❅ life & love ❅

3.5k, M, no warnings

Tags: canon compliant, bdsm, d/s, introspection, character study, viktor pov, pre-scene, dom yuuri katsuki, sub viktor nikiforov

Summary:

In which the build up is just as fulfilling as the payoff. 

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But Viktor knows that those hands are nothing but gentle, and he knows that Yuuri uses those hands to touch him with nothing but careful reverence, like Viktor might be something precious. He knows that the way that Yuuri is narrowing his eyes is a result of him not wearing his glasses and absolutely refusing to wear contacts (something that exasperates Viktor endlessly), so even though objectively he know it looks sexy, it lightens his heart a little to know that fact. He knows that the way Yuuri is dressed right now is just one aspect of his personality, and it doesn’t change the soft, fragile hearted boy that lies beneath the leather and spikes. He knows that anything Yuuri is going to tell him to do while wearing that outfit will be exactly what Viktor wants.

Written for @softviktorzine!

Chapter 1/1

2.5k, G, no warnings

Tags: age swapped, reversed canon, coach katsuki yuuri, established relationship, hurt/comfort, insecurity, insecure viktor nikiforov, fluff

Summary:

Viktor Nikiforov has everything he could ever possibly want. He has Makkachin, he has a flourishing skating career, and most importantly he has Yuuri. Kind, reserved, beautiful Yuuri. […]

Having everything is terrifying.

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In which Viktor is still learning how to be vulnerable and honest, and Yuuri is there with him the whole way.

Tagged by @kimthreerings​ *fist bump*

The Challenge: If you’ve been tagged, find at least ONE FANFIC (feel free to do more) that you’d like more readers to discover and enjoy as well.  

It can be any fandom, trope, ship, rating…sky’s the limit!

@ five people to invite to take this challenge as well.

#PayItForwardFC

My Fic Recs:

HOMG I’m staring at my… 966 Viktuuri bookmarked works (what is wrong with me) and I feel like crying Okay okay so I love *~fantasy~* AU’s so here are some that I think should get more attention:

Fic Title/Link: A Tale Carved on Ice by @adorafics Rated: T Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: Complete (2656 words) Summary: “He met him in the heart of winter, when the powdered snow was still woven with magic and the ancient forest was succumbing to glair-white brilliance…” A bittersweet tale about the magic we lost and the one we found again.

– This fic is short but it gutted me. The plot, the language! If you like beautiful, bittersweet, fairytale-esque stories, this one’s for you!

Fic Title/Link: When Night Falls, I Love You Again by @yuuris-piano Rated: G Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: Complete (7100 words) Summary: Will you dance with me…one last time?“ ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, except for the magic of love and life. For you see, magic would come down the chimney and rub onto all the decorations. This magic gave the decorations a period where they could celebrate in the festive fun and cheer. And so the story begins…

– LIKE AN ARROW THROUGH THE HEART. Reminded me of Toy Story, or The Nutcracker; I would also recommend this story for those who like magical realism.

Fic Title/Link: wild mint blossoms by @selkiegirls​​ Rated: M Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: WIP (Chapters 2 out of 3 complete, 24530 words) Summary: In the land of the fae, Viktor falls in love the same way that he loses himself: with yuuri at his side and with the lingering scent of mint surrounding them both like a whisper.

– Viktor and fairy!Yuuri go on an adventure. Okay it’s way better than I make it sound; the worldbuilding is fascinating, the prose is beautiful and the story immersive WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT

Fic Title/Link: The Mark He Left Behind by @khaleeshli​​ Rated: T Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: Complete (8757 words) Summary: Viktor Nikiforov falls in love with a kitsune named Yuuri at the age of sixteen. Fate decides to pull Viktor away from Yuuri before their love can fully flourish. Viktor learns about love, Yakov interjects his opinions, and Yuuri is just pretty.

– IT HAS LITERALLY BEEN ALMOST A YEAR AND I’M STILL SCREAMING AT VIKTOR (read this and its sequel and you’ll see why)

Fic Title/Link: Your eyes could drown a city by @salanayuniasis Rated: G Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: Complete (4257 words) Summary: “Ocean, beautiful, selfish Ocean, wrap me up in foam, I am your betrothed. You who returns to the earth only the boats and the men you want to give back, give me the gold of the sumptuous sinking vessels, give me their treasures, bring in my town handsome sailors that I shall gaze upon. But, oh, don’t be jealous, I’ll give them back to you, one after the other.”

