Let's forget reality

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[myshangel]

shane getting increasingly pissed off bc journalists keep calling ilya his spouse or his partner. they say wife when they're talking about the others, if they even come up. shane voice, why are you so scared of the word husband? he's already married to me, it's not like saying it will turn you gay

[myshangel]

that's his first big argument with Yuna after the marriage bc he refuses to sign off on a statement about joining his partner on the centaurs. initially she just doesn't get why it's a big deal; it's just a formality, something to tide the fans over the summer now that the trade is announced. she calls david her partner sometimes, it's not a big deal. and shane has to explain that ilya has been his business partner with the charity for years, that was their whole closeted deal. what was the point of being outed, losing all sense of agency and privacy, if he still has to mince words about who Ilya is to him? he isn't joining his partner, he's joining his husband. they're married. the league can change the wording or he's not signing it.

[raincitygirl76]

Spouse is a weasel word for journalists and PR people. Unless you alreadyuse it routinely to refer to all married couples.

Say an organization has spent the past several years consistently saying, “We spoke to Montreal defenceman Gilbert Comeau’s spouse Danielle Comeau” etc, etc, In that case it would make sense to say, “Shane Hollander has signed for his spouse’s team”.

But as the OP says, nobody has been doing that. It’s Gilbert Comeau’s wife this, Hayden Pike’s wife that, on and on and on. Because heterosexual marriage is the default. And then as soon as a same-sex marriage is invoked, people immediately want to sanitize it by using spouse instead. As OP (and Shane) says, it’s total bullshit.

Shane walked through fire to get to call Ilya his husband. No way in hell is letting anyone get away with weasel words now. They’re the hockey husbands and everyone just has to cope. This is non-negotiable for Shane.

[stonermossprince]

shaneberry dont be sad

[kaijuerotica]

can't forget his freckles

[yadathings]

[yadathings]

[hayden-christensen]

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

@pscentral event 23: arcs ↳ the character arc of ANAKIN SKYWALKER/DARTH VADER from STAR WARS (layout insp)

[shaneposting]

if s2 was up to me i would 100% include shane’s centre ice fantasy and i’d set it up like. ottawa vs montreal. they’re skating up for the face off. the viewer thinks it’s a regular game. there’s a whole crowd, two teams, the referees, etc. then they look at each other and they’re both dropping their helmets glove-drop style and making out and desperately taking off each other’s gear and with every layer that comes off there’s another ‘background layer’ lost, like the teams disappear, the crowd noise fades out, etc. the last thing to go is the commentary. the whole thing is narrated like ‘there appears to be a delay to the face off as shane hollander adjusts his helmet and- oh. oh wow. well. that’s unexpected folks. i did not think this game would have many surprises for us but here we are. this will delay the puck drop for sure. i don’t recall this ever happening on- oh good god let’s leave them to it we can’t show that on the broadcast’

and they fuck with ilya standing and holding shane with shane’s legs around his waist (idc that this is not feasible it’s shane’s dream and also mine). scene ends with shane all moaning and Lost In The Sauce with his head tipped back and his back arching and ilya’s mouth on his neck. followed by a hard cut to him in the same position but half asleep in bed like in the book and ilya waking up beside him like 🫪🥵

[medrawawi]

this was a collaboration with my two little brothers because i asked them to draw a person playing hockey and a baby playing hockey and a duck playing too, then i edited it🏒

[sleepyfortress]

I saw two runway looks (from McQueen for Givenchy 1999 and Galliano for Dior 1998) and this happened 🫡

[occasionalauthoring]

Angst Potential or something...

A truth field is the concept of an area that forces everyone inside to always tell the truth.

Batfamily would probably be angsty.

Jason telling Bruce and admitting to himself that he specifically started using guns to spite Bruce. He could kill with his blades just as if not more easily.

Dick saying he never fully accepted Bruce as his Father.

Damien saying he preferred working with Dick over him.

