[dumbass-writer]

Ilya rozanov is so near and dear to me because yeah actually I too would be cocky asf and never shut up if I had SHANE HOLLANDER and his big brown eyes bouncing on it since my rookie season (the summer before) like sorry he wasn’t insane enough for me actually bc I would have been frothing at the mouth

[marmelade-sky]

things my kids at work have done which i think autistic baby shane would also do:

hide under the pool table when things get Loud

refuse to eat anything but buttered noodles and chocolate milk at kindergarten

ominously answer the question "Where's your teacher?" with "Why don't you go look in there... you might find her..." and pointing to the classroom

ask every single adult in the building what their favorite dinosaur (hockey player) is and then rattle off every single dinosaur (hockey player) they know

pitifully slink up to his teacher and go "I think I need a time-out :("

say he thought about it, and hitting his friend was the best option to resolve their fight

lock himself in the bathroom stall and require a teacher to use a laddder to climb into the stall and free him

run full-speed into a wall, smile hugely when asked if he's okay, do it again

try to alert a teacher to other children fighting by saying "Miss, shit's going down"

tattle to other parents if their kid behaved badly during the day

[bugslibraryy]

Think of all the dumb flirting Shane and Ilya did when they finally got together. Like stuuuupid sappy in love hit that been swallowing down for years. Ilya walking into the kitchen after going for a run and kissing Shane’s ear and being like “I missed you so much” after being gone for less than hour. Ilya getting ready for a shower and Shane asking “without me?” Most importantly they do the whole ridiculous hand comparison thing. They are laying in bed, Shane sat over Ilya’s lap, hands playing as they chat. Shane flattens Ilya’s hand out with his own, presses their palms flat to each other, lined up and fingers fidgeting. And Ilya is like “your hands are so big” and Shane shrugs and he’s like I mean they are like yours and Ilya is like noo your fingers are thicker and longer, your palm is bigger too. And Shane is all like mmm I need them to be big my boyfriend has huge muscles he whispers and wiggles his eyebrows and it’s so stupid and corny and whatever Ilya is hard. Shane rides him with his hand gripping right to Ilya’s bicep, his other fingers pressed into Ilya’s mouth, wet with his saliva

[dumbass-writer]

I can’t even happy pride because it’s missing klance hours

[jewelcoatfish]

thinking about codependentmaxxing hollanov after shane signed with the centaurs. they do not leave the other’s side everything is a group activity they go everywhere together they look like lost puppies when they don’t have the other around like it severely affects their mood and whenever one of them has to go somewhere alone the other sulks the whole day. people (jokingly) asked them about it and in the most earnest bitchiest way shane replied something along the lines of “everyone has had him for 10 years and i only got seconds and minutes. now they can suck it. he’s mine. i’ve spent so long missing him it physically hurts me to do it again”. and ilya usually makes a joke about how shane is too hot for him to leave alone but secretly he also thinks if he goes five mins without shane’s breath in his proximity he will die of oxygen deprivation.

[dumbass-writer]

Because it’s pride month I’ve been getting a little emo about the fact that I am not able to be openly queer in most spaces but I was just reminded that I went to a louis Tomlinson concert on my birthday a few years ago and got to dance with my friends and girlfriend in my city without fear for one night. Singing that love was only for the brave as the guy next to me handed me a pride flag was the first time I’ve ever felt seen in this godforsaken town so when people dog on big artists like the one direction guys it makes me sad because like this was my childhood safe space that is now a place where I can truly be me in adulthood

[tinylilhollander]

I think while trying to settle on what to call the daughter they're expecting, Ilya would get such a kick out of suggesting all the ridiculous white people baby names he finds online to a Shane who's taking this as seriously as he used to take his playoffs strategies.

Ilya looks over to where Shane is scrolling on his phone, wearing his glasses and that little frown he gets when he's concentrating. Ilya's grin gets a little wider.

"Oh here's one, My Shane. Blazeleigh. Maybe she'll grow up to be hot like you."

"Ew no, that sounds like something Sarah would make me wear to an awards show."

"Okay then, how about Kashtynn?"

