yearning!

echo or any kin names (pls call me kin names ill love u forever) // they|fae // 23 // carrd

[verdantmeadows]

Yes I'm 100 different fictional characters. Yes I'm all of them completely and immutably. Yes it makes sense. You just wouldn't get it.

[drawballa]

Sleepy boys 💤

[miscelium]

shane riding it crazy style in a backwards baseball hat is like level up of white crew socks as lingerie. i think it would give ilya a nosebleed

no bc shane bouncing and moaning on it in just the white crew socks and backwards baseball hat and maybe his smartwatch notifying him he's hit his cardio goal for the day would give me a nosebleed too

[aemelia]

@mina-logan absolutely zero pressure BUT I can picture this drawn in your style so clearly it’s like a vision from god

[mina-logan]

Baby I’m taking NOTES because YES.

[mina-logan]

Anyway I did it.

Full art on AO3: Here

[msmazingham]

You know, everybody talks about impregnating Shane, but ILYA is the one who would LOVE being pregnant. Treated like royalty, demanding, eating all his treats and saying “the baby MADE me eat it, Hollander.” Lounging around wearing sweats and tank tops of the softest material. Demanding Shane kisses him AND the belly, every time he leaves the room. Every time he is out, rubbing his belly, “yes, knocked up on first try, twins, yes, probably.” The sheer delight when the baby moves. Seriously, that man would adore it.

Shane, on the other hand…. As a neurodivergent parent who went through pregnancy, I gotta say, he would hate it. Losing control of his body in every way. Harder to control what he eats, feeling a little alien move in his body at all hours of the day or night, strangers feeling like they can touch the belly, intrusive doctors, the anxiety of every stage of pregnancy. Like, so much of it is hellish for many (not all) neurodivergent life givers.

But Ilya, that guy was born to be a pregnant lush.

[whatthebodygraspsnot]

shane + the joys of echoing ilya

“You still want?” “I still wunnt.” leads me to believe that once shane drops masking a little more, he starts feeling comfy letting himself echo ilya from time to time. it starts out with words and phrases that conveniently double as an answer to whatever they’re talking about. like above, ilya asks him something and shane answers using the same words and same inflection, just with his monotone little drone. “You have remote?" "I hayve re-mote."

he fucking loves the was ilya says “probably.” ten out of ten times if ilya’s saying probably, shane’s bringing up the rear with a deadpan but delighted “prah-bubly.”

ilya doesn’t say anything at first bc shane’s kind of always done this? it’s just much more frequent now. but then shane starts quietly echoing stuff even when he’s not being asked something. like he’s literally just repeating random words that ilya says, even in the middle of his sentence. and finally ilya is like hey what the fuck. why are you being an asshole? like he knows his english pronunciation is still not great with some things after all these years, but it’s kind of a dick move to point it out so much!

and shane is first and foremost confused by this! it was never about roasting him or being mean and he has to sit him down and explain to him that no no. since the day they met there has never been anything more satisfying to his ears than ilya speaking. his brain likes the way the words sound coming out of ilya’s mouth and shane needs to feel them in his mouth too. it’s an echo of delight, not derision. 

once ilya understands that he’s not being hate-crimed by his own boyfriend twenty times a week, he’s all good with it. maybe even a little endeared, because that must mean shane feels comfortable around him, right? eventually, it doesn’t even register as strange to have a one-note parrot within his vicinity, occasionally repeating bits and pieces of his sentences when it suits him. that’s when shane really starts to let the echo flag fly.

he doesn’t even need to be talking to shane specifically anymore. if it’s coming out of ilya’s mouth, shane’s brain is latching onto that shit and trying it on for size. like when they’re on the road for a game and tensions are midwest-hellhole-green-sky high. ilya’s trying to calm down a particularly antsy group of coastal rookies like “Yes we all have alerts on our phones. Is tornado probably - just keep an eye out.” and the rookies are like, shitting their pants and stuff and meanwhile Shane’s in the background muttering “Ees tornaydo prah-bubly” under his breath, attention otherwise focused on zipping up his travel bag. 

