DoubleAppled

She/her | Probably older than you DoubleApple on Ao3

[weewoo911]

Loads of Hollanov fics have them getting walked in on while making out etc which is great

But I’d love a fic where one or both of Shane’s parents drop by the cottage for phone charger/laundry pod reasons and find Shane snuggled on the couch fast asleep on Ilya’s chest and that’s how they find out

They’re dressed in soft casual clothes, sleeping like the dead and wrapped around each other like vines and Ilya’s hand is in Shane’s hair and Shane looks so so comfortable and relaxed

Meanwhile his parents are staring slack-jawed at the sight of their son using his archenemy the Russian Rage Machine as a teddybear/pillow

[doubleappled]

AHHHHH my brain just saw this and went gimme gimme gimme munch munch munch yum yum yum MINE MINE MINE

Maybe what my Bad Parents WIP needs is to step away from it and do a little Good Parents one-shot just real quick as a treat…

[gurlsrool]

If you wanna see peak jealous Ilya, imagine if in the early days, Shane and Hayden went on a season of the amazing race for…some reason. Shane is treating it like he’s competing for the Stanley cup while Hayden is just trying to have fun.

They do pretty well, but Ilya watches every episode SCREAMING at the TV. He’s so furious that Hayden is dragging down the team. If HE was there, they would win every leg! And he’d actually appreciate how cute Shane looks all sweaty, wearing his comically large backpack!!

The following year, Ilya and Cliff go on, which is totally not a ploy to get Shane’s attention. Cliff fucks up a roadblock and they get out in the first leg and Ilya loses his SHIT to a degree that goes viral

[laviejaguardia]

I love the everyone wants to fuck Shane Hollander agenda so picture like, Ilya at a team member's bachelor party and the whole Raiders team is there and everyone is drunk and they're playing games and just yelling out answers at the same time to questions like what's your favourite position and age you lost your virginity and giving each other shit for the answers but then there's what player you would go gay for and suddenly the whole team yells Shane Hollander at once to stunned silence afterwards and Ilya has the worst fucking night of his life

[gloryhollanovjah]

Man I know Shane ruined Ilya's sleepover plans but he really made up for it in spades. I'm sorry I couldn't spend the night; please come to my house for two weeks. You bought me ginger ale; let me buy you Cokes and Doritos and water shoes. You made me a tuna melt; let me make you more burgers than we can eat. You asked me questions I didn't know how to answer; let me make sure you know I'm going to be as honest as I can. I'm sorry I got scared and ran away when you asked for more; let me stay up all night planning the rest of our lives.

[doubleappled]

[sirens-scales]

We don’t talk about this enough. With all the big romantic gestures in The Long Game, this, to me, is one of the most romantic moments.

We know Ilya isn’t a fan of Shane’s restrictive diet. He teases him about it, but Ilya is an expert ragebaiter who knows how to tease the people he cares about when they feel safe and in ways that never really hurt.

Shane is “frantic” in this scene. Ilya has the perfect opening to say something about his diet, and he doesn’t take it. He sees that Shane is panicking, steps in and fixes it. He was looking at that menu thinking about Shane and Shane’s fuckass diet that Ilya doesn’t even like. But he knows this is important to Shane. He knows Shane is already nervous about being on a date with Ilya in public and being with another queer couple. So he meets Shane’s needs without Shane ever having to ask, and he does it quietly, without drawing any attention, so that Shane can save face.

Of course he’s gonna tease him about it a little bit later because that’s what they do. But he only does that AFTER Shane’s had a chance to catch his breath and feel safe again.

To be loved is to be known indeed.

