in this room we can pretend

igor | he/him | 20s | my ao3

[danpilled]

lift me up, love, i keep falling. chapter 2

Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)

Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov

Summary:

“Of course it’s fucking yours! Who else’s would it be?” he yells and shakes his head in disbelief. The wave of relief that washes over Ilya almost knocks him off his feet, and the confusion at this feeling threatens to lay him in the ground permanently. This should cause anything but relief.

[regging]

eating disorders and abortions are two things that are like, spoken about in most mainstream discourse as though they are pretty rare and aberrant, but then when you’re actually friends with a lot of women you come to find out that they are extremely extremely common and kind of banal & mundane

[userdanewhitman]

Hayley Williams photographed for Alt Press by Zachary Gray

[xxsabitoxx]

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[unfetteredautism]

felt like doin this 👉👈 if anybody wants to ask me somethin 👉👈

[shilyas]

[shanepervert]

treat me really niceys :-)

[guiltfactory]

BAD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

GOOD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

[danpilled]

me: i love fanfictions where hollanov are having communication issues and are kind of fucked up and the problems are realistic for people in their situation

me when i encounter such a fic: i'm sorry i can't do this

[taylor-ruth]

Me sexting: what would you do if you found me with my hands tied ;) My feminist bf: I Would Free You

[radialarch]

hello please read these fics

another first kiss by seventymilestobabylon (E | 5382 | Shane/Ilya)

"I wish you were my first time too," Ilya said. Shane swallowed. It sounded loud, mlep mlep, gross. The problem with Ilya was that he talked all the time and said all kinds of things, and most of it didn't mean anything. But knowing that it didn't mean anything didn't stop it from hooking straight under Shane's ribcage and pulling taut. He said, trying to make it not sound like a big deal, or like some stupid porn thing, "You want me to take your virginity?"

big things happen every time we meet by throughadoor (E | 14574 | Shane/Ilya)

John's #1 Parlay of the Day @johnchukbetzone I'll leave it to others to argue whether the relationship should even be permitted by the league. But vital information was concealed from bettors by failing to disclose when it started. Hollander & Rozanov may have allowed billions of dollars to be wagered under false pretenses. storrowed by ilya @storrowed_by_ilya I really should have known that the people with the absolute most deranged and late-stage capitalism reactions to the Rozanov/Hollander relationship would be online sports gamblers. You got me there. That one's on me. Halfway through Shane and Ilya’s first season playing together in Ottawa, an online sports betting company figures out how to make itself the main character when it comes to social media’s new favorite topic.

Star Pupil by chaentics (E | 9006 | Luca/Shane, Luca/Ilya, Shane/Ilya haunting the narrative)

Years ago, Luca watched Hollander take to the ice, helmet off, hair sweat-slick and pushed back, face brimming with exhaustion, as he hoisted the Cup over his head. Now his fingers are skirting the elastic waistband of Luca’s pants, two hooking in so that his nails press against the sensitive skin of Luca’s groin, right by his pubes. The tiny space between his ribs and stomach twists sickly and needy at once. He wants Hollander to touch him so bad at that moment he can’t think of anything else. He wants Hollander’s fingers curling around his hips, his cock, his shoulders, so that the next time Luca sees that gif of Hollander’s victory lap in 2016, he can compare how he holds the Cup to how he maneuvers Luca’s body.

they always placed you for the leaving type by epigraphs (M | 10257 | Shane/Ilya)

Ilya’s not stupid. Ilya is a fucking hockey prodigy who talked circles around everyone on his team in Russia — some coaches included — with his ideas for strategy and different plays. But all the words from back then are useless to him here, and the words he has at his disposal now don’t do justice to a single thing he wants to say.

//

Ilya and the English language, through the years.

I'm Hurt, but I'm Pretty, Baby by anonymous (M | 2670 | Shane/Ilya)

Shane did a double-take at his boyfriend’s gray face. “You look awful.” Ilya rolled his eyes. He leaned lightly against the newly closed door. He was moving more slowly than usual. “Wow, okay, romance is dead.”

fledgling by SNAKEHABITATTURNAROUND (E | 9279 | Shane/Ilya)

the cens win the cup. shane and ilya go to the cottage. red-tailed hawk juveniles are on the nest.

gulf winds by geniflux (M | 31888 | Shane/Ilya & Ilya's niece)

"I do not," Shane said, which was a lie. "And you should reflect on why you like to make your boyfriend upset so often." "My boyfriend likes to be upset," Ilya said. He was leaning fully over into Shane's space now, his elbow on the center console bearing so much of his weight as he swayed, almost accidentally closer. He was giddy, childish, how had he forgotten how good it felt to be with Shane, just to be next to him and talk – "Is there a rest stop coming up?" Natalya asked from the backseat, and Ilya didn't flinch, exactly, but it was a near thing. He'd almost forgotten she was there.

