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batmads-ao3 · 1 year

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Across The Universe

Detroit: Yuri’s done the math. He done the research and the consideration and the planning. This will be his last year of competitive figure skating, and this time next year, he’ll be moving on to grad school. No matter what, though, Yuri hopes to hold onto Victor in any way that he can. Even if he has to compromise and change his own dreams to do it.

St. Petersburg: Victor is tired of compromising. Tired of having dreams deferred, of stealing moments in the off season and after competitions to spend time with Yuri. The way he sees it, there are only two options: keep Yuri in competitive skating, or find a way to stay by Yuri’s side after this year is through. Because if there’s anything that Victor knows for certain, it’s that he’s never letting anything come between him and his soulmate ever again.

But how far are Yuri and Victor willing to go to protect the other’s dreams? And with a whole universe separating them, will a soulmate bond really be enough to hold them together when it matters most?

**Part Three of the Defy the Stars Trilogy**

Soulmates!AU • College! AU(kinda) • Happy Ending

Read Chapter Thirty-Two here!

In which Victor and Yuri feverishly hope that the other one will make the first move, and a stalemate ensues.

Posting every Friday (ish), chapter preview below the cut

Yuri was late to practice. In his defense, though, it had been a long flight, and a seemingly endless trip to the athlete’s village, and no sooner had he gotten to his room than Junichi was knocking on his door, peppering him with questions about how interviews had been and whether he’d managed to land a flip yet and by the time Yuri managed to actually eat something and change into practice clothes, he was supposed to be at the rink to start off ice warm-ups, and by the time he was there to start warming up, everyone else was already out on the ice.

So in the end he only got a weak warm-up in, nowhere near the amount of time he actually should have given it, and then an even weaker amount of time to actually get a feel for the ice.

And not just any ice. The ice. The main rink. Olympic rings below him. A scattering of spectators and media up in the stands to watch him, to speculate and criticize. It made Yuri want to throw up.

(How was it, just earlier today, that he’d managed to be excited for all of this?)

Seeing Victor standing at the other end of the rink, staring blankly at him, wasn’t any help. And Yuri didn’t have to wonder anymore if he had it in him to go up to his soulmate right away and reopen everything between them. He knew now that he didn’t have the courage to do it. And he was frankly relieved that Victor was the first person off the ice now that practice was over—while Yuri himself was still all the way at the other end of the rink—because that just meant he could put everything off for just a little bit longer.

Tomorrow, Yuri told himself. I can talk to him tomorrow.

Because one thing was for certain: even if Yuri’s cowardice and anxiety were swallowing him whole now, the moment he had seen Victor he had known in his soul that he didn’t want to let Victor go. He knew Patrick was right, that if he waited around to long, then Victor would move on. He had seen it in the way Victor was skating, before he’d come onto the ice. And Yuri didn’t want that. He wanted Victor to be happy, yes, but he wanted to be the one who made Victor happy. He wanted the life that Victor’s short program described.

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betwixtpines · 1 year

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Unspun Sky

#illustration #art #my art #grieving #queer art #landscape #chasing starlight #moonlight #grief #healingjourney

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moonrise-illustration · 1 year

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I finally got a canon kiss between these two after a two year timeskip in the final session yes yeS YES

#moonriseart #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd5e #dnd character #dnd art #chasing starlight #oc #original character #oc art #myoc #tinwe #fred #THEY KISSED #I'M SO HAPPY #I'm so glad I had Tinwe go for it #it did not disappoint

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transbookoftheday · 10 months

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Trans Graphic Novels

Graphic novels are real books! Here are ten beautiful trans graphic novels you should read:

Book titles:

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth Lapensee, KC Oster and Aarin Dokum

Deadendia: The Watcher's Test by Hamish Steele

Magical Boy by The Kao

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu

Welcome To St. Hell by Lewis Hancox

Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges, Meaghan Carter & Joamette Gil

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

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reading-is-my-aphrodisiac · 2 years

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They settled into proper dance position, her left hand on his shoulder, her right resting in his, their feet gently shifting to the music. Kate had danced this way a hundred times.

