#coccinelf

I love your voice! 💕

Arf/////////////// thank youuuu!!!

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how is your english so good?? (also your signing is too good)

I watched it from Skate Canada’s official Dailymotion livestream. It was free, not region blocked, and great quality. They archive all their streams, so you can still watch it here:https://www.dailymotion.com/skatecanada/videosMen’s SP, Men’s FS, Ladies’ SP, Ladies’ FS, Pairs SP, Pairs FS, Ice Dance RD, Ice Dance FDThey also havethe same stream but with French/no commentary, the full practice footage of all the disciplines, some interviews, and the on-ice Men’s Victory Ceremony. In addition to that, you can find all of the past domestic and some international competitions held within Canada, so if you want to compare the last couple of ACI to this ACI, you can do that. 

I’m very glad people raise these points. Obviously, this is a concern when you’re recycling things to use in your garden, so I looked into it a little...

Tyres

Tyres, like many types of rubber, are treated with various chemicals during manufacture. The ones of most concern are plasticisers. These tend to mostly leach out in the first year or so – they’re what gives rubber that sharp, bitter smell when it’s still new.

Some links:

Tread carefully: recycling tyres

Dumped on: Waste tyres environmental impact

Safe to use Tyres in Gardens?

Growing food in tyres

Unfortunately, my only conclusion is that, without any proper research, it looks inconclusive. It seems like tyres should be safe enough to use, but I can’t say for certain. Best not to use them for growing food, I’d say. Better safe than sorry.

They’ll still work nicely for growing flowers and non-edible plants, though.

Wooden Pallets

Yes, these can be contaminated, so be careful. The biggest concern is if they’ve been treated with any chemicals – the worst of these chemicals are, to my knowledge, banned in the EU and no longer used in the US. Even so, here are some helpful links:

Is my wooden pallet safe to reuse?

How to Tell if a Pallet is Safe to Use in the Garden

Is my pallet safe for reuse?

To summarise, wooden pallets for international use have markings to show if they’ve been treated. The best are marked DB and are untreated. Markings of EPAL, KD, or HY are also fine. These are heat treatments which have no lasting effects.

Ones to avoid are any which are painted in bright colours, or marked EUR (treated but non-specific – so it could be anything). If you find one marked MB, avoid it because that stuff is nasty.

If it has no markings, then it wasn’t intended for international use. These are mostly left untreated, but there’s no way to be sure, so use with caution.

I haven’t found so much about the collars, but I’m assuming the same rules apply.

I hope some of you find this useful!

why not?

well ok the production team is REALLY BAD at being consistent about Victuuri’s height difference (Which is fine, I know animating is hard and that there are more important things, but I’m just putting it out there; maybe they fixed it in the bluray, idk) and I don’t have the most SCIENTIFIC reasons for believing this but here’s basically why I think Viktor is AT LEAST four inches (10cm) taller than Yuuri

It usually shows Yuuri still being just  LIL BIT shorter than Viktor when he’s in skates and Viktor isn’t. Maybe two centimeters/three-fourths of an inch.

The thing is--and I know this from figure skating myself--is that, with blades and the heel of your boot and depending on the size shoe you wear, figure skates add a good three and a half to four inches to your height. If we’re generous and say that Yuuri’s skates only make him three inches/seven centimeters taller (Which is...unlikely, honestly, it’s really probably gonna be more like a full ten cm/4 inches unless Yuuri his TINY FEET) that would mean that he and Viktor would be of a height, Yuuri’s skates would make up the difference. But they don’t. There’s still just that sliver of height to be made up.

So yeah I’m relatively certain that Viktor is probs about 4 inches taller than Yuuri, 10cm. That would make Viktor an even six foot, or Yuuri 5′7′’, which honestly makes more sense to me bc that’s the exact height difference between me and my dad and I was never quite eye level with him, I always had to look up just slightly, and that’s what I see Yuuri doing in most shots in the anime where they’re on level footing.

There is also the number of rotations that I still can’t pinpoint for sure. Like I think this was a quad but I’m never 100% sure. I’m always like wait, was that a quad? But one other point that I forgot to mention is that I feel like if I take all my brain power to try (and fail) to identify the jumps, I just can’t enjoy the beautiful artistry of the person skating and that’s really important to me. So I only try to identify them in slow motion if I’m feeling so inclined

Brb gonna go start Voltron

I wanted to start it too! maybe I should do it now!