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Welcome to the YOI Fanfiction Book Club!
The YOI Fanfiction Book Club is hosted within CuttleMeFish’s personal writer server, thanks to @shemakesmeforget’s (Chel) encyclopedic knowledge of YOI fanfic. The idea was born out of a desire to just read together, enjoy awesome fanfiction, and love on the incredible free content bestowed upon us by this fandom. Since then, more people have joined on the experience! It’s been lots of fun and we’re happy to have more people jump on board!
More detailed information can be found over on our FAQ.
Logistics: The book club has an 18+ section for works M+ only, and a regular section for works T and below. The 18+ section is only available to members that are 18+ – just like it reads on the can. Anyone is able to suggest a story to read over in the respective voting channels. Majority wins, so if – for example – five people are logged in and ready to participate and a story wins three votes, it will get added to the book club channel for discussion. There are additional channels available for members to discuss stories that didn’t get chosen. Stories are of all lengths and genres. Most stories have had victuuri/viktuuri as the primary pairing. Per the regulations, everyone must accept to be civil and cordial to all stories. Our primary goal is to ensure all the stories receive love!
How to join: Just join the Discord over here.
Tumblr: This tumblr serves as an archive of all the amazing fanfiction we’re reading! :D PLEASE NOTE THAT WE’RE NOT A FIC REC BLOG. We are, technically, recommending all these fics, but we’re not able to recommend theme or genre specific fics or help find fics. These are just the stories the book club voted to collectively read, with our ridiculous, just for fun ratings and overuse of trophies. Pretty much everyone gets a trophy (or a tiara or a tiger). Your questions are always welcome!
Hope you’ll consider joining us on Discord or enjoy the stories here.
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Based on the newest official art for the upcoming YoI book by MAPPA
i’d also like to know whether the people who think it’s unrealistic for yuuri to be a five-time world champion in the future also object to 16-year-old yuri plisetsky winning the grand prix final on his first try
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Not even sixteen, fifteen. Not to mention, Victor himself is coming back to the sport at twenty-eight years old and won his fifth world title at twenty-seven, so you can’t even argue Yuuri is too old to start that streak. If Yuuri started the streak where he is now, at twenty-four, he’d be twenty-eight by the time he won five.
…And then he can win a sixth, because Victor said at least five, and Yuuri is nothing if not up for a challenge.
IDEK why people in this fandom are so weird about undermining the skills and potential of actual future living legend Yuuri Katsuki.
Let 👏Yuuri 👏 be 👏 amazing! 👏
dark ice adolescence show me young yuuri’s various forum accounts where he meticulously and stubbornly argues into the early hours on school nights with skating fans who dare slander viktor nikiforov, his artistry, and his budding status as a figure skating icon
Cover illustration for the YOI Select Book, which will feature keyframes, illustrations and interviews, revealed. Pre-orders are open (see website in image) and it is scheduled to be released in late September.
Source: Official Twitter
early 2015 victor nikiforov who is desperate for something and goaded by chris opens up his twitter to type “send me pictures of people and I’ll tell you if I’d smash them or pass them” so of course people send the weirdest things, which include:
- a poodle puppy that has victor sob and coo and answer that no, he would not smash this babe, he’d pet him softly and sweetly like he deserves to be treated;
- a closeup pic of a random model’s ass which has victor turn his head like a dog for a full minute before he even realizes it’s an ass (tbh it’s a bad picture and it’s hard to tell so it’s not his fault okay);
- a collage of yakov’s balding head in various forms and shapes over the season which has victor shriek “PASSPASSIDON’TWANTTOBEBALD”;
- and finally some silly pictures of his fellow skaters which quickly turns into a game of ‘who would victor nikiforov sleep with’
- *victor sees a pic of chris* well, I’d say smash– *chris, off camera* thanks, babe *victor, unbothered* –but I would like to keep my hair intact and a cat fight for that boy with said boy’s fiance could ruin my chances, so – sorry, chris – I’ll have to pass
- there’s a couple more skaters, and a few girls along the way which gets victor into a I’M GAY BUT YOU ALL DESERVE TO BE SMASHED mood and he cheerily proceeds to smash everyone (except jj, and yurio, and emil, and michele, and–)
- and then someone puts up yuuri’s picture for a judgement (you can bet your ass it’s phichit) and victor squints and victor thinks and victor bites his lip and fans his face, which now has reddened in a beautiful flush, and he just looks up into the camera and says ‘damn’
the gifs of that reaction go viral and victor becomes a new meme which he is not ashamed of AT ALL bc have you seen yuuri katsuki? any gay man who does not blush and go speechless at the sight of him isn’t worth their name and victor nikiforov is a Prime Real Estate Gay who will proudly own the statement he has spoken in that blessed video:
“yuuri katsuki, if you ever see this, you need to see me about a seating arrangement bc I’d love to offer my face, thank you, bless you, I’m welcome”
suffice to say, phichit shows the thing to yuuri whose only question is “how long did it take you to manip this?” and he doesn’t believe a word of phichit’s assurances that it’s real… or, he doesn’t until the night of his and victor’s wedding when he crawls off of victor nikiforov’s face and victor casually sighs after a job well done “I dreamed of this since the moment I saw your picture and I must say that my imagination did you no justice at all. this was so much better” and yuuri wastes no time in freaking out bc WAIT, YOU DON’T MEAN TO TELL ME THAT VIDEO WAS REAL?!?!?!
and even though it’s like 3am and their wedding night, yuuri grabs his phone and spends like an hour talking to phichit who just keeps on laughing and chortling and hangs up on yuuri mid snort and poor, mindfucked yuuri turns to victor who’s watching him with a smile.