– Look I am a sucker for fairytale-esque stories with poetic prose don’t judge me also if it isn’t obvious already my reviews don’t do any of these stories justice

Fic Title/Link: will lose my desire for you (never my love) by @sinkingorswimming Rated: M Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: WIP (Chapters 1 out of 2 complete, 16146 words) Summary: Victor is ten when he leaves home to fine tune his alchemy, nineteen when he meets Katsuki Yuuri, twenty when he becomes a State Alchemist and a husband, and twenty-two when a teen named Yuri Plisetsky begins to report to him. His world changes drastically a few years later, and when Victor makes a decision that cannot be undone, he unlocks a mystery and crosses paths with a man only known as Lust. 

– I could have sworn this fic was finished… BUT I AM DEFINITELY NOT OPPOSED TO MORE. I never finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist but this AU I think really incorporates the series’ spirit.

Also I seem to just be reccing fics that made me cry omg why 

okay HERE

Fic Title/Link: I breathe for You, Only You by @narcissuspseudonarcissus​ Rated: M Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: Complete (35187 words) Summary: V’tor is a bronze dragon rider, destined to lead a weyr with his fire-breathing dragon Makkath in the age long battle against the terrifying organism they call thread. Yuuri is a dancer with a love of dragons, one of the first ballet dancers; having been able to access the newly discovered records from the colonists ancient computer system AIVAS.

– Love this Dragonriders of Pern AU! Get your dragons, romance, and adventure with none of the homophobia here

Fic Title/Link: ephemeral; by @gia-comeatme Rated: M Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: WIP (Chapters 1 out of 2 complete, 5919 words) Summary: Yuuri only wanted to get a tattoo as a reminder of how far he’d come, but instead, all it served to do was to remind him of how much he’s lost. Viktor was just supposed to be his tattoo artist, until he wasn’t, and then was again. :: The Olympics is all about stories. The only thing Viktor wants is to remember theirs, and yet all Yuuri wants is to forget.

– *flails* amazing urban fantasy with tattoo artist Viktor, figure skater Yuuri, and a really intriguing plot 8D 

Fic Title/Link: Pink Champagne on Ice by @lorienleylines   Rated: M Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: WIP (Chapters 4 out of ? complete, 20383 words) Summary: Welcome to Yu-topia Inn! Run by a darling family of bake-danuki demons, this remote Gilded Age manor is chock full of fine-polished rooms to ignore the outside world in. Yuuri Katsuki, the youngest member of the small family that runs Yu-topia, has barely seen life outside of the Inn’s walls. He spends his days caring for the guests – in more than one way. During the day, he brings them food and drinks, but during the night, he keeps watch for other demons that may come and try to hurt them. It’s a monotonous, routine life for a demon, but Yuuri isn’t complaining. Still, he can’t help but feel excited when his childhood friend, the ice-bending vampire Viktor, comes to stay. But Viktor isn’t coming as a guest this time; he has an ulterior motive, and Viktor’s decisions that may bring more adventure and drama than Yuuri ever hoped for.

– Vampire!Viktor and bake-danuki!Yuuri– how could I resist? (I couldn’t) These two are so adorable, plus there’s the drama of Viktor’s family X3

Fic Title/Link: the voice of your heart by @maclaeroni    Rated: G Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: Complete (1751 words) Summary: The thing about having emotion as the very basis of your magic is that when something doesn’t align with your heart, it becomes painfully obvious. Viktor may not be able to use songs to create magic like Yuuri does, but even he knows that something is bothering Yuuri.

– I just really love this worldbuilding and of course Viktor and Yuuri’s relationship X3

Fic Title/Link: Keep Their Colours True by @pensversusswords Rated: M Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: WIP (Chapters 3 out of ? complete, 12947 words) Summary: Viktor Nikiforov, the Crown Prince of Pobeda, embodies everything Yuuri has heard about him; strikingly beautiful, kind, blessed with hair as silver as starlight that falls down to his waist, has a smile that could make the coldest heart tremble, and–most importantly–he is completely unattainable. Katsuki Yuuri is sworn to protect the Crown Prince with his skill, his dedication, and his life if necessary. The problem is that Viktor doesn’t seem to be content with staying out of reach. He is stubbornly determined to find a place in Yuuri’s life with his smile like sunshine, his infectious exuberance, his friendly disposition. Yuuri was just supposed to protect Viktor. He wasn’t supposed to fall in love with him.