Tim referring to himself as an employee, as if they haven't been family at all.

Duke and Steph saying they don't like the fact they feel like Bruce is their dad. It feels like they're replacing their real families.

On a happier note

Batship love confessions

Bruce telling people how much he cares

Slight adjustmemt: Bruce gets hexed, people are compelled to tell him things they've kept from him/how they feel about him.

He's with the JL, and Hal blurts out that he lied about losing his debreif, he actually spilt takeout on it and hasn't had time to print another one. A few more slip out of other members, and they're all lightly amused, slightly embarassed, but don't expect anything bad to happen.

Bruce walks past the Outlaws on the Watchtower when they're ribbing Jason for his guns.

"Alright, alright! The real reason I use guns is—" and he's going to make a joke, no one expects a serious asnwer, but then Bruce drifts by. "To spite Bruce. The old man is so anal about the guns, it's stupid. Guns didn't kill his parents, that mugger did, he needs to get over it."

Bruce freezes. Jason claps a hand over his mouth. The room goes silent.

Jason turns, looking at Bruce, who holds up a hand. "I know guns didn't kill my parents, Jason. I'm the one that taught you how to use them. That does not mean I cannot be wary of such a powerful weapon."

Bruce leaves it there and sweeps out of the room, ignoring Jason calling his name.

——

"B!" Dick calls, jogging over. "Heard you got hexed, I was thinking—" he steps within the field. "That I don't know how to tell anyone I don't think of you as my father. My dad will always come first, and I can't accept you taking his place in my mind. I—"

Bruce puts distance between them, moving the field away from Dick, who goes pale. "Wait. I didn't mean that, Bruce—" Clark catches Dick's arm, gesturing for Bruce to go, and he gladly ducks away.

——

Damian storms right up to where Bruce has secluded himseld, trying to avoid any more truth bonbs before literally any magic user at this point arrives that can help him.

"Father, why is Richard—"

"Son, no!"

"—not Batman? He made an exemplar Batman. You, on the other hand, do not live up to Mother's tales, or Richard's example?"

Barry appears and yanks Damian back a few steps. Bruce just sighs. "Dick isn't Batman because he doesn't like what I've created. If you want to be his partner, talk to him about it."

He leaves, hating himself for the bitter tone, unable to drown out Damian demanding Barry let him go.

——

Bruce makes a break for the zetas, only for some members of YJ to beam onto the Watchtower as he approaches. "I can't believe he's hexed to be a truth machine. It's gotta be crazy being Batman's son."

Tim grins. Bruce thinks maybe this one won't be awful. "Yeah, it's— I feel like an employee sometimes. He acts like he loves me, but I'm only here because someone needed to be Robin."

Bruce stops dead. "Tim." Tim's eyes go wide, and he grabs Kon.

"Fuck. Run."

The zetas light up again, they disappear, and Bruce slowly trudges off in another direction. He doesn't want Tim to think he's chasing him home.

——

Bruce tries to hide in his room. He opens the door, finding Cass on his bed. "I'm worried about Bruce," she says into her phone. "He— treated me like a weapon, not a daughter, at first. Sometimes I think it would be better if you adopted me instead, Babs."

She meets his eyes, wide, horrified, and Bruce steps back, closing the door.

——

Bruce ends up in a vent. He's hiding, he can admit that. Zatanna messaged she's nearly here only a short while ago, so he just needs to avoid everybody until then.

"It's good Zatanna's here now, before anything else happens. Did you hear what Dick said to him?" He hears Steph's voice, and goes still. He has nowhere to go. He doesn't want to hear what she says, he's done her wrong so many times.

"Yeah, ruthless," Duke agrees. Bruce closes his eyes, they'll be right under him in 3, 2, 1... "I mean, saying that— is totally reasonable, actually. It feels like sometimes he's trying to be my dad, 'cept I don't want him to replace mine. I've already got Gnormon trying to screw me over, I don't need Bruce too."

