The Minnesota nice

Gymnastics and F1 fan

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[lexilexilexilexile]

Shane and Ilya’s daughter has to do a family tree project in class. They’ve done a great job at emphasizing to her that parents can be any two people that love each other and she understands that other kids might not know that. The rest of the project will be pretty straight forward - Shane doesn’t have any siblings and their daughter doesn’t know much about Ilya’s family at this age besides that papa has a mama that watches over them and that loves her very much. Shane is still nervous about it and having a Very Normal Shane Reaction wondering if she will feel left out for not having a mom and feeling sad that she will never know her papas family and wondering if she is lonely and if they should have another kid. When they get an email from the school asking them to come in at pickup to discuss her family tree Ilya is already angry and ready to pick a fight with whatever stupid kid is bullying their daughter for having two dads. They walk into the classroom and their daughter is standing with her arms crossed insisting that there is nothing wrong with her project and when the teacher slides it across the table they see something so bizarre that they don’t know where to start. She’s drawn on only one side of the tree - Ilya and Shane both stemming from Yuna and David. Next to them are about ten stick figures of different sizes all with hearts around them. While they’re trying to decipher what on earth she has drawn she starts presenting it with her little finger saying “see? Dad is grandma Yuna and grandpa David’s son and Papa is grandma Yuna and grandpa David’s son, too.” And then she moves her finger along with “and that’s uncle Hayden, uncle Troy and uncle Harris, uncle Evan, uncle Luca….” And as she’s naming every stick figure Shane is trying to figure out how he’s going to explain to her teacher that he is not married to one of his 10 brothers when he is actually an only child and Ilya has to turn away because he’s crying at the reminder that the family that adopted him adopted her as well and there has never been a child that has been so loved

[smokey-ilya]

i truly think one of the most appealing things about shane and ilya to me is that there’s no favorite. they’re both equally as talented, hot, and fucked up. and i've personally never experienced that with a ship before. there’s always been one side of a couple that i’ve aligned with or frankly enjoyed more, but with hollanov, i’m full sending for both of them just in different ways. i think it’s a combination of storytelling (both the books and scripts) and character embodiment from hudson and connor that’s made both characters so wonderful and relatable. and their LOVE, god, they’re so powerful together, it’s amazing 🥹

[shanyshko]

for the rest of his life carter vaughn assumes everyone around him is a closeted gay person just so he never has to be the only one running his mouth about allyship at the fag table in the russian ice cream shop again. people try to tell him this is NOT progressive but it's not about that.

[dumbass-writer]

As much as I love my hc that the raiders don’t put together the Shane/jane thing until years after hollanov are married- I equally love my hc that they knew but just didn’t give a fuck like roz is theirs and if he loves a man so be it (even if that man is Shane fucking Hollander I know they were seething after every accusation that Hollander would take it easy on them after vividly remembering how insane he would get during games)

[totearup]

One of the things the time jump between Heated Rivalry and Long Game robs us of is seeing the effect coming out to his team has on Shane in real time. And that experience does a lot to inspire his anxiety and responses in TLG.

No one will ever convince me that there's not a connection between Shane coming out to his team, it not going well, and Shane volunteering to start an even more intensely restrictive diet than he was already on, that also punishes his relationship. Just like I will always view Shane's anxiety around Ilya coming out to the Centaurs/his friends as a trauma response based on how badly it went for him.

One of the most heartbreaking parts about Shane's performance diet to me, is how in both My Dinner with Hayden and TLG Shane and Ilya mention how they love to cook together, and it's like a fun couple thing for them. It's a point of connection, something they do together aside from hockey. And, unlike hockey, it's something they don't compete about.

Shane's performance diet robs them of this. There's a scene in TLG where Ilya has done a bunch of research to find a meal they can cook together that fits in Shane's diet. And Shane is delighted by this. But, notably, he puts no effort into finding other recipes they can do this with again. He tells Rose he likes the discipline of his diet, and I don't think he means just in regards to what and where he's eating, I think he also means in his relationship.

