode 12 i believe, and he’s included in a doodle of gpf finalists in an early episode that includes shoma, javi, and boyang). yuzuru is so, so well loved in japan.

imo it would be incorrect to say that yuuri was inspired by yuzu, but it would also be incorrect to say there’s zero inspiration from him as well. basically sayokubo just love figure skating and you can see a lot of that and references to real-world people through a number of ways in yoi.

[werateyuuris]

I love this blog so much and I love when I go to send you an ask it says "submit a Yuuri" cuteness level 4578/10.

we love our boy <3 thanks for the rating!!!

[lcveball]

Is the Stammi Vicino Aria the same Stammi Vicino written by Vasco Rossi? Or is there another Stammi Vicino? I've never understood. Because the Stammi Vicino by that guy doesn't seem to be about 2 guys, he was a straight married man, and the video depicts his wife. I've never found anything that points towards that song being about gay love. Unless there's an older opera song I'm very very confused about because this song is very recent so... I dunno... lol.

Oh, no, Stammi Vicino by Vasco is a totally different song! Yuri!!! On Ice’s Stammi Vicino is an original song composed by Ensemble FOVE specifically for the show. The Aria and the Duetto versions have slightly different lyrics, but even if the duetto is sang by a man and a woman the woman still uses masculine adjectives (so the lyrics are still about two men). I’ll put both version’s lyrics under the cut, with gendered (male) words in bold. The Soprano is a woman in the Duetto version.

(a small note: ‘Vicino’ could be considered gendered as well, depending on its grammatical function, but I think it’s an adverb in this context, so I didn’t bold it.)

Aria

Sento una voce che piange lontanoAnche tu, sei stato forse abbandonato?Orsù finisco presto questo calice di vinoe inizio a prepararmiAdesso fa’ silenzioCon una spada vorrei tagliare quelle gole che cantano d'amoreVorrei serrare nel gelo le mani che scrivono quei versi d'ardente passioneQuesta storia che senso non haSvanirà questa notte assieme alle stelleSe potessi vederti dalla speranza nascerà l’eternitàStammi vicino, non te ne andareHo paura di perdertiLe tue mani, le tue gambe,le mie mani, le mie gambe,e i battiti del cuoresi fondono tra loroPartiamo insiemeOra sono pronto.

Duetto

[Tenor]Sento una voce che piange lontanoAnche tu, sei stato forse abbandonato?Orsù finisca presto questo calice di vinoe inizio a prepararmiAdesso fa’ silenzio[Tenor & Soprano]Stammi vicino, non te ne andareHo paura di perderti[Tenor] Le tue mani, [Soprano] le tue gambe,[Tenor] Le mie mani, [Soprano] le mie gambe,[Tenor & Soprano]e i battiti del cuoresi fondono tra loro[Soprano]Partiamo insieme[Tenor]Ora sono pronto