bunny and the moon

As we’ve seen, Yuuri’s very private. Hence, I think he’s always celebrated his bday with people who mattered, like his close family and friends, and they had a nice katsudon dinner together with a birthday cake. It’s a pretty simple thing, but Yuuri enjoys the intimacy and familiarity of his whole birthday. 

When he was in Detroit with Phichit, I don’t think he drastically changed. He probably spent the night before celebrating with his friends and acquaintances but on his birthday night, he probably Skyped his family and ate dinner with them. Phichit and his coach are actually considered part of the inner circle now, so they ate Skype dinner with the bday boy and his fam&friends.

However this year, the tradition is changed because of Victor’s appearance. Of course, Yuuri still celebrates with his family and friends and says thank you to his skating friends who PM him on SNS. 

He actually is put in a good mood by all the text messages and tweets sent to him by acquaintances and fans (MINAMI, I KNOW YOU’RE GONNA MAKE A GIGANTIC META ABOUT HIM OK.), alike. (Okay, even Yurio sent an indirect ‘happy birthday’ through Yuko). 

But the best part about his birthday this year? Victor. Victor Nikiforov, his idol, his coach, his lover,  is there, by his side, celebrating his birthday with him. 

And Victor is a romantic and a force of nature to be reckoned with especially when it comes to people he loves. At the buttcrack of dawn, he’s already awake. He’s already kissing Yuuri, greeting him, not wanting to be second to anyone in getting a greeting in. 

It, naturally, makes Yuuri’s heart swell because he wakes up to a smiling Victor. It’s a private thing between them - the morning of his birthday. It’s not Victor’s usual sunshine smile. It’s something smaller, but all the more genuine and special… a smile Yuuri knows is reserved for him. 

He’s also wearing that smitten look on his face, a soft, vulnerable, GENUINELY happy expression on his face that feels very much like a gift in itself. And Yuuri just melts at being the direct recipient of it… because it’s beautiful and Victor practically is glowing… and Victor with his cheek to his palm as he lightly caresses Yuuri’s face, greeting him a good morning and a happy birthday.

I can just imagine Yuuri’s breath catching in his throat because damn, he feels blessed and he just snuggles into Victor because he can and it’s early, and everything feels very surreal and he’s just… so freaking happy, he can’t even.

It’s too early for feels… but he can say with great confidence that his birthday this year is going to be the best so far.

but personally I have a feeling sensei has a more crushing devastating depressing end prepared for Akutagawa so I don't consider him dead yet.

I am incapable of anything but murder. He told me that himself. And that may be the case… But I wish to prove to myself otherwise.

[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]

begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.

but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.

diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).

she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.

and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?

diana ignored her and kept fighting.

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.