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No additional comments here just my little (little-ahhah-funny) obsession with Hollanov and "Wolfbird" by @opal-apparition (ao3)

rozanovshane

toddler shane refusing to talk after his hockey team lose a game. yuna & david are trying to be encouraging like “bud!! you played so good!!” and shane is ignoring them while climbing into his car seat where he’s going to angrily drink his juice box and then chew on the straw.

flyora

Couldn't miss the chance

1410-1221-dec2008

gingerpolyglot

It's such a minor thing compared with everything else but it really bothers me how much emphasis is put on Ottawa being Shane's hometown, as if that somehow makes it even more convenient for Shane and isolating to Ilya. It just serves as additional fodder for Ilya's resentment. It's mentioned three times in Long Game, notably during/after the Boxing Day fight:

Instead he’d chosen to come to Ottawa, when he could have gone to almost any team in the league. He’d chosen a team that hadn’t made the playoffs in over a decade. He’d chosen it because it was Shane’s hometown, and close to where Shane lived. He’d chosen it so he could build a life in Canada with the man he loved.

- The Long Game, Ch. 22

He’d set his boyfriend up in his hometown, not far from Montreal, because that was convenient for him.

- The Long Game, Ch. 23

Except that's revisionist history designed to make Shane look bad! They chose Ottawa for hockey reasons (cap space, roster needs) and logistics (it's the closest team to Montreal and Shane's contract isn't up so he can't move, it lets Ilya start the Canadian citizenship process). None of the reasons Ilya moves to Ottawa rather than another team has to do with Shane's connection to it - not even being close to Yuna and David, because they're not a factor when they make the original plan!

It's framing the move to Ottawa like a Hallmark movie where the significant other is forced to relocate to their partner's hometown where their partner lives and knows everyone and is woven into the fabric of the community while the person who moves is completely isolated from THEIR friends and family - except Shane ISN'T woven into the fabric of Ottawa like that because he doesn't live there. Ilya sees Shane's parents (aka his only emotional tie to Ottawa besides Ilya) more often than Shane does, and Shane hasn't lived in Ottawa since he was at least 18, if not earlier with billeting.

So the fact that he grew up there has zero bearing on the current circumstances, and it's just a clumsy way to reinforce the narrative that Shane fit Ilya perfectly into his life without making any changes to his own, except Ottawa being Shane's hometown is essentially a complete coincidence, so all it actually does is make Shane look bad for no reason.

medrawawi

💤💤

medrawawi

shane and shanelings🐥🐣

drawballa

📞😴

iero

Ilya Rozanov week: Day one Favorite moment(s): Letting himself be a kid again around the people he loves ♥︎

HEATED RIVALRY (2025 -)

rylandsgrace

Does it fucking kill you too? Not anymore.

Hollanov + season 1 timeline

jessij1997

“You promised not to ghost.”

Shane felt the urge to defend himself, maybe even invent an excuse or whatever, but he realized a lie wouldn’t get him anywhere. “Sorry.”

“It’s okay. You came. You will come again.”

The way he said it should have irritated Shane. It was arrogant somehow, almost like this man was far too sure of himself. But the truth was that Shane felt a strange flutter low in his stomach, something he had never experienced before.

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