And yet, never like this.

Never alone in the moonlight with someone who pulled at every string inside her.

…

“I’m on the edge of a cliff, Kate.”

She tightened her arm around his shoulder, breathing in the scent of his neck. “I won’t let you fall.”

“Maybe I want to fall. Maybe I want to kiss you and never feel solid ground again.”

…

Their lips met.

They kissed slowly, washed in moonlight and lonely music. Warm lips and soft breaths. A tender exploration, barely touching the surface of something much deeper. A kiss in no hurry.

…

Her lips moved to his cheek, and then his jawline. “I mean… if you’re going to pine over one kiss for the rest of your life…” She kissed the soft skin below his ear. “We might as well do it properly.” Her lips found his neck.

His head titled. “Break my heart, Kate.”

She did her best to oblige.

#chasing starlight #teri bailey black #I SWEAR TO GOD KATE IF YOU BREAK HIS HEART IM GONNA LOSE IT

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s-aint-elmo · 9 months

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mahiru tsuyuzaki has a Type

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#revue starlight #tsuyuzaki mahiru #aijou karen #kagura hikari #minase suzu #mahiru tsuyuzaki #karen aijou #hikari kagura #suzu minase #doodles #mine #the mahikaren dynamic of “the girl with the dependency issues and inferiority complex holds the braincell” is so funny to me #she went from chasing her crush with a mace while swing blared from the cartoonishly drawn speakers to herding said crush and the object of #her jealousy around like a pair of unruly puppies #the switch flip for hikamahi always gets me. the moment mahiru was fine with her hikari instantly made her her mom #mahikaren #hikamahi #mahisuzu #I FORGOR THE SHIP TAGS

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ilikestuff69 · 2 years

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homelandersecurity · 10 months

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#antony starr #erin moriarty #chase crawford #jessie t usher #homelander #starlight #the deep #a-train #the boys #the boys tv #the boys amazon

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11x11pm · 2 years

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Here are three side-by-side images of Neptune. From left to right, the first is labeled as taken by Voyager 2 in 1989. It’s a dark blue sphere with some pale blue or white streaks against a black background. The second is labeled as taken by Hubble in 2021. It’s a fuzzier and paler blue sphere also set against a black background. The third is labeled as taken by Webb in 2022. As seen in infrared light, Neptune resembles a pearl with thin, concentric oval rings.

Credit: Voyager: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Hubble: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team. Webb: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

#space #spaceedit #astronomy #astronomyedit #spacesource #james webb space telescope #hubble space telescope #nasa #mine*#creatorlin #userjamie #usertuni #userhualians #userjidai #usersenka #she's a little fuzzy but she's beautiful nonetheless <3 also i am surprised she's pearly blue?? she's gorgeous :') a win for space nerds #(♡) queue: i will be chasing a starlight.

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pocket-size-cthulhu · 4 days

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Hey what's a book/series from your childhood that you remember like one or two things about but can't remember anything else and are starting to question your own sanity as to whether the book even existed at all. Like what's the bit you can remember?

#for me it was a book with this Peter pan-like character in it #and for some reason one of the characters was weaving a dress for herself out of the night sky #but while she did it she wasn't allowed to think about anyone but herself or she wouldn't be able to weave it #I'm still confused about that #anyway #this was inspired by me forgetting almost everything about #The Wolves of Willoughby Chase #including the name of the series which i searched for years just to remember #good books #but i was starting to wonder if they ever existed at all lol #i still have my doubts about starlight dress girl #do you know this book?

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batmads-ao3 · 1 year

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Across The Universe

Detroit: Yuri’s done the math. He done the research and the consideration and the planning. This will be his last year of competitive figure skating, and this time next year, he’ll be moving on to grad school. No matter what, though, Yuri hopes to hold onto Victor in any way that he can. Even if he has to compromise and change his own dreams to do it.

