I Just Work Here

Brain Rot I was trapped in the fade for a decade and all I got was this stupid shirt

[augustiinee]

Songs I think Ilya would love, and would also make him DEEPLY uncomfortable because they flew a little too close to the sun:

∙ I’m still here (Jim’s theme)- John Rezenik

∙ The Night we met- Lord Huron

∙ Life Eternal- Ghost

∙ labor- Paris Paloma

∙ Gilded Lily- Cults

∙ Merry Christmas, Please don’t call- Bleachers

∙ Eternity- Alex Warren

[augustiinee]

I like to think that when the summer finally comes around, when Shane and Ilya can finally escape to the cottage after being outed but still a little while before their wedding. Shane is inside cleaning up the last dishes from dinner when he hears Anya barking. He goes over to check on her but she runs away, worried he follows her to investigate.

He expects to find her favorite toy, a squeaky toy of a hockey puck that’s seen better days, stuck somewhere she can’t reach. Or maybe Ilya fell down the well… okay that’s not very likely but knowing Ilya it’s a very real possibility. He really expects anything else than what he finds.

A little path of lights, very familiar ones as a matter of fact, leading down to the dock. He follows them, letting Anya bark happily as she runs around him. Eventually he stands before something that makes his heart swell with so much love it hurts. Ilya, standing alone at the edge of the dock. Surrounded by hundreds of electric candles. His hair is a little longer at the moment, but unlike Shane whose hair touches his shoulders. Ilya’s frames his face like a halo, like beams of sunlights around shimmering sapphires. From the candles or tears, who is to say.

Anya has calmed down at this point, content to roll around in the grass. Shane stands before Ilya now, stunned and surprised. Shane tells Ilya he doesn’t need to do this, Ilya nods face shifting as though he is mulling over Shane’s words. Shane knows better, knows that he isn’t. So he smiles when he sees that sly grin spread across Ilya’s face. Ilya takes Shane’s hands, thumbs rubbing over the backs of them. He tells Shane he knows he doesn’t need to. Know’s they are going to be married in less than a month. But he wanted to, needed to. Shane laughs, it’s a little wet, the tears are threatening to spill. Ilya is fairing no better as Shane’s laugh infects him, making them a pair of grinning crying fools.

Ilya sinks down to one knee, grabbing Shane’s hand. He tells Shane he is his light, his dreams, and the greatest thing he has ever had the pleasure of loving and being loved by in return. Besides Anya of course. He says Shane’s middle name, what gets a shaken laugh out of him after Ilya admits he asked Yuna what it was a few months ago. When Shane had proposed. From his pocket Ilya doesn’t pull out a ring, no, he pulls out a simple gold chain necklace. Ilya tells him when his father died he found a small box hidden in the very very back of his closet. He recognized it as his mother’s, not much was left inside. A pair of earrings, a decorative hair pin, and this simple gold chain. 

Ilya tells Shane that while his family might be broken beyond repair, he can still connect him to the one member of his family he loved. And who would’ve love Shane just as fiercely as he does. Shane cradles the chain in his palm, its light as air but gleams in the light of the candles. He hoists Ilya up to his feet, smashing their lips together in a desperate kiss. Hoping all his thoughts and feeling could be passed from his body into Ilya’s.

They pull apart, foreheads resting against one another’s. And Ilya asks if he will marry him. They both break out into a fit of giggling sobs, grins reaching from ear to ear. In slightly choppy Russian he tells Ilya yes of course he will marry him. There is no one else in this lifetime or any life time, who has his heart as fully and completely as he does. They kiss again, and head into the house.

On their wedding day Shane wears Irina’s necklace. Ilya’s heart has never been so full.

[augustiinee]

I have come to the shocking and hilarious realization of Shane’s worst nightmare. And that would be season 2 episode 6 of Game Changer’…

‘Yes or No’.

