Mastyaeva

I feel, I should note this. There is one thing that is undeniable: the power of our overlord is really huge. The whole thread turned to be a love confession (and I like it!).

7 минут назад, Hydroblade сказал:

I actually dropped my letter after the SP, so i included a note thanking him for that performance  

 I didn't write my address, i just wanted to deliver my letter  i hope he reads it, i'd like to think i have a chance since it was a small competition and not everyone there sent him a letter. 

I can't see how someone can be a fan of just his looks, i'm sure they exist but i can't wrap my head around it. I mean, you cannot see him in detail while he's skating, and personally i only concentrate on what he's doing on the ice rather than thinking of how cute he looks (that comes afterwards on the K&C, the Memelord's grounds). He's a fantastic skater and it's such an experience to watch him in action, that saying that we only follow him for his looks is like they are the ones ignoring how great he is as an athlete. I've liked many for their looks and i wouldn't even THINK of travelling so much just to see them.

This reminds me that the time I came back from Helsinki, my friends started to ask me the question which seemed odd and useless for me: "Well, you saw him from a close distance, tell us, is he handsome?" I was like: "What?!" He skated like an alien that day, that was important. But they kept asking... And I elaborated my ultimate answer: "He was happy, so, he looked beautiful, as happy people are always beautiful". But it was so frustrating to hear. 

Personally, I think, Yuzu is always beautiful on ice, while skating, because it's his "natural habitat", like water for fish or air for birds (although he is cute and adorable off ice, it's just a kind of bonus; after all, he is a skater, not a pop-star).

2 часа назад, kaeryth сказал:

A little pick me up for everyone. If you want to show your love as international fans of Yuzu, try to send him fanmail. Nonchan sent one in 2012 - got a response in 2014... hasn't sent one again but received a response recently! Here's another instance of him responding to fanmail.

 

 

I think, I will write, although I've never done this before. In English. And I really don't care whether there would be an answer or not. Finally, for me, the aim is simply to make him get as many letters of support as possible (he said ones that although he doesn't pick himself the Poohs thrown on ice, he is happy, because their number is the symbol of the support he gets; let it be the same with the letters). The career of a professional skater is so short, and he gives as so many emotions, that whatever it can be (being in the stadium or writing a letter), I'd like to do it. 

Oh, no, when I became so pathetic, really. This guy is killing me.

12 минут назад, Fay сказал:

 

Life-saving video. 

Silly fan problems after I put my favorite Yuzu's photo as wallpaper on my mobile. Now I 1) just stare at it every time I use my phone, forgetting what I wanted to do 2) feel guilty each time I have to touch the screen, because it's so beautiful that it's like a sacrilege to touch.

I'm talking about a magnificent photo, which was used in the famous fan-video made before the last WC. I adore this juxtaposition with Nathan, simply epic (and relevant again, thinking about Rostelecom).

19 минут назад, Sammie сказал:

Can you imagine him as a coach with all his facial expressions??  We already see glimpses of it when he watching Javi skate. His Kiss & Cry with his student will be epic.  

Can't wait! I mean, I wish him skate as long as he likes, but coach-Yuzu should be adorable.

20 часов назад, WinForPooh сказал:

baking cinnamon cookies

20 часов назад, WinForPooh сказал:

two dozen muffins

I barely stopped myself, not to ask you for recipes.
Once again, many-many-many thanks for all your support.

Hold on with your deadline.

19 часов назад, kitsune сказал:

Sorry I feel like I'm messing up a conversation but I really want to tell a little bit about my day.

Today I went out with my family to do some shopping . We went to a bookstore, I knew there were books, magazines and other things in Japanese. I just did not think I was going to find anything related to Yuzu . The first thing I saw was a book called Yuzuru Method and I was already getting the book, my mother and my grandmother saw it and told me to think it over . I returned the book to the shelf and saw that it had some magazines with several photos of Yuzu. My first thought was "I want to buy all" but I can not buy all and chose three and after seeing the prices I had to choose one. I did not know magazines were so expensive . Was a difficult choice had to leave behind the book, a magazine that had pictures of faoi, another one that had photos of wtt and a few others . I chose one that had several photos of Yuzu from Worlds 2017. This competition is special to me and I really wanted something from last season, it's the first season I followed as a fan of Yuzu. Having this magazine with me really makes me very happy . See Yuzu happy and smiling is my favorite Yuzu .