St. Petersburg: Victor is tired of compromising. Tired of having dreams deferred, of stealing moments in the off season and after competitions to spend time with Yuri. The way he sees it, there are only two options: keep Yuri in competitive skating, or find a way to stay by Yuri’s side after this year is through. Because if there’s anything that Victor knows for certain, it’s that he’s never letting anything come between him and his soulmate ever again.

But how far are Yuri and Victor willing to go to protect the other’s dreams? And with a whole universe separating them, will a soulmate bond really be enough to hold them together when it matters most?

**Part Three of the Defy the Stars Trilogy**

Soulmates!AU • College! AU(kinda) • Happy Ending

Read Chapter Twenty-Four here!

In which the Grand Prix Final of tears comes to a close.

Posting every Friday (ish), chapter preview below the cut

The first tear slipped out before Victor could stop it. Hot and fast, down his cheek. It landed on the back of his hand. There was a thing, in movies, where they would replace sound with ringing after an explosion, muffle all the voices. Victor had always thought it was laughably unrealistic. But it was happening to him now, and yet it still somehow felt laughably unrealistic.

We need to stop dating.

He swallowed, as if that would get rid of the lump in his throat, but the second tear still came, just like the first one. He could see the vague shape of Yuri sitting next to him. The ugly pattern of the hotel carpet on the floor. The door, just beyond his reach.

We should break up.

He felt more than saw Yuri brush his bangs away, and on instinct more than anything else, he slapped his soulmate’s hand away.

“Victor—” Yuri started.

“I—You—” Victor tried. It was surprisingly hard to speak around his tears. “Where is this coming from?”

He was twelve again, in the car with his mother as they were hit, and he was fine, and he was fine, and she was falling apart.

Vitya, she whispered. Brushed his cheek with a trembling hand. Tu es blessé.

Non, Maman, he wanted to say. C’est vous.

But he was here, in a hotel room, with Yuri. His Yuri. His soulmate, Yuri.

“It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, actually,” Yuri said, “and don’t tell me you haven’t been thinking about it, too. I know you have. You know this is for the best, same as me.”

Victor could laugh. He could cry. He did cry, tears coming harder and faster than they had before. For the best? He felt like his heart was getting ripped out. Actually, that was accurate. That was what was happening here.

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typhoonvash · 1 month

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@millionsnife replied to your post ““Do you learn nothing from your mistakes?””:

"Why am I not surprised." He sighs, peering into the bag with an eyeroll. "At LEAST take a map app with you, idiot. Then you won't get lost." Or take Knives. Or even Meryl. "Where were you even trying to go?"

Inside the bag are two donuts. They're simple, plain glazed donuts, but they still look delicious.

"Um, well, you know the bakery that I order donuts from sometimes? On my bad days? I went there and I met the owner. He's a real—uh—he's a real nice guy. Gave me an iced coffee and everything."

Vash trails off, taking one of the donuts out of the bag and handing it daintily to his brother, "Here—one for you, and one for Meryl. And for the record, I did take my phone with me. It just kept... rerouting me on the way back. For some reason. Obviously I can see the ship from anywhere in town, but why is it so damn hard to find the entrance?!"

#tales from the typhoon #millionsnife #[i will be chasing a starlight until the end of my life; w27]

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spacegay-archetype · 2 months

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It’s just me, my lizard husband Derkeethus, and our nine children; Sond, Botter, Britte, Sissel, Khash, Ram-Ku, Chases-Starlight, Ma’isha, and Rufus against the world

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good-boy-ren · 3 months

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carrd ✦ sfw selfship✦ main blog ✦ art blog

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reading-is-my-aphrodisiac · 2 years

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“Being with you makes me feel steadier, Kate, like I have a trail of stars to follow, mapping the way.”

“A constellation,” she murmured.

“That’s it. You’re my constellation, Kate.”

#chasing starlight #teri bailey black

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hazard-and-friends · 6 months

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did you know it is extremely hard to teach dogs not to chase a cat when the cat actively enjoys being chased

#no this is not her fear response #her fear response is to get Huge and bite them #this is her having zoomies and inviting them to chase her #nepenthe #bucket full of starlight

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