Zhenyaaaaaa:
by Q-u-Q
http://q-u-q.deviantart.com/art/Zhenyaaaaaa-435005917
no idea what to title it 8D
But yush, this is my favourite figure skater~
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okay.
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sochi dreams (zhenya):
by KeiBlackthorne
http://keiblackthorne.deviantart.com/ar ... -434676863
For Plushenko, who over the course of a long and dazzling career brought me joy, moved me to tears, and made winter olympics a challenge worth watching
Some comments from there
Kaigaazuko:
Yeah. Too bad I never watch him live in real life nor the TV. The only live thing I ever saw was him bowing out of the rink in pain. I kinda want to watch him skate live to feel what others feel.......his aura and soul on the ice. I had watch his 'Best of Plushenko' in the online Russian channel. I admit that his choreography is not that much but there are some part of his hand movements took my heart.
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KeiBlackthorne:
Seeing him leave after withdrawing broke my heart. And it's horrible what people are saying, trashing him to the media, saying he should have "skated through the pain"...and what, broken his spine? Ended up crippled, paralysed? After the number of times he had himself cobbled back together so he could continue to skate, for love of his fans and love of the sport? What a wretched, ungrateful, cruel thing to say. Especially to someone that fiercely competitive, who fought so hard to be where he is, to accomplish what he has. The Melville quote, "If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it," comes to mind. For him, of all people, to say he can't do it... means that the amount of pain he must have been in would have long since brought lesser men to their knees. "Skate to the end," indeed. Sorry. /rant.
This is a link to some of my favourite performances of his... Most beloved among them is his Nijinsky piece, a tribute to the famed ballet dancer. SO beautiful. You should definitely check them out. I've followed many skaters over the years, but Plushenko...he was in a class apart, truly special. Legendary, even.
True, his choreography was sometimes simpler, less over the top, than other skaters--and pain had definitely slowed him at Sochi, though he still had that old spark, that grace and precision and absolute confidence and hold over the crowd--but in his prime...the power and passion within his movements, the perfect confidence, the incredible footwork...and yes, his hands. He commanded the ice like no one else, commanded the audience and made them his own, made it impossible to look away. Even at Sochi, to the last, he delivered a beautiful performance, held his own against so many younger skaters (Yuzuru Hanyu is divine, can't wait to watch him grow as an artist and perfect himself), and still helped Russia to the team gold.
Without him, the figure skating world is left diminished; he was the last of his generation and his retirement brings to an end what I see as a golden age for the sport. Yes, there are some up and coming young athletes out there, true, but they're still such rough diamonds, so green and untried. I saw so much potential greatness at Sochi, but everyone was falling all over themselves, like it was rule rather than the exception that it used to be to hit the ice in the middle of a performance. A bunch of young puppies still finding their feet.
I guess we'll just have to watch and see how they come into their own, and what they'll bring to the world stage in another four years. For better or worse, the torch has been passed.
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Kaigaazuko:
Yes, I notice the puppy-ness in the skates. I notice that, when Plush was there skating with them, less falls happens. But when he's not there, falls happens. What kind of power does he have?
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I drew Plushenko in my DA. Some pictures, I genderbent him. Can't help it because he's so beautiful. And in my opinion, Plushenko's face is kind of seasonal: Sometimes he's ugly, somettimes he's pretty/beautiful, sometimes he's cute, sometime handsome, sometimes when he's wrinkled and then he became young and pretty again(which is interesting).
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I already watched the nijinsky piece many times : The perfect 6.0 nijinsky where he wore the Adagio costume and also the one where he performed in the dark atmosphere wearing the black costume that looked like a jeweled fairy costume(Oh I like the expression when he looked at Edvin before starting the dance. So BEAUTIFUL. Yeah, I admit I'm a bit of a fujoshi and I collected some funny photo montages by nikoneko...
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Now, as I said, I'm his newly fan. And when I read some articles I always doubt him, I admit that. Until I read in forum made by his truest of fans who followed him all around the world(fans that are from Japan, Italy and other parts of the world). And they know him the best(are u one of those who follow him around the world?) and I read his Another Show. What I got about him makes me feel that he's such an almost perfect man. Being strong, kind hearted, generous, strong heart, sweetheart, brotherly-fatherly-husbandly-childly love, spiritual, etc.
Yes, the only flaws I see in him is that he's sometimes being too honest at some wrong parts...
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- so here is link to another page 
... I dont know which "association" she had, but my 1st association was that Plushy should have much earlier to cut that "rope rescue" to this, how to say ... lichen 
- which keeps with all forces on Plushy, all these 12 years! 
