Girl you need to get out of bed faster than this
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Much like Welcome to Nightvale, I feel like a lot of people have forgotten just how big and influential Yuri on Ice was. It fully broke into the mainstream. It was everywhere. Evgenia Medvedeva, the top female figure skater in 2016 and 2017, had YOI plushies thrown to her on the ice and wore a Victuuri tshirt to an interview. Japanese pair skaters Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara skated to the YOI theme at the fucking Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics. The Olympics. Canadian ice dancer Joseph Johnson did the ‘J.J. Style’ hand symbol in the kiss and cry. Johnny Weir made me cry by talking about how he wished the homophobic world of figure skating he experienced could have been more like the kinder world of Yuri on Ice.
There were cameos and references to it everywhere. Everyone was talking about it. People who had never watched anime were watching it. It was so big it crashed Crunchyroll and Tumblr. Twice. And all that for what was at its core, a queer love story that helped pave the way for more queer stories to come.
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No LISTEN. If you weren’t there when Yuri on Ice was airing you don’t get it!! We were just having fun!! Just a pretty little sports anime, good music and lovable characters, we all know we’re being queerbaited but hey, it’s nothing new. We’re used to it. My expectations are extremely tempered. Any minute now a female love interest will appear for Yuuri or Victor or both, and the whole thing will probably end with like, an emotional declaration of friendship between them. Just two guys being dudes, very good friends. It’s fine. I know how this works. I’m just having fun in the meantime.
BUT THEN
BUT FUCKING THEN
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