So @kazliin‘s hogwarts Au Was So Fonkin Cute That It Inspired Me To Write This Songlet, Ohmygod. this

so @kazliin‘s hogwarts au was so fonkin cute that it inspired me to write this songlet, ohmygod. this melody played in my head while reading it and i just!!! i need like an animated short to pair with all of this, stat. thank u to kaz for ur writing, it is a gift, ur a gift, and for being cool with me writing/recording/sharing this. from ffyc yuuri’s POV:

i’ve fallen for ya it’s not a surprise you’ve got a lot of charm

i’ll rein it in cuz you’re clearly too nice and i’d do a lot of harm

so i’m not gonna bother you with my heart pretend’s a game i’ve got down to an art so it’s okay if you won’t stay away i’ve had years of a headstart falling for your charms

now available for stream and download! chords can be found here.

Scoring, Music, and Programs

So people new to figure skating through the YoI fandom may not be aware, but the scoring system used in the show is actually relatively new, having only been around a decade (and oh man watching the shitstorm that lead to the change was fascinating). A part of me thinks that the old ways really stands out among the oldest skaters - Victor, Chris, Georgi and to a lesser extent Yuuri, because they’re the last of the generation that would have had to adapt roughly during their transition from Junior to Senior. Yuuri is probably a BIT too young, since it changed in 2005, but he’d have seen its effect.

Before the scoring change figure skating was, IMHO SUPER conservative, because it wasn’t a system of so many points for this, and so much for that. It was much more subjective and relied on the judge’s opinion of the program more. Yeah, the skaters would be docked for a fall, or if a landing wasn’t clean. But there would be times that seemingly flawless programs would get lower scores just because the judges didn’t like it.

Music choices were a huge factor in playing to the judges… like I remember in the ‘94 olympics one skater used the instrumental theme from Jurassic Park, and I thought that was pretty bold when compared to the overwhelming number of Beethoven and Mozart pieces.

Back to why I think it affects the oldest YoI skaters though… look at when they play with their music. They make bolder music choices in the short program: Intoxicated, Eros, Carabosse but fall back to more traditional/conservative in the free skate. (I do think Tale of a Sleeping Prince is a more conservative piece than Carabosse)

But look at the upcoming generation and their free skates - Minami does a boogie, Phichit chooses a movie piece that isn’t defined by western norms of music, Guang Hong’s Inferno, and Emil’s Anastasis all let them tell a story that nobody would have dared a decade ago because if the judge didn’t like the music it could affect scores. And since the Free Skate is worth more, that’s where the oldest skaters would have learned to play it cool and not rock the boat.

It’s subtle, but I like that detail in how the age gap is presented in another way.

242 notes View Post

yoibrainrot

9 months ago