Brigid

wolfstar || maybe some knitting? || fanfic love || mid 30s

[brigid-faye]

a year into hr fandom I don’t know what a bag skate is and at this point i’m afraid o ask

[believeripley13]

I love the opening of Heated Rivalry so much because it sets up the show and Shane and Ilya's dynamic so perfectly. From "not the most sociable" Shane Hollander actively going out of his way to interact (because he's already fascinated by him) to "not liked outside of his own locker room" Ilya Rozanov being a bit of a cocky shit (which we pretty quickly realise is a front) to the instant spark of attraction.

Look at this man experiencing freckles and awkward Canadian politeness and developing a fat crush.

My favourite part however is as Shane is leaving clearly uncomfortable with how their conversation went (he does a head tilt like "well, that went horribly")

Ilya notices and that's when he chirps, immediately making Shane more comfortable as he chirps back. And thus, their lovingly teasing, when they say "asshole" and "boring" they really mean "I love you" dynamic is born.

Also, yes, Ilya's lighter doesn't spark until Shane appears which is just an additional beautiful touch.

[kaaaaaaarf]

hi I don't think using ai is funny and if you reblog something from me with pro gen ai stance in the tags I am blocking you. not sorry about it.

[raincitygirl76]

So, the documentary in The Long Game about Shane and Ilya’s rivalry. What a fucking embarrassment for ESPN and everybody involved in its creation!

You direct a sports documentary about two of the greatest hockey players in the world. And how they were bitter rivals but eventually became friends and even started a charity together. It’s good, juicy, it gets excellent ratings, and is possibly award winning. The future is bright.

ESPN’s publicists keep talking about how you had unprecedented levels of access to these superstars, and meticulously combed through over a decade of footage of them. The only thing viewers grumble about is that they still don’t know why Ilya Rozanov left Boston for Ottawa. It’s the one mystery of their rivalry that you couldn’t unravel. But overall, the reactions are very positive. A professional triumph for you.

And then only a month later, the whole world (including you) is astonished to find out that these heated rivals have been in a serious and secret romantic relationship for years!!! And you missed the whole thing! One (1) month ago.

The documentary would quickly go from jewel in the crown to albatross around the neck of everybody involved in it. Because you did all this research, you had all this access, and yet you didn’t have a clue. They’re together? They’re getting fucking married? Ilya Rozanov moved to Ottawa because he was more in love with Shane Hollander than he was with being on a cup winning team?

Oh my God, ESPN would be contemplating destroying every copy of the documentary they commissioned, and which had great ratings. Everybody involved in making it has to log into LinkedIn and delete it from their professional history.

Hockey fans keep rewatching it, but not because they like it anymore. Because they can’t believe not even the professionals figured it out, and are looking for clues. The director will be strongly considering flying to Canada to murder both his documentary subjects.

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[dufrau]

i dont think straight people should be allowed to do "enemies to lovers" i think if a man is your enemy you need to trust that you were correct the first time and slay him in battle

[dogsdayilya]

Loyalty (1869)

— by Briton Rivière

Loyalty (2025)

— by Ilya Rozanov

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[drabbles-and-rambles]

I saw a post about Shane and Ilya being sad that they can't thank each other in their acceptance speeches like other can with their spouses and it got me thinking:

Ilya wins his first awards and hes got nobody he really wants to thank after his team and coach cause he he hates his family but he knows his speech is too short so on impulse he goes "And I want to thank Shane Hollander for being slightly worse than me this season". Everyone knows it was going to one of those two, so everyone thinks hes an asshole to say that but whats new so it works for him. But from then on it then becomes a bit for both of them to thank each other in their speeches in a snide way as a reason they won.

Shane winning the Art Ross Trophy (Awarded to the player who leads the league in total points at the end of the regular season). and going "special thanks to Rozanov for missing at least 5 shots this season, he was a huge help"

Ilya winning the Conn Smythe Trophy (Awarded to the most valuable player for his team in the playoffs.) "Just want to give a quick shout out to Hollander for getting knocked out in the second round this season. Must hate to see me up here."

They find a way to mention the other in their speeches every time all the time.

[boitterfly]

let’s all remember that ilya professed his love to shane twice in a whispered rush and then in a hoarse tearful confession and then shane hit him with the holy shit and i love you too in his startled flat affect and then ilya’s entire face crumpled and he collapsed on top of him and shane held his head in both his big hands and kissed him on the forehead twice. let’s hold on to that ok

[thisfeebleheart]

patient needs neck kisses to survive

[evanactually]

The way Shane always melts when Ilya kisses his neck 🥵

[inked-catlady]

Can't get enough of these two beautiful boys! Shane's facial proportions and both of their hair needs more work but I'll practice!

[brigid-faye]

Read several lovely “the Hollanders met Irina back in the day and only just realized it” fics so obvs got curious about “the Hollanders encountered Grigori at the 1980 Olympics and it nearly caused a Cold War Incident”

Full fic at https://archiveofourown.org/works/85212031

Shoutout to @kaaaaaaarf for helping my American self make the Canadian-ness Canadian 🍁

From Canada with Love (or the Wrath of Yuna Hollander)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85212031

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[bugslibraryy]

Guys wait. The cottage was their first summer together, which means it was the first time Ilya got to see Shane’s freckles go dark with the high UV. Like freckles get so much more predominant in the summer and very light ones you wouldn’t usually see. And like yes Ilya sees Shane after summer but lots of them will have already started to fade by then. But this summer together, like 5 days into being at the cottage Shane gets in the shower with him after they’d been in the lake a while and he’s like woah. And pinning Shane to the tile to inspect alllll these new little lovely little freckles that he’s never ever seen before. Shane has a triangle of freckles now near the corner of his left eye, above his cheek bone and a faint freckle on the very tip of his nose and then oh GOD there are so many layers of dusted freckles Ilya feels a little dizzy. His lovely freckles so bright, shining even more now under the heat of summer and it’s so amazing to see his sweethearts face so familiar, so much a part of his last ten years that he knows pretty well, to see it in a whole new way. Ilya is like looovesick over it. He makes Shane rest his head on his shoulder while he read his chapters that night so Ilya can keep getting familiar with this new take on his loves face. All this extra marks, he had no idea were born every summer, so fleeting they’d be gone again by the first games of the season

[scartafacci]

[myshangel]

ilya says i would die for you one too many times and it’s always a joke, or half a joke, but shane very seriously puts his hands on ilyas cheeks and says okay but i need you to live for me. i don’t want you to die for me. i want you to live for me. i know it’s harder and i know it’s not as sexy to you but it’s what i want. i want to get gross and old with you so we can die at the exact same time from old age. that’s what i want. and you’re so good at giving me what i want. okay?