– Age swap royalty fantasy AU with Yuuri as Viktor’s bodyguard. The pining! The drama! I am LIVING

Fic Title/Link: Foxfire by @awesometinyhumanbeing Rated: Not Rated Fandom/Pairing: Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Status: WIP (Chapters 1 out of 2 complete, 12852 words) Summary: He's—Yuuri stops. Mine doesn’t sound quite right. For me. His eyes are smarting, suddenly. He excuses himself with a mumbled apology, hurries to any place that will hide him away. Vulnerability floods through him, makes him clumsy and sensitive. He’s for me, Yuuri thinks, and he’s crying, crying, crying. (The forest is Yuuri’s home, and the kitsune are his kin. Victor teaches him what it means to be human.)

– an AU with Japanese folklore elements, kitsune, beautiful descriptive writing, and a tender Viktor/Yuuri romance.  

So I tentatively have this headcanon that Yuuri is really into horror movies and games, and I love the idea of him being a gamer in his spare time with a youtube channel where he uploads his play throughs… there’s probably always comments on the videos of people being like “he can’t be playing this for the first time, he barely even flinched!”, but Yuuri is just That Good. 

But anyways, established relationship Viktuuri (canon or AU, I haven’t decided), and of course Viktor is always popping up in the background in Yuuri’s videos and saying hi to his audience… of course Viktor is so charismatic and lights up on camera, and everyone can see that Yuuri completely lights up whenever Viktor comes into the room. So, naturally, Yuuri’s fans start asking when he’s going to do a video with Viktor. One night, Viktor finds a series of compilation videos titled “Viktor and Yuuri moments” which is just every single time they’ve interacted on camera. 

The comments are all gushing about how cute they are. Stuff like: “Oh my god at 3:52, look at how Yuuri looks at him, they’re so cute I could just DIE” and “when will I find a love like theirs…” Viktor reads ALL of them and shows Yuuri his favourites. “Yuuri look!! They think we’re SOULMATES I’m going to answer them and say they’re right.”

(Which, it is.)

Happy birthday @aceyuurikatsuki !!!!!

So, I rewrote a bunch of my stripper Yuuri fic because I was unhappy with it at the time, and I want to keep writing it so I had to tweak before I moved forward with writing it. I’m much happier with it now!

19k, E, no warnings

Tags: alternate universe - stripper/exotic dancer, slow burn, insecurities, viktor finding inspiration, sex in later chapters, power bottom/dom Yuuri, service top/submissive Viktor

Summary:

In the midst of all the glitter and spandex, two people find each other; the stripper who is more than he appears, and the man who cares enough to pay attention to what more might be.

Through knowing Yuuri, Viktor learns who he could be. Through loving Yuuri, he learns how to be that person.

His birthdays had always been empty and cold. 

Viktor remembered those feelings well around that time of year where his age went up another number. He remembered dreading that supposedly special day because it never held true meaning. Nothing that held any sentimentality that made his heart warm and highlighted his face with an honest smile. 

The notifications on his phone were plenty. Most of them from social media as his fans wished him a Merry Christmas and a Happy Birthday. There were messages from friends that he barely spoke to who somehow reminded that it was his birthday. 

But then there were the messages that really mattered and those were from the small family he had made for himself. There were ones from Yakov and Yuri which were short but still meaningful. Mila and Georgi spared no expense with their long well wishes, emojis placed the accurate places. Those never failed to make Viktor laugh, a lilt of fondness in the noise. The one from his mother used to be the most special and it ached that he couldn’t be there with her for Christmas. That ache only grew stronger when she was no longer there to send him those messages and be there for him to go home too. 

Christmas meant parties so he partied and drank and danced with whoever came his way. He kissed random strangers and laughed with tears in his eyes which people easily mistook for tears of joy. But he was hurting on the inside and there was a deep wound in his heart burned with every beat. It was in the comfort of Makkachin’s fur that he had the strength to get through the night. Her worried whimpers loud in the silence and darkness of the bedroom as he held her close and sobbed into her fur. He was drunk, that was why he was crying. He was drunk and a mess. A drunk mess and all he wanted was for this day to be over. 

The next day came and life flipped back to normal. 

Then Yuuri came into his world and changed absolutely everything. Life became brighter again and the sun shined more and the flowers bloomed even in winter. It was no longer freezing within the depths of his body because Yuuri had planted himself right in his heart and made it his home. Yuuri was home and Viktor never even thought that he would find something like this. Or something even close to what they had. 

