First off very obviously is Evgeni Plushenko:

This man is a beast. No really, for a while, most of us were concerned he would die skating because that man cannot be stopped.

Besides Quads and Platinum medals, he, is known for his glorious mullet, which we suspect the little bab Ruskis started doing to recieve the blessing of Plushenchrist

Despite being v v serious!!! about competing, Zhenya (which is his actual, non fandom nickname) does have his share of troll Exhibitions such as the iconic Sex Bomb:
Evgeni Plushenko - Sex Bomb

Asissai:
Evgeny Plushenko Asisiay Exhibitions 2004 Worl...

and Only You:
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(I also realize I should be doing this when i have access to my harddrive filled with all my old photos instead of relying on images on my old LJ hahaha)

oh my goooooooooood what a troll Plushy is.

Your shipping options are Him wih his wife (obvs), him with his best known rival, Alexei Yagudin, who is both a badboy, and regarded by the fandom as a slore.

Yags is older. Both Trained under Mishin, and were very neck and neck in their rivalry. Zhenya however, was the good boy student, and Lyosha was the #rebel

wtf is going on there

decadentarisu: An actual fire in the rink they were at. No one was hurt, fortunately.

WTF that boy smiling

Another of the more popular plush ships is him and Edvin Marton, genius violinist, owner of an actual million dollar stradivarius.

mulletshipping

They won Eurovision together with Dima Bilan, sure but this isn't about him
Dima Bilan - Believe (Russia) 2008 Eurovision Song C...

And I guess people ship him with the orange mongoose bro, Evan Lysacek, but that's more a hateship I guess

I will use Lysacek to segue into talking about Johnny, who is I guess the Yags to Evan's Plushi, or something. Johnny is responsible for why the fandom calls Evan a mongoose.

Holy shit that Eurovision song

Johnny Weir~~~~

Especially to western internet fandom, Johnny was THE face of figure skating in a sense. He was the most mainstream, most accessible, most fanservice-y skater ever.

Despite the fact that he is #OutAndProud now, he did not actually come out while competing. There was still quite a lot of fandom debate before he had on whether he was #JustEuropean by proxy of his Russophilia

I'm not kidding with the Russophilia. He speaks Russian and wears Russian training gear during practices. He was the USFSA's least favourite son.

Despite this, he was very much loved by fans and was really known for his ~artistry~. His most iconic routine is the Swan (who he named Camille)
Johnny WEIR USA 2006 Olympics SP

Would just like to also drop my favourite routine of his here too: Johnny Weir - Dr. Zhivago

Would also like to mention that near the tail end of his skating career, he literally went gaga for Gaga and had so many Lady Gaga routines, it got really tiring. =))

Because of his popularity, Johnny was also very much the fandom bicycle, being shipped with too many people to count.

Most notably though, to Evan Lysacek, with whom he was in an intense rivalry with and who he at one point really did have very real beef with

Drew Meekins who was his actual ex, and over whom he and other American Champion, Jeremy Abbott had beef over.

And most importantly because this is the only correct ship with johnny, with the Suisse Prince himself, Stephane Lambiel.

Now before I launch into this ship, I first need to introduce you to the perfect angel of a prince that is Stephane Lambiel.

If Evan was a mongoose, Johnny is a Swan, then Stephane is a zebra:

OH WOW

I will come back to this tomorrow. I have to be awake for a roller derby thing in the morning

Again, we can thank Johnny wor bringing the Magical Zebra imagery to light: It's a magical zebra - with wings!

decadentarisu: See you~ I'm just gonna keep going as I'm really nostalgic and in the mood to post these hahaha

Stephane is the absolute most princely prince charming to ever grace the ice. Also a more Artistic skater, but is a 2 time world and 2 time grand prix champion skater.

Unlike a lot of other skaters, Stephane doesn't have a trolly bone in his body!!! Swear! And while he is usually the epitome of elegance, he too, has many a lapse in taste:
Stephane Lambiel in cat costume. Red Cat.

But most of the time, he is just a beautiful, elegant, prince on ice and off:
Stephane Lambiel 2010 Euros LP - La Traviata

He loves Ladybugs, Cats, Children, Britney Spears and just being ~close~ with people.

You could Ship stephane with most everyone, men and women, but I'm here today to talk about ZebraSwan

As Johnny said, the two of them are quite good friends. But they are also quite handsy friends.

I SHALL READ THIS PROPERLY TOMORROW

Plz tell me more about ZebraSwan

Hahaha sorry, fell asleep =))

Where was I? Oh yes, ZebraSwan.

Yesssssss ZebraSwan~~~~

These two were literally the touchiest, flirtiest babs ever.

There is actually just way too many instances of touchy homo moments between them

They always practice imaginary pairs routines together, but for the longest time, did not actually do one for a show, because as Johnny claimed "Stephane really wanted to be the flower" & so did Johnny.

Ooooooooooh

They're still at it, to this day:
Instagram video by •JOHNNY WEIR• • Jun 18, 2016 at 3...

sorry brb

Aaaaaaaaah

I don't know what else to say. They're beautiful together and were much beloved by the fandom. . . then Johnny got married. xD Then divorced, so there is still hope in the hearts of zebraswan stans everywhere

The fandom just sits and waits

;~;

Sob they are so cute together I can't even.

