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
One thing that has been bothering me a lot over the past few days is seeing all these RIP YOI, RIP IceAdo, Remember YOI etc. posts. As someone who discovered YOI later, I'm watching this unfold from the sidelines and I'm seriously worrying what this is going to do to the fandom. I understand that you are sad because the movie was cancelled, everyone has the right to be sad about such a thing, and I'm not trying to invalidate your pain. But, and I'm saying this with all kindness and my best intentions, and hell, I'm not even the first one saying this, but please hear me out:
YOI IS NOT DEAD.
It did not die last Friday. And it doesn't die because there won't be a movie. No story in human history has ever died because someone decided it was over. Stories are forever. They live in the hearts of the people. And so has YOI been living in the hearts of its fans since October 6th 2016, and will continue to live there for as long as we want.
Whenever I type "Yuri On Ice" into the search field of any social network, web archive, or search engine, I see hundreds of thousands of hits, most of them fanworks. Please take a moment to think about what that means:
In the 7.5 years since YOI aired, fans have made tons of art, written fanfiction and metas, cosplayed YOI characters, created fan videos, crafted all kinds of fan-made merch, and so much more. You are the ones who brought into being an infinite multiverse centred around an anime that is already larger than life. You have already created so much more YOI than Sayo, Kubo, MAPPA etc. could ever create even if they made one hundred movies. And even if every country in the world turns fascist and bans YOI, it will survive because fans will always find ways to preserve it and the power its message holds. Only stories that nobody no longer talks and cares about fade in oblivion.
You hold all the power to keep YOI alive, but, and this is probably the hardest pill to swallow, that also makes you the only ones who are able to kill YOI - be it by stopping to create or talk about it, or by shouting its death from the rooftops because you fancy yourself dramatic, or by turning the fandom into a hate-infested toxic hellscape, whichever will occur first.
And I honestly don't know which of these I fear most.
If you truly love YOI, please do your share and continue to keep it alive.
oh my god, yuuri was jealous. literally yanking his tie like no don't pay any attention to them, not when i'm right in front of you, not when you're mine. "the performance has already begun" oh my god chills
Here's a list of tiny details that crack me up every time I watch episode 6:
Yakov's displeased growl when Viktor and Yuuri go to the hotpot restaurant
Viktor's soft intake of breath when Yuuri opens his short programme
The commentator's stutter right after that
Viktor's breathless "that was perfect" when Yuuri finishes and the cut to a heavily panting Yuuri (they could hardly make it even more obvious, could they?)
Viktor's voice pitching when he assures Yuuri that really everyone "liked" his performance
Chris's bedroom voice when he declares that he's planning to peak at the Grand Prix Final (I really can't get over how my precious red-cheeked Swiss boy makes his mid-season goal sound dirty)
The voice actors did an excellent job at fleshing out the character's personality by modulating their lines with so much nuance. No matter how often I watch YOI, I feel like I possibly can't appreciate their talent even more.
Bonus detail that reliably cracks me up (I tried to find a gif of that move but failed although I'm sure it exists!):
Chris wiping his butt past the camera - my beloved gay icon!