[writinginasnowglobe]

i think at a certain point shane would start getting seriously annoyed at the seemingly widespread idea that he's somehow supposed to be "controlling" ilya. maybe it starts off as a lighthearted joke with the way some of their friends will glance at him in anticipation when ilya says something particularly asshole-y like they expect him to tell ilya off. and at the beginning maybe shane somewhat gets it (but really though, he doesn't) because yeah it's his reputation in the league and maybe the rivalry plays a part in it too, especially for people who've never gotten to know him, but eventually, it just starts pissing him off

they're at the kingfisher after a game in new york and scott and some of the other admirals are there along with a majority of the cens and they're all having a good time. ilya and some random admirals player are chirping each other and ilya says something a little mean in the asshole way he does with a small tilt of his lips. and shane can suddenly feel eyes on him from scott and carter and troy and various other players, and for a second he doesn't get it. he doesn't get it, until all he does is snort in response, because well, it was true and also pretty funny and ilya really is the funniest person he knows, okay, and ilya nudges him with a small smile when he hears it, but then the stares slowly morph into something like confused gapes, and all of a sudden, he gets it. it's not the first time it happens and it definitely won't be the last, but shane starts noticing it a lot more and it continues to piss. him. the. fuck. off.

hayden giving him an expectant glance when ilya is half-yelling and groaning with a few cens in the bar at the soccer game on tv, like shane is for some reason gonna tell him to quiet down. scott giving him a quick side-eye when ilya chirps about his age on the ice, like shane is gonna tell him to stop; like he doesn't find the multiple layers to ilya's chirps to scott genuinely impressive, like he doesn't find it amusing. evan, though to his credit he was mostly joking, making a sly comment about shane needing to hold ilya back from fighting during a game, like shane would do that when ilya is well-fucking-aware of when to pick fights and when not to because he is the second-best hockey player in the league; like shane doesn't also find it unbearably hot when ilya has a little blood on his knuckles and dripping down the corner of his lips as he calls out mean little quips at the other team with a smirk on his face

because the thing about their relationship is that shane is undeniably attracted to ilya being an asshole. he thinks it's funny. it almost definitely also turns him on. and he likes when ilya is mean and smug and rowdy and a little shit. he likes when ilya is an asshole to him because that's their banter and their foreplay. he likes when ilya is an asshole to other people because he pretty much always thinks what ilya says is hilarious. (plus it's the fact that shane is also an asshole; it's just that ilya says it out loud more often than he does)

and so the thing about their relationship that, for some fucking reason, other people don't get is that shane, from the very beginning, has always and will continue to like when ilya is an asshole. and yes, they're married (shane also thinks some people seem to forget this, because why would shane marry ilya if he truly doesn't like ilya's personality. he thinks other people are a little stupid sometimes.) but they're also best friends and bond over being the best at what they do and how competitive they are and that they're both a little bitchy at times

long story short, i think that at some point during the first season of them playing together, all of the cens (and various other friends/players) eventually learn, as shane continues to not react the way they expect him to, that shane is THE biggest ilya enabler. he won't tell ilya off or nag him, but is actually probably standing a little off to the side with a tiny little smirk on his lips and hearts (and a little heat) in his eyes as he watches his husband

[cormcobsh]

building a collection….

[danpilled]

one of ilya's fantasies that he'll never admit to anyone is him fantasizing about a world where he's a struggling rapper and shane is his day 1 boyfriend who's been w him thru thick and thin. he heard "before anybody wanted k west beats me and my girl split the buffet at kfc" and thought waow....

[teratocrat]

there's no cock anymore no ones getting dicked down ever again they just announced that the last cock was found and sucked by a fisherman in argentina

[hockeyfinches]

if for whatever reason ilya was missing presumed dead for a year shane would bury himself in hockey. he would completely live & breathe hockey to such an extreme extent that it would be hard to watch. yuna & david would try to intervene but shane would be relentless. grimly efficient diet and sleep schedule militant fitness regime constant tape review. no space in his life for anything else. reporters would quickly give up on trying to get an emotional widowed husband soundbite out of him because the only questions he’d respond to would be the ones about hockey. he would drag his team to the playoffs through sheer force of will. and when ilya finally reappeared on his doorstep after a LONG fucking year and said “shane” (voice cracking) shane would look at him for a loooooong moment. and then say woodenly “i can’t do this” and ilya would say “shane,” a second time, and shane would shut the door and go finish his workout (and then have a panic attack in the shower). it would take 2-3 weeks of ilya chasing him for shane to even look him in the eye. and another 2 weeks after that for shane to finally accept that ilya was not dead and break down crying hysterically in his arms. but rest assured the eventual reunion sex would be insane

[eemolu]

don't get me wrong i love the fact that shane and ilya retcon their relationship to be love at first sight. like good for them!! but when i look at the source material im like .. you were charmed. you were jealous. he had everything you wanted (supportive family and his country behind him, able to be big and brash and move through life with ease) and you wanted to see if you could make him feel good (can you debauch the golden boy, can you be good for the man who's had everyone) but the love didn't come until you started to take apart the things that attracted you to this person in the first place. shane fell in love with the ilya who checked in on him and with the sweetness behind the barbs and with the ilya who couldn't stop kissing him in that stairwell. and ilya fell in love with the shane who thinks buffalo is stupid and can barely get his shoes off before he throws himself at ilya and can't tell his parents he's gay because he's suffocating behind his own image not because he thinks they don't love him but because he wants to honor everything they've done for him. and so it's really nice that ilya goes "i loved you from the first time i saw you" but i, omniscient reader, call bullshit. i think you love that boy now because no version of you could ever not love any version of him. but at the time i think you were mostly just curious and then the love grew despite all odds in the most hostile of circumstances because everything you learned about each other made you want more and more and more. and also probably that's even MORE beautiful. so.

[cuppydogshane]

arthur pike's first word other than mama or papa was Hiiiiiiii and he said it to Shane