Arcades & Academia

Multi-fandom-whore? (Non derogatory)

[ilyasmole]

winter kept us warm (1965) // heated rivalry (2025)

[penandinkprincess]

In my mind Shane’s allergies are latex, peanuts, tree nuts, and mangoes. The mango allergy is pretty mild and he LOVES mangoes so he eats them anyway but Ilya hates that so when he’s away from Ilya for sponsorship-related trips he’ll go eat a bunch of mangoes alone in his hotel room and later when he FaceTimes Ilya he’s got a suspicious mouth rash. Ilya’s like what are you doing. That better not be a mango reaction, Shane. Tell me it’s anything else. Tell me the makeup artist didn’t wash the brushes right and now you have herpes but do NOT tell me you’ve been eating fucking mangoes behind my back AGAIN—

the idea of shane who denies himself SO MUCH and optimizes SO MUCH OF HIS LIFE and is SO focused and SO dedicated

but who cannot resist the siren call of Forbidden Mangoes

it ends up being his end of season treat

he did a whole season, he did a great job, he stayed focused and On It the whole year. other people celebrate with champagne. shane celebrates with an allergen.

shane who has one last photoshoot to knock out before he's free and is just oh no :) it conflicts with my husband's schedule :) guess that means ilya can't go with me :) so sad :)

why are you so happy

i'm not :)

then he does the photoshoot and has knocked out the last thing he has to do in front of a camera for a while.

now it is Mango Time.

he facetimes ilya with the lights down WAY low later and ilya just ?? shane??? i can barely see you, malysh. turn a light on.

uuuhh, no thanks. it's sexier like this.

what? i want to se-

...

shane is it the fucking mangoes

...no

SHANE

YOU GET TO SMOKE SOMETIMES. I GET TO EAT MANGOES.

ARE YOU FORGETTING PART WHERE ALLERGIES CAN GET WORSE WITH EXPOSURE?

THEN I SHOULD ENJOY THEM WHILE I CAN

WRONG

[penandinkprincess]

Ilya learning FOR SURE that shane let him win during every foreplay wrestling match the day he has to try (*TRY*) to get this contraband mango away from him

[penandinkprincess]

fucking CACKLING about the idea that shane's drunk food is mangoes

on the single night every four business years that he gets drunk, everyone else is hitting up mcdonalds while he's trying to lose ilya in the crowd while googling the closest 24 hour market with a produce section

[feathersoverberkeley]

“I was a terrible angel”

“you weren’t. You were the best of us”

BUT HE WASN’T THOUGH. BY HEAVENS STANDARDS HE WAS A TERRIBLE ANGEL. THATS THE PROBLEMM OMG…….. Crowley was a terrible angel!!!! Because the system that shaped his circumstances made it so he couldn’t have been any other way in the eyes of Heaven !!!! But you know what he was?? A good person. Focusing on what he was like as an angel is a slap in the face to the life he carved out for himself and the person he became without Heaven. Or Hell. Imagine if Crowley had told Aziraphale that he was the best angel instead. IT WOULDN’T BE TRUE!! THATS THE POINT!! Neither of them are good at their jobs, neither of them fit the rigid black and white morality of Heaven and Hell and neither of them are good in the eyes of Heaven or Hell. They’re good and they are their own people because they chose to be, outside of those fixed identities. They were supposed to be an us

[mwagneto]

well there's a tv show out there that's about how destroying either the entire world or even just some people and making new things to replace them isn't a solution and is actually an extremely terrible thing to do you might have heard of it it's called good omens

[snogfairy]

good bad job that's the worst anyone's ever done it

[mwagneto]

you're genuinely trying to fucking tell me that crowley, who repeatedly begged aziraphale over and over and over to run away with him so they could be safe, and each time when aziraphale turned him down just chose to stay and die on earth instead (because there's no point to anything if aziraphale is gone), crowley who completely broke down when aziraphale was discorporated even though it was only his physical body, crowley who spent thousands of years showing up to save aziraphale in the strange little 5d chess of damsel and knight they'd been playing, would be alright with damning aziraphale to nonexistence. himself is one thing but you're fucking telling me that when offered a choice between the continuation of an imperfect world, or killing every single person in the universe, including aziraphale, he'd choose the latter? are you actually fucking serious?

