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[permanent-fire-hazard]

Imagine being Jack Abbot and you come home from a nine month deployment and your twink bf has turned into this. I bet he blacked out for a second.

[mutinsfromthemoon]

shane is chronically offline and the only post on instagram about his and ilya relationship is from their wedding that he has asked ilya how to pin it.

ilya on the other hand is an unofficial fan page of his husband. all his posts before the outing were already about shane, now he can just post shane and he does, not in an extreme amount.

the fans were a little concerned about it at first because ilya is always posting shane and shane has just one single post. but all the solo pictures of shane on ilyas page, he has the ultimate heart eyes cus he’s never looking at camera and is always looking at his husband taking the picture of him.

so yeah, shane is chronically offline but he’s chronically down bad in love with his husband

[beefrobeefcal]

When was he this chonk and why was I not alerted?

I have more questions:

When does his ska band from 2006 release their next album?

Does Patrick Stump want his hat back?

I hope he enjoys frozen pizzas?

Are there any other pictures form this era? asking for a friend

[tinylilemrys]

Just thinking about Ilya making the playoffs for the first time with the Cens and getting texts from Yuna and David about it.

Yuna's one is like, "HOLY SHIT THE CENTAURS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS! I never thought I'd be so excited to say that. 😂 This is such a huge achievement and I couldn't be more proud of you! This means I'm finally going to have to cave and by an Ottawa jersey. Don't tell David I told you, but he's still drying his eyes about it. Bubbly when you and Shane come over on Saturday for SURE, okay? Love you lots. SO proud."

And David's is like, "You did it, Cap! I know how hard you worked for this and it's paid off. We'll be cheering you on for every game. I am so unbelievably proud of you, kiddo. Love you lots - can't wait to see you and Shane on Saturday."

And Ilya just sits there unable to breathe because he's never had a text like this after making the playoffs except maybe from Svetlana. He replies to the messages, eyes blurry with tears, and spends the rest of the night opening them at random times, just overwhelmed by how loved he truly is.

[tinylilemrys]

Shane and Ilya would both get book deals, I think. But Shane's would be part practical hockey guidebook, part motivational self-help book. He and Yuna write it together. He just wants there to be a book that new professional hockey players can read that will give them an idea of what to expect. Especially players moving to North America from overseas who are having to enter a whole new world not just in their career, but their whole life. And even though it's aimed at pro hockey players, it has wider appeal from hockey fans who like to dream about what it might have been like to be a pro player. It's also just super fucking funny. Like genuinely worth the read just for the humour and wit alone.

Ilya's is a memoir called something like "This Boy Pucks" or "Big Stick Energy". It turns out to be surprisingly poignant and emotional because he's super honest about what happened to his mom, growing up in an abusive home, his own struggles with his mental health, and what it's been like being one of the first two MLH players to ever marry each other. It's funny of course, but also gut-wrenchingly beautiful.

And, of course, they each dedicate the book to the other. Because the story wouldn't be the same without him.

[transthatmasc]

Shane and Bood are instant friends much to Ilya’s confusion. Zane comes in and starts talking to Shane like he’s been on the team for years. He tells Shane about the vacation he and Cassie went on and that he liked the photos Ilya had sent from their honeymoon. After their showers, Bood asks Shane what he thought of the AHL call ups at camp, particularly the defenseman from Edmonton who seems particularly promising. Shane doesn’t seem uncomfortable, so Ilya stays out of these structured conversations Zane is creating for them, and is pleased to hear Shane talk about him to Yuna over dinner that weekend.

By the next week, Shane is chatting with Zane as much as Ilya during practice, coming up with drills for the team to run through and nagging him about the way his left skate turns out when he’s shooting. Ilya is genuinely pleased even through his surprise when Shane mentions that they are going to babysit for Bood the next Tuesday so he can take Cassie out for a date night. Apparently they had worked it out at lunch. Wyatt had offered, but Lisa was working a double and would appreciate him home and paying attention to her that night, so Shane had suggested that he and Ilya do it.

Wyatt had worked his way into this dynamic at some point, gravitating over to Zane and Shane in the locker room for casual conversation and logistical discussions. Shane didn’t really know anything about superheroes, but Wyatt was totally cool with that and happy to explain, so Shane didn’t mind the detailed explanations about heroes and powers and comic books.

Ilya floats around, comfortably social as Captain once more without a secret life beyond hockey. He had hovered around Shane slightly the first week, but more often than not finds himself with Troy and Luca, only glancing at Shane for an occasional visual check in. Shane doesn’t like Troy yet and he hasn’t figured out how to talk to Luca without feeling like he’s gonna be asked for an autograph, so he waits for Ilya to break off and check on him throughout the day. When they get in the car to go home, Ilya gives Shane the full run down of everything that happened that day as Shane fills in any gaps he can.

They eat dinner on the couch with their legs tangled together. They suck each other off in the kitchen washing dishes. They shower together with Ilya’s lavender scented body wash. Shane reads in bed with Ilya’s head in his lap. They turn off the lamp and set an alarm. They fall asleep, one arm thrown across the other man’s hip. They’re in the same bed. In the same city. On the same team. And Shane is friends with Zane Boodram like they’ve played together for years.