[ivviannaa]

something so many people in this fandom seem to forget is that depression isn't cured by love. ilya will go through his life with a supportive team, an adoring husband, wonderful friends and in-laws, and he's still going to have days where he doesn't want to get up. he's still going to be angry at himself for not being better despite everything. he's still going to flinch when he sees pill bottles and knives and wonder if he laughs like his mother. through therapy and being honest and maybe medication, those days are going to be less frequent until maybe they barely happen at all. but they're still going to happen, because ilya is still depressed, and you can't love the depression out of someone

[teathattast]

[sunnypeachyy]

Hudson Williams | Bell Media Upfront 26 Red Carpet

[achilles-heelys-feelies]

Presenting, the Mighty Loons crest as the Montreal Victoire from Deja Vu by @not-close-to-straight!

Based on my own pattern, posted to this blog.

no one ask me how my hands are doing.

[not-close-to-straight]

OBSESSED WITH THIS

[doubleappled]

Ahhh look at this! All of you are reading Deja Vu, right? I hope?

Someone said the word “coach” near me the other day and I automatically replied “hi to coach” because @not-close-to-straight is a straight-up genius who does the MOST incredible small-town cozy world-building (plus genuine pathos and pining and catharsis and mmmph everything good in the world).

Gilmore Girls has nothing, like seriously NOTHING, on this fic. Lorelei who. Stars Hollow where. Nobody cares. MONTBONNE FOREVER!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[crossnecklace]

obsessed with the part in episode 5 when marleau asks ilya if he got any sleep the night before [elbow ribbing] and then calls him a “fucking beautician” like you’re always looking gorgeous bro no homo though. and ilya’s like haha thanks bro i totally wasn’t up late jorking it to the idea of shane hollander being in love with me

[alunaloverworld]

[ilyapasta]

The first time Shane and Ilya have like a normal domestic day together, post coming out to Shane’s parents, I think there’s probably a moment when both of them are like— holy shit that’s my guy. And some wires are getting crossed because they’ve lived extremely homosocial lives where they spent a large amount of time playing a single gender sport where they put their identities to the side for the team always about the team and the guys and yeah we’re really clicking out there on the ice. So they know about chemistry. They know about communication. But the thing that makes them different from other hockey players is that they’re not just in the rabble, not just one of the guys. They’re at the top, kind of doomed to be alone by virtue of just how good they are. Maybe they never thought they would have the camaraderie that other players get, that sort of pseudo military bond of being in the trenches together that athletes feel.

But when Shane sees Ilya shuffling sleepy around the kitchen in the morning, mumbling something like “gonna make you the best eggs Hollander where the fuck is your whisk” or later when they’re getting ready to have dinner with Shane’s parents and Shane helps Ilya pick out a parent-friendly button-down from his own closet, doing up the buttons for him instead of undressing him for once and taking a look at the result (“no, let’s try the this one, the color is better, maybe”) I think they’re both like holy shit this is my guy. This is the team I’ve always wanted, above the one where we play hockey on TV. And it crosses some wires in their brains because oh this is what it’s supposed to feel like to have someone have your back. Not that they both aren’t beloved by their teams but we honestly don’t see it besides the transactional nature of their skills (maybe Hayden is an exception with Shane, but really Ilya’s closest person in the show is Svetlana, he has no one close in the books) weighed with how they get the team accolades.

This is why I don’t think the commitment part was ever going to be hard for them. They are both craving a person, someone that is just there for them. They were conditioned for this type of bond, promised brotherhood when they started hockey, but never reaped the benefits because of their talent. Sure, Shane could have found a nice man in Montreal, but this is so much deeper than just finding someone you want to date and falling in love that way.

It’s also why I think despite marriage not being required for commitment, they want it. They want a formal distinction saying no, this one’s mine. This is my team. And we’re going to win. At what, who knows, but they want that win.

