matilda coded

she/her | 21 | enfp taurus 𖤓 libra ☾ scorpio ⇡ ⋆｡ ﾟ☁︎｡ ⋆｡ ﾟ｡ ⋆｡ ﾟ. a little of this, a little of that.

[amyelliotsdiary]

one of my bigger gripes with HR fanfic (especially of the canon-divergent variety) is how ilya discusses irina’s passing. i know the “by accident” / “she accidentally swallowed a bottle of pills” is a beautiful moment in canon but it just comes across as flat in many fan interpretations. like im sorry, ilya is not double texting to make his morbid “by accident” comment.

i think it works in canon because the boys are finally comfortable with each other. there’s no pulling teeth — shane can ask about alexei and comment on ilya’s father and brother sucking and ilya will respond with his face cushioned on shane’s lap, lying beside a campfire outside of shane’s “favorite place on earth”. shane quite literally sets the stage for this vulnerability when they first arrive.

stripped of the cottage’s intimacy, the line just doesn’t work for me 99 times out of 100. and it sucks because it’s such a heavy emotional beat and appears in… so… many… fics…

[lavenderprose]

At least once a year when the Raiders come to town Ilya reactivates his inner fuckboi and goes out with his boys who are still on the team, goes hard at the club, wears something objectively hideous, steals someone's Raider's ballcap and throws it on backwards. Phone buzzing in his pocket all night while he ignores it (this is Part of the Game) and when he finally closes out his tab after midnight he sees that someone has changed his contact for Shane back to 'Jane' and that 'Jane' has been blowing up his phone for the last few hours

Jane: Are we still on for tonight?

Jane: ???

Jane: Rozanov.

Jane: Fuck you I'm not going to just wait around for you all night.

Jane: Asshole.

Ilya just smirks to himself and replies with a room number.

And the thing is that they do actually have to be a bit sneaky. It wouldn't do for someone to draw some false conclusions about why one half of the most scrutinized marriage in the NHL is loitering in a random hotel lobby in Ottawa on a Thursday evening. Ilya doesn't want that kind of publicity and he does not want to try to explain that it's not what it looks like to his in-laws.

So there's a thrill to it when he scans the keycard into the reader and Shane is sitting there in the dark, breath heavy like he's nervous or like he's just run up six flights of stairs to avoid elevator cameras.

(It's both)

And yeah maybe it breaks kayfabe a bit that Shane already had the room key or that he's wearing his Centaurs team crewneck instead of the Metros one that he would have been wearing in this scenario years ago (because he threw them all out in a fit of pique and Ilya cheered him on) but the hotel room is dark and the only difference in the crewnecks is that the number 24 over the breast is red instead of blue.

He's even combed his hair down over his forehead. Fuck.

"Where the fuck have you been," Shane says, cornering Ilya as soon as the door is closed. "I've been sitting here like a fucking idiot, Rozanov."

"Relax, Hollander," Ilya coos, angling Shane's face with a hand on his jaw, and Shane tries to jerk away and Ilya steels his grip and then the game is really on.

[animentality]

me.

[the-rainbow-of-doom]

To give more context: The reviewer was Jean Lorrain, who also was gay. Both showed up to the duel and both missed on purpose.

[stardusted-cirby]

gay people can never just ask each other out

[weavingdragonsofthread]

The Greens

HOTD 1X08//Electra a Sophocles Play//Succession 4X10//HOTD 1X06// Quote by honeytuesday//HOTD 2X01//Quote from HOTD 1X09//HOTD 1X09// 'Cain and Abel' by Orazio Riminaldi// The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker//HOTD 2X10//Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral//Unknown//HOTD 01X03// HOTD 01X06//Quote by Lyra//HOTD 01X02//Quote from HOTD 1X06//HOTD 1X09//Quote by Richard Siken//HOTD 1X07// Quote from HOTD 2X01//The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice//HOTD 1X09//‘Ivan the Terrible and Son’ by Richard Siken//the guessing game: a mothers love by Silas Denver Melvin

[mavernick2]

happy pride month to val kilmer, the leader of icemav nation since 86’

[amyelliotsdiary]

emma really is the ideal random freshman year roommate. something bad happens? she’ll make sure there’s weed and a vast assortment of alcohol. u need someone to hold your dress while you pee? emma’s got you. u like someone who’s a bi-gender shapeshifter? who cares! not emma! she’s simply the best

[amyelliotsdiary]

having no gif making skills and just racing to post on tumblr while the show is airing so people see my takes first… it’s hard being a social media influencer💔

[amyelliotsdiary]

rewatching flint’s interactions with mrs barlow in season one… like those are two deeply broken people desperately clinging to each other as they try to do right by the man they both loved.

[hel777]

In the dark, there is discovery

[amyelliotsdiary]

emma really is the ideal random freshman year roommate. something bad happens? she’ll make sure there’s weed and a vast assortment of alcohol. u need someone to hold your dress while you pee? emma’s got you. u like someone who’s a bi-gender shapeshifter? who cares! not emma! she’s simply the best

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

Not to sound unwell and obsessive, but Jordan was literally having sex with someone else and was still thinking and talking about Marie during lmaoooo

[amyelliotsdiary]

can’t possible sound more obsessive than jordan when it comes to marie.

[amyelliotsdiary]

marie and emma discussing her crush on jordan (“i- i like them🫢🤭”) and then jordan talking to the naked RA about their insecurities when it comes to perusing marie… please you are both OBSESSED with each other!!!! stop worrying it’s been like a week and y’all would take a bullet for each other. hell, jordan fought their best friend for marie when they didn’t even LIKE her… they simply cannot be beat.

[amyelliotsdiary]

SOLDIER BOY???

[amyelliotsdiary]

NO CATE I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU!!! WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU!!! IT DIDNT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS!!!

[amyelliotsdiary]

sam’s just a silly little guy. muppet mass murder!!!! i love him!!!!

[amyelliotsdiary]

“i like them. i- i like them.” stoppppp marie is the cutest person on the planet

[amyelliotsdiary]

ok but when are we going to see girl kisser marie???

[amyelliotsdiary]

GIRL KISSER MARIE IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES I WON!!!!