Depicted above is Maksim Trankov, who was also another viable stephane ship

Because Stephane was also quite touchy with him, but again, beautiful zebra prince is VP of #TeamSlut

They even swapped costumes for the hell of it once:

But this ship is also less viable after Maks married his partner, Tatiana Volosozhar.
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Though fandom likes to imagine they'd be happy to invite him with them some times. :3c lol

Awwwwwww XD

Zhenya, Johnny & Stephane are 3/4ths of the fandom's favourite 4 men at the time, who are nicknamed the Kings on Ice (for a show they did) or the Quad Squad. The last of the 4, is my baby, the light of my life:

Brian, nicknamed Jewbear, Bibi or Baboo (This is literally what his fam and closest friends call him, I kid you not.) he was one of the top men of the sport

Bibi is known more for his technicla skill and less his artistry, which might be because he had exceedingly european tastes in music. Too much disco techno everywhere
Brian Joubert - 2010 Euro EX - Infinity

I shit you not, he literally skated to Sandstorm before it became a meme:
BRIAN JOUBERT - EC 2014 EX - Sandstorm

Despite a body like this

Bibi is actually a mama's boy because he was very sickly growing up. His mother, we dislike because she is too controlling and didn't let him ~grow~

He likes stuffed toys, his dog named Blade, and motorcycles.

(I wish I had my HD because I literally cannot find pics of the motorbike on le google)

Anyway, I'm sorry for going on for too long about this man. =)) He is also my fandom bicycle so I ship him with everyone, but you may ship him with either zebra, swan or both

Johnny is one of his bffs

But stephane loves him too.

We just suspect that he feels very competitive with Stephane as when Plu temp retired, it was only Steph really between him and gold. lol

But since we like to give ZebraSwan to each other, your other option is his Czech bff, Tomas Verner

Johnny Ships it and says you shoukd too! /shot

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Back before Yuzuru ascended to the throne, Japan, despite having many a talented skater, had these two as their skating royalty

These two really made Japan out to be the skating powerhouse post vancouver.

I'm running out of extreme advertising macros, and I wish I could continue on but I really am limited by not having my files right now. I wish I had one for Yuzuru since y'all love him so much but he was like,

a fetus when ONTD_Skating was at it's prime. (But that didn't stop people from crushing hard.) This perplexed my mother when I told her this as we watched him at CoC, because, again, fetus. =))

When people did start shipping him tho, it was with this fly mofo

They together under BOrser, who is the best, most loving gay dad of all the top coaches

although at the time, this ship was still quite questionable because of Yuzuru's age. Yuzu is actually quite the gem because he has really stayed at the top almost all his career. And he's still just 21!!

Most other men are just starting to peak at this age and he's already AN OLYMPIC FUCKING CHAMPION with several other spectacular golds to his name.

Whoops, I just realize the sound on Plu's Sex Bomb got replaced. =))

/plops in here for a moment just to say I'm still here to absorb all this wonderful info also omg Daisuke

decadentarisu: hahaha aww friend I dunno what to talk about hahaha I mean, there's a lot I could say, I just don't know where to start =))

hmm, what can I say about Dai? people don't really ship him in Fandom much. he's kinda like, usually depicted as too cool for everything. Mao on the other hand is usually shipped with Yuna

ooh! or Kozuka! Everyone believed Kozuka had a big crush on Mao. XD Mao's dog Aero is deffo the inspiration for Viktor's dog :3c

idk if you saw the other post where I posted my Aero stuffed toy lol

Omg that stuffed toy is so cute ;w; I missed that Plurk.

LOL yeah, Japan loved Aero. I know Mao did commercials with him (. . . at least I THINK Aero was a boy?) and even had a ex with him. xD

Ooooooooooh O:

Javi and Yuzuru tho c: cutes. I still think Daisuke is hot as hell though. But omg Joubert and his thing for Eurobeat.

I'm just reacting to everything because aaaaah

decadentarisu: Dai is really 2hot2handle =)) Javi went to train with Brian Orser because Morozov was too busy with Florent Amodio (another well decorated men's skater who got paired with Javi too)

I can't remember if this was also around the time the issues with his (Morozov) relationship with Miki Ando were arising too.

Man, the skate world is really interesting =w=

Flovier. LOL

I just realized I have not said a word about any Ice Dancers or Pairs skater. Whoops. >3>

cuuuuutes c:

ok I just read everything

I remember being silently in love with Johnny Weir for a while before cause jfc he is gorgeous but holy shit Prince Stephane wow

do like ZebraSwan =))

also AAAA Johnny replied to you

who are you fb friends with again was it the light of your life

and omg yes I've seen the Yuzu Javier photos. SO CUTE

what is their ship name

also what is Dai's full name cause hot damn

nixxx: Johnny is really easy to love. xD He's really so charismatic, I think a lot of people from _S got into the fandom because of him.

When I was younger, I liked Stephane but not naman super like, but the older I got, the more I was like TT______TT YOU BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING, I JUST WANT TO BE NEAR YOUUUUUUU

I'm not fb friend with Bibi because he's a very private person and has a fake name nga as his FB name. Of the people above, I'm only FB friends with Javi. I'm FB friends with Johnny's brother and BFF tho. =))

I have a lot of skater FB friends but most are Americans & Canadians =))

Most skating Pairing names are just namesmushes. Javi/Yuzuru is just Yuzuvier. (Naging special lang yung ibang may animal nicknames lol)

Dai's full name is Daisuke Takahashi. =))

I also remember watching Plushy's Sex Bomb before =)))))))) bootiful

Sex Bomb is a classic. It's one of those programs everyone should see when they get into the fandom (or even if they don't! Hahaha)

oh wow c: !!