After we went to a market and nothing happened, I just had a silly smile after seeing that they were going to buy a Yuzu spice and other things.

Yes, a stunning self-control. You can be proud of yourself.  Sometimes I think that fate keeps me from coming to Japan, because I would spend all my money on these magazines and calendars.

16 часов назад, Xen сказал:

has anyone here ever owned a Microsoft pro surface tablet

Sorry, never. I just checked, they're really insanely expensive. However, speaking about good tablets, three years ago I bought IPad Air. I'm not a fan of Apple, but it's really fast in action and, most importantly, almost weightless. I'm not sure about its use for drawing, because I don't paint myself, but I heard that it's possible. But in addition, there are endless problems with the flash drive, of course.

2 минуты назад, Murieleirum сказал:

 

Now that's just useless. 

Hug received, I'm better. Well, I'm trying.
(Yes, this is my photo on twitter, thanks for the compliment.  It was two years ago, there was a huge international scientific conference where I participated and I was very happy that day. Sorry, I have a very boring twitter, I almost don't use it).

Thank you, @WinForPooh

First of all, little strawberry almost-Pooh sends you his greetings. He is very pleased being called yummy and adorable and wishes to thank you in person one day (although it won't be him, as he can't live for so long, but one of his new brothers, for sure) (I'm trying to joke, it's a good sign).

I'm starting to think of putting your message on my desk for notes, in a frame, to see it every day.

4 часа назад, WinForPooh сказал:

sitting in front of the books and trying to cram

Looks like a perfect description of my everyday life starting by primary school.

You are right: less stressing, stressbusters in the schedule and well organized studing.

4 часа назад, WinForPooh сказал:

what I do is hide under the blanket and eat lots of dessert

I wish I would be there that moment: I'd make my best desserts for you. Cooking (well, baking, mostly) is my hobby and main stressbuster (except FS).

I just need to do my best. The swans watch over me, it should be all right (when I think about it I imagine Yuzu before the beginning of the performance saying his usual: "I can do it, I can").

Now I feel guilty to make somebody worry about me. I'm hopeless.

Someone mentioned exams in General Yuzuru chat and there are all this university talks here so I just can't help myself. I want to ask you, guys, how do you deal with the exams' pressure? I feel like I'm dying. I have my entrance exams for a doctoral school in three weeks (one in a week and another just before the Rostelecom) and it's crucial: I have to pass or give up my academic career for a while (simply to find any job for money). It's not the end of the world and I'm not afraid of working, but I'm afraid to give up my dream being consumed by a routine (yes, becoming a university professor is an odd dream but it's me). The main problem is everybody (my friends, parents, professors) are completely sure in my success. They used to see me being the first in everything. But I'm not talented, only hardworking. And those exams are not usual ones: you don't have a right to get B or C. It will be a competition between A and A+. No chance to make any mistake and there are a lot of talented guys competing. I keep telling myself that I have a tendency to overthink and dramatize, that I'm too depended on people's opinion but all this auto-therapy doesn't work any more. Now I have to close everything and study like a crazy, but I'm paralyzed by fear and can't do anything (well, I made this guy while thinking about all it; he is filled by strawberry jam and seems to be a good person; but now I feel guilty to spend my time to such useless stuff).

 Hold on, @Murieleirum. It sounds awful now, but you will use to it. Try to think about Yuzu while studying Japanese, it should help a bit.  

8 минут назад, Hydroblade сказал:

Serious mode: I think it's not so much his advertising power but the fascination of what does Yuzuru Hanyu do in his normal life? Is he really a human like all of us and drinks dollar store juice boxes?

It's refreshing to see him act like a normal human (even though we know he's an alien in disguise)

Personally i really don't care what he does everyday, as in, i am not dying to know, but it IS a reminder that he's just another person who happens to be incredibly talented and excellent at what he does. But inside he's still a normal guy who drinks juice boxes, listens to anime music because he's a huge dork, and does weird quirky stuff like most of us. At least for me, trying the stuff he's been shown eating/drinkng makes  me think "ah, so this is the kind of flavours you like..." It's more of a neat fact than a "i want to drink/eat what he consumes"

 

High five. In addition, it's so nice to see that he has time to do ordinary human things (and not just train like a demon).