"Heard. I don't care if my mum isn't the best in the world, having Bruce try to cram himself into a parental role ain't gonna help anything."

Bruce blows out a slow breath, hearing dead silence beneath him. "B, please tell me you're not in that vent," Steph begs.

Bruce drops down, and avoids looking either of them in the eye. "I apologise you both feel that way, I thought I had been obvious that I don't intend to be a parent to either of you. I know that isn't my place."

"Boss man," Duke tries, and Bruce walks away.

"You said Zatanna's here?"

——

"Heard you're having a rough one," Zatanna notes, after blurting out that her dad refused to teach Bruce magic because he stands a chance at surpassing their best magic users with his magical ancestry, not because of the reasons he was given when he was younger.

"You could say that." Zatanna mumbles a few words, then grins at him, tugging him into her side.

"Well, it's over now."

Bruce leans his head on her shoulder. "Can I stay with you for a while, Zee? I don't really want to go home right now."

She strokes her hand through his hair. "Sure, Brucie. I've got a few shows this week, you can be my stagehand."

She tugs him towards the zetas, plugging in a location he doesn't pay attention to. All that matters is it isn't Gotham.

"Bruce!" He turns, finding Dick in the doorway, Steph and Duke behind him. Damian, running down the hall in the distance. "Please, stay and—"

Zatanna grabs his hand, and the zeta whisks them away.

[russianblush]

the Drama™

[porcelaintoybox23]

The fake person I made up: you’re saying you don’t like a happy batfam?

Me: No, I don’t want a happy batfam. I don’t want Bruce Wayne to be a good “dad” or mentor. At best, he tries and falls short because he isn’t suited to properly caring for others.

I don’t want dunce, can’t cook, nerfed Dick Grayson, I want one who’s just as cold and calculating as Bruce can be. One that suffers from perfectionism and anger issues because Bruce demands so much and this orphaned boy needed a father, not an adult child soldier.

I want a Dick Grayson that’s angry that his supposed “family” failed him and literally left him with amnesia and blamed him for it. I want the Dick Grayson who moved to New York instead of Gotham because even nuclear fallout can’t make him be near Bruce.

I want a Dick that resents Bruce. A Dick Grayson that considers John his real father and hates that he’s still so much like Bruce regardless.

I want a Jason Todd who keeps his distance because Bruce keeps making the same mistakes. I want a Jason Todd that kills because Bruce’s views should be challenged. I want a Jason Todd who is independent of the Batfam and does his own thing.

I don’t want the edgy, street trash Jason. I want the excited boy who had his joy beaten out of him.

I want a Tim Drake that’s still Red Robin. I want the neurotic kid who cloned his bf(f) like 99 times, accidentally killed Cass’s mom, and goes toe to-toe with Ra’s al-Ghul. The kid who’s morals are a little more suspect. The one with the potential to go Savior.

I want Barbara Gordon as Oracle. I want the Barbara with the sirens. I want the Barbara who wouldn’t kiss Jason and berate Dick for his amnesia.

I want a Cassandra Cain that’s utilized more.

I don’t want a happy batfam because there is no reality in which a batfam can be healthy. Bruce dedicated his life to “vengeance.” The man is focused on the mission. He will lie, manipulate, and use people. Bruce Wayne is the kind of man who keeps a list on how to kill his teammates despite being against killing. Bruce Wayne is paranoid and needed a child to rein in his murderous rage. Bruce Wayne beat Dick into faking his death. Even is his best iterations, he’s a paranoid recluse who can’t distinguish between himself and the mask.

I think batfam is fun…crack. I consider it crack. This urge to make them close and loving feels so out of character at times. I’m not saying none of them have positive relationships. I love Dick and Damian as close brothers. I think Tim and Jason are funny at times. BUT if any superhero family should be fucked and full of tension, it’s the bats. The supers and speedsters can be healthy. Maybe, maybe the arrows, but not the bats.

