pinksource:

We don’t deserve her. (P!nk on ‘Shine On with Reese Witherspoon’)

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thatshamelessyaoishipper:

nikiforoov:

thatshamelessyaoishipper:

By now, you have probably seen a form of the new yoi movie news - that it’ll be called Ice Adolescence and will release sometime in 2019. You’ve also probably seen some form of this visual:

Which is my way of saying that you too, have also probably concluded that the yoi movie will be a prequel which will somehow feature Victor’s backstory.

I think all of us wanted to see a sequel because we obviously want to know what Yuuri and Victor are up to after the GPF in Barcelona, but remember: getting a prequel doesn’t close any doors for the future, and in fact - it opens them. Yes, it means we’ll have to wait even longer for a sequel, whether that would be again in movie form or in the form of a season 2 but I’m sure that Ice Adolescence will be in no way a waste of time.

Because the truth is, we need Victor’s backstory, badly.

Yes, we as a fandom have filled in all the gaps in Victor’s past based on a mix of deduction, interpretation and just logical reasoning based on what we saw in the TV anime. (And maybe some headcanons - I think we all have our assumptions about for eg. Victor’s family.)

But let’s face it - canonically-speaking, we know very little about Victor.

We know he’s the living legend of the figure skating world, we know he’s sacrificed his life and love for his career and that his loneliness really started to weigh on him in his mid to late twenties, and that Yuuri drunkenly asking him to be his coach was a catalyst for the change in his life and that’s… pretty much it. Sure, we may know his personality, we may know what sort of person he is and we know his relationship with Yuuri, but his past is one gaping hole.

And that is good in some way - it’s open to interpretation, so anyone can fill in the gaps with what they want.

But when it comes to exploring Victor’s character deeper, it’s a huge roadblock. Because how deep can you really go when you can’t say anything about a character’s past?

Does Victor have any traumas? Where are his parents? Did he enjoy skating as a teen? Did he have any close friends? Was he close with Chris or were they just acquaintances? Why did he cut his hair? What was his relationship with Yakov like before he got big enough to do what he wanted? They’re all important questions and the answers could help paint a better picture of Victor and flesh him out - make him more than just the miserable mystery that he seemed to be before Yuuri pole danced into his life.

Because if we want to see Yuuri’s and Victor’s future in St. Petersburg (or wherever else, but St. Petersburg would be key here), we need to understand Victor’s past and his feelings towards the city, his homerink, his rinkmates, figure skating in general and everything else. Only by seeing Victor’s past can we understand his feelings and his character development and truly appreciate it. Only by contextualizing Victor can we truly see him for what he is, and not by what we assume he is based on the few scraps of information we received.

Now, to address certain concerns in particular:

“If the movie will be about Victor’s past then it will be sad!”

Not necessarily, no. We know that Victor got tired of his career and really needed a break (and was likely depressed) by the time he was in his mid to late twenties, but who’s to say that he didn’t enjoy skating in his teens? Who’s to say he was miserable back then? Maybe that was when he still really enjoyed skating, maybe that was when he had the most fun? Sure, Yuuri might not be there but it’s not like Victor didn’t have other joys in his life, no matter how superficial.

“If the movie will be about Victor’s past then Yuuri - THE MAIN CHARACTER - won’t be there!”

We don’t know that yet. Maybe it’ll show the adolescence of all the older yoi characters? Like Chris and Yuuri and Phichit and others, especially Georgi, who always trained with Victor on the same rink under the same coach and who’s story could be really interesting. And wouldn’t that be interesting, just to know what they went through before they were the characters we knew in season 1?

“If the movie will be about Victor’s past then we won’t see what happened to Victor and Yuuri after the GPF in Barcelona!”

Again, we don’t know that. It may be a movie fully set in the past and it may be a movie which just uses heavy flashbacks but also shows us what the characters are up to now. Even if we don’t learn what happened to Victor and Yuuri during the movie, that leaves open doors for another season, especially that we’ll have a fully contextualized Victor by then which will be much easier to work with for another season.

I understand people’s concerns and doubts but please remember: we have literally just received ONE visual, the title and the date. Effectively, we still know nothing. Let’s all just wait and trust the people who gave us an amazing season 1 and have literally never disappointed us to deliver us the great content we know and love them for.

re: did vitya enjoy skating in his teens! in the article yuuko shows yuuri back in ep1 flashback he says this:

I think it’s a blessing that I’ve been skating since I was a child and it’s still fun to me to this day, and it’d be wonderful if I could keep on feeling like this. (source)

so he did def enjoy it back then! which makes me even more interested in when exactly he began feeling he way he did :(

Oh yeah, that was a thing! There’s definitely a lot to unpack here and we gotta trust that they will do a good job showing us what Victor was like and perhaps, what happened after that.

And while it could be argued that he’s just lying to the press/to himself because he was tactful and wanted to fulfill fans’ expectations in his career, but then there’s moments like this in the first season (again, ep 1)

Originally posted by randomyelly

that are so starkly different in contrast to the Stammi Vicino performance from ep 1 which was practically a metaphor for Victor’s solitude and exhaustion, that there’s no reason to believe that Victor was never happy while skating.

Yes, the poster may look somber but I think there’s much more to it than just “Victor was always miserable until he met Yuuri”. We all know there’s more to him than that, right?

And if we don’t, perhaps the movie will help us realize that.

