sophia_sol | Entries tagged with fandom: yuri on ice

1 multifandom vid rec

The Queer Gospel [Fanvid], by Tafadhali

➤ third in a series of vids Tafadhali made about depictions of queerness in hollywood; I recced the other two last fall, about pre-code and full-code eras

➤ this one is about the 90's and early 2000's

➤ which are all movies that came out within my lifetime so watching this hits in a different way than the other two vids! I definitely got emotional watching this vid

➤ the vid is celebrating the drag queens and gnc characters, and it's so perfectly put together, what a good vid <3

➤ 3:23 in length. audio is song only, no added sounds/dialogue. no subtitles.

2 svsss fic recs

These Wounds, by raitala

➤ hello I am murdered by how on point this fic is, it's perfect and I adore it

➤ svsss au qijiu fic from og!sqq's pov

➤ (trans sqq, for those to whom that's enticement!)

➤ no lbh or transmigration, so the complex relationships between the various peak lords keep marinating over decades

➤ I love how the vibes are so much older, more grounded and more ground down at the same time. and still sqq and yqy are full of all their Problems

➤ I loved the evolving beliefs sqq had about what must have happened to fill yqy with endless guilt towards him!

➤ and the ways sqq treats yqy, before and after the reveals...how things do & don't change

➤ and the beautiful physicality the narrative has in details like the tea, and the hair, and how both yqy & sqq use clothing to hide things about their bodies they don't want noticed

➤ and of course the sharply perceived characterisation!

➤ LOVED IT

➤ 23k words

FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: On My Time as a Student Under Shen Qingqiu, by by Margo_Kim

➤ cackling with delighted laughter over this svsss bingqiu modern au

➤ these complete weirdos!!! (affectionate)

➤ lbh, a former student of sqq who has since become an international superstar, sends a mass email announcing his interest in sqq. sqq is more worried about his old student's feelings being hurt than he is about the evident stalking the email reveals

➤ the fic is so funny, with so many perfect details. and the last line!!! I'm dead.

➤ 6k words in length

1 tgcf fic rec

Who Are You Wearing? by nerdyjellyfish

➤ omg I am LIVING, someone wrote me so many words of ling wen fic wherein post-canon ling wen bodyswaps with xie lian

➤ the ling wen pov in this fic is sooooo good, her pragmatic approach to dealing with whatever happens in her life, her disinterest in attending to her emotions, her independence and unwillingness to rely on anyone who isn't her

➤ and seeing xie lian and hua cheng through ling wen's eyes is so good too!!

➤ there are so many fun character relationship dynamics, connected with a really fun premise, and I loved it all

➤ 8k words in length

1 Yuri on Ice fic rec

Recomposed, by rainbowninja167

➤ a Viktor/Yuuri Yuri on Ice fic that's retelling the story of Persuasion

➤ but, and this is key, with the genius idea of casting viktor in the role of anne, and yuuri in the role of capt wentworth

➤ and hot damn the fic takes this premise and runs with it beautifully

➤ I was kicking my feet with delight regularly as I read!

➤ excellent characterisation and fun alterations from canon

➤ 50k words

1 star trek tos fic rec

DESK JOBS, by WerewolvesAreReal

➤ very funny star trek tos fic about admiral kirk, and spock deciding "fuck it all" and leaving starfleet to become kirk's secretary

➤ tbh I think these two tags on the fic capture everything you need to know: Kirk thinks Spock is having some sort of identity crisis, Spock already had the crisis and he's just embraced his slut phase

➤ kirk is so bewildered and spock is so serenely confident in everything he's doing and it's amazing to watch

➤ also there's a plot about ship sabotage and klingon ambassadors and stuff

➤ 50k words in length

1 poetry rec

A Tour of the Blue Palace, by Bree Wernicke

➤ a scifi poem with a fun voice, the pov of a tour guide trying brightly to maintain the official story that nothing's wrong

➤ 500 words in length

2 original novelette recs

The Speech That God Understands, by Jonathan Edelstein

➤ historical fantasy novelette set in a muslim kingdom on the iberian peninsula in the 12th century, with a jewish scholar as the viewpoint character

➤ I love the setting, richly full of a wide variety of types of people and languages and religions, with universities and scientific progress and people doing magic, all interacting with each other

➤ the mystery at the heart of the story is that someone is stealing people's languages of study, on purpose, leaving behind only whatever their first language was. why, and how? and is it reversible?

➤ it's about people's relationships with language and with knowledge and with the world. it's great!

➤ 14k words in length

Signs of Life, by Sarah Pinsker

➤ fantasy novelette about family, and two sisters trying to reconnect after many years of estrangement

➤ a quiet and contemplative sort of vibe

➤ the slow reveals were effective

➤ I'm not quite sure about the pacing/vibe of the ending, but overall still a thoroughly interesting and enjoyable story

➤ 12k words in length

lirazel expressed interest in a rec list of some of my favourite vids and I am very suggestible when it comes to rec lists so here you go! :D Unfortunately a few of the older vids that I remember fondly are no longer available online for me to share with you (the batman vid set to johnny cash's cover of hurt! the highlander vid about methos/lord byron! and more!), but there are still plenty of excellent vids up and about, and new ones worth watching keep being made!