[ilyapasta]

Since this post is circulating again today, and I'm 100% more insane since I wrote it, I'd like to offer another layer: Shane and Ilya are starkly unaware that they are characters in romance novels. They aren't looking for love. If you asked Ilya what kind of story he was in, he would tell you he is a rock-star-esque figure that will burn bright and flame out young in some kind of tragedy. If you asked Shane, he would probably tell you to fuck off but when he thinks about it he would say he's in one of those masculine adventure/sports stories, where he rallies a team of men behind him to believe in themselves and defeat the odds. Shane is maybe looking for a "wife" because he's trying to conform throughout the whole novel and with Rose in the show, but looking for a heterosexual partner so that you can be normal is not romance novel behavior. There has to be some kind of rebellion. There has to be a reason you shouldn't be together, and they have plenty.

But it takes them so long, way longer than other romance novels, to even admit to themselves, let alone each other, that they are hurtling towards a committed partnership with someone they not only love, but deeply respect and desire life-long companionship with. Remember, they like each other. Something I love about Heated Rivalry is that there's no tearful confession in the rain, there's no heated first-time consummation after the love confession, because by the time they confess their love in bed together at the cottage, after they lay out their contents of their hearts—Shane with his "plan" and Ilya with his leap of faith to be the first one to say "I love you"—it's inevitable. They have had sex in almost every possible way, they know each other through their hockey play, and even though they haven't plumbed the depths of emotional intimacy yet, they know they want it. They're hungry to know more. To know everything. But they waited until the last possible moment, alone in the quiet wilderness where no one can perceive them or offer opinion (for now), to admit it.

To bring it back to the original thought: They've already done everything to become the other person's undisputed guy. From their POV: Oh shit, we're the protagonists of a romance novel. Loving each other is actually the most important, impactful thing that will ever happen to us. We will not fall into tragedy or obscurity, our story will have a happy ending, because we are together, and that's where our story ends. Not in death, not in retirement, not in loneliness and conformity, but with love, partnership, and commitment.

Crazy motherfuckers.

(thank you to @bea-goldfish for letting me workshop this analysis in your DMs last night lol)

[sunnypeachyy]

🥹🥺 → 🥰☺️

[doubleappled]

Genuinely what do the camera/lighting/makeup (?) people on this show know that no one else knows? Did they sell their immortal souls or barter with a genie for seven gold coins? Do they have magical cameras/lights/makeup/whatever the fuck?

[russianblush]

#ilya baby get behind me

[russianblush]

HEY HELLO JUST GIVE ME THE GUN INSTEAD

(sorry @joyousmistake these tags killed me)

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

i think my biggest worry wrt unrivaled is that i have (obviously) created myshane and myilya and mythem based on the show first, as well as the books, and that also extends to them in the future. like i have my own ideas of what they will be like as an out married couple that are, frankly, probably quite different than what RR has envisioned and written. which is like, fine, obviously. and i think i have a pretty good grasp on where mythem starts and Canon Them ends. but not everyone does or will. and while there are absolutely valid criticisms to be had of RRs writing and characterization i have had this lingering nervousness about her/her work being torn to shreds when what is ultimately the story she wanted to tell doesn't match up with peoples' headcanoned future for them.

[doubleappled]

This is perfectly said and I have the same nervousness — like, we all love to play with our toys in our own specific way, and that is great, and it brings all of us joy!

But let’s not forget that the person who made the toys in the first place also gets to play with them in her own specific way.

It absolutely 100% will not match your way identically, and that is just fine.

[ladyshinga]

There are few things funnier to me than the white-hot raging beef parents can have with fictional characters written for young children. You want to hear one of the funniest rants of your life, you ask nearly any parent of a young child their least favorite little cartoon guy. It'll be amazing.

[ladyshinga]

no. i want them to find me organically on this one

[shtuffchildcareworkerssay]

@elodieunderglass I hope you don’t mind me sharing your tags on this bc I fully endorse and have been known to do this very thing.

[elodieunderglass]

It’s a good strategy! And I agree that some people’s houses play Peppa Pig in English, but I’m just not in control of that.

[doubleappled]

Ahaha this is all Correct, and can we talk about Pinkalicious for a second because oh my godddddd