My Youth Is Yours

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My report on world championship 2019 in Saitama. Actually, this is the first opportunity to watch the competition in my country. You know, it’s very difficult to get tickets for Yuzuru’s stuffs in Japan.😅

The result was not the best one for him, but it was SUPER impressive moment for the most of Yuzuru’s fan, I guess. His Free Skating was STUNNING. He was skating with great verve and I felt his soul and spirit so strongly. You cannot know how everyone was enthusiastic at that moment if you were not there.

His commentary can be found here! This isn’t a play-by-play translation, but I wanted to share Hanyu’s thoughts on his free skate at Worlds :) 

On the 30 second rule in which skaters must assume their pose for the program 30 seconds after their name has been announced lest one point be deducted.

Hanyu: There’s a 30 second rule, so I did my best to not go over that. I would do simulations in my head over and over, so when I went into it, I knew how many seconds were left, and after I did this how many seconds were left, and then how many seconds were left to gather my emotions, take a deep breath, and by the time I get into position it’s just around 30 seconds. 

Interviewer: Ah, so you did image training for this?

Hanyu: Yes, I did. In fact, I did the simulation around 10 times in my head. (A/N: btw, he finished his routine at exactly 29.23 seconds at Worlds)

On the Quad Loop 

Hanyu: Actually, I was rather surprised that I landed it. It felt good, but perhaps I’d lost/forgotten the feeling of the landing for this competition. 

On the Quad Salchow

Hanyu: Well, this is fine. It’s a miss. It was a complete miss but…I’ll allow it. 

Interviewer: So you were ok with this? (A/N: I think?? Couldn’t quite catch what she said)

Hanyu: Is what I’d like to be able to say, at this point. 

On his stamina throughout the performance

Hanyu: This time, I was able to maintain my stamina pretty successfully–well, successfully in terms of after rehabilitation. Considering that I wasn’t starting from zero, but more from negative/minus, I think I was able to maintain my stamina fairly well. That’s why I thought if I could just overcome the hardest obstacles of the 4Lo and 4S, I could trust my body to do what needs to be done, and there’d be no problems. So after those two jumps I felt pretty reassured. 

On his ending pose

Hanyu: When I think I’ve won, I raise my arm and point upwards (i.e. Olympics 2018 and Worlds 2017) but I was not thinking that this time around. I was thinking “how tough,” and “Ah, I must not have won.”  

On his overall performance

Fumi & Akatsuki + a 3 year time skip in chapter 77. 

Holy crap my dudes. The Companion hit 1500 kudos (and then some)!!!!!

I am constantly flattered and overwhelmed at the response I’ve gotten to this fic. You guys can’t begin to know how fulfilled it makes me feel, to know that I’ve given that many people a story that has moved them in some way.

So, as a little thank you and celebration, I’m doing a drabble giveaway!

Three lucky winners will be able to request a drabble about anything they want. And I mean anything.* Each drabble will be approximately 1500 words (get it?).

Here’s how it’s going to work:

Everyone who likes or reblogs this post will be entered in the contest.

Likes will count as one entry. Reblogs count as two. Reblogs with glowing recs for my fics count as three. (Just kidding.)

If you don’t have a tumblr but still want to enter, send an email to shinygwai at gmail dot com.

The deadline for entry will be Thursday, April 19, at midnight EST.

After that point, I’ll use a random number generator to select the winners. Winners will be contacted via tumblr (or email if you don’t have one) on April 20th.

Once you’re contacted, you can tell me all your drabble hopes and dreams, and I’ll make them a reality!

Drabbles will be sent to you via email as soon as they’re done. You’ll get to keep your custom story all to yourself for two whole weeks. After two weeks, I’ll publish them here so the whole world can read them and thank you for giving me such a brilliant prompt.

More details and addenda are below the cut. Good luck!!

Read at ao3 here!

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Levi/Erwin Smith

Summary: 

Erwin frowns. “Don’t lie to me, Levi. If you really feel nothing for me, why do you look at me in that way of yours when we make love?” He takes a shaky breath, “Unless you mean to tell me that I’ve been deluding myself the whole time?”

“That’s right,” Levi spits, “You imagined everything. All I ever come here for is a good fuck. Get that through your thick skull, you shitty bastard.”

In which Levi finally allows himself to be loved.