WinForPooh

An ice show when any currently competing skater tries to do any of Yuzu's step sequences would be really interesting. /snark

Only if he does the Handel Hallelujah chorus.

Oh god yes! Ooooh Yuzu doing Lady Marmalade. How about that? It would be glorious and it would be familiar. New pants of sin!

So Carmen it is, then?

This is the attorney who represented the survivors in the Larry Nassar thing, too, isn't he? ETA: Yep. That's him. Good, the victims have the right representation.

Everything is a sign. He did do the mask off choreo during the group thingie, but that's probably also a sign. (I heard an Anaconda-POTO mashup recently, can somebody please send it to TCC, it's the most cursed yet fitting thing I've ever heard. Wait maybe send it to Dai, he'd be more likely to leap on board.)

LGC 2.0 Okay I officially predict LGC 2.0 and POTO.

Is it just me or is the sync just a bit off? Dunno, HYK has so many exquisite accents, even a slightly off A/V sync feels big.

Cannot wait to see him make all the aunties swoon.

Yes, that one would absolutely be on me and if that one comes true, I'm setting up a tent to tell fortunes or something. Use my gifts for good. Or perhaps truer to myself, for evil. I will be a true agent of chaos. I cannot wait. (That's a really nice anecdote, too! I'm glad you met somebody that nice. Maybe it's the difference between the self-appointed expert-gatekeepers and the people who just genuinely enjoy watching skating!)

Do you remember that time when Plushy was at practice, and Yuzu was skating in the show right after Plushy, and Yuzu had no option but to miss it during the actual show? So the Overlord sat there like an entranced child and took in every second of that Sex Bomb practice? That's when I realised it was probably inevitable and decided I was on board. I'm telling you, it's his fave. He wants to do it. First step was leveling up to Nijinski. Unlocking the final level is Sex Bomb.

I would regret nothing.

I fully expected the Plushy tribute when it came to be a SEx Bomb ex, and I'm still not ruling it out. I take full responsibility if that happens, I've been putting it out into the universe for years now.

Thank you! So the Sal troubles are not (solely) because of the change even if it's deliberate.

I'd say the execution was as good as could be of that design.

Ah, the yearning for streaming parties, that's a sign of Yuzuru withdrawal. Even if it's been barely any time since we saw him last, hearing that he's back in Canada seems to trigger it.

You know, that is an excellent point. You're the best banoctopooh for that. We should all have fake-strawberry jelly. I'll make all of it and we'll have a big, toxic red, wobbly party.

There aren't even any strawberries in the shops anymore. But I do have those fake-strawberry jelly crystals.... You're awful. You're a bad, terrible banoctopooh. I will dedicate fake-strawberry jelly to Yuzu and hope he gets to have strawberry shortcake.

.... Go find some mochi to eat, you terrible banoctopooh. I'm on my post-sugar-booze-week diet and I need it more than I did after the holidays.

This is the impression I get, too. That's why I actively went looking for what flaws Yuzu's skating has, and found shit like 'he doesn't point his toes enough' and 'he doesn't look up' and a lot of things that were obviously lies about his technical skills, because I have eyes and can watch videos at .25 speed on YouTube and see what the truth is. They grasp for 'logical' reasons to dislike him because admitting the real reasons doesn't reflect very well on them. I understand that there are people who just don't like the way he moves, and that is obviously fine, but then they also have this superior air about themselves of being the ones who appreciate the correct kind of skating the correct way. I suppose change is difficult for some people. I can almost sympathise, too, except then I remember how supercilious they are towards the rest of us... Honestly sometimes they make me want to really go full-fanyu-featherhead on them just to aggravate them, but that would reflect badly on Yuzu and his fans. And openly admit that his skater has no transitions and his free skate is boring I mean now when Yuzuru-antis and US hype machine start on their usual, we can literally quote the coach in response.

I know we moved on but I can't get Raf's description of the Pooh rain out of my head. Because I wonder, do people really think we do this to unsettle his competitors? When we know how he feels about good sportsmanship? We rain Poohs on him because we love him. It's about him, not anybody else. For many of us, if we love this sport, it's because he showed us what this sport could be. We love the sport despite all the problems with it because Yuzu showed us what it ought to be. We shower our adoration on him because of him. It's not strategy. It's sincere. It's as if so many people resent him for having shown exactly how high everybody should aim. If ISU stopped being dinosaurs and invested in tech support for judges, the one person who would not be negatively impacted is Yuzu. Maybe that's another reason why so many people seem to resent him. Figure skating is their expertise, things are supposed to be how they say they are. And here comes this beautiful alien who does what he does with it. I can understand why they resent him. They lost so much control over the sport because of him.

We should have a streaming party of Yuzu's performances and after every performance, we should fill Twitter with a virtual Pooh rain. Nobody can complain about that, can they?

Especially if they plan on doing absolutely nothing to help their skaters. Are they hoping for another fight-against-all-odds-and-triumph manga hero like Yuzu? Is that why they're sitting on their asses, while their skaters' scores are overtaken for no fault of the skaters? While their skaters work in crowded rinks and not enough resources? While they give absolute mindboggling GP assignments as if they're just chucking gladiators in with no strategy? Hexes and poxes on the lot of them!

The answer is right there in that statement.

Sure, they want multiple megastars like Yuzu, ones they backed from the time they're novice so they can take all the credit, unlike with Yuzu. But in the meantime, while they await the rise of the pack of magical unicorns in sparkly rainbow colours, they're more than happy to profit off Yuzu. In your dreams, buckeroos.