There's another major change we see in Shane between books. At the end of Heated Rivalry he's talking fairly optimisticly about both of them coming out to friends.

This is at the cottage. Very soon after they've decided they're in a real relationship. It's hard not to compare this with Shane's sheer panic in TLG when Ilya talks about coming out to Troy - not even about them, just about being bi - and also to the possibility of even meeting the rest of his team.

So, what's happened to Shane in the last three years that makes him go from joking around about coming out to his friends to rabidly controlling his relationship and protecting every small detail of it that he possibly can?

The fucking Voyaguers.

[mymoonandmyshane]

thinking about how so much of shane is isolation.

hes the best hockey player in the world and has been excellent since he was a child. no one can compare. he has always been simultaneously resented and revered by his coaches and teammates and peers.

hes half asian, half white. too asian for the white kids, too white for the asian kids. the white kids and coaches didnt think he belonged, and the asian kids resented his proximity to whiteness and the opportunities that gave him. hes still too asian for the mlh.

hes autistic and doesnt know it. everyone else seems to have gotten a script for how to be a person and somehow shane never got a copy. he doesnt always get jokes quick enough or make conversation or go out with people. everyone thinks hes weird and uncomfortable to talk to so they avoid him.

hes gay but doesnt realize that for most of his life. whenever his teammates talked about girls he was bored and never had anything to contribute. when he realizes it, he cant talk to anyone about what that means or even simple things like his type or first crush.

shane hollander has been a little island since he was just a few years old, and when the opportunity comes to let someone onto his island, he doesnt know how. he runs when ilya tries to deepen their connection because no one has ever wanted to truly know him, and those that have caught glimpses of the real shane have rarely liked what they saw.

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[mxplecxkess]

Thinking about Troy as a dad and he’s so scared he’s going to mess things up and end up being like his dad. Except he hangs his kids art on the walls and in the fridge, and whatever doesn’t fit is kept in an album safe for them to see anytime. He’s for all of his daughter’s and son’s hockey games. He always fights for his daughter in the face of misogyny and paints his nails with his son. He doesn’t shame his son when he wants to switch sports and is always there when his daughter expresses her fears and anxieties. It’s only years later when Harris gifts him a book filled with pictures of all these memories for Father’s Day that he bursts into tears and realizes he’s giving his kids the childhood he wished he had, and that he is in fact, nothing like Curtis.

[fractally]

I dislike that the sex condo plot is missing in the HR TV show, like I do get it, they probably couldn't even afford scouting another location or whatever. But the detail abut the sex condo that's so good is that the first time it's totally unrenovated except for the bedroom. Shane takes Ilya to this fucking construction site of an apartment and Ilya is like ????? what ????? and then Shane is like "dw I did make sure there's a bed since literally the only thing that I care about is getting fucked. don't let the door hit you on the way out btw"

Esp early on book!Shane is so fucking cold man, it's amazing

(The equally amazing thing is down bad loverboy of all time Ilya decides to take this move as ROMANTIC because he's like ✨😍 he bought us a building ✨🥰👬😊)

[fractally]

Great tags from @rachfic222 I hadn’t even realized but yeah!!

Like it’s super important in the books that Ilya is escalating and it’s just bouncing off Shane. Ilya starts being more romantic during sex, he has him over, he feeds him. And Shane is just like: no. That culminates in the tuna meltdown because Ilya gets too explicit for Shane to compartmentalize it away

The more I think about the differences between the show and the books honestly the more I think they’re almost diametrically opposed. Tierney essentially flips their dynamic entirely, which is why it’s Shane asking “is this real” in the show. He’s the insecure one in the show, not Ilya. I’ve written my frustration about this in fandom but like…Tierney injected it.

Idk if I can get REALLY real here I think this is a huge reason so much of the fandom loves the show and almost resents the book. The show plays much more traditional romance dynamics (shy virginal Asian bottom seeking rakey top) and uhhhhhh yeah idk. I don’t know guys

[xeduo]

Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.

The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game...