"Absolutely fucking not."

"Snow, spelled like S-N-E-A-U-G-H?"

"Baby, be serious." Shane takes off his glasses to properly look at Ilya. "This name has to take our daughter all the way to being an old lady. We can't be one of those celebrity couples who give their kid a crazy name."

And Ilya makes a big show of rolling his eyes and sighing dramatically.

"Fine. Then how about Britney?"

And Shane shrugs but doesn't immediately scrunch up his face this time.

"I mean, not my favourite, but it's definitely better than the other names on whatever cursed list you've found."

"Would you like it more if I told you it was spelled B-R-Y-T-T-K-N-E-I-G-H?"

"Oh fuck off, Rozanov!"

And his husband tackles him to the sofa, pinning him down and kissing him in all his ticklish spots, until they're both laughing so hard their sides hurt.

"No more crazy names, okay?"

And Ilya nods, giving Shane one more kiss and putting his glasses back on for him, before dutifully finding a proper baby name list. But as Shane adjusts his glasses and starts looking at his own list again, Ilya can't help himself.

"... It's Brittkneigh, bitch."

He gleefully accepts the pillow that flies at his head.

[writingdose]

insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense

[lesbianeddiediass]

Actually Eddie not realizing how his and Buck's relationship as romantic makes complete sense even after the road trip back from Nashville. Because Tommy was quite literally courting him for the first few times they hung out and Eddie thought nothing of it

[dumbass-writer]

you're a dumb fucking bitch.

ARMAND is the reason Louis doesn't remember anything.

Go get hit by a truck you dumb cunt and get out of the fandom

lol grow a pair and say it with your blog attached 💗💗

[dumbass-writer]

What I need some of y’all to realize is that lestat “gaslight” delyingcourt is more of an unreliable narrator than Louis bc he’s the reason Louis don’t remember shit and what little he do remember is colored by that white devils stockholming pls be so fr

[skyrigel]

[aenigmatica]

luca haas probably fantasizes about getting taken home by shane and ilya the same way girls in the 2000s did about being sold to one direction

[dangerpronebuddie]

Here's this kid, who's parents fought tooth and nail to have him, and in the end decided to pick someone who could and would help them get there. Used Buck for parts and then Buck made the decision to ghost them. He struggles with the idea of being donor and not dad, so he made up his mind and took a step back. Connor and Kameron got what they wanted from him, and that was supposed to be the end of it. But then they're back, and they think Theo is defective, and it can't possibly be due to Kameron's genes or their parenting style. No, Theo must be defective because of Buck. The person they chose. Buck's parents chose to have him, and labeled him defective as well. Their bond isn't about who's kid Theo is or isn't. Their bond isn't about blood relations. Their bond is about being someone they both needed. A parent who finds them easy to love, who believes they aren't defective, who believes a kid shouldn't have to walk through fire to be tolerable.

[bighairedbitch]

One thing I’ve seen happens in this fandom- and honestly sometimes in real life discussions about Hudson too- is that people end up flattening all POC experiences into one universal experience.

Race absolutely matters. Racism absolutely exists. But different racial groups are stereotyped in different ways, and those stereotypes can produce completely different social expectations.

For example, I’ve seen people criticize Rachel and Jacob for joking about Hudson being unintelligent because he’s a person of color. If Hudson were Black, I would understand that criticism more, because there is a long history of anti-Black stereotypes portraying Black people as unintelligent. But Hudson is Asian. Asian men are stereotyped in almost the opposite way. They’re often assumed to be intelligent, studious, and academically successful. The stereotype is still racist, but it’s a different stereotype. It doesn’t suddenly become an anti-Asian stereotype just because we’ve replaced “Asian” with the broader category of “POC.”

The same thing happens constantly in fanfiction with Shane.

A lot of writers portray Shane as being afraid to fight because he knows he’ll be judged more harshly than white players. I understand where that idea is coming from, but as a black person I’ve never found it particularly convincing.

If Shane were black, that analysis would make more sense to me. Black men are often stereotyped as aggressive, which means behavior that is considered acceptable from white athletes is often interpreted differently when black ones do it.

