Arcades & Academia

Pronouns: They/Them Ao3 username: aftgst Multi-fandom-whore? (non derogatory)

[aftgst]

Oh to be able to write the Rose Landry arc as platonic solely to ruin Ilya rozanov’s day…

You see the pictures of them together? Shane looks, happy, actually happy, this time around. (The simple joy of spending time with a friend).

You see them at the club? Shane’s actually dancing, twirling Rose, they’re laughing. Rose even interrupts the hollanov stare-mate to pull him towards the exit, and he goes. (She’s figured them out and will be interrogating this man).

You see Shane well dressed in Tampa? Well yes, Rose Landry, who has a famously good fashion sense, helped pick out all of his outfits. (To help woo one Ilya Rozanov).

Oh and the worst part, actually…

You ask if Shane’s come here with anyone? Why yes, he fucking brought Rose Landry here. (The man needs moral support).

[lilylikeswords]

@heatonice I have no self restraint and too much free time. I apologise... (there's also a baby Ilya and an adult Ilya now)

[phkin]

it’s genuinely so fucking funny to me that the fox’s are all bonded over trauma yet not a single person know wtf to do abt it

everyone’s like:

“oh shit… alison’s bf just died??.. do we wanna bet on her reaction??? or ??”

*scratches back of head* “sooo andrew just got assaulted and has been for the majority of his childhood?? also aaron killed the guy who did it?? do they need us for the trial or can i do my hw?”

“oh my god?? neil got beat to shit while away with his uncle???? or wait..he ran away to join the abusive cult college sport team for some reason and is now genuinely dissociating so bad he’s having skips in his time and memories but we aren’t allowed to talk abt it??? ok cool ig we won’t talk abt it then”

like guys wtf are we doing here

[ellisonwongparty]

the way rr/tierney introduce ilya is so funny to me because when you first see him you're just like jeez this guy is such an asshole why is he like this. and then seconds later it's just like um it's because he has a 1) dead mom 2) who killed herself 3) an abusive dad 4) with alzheimers 5) a brother 6) who verbally abuses him on the phone 7) when ilya refuses to wire him 50 bands all at once 8) all while he spends new years eve all alone in the grossest motel you've ever seen 9) and he's bisexual.

and you're just like. well shit. that will do it i guess.

[aftgst]

Calling a rewatch of heated rivalry a reheat is the greatest thing ever OP, you can’t just leave that in the tags!!

[aftgst]

In an alternate universe myshane is a singer instead of an athlete and he’s just as successful and out because the music industry is better about queer artists and because he gets to be out he is also a. Manwhore. This man has so much anxiety and he doesn’t like pills or alcohol so he is using meaningless sex as a means to forget about just how much the public is obsessed with him and how little leeway for mistakes he has and how much he hates that he’s a celebrity. This man’s day looks like practice, performance, and sex.

[moetxt]

i tried making a contrapuntal poem for hollanov, which can be read 3 ways: shane’s side alone, ilya’s side alone, or both sides together. inspired by the long game.

[aftgst]

The heated rivalry fandom is hedonistic because what do you mean you’re writing god tier fanfiction and making me break all my rules about only reading complete fics and only reading on ao3 and only reading fics below a certain word count? No, you guys are insane and the writing is so good and I am but a glutton eating cake off the floor because the cake is too good not to.

If you know what I mean.

[argillaforma]

ilya and svetlana having their weekly gossip night either in person or over the phone and shane is like what are you talking about and ilya says i complain about you ,she is only person who will listen to me complain about you and one day shane asks svetlana does he complain about me a lot?☹️ and svetlana is like ? who told you that he literally just talks about how much he loves you all the time it’s quite exhausting honestly

[aftgst]

Chapter two of my soulmate au is now up!! (It’s basically if the soulmate system was a scavenger hunt with clues about who your soulmate is, and I used that purely to make Shane and Ilya suffer)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87936356

[themenacewhowrites]

Now you see, this is the kind of nonsense I imagine Shane getting up to if his stick breaks or gets knocked out of his hands.

Most players: “Oh no! My stick is gone, I lost the puck!”

Shane Hollander the Monster That He Is: “Look Mom, no hands!”

