Yuri On Ice Fic Fridays

Prompts are purposefully made as loose and open to interpretation as possible. 

Week 1 Prompt: Awkward First Meetings

Oops by Defiant-Dreams (baterina_1234) (tumblr: @gia-comeatme )

Scenario: “you were absent in class and asked me for the notes and i accidentally showed you the explicit gay fanart i was looking at instead”

OR:

Awkward First Meeting + viknik sick fic

(can be read as a standalone)

The Genevan Paso Doble by Fullmetal Chords (tumblr: @phoenixrei )

Insurance investigator Victor Nikiforov’s world is turned upside down one night in Geneva, when he comes face to face for the first time with the thief he comes to call “Eros”. Little does he know that their chance encounter will change the course of his life forever.

Career Day by thishasbeencary (tumblr: @yoyoplisetsky)

Viktor Nikiforov accompanies his daughter Maria to her pre-school career day where he meets a girl who claims to want to be a figure skater. And her cute dad. He flirts, he gets a date. It doesn’t actually go that smoothly, though.

anarchy for sale! t-shirts only ten dollars by KatsukiYuurisTrophyHusband (spookyfoot) (tumblr: @katsukiyuuristrophyhusband)

Because the universe is somehow both cruel and indifferent, Yuuri sees Victor again two days later in the lobby of his ballet studio. He’s just finished his advanced pointe workshop. His hair is plastered to his forehead with sweat, he’s painted with a full body flush, and he’s wearing a shirt Phichit custom ordered that says “Tastier Than Katsudon” in screaming neon orange.

“Hi Yuuri!” Victor’s beaming and blocking his only exit. ____________

A falling-in-love story told through questionable t-shirts.

If you wrote a fic for this prompt but it’s not on this list, sent me a message and I’ll add it :) 

(you can answer prompts whenever you want :) )

God Save Yuuri Katsuki by belovedyuuri (casinthongs)

Whatever idea the word “airport” brings to mind, run with it. Passengers on a plane? Canon divergence? Pilots? Anything goes!

This Week’s Prompt: Your Fic Is Problematique

I’m sure that most of you have seen the secret ~problematic writers~ tumblr that named a huge number of wonderful authors in this fandom and put them on a “badlist”. If anything, it’s a rec list, check out their fics! There’s a lot of incredible writing on there. 

Cyberbullying is not okay. Policing content is not okay. Providing a hit list of people apparently producing “problematic” content according to an arbitrary and often confusing list is not okay. Some fics were apparently blacklisted for depictions of mental illness —which is canon.

We’re all free to consume (or not) whatever content we want. We’re accountable for our own decisions. We can read critically and not cast everything in black and white. 

So this week, celebrate ~problematic~ content and ~problematic~ writers. Write Otayuri, write about Welcome to the Madness, write about mental illness, A/B/O, or any of the things on the so-called shitlist, and then anything else you want on top of that. (Bonus points for fitting as many of these into one fic as possible)

Consider it a warm up for the Yuri!!! on Ice Shit Bang and then sign up for that too. 

let me tell you a thing about your fandom history. back in the good ol days of livejournal, strikethrough/boldthrough were a series of purges done on livejournal blogs and communities done out of a moral panic raised by a right-wing internet watchdog group. in fact, one of the main reasons behind the founding of the organisation for @transformativeworks and the archive of our own is because of this – because fandom needed a space free from censorship.

fandom also left livejournal for this blue hellsite because of strikethrough and now, ten days before the 10 year anniversary of strikethrough, that entire shitlist wank has gone down in yoi fandom. 

anyway

i just wanna say i would be totally down to do something on the 29th. to commemorate the 10th anniversary of strikethrough, i suggest we all post a fic to ao3 that day that specifically features at least one of the shitlist criteria.

I don’t have a problem being upfront about stuff that I dislike, stuff that I think is bad or stupid, or stuff that I think is frankly extremely fucked-up. I’m picky and petty and the more fic I write for a fandom the more refined and specific my tastes tend to get. but that’s on me. it’s on me to read tags, to take note of warnings, to employ tools like AO3 Saviour, and when I encounter something I dislike to backbutton, gripe about it vaguely, and move the fuck on with my life.

I have a serious anxiety disorder that the NHS refuses to send me to see an actual psychiatrist to get properly categorised, but which I’ve been told has ‘elements of trauma-related stress’. I also have a history of self-destructive and semi-addictive behaviour. I have actual legitimate psychological triggers, by which I don’t mean ‘things that it upsets me to see’ but ‘things that will cause multi-day panic attacks and/or flashbacks and/or bouts of damaging behaviour’. and I am a fucking adult and it is my business to manage these very serious and potentially damaging things for myself. it is part of recovery and being able to function in society. am I always very good at it? fuck no. but it’s my fucking job, nobody else’s.

I remember when the first conversations about establishing the AO3 happened on LJ. it was in the wake of a lot of upsets about censorship and control of fan-created content, and one of the most basic principles of the Archive was always going to be that it would accept basically everything. fandom is a space where you gotta do you. did you know there was a lot of wank back in ~08/09 about using warnings on fic, because some people considered any kind of warning a spoiler? that’s why ‘choose not to warn’ is an option on AO3. the idea that fandom has to be this neatly crimped and controlled space where everyone toes a particular political line, so it fits some person or other’s concept of ‘safeness’, is incredibly new. transformative fandom- that is to say, fic-writing and fanart-creating fandom- is a place to explore ideas and desires, and given that it has always been female-dominated it has been treated as suspect and freakish and dangerous from the very beginning. but I don’t think we’ve ever engaged so much in doing that to ourselves as is apparently now par for the course on tumblr.

I was not, thank god, on either the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ lists on That Blog, although given that I wrote a 100k fic in which both main characters kill someone on screen, one of them pretends to be a Nazi and the other pretends to be loyal to Imperial Japan, and plot elements include discovering the true extent of the Holocaust, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Soviet war crimes, I’m sure I’m on someone’s shitlist for Daring To Write About Such Things. maybe just to round off my problematicness I should add that I think Yuri/Otabek is adorable, that I think both Victor and Yuuri live with mental illness and it’s the subject of my current WIP, and that the only reason I’m not all up on genderswapped femslash is that nobody ever seems to write any characters as butches. am I bad and wrong enough yet? am I going to be stoned anon-harassed to death with all the other naughty women thinking about sex on the internet? because let’s be real here, the only reason anyone makes these unfounded lists of Bad Tumblr Users is for harassment, however much they deny it.

actual safe spaces are by necessity small, closed, and tightly moderated. I’ve participated in some and they are immensely valuable. but you cannot possibly take the principles of a dedicated, purposeful space and try to impose them on a huge, sprawling social morass like fandom. society doesn’t work that way. humans don’t work that way. and it would be bad if they did. it is part and parcel of growing the fuck up and learning to live in society that you have to deal with people who have opinions you find weird, stupid, or deeply objectionable.

I think it’s a reasonable expectation that content creators like fic writers and fanartists tag/label their content appropriately, which includes stating a choice not to warn. and it’s reasonable as a content consumer to say ‘I hate x’ or ‘y is legitimately upsetting to me’ and to avoid content that involves x and/or y. but setting yourself up as the fandom morality police and calling people ‘shit’ for creating and enjoying stuff you don’t want to create or enjoy is fucked-up and idiotic.