But asian men occupy a very different place in the racial imagination. They’re frequently stereotyped as passive, non-threatening, weak, nerdy, emasculated, etc. If racial stereotypes were influencing Shane’s approach to hockey, I could just as easily imagine the opposite dynamic: feeling pressure to prove he’s aggressive enough to belong. Maybe he’s fighting TOO much.

But that doesn’t make sense for Shane. He’s the league’s golden boy. He’s polite, media-friendly, and heavily inspired by Sidney Crosby. He’s a superstar. Fighting is often delegated to players lower on the depth chart whose role is specifically to provide physicality. Star players generally aren’t expected to be enforcers. Teams usually want their elite talent scoring goals, not sitting in the penalty box after dropping the gloves.

So Shane not fighting much doesn’t strike me as evidence of racial pressure. It strikes me as evidence that he’s Shane Hollander.

Crosby is a useful comparison here. For years, people mocked him for not being physical enough (and for talking to the refs too much). They questioned his toughness and masculinity. They called him “Crybaby Crosby” or “Cindy Crosby.” Fans edited photos of him in dresses or makeup. The criticism wasn’t really about hockey. The joke was that he wasn’t a “real man.”

And that’s a white player.

Imagine how much worse those conversations could become if the player in question were Asian.

That’s the kind of racial dynamic I could actually see affecting Shane, not him worrying about people thinking he’s too aggressive, but people questioning whether he’s aggressive ENOUGH.

There’s a good chance that if Shane fought exactly like many white players, he probably still wouldn’t be viewed as tough enough. Meanwhile, if a Black player fought exactly like those same white players, he might be interpreted as more aggressive.

People often criticize Rachel for not doing much racial analysis in the books. But sometimes fandom fills that gap with racial analysis that feels disconnected from both hockey culture and the specific stereotypes that affect different racial groups.

Not every POC experience is interchangeable.

A stereotype that affects Black athletes is not automatically a stereotype that affects Asian athletes. A stereotype that affects Latino athletes is not automatically a stereotype that affects Indigenous athletes.

If we’re going to talk about race- and we should- we have to talk about the actual racial dynamics at play, not just substitute “person of color” for a more specific analysis.

Sometimes no racial analysis is better than bad racial analysis.

[eastofshane]

To be "doglike" does not usually connote this kind of malice or cruelty [...]. Instead, it suggests an insistent drive, to be fed or satisfied or noticed

[Shane's version]

[unkown || rookies, heated rivalry || || the old shepherd's chief mourner (1837), edwin kandseer || rose, heated rivalry || how to be a dog, andrew kane || dogperson iii, dusty ray || a chained hound eating from a bowl, jan fyt || dinosaur, richard siken || olympians, heated rivalry || more and more, margaret atwood || hounds with dead stag, a hare and other game, in a landscape, david de coninck || sofie, james van fossen || rose, heated rivalry || if feeling isn't in it, john brehm || kuvasz dog wearing a protective collar against wolves || you are so warm, rae klein || i'll believe in anything, heated rivalry || how to be a dod, andrew kane || i'll believe in anything, heated rivalry || the bread we eat in dreams, catherynne m. valente || loyalty, briton riviere (use inspired by @dogsdayilya) || the cottage, heated rivalry || gnaw at the heartbeat, wenyi xue || the cottage, heated rivalry || putting the dog to sleep, the antlers || the odyssey homer (translator's note), translated by emily wilson]

[dumbass-writer]

Inspired by the fact that I can’t feel my legs : hollanov headcanon is that Shane LOVES hiking like proper 4-6 hours of just wilderness exploring and he goes a couple times a month where he can just pop in his headphones or noise cancelling ear plugs for a couple hours and focus on the trail - counter to this tho the first time Ilya went with, Shane immediately resolved to never go with him again because Ilya kept trying to talk to him which yes he normally loves but not during Hiking Time until eventually they find a way to for them to both enjoy because Ilya will turn it into a challenge the few times he comes with and other times he just goes to hang put with his friends when he doesn’t feel like turning his body into jello for funsies