While out at a club in New York to celebrate Pike and Jackie's joint bachelor/bachelorette party Shane runs into someone unexpected, Cliff Marleau. Feeling hurt and petty after having been ghosted by Ilya for the past six months Shane decides to hook up with Marleau.
Ilya is back in Russia and regrets having ghosted Shane. He thinks he will have time to fix things, to make things right, once he returns to Boston in the fall. What Ilya doesn't expect is to return only to find out Shane and Marleau are now in a relationship.
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The Marleau-Poulins
When Shane flies to Boston so that he can watch Cliff play in the first game of the 2014-2015 pre season, he winds up meeting his boyfriend's parents and siblings. It goes about as well as can be expected.
This story is a companion piece to my story Not A Puck Bunny, but it can be read as a stand alone story.
Trapped between being militantly pro-choice and deeply concerned about the erosion of abortion rights and thinking the way that people talk about pregnancy/motherhood/children on this hellsite is pretty gross and borderline misogynistic.
To expand on this a bit more, at the risk of sounding like That Guy, a lot of people on here don't seem to realize the right to choose to have children has been something that's been forcibly taken away from people as well. I live in an area with a pretty large Native population, a group that has, historically and even to this day, been subject to forced sterilization. They're not the only ones, either. Other ethnic minorities, disabled people, etc have all been subject to eugenics and had their reproductive rights undermined in the other direction to promote what dominant society considers a """pure""" population. Even a lot of the modern anti-abortion movement still disproportionally favors making more white people above all else. Saying that not having children is always the right choice and that keeping a child is always the bad, regressive choice, frankly, comes from a position of privilege. Like everything else, it depends.
Pro-choice goes both ways, and everyone should have the right and medical support behind whatever option they choose without discrimination. Simple as.
And can we please stop this over-the-top disgust over the bodies of pregnant people please please please y'all are so happy to defend all sorts of disabilities but then dissolve into a misogynistic froth when pregnancy comes up
Idk if this is a controversial headcanon or not, but I can't imagine Small Shane Hollander being shy and anxious.
He strikes me as the type of kid who really didn't give a single fuck. Not a one. He was doing his own thing and having fun and being good at it, and whether he had friends or not really wasn't a concern for him because it's not like he wanted to hang out with other gross stupid kids. He was a haughty nonchalant child who didn't even register any kind of bullying attempt from fucking Jimmy, bc who cares about Jimmy?
Any kind of feeling of inadequacy came after puberty when other kids started being slightly more interesting and complex and he became the younger kid on his teams instead of just one more of the lot. When hockey practice actually started to need some team synergy and the dynamics changed on him.
But before that, that kid wasn't shy, and he was having a wonderful time
Shane and Ilya will often ask each other to explain little cultural things. For Ilya, it’s the odd English word or Canadian phrase. For Shane, it’s translation of Russian media or a pop culture reference.
So when they’re lying in bed one day after a long evening practice, scrolling on their phones, Shane turns towards Ilya and asks, “what’s a ‘slavic stare’?”
“What?”
Shane turned his phone screen towards his husband. It’s a list of ‘Top 10 Athletes with Best Slavic Stare’.
“I am only number four?” Ilya frowned.
“What is it?” Shane pressed.
“Is this,” Ilya tossed his phone aside and rolled over on top of his husband. He had himself propped up on his hands, strong arms bracketing Shane’s head.
Shane looked confused at first. Ilya closed his eyes and set his features. When he opened his eyes, they were gazing up at Shane, chin tilted down. His jaw was set tight with a hard line at his brow. All playfulness had fled his features.
It was the same expression Shane had seen during important games. Games where Ilya wasn’t just trying to win, he was trying to destroy the other team.
“Ilya?” Shane breathed.
But Ilya just stared. It was intense, focused, like his world narrowed down to a single task.
It felt like… how Shane imagined a rabbit would feel caught in the eyes of a wolf.
“Ilya, stop it,” Shane wiggled, hands on Ilya’s chest to push him off. The fact he used about 10% of his strength to do this meant nothing.
Ilya grabbed both of his hands in one of his and pinned them above his head.
He said something in Russian that Shane only caught fragments of. His voice was deeper like it got when he spoke his native language. Shane got “you” “wanted” “good boy” and “me” but it was enough for him to vaguely catch onto the meaning.
“Ilya, I’m…,” Shane whined and unsuccessfully tried to yank his hands back. “I’m tired. I just wanted an…explanation.”
“But you are hands-on learner,” Ilya said in English but with a thick accent, not dropping the stare.
Shane squeezed his eyes close as Ilya dipped to capture his prey.
actually it isn't Shane who is a nag and insits on certain rules around their home. it is Ilya with his slavic heritage and superstitions who comes up with one rule after another.