Picture this:

The contestants are Ilya, Troy, and Shane. Much like Brennan, Shane is going full throttle. Always trying his best at every opportunity. Ilya is much the same in his competitive nature, but like Zac, Ilya is the first to figure it out. This infuriates Shane, he’s over there thinking of every possible thing he might’ve missed. All the while Ilya is smiling at him with the cheekiest grin known to man, and Shane doesn’t know if he wants to punch him or kiss him. Probably both. It takes Troy a little bit longer but it eventually clicks like with Ally and, much to Shane’s fury and despair, also wins. Shane would also have his own hilariously famous crash out over figuring out the rules.

I feel like in this reality Sam is probably Harris… but honestly I kinda think it would be funny if it was sill just Sam Reich. In his opening lines for each contestant either Sam or Harris would’ve said “three time Stanley cup all time champion” or something like that. Thus the Icarus speech would live on. 

I cannot picture a more perfect version of Shane hell than the contents of that episode. I would say it would be worse if Ilya wasn’t there, but let’s be honest. Ilya being there just decides what kind of anger Shane would be feeling. The anger of betrayal or the anger of disappointment. Ilya ok the other hand would find Shane’s crash out hot as hell, much like when he fought the elderly (Scott Hunter). And promptly jump his bones the second they get back the hotel room.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[augustiinee]

Who do you think would be Odysseus? And who would be Penelope?

Ilya as Ody & Shane as Pen

Shane as Ody & Ilya as Pen

Voting ended onMar 8

Was listening to “Would you fall in love with me again” from Epic and this came to me violently. I can’t decide, so I’m making the ill-advised  choice to let the good honorable people of tumbler decide. Have at it.

[tomorrowisyesterday119]

Heated Rivalry is a closed door hockey romance in the sense that they fade to black on the hockey. The sex is explicit, but the hockey is implied.

[trashcanniballecter]

At any given moment Ilya is thinking about 1 of 4 things

Shane Hollander

Hockey (with Shane Hollander)

Sex (also with Shane Hollander)

The Horrors

[themoonandmyman]

Building voodoo dolls of every journalist and media critic that dismisses Hudson’s performance or wrongly attributes it as ‘wooden’ rather than the masterfully subtle, controlled and authentic portrayal of a low support needs autistic man that it is. But I fear I will run out of pins

[istascha-deactivated20260222]

my body is a machine that turns normal situations into psychological horror

[themoonandmyman]

[augustiinee]

I think a big reason as to why myself, and I feel many others, love the cast of Heated Rivalry so much is because they look like people. They look good, very much so, but they still look like someone you'd find out in day to day life. The actors for Yuna, David, Ilya's dad, Scott Hunter (hehe), they all look their age. And they look good! We can see emotions, they can move their face in a lot of ways many A list celebrities can't any more due to filler. I contribute a lot of that to Jacob Tierney, he's always looked for actors who are at the end of the day just people. I can't wait to see what he brings to season two, and what other characters from the Game Changer series he will help bring to life.

[augustiinee]

I need people, anyone, who has not seen the Might Nein live show to know ONE very important thing…

Essek and Pumat Sol are voiced by the same guy.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[plasticbagdepot]

spot the difference!

[augustiinee]

Wait I just realized

Robert is 26, which makes him an elder gen z… oh my god it all makes sense now. His humor, everything. This is amazing.

[augustiinee]

Theories for Dispatch

Spoilers ahead

Okay so. this has been floating around the past few days online. Making this is more so a combination of theories I've seen from various people in comment sections and the like. So while this take is mine, the initial idea is not. Just wanted to put my two cents on the matter.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that both romance options (So far) are connected to Shroud, in a very very important way. After replaying ep1, Toxic says "get out of there babe". Which I won't lie when I first played I thought he was calling Robert babe... Okay listen I thought he was being a flirty to mess with him. ALSO, Robert took off right after he said it. So like... To me, in the moment, it made sense.

