sentiment?

[firstprinced]

some giddy ilya for 🩷 rae @blushingrozy 🩷 #neverinlifehasheblushed

[worstgirlintheclub]

suspiria (2018) dir. luca guadagnino

[my-castles-crumbling]

okay stay with me for this one.

When Ilya moves to the Centaurs he doesn’t get to keep his number. Some old fuck on the team already has it and refuses to trade, no matter how much Ilya bribes him.

so, in true Ilya Rozanov fashion, he picks the number 24. People think he did it to be an asshole, which is true, but he also did it to have Shane with him all the time. Shane was both infuriated and touched by it.

but then of course, years later, SHANE transfers to Ottawa. And lo and behold, the old fuck who had number 81 retired, so when Shane has to choose a number?

81 is available.

so the first day of training, Shane walks into practice in a jersey that says Hollander, 81, with an absolutely shit-eating grin on his face.

and Ilya goes insane.

[my-castles-crumbling]

Okay I'm gonna write it

[arutai]

Jessie Mei Li by Yellowbelly

[gardenerian]

shane "comfy cozy" hollander

[aschraart]

Robin and Ramy ~ Babel by R.F Kuang

[toneelspeelster]

do you want me to come with you?

[shaneposting]

good morning today i’m thinking about ‘bolshe ilya bolshe bolshe bolshe’ vs ‘i want to relax with you’

i don’t want to bleed you dry and wring you out like an old tea towel and take whatever i can get and still demand more. i just want to exist near you. i want us both to be happy and chill and having a fun time. i’m excited to go to my favourite and most peaceful place and take you with me. i hope it brings peace for you too. when was the last time someone wanted peace for you ilya

[wtf-is-hockey]

Connor and Hudson's acting conveys a realness that I can't remember seeing in any other tv show. Connor rubbing his nose, and sniffling. Hudson pulling at his eyelashes. Connor putting his hands down his pants and fiddling with his ear. Hudson dropping his shoe and picking lint off Connor's chest. Noses bumping, ugly faces, kisses getting cut off or missing their mark. I'm sure there are other examples. This all would have impressed me anyway but it's especially impressive to me that it was allowed in Heated Rivalry specifically, a smutty romance that is supposed to be, well, smutty and romantic. I think most directors would consider moments of realism like this at odds with both sexiness and romance, and yet Tierney included it. This actually ends up adding to the sexiness and romance rather than taking away from it, because it prevents it from feeling artificial like most sex and romance in tv do.

[aheartofgold]

no you know what i'm still talking about "good morning i like you"

because ilya spent the previous night having what he previously thought would be the most boring night he could imagine. he sat in front of a fire and looked at it all night! that is so boring!

and YET

getting to sit quietly in one place with shane for a whole evening is transformative for ilya. they spend a whole slow evening in each others' presence, softly talking and learning about each other, constantly gently touching in a non-sexual way for the first time ever maybe? and he liked it so much

he liked it SO much you guys

he is so clearly comfortable, pliant and soft that evening - even when he's having these hard truths wrenched out of his throat he is able to be soft about it. he actually likes talking to shane! he likes sharing parts of him he hasn't before! he likes the quiet mundanity of sitting in front of a fire with someone you care about and just breathing it in for a few hours!

like it's literally their "i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you" moment! everything ilya thought would feel mundane (and would make shane realise he wouldn't want him any more) was thrilling and joyful

ilya doesn't just get to love shane, he gets to like him too! it's SUCH an important step for them! they've never had time to like each other before! ilya likes shane through the mundanity as much as in the thrill! they finally get to like each other!!!!

[chubby-cry-baby]

as we know shane rarely cries but they watch Past Lives and shane genuinely is inconsolable at “you dream in a language i can’t understand” like ilya has to turn off the movie and get shane water and hold him and shane is trying to explain how he’s trying to learn faster and he wishes he understood russian and he wishes he knew what ilya was dreaming but he’s cry hiccuping and can’t get the words out and he’s saying he wishes he could help ilya more with the depression and that svetlana lived closer and that he wishes he knew that his mom called him ilyusha but none of the words are coming out coherently.

[gaynehollander]

Thinking about Ilya being Shane’s captain in Ottawa and giving a “fucking fuck San Francisco”-esque speach. It ends and Shane’s just like, “you guys get out there, I’m just gonna inhale this man’s cock real quick, we’ll be there in five.”

[not-so-blue]

And I don't expect I shall return.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001, dir. Peter Jackson

[heatedrivalryz]

[cjowoart]

"You look like a whore."

Damen moved; silk, skin-warm, slid away completely to pool amongst the cushions as he pushed himself up.

[quelmdn]

turret stairs but lamen

[leclercari]

Hey...

[themoonandmyman]

This proving our point that the little ‘heyyyy’ in the hospital was Shane trying to comfort Ilya 😭