Mind the Gap

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Pompeii: Out of Time is out in July!

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Tom Hiddleston just perfected airport dressing for grown men

Even though we're in the middle of May, Big Coat Season never ends

Guess who's in NYC??

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It's sad that almost everyone that has got to know that it was ilya that shane was in a relationship with, has reacted very poorly to the news. Be it his parents, Hayden, JJ or even the metros and the public...

Imagine Shane must feel so fucking heartbroken that no one has even bothered to even ask him why he likes ilya or how they fell for each other.

Everyone's first thought is, "ew rozanov? That asshole? Really? Were there literally no other nice gay men around? Why does it have to be him?"

How exhausting and downright frustrating it must feel that he somehow has to "prove" to everyone that Ilya is the love of his life, that he deeply loves shane the same way shane loves him, that he is good and sweet and kind and knows shane inside out, that he "deserves" shane. Almost everytime he's said it , he's only met with people scorning at his choice and casually dismissing their own prejudices under the guise of "wanting someone better for shane." They are so quick to infantalize shane and make ilya out to be this crazy evil Disney villan.

#MyShane might be known for his pristine clean reputation, being Canada's golden boy but that man is so dead ass mean. People don't even get to know when he's reading them to filth cause of monotone delivery. People think he just has a very dry sense of humor. He doesn't give a flying fuck if someone on his team is going through a messy divorce, he is concerned about whether that player is gonna cost them games and affect their chances at playoffs. He probably doesn't even remember if his teammates have kids or how many. The man truly doesn’t care. It doesn't occupy space in his mind. His brain is just hockey, winning and ilya.

#MyIlya on the other hand is constantly shit on cause everyone just assumes that he's an asshole just cause he knows how to chirp well and is also annoyingly good at hockey. No one bothers to look into him beyond the media coverage of him. Ilya never chirps about anything related to family or spouses, he's never made a racist or homophobic remarks irrespective of on or off the ice. He's good with kids and would tell his teammates to send flowers to their moms on mother's day. He knows his teammates, has their adoration and their respect. He's sent more than enough drunk girls to their homes by calling them cabs and paying the tab cause they're drunk and he would want to have sex only when consent is given enthusiastically and sober. He's so annoyingly perceptive that the queer players feel both nauseatingly exposed and comforted at him clocking their rainbow ass. He's a sweetheart.

They are so Ying and Yang it makes me sick. They are two sides of the same coin. Shane doesn't owe anyone an explanation.

I want him to just snap and start biting people ATP. Keep his and his man's name out yo damn mouth if you'renot gonna be nice about it!😤

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Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton at The Olivier Awards on April 12, 2026

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Who are your favorite hollanov authors on ao3? I feel like I've read some great fics by people who have written one or two fics but are there any writers who are posting consistently or regularly that you like?

omg thank u for asking this was so fun !!!

ghosttotheparty - i have read every single one of this wonderful person's fics and have all of them downloaded and saved and i frequently reread them and they post fairly frequently!!! they have 12 heated rivalry fics up so far but my top three by them is probably:

blood on the ice - ilya gets hurt instead of shane and ohhh boy is the angst fucking tasty.

маскировка - canon divergent take on the hospital scene, ilya runs into yuna and david at the hospital. these boys are in love and yuna's boy mom brain latches on to ilya immediately. adore it.

heavy handed - beautiful character study of shane hollander and his eating habits, autism, and OCD. codependent hollanov is glorious.

hcneymooners (romqntics) - four works up at the moment, has posted monthly since the end of the show, longer one shots. their prose is so fucking pretty and it makes me INSANE. you can find all of their hollanov fics in this series collection:

любовь и усилия. | love & effort. ( hollanov. )

boopboop - i have been following this author for a few years across fandoms. when i tell you i screamed and sobbed when they posted a hollanov fic. ohhh my god. i love their writing style, i love their character work. honest to god i am jealous of their character work, like, how do you do that? they have about eight hollanov fics up and are currently writing a multi-chapter fic and posting updates to a series. i cannot tell you how obessed i am with this author. now go read this series:

Duty of Care - ilya rozanov's guide to accepting love and family after living through trauma, changing countries (twice), and falling in love with shane fucking hollander

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Doesn't look like they need much help to get in each other's faces [insp.]

HEATED RIVALRY (2025−)

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Hudson Williams for Peloton.

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Shane looks like he's checking if Ilya's real

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#Welcome back, Sharpay

High School Musical 2 (2007) dir. Kenny Ortega // Madwoman - Laufey (2026)

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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 12: (L-R) Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton attend The Olivier Awards 2026 with Cunard at the Royal Albert Hall on April 12, 2026 in London, United Kingdom. (Footage by Justin Goff/WireImage)

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I’m not asking for names or anything (not that you’d know) but do you know if tom has a PA?

I don't think he's had a personal PA (on a regular basis, anyway) since Olly. And that's 8-9 years ago.

He has had some on projects - he had a PA on Loki S1, for instance, who's Atlanta-based. And since then he's had the same guy on TES, Loki S2 and TNM S2 - Steven James Knight. He's also been assistant to Jeff Goldblum and Paul Rudd when they've worked in London.

But it wouldn't be someone who does his day to day stuff and works only for him, like Olly was.

(This is in IMDb, btw.)

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Hmmm… maybe pushed back to winter??

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Winter is anytime from November to March, I guess? I wondered about Tom and Hayley doing Secret Wars (filming moved to August), and then promo and premiere for Doomsday in December. I wonder how they planned it. I mean, Tom is one of their leading actors, they will want him to do some promo.

That seems a reasonable time frame.

However, I wouldn't count on the promo aspect to play into scheduling too much. Remember, Chris Evans was on Broadway in Lobby Hero when Infinity War premiered - he didn't go to the premiere in LA, but did do an interview or two in New York. So it's possible if MAAN is on stage in December, that Tom and Hayley could do the same thing, and use it as a chance to promote MAAN as well - say on Jimmy Fallon or Seth Meyers' shows, or the morning shows. But entirely possible they aren't at an LA or London premiere if there's an overlap.

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I am curious when Tenzing is coming out. Tom spoke about it a bit during TNM promo but we don´t even have any official photo or anything. Would be cool if he had two movies out within a few months time :)

Fingers crossed for this fall some time.

We do have this photo, but that's it:

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I suspect the first appearance or maybe some related interview or photos will be with Oliviers? There is also nothing about FYC for Emmys just yet but there is still time. I miss seeing Tom daily, tbh, TNM era spoilt us for a while :)

We'll see if he's at the Critics' Circle awards tomorrow.

Oliviers would be next up on April 12th.

FYC for the Emmys is just barely getting started... not much is scheduled yet, and only a few things on the Emmys FYC site. Nothing listed past April 18th, and the FYC time period ends June 10th.

We did have Diego's post mentioning the Amazon FYC events a couple of weeks ago, but no date listed yet.

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Any rumours about the gender of Zawe & Tom's second child? I was so happy to hear about it for them!

Nothing concrete. I keep hoping one of them will slip up, but then realized it’s actually easier to be vague when there’s more than one child.

Eg, it’s easier to say “my children/kids” (pretty normal) than “child/kid”, which is slightly awkward, if you see what I mean.