they’re out with some of the guys and marlow is purposely being a pain in the ass about leaving just to stress ilya out/get him back for years of ilya foolishness and ilya is standing at the curb about to crash out like “Marly I will leave your drunk ass here if you don’t get in stupid uber right now!” meanwhile, mumbled from the safety of the sidewalk: “Stoopid oo-burr…” 

sometimes he'll be on the phone in the living room and can't even make out shane's exact repeat from where he's meal prepping. so it's kind of like soothing background noise, ilya speaking freely while there's this lowkey undercurrent of shane murmuring in the kitchen, happy as a clam to get his brain scratched when they're not even in the same room.

idk i just think ilya's got a very brain-petty voice and pronunciation of things, and i like to live in a world where shane lets himself enjoy that.

[shilyas]

mlep

[ohlittlefox]

my hollanov ♡

[mina-logan]

Puppies and some quick fanart for The Long Game

💕 🐶

[thrilm]

[cibaach]

who up missing people that arent real

[jewelcoatfish]

sleepy ilya blinking at shane asking “what time?” in russian and shane replying “7” in russian because ilya sometimes can only remember to speak russian when he’s barely awake

so sometimes they speak russian for the first fifteen minutes of waking up, ilya asking short questions and shane giving short answers. ilya doesnt stress about having to translate in his brain when he’s barely awake, and shane’s just so happy hearing ilya’s sleepy russian.

[rainbow-femme]

Someone online makes a comment about how Shane probably isn’t a very good boyfriend, saying his flat affect and resting neutral face in paparazzi pics and video must mean he’s detached and not affectionate compared to Ilya who is much more overtly affectionate

Ilya then has the rest of the Centaurs help him make a compilation of secretly filmed Shane moments showing how good a boyfriend he is

Ilya doing the “would you still love me if I was a worm?” thing and without missing a beat or asking any questions Shane just goes “Yeah”

Harris films himself asking Shane random Ilya questions and Shane always having an answer. “Hey what Ilya’s favorite milkshake flavor?” “Mint.” “I’m buying everyone fun socks, what’s Ilya’s favorite color?” “Blue, but only if it’s light, he doesn’t like dark blue.” “What’s Ilya’s favorite fruit?” “Pears.”

Troy waits for Shane to sit on the bench looking at his phone or tying his skates then says “Oh hey Ilya’s coming in” and catches multiple examples of Shane immediately scootching over to one side to make room for Ilya to sit next to him

Ilya puts his feet up on Shane’s lap silently and Shane starts lightly massaging them. Ilya lays his head on Shane’s shoulder and Shane starts quietly playing with his hair

They film Ilya handing Shane random things and asking him to hold them and Shane does without question. The internets favorite is the one where Ilya pulls a pineapple out of his bag and asks Shane to hold it and he agrees, getting his gear on one handed so he can keep holding the pineapple in the other

Hayden gets a video of Shane letting Ruby brush his hair and fill it with clips while he and Jade do Ilya’s nails, Ilya laying with a face mask and cucumbers over his eyes and his head on Shane’s lap

[mapetitefeedeslilas]

Shane who, before him and Ilya get outed, keeps hearing people, fellow players, his own friends, talk shit about the man he loves and it pains him, so one night he googles "Ilya Rozanov nice person" and ends up in a subreddit where people share stories of celebrities that are surprisingly nice people and the page dedicated if Ilya is full of wholesome stories

hospital personnel from where he used or still visited the paediatric department with the team, parents of patients, even former patients themselves seeing how great, attentive, funny and light-hearted he was

puck bunnies or women he had one night stands with during the years playing for Boston saying he was a phenomenal lover and a consent king, or women that approached him whilst inebriated and whom he gently turned down, bought a bottle of water for and paid for their cabs to get back home safely

neighbours saying he was very polite, people he was nice or helpful to through the years, a mom with a screaming child whose first class seat on a flight to Moscow he gave up so she could have more room for her herself and the baby, a classmate he defended in school, a former teacher saying how smart and talented he was in spite of not having much time to study because he was training a lot, Russian-speakers saying his interviews in his mother tongue are a thing of beauty and incredibly well-spoken, waiters and shop assistants stressing how polite his interactions were

Shane devours these stories with tears in his eyes and a heart about to explode, the tab perpetually open in his phone, incognito mode.

