Vodka Infused with a Dash of Bitters by @sinkingorswimming​ – Fic rec moodboards [27/?]

Restaurateurs Yakov Feltsman, Lilia Baranovskaya, Celestino Cialdini, and Josef Karpisek are about to celebrate the ten year anniversary of their high-concept, lauded craft cocktail and fine dining establishment, Grand Prix. While finishing a dance degree at the AMDA, Katsuki Yuuri began working there so he could move out of the dorms and maybe have some cash to blow. Years later and unable to catch a break when he auditions, he’s still there as a bartender. The money’s good, the regulars too, and he takes enough pride in his work he honed his craft reading up on Victor Nikiforov, a former protégé of Yakov’s.

Then one day, Victor becomes the new bar manager and everything goes sideways, upside down, and ends up how it should.

Six Hours Ahead by @alipiee – Fic rec moodboards [26/?]

When Yuuri downloaded the harmless quiz app, he didn’t expect to become best friends with the Russian boy who asked him for a rematch.

Porkcutlet: Wait, you’re from Russia right?

Makka: I am, why?

Porkcutlet: I was just wondering what it feels like to walk on the same ground as a real life angel?

Makka: Umm

Makka: It just feels like walking?

(In which Yuuri unknowingly befriends Viktor online and gushes to him about the living legend himself)

Comes Love by @witharthurkirkland – Fic rec moodboards [25/?]

People in the audience would crane their necks to watch Yuuri sit and calmly sip his drink. He’d raise the glass to his lips and down its contents slowly, as if the gold liquid was honey and not champagne. Or he’d get a cocktail and drink it through a straw in a way that would make the men around him break out into a cold sweat. Then he’d cross his legs and recline in his seat and it didn’t matter what was happening on the stage: every eye in the room was on him. The regulars often said that no one could cross their legs like Eros did.

That night he sat in his usual spot and watched the stage with unseeing eyes. Two weeks of someone leaving a bouquet of roses would make anyone curious. He’d always find them in the same spot. There were always seven of them. And they always came without a note. But Yuuri knew they were all from the same person.

A Burlesque AU with Yuuri as a performer and Victor as his admirer.

Bear Your Soul on the Ice by @diedraechin – Fic rec moodboards [1.5/?]

At age fourteen, Katsuki Yuuri had been determined to be Japan’s next great figure skating hope, but with no coach that would never happen, so his ballet instructor packs him up off to Russia to train with Yakov Feltsman. The Yakov Feltsman, otherwise known as the coach to rising figure skating star – and Yuuri’s idol – Viktor Nikiforov.