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Hey come on, let's not be too mean to Nathan. I actually really like his SP choreography this season. But the less balletic is used in the same sentence as him the best for my peace of mind. As someone once said, the more you try to hammer in that someone is artistic the less they probably are. And Nathan is no slouch, he just unfortunately can't quite make his EX potential co-exist in harmony with 5 quad programs quite yet.

Lets start with something simple: color!

This is so fucked up.

This and other stuff is kind of why I go back and forth on muting a certain translator on twitter...

Actually, scratch that.... WTF Russia.

Speaking of mock competitions at TCC, Brian did say he was going to simulate the stress of competition during this time post-Euros, when being interviewed about Javi's progress in his FS. It's likely that'll be a strategy applied with the other TCC skaters as well.

Translation of the Russian analysis of the Top 7 men's FS:

So much secondhand embarrassement. Hope they didn't show that to Shoma.

That t-shirt has gotten so much mileage out of this terrible season.

I'm not sure I agree with this? They can be friends but Yuzu still considers Shoma a difficult opponent. Especially after Worlds, when he almost lost the title to him. Shoma is still the guy, even above Nathan, with the most similar scoring potential as Yuzu. So I'm sure Yuzu has done some worrying about Shoma, as much as he's done worrying about Nathan, whatever kind of 'worry' that is (in his case, it's probably just called motivation).

Already started working on Shoma, who's gone back to 4!

Here's hoping!

I don't think they did either last season. I think the only top skater last season with two clean programs was Boyang at Worlds?

Yeah. Similarly, Shoma holds the first two SBs total scores (Lombardia and SC), but ISU only considers the highest for their SB lists, which can be confusing when determining who has the best scores of the season.

No...... Hope it's not true.

I have a huge work event 2 hours away from home on the 16th that I'll need to wake up early for so I really can't stay up through the night to catch the men's SP. But watch me wake up in the middle of the night in anxiety anyway.

I also don't drink coffee. Well, not often. I will probably consume entirely too much chocolate, though. It's my coping mechanism, though it does not allow me to be dead to the world or way too excited to function like the other two.

I don't drink but I think I may end up joining this AA charter in the end.

And only one of them isn't a minor anymore...

Let's bring him to the moon!

Brian always has more hair in these than the poor guy actually has.

What was it, 3% body fat? Rest is bones and muscles.