So the first picture is this:

Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious

I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game

[xeduo]

Okay so later in the lineup we get to Dalí’s Persistence of Memory, which is very funny because it’s preceded by several pieces that have like, obvious people in them, so everyone’s gotten a bit complacent in their mimicry

In case you’ve forgotten, this is Persistence:

And I swear every time, there’s a beat right before everyone either becomes a tree by t-posing for their life, or goes boneless like some kind of child-shaped pancake over the nearest flat surface

Highlights from this one include a pair who decided to drape themselves pancake-style over the same desk and banged heads, resulting in 2 ground pancakes, and someone who fully just stood there staring, and explained that they were expressing the hatred they felt as soon as they saw it

[xeduo]

Last installment: one of the pictures is The Scream, and everyone very quickly just makes a 😱 face, but then we get to talk about my favorite “throw spaghetti at the wall” topic, why is he screaming? (The answer is Existential Dread, but it’s not appropriate to tell 1st graders that so instead we all put out other ideas lol)

In case you haven’t looked at it recently, this is The Scream:

My favorite guesses from the kids to Why Is He Screaming:

-those guys behind him are going to arrest him

-he missed his boat and it’s one of the ones in the background, he just noticed

-the sky’s all wiggly

-he just wanted to scream

-HE CAN SEE THE CLASS OF FIRST GRADERS LOOKING AT HIM AND HE DOESN’T LIKE IT

Children are bonkers

[222pluto]

#myilya gets incredibly invested in Shane Hollander RPF sites and forums bc he thinks it’s absolutely hilarious most of the time

but then like twice a year there’s some poor RPFer (that hasn’t mentioned Shane by name, hasn’t tagged anyone, has made it incredibly clear that this is fiction and if a hockey player gets even the faintest whiff of their content they’ll private it all immediately) who will wake up to a comment by verified account Official Ilya Rozanov Hockey Player 81 under a post from four years ago that just reads “he would NOT say that”

[jadeseadragon]

Gunnar Mauritz Widforss (Swedish American, 1879-1934), Yaki Point, Grand Canyon, watercolor on paper, 22 × 19 inches.

[itskurwanumber5]

Ilya: hint hint hint

Shane: absolutely clueless

Ilya: Ah ok I got your hint you don't want the thing I am hinting ok, I'll drop it

Shane: This was the weirdest conversation I had this week, what?

Why are you playing the hints game with this autistic bitch dude

Shane: Oh it's a lot of paperwork! Nice thinking!

Ilya: I don't have anyone here, so. Here, medical proxy, financial power of attorney...

Shane: (kicking his feet)

...

Shane: And then he handed me all those papers!

Rose: Oh, so now you have a 1980s gay marriage. Cute!

Shane: wait what

...

Shane: Ilya.

Ilya: Well you were not thrilled when I brought up the whole marriage in conversation, so I took a hint and just took precautions. As you didn't want the label. But I am serious about you so.

Shane: WHEN? I THINK I WOULD REMEMBER IF YOU PROPOSED???

Ilya: I was giving you hints so you would propose if you wanted to?

Yuna: Hints? To Shane?

Ilya: ...

Shane: Ilya?!

Ilya: Now I feel stupid.

[discflame]

my live reaction to this moment

[gayhockeyshow]

Ilya comes into the locker room with a black eye he didn’t have the night before. Everyone’s oohing and aahing and shane is. Very quiet. A little perturbed. People are making jokes about their sex life and shane is seething into his locker. The team finally fully gangs up on shane like hollander what kind of freak shit are you doing, huh? Sex swing gone wrong?? Knee to the face? And shane turns, crosses his arms and stares at the floor and states, very solemnly, “ilya got a yo-yo”

[penandinkprincess]

because they're so close in size, i'm extremely amused imagining shane 100% using ilya to wear clothes in until they're comfortable and then reclaiming them as part of his rotation

put up with a t-shirt collar rubbing at his neck?? or a button down feeling too stiff??? or a hoodie not being worn to slouchy??

that's what his boyfriend is for