gay hockey special interest time

Rain 28 she/they don't send me an ask unless you want an essay back

[autistic-shane-hollander]

I'm Raina, she/they (please alternate)

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permanent "make me write" ask game

rules send me an emoji that corresponds to one of the WIPS below, and I will write 3-5 brand new sentences for that work and answer your ask with them. emojis stack, so I will owe you sentences for each one. Please don't spam more than three at a time. I need motivation to write, but I also need it to be achievable

wips

Shane Hollander vs. the internet ▶️

What's hidden (working title) ❄️

HEATED RIVALRY SOULMATES AU 🏒

freefall (working title) 💊

heated rivalry plot bunnies (contains multiple)

handy man shane role play 🧰

winners room bitching fic 🏆

random 🎁

I just said fuck it i'll post my wips via Google Docs, maybe I'll have some motivation to work on them

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FEED MY WORK INTO AN AI

Interact with this post if you read my wips

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[letsfindouttomorrow]

shane has pork but ilya has beef

[thevoidiliketoshoutinto]

I love episodes of Game Changer where the only way to win is by learning & the only way to learn is by playing. With some episodes, like Don't Wake Standards & Practices, the overall flow of the game becomes pretty apparent pretty quickly, & also there's some surprises along the way. But then there's episodes like Count the Rice, Deja Vu, or Bingo, where the basic conceit of what the game even is is an ongoing mystery. I love that stuff.

[ellisonwongparty]

also ilya is actually the funniest person alive because he's upset he missed out on getting to take shane's virginity because of bad weather so as he sadly trundles back to his apartment he opens the door to then a half-naked svetlana on his kitchen table wearing nothing but his jersey. i need to egg this guy's house he actually has zero game with the most goated roster on planet earth how is this even fair

[fujokafka]

we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack

[andthelaw]

reblog if you want ppl to send you random lil' asks

[hauntedyke]

quick doodle of these 2 from their red carpet lookz

[lady-guts]

For @lurkerdelima, who infected me with this idea 🧡🧡🧡

[haunted-phantom-student]

When Ilya Rozanov makes Shane Hollander come three times in a row he crows obnoxiously about scoring a hat trick and it would annoy Shane a lot more if he hadn't just come three times in a row send tweet

[autistic-shane-hollander]

Having "top or bottom discourse" discourse is actually crazy work if you think about it

[suraks-sweet-tits]

I've seen alot of people reading the tuna meltdown as Ilya wanted something real and serious with Shane and was trying to create a space for that and Shane ruined it by running away but I disagree.

I maintain that Ilya was not trying to make them boyfriends the day of the tuna meltdown. That whole thing was just him being incredibly indulgent and hedonistic. He viewed having a sleepover with Shane Hollander the way other people view coke-fueled orgies. To him getting to make food for, cuddle with, just make out with where it doesn't go anywhere, and wake up with Shane Hollander is a dreamlike extravagance and a high that other people go to vegas for. Which should have been a good clue for him that he did in fact want Shane to be his boyfriend. But that wasn't the point of the sleepover.

And that's just reinforced by everything that happened after; Ilya was gonna end things, Ilya wasn't gonna go to the cottage and even when Ilya got to the cottage he had a white knuckle grip on himself that he cannot ever tell Shane that he loves him. He didn't think they could ever be anything so he wasn't trying to ruin their lives(as he would perceive it at the time). He just wanted to indulge in Shane and live it up while he can. The point of the sleepover was the same reason Ilya has a sports car collection and a ducati(and Shane is his favourite thing to ride).

[fractally]

Yeah, yeah. I think the thing is that they're both on such crazy levels of self delusion and self denial that they don't even process their motivations clearly. Which is why I will go to bat for Reid because I think this is a very realistic way to act and it's surprisingly textured for a pornographic romance novel.

Really they're both just scared little boys vibing it out. I don't think Ilya had any idea what he was doing in a goal-oriented sense. He just knew that he wanted and so he reached for it

[dilftanger]

can i say something

[dilftanger]

many people give the nfl a lot of shit for the injury and concussion rates but like. the nhl has a very comparable rate of injury and concussion and doesn’t acknowledge it + has a much worse culture around it. the nfl is by no means perfect but they are working to improve the gear to help players (see the guardian helmets for example, as well as helmet designs per position) meanwhile the nhl doesn’t seem to give a fuck about it’s players’ safety at all as we’ve seen time and again.

now think very carefully about why the nfl may be viewed as the more violent and injurious sport..

[ilyashaneconnorhudson]

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[flower-seeks-the-moon]

my favorite ao3 writers be like this

[femmenerd]

so my friend & i were talking the other day about how rachel reid made BOTH shane & ilya score 67 goals their rookie season, which is wild bc only one other person in nhl history has ever beat that. i mean, crosby & ovechkin are the inspiration for these boys and they scored 39 and 52 goals respectively their rookie season. (they had about the same number of total points tho—crosby just got more of them from assists). (also ovechkin’s 52 is the third highest number of rookie season goals ever—only three guys have hit the 50s—and teemu selanne’s 76 is a severe outlier.)

anyway, the point is that reid gave them stats that would indicate that hollanov are not just the two best active players of the 2010s, they would be two of the best to ever ever do it. the rest of the book doesn’t really fulfill the implications of this, although i’ve read plenty of fanfics that do treat shane as the literal GOAT.

the thing is that if shane is actually the best hockey player in the history of ever, wouldn’t the metros have done just about anything to keep him even if they had to plug their homophobic noses to do it? especially considering that montreal is one of the queerest cities in north america and also pathologically obsessed with hockey. ffs, these people habitually riot over hockey:

i think it would be really satisfying to have the (sociel media?) fic where the metros boot like the 5 worst bigots from the team instead of shane. it would be even more narratively interesting though if the organization made big moves like this but failed to meaningfully improve the team culture—just enough to scare the homophobes into keeping their bullshit quiet. but they also expect shane to be quiet about his gayness too. the implicit message to him is “look what we did for you! now shut up & be grateful, gayboy.” and because shane is already used to effacing himself to try & fit in, he goes along with this for awhile. but eventually he comes into his full power and chooses himself by choosing ilya and ottawa anyway. 😤

[gurlsrool]

Ilya circa 2017 retweeting a post that says “all the hottest bitches can’t see shit.” His mentions are immediately flooded with women sharing pictures of them wearing glasses because no one knows he’s ShanePosting

Shane sees this and gets territorial enough to send a selfie of him wearing nothing but his glasses. Ilya drops his phone so hard the screen shatters

[fuckrozanov]

goodmorning this is your assigned shane of the day