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🇨🇱. Beth. she/her. My interests are varied and my attention span nonexistent || Icon by @lynaiss

[4me2knowandyou2wonder]

Shane is more competitive than Ilya

But Ilya is FAR more committed to the bit than Shane could ever hope to be

[shaneposting]

yeah the reason ilya’s depression gets worse in ottawa is not because he hates ottawa and hates the centaurs. like don’t get me wrong it doesn’t help that he’s suddenly in a new place and on a shit team. but that’s not the problem. the problem is that he’s spent almost a decade playing the game of ‘well if i had what i wanted then i’d be fixed’ and then he got what he wanted - his dad is gone and he doesn’t have to go back to russia or have contact with his horrible brother and shane loves him and he loves shane and they’re going to be together now - and unfortunately it didn’t fix a damn thing

[fanbeanie]

[laurenbknewyouweretrouble]

ETA: @queen-calanthe has written this into a real fic: The Suit In One-Four-One-Zero

One day post TLG, Harris has the Cens doing a video for social media, it’s a competition for who can keep a straight face while the others try to make them break with a smile or a laugh.

Towards the end, only Ilya remains. No one can break him, so they go get Shane. He’s got a little smile while they explain and he starts thinking of what to say. Of what he can say for a video going on the internet.

He hesitates, because he knows what he wants to tell Ilya, but keep it their secret. No one else needs to know what this was about, but he’s saved this tidbit, waiting to play it at the right time. Ilya’s steeling himself. He loves Shane and usually would smile with him just in the room, trying do be earnest about anything, but he won’t let his husband break him for this. Finally Shane makes direct eye contact with Ilya -

‘The first time, after the commercial,’

Ilya tenses, eyes light up but he’s keeping his face neutral. He isn’t sure what he thought Shane would say but it wasn’t this.

‘ while I was waiting for you -‘

‘I put on a suit and tie.’

Ilya has never been so happy to lose at something

[depsidase]

[dykeselfcest]

I fear a lot of people learned to take good care of library books as children and instead of internalizing "leave shared community items as you found them as much as possible, because other people will use them too" they internalized "printing and binding a book imbues it with sacred energy and if you dog-ear a mass-market paperback you're desecrating the entire concept of written language"

[barbie-verse]

heated rivalry twitter (60/?) number 1 shane hollander stan

[exai]

i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

[virtualtear00]

Kaladin commission for @blood--hunter  Thank you XX

[hr-rep]

Hollanov AU where they get outed by a magazine publishing them side by side in the same outfit with the label “who wore it better?” and people realize it is Actually the same outfit. It happens several times with several different outfits before people realize they’re wearing the same clothes. Yuna is begging them to be more discrete if they don’t want to come out yet. They are not being discrete.

[suchasoftersin]

it's not great but I made it!

[gege]

hey op this is more how i remember this scene playing out

[onlythreeapplestall]

I know people like to joke that Hollanov could’ve at least had chairs at the wedding but the standing wedding is actually so important to me. Like, culturally and historically, so many gay people have had under-planned standing weddings because being formal and organized and having chairs means knowing who will and won’t be there. And for queer folks, you don’t always have the privilege. Having chairs requires a headcount. And it means risking staring out at all the empty chairs if your loved ones don’t support you. So instead, you make it casual so you can focus on each other instead of all the people who decided you weren’t worth showing up for.

Shane and Ilya had an aggressive and unfortunate coming out and their wedding is smack dab in the middle of a deeply uncertain time. Shane just lost his entire team and he and Ilya are still figuring out who is on their side. Of course their wedding feels unorganized as a result. The event itself doesn’t hold the same weight or occupy the same niche when outside of a heteronormative context. Because at the end of the day, it was never about the wedding. It was about being married. It was about them finally being together in the open. It was about their love persevering despite all the obstacles they faced.

[409-conflict]

I cannot stop thinking about what a fucking year Ilya had in 2014

Putin warns gay people not to spread propaganda during Sochi Olympics

Every Western media outlet wants a sound bite from Ilya, a Russian superstar who’s lived in the West for five years, regarding the gay propaganda laws

Ilya has to thread the needle of neither denouncing or promoting Russia’s stance

Ilya leads the National Hockey Team to a demoralising crash out

The prettiest man in the world makes the unbelievably stupid decision that now is a good time and place to talk to each other in public for the first time ever

He is upbraided by his Papa

Sveta completely misreads what he needs, and he can’t even be mad about it because at least she’s trying

The Bolotnaya Square protesters are convicted

Russia moves troops into Crimea

He keeps frantically googling pictures of Shane in the middle of the night

Russian opposition leaders are detained

G8 suspends Russian membership

Boston makes the playoffs

The Russian government enacts laws tightening control of dissemination of information, categorising bloggers alongside journalists

The Donetsk and Luhansk referenda, unrecognised by the international community

Boston wins the Stanley Cup

Has panic attack in a bathroom, is immediately accused of being an asshole for arriving on time

Successfully convinces himself he’s capable of having sex with Shane without feelings, definitely doesn’t cry once he’s alone

Super super fun happy times summer with his ailing father

MH17 shot down by Russian-made missile

Russia hits back at sanctions by banning food imports, sends food prices soaring

Oil prices crash, halving Russia’s national budget

Foreign ownership in Russia media is capped

Has Totally No Strings No Feelings secret sex with Shane, everything is Chill

Russian financial crisis hits, prices of food up 40 to 50%, some KHL teams can’t even pay their players

And all throughout this, every time he opens Facebook he’s tagged in yet another hundred fucking ALS ice bucket challenges

[bluehairedboyfriend]

Shane will be jealous of Svetlana until one day they they go out and Shane and Sveta start talking puck and get into heated discussions regarding the best year of hockey, MVPs and predictions and fully ignore Ilya.

Ilya will be jealous of Rose until one day they go shopping and Ilya and Rose have a full on shopping - spree - movie - montage where they try out different outfits and take pictures while Shane just waits around on the couch and pays for everything and carries the bags.

[cuddlyreader]

I’m, once again, listening to The Long Game. I literally am listening to both books and watching the show on repeat.

This time around, I am thinking about how great a friend Hayden is. Sure, he has a difficult time liking Ilya (mainly because Ilya can’t resist being a shit to him). But Shane is his real self with Hayden. He talks about his “weird” (his word) habits and feelings to Hayden. He trusts Hayden, and Hayden steps up to it. Hayden is a little ridiculous, but I really like him. I’m glad Shane has him.

[sentimentalslut]

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

[sentimentalslut]

saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”

you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?

[sentimentalslut]

“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.

“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid

“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one

[dirt-mann]

[thesedarkcafedays]

Heated Rivalry 1.02 After (leftovers)

I will shower now, ok?