[aftgst]

Reading so many formatted fics lately because heated rivalry fics have a lot of twitter in them, and I just don’t understand how people are doing this. Like I didn’t even know how to leave spaces between paragraphs when I first had to deal with ao3 formatting

[aftgst]

Another day, another bout of insanity over phaidei…

Fuck you both.

[aftgst]

I love fanfiction because I’ll find people head cannoning a Shane Hollander who spars with Ilya as exercise sometimes and easily beats him and it’s like, wow, I can’t believe I got to witness the birth of something so beautiful, thank you for telling me about this 🥹

[aftgst]

I need motivation to do this so, hypothetically, if I wrote a fic where (The Long Game Spoilers!!!) JJ figured out Shane’s crush on Ilya, but instead of trying to set Shane up with other guys, he tries to wingman Shane to Ilya..?

[rainbow-femme]

Cliff wants to be a good bro and a good ally so when he and Ilya hang out to watch a movie, he decides they’re gonna watch a Gay Movie. And what is the one Gay Movie every straight guy knows? Brokeback Mountain. And what is the only thing straight guys know about Brokeback Mountain? That it’s the gay cowboy movie. And hey that sounds fun, cowboys are fun

Shane gets a text two hours later from Cliff that’s a picture of Ilya on the couch with his head down between his knees and he’s just like “HELP I BROKE HIM IM SORRY I DIDNT KNOW THEY BROKE UP AND THEN THE ONE GUY GOT HATECRIMED TO DEATH I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE GUNS AND TRAIN ROBBING”

[rainbow-femme]

“Bro what are you so upset about? It’s just a blonde guy and a black haired guy who spend years in a gray area secret relationship where they hook up a few times a year and have feelings for each other but are kept apart by society, only for the black haired guy to not be able to wait for the blonde guy anymore and tries to move on only to be killed in a brutal homophobic attack that the blonde guy hears about well after the fact because no one would know to contact him. I don’t understand why you’re identifying so heavily with this narrative, it’s crazy.”

[aftgst]

This is the best thing ever, headcannon accepted so hard

[aftgst]

This may be the stupidest thing I’ve spent time thinking about but why WAGS?? I don’t know hockey so I don’t know if it’s a hockey thing or a heated rivalry thing but it sounds so stupid? And i’ve read fics where there are different, more inclusive acronyms used but god bless WHABGS was so stupid. I would like to propose that we officially adopt the term SAPS, aka spouses and partners, like not only does it mean the same thing as WAGS but more inclusive, it also sounds much better.

Edit: I feel dumb because having read more fanfiction apparently SAP was already a thing in some so, well, it is what it is

[aftgst]

Guys I need someone to recommend me fics where Hayden finds out he’s bi because i keep accidentally getting Shane/hayden fics or Shane/Ilya/Hayden fics instead of just, bisexuality crisis. If anyone knows any good ones please please eplease pelsae pels.

[itshype]

Yes, the fics where Ilya goes to Shane's game in his jersey are cute and romantic. But why has no one even considered:

[beehivedemocracy]

Ilya coming home to Shane being overstimulated and agitated and he thinks it's best to leave him alone mostly so he goes off and does his own thing and eventually ends up on the couch playing a video game and Shane comes out of nowhere, noise canceling headphones on and hobby of the day in hand (book, knitting, switch, coloring, could be basically anything) and sits next to him which Ilya thinks is really sweet and then Shane very softly asks "are you avoiding me because I'm being weird and quiet again" and Ilya sees his whole life flash before his eyes, every mistake he's ever made, mostly this specific one, and rapidly starts explaining himself and Shane ultimately finds it sweet just nods and stays were he is, doing his thing now with a little smile on his face

[aftgst]

Shane is the kind of person who does have brain cells but they’re always on such strict schedules and so constantly overworked that as soon as there’s an unexpected event or emergency his head just goes:

Current requests filed: (1) Brain Cell

Automated response: no Brain Cells are currently available to handle your request, your file has been added to the waitlist; current standard response time is 5-6 months. Please help yourself to the complimentary items in the meantime

Current complimentary items: (1) Panic Attack

[mayaidkmuch]

Reading tsc was a shock to my system personally cus Jean was standing there telling me how hot everyone is and I was used to Neil who basically acknowledged people as humans with eyes