And when someone talks shit about Ilya or when, after their outing, hate starts to be thrown at him even more viciously from the media, he goes back to the tab, just to see that there actually many that agree with him: Ilya, the love of his life, is the most wonderful person

[kreslitkofanarts]

In honour of the new upcoming "season" (cough cough) of Good Omens, here I present you my first official fanart! Behold, Aziraphale and Crowley, but as cowboys!

[isisisak]

Hockey players are famously superstitious, Shane and Ilya know this. So, this really should not come a surprise:

When they're about to leave the locker room for warm ups, Bood steps into the door with his arm stretched out.

"Woah, woah, woah, where do you two think you're going?"

They share a confused look.

"Uh, to warm up?" Shane asks. Bood instantly starts to shake his head as Troy joins him at the door.

"We need a kiss."

Shane leans back a little in disgust surprise, beside him Ilya lifts his eyebrows in disbelief.

"What, both of you?" with a chuckle, to which Shane adds "From whom?" before stepping closer to Ilya. Who was famous for goal celebration kisses to sweaty cheeks of his teammates but that was pretty much all Shane was okay sharing.

"Ew, no, no, no." Troy waves them off and Bood shakes his head laughing.

"Each other. Last time you did before warm ups and we won 6 to 2 against the Admirals."

And, oh. Because. Shane isn't against PDA now that they're both out when they are around their team after games or out for dinner with someone or walking Anya around their neighboor hood hand in hand.

But. He had a pretty clear rule that practices, games and everything at the rink was off limits. That was work. That was different.

The first few away games he didn't even want to sit beside Ilya on the bus or plane. Let alone be couple-y around the others. He told Ilya he did not want even the slightest chance of someone feeling uncomfortable because of him. Them.

Last week had been different, though. Ilya had been feeling down for a little while. Not much, not bad. Just- off. And when they were putting on their skates for warm ups he had cracked a stupid joke. And Shane had looked over and something in his chest had loosened because- there was that mischievous sparkle in his husbands eyes again. Leaning over and kissing Ilya hadn't really been a concious choice. It hadn't been anything wild either. A closed mouthed, lingering press of their lips.

A steady few seconds to convey 'Hey, I missed you.'

Ilya had smiled fondly at him after.

Apparently Bood or Troy or someone saw this. And when they won, they came to the logical conclusion that that was because of their pre warm up kiss.

Now Ilya rolls his eyes because- as dumb as it is, in hockey world this makes stupid sense. But Shane won't like it. So, he has to find a way to- suddenly there are two hands cupping his face before he is being dragged to meet Shane's lips for a quick, smacking kiss.

"Let's fucking kill these guys out there." Is all Shane says after, bonking his helmet with Barrett and Bood before vanishing through the door.

Ilya stares after him, stunned and slack jawed.

A new tradition is born.

[nightspires]

No but their whole time at the cottage is basically them to just playing one big game of chicken about who’s going to say I love you first. Like Ilya goes to the cottage KNOWING he loves Shane, and knowing that Shane wouldn’t have invited him if he didn’t at least feel something back. And Shane knows he feels strongly for Ilya, is fairly certain Ilya reciprocates those feelings because otherwise he wouldn’t have accepted his invitation. Shane says let’s be honest about how we really feel :)))) and Ilya is like ok I’ll try :)))) They sleep in the same bed and wake up together, something that six months ago even the prospect of caused the crash out of all crash outs. And then they start upping their game. “I like you” and “I like you too” becomes a practice run, and when Ilya says “I hate you” and Shane GRINS as he says, knowingly, “no you don’t”…. It’s like they’re slowly working their way up to being able to say it, whilst simultaneously trying to bait the other into saying it first. They know they feel, they have a pretty good idea how the other feels, it’s just been said out loud yet. And only being at the cottage together allowed them that space to be able to finally say it.

[moncalas]

sibling week: day 3 favorite brothers & sisters

the force is strong in my family. my father has it... i have it... and... my sister has it. yes. it's you, leia. i know. somehow... i've always known.