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"omg my favourite assassin i've missed yo--"

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Doodle of the ice guys

#yuri on ice #fan art #victor nikiforov #yuri on ice fanart #katsuki yuri #yuri katsuki #yuuri katsuki #viktor nikiforov #victuuri

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I promise I was drawing this before the news came out, lol! Ah, I was just thinking about how much I love them again ;; Sad about the movie, but, the fandom will continue! Anyway, this will be a gold foil standee and I'll hopefully have it available in a few months! <3

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for old times' sake ...

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ofc i'm heartbroken about the yoi movie but it's also kinda fucking hilarious to me rn bc do you guys think duolingo on ice was the final straw that finally pressured mappa execs into issuing a statement like. a literal owl mascot on skates did what no one else could before in these past 8 years

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hold onto me

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mappa being like “oh yuri on ice just wasn’t profitable” OLYMPIC ATHLETES WATCHED YOUR FUCKING SHOW, MAPPA. OLYMPIC!!! ATHLETES!!! OLYMPIC SKATERS HAVE GIVEN TRIBUTE TO THIS SERIES!!!! MAPPA WHAT THE FUCK

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hello, do you do commissions at all?

Hi! Right know due to projects + time constraint, I'm not taking any commissions </3 But if I ever do open them up again, I'll post about it on my instagram @ animatorroseoak. Thank you for the interest <3

#ask #answer

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Georgi Popovich during Chihoko drama.

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Rewatching the chihoko yuri on stage drama …

#yuri on ice #victor nikiforov #yuuri katsuki #chihoko yuri on ice #yuri on stage #yuri plisetsky #christophe giacometti #guang hong #leo de la iglesia

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The thing about Ice Adolescence being cancelled isn't that it was unexpected. It's the finality of it. There's no hope of a new season, no faint hope that maybe a movie will come out one day, maybe, just maybe. The cancellation of the movie means that this is the end of Yuri on Ice.

At least for me, YOI was one of those shows that you watched an episode or two of and it felt both comfortable and compelling, and then it grabs you by the chin and turns your head towards the screen and doesn't let you go away, and a little voice in your head just goes, "Oh." You hear the theme song and your heart swells. The sounds of skates on the ice ground you in the sport. You look at these two men falling in love and you feel it.

I had a background in figure skating. I was never particularly good, but I spent most of my childhood on the rink every Friday. Watching the series, seeing the movement of their routines and hearing the sounds of the skates and seeing the rinks that looked just like the one I grew up on felt like coming home.

I watched the show at age sixteen on my tiny smart phone in the back of the school library, on an anime pirating website that was somehow not blocked by their wifi. I'd refresh the website over and over, because the episodes were always uploaded during the lunch break, and then me and my little group of queer friends would all huddle together to watch the newest episode. We would cheer and cry and get excited over every development. They kissed and we lost our minds. A few times, the one friend who could drive would take us to the only skating rink half an hour away and I would teach them, helping them size rented skates and go from holding onto to wall to gliding across the rink. I met my current girlfriend for the first time during one of those skating sessions. Viktor and Yuri fell in love thanks to the sport, and I met the woman who's currently napping in the bed next to me thanks to them.

Yuri on Ice was such a formative piece of media for me. It felt like something specifically designed for me, the queer, anime-loving teenager with a background in figure skating, with representation that meant the world to me and such a meaningful depiction of the sport I loved. And with this cancellation, that piece of media comes to an end.

Thank you for everything, Yuri on Ice. Ice Adolescence or not, you'll live on through me, and I'll never forget the impact you had on my life. Goodbye, and know that you really did make history.

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Yuri!!! On Ice animator Eiji Abiko:

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He is so special to me :(

#yuri on ice #ice adolescence #ice ado #victor nikiforov #viktor nikiforov

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isn’t it ironic that the media will never understand victor’s personal perspective at his prime despite being so dearly beloved and in the same way us viewers will never get to understand him either because all we have of that is a clip of him skating and yuuri (a fan’s perspective)

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Suwabe and Tosshi's comments on ICE ADOLESCENCE cancellation.

Suwabe commented pretty fast after the official message, but I knew Tosshi would have a hard time saying anything because he's so connected to this character. He loves Yuri so much. So I was waiting for his comment, and it indeed came a whole day after.

The memories will never fade! Thank YOU both <3333

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I'LL NEVER BE OVER THIS