[punkanonymous]

Today I’m thinking about how Jack trusted Robby with his letter to the veteran’s family in s1. Trusted him to read it, to care for it, and to share his story. How the viewers are given a glance at who Jack really is through Robby.

[lexilexilexilexile]

Shane and Ilya’s daughter has to do a family tree project in class. They’ve done a great job at emphasizing to her that parents can be any two people that love each other and she understands that other kids might not know that. The rest of the project will be pretty straight forward - Shane doesn’t have any siblings and their daughter doesn’t know much about Ilya’s family at this age besides that papa has a mama that watches over them and that loves her very much. Shane is still nervous about it and having a Very Normal Shane Reaction wondering if she will feel left out for not having a mom and feeling sad that she will never know her papas family and wondering if she is lonely and if they should have another kid. When they get an email from the school asking them to come in at pickup to discuss her family tree Ilya is already angry and ready to pick a fight with whatever stupid kid is bullying their daughter for having two dads. They walk into the classroom and their daughter is standing with her arms crossed insisting that there is nothing wrong with her project and when the teacher slides it across the table they see something so bizarre that they don’t know where to start. She’s drawn on only one side of the tree - Ilya and Shane both stemming from Yuna and David. Next to them are about ten stick figures of different sizes all with hearts around them. While they’re trying to decipher what on earth she has drawn she starts presenting it with her little finger saying “see? Dad is grandma Yuna and grandpa David’s son and Papa is grandma Yuna and grandpa David’s son, too.” And then she moves her finger along with “and that’s uncle Hayden, uncle Troy and uncle Harris, uncle Evan, uncle Luca….” And as she’s naming every stick figure Shane is trying to figure out how he’s going to explain to her teacher that he is not married to one of his 10 brothers when he is actually an only child and Ilya has to turn away because he’s crying at the reminder that the family that adopted him adopted her as well and there has never been a child that has been so loved

[ozarkthedog]

Noah Wyle looking like a fucking snacc x

[visxionery]

Robby sometimes refuses to admit he's fallen sick until he's really sick and dead on his feet and then only then will he admit that 'it's just a flu' as Jack pesters over him like a mother hen. Jack "You always worry me" Abbot and Michael "I'm not worth worrying over" Robinavitch.

[yuqis-ifty]

I know deep in my soul Shane is such a fucking enabler, especially after he joins the Centaurs.

He's finally getting to be with his husband, the man he's loved for over a decade, and he, by all means, does not care about the bullshit he says cause as long as it's not getting Ilya in any kind of trouble, Ilya's chirps, while incredibly fucking stupid most of the time, are funny, and always only as offensive as the person deserves them to be. He knows Ilya would never mention anything about their private lives, cause really their time together is as sacred to him as it is to Shane. He has literally no reason to worry about anything.

And sure, people come up to him with the "did you HEAR about what your husband said to me" in the beginning, but these complaints all but stop in only a couple months once people realise that Shane does literally nothing about what Ilya said other than honest to god giggle, and smile fondly at his husband antics

[permanent-fire-hazard]

WAKE UP Y’ALL ITS CITY BOY!ROBBY/COUNTRY BOY!JACK HOURS

[chubby-cry-baby]

shane realizing ilya isn’t doing well because he bent down to pick something up and ilya didn’t say or do anything; “ilya baby you are not okay” “what shane i’m fine” “ilya i bent over and you didn’t say or do anything” “…” “and im wearing glasses” “…” “…” “i will go call galina” “thank you baby”

[zee-has-commitment-issues]

Headcanon that the centaurs do see Shane first and foremost as Ilya’s husband because, duh, they knew Ilya first and that’s his husband — husband!!

And at first, Shane is like fuck yeah I get to be a husband, and then halfway through the season he’s like guys… I feel the need to remind you that I’m actually Shane fucking Hollander

The centaurs then begin treating Ilya as Shane Hollander’s husband. Ilya does not mind.

[sun-snatcher]

“I wish somebody would swaddle me too.” My guy Jack Abbot just pulled you into an embrace you can just ask for another it’s okay

[gaynehollander]

17 year old Shane Hollander pouring over every single game tape he can find of teenage phenom Ilya Rozanov, hunting down the grainiest clips of his regional juniors team in Russia, feeling slightly hot under the collar as he watches him execute maneuverers none of his own teammates would dare try and some of which he's not sure he could perform himself: "I sure am excited to play against team Russia for reasons that are entirely sportsmanlike and rooted in a deep respect for the game and are not at all homosexual in nature."

[perlukafarinn]

I bet once Yuna gets to know Ilya as Shane's boyfriend, all the things that used to infuriate her about him as a player become endearing to her instead. Like before she would call him an asshole for the way he chirps everyone endlessly but now it's a good strategy and isn't it impressive how he's twice as clever in his second language as most other players in the league are in their first?

Shane calls her out on this change of heart and Yuna pretends she doesn't know what he's talking about.