“hello, gorgeous,” victor says and winks, much like he did that first time he showed up in yuuri’s onsen butt-naked.
the sound that leaves yuuri’s mouth is inhuman and so is the strangled goose laughter that victor indulges in after yuuri whacks him with a pillow for the fourth time, which starts a pillow fight and a tussle that ends up with them flushed and laughing and kissing bc holy shit that was wild but who cares, they’re in love? they’re married? dreams do come true? amazing
People: Yuuri isn’t supposed to be beautiful!! He’s plain, and you’re just seeing his inner beauty. *insert text about how Victor, Yurio, etc. are gorgeous unlike him*
Kubo: The one thing I try to remember when drawing Yuuri is to make him look more beautiful than cute
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yo who wants to kno what victor n’s fucking blade guards look like
don’t worry, you’re still in the “early life” part of your wikipedia page
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THE GREATEST REVIEW OF OCEAN’S 8 EVER
I legit can’t decide if I think this was written by a whiny man or a delighted woman.
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Update the review is here and it’s basically the best thing I’ve ever read
the prettiest yuuri and vitya by yoi animator noriko ito! ♥ the piece was auctioned for charity at animenext today! (x)
I was in a dark place mentally when I suddenly remembered Yuri crying in the bathroom. The first time we see our protagonist is after he ranked sixth in the Grand Prix. It didn’t matter that he is the sixth best male figure skater in the world that year, his incredible self critical mind is berating him.
Yuri is an unreliable narrator. We don’t realize that he’s probably one of the best skaters in Japan, in the world, until later. In that same vein, I wondered the same thing about myself. I may not be the best at what I do, but am I actually such a bad person that I hate myself so vehemently sometimes?
Sometimes it’s hard to be nice to yourself, especially when you’re tired and stressed out. But maybe if Yuri Katsuki can pull himself up and win silver at the Grand Prix, I can try to move forward a little too.
lilithsins
This. This is why Yuuri is so important.
Cher Vitya
I have this totally random headcanon that after Victor Nikiforov retires from competitive skating, he’s mostly doing choreography, some modeling, and full-time coaching his beloved husband, but somehow, he ends up more famous (than for being a figure skater) in French-speaking countries for a love and sex advice column he pens for Le Monde called Cher Vitya- not because he actually gives good advice (I mean, as far as I as a viewer can tell until more canon details come out, the man devoted 20 years to his career, and then immediately married the first person he ever fell in love with), but because of how amused readers are that his replies really only come in 3 flavours:
- ANSWER TYPE A: Humble-bragging about his amazing marriage where he enjoys extremely frequent monogamous sex with the most incredible person in the world instead of actually answering the question. (These posts actually do accidentally double as relatively legit sex advice though due to the enthusiastically graphic detail.)
- ANSWER TYPE B: Ill-advising the asker to do something crazy, like drop your entire career and move halfway across the world to chase dat booty, because it obviously worked for him, and then this answer just devolves adorably into Answer Type A.
- ANSWER TYPE C: DTMFA (Dump that mothereffing ahole). VITYA DOES NOT APPROVE. EVEN MAKKACHIN DOES NOT APPROVE, AND HE IS A DOG. This becomes a French meme for whenever you want to tell your friend to dump their terrible partner- you just send them a picture of Victor Nikiforov making his HMMM face with DTMFA slapped over it.
His poor husband, Yuri Katsuki, doesn’t read this column since he’s not a francophone and he just thinks it’s like, a random blog Victor is writing about, idk, fashion or something that Yuri isn’t interested in, and doesn’t understand why he always gets such an enthusiastic crowd complete with tons of catcalls and mildly inappropriate innuendo-laced banner messages whenever he competes in France, because Cher Vitya fans show up just to see the sexy husband Vitya is so obsessed with. But as far as Yuri can tell from French movies they’re more sexually liberal than his home country, so who is he to talk?
“Do people throw sex toys onto the ice when you compete in France?” Yuri eventually texts Phichit at some point.
“NO,” Phichit texts back, “TELL ME MORE.”
I got my beautiful commission from @felidadae of Olympic gold medalist Yuuri with his adoring coach/fiance, both in Team Japan gear. I can’t thank them enough for making my fanart dreams come true. [This is posted with permission, so feel free to RB]