#oh also...

i actually. finally have the lore figured out now. and the insomniakase song is done. just gotta animate it.

Hi anon,

Sorry it took me a little while to get back to you on this, I had to think about how to respond because it’s sort of a loaded ask... 

To make a long story short: yes, I totally agree with you. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having this opinion, and I think that many of us here in this bottomless pit of a fandom are in agreement with you. While I love Tessa to death and am so proud of her for going out there, slaying the game, making money moves, and taking the world by storm, in an ideal world, I would maybe like to see them doing a bit more together? (Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!) HOWEVER, I totally get that first and foremost, they don’t owe us anything, and that they are also very different people and obviously have separate interests, goals, and opportunities when in comes to the attention they have gleaned from their wildly successful skating career. 

(Now is the point where I’m just going to start wildly rambling and theorizing without any actual knowledge or science to back what I’m saying up so I apologize)

Like I said, in an ideal world, I would love to see more interviews or articles or photoshoots etc. etc. of Tessa and Scott together. BUT, here’s the problem: the world isn’t ideal. When it comes to marketability, there’s only so much you can do with a couple. Obviously we don’t know the full extent of Tessa and Scott’s relationship (but, do they even know the full extent of their relationship???), however, the narrative of their career that they are currently open to telling is fairly simple. They met when they were kids, they kept skating together and rising through the ranks, they moved a couple times to seek new coaching opportunities, their hard work paid off and they earned two olympic medals, they took a little break, they decided to return to competitive skating, they worked insanely hard and won the olympics. Boom. Done. 

However, when it comes to marketing one individual, you can get down to the really nitty gritty and the insanely mundane. What was the name of Tessa Virtue’s favorite childhood ice cream parlor? What does Tessa Virtue think quantifies justice and injustice? Would Tessa Virtue rather drink a shot pickle juice or an entire gallon of maple syrup? And people love that kind of stuff. It’s the little insights and the random facts that really make us feel like we’re getting to know a person.

So I guess what I’m saying is that, as a skating fan, I totally agree with you anon, there is something entirely magical about the legendary ice dance team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir that I would love to see more of (this doesn’t in any way mean that I don’t want Tessa to continue on her trajectory to world domination because she totally should!). However, I guess I also get that there are reasons (other than the random theory I just vomited out) as to why we’re getting less mass produced content of them as a pair and more of the (well... really just Tessa) as individuals.