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This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Oh how beautiful! I'm not known for my artistic sense, but since it's HYK, can I just suggest light traces of wispy, dusky sunrise colours?

It's lovely that Japanese people who know about the story and legend Yuzu is conveying, are so moved and happy about it.

Whoah. That hashtag... And one of our favourite artists https://twitter.com/Rkasapapa/status/1345921569659314176

Even though we know he's probably (if not certainly) the most physically beautiful in the sport - male or female - sometimes you get a piece of proof that leaves you stunned: this is one of those pictures. It's just... unearthly.

I don't know if this picture has been shared, but it came up as a retweet for me and after staring at it for... quite a while, I simply had to put it here.

Nam's friends with Yuzu bits - first the lovely comments on Yuzu's skates, now this specific picture chosen for his favourite event - are making me really happy. I do love them both...

It is amazing - when I first became a fan I was convinced he would never win over the Chinese and other Asian fans because of the hard feelings still there over the war and history's long dark grasp. Especially as two of his major rivals on the ice and for fannish hearts and minds were a Chinese-Canadian, then a Chinese-American. And yet, he's become the most popular skater in China, even over their own, let alone everyone else.

I am so sorry. I'm adding you to my list of people I am sending karmic good thoughts to for 2021. It will be a slow recovery for the world, but we all hope that it will get better next year, and that our Yuzuru will be as rewarded as he deserves for the happiness he gives.

H&E is going to inspire an explosion of lovely fan art...

So beautiful....

This is so damn gorgeous...

This video of H&E, with Yuzuru's commentary but no subtitles, has just hit 1 million views... sorry bubzsy, your post appears as I hit send

I'd say both - without any blame to him, Shoma was in my opinion the one they wanted to win, and he was still to come (so they didn't know he would fall) so they were hyper-eager to find errors in Yuzu's skate. Not saying they deliberately faked the error, but I do think they saw what they wanted to see. But the rest of LMEY, and the brilliance of H&E (for all Yuzu himself was unimpressed with his own step sequence ) meant they had to give him the marks. And if you add that back in (he won't let it happen again) and GOEs to compensate, and then look at what he can get when both programs are burnished (I thought H&E was transendant, but never underestimate Mr Hanyu's drive to improve)...

What occurred to me was when listening to him talk about the "light at the end of this dark tunnel" is that this is the second time Yuzuru has been called on to be an icon and exemplar during a disaster with people suffering and in pain. There have been other figure skating icons (Yuna) and other sporting icons in Japan itself, but most haven't had to step up and speak up like this during disaster once, let alone twice. That teenage boy who ran out from a collapsing ice rink, and now the mature young man who has been through so many highs and lows... no one could blame him for being tired of the pressure, putting himself and his safety first just once and letting someone else be that icon. But he doesn't. Please excuse the rhetoric, but it came to me and I got that catch in the back of my throat, and had to say it. Here, where people will understand.

And just underneath on the youtube page was this, so I had to share... 30 minutes, HD quality, of his most beautiful galas. And we hope to get a new one today...

For anyone who wants the music to just listen on their devices, people have already put together cuts of his music... maybe not quite perfect (I have a feeling he puts so much and time work into them, t would be impossible to replicate so fast) but just listening to the music of H&E, I like it for itself. This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

But from what I have seen, the vast majority of social media has been overwhelmingly positive, an outpouring of love and happiness and appreciation. It is true that, just as he has by far the largest number of fans, he also has the most antis simply because of his status but he can't be unaware that most of Japan, and huge numbers of people around the world, love both programs and are thrilled that he is again the National Champion.

Not sure of this has been posted, the full medal ceremony

He clearly loves working with youngsters, right down to the infants, he is so sweet and encouraging with them (I mean how would it feel to a Japanese baby skater to have Yuzuru Hanyu watching and encouraging as you nervously try things?)

That is amazing, the amount of thoughts and work that Yuzu and Satomi Ito (it has to be her work, yes?) have put into this is astounding.

I know it's hard, but let's all try and stop worrying about the future for a while, and just enjoy his triumph and beauty and sweetness right now. Thank you, Yuzu, for the sheer joy you gave me this weekend.

To celebrate Yuzu's gift to us this Christmas (and the fact that I got a bonus) I have sent through a donation, please let me know when it is confirmed?