Yes this rec list is 22 vids long, shush, I couldn't cut any of these out. I just got so emotional in the process of making this rec list at how wonderful an artform the fanvid is! It can do so many different things! It can be so powerful in such a brief space of time!

I've ordered the list below alphabetically by fandom. I go through a lot of different fandoms here!

And it was so fun too to work on practicing my skills at describing a vid and explaining what's good about it; I have many years of practice at talking about written narratives, but interpreting and talking about visual media is still a skillset that I'm not instinctively good at and don't have as much experience with. But I think I did pretty good with these vids. I hope you enjoy them!

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It's fascinating sometimes to look back at my own history of fandoms I was once obsessed with, and notice the wide variety of possible current feelings about them.

Mostly there are three axes of note: do I ever bother to seek out fanworks for it or see myself doing so in the future, or am I no longer moved to do so? If a fanwork that looks like it has promise happens to cross my path, will I read it/watch it/look at it, or just scroll on by? Do I think of the fandom with fondness and nostalgia, or do I think to myself "well glad THAT'S out of my life now"? Within these three spectra, many options are possible; and there are even some special fandoms that break the system!

A tour of some of the big ones that fit my main schema:

Sutcliff fandom; Les Miserables; sparklefandom (hungarian musical theatre): no longer actively seek out, but I still love it dearly, and if I find myself reading a good fic for this fandom again, allllll my feels return instantly and I go feral over it again for at least the length of time it takes me to read the fic

The Witcher: Remember it fondly, and every now and then feel moved to go searching for more content because it's what I happen to be in the mood for, but if I'm not in the mood I won't bother to read the things that happen to cross my path

Highlander; Man from UNCLE (both original tv series and the movie remake); Star Trek; Star Wars; Yuri on Ice: won't seek out, but if something fun crosses my path, I'll take a look with pleased nostalgia

Bandom; Due South; Good Omens; Hamilton; American Idol RPF; Inception; The Sentinel; Stargate Atlantis; White Collar: won't seek out, unlikely to read even if something crosses my path, but I remember it with fondness

Teen Wolf: won't seek out, won't read if it crosses my path, am glad it's out of my life, and yet still remember it fondly

Hockey RPF; Sports Night; Supernatural RPF: yeah no.

Special cases:

Fairy tales: my first and forever fandom, I will never not care about it. I read folk tale collections semi-regularly still, and am always delighted to find good fanfic for any particular tale or for the genre in general.

Harry Potter: won't seek out, won't promote without major caveats, probably won't read, but if something unusually interesting crosses my path, I'll take a look with a sort of exhausted knowledge that it's the fandom that made me and it is dug deep into my psyche

MCU: totally burnt out on, will no longer read the fic, can no longer even put myself in the headspace of how I could have once cared, and yet still have a lingering fondness for Thor and the Thor movies

Fake News: ahahaha oh god. the horror of american politics since then makes the heyday of jon stewart's daily show and stephen colbert's colbert report feel like a different world, one I can no longer access

Doctor Who: Once upon a time it broke my heart in a very real way which took me years to get over, but now I have a very reasonable relationship with this show as my ex. I remember the good times fondly, and smile when I see a gif go by on tumblr, and am happy to hear that it has been doing fun and interesting things in recent times, and I scroll on by.

This week I rewatched Yuri!!! On Ice for the first time since I saw it, about two and a half years ago, and it's really disconcerting! I don't rewatch tv much, given how hard I find it to watch tv in the first place, but all of a sudden I felt the burning need to rewatch YOI so here I find myself.

I'm fascinated to see which shots/scenes are super familiar to me because they come up regularly in vids and gifsets or are referred to in fics/meta etc, and which things I had totally and completely forgotten about in the intervening years.

I'm also fascinated to see how I continue to find the whole show mildly baffling despite my love of it, and despite all the fanfiction I've read. I dunno, it's just a very different medium than I'm at all used to parsing!

Anyway I continue to have a lot of feelings about all the characters, and I think I cried in at least three episodes, so like, the show is clearly succeeding with me regardless.

I feel like I sated my urge towards fanfic for this show, in the explosion during/after its original airing, so I doubt I'm going to actively seek more out at this point. But I'm glad to have been able to relive it all through the rewatch. What a good.

Well this weekend I watched Yuri on Ice! That is definitely a thing. It was a weird experience because I know basically zero about anime conventions so I kept on being mildly baffled by choices it was making without knowing whether my bafflement ought to be directed towards anime as a whole or Yuri on Ice in particular.

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