This is a blag.

The damn things overlap

[sexchangedotcom]

bruce springsteen im on fire changed the world because it lets cis men feel what it's like to ovulate

[tetrapod7]

think of the poor euro players subjected to morgan wallen every day

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

What do y'all know about Mr David Hollander, world's #1 Wife Guy??

I think David started noticing Yuna when she routinely started showing up to McGill's hockey practices - and of course he noticed her, she was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. And I'm certain he showed off a lil every time he spotted her, doing showy trick shots that weren't actually practical during a real game but looked cool during practice. Eventually he worked up the nerve to skate over and talk to her in the stands, trying for nonchalant like "sOoo you like hockey? What do you think of my skating?" And then Yuna proceeded to make shredded wheat out of David's play style, I mean truly crushingly specific critiques. The guys on David's team who overheard Yunas monologue were wincing in sympathy on the sidelines, but their pity was unnecessary: from then on, David was down BAAAD. Little hearts were circling around his head at all times. David's college team would pantomime whipping noises every time he'd skate over to her in the stands but he didn't care cause he was in LOoOve~💕✨💕✨💕✨

(Meanwhile, Yuna thought their first three dates were just David asking her for skating advice over coffee)

[knucklecurve]

mind you, ilya spent an entire book thinking about hurling himself off the roof of the canadian tire centre in large part because his new shitty team was impinging on his sporting-competition-with-shane kink. what makes you think this man harbors secret aspirations to wearing bedazzled letterman jackets with a baby in each arm

[delsicle]

Going to be so brave and say I do not like the hudstache. Like there’s nothing wrong with it, it just reminds me that I’m not attracted to men

[princessidequest]

RPF entirely aside, this generation of star NHL players very publicly having the kind of close, meaningful relationships that they do and being allowed to be human is so important to me and so important to this lowkey cesspool of a sport improving.

There is absolutely a time not that long ago when Will and Mack would have shut down their public interactions and Seth Jarvis' buddies would have been a novelty that was treated as a semi-joke and not a genuinely sweet human interest story during the Finals. Matthew Schaefer being openly still affected by his mom's death would have made him soft.

I've been a hockey fan for a long ass time and while the Carter Hart of it all is very unfortunately still alive and well, I can't ignore that the vibes are getting very different now in a way that means a lot to me.

[tranthony]

grout white shark

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

Fandom is so obsessed with contrasts in ships that they force them onto hollanov, a couple who are FAMOUSLY supposed to be similar. There is no slutty one and prudish one. They both love sex. There is no smart one and dumb one. They both excel at the same career where traditional metrics of academic intelligence don't apply. There is no jock and nerd. They are both professional athletes. There is no neatfreak and slob. They both pay other people to clean their houses. Please release yourself from the need to manufacture an opposites attract dynamic in every facet of their relationship, ESPECIALLY when the central conceit of hollanov as a couple is that they're more alike than everyone else seems to think.

[daiiku]

[radialarch]

my take of unknown temperature is that yuna's "okay, enough. what's the plan" is good & helpful & correct for that moment. like if either of them had to look An Emotion directly in the face for one more second i think they would have exploded

[delsicle]

Been obsessed with the Mafia AU and had this idea that stuck with me. So after Shane is back with Ilya and the trust is rebuilt it makes sense to use Shane's skills for insider information. Not sure what the context would be for this btw but I just liked the idea of Shane letting himself get kidnapped. Maybe he's out with Ilya at a Bratva owned club where a group had already decided to kidnap Shane but Ilya is made aware of their plans before he and Shane get in the club that night.

So Shane acts his little heart out, he gets "drunk" making sure he gets separated from Ilya so that the group can easily take him. He's acting so drunk that the men causally talk about their plans against Ilya and the Bratva openly and how they plan to do it. In my mind Ilya and Shane planned this together so Ilya is aware of Shane's location the entire time. The Bratva ambush the kidnappers easily. When the gang are surrounded by his own men they expect Ilya to rush to his drunk husband and immediately get him out of there but instead he simply looks at Shane and says "Tell me what you learned" Shane switches from drunk and vulnerable to normal immediately telling Ilya in front of the men exactly what they said while they transported him.

I also like the idea that Shane does this himself, telling no one the plan and when Ilya does eventually find him he makes that switch and tells Ilya everything he overheard and Ilya is both incredibly impressed he fooled them and got this information and very angry that he went off on his own and put himself in danger. Obviously they fuck about it later

I think we need to give Shane a kidnapping punch card, poor thing keeps getting snatched (I love it. it's so chewy for me)

Shane loves a little enrichment, obviously he's good at keeping his cover because he did it for like two years with Ilya. So he's putting on a performance, letting the people that took him think he's dumb and vulnerable, and he's so excited to destroy all these people and then get ravished by his husband afterward

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

I just had another Attic Wife/Stockholm Sydrome au idea 😵‍💫 a redux on the dubcon phone call bj where either:

a) as is, but with even more dubious undertones where it’s early on in Shane’s captivity, and he’s begged to be allowed to answer his phone that he’s been able to hear ringing from his nightstand (just out of reach of where he’s chained to the bed) and he begs and pleads and then finally his phone is being pressed wordlessly to his ear and it’s Hayden or his mom or his dad and he’s hearing their voices (he thought he might never hear their voices again) and it’s such a relief that his voice is a little shaky but he covers it well he thinks AND THEN there’s a hand trailing up his thigh and wet heat enveloping his cock and he wants to scream and cry and whimper and moan but he can’t do any of it because he doesn’t know what will happen if the person on the phone realises His Captor is there, what the punishment would be for revealing that he’s not alone (and also there’s the humiliation of what if the person on the other side thought it was consensual? What if they think he wants this?)