1 минуту назад, Hydroblade сказал:

I would have accepted. I was sick of drinking nothing but pepsi and water

Hydro's mental theater:

Yuzu: Sure, i will give you juice, which one would you like?

Me: Which one is your favorite?

Yuzu: TEARS OF MY RIVALS

Me: ...

Yuzu: I mean, apple. Apple juice tastes good

It's brilliant. I'm just not sure about his English. But it does not matter.

37 минут назад, liv сказал:

For me, I am feeling quite serene. I know that Yuzu is practicing quite happily away in Toronto... the weather is glorious and full of sunshine... which makes everyone full of energy and  I'm sure that's helping to make him feel quite happy and energetic and so he's practicing his lutz and loop and everything else under Brian's watchful eyes... and who knows, maybe his mom has stocked up on OASIS juice which you can find anywhere and everywhere.

An idyll. I'm sure you're right. It should be a lovely warm autumn in Toronto. It's just that Moscow is too cloudy and cold now. Maybe because winter (Yuzu) is coming, as Johnny Weir once joked (2 years ago already ).

15 минут назад, Hydroblade сказал:

I regret laughing at that dollar store juice instead of listening to my juice craving and buying a box while I was there

Hold on. Just wait a little bit. Yuzu will do something else (or just shoot again in an advertising) and this time you will definitely buy it (for better or worse).

Только что, kaerb сказал:

this is going to be the longest October ever 

 

I don't know how figure skating fans survive every season like this

I don't know either. But I'm still alive, so it's not impossible.

In my experience, we are complaining now but in the end it will be an incredibly short October, because "bang" and Rostelecom will appear out of the blue. Finally, that's always not enough time to get ready.

7 минут назад, kaerb сказал:

I feel like we're all being drip fed a small but steady stream of Yuzu reassurances until Rostelecom which is good but also like they sense we're all dying LOL

They are right: we are dying. Meanwhile, only a week passed.

21 минуту назад, Murieleirum сказал:

I also suppose that if Yuzuru is still limiting his 4Loop to once per day, to avoid feeling kuyashii all day for messing up his ONLY 4Loop of the day, he's nailing all of them and raising his accuracy percentage?

This is also part of Brian's insidious plan (I mean, of the wise winning strategy).

Okay, one tried.

Boys seem to do everything not to jump.

Только что, cirelle сказал:

 

For about 30 seconds. 

2 минуты назад, Xen сказал:

Well Mitsuki still has a chance right? Isn't his score now above Roman Savosin?

 

Tonight, the ones I liked were actually Koshiro, Basar and Artur...the others guys all felt a bit off. And the jumps always felt off for the other men tonight, a lot of distance, not that much height, the arc looked funny....

Koshiro was charming And "just did it... with the music" (c)

2 минуты назад, Moria Polonius сказал:

 

I don't dislike him - he was so cute being happy when he got into gpf last season that it'd take a lot for me to dislike him - but I dislike his skating. Ever since I first saw him live at jgp Poland 2015. He just sermed heavy. Here he skates through this monumental piece like speedy gonzalez, so chaotic and completely without the feel for the music, movements sharp and unfinished, and I just want to see Denis Ten.

I miss Denis too. 

 Of cause, it's all about skating. No personal hating:-)

All this but also. I think, I got it. He reminds me Lysacek 

1 минуту назад, Xen сказал:

Well I don't like him either....and I can kind of classify why:

1) Jumps a bit on the stiff side with next to no flow coming out

2) That was an odd pancake spin...

3) He's trying to extend, which is great, but he lacks the flexibility for the extensions

4) The artistry is music, but not much else...

 

Boy's got a lot to work on....

Spare me. I have no idea why I totally dislike him. 

It sounds as if there are two groups of fans: American and Canadian. 

1 минуту назад, sallycinnamon сказал:

Ignatov skated well, but overall his skating seemed to be a bit too slow? And yeah, I didn't see much connection to the music either.

Makar really needs a good choreographer. I also felt that he seemed to be a bit slow and a way less powerful than the music.