Birthdays slowly became less painful and soon it was a celebration that he genuinely enjoyed. Christmas with Yuuri was nothing like he had expected. It wasn’t the romance that one would see in Christmas movies. It wasn’t sipping hot chocolate by the fire or taking strolls in the park in middle of a light snowfall. 

It was Christmas music blasting out around the apartment. In English, Japanese and Russian. It was Yuuri wrapping Christmas presents terribly and trying to hide Viktor’s birthday presents from the sneaky birthday boy. It was making Christmas cookies and icing them so horribly that Yuuri wheezed into his laughter while Viktor choked on his. It was Makkachin dancing along with them in the living room as they sang on top of their lungs and disturbed the heck out of the other neighbours. 

Christmas was their friends, their family coming over and hogging all of the hot chocolate. It was them gathered around the living room and singing Happy Birthday to Viktor who smiled brightly at the cake in front of him on the coffee table. It was him handling Yurio into a soft headlock as the teen teased him about his rapidly increasing age. It was all of them laughing and shouting and dancing and singing. 

But it was also about Yuuri holding him in his warm embrace and the two of them simply curled up together on the window seat. It was Viktor nuzzling into the warmth of Yuuri’s neck and breathing in the scent of fresh sea breeze which reminded of Hasetsu, his other home. It was Yuuri placing a kiss against his head and whispering I love you into his hair. 

And wishing him a Merry birthday that has them both giggling. 

Those were what his birthdays had become, that was what Christmas had become. 

I posted this a while back on twitter, but I realized I never posted to tumblr, so here, have some thoughts about Yuuri’s anxiety!

We are writing this post to address the mistreatment of the artists by the mods, the mods’ conduct, and the lack of proof of donation to the intended charity. 

Before we begin we want to let everyone know that we don’t want anyone to use this post to attack the mods in any way. We are just deeply annoyed, aggravated, and saddened that we were all treated this way and we wanted the public to finally learn about it.    

And since there are many new zines being created and in the works, we also hope this post can serve as a “what not to do” when organizing a zine project or any project. We want both clients and artists to be aware of how important it is for projects like this to be transparent and honest for the protection of all parties.

The Start

The zine ran smoothly up until pre-orders opened, with the exception of a few rude responses to asks sent to the zine’s official blog. (More on that later). And that a charity had never been announced even when the project was nearing its end. 

Around when pre-orders were about to begin and all the artists were finishing up and turning in their works, one of the artists received a crushing email from the mods about their piece. The mods decided that their work wasn’t appealing enough to be in the zine, and they only chose them because they liked one certain style they drew in. (Which they did not specify to the artist upon acceptance to the zine.)  

They gave the artist five days to either fix the artwork or to start a completely new piece. Keep in mind that this zine is for charity, none of the artists are getting paid and our only compensation is the zine itself. We found this email to be more than harsh and even insulting. The artist was always on time with their WIPs and they never gotten critiqued on them and we know the mods saw them. 

The artist replied back apologetically and they tried to work on a new piece but they couldn’t do it in the time due to their full time job and other responsibilities. The artist sent back another email asking if they could use the picture they had originally submitted. 

The mods replied back with this, telling them that they would not be accepting their piece and that they believed 5 days was fair. They went as far as bullying them and their artwork, as well as kicking them out of the zine discord. 

Angela even publicly tweeted about their art, (without mentioning the artist’s name) and called it “half-assed”. 

The Artists’ Response

When the rest of the artists of the AU zine found out about what had happened to this artist, a private discord was made so we could discuss what was going to be done about the situation as well as to discuss the matters of the mod’s previous rude behavior on the tumblr, and lack of transparency as to which charity would receive the zine’s funds.

The artist received all positive feedback, encouragement, and solidarity from the rest of the zine’s participants. Some artists even wanted to pull their own pieces out of the zine to stand with them. In the end we decided that we would write the mods an email addressing all of this, even share screencaps of our conversation. We wanted this to be solved privately because we still wanted this zine to be a success.

Unfortunately, some people had told Angela that the artists were discussing this and at first Angela believed that the artist had contacted us themselves to “bother us” about letting them back in the zine.

Angela’s DMs

Our email in reply

The mods’ reply

The mods had apologized and let the artist back into the zine, however since then Angela believed that the artists formed together to create a “lynch mob” in order to attack her, which was never the case. We were even against public call outs from the very beginning. Nevertheless, an email was still written and given to Angela about what we were talking about and why. 

The mods did address some issues on the tumblr, like their rude behavior and the lack of a charity listed. The charity they wound up choosing was HopeforPaws a non-profit animal rescue. 