OR

b) a similar presence, but he’s being tortured (not sexually this time 😔) and again he’s trying not to let the person on the phone know what’s happening, but it’s hard to keep from whimpering as His Captor presses a knife into the delicate flesh of his thigh, or puts out a cigarette on the back of his hand, or twists his little finger until the digit is broken. Staying quiet because he knows without being told that his loved ones will be next if they figure out he’s in trouble.

Anyway, regardless of the method of torture, Shane being left at the end wondering if it was a reward or a punishment to be allowed to talk to the outside world; deciding just not to ask anymore, because he doesn’t want to have the answer made clear. And isn’t his life just easier when it’s him and His Captor alone together, anyway?

(This is @sapphyshipseverything btw, I’m anon bc sideblog 😌)

Literally how life feels when I've got ppl in my phone who feed my freak fantasies,,, LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFULLLLL 💕🌼🌺🪻🌹🌸💕🌸🌹🌼🌹🌺🌸🌺🙄🌼🌸🌼🌹🪻🌹🌼🌸💕

And as for your either/or premise, porque no los dos?

Maybe the first phonecall Ilya lets Shane answer is a test to see if he can behave himself - that's why Ilya still needs a very clear threat, so Shane knows punishment will be swift and brutal. The whole time Shane's on the phone, Ilya has Shane on his back, holding the phone up to the side of Shane's face in one hand and his injured knee in the other, folded close to Shane's chest in a stress position that isn't hurting yet, but can do some serious damage if Ilya presses down juuuuust a bit harder. Good thing Shane is so flexible, huh?

Then, later on, when Shane can be trusted with answering calls, Ilya lets him pick up a call from hayden. But Ilya doesn't like hearing another man's voice talking to Shane during THEIR time together,,, better to remind Shane who he belongs to.

And it's stressful answering the calls either way. Shane's always hated talking on the phone. Life really is easier when it's just Shane and his man alone together, isn't it?

[cuppydogshane]

where did the trans ryan price thing come from? (<- has not and will not read the books)

ryan price essentially looks straight at the camera and says I Hate My Penis And Being A Man

[creamsiclemelt]

Heated Rivalry | Episode 2 | Olympians

[shanesbeautifulmind]

good morning mentally i am parking my brain here today

[slaygentford]

the reason why heated rivalry is the best book in the ghcu (gay hockey cinematic universe) is because in book 3 the main hockey player hates that he has to fight in hockey and whenever he gets in a fight on the ice his boyfriend honest to god cries. meanwhile ilya is full body slamming Shane into the boards in some kind of unnegotiated exhibitionist bdsm gladiatorial match

[slaygentford]

bc the thing is sorry that ilya just wants a little kissy but hollander is a FREAK. Shane Hollander is A FREAK out of his own BEAUTIFUL MIND. no other pair in the ghcu (gay hockey cinematic universe) houses a very sweet boy who invented cnc with no outside input.

[scunthotter]

@bruisepoker you are onto something here.

[clytemnestraaa]

i know this isn't like super canon but the interpretation of ilya's younger life i like best (assembled from many posts and not just my brain alone) is that ilya's father was some sort of ex-military high-ranking NKVD or military police officer who backed the wrong people after the dissolution of the soviet union and then made a series of bad business decisions. and that since ilya's birth the family was slowly hemorrhaging money and status, a big house getting more and more dilapidated, and then sergei vetrov (svetlana's father) winds up acting as the political lifeline to their family. it also adds a level of tension where, since ilya is the childhood hockey phenom, which is what earns ilya vetrov's patronage and favor for the rozanov family, suddenly EVERYTHING is resting on ilya. it also adds a layer to his and svetlana's relationship, where she's not just the best friend but also the daughter of his patron, which i am sure she resents. so at the gala scene, ilya is there with his father to atone for his sins (losing to latvia) to his patron, because ilya's failure makes vetrov look bad.

[sapphling]

the more time you spend in active recovery from any given self destructive behavior or addiction the more you understand the common conception of the "relapse" as defined by a broken "streak" to be, like, so bad for one's own well-being that it would be funny if it weren't resulting in just a lot of misery and death

[the-peoples-puppy]

I told my girlfriend to think of quitting vaping as training her endurance by seeing how long she can run before she gets tired, then doing it again and hoping to go further next time. She said it really helped her.

[scarletsaphire]

This is the stages of change model, with each circle being a part of the process of growth. You'll notice how relapse is not a failing of the model, or a set back, but an active step in continuing to grow and change. Everytime you relapse, you learn something; maybe a certain time of year is difficult for you. Maybe certain people push you back into the habit. Maybe your other coping skills/replacement habits didn't work how you wanted and you need to strengthen them, or develop new ones. Maybe it's not quite as clear cut and you need to spend the time figuring out what exactly went wrong so you can catch it next time. It doesn't matter the exact lesson, but it's part of the process.