Anyway-

It's so incredibly likely that Visi was the one to place the bomb on Robert. It's getting really hard to ignore. She could've very easily been invisible when she placed that bomb on him, my guess when the shields went down right before he took off. Now, there has been some debate on how long Invisigal can hold her breath for her powers. Some using this as a reason to prove she couldn't have placed it on him, seeing as how she needs her inhaler after a fight. But as many have also pointed out, that is after a fight. When she is going about her day, using her powers out of action she doesn't often need to use it. In the pep talk meeting we have she appears in the room, having been there the whole time. I noticed immediately her face was really red, and it slowly went back to normal throughout the scene. And at no point do we, as Robert, fight her in ep 1. So she would have no reason to really be out of breath if she was simply doing one action and then dipping.

Onto Blonde Blazer.

Now THIS is one I don't have much solid evidence towards. It's more so a gut feeling. But she just HAS to be Shrouds Daughter. She's gotta. Yes they do look similar in general, as you find out if you went on a date with her and saw her natural hair. But if you put the two pictures side by side they just look so alike, very much like a daughter would. She also reacts in a very odd way when Robert says that the last Mecha Man was his dad, her reaction coming directly after Robert says it was Shroud who killed him. It seems weird that she didn't know as she tells Robert, considering the public does seem to know it was a family tradition being Mecha Man. Her crystal that controls her suit also is a very similar hue to Shrouds enhancements, and links back to what Toxic said about what it can do for people who already have powers. Now I don't think she's evil, what I think is she's likely embarrassed and ashamed to be Shroud's daughter. After everything he did and what he has become.

Overall there is one big overarching reason as to why I think these two have to be connected to Shroud. It's effect it will have on Robert and the trajectory of their relationship. With Visi, well she might not have been the one to make the call. But she was the one who effectively destroyed his life and family legacy. The reason he lost it all and can no longer be Mecha Man, the one real thing left connecting him to his dad. For Blonde Blazer, she would be the daughter of the man who killed his father. And much like for Visi, Blazer isn't to blame for the actions of the father. She is not responsible for her dad's crimes. But to Robert? With where he is emotionally, so fragile and just barley picking himself back up after losing it all? Knowing the face he is binging to truly care for, someone he may even love, was the daughter of his father's killer... He would definitely not be able to to look at her the same, not for a while. Either of these two reveal would absolutely destroy him.

I can absolutely see a choice for Robert to break up with them after the reveal. Leading the player down a romance reconnection or break up ending. In the end, this is something that narratively has a high probability. Especially for a game drenched in choices.

While I'm unsure on if Visi is on Z team as a spy, I think she could have just as likely felt guilty about what she did and didn't want to be apart of Shroud's army anymore. I also think she is genuinely beginning to like and care for Robert. Which will make the betrayal hit even harder. I know there is more coming between Robert and Blazer, the last two episodes were very Visi focused, so I wonder if 5 & 6 will be more on Blazer. Hitting more emotional beats between Robert and her.

Anyhow, that's my lil rant over. Hope y'all enjoyed! And please remember this is just a theory and for fun. It's all speculation at the end of the day.

[augustiinee]

Major C4ep4 Spoilers

So, uh, how we doin’? We all good?

Hanging in there?

That was um, certainly something!

Lotta nat 20’s…. Not where ya particularly want them to be.

I’m honestly still shocked.

[augustiinee]

I have never seen anything about this anywhere, though I don’t doubt someone has written about it before.

But I will spend countless hours thinking about how the reaper war would go down if the humans Jaegers like in Pacific Rim. Like… it’s simply a fascinating train of thought.

[augustiinee]

Spoiler for C4ep2

So Occtis' dad made himself known, Lord Primus. And my Ghost rotted brain went "oh it's just like Primo and that whole numbering thing going on". Then I immediately thought, "oh this guy defo has a lot of other siblings..."

If it's not that then there has to be something going on with the quantity of people in the Tachonis household. Either way very interesting indeed.

[onlyteoristeor]

Essek is literally gonna be a this evil shadowy force in the background until the moment he meets the M9 in which he will become the antagonist in a Muppet movie who is eventually won over by the power of friendship by the goofiest mfers in town.