The Following Weeks

Angela since began vague tweeting from that point on about the AU zine artists, firmly believing that the artists were out to attack her, when all we wanted was to defend a fellow artist, ask for a charity, and address rude behavior.  

One | Two | Three and many others.

And here are some DMs Angela made to one of the artists on the zine. 

We all quietly put up with it, figuring that as long as the zines are printed, the customers and the artists receive them, and the charity receives its donation, then we could just ignore the whole thing.

The Zines & The Charity

Some time between these incidents we noticed that the AU zine discord had been deleted. 

We received an email on September 4th, regarding the zine bundles for the artists.  We learned that our copies were damaged and we would be getting new copies printed so we had to wait a short while for them to get made. 

On September 24th, we received another email saying our artist zines would be shipped the following week.

On October 17th, we received yet another email saying that the zines were shipped out that same day and every artist would receive an individual email with their tracking numbers. Except we never did. 

Many artists contacted the mods themselves for weeks and many did not receive a reply back. 

One | Two | Three

An artist contacted the mods and the mods claimed to have sent out the tracking numbers + pdfs to the artists already but the pdf file size was so large that it probably didn’t go through. But upon checking the tracking number, it shows that the zine was NOT sent out on Oct. 17 like they said they did, but rather on November 7th. 

After more artists contacted the mods, we received a very extensive email from Angela. We redacted a big chunk of information out of the first part to protect Angela’s personal privacy. 

Angela’s Email

While we understand that everyone may experience personal difficulties that will hinder them from working on other things, we believe that it’s still not an excuse for the poor treatment the artists received for trying to reach out to the mods, as well as the various lies we were told and negligence of this zine, even when she knew she was going to get found out. 

Vil was also a mod and she could have helped Angela with some of the burden or they could have found some help elsewhere if they felt too overwhelmed. if these issues were explained to the artists instead of hiding and lying about them we feel that the zine would have ran a lot more smoothly.  

A tweet was made on the AU zine twitter on November 15th, about how the amount raised for the charity was going to be posted at the end of that week but we have yet to see a receipt for it as of November 25th.

Zine Conditions

One of the artists received their zine today 11/25, in very poor condition. 

The Damaged Zine

The zine was packed in a bubble mailer with no additional bubblewrap protecting it nor any cardboard backing. The acrylics and the stickers were stuffed in the middle of the zine with no extra protection and stuck to the saddle stitching of the zine. The book itself arrived warped and creased. There wasn’t even an effort to pack the zines properly and it arrived damaged. It just adds onto our mistreatment.   

Step Sequence Zine

Angela also moderated the Step Sequence zine back in Late 2016 - Early 2017. 

One of our own AU zine artists had bought the Step Sequence zine around 5 months ago and never received their copy. They are currently unable to get in contact with the moderators of Step Sequence because the zine’s twitter, tumblr, and tictail store have all been recently deleted. 

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We will keep updating this blog as we get further information and as artists receive their zines.

💍 Pre-orders for @weddingvowszine​ are open: 💐

✨✨ http://weddingvowszine.bigcartel.com ~! ✨✨

It’s a beautiful zine for charity! Here’s a preview of my illo :)

Thank you so much to @neemo_chan for being a great mod & inviting me to be a part of this zine alongside so many wonderful artists.

It’s always been a dream of mines to be an invited artist to a project so I’m very glad to have had this opportunity~ ^^

Wedding zine on twitter @weddingvowszine

Chapter 1/1

1.5k, T, no warnings

Tags: alternate universe - university/college, age swapped, halloween, fishnets, costumes, established relationship

Summary:

Viktor thinks he’s done the world a favour by convincing Yuuri to wear a catsuit, fishnets and stiletto heels.

He’s 100% correct.

Wrote this for my dearest @princessharumi. <3

Chapter 2/2

10k, explicit, no warnings

Tags: alternate universe - university/college, age swapped, frat parties, dancing, grinding, anal sex, dirty talk, mentioned exhibitionism, rimming, drunk sex, (submissive, long haired, bottom, pining) Viktor, (top, dominant, RA) Yuuri.

**two versions of the fic are available, one with daddy kink and one without

Summary:

Outfit: Faded torn jeans, fishnets, pink crop top, hair down. Venue: Frat party. Not the most glamorous location, but it’ll do. Objective: Finally win Yuuri’s heart.

Viktor goes in with no plan at all, and yet somehow everything goes perfectly.