[aftgst]

You know when you read hollanov the long game angst and you need to write a fic about it? I just wanted to explore what shane feels about being out. That gave birth to this 1k fic I wrote, and it took like an hour to write so I have no clue if it’s even any good. It’s exists now though, I guess.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aftgst]

The urge to draw Shane hit me again so…here you guys go

[aftgst]

This has gotten an insane reception thank you guys so mucchhh :D

[exylover32]

i have this theory that jean's big cathartic moment at the end of tgr when he breaks down and admits he didn't deserve the sexual abuse he experienced is actually preceded by a more subtle version of this moment, one made possible by the fact that it involves the only other person who can understand what he's been through. when andrew realizes that neil could have been similarly abused at evermore, he asks jean to confirm or deny it. jean tells him that it would not have been an appropriate punishment for neil, and andrew, clearly shaken and unimpressed with this answer, presses the issue, asking what circumstances would have made it appropriate. it is jean's response to this that i find most revealing: he says, "you of all people should not have to ask." yes, this is a pointed reference to andrew's own experiences with sexual abuse, but what is jean actually saying? i think he's saying, "you of all people should know there is nothing that could possibly justify it. of course there isn't. but your abusers will tell you there is, and you'll believe them because how else can you make sense of what is happening to you." after he says this, jean digs a thumb into andrew's wrist and drags it up his forearm, where he knows from riko that andrew has self-harm scars. this is him driving home the point, saying "you've had to do things to survive too." because that's what jean's deep-seated conviction of "deserving it" is— a survival mechanism. and at the end of tgr, he finally feels safe enough to let it go.

[aftgst]

When you’re writing a fic and you thought you could write the plot from draft day to tuna melt within 6k but it’s only 2012 and you’ve already surpassed that number.

This chapter may be longer than previously expected.

Shit.

[aftgst]

Look, if you're only very slightly interested in hockey, the only two people you know are Shane and Ilya, it's true. BUT, for all the people who exist who know fuck all about hockey, they still know Shane. Most people probably think he's a model. That man has down so many ads and photo shoots he's broken hockey containment. He's just general famous now. Random people WILL recognize him, just of off that face alone. They'll be surprised to find out he's a professional hockey player. Like, the rolex model? That guy?

[lavenderprose]

Crucially #myshane plays to his twentieth season which is just long enough to have the experience of meeting Ottawa's new draft prospect, also named Shane, and to smile and jokingly say, "Hey nice name," and for the rookie to gulp and say, "Thank you sir I am named after you" and that makes Shane sit in his stall and stare at the floor between his skates for. Significantly too long to be healthy.

[aftgst]

Maybe I’ve won (but at what cost?)

Game Changer | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types

Mature, M/M, No Archive Warnings Apply, Work In Progress

Relationship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov

Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Minor Characters, David Hollander, Yuna Hollander, Hayden Pike, Jackie Pike, Jean-Jacques Boiziau | J. J. Dagenais, Andropov (Game Changers), Rose Landry, Montreal Voyageurs | Montreal Metros Team Ensemble (Game Changers), Original Characters

Additional Tags: POV Shane Hollander, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Soulmate-Identifying Scavenger Hunts, Slow Burn, Rivals to Lovers, Fuckbuddies, Casual Sex, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mutual Pining, Pining Shane Hollander, Hurt Shane Hollander, Denial of Feelings, Autistic Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Makes Tuna Melts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Good Friend Rose Landry, Irina Rozanova Haunts the Narrative, yes she is haunting shane’s pov, Don’t Worry About It, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary:

When Shane's mom first explains it to him — the game — he’s fascinated. Definitely about the wrong thing, he’s not entirely sure he even caught everything she said about the point of it all; why it can be so wonderful to find his soulmate.

But the game. It’s a little like holding out a piece of candy for a kid, the raw excitement that he feels.

And, isn’t that funny?

Isn’t that downright hysterical, that there is a system, built into the universe, meant to help people find their perfect match, and Shane is more infatuated by its game instead.

He’s never cared about the prize nearly as much as he’s cared about the winning.

...

aka you find your soulmate through a scavenger hunt. Shane does not have a good time.

Part 1 of Fate is like any other game

Language: English Words: 6,117 Chapters: 1/3