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vandermarinstings:

micdotcom:

Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

I really like that this is the direction pro wrestlers are going with their pr, as opposed to classic pro wrestling from the 80s whose whole personas were like macho xenophobic whackness

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theotherwesley:

tygermama:

mammafairchild:

thewightknight:

Bush full of Kittens

@softshadowmoon

Does this grow in my zone?

this plant is very aggressive

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starminesister:

Me: *picks up cat* Explain to me why you’re so cute.

Cat: :3

Me: Interesting…

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a-magpie-witchling:

laurlaurrdraws:

kittykat8311:

mouseymoon:

rutabegaville:

kittykat8311:

steampunkette:

kittykat8311:

spideryspiderygoodness:

kittykat8311:

valkurion-transverse:

kittykat8311:

What does my cat think when I kiss his little head? Does he know it’s affection or does he think I’m trying to eat him

These questions are totes why I follow you, top quality content right here

It’s important!

Well it depends. Do you try to put ketchup on him before kissing his head, that would change things :P

Yes. I put ketchup on my cat before I kiss his head.

Fun bit of info!

Kitties rub their heads against their chosen people as a method of scent marking, but not of ownership. Instead, they’re getting their scent on you because they know that you’re a family, but you smell “Funny” compared to them. They’re trying to make you smell like their family.

If your cat allows you to kiss their little head, it’s because they’re accepting -your- scent, and being part of your family.

Ketchup included.

This is a good note, thank you

This why they boop you. :)

Fact:

In animals that have communal grooming as part of their behavior, sticking your face in their face for kisses/boops doesn’t bother them at all because they know you’re not going to eat them.

But, with frogs (and other animals you shouldn’t be putting your mouth on) that do not have communal grooming there’s a high chance their first reaction will be “plz don’t eat me” before realizing you do not mean them any harm.

Also; if you accidentally step on a cat or a dog, or accidentally pinch/hurt a smaller pet and after they squeak or yelp you start petting them and trying to reassure the animal that you weren’t trying to hurt them they’ll understand that. Puppies and kittens get a little too rough with their play, but when a litter-mate ends up squeaking because they got hurt the puppy or kitten will stop playing so roughly and switch to kisses/licks as a way to apologize before they go back to playing.

When humans act the same way, and do not hurt them again it registers as “oh that wasn’t on purpose” and the animal quickly forgives you.

It’s the animal equivalent of “Don’t tell Mom!”

This is also good to know, thank you!

Thank fucking god

THANK FUCKING GOD.

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starminesister:

Eskild’s mic drop moment

mad-madam-m:

mikkeneko:

violent-darts:

handypolymath:

mominmudville:

soyeahso:

There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.  

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not.  Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.” 

Sometimes shipping something does mean that.  Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.”  Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B.  Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.”  And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes. 

Listen to your parents, kids.

This really should be one of a handful of Public Service Announcements randomly and chronically inserted into one’s dash.

Hell man sometimes it means “these two are TERRIBLE and I want to watch them burn like a catastrophic forest fire as a proxy for all the shit I don’t actually want in real life (like to light my own apartment on fire and scream) and then laugh at the destruction at the end.” 

All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”

All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”

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goldbloodedkiller94:

he love animals,so cute. 

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philipsgaiamemories:

shinmadoka:

[This. OMG.]

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luminis-infinite:

ladyoftheteaandblood:

quoting-shakespeare-to-ducks:

mizkit:

hawxkeye:

mcu meme  - 4/10 scenes.

It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation.

I see this scene reblogged a lot off the one Hiddleston blog I follow, but it almost always ends with Loki’s “There are no men like me” line, which is completely missing the fucking point of the scene. And I get that it’s about the Hiddleslove, which is great, but it’s completely missing the fucking point of the scene. And it is a very important point.

This is one of my favourite moments in the whole MCU because of its incredible power and strength. This is not Captain America with his super soldier serum juice standing up to a god. This isn’t even a young man who might think he’s somehow got a chance against the prick with the horns. This is an old, old man who knows, who knows, that he’s probably going to die because of what he’s doing, but he is not going to kneel to another man like Hitler.

Maybe he did, seventy years ago. Maybe that’s why he would rather die now than remain on his knees. Maybe he *didn’t*. Maybe he fought against his own countrymen, because he wouldn’t kneel to a man like this. Maybe he’s always been one to stand up. Maybe he lost everything once because of it. Everything except his integrity, and maybe he’s ready to die instead of risking losing that now, at the end of his life. Maybe his integrity cost him so fucking much seventy years ago that he hopes he’s going to die for it now because he almost wishes he’d have died for it then, but if he’s going to die for it, he’s goddamn well going to die with it.

Maybe he’s a Holocaust survivor. Maybe he’s Jewish. Maybe he’s gay. Maybe he’s Romani. We don’t know.

We don’t know anything about this man, except he’s the bravest goddamn person in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And that’s why it bothers me every time I see this scene go by with his response cut from it. Because it’s missing. the. point.

“the bravest goddamn person in the Marvel Cinematic Universe“

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Always. Always. Always. This is a scene that will always hit me. 

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gaion:

guy in kiva: i’m sorry yuri but we can’t let you use ixa because you’ll use it for personal revenge and we can’t tolerate that

meanwhile: otoya has no discernible motive other than being as insufferable as humanly possible

20 yrs later: i’m sorry megumi but we can’t let you use ixa because you’re not calm and composed enough

meanwhile: nago is having his 5th meltdown of the day about buttons

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new100:

| Thitipoom Techaapaikhun x Watthanasetsiri Pirapat | Earth | ฐิติภูมิ เดชะอภัยคุณ ​| New; นิว; New Thitipoom Techaapaikhun | Water Boyy

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