[fatowlsdotjpeg]

in MY canon, hayden is ex-mo. and tells no one.

not jackie, not shane, not anyone. he has completely cut himself off from his family and despite the church's many attempts to contact him (a common tactic of mormon churches if they have you in the records. evangelism and all), the moment he had enough money he had a lawyer send a cease and desist. he has not spoken to his family in years, and the sibling relationship he has with shane? it's sort of all he has. he never tells anyone about this. why? because he is so fucking scared. he grew up scared, he's only ever known fear, and when he finally got out, he literally couldn't even speak about growing up without being drowned by it. that fear. the fear that it's not over and he's not safe and actually everyone was right and he'll never be safe. myhayden suggests therapy to shane because he started therapy himself because he knew he needed to do something because every time one of the guys on the bench would mumble some kind of prayer he would nearly throw up.

He has one photo of his family. one single photo of him from the ages of 0-18 that he took with him. he's 14 in the photo, the family took a group picture before sending his older brother (he was the youngest of eight) on his mission. he can't look at it, but he has it. His family was exceptionally devout. it is so ingrained in his psyche that he doesn't pick up on his latent bisexual tendencies and when jackie makes a joke about it he laughs and then has to hide in the bathroom and weep while jackie, ilya, and shane sit on the couch in the living room drinking wine. he had never been able to put words to the suffocation. could never explain why he needed to leave.

it's myhaydens initial driving force behind his dislike of ilya. because ilya had only ever spoken negatively about him and it was chirping to ilya but it accidentally hit on every bruise left by the hands of the church. you are not good. you are not capable. you are not enough.

and they get past it, obviously, myhayden is a hollanov diehard. eventually, it's Ilya who notices how hayden flinches at mentions of religion. how he has no childhood photos. how he has never told a story that occurred before he was 18. he knows what jackie said, that hayden's relationship with his parents was pretty much nonexistent and he hated talking about it. so he wonders. and ilya likes knowing things. so he asks shane and shane says the same and he knows neither of them are lying but now he's starting to realize that they've sort of been lied to, or at least not told the whole truth, and he wants to know now more than ever.

it happens one night looking at baby photos. ilya and hayden were flipping through photo albums when jackie and shane had left to pick up the girls. and ilya, after seeing a thousand photos of the kids, turns and asks, "do you think they look more like you or like jackie as kids." and hayden looks at him and ilya's eyes have that knowing behind it and hayden caves. jackie and shane aren't pushers but ilya is and hayden is at a point where he thinks he can say at least something without bursting into flames. so he tells ilya. not the whole thing, but just that he doesn't remember what he looked like as a baby. and ilya, of course, asks about pictures. and hayden says he only has one. and hayden, shockingly (to both himself and ilya) walks to his room, pulls down a box from a high closet shelf, and pulls out a single photograph. and ilya looks down at all that hayden has lost and it kicks the air from his lungs.

there are fourteen people in the photo. hayden, clearly identifiable. then five older boys and two older girls. two sets of what he assumes are grandparents and then his parents. his brother is holding a book of some sort. and hayden is looking down at the picture with an emotion ilya cannot name but can recognize. hayden puts the photo away and ilya realizes he can't ask any more of him, not tonight at least. eventually, he'll get him to tell the story, or maybe he'll talk to shane and jackie and see if they should all ask him. for now all he can do is think about how hayden, and all seven of his siblings, have the same exact smile, and shockingly similar faces. He, in that moment, is greatful he only kind of looks like his mother. He can't imagine looking in the mirror every morning at the face of everything you've given up

[triassictriserratops]

I will never not laugh at Ilya ROUNDING that corner after the shower scene in the first episode. He tried SO HARD to strike the PERFECT BALANCE between taking enough time that didn't look like he was running after Shane but not taking so much time that Shane would be gone.

MEANWHILE Shane is FULLY DRESSED and just has has ONE SHOE left to put on and he's sitting there waiting for Ilya to come out of the shower but INTENTIONALLY left that shoe off just so he didn't look like he was waiting for Ilya.