- no outdoor shoes inside. Ilya tried to play it cool for long enough, but he is over 30 now, he has no patience for mess anymore and his mama was right. Ilya gets Shane some expensive personalised adidas slippers & he is the guy who provides guest slippers
- no whistling inside. never. especially if it's hayden. he won't be the reason Ilya will lose another sports bet.
- if one of them leaves the house they don't go back inside home if they forgot something. he is very serious about thst one. once shane went back inside because he forgot to pack his gloves and they lost a game afterwards and Ilya insists this was just because Shane refused to get new gloves from the equipment department (and it was not at all because a little barren spell)
- No empty bottles on the table and that applies to protein shake bottles too, Shane! That's bad luck.
- Only odd numbers of flowers in a bouquet. Ilya panics as he realises Shane bought twenty tulips for Yuna for mother's day and makes Shane pull over so he can pick five wild flowers and add them to the bouquet.
- No sitting in an air current between opened windows because they WILL get sick. Ilya had to pick up Shane and sit him down somewhere else a few times.
Shane getting criticized for not using pride tape and he’s caught on a mic later that week saying I didn’t realize it wasn’t the sucking dick that made me gay but the rainbow . Which is how he comes out.
I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.
It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.
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i wanted to say something about cliff and ilya rating each others nudes
first of all they absolutely rate each others nudes, sometimes they send them not even with the intention to send the nudes so someone else, just for the hell of it, just to have the other saying hell yeah brother looking good, just to boost self esteem
second of all while the idea of them 10/10ing each picture is funny and appealing to me, i had a vision in which i saw the most meticulous earnest constructive criticism in order to help the other achieve absolute perfection
-(a dick pic, full light) move your hand down a bit, will make it seem bigger and maybe turn down the light a bit, give it an aura of mystery
-(navel to mid thigh, a giant hickey right where the pubes line starts) damn roz, who did this to you? (ilya says you should see the other guy. marley doesn’t catch on)
-(mirror selfie, full frontal) marley don’t you have a mirror outside of the bathroom? the toilet in the background is a bit of a buzzkill
-(hands down pants, dick fully erect) love the vibe but there is a giant hole in your boxers, maybe change those
-(bedroom vanity mirror, sweaty abs) damn roz someone in the bed with you? the lightnings dope but don’t send this to anyone with someone with an ass like that in the background
Cliff knows he should hate Rozy. That he should be fucking furious with his best friend for how he had treated his boyfriend, but Shane had made it very clear that he didn't want that and Cliff is trying very hard to respect that. He also knows that at the very least he should feel awkward around Rozy. Part of him wishes that he did, but that's just not their relationship. It never has been, not even when they were a couple baby faced kids living together in Cliff's old apartment that was half the size of a shoe box. Another part of Cliff, a bigger part of him, thinks he should feel uncomfortable right now standing shoulder to shoulder with Rozy outside of Row 34 waiting for his mom to arrive. They should not be enthusiastically breaking down the game they had just watched like a couple of wanna be hockey commentators
Maybe it's weird that even though they're in a weird Dawson's Creek-esque love triangle Cliff hadn't thought twice bringing Rozy with him to watch tonight's Hoarfrost vs Armada game. It never even crossed his mind that it should be weird to bring his romantic rival to dinner with him and his mom after Minnesota kicked Boston's ass.
Would you be confident to sahre something for wip wednesday? Please and thank you<3
I'm a little late on this, so we'll call it a Fuck It Friday preview. I hope you enjoy!
This wasn't how Shane'd expected tonight to end. He'd planned to take Cliff home to his condo and lay him out in the center of his bed. He had planed to take his time opening Cliff up on his fingers and tongue before fucking him into the mattress. As nervous as Shane had been to top Cliff, he also hadn't been able to stop thinking about it since he'd watched Cliff fuck himself with a vibrator over facetime two weeks ago. He hadn't been able to stop thinking about what it would be like to be the reason that Cliff made those soft little punched out moans. He wanted to make Cliff's eyes roll back in his head while he was under Shane. He wanted to find out if Cliff would press back against Shane's cock just as eagerly as he does when their rolls are reversed.
Shane had no way of anticipating frenzied hand jobs in Cliff's, admittedly, very nice hotel room.
He lets himself imagine what would have happened between them if Shane hadn't been to drunk to fuck their first time. He imagines them being in a similar position to this, he imagines sloppy blow jobs and the kind of frantic fucking that left him pleasantly sore the following day.
Rafael Silva & Ronen Rubinstein reflect on their experience in #911lonestar portraying Carlos Reyes & TK Strand but also Tarlos relationship. They share their favorite memories outside of the show but also their favorite storyline and their point of view on how their stories ended.
