[kateantropova]

he wasn't joking

[handsywoman]

sex sells <3

[sheisraging]

much to think about for days to come

[midnightstorries]

connor storrie and hudson williams at the Met Gala 2026 (📸 alexachung)

I WAS TRYING TO SLEEP

[galecstatic]

okay we get it shane hollander is fucking yours and yours only no one is taking him away from you jesus christ

[flower-of-the-desert]

Something about "This Montreal girl works you up, brother" lands soooooo sexy for me. Part of it is because I am shallow and Cliff is hot and the way he says it is hot BUT ALSO

The acknowledgement of the effect Shane has on Ilya, Mr Sex God, Mr Womannizer, Mr Playboy of the NHL, the fact that he's so visibly affected by a simple text exchange that his teammate/friend notices and feels the need to comment on?

Chef's kiss x 100000

[spongelll]

me walking to the bathroom at 3am in a massively oversized shirt, using gay fanfic on my phone to light the way

[cloudabserk]

BEST DAY EVER ☀️🌸❤️🦋

based on this

[blacksheepcolorfulskin]

WHY IS THIS SO GOOD?!

[finelytaylored]

he was down SO BAD IMMEDIATELY

[drawballa]

Sleepy boys 💤

[my-2nd-account]

Hayden Pike on his couch in February 2017 watching the All Star Game that he wasn't even invited to only to see big bad evil Ilya fucking Rozanov kissing sweet angel baby sunshine Shane's helmet and Shane blushing and giggling and looking at Ilya with hearts dancing in his eyes.

Which he never does when Hayden bonks helmets with him!!!

[mulderscully]

He wanted to tell Shane that the closest he felt to home was when he was with him. It didn't matter if it was in a hotel room, Ilya's apartment, or here at Shane's cottage; he was himself when he was with Shane. He'd left Russia, he was uneasy in America, and he's spent his entire adult life drifting between continents and lovers. But now he had been reeled in by this annoying Canadian, and all he knew was that he wanted to stay. He wanted to anchor himself to Shane and just... stay.

[ava-deb]

You're good here, okay?

[heymacy]

it's so funny to me how scott and kip are drinking smoothies and buying novelty socks and moving at the speed of lesbians, meanwhile shane and ilya are stuck in individual saw traps but the saw traps are their minds and they forgot the instructions

[perlukafarinn]

Shane does an interview after they're outed where he says, kind of off-handedly, that the one thing that still bothers him about having to keep their relationship secret for so long is that there are no pictures of them together as a couple from those years.

Someone clips it and it goes viral.

Over the next few days, Shane and Ilya's mentions start to get flooded with pictures. Mostly it's screenshots from various games they played against each other, meticulously picked through by dedicated fans to find every moment Shane and Ilya looked at each other on the ice.

Some screenshots get shared by hundreds of different people because they stand out so obviously: Shane and Ilya meeting each other's eyes during a face off; Ilya looking at Shane while his back is turned, naked longing visible on his face; Shane chasing after Ilya with a small but delighted grin.

There are also pictures from press events, award ceremonies, behind the scenes at All Stars. Seemingly any time Shane and Ilya got captured in the same frame gets dug up and shared.

Finally, a couple of weeks later, the director of Shane and Ilya's CCM commercial posts outtakes from their shoot. It's captioned 'Took a bit of digging but I knew I still had these somewhere! I had to make my contribution to the #HollanovArchives even though this must have been a while before they got together. These kids had crazy chemistry, right from the start!'

Shane hasn't responded to the onslaught yet, too overwhelmed by the (slightly terrifying) dedication of their fans as well as the fact that he now has dozens of pictures clearly displaying his and Ilya's love for each other during a time in their lives when it was so desperately hidden.

He does respond now, sharing the director's post with a sincere (and publicist-approved) caption thanking him and the fans.

Ilya also shares the post, tacking on 'yes if a while means a few hours 👅' like he didn't cry when Shane showed him the videos.

[firelise]

absolutely 1000% wasted opportunity to have Top be weird to Dean for flirting with his boyfriend when they first met. I mean, that was just a layup that was right there ripe for the picking