"oh, no, I'm totally still just getting dress-*fuck dropped the shoe*-ed"

Your honor, please, I beg leniency for them. They're stupid for each other and know not what they do.

[lexicanons]

Vampire!Shane hiding the fact that he’s a vampire from Ilya. Vampires are known and able to live openly, but there’s still a lot of prejudice surrounding them. Shane is in love with Ilya and hides out of fear that Ilya will leave him. Shane is old enough that he can go out into the sun for long periods of time without issue. He tells Ilya he’s on an insanely strict diet to explain why he doesn’t really eat. Shane forces himself to breathe when he’s around Ilya. He goes to his witch friend, Rose, and she puts a spell on Shane to make it seem like he has a pulse and is warm to the touch. He covers all his bases and things are going great. One night they’re having sex. Ilya is fucking him so good that his concentration slips and his fangs drop. As his orgasm hits, he sinks his fangs into Ilya’s shoulder. Ilya’s blood hits his tongue and Shane’s moans at how deliciously perfect it is. He hears Ilya moan in his ear and that brings Shane back. He pulls back from Ilya’s shoulder and looks up at him. He stumbles over his words, trying to explain, but Ilya just grabs Shane’s chin and holds it to keep Shane’s mouth open. Ilya leans down to let his tongue lick across Shane’s fangs, “I fucking knew it.”

[crossnecklace]

mean dom ilya constantly moving the goal posts during sex. he’s such a saint, he’s offering the highest reward in return for completing a simple task, it’s so simple, anyone can do it (alternatively, it’s not simple, but it’s so vague that the only one who can determine if the task is complete is him)

i’ll do whatever you want if you just do this one thing, doesn’t that sound nice? no not like that, you’re doing it wrong. looks like you haven’t earned it yet. what’s this, you’re begging me now, didn’t i already tell you i’ll give it to you once you’ve earned it? isn’t it enough that i’m giving you anything at all? shut up, or i’ll give you something to complain about. actually, good idea, since you’re being ungrateful, you can earn it some more.

and it’s only once shane is actually incapable of speech or movement that he’s really going to get what he wants, bc the task wasn’t actually “can you do this one thing?” it was really “will you continue to do everything i ask without pushback until i decide you deserve it?”

[fizzigigsimmer]

But what if Steve made the top on his old Scoops uniform into sleeveless vest, to go to a hollowness party as a "sexy sailor" to seduce Billy? What if they had only met in college? And Steve is just a baby bi, in his first gay relationship... with Billy's roommate. Whom Billy hates because he's a massive chad and always humping with his ditzy boyfriend like a bunny rabbit. It's so bad Billy has started ignoring the sock on the door because he isn't paying tuition to not use his own goddamn room. It's got nothing to do with wanting to be around Steve whatever chance he can get. And what if Steve thinks Billy hates him cause he's always so rude when Steve is over, but whatever the D is good enough to put up with his boyfriend's asshole roommate.

But then Josh dumps Steve cause he's a prick and insists he was just going through a "phase" and starts dating some chick. And Steve's pissed, but Robin helps him see that he was way more into the sex than he ever was Josh and this was his first "liberated" relationship, and maybe the answer is to just cleanse his pallet with some good old fashioned revenge sex and move on. And Steve immediately is like, "So I should sleep with Billy? Great Idea Robin!" Because Josh will hate it and also, he woulda climbed Billy like a tree ages ago if it wasn't for the boyfriend.

And even though Robin totally meant he could have a fling with anyone BESIDES he's ex's roommate, Steve is committed now and ropes her into helping him complete his mission. Billy doesn't like Steve any more than he likes Josh, or so Steve thinks, so he figures he's gotta warm him up to the idea with some liquor and a little skin and the annual Halloween bash at the frat house presents the perfect opportunity.

[dream-about-dancing]

@fizzigigsimmer

[yadathings]