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mike’s hard past couple of months
nobody irl knows about this tumblr but I just found out that I’m pregnant and I’m so excited :) I just had to tell someone
posted this on dec 26, 2022 and my little one came in sept of 2023. just found out im pregnant again and ill be having a jan 2027 baby :)
It can not be overstated: the Hollanders didn't just take Ilya in out of the goodness of their hearts...
They probably WOULD HAVE.
But the need didn't present itself before the many ways in which they were all made to share space with one another had already got them reaching out.
Shane doesn't love Ilya IN SPITE OF his being an asshole... He loves that side of Ilya even when it annoys him. It brings parts of Shane online that he can't seem to flip the switch on himself.
David loves having someone to do puzzles with and appreciate his vodka.
Yuna loves being able to dote on someone who can enjoy the doting (it's too much for Shane.)
I think all 3 Hollanders live at least a little vicariously through some of the shit Ilya says and does because they, each for their own reasons, can't ragebait like Ilya.
BUT YOU CAN'T TELL ME THEY DON'T WANT TO.
Svetlana's "since when did you start smoking again?" is such an overlooked line that implies so much. Because why would Ilya have stopped smoking and suddenly started up again at this point in time? What I'm saying is thank you Jacob Tierney for overtly suggesting that Ilya stopped smoking for Shane, even with them meeting as rarely as they do, and now that Shane's broken it off he's taken it up again because what's the point of quitting if it's not for him?
I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are
Not deterred by the closed door
Working as a group
Protecting their identities
Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction
Getting away at the end
These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere
The church of scientology is on tumblr and they are sending me anon asks telling me that they can't even commit to reporting a post
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i was Thinking but i got up to get coffee and i came back to discover that one of my cats walked across my keyboard and posted this early for me and you know what. they summed it up far more succinctly than i ever could
as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine
sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA
i heard my nephew got enslaved by cave bugs
wait to post about this until you’ve confirmed it
sorry
Random hockey player: Shane Hollander loves hockey so much that he'd probably marry it if he could!
Shane: *marries generational hockey player and living legend Ilya Rozanov*
Random hockey player: well I'll be damned! The crazy son of a bitch did it!
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If our boy Shane Hollander was diagnosed.
So after Shane leaves the Metros, the team starts sending out Hayden Pike to do press to cover their asses and keep their more asshole-ish players from saying slurs in front of reporters.
After one inconsequential game, a reporter asks about what Coach Theriault and Hayden think of the future of hockey with their former star player playing with his husband. Theriault says some shitty PR nothing answer laced with so much disdain that Hayden just. can't. take. anymore.
Obviously his team wants him to shit-talk his best friend and de facto brother-in-law who happen to be playing the best hockey of a generation (he will never let Ilya know he thinks this). The reporter obviously is chomping at the bit for a "dissension in the locker room" story that will make his life even more miserable. So, fuck the both of them.
"and how about you Hayden, what do you think about the future of hockey with Hollander and Rozanov?"
"Well, I think they should get on having kids, like surrogacy or adoption of something"
Dead silence, the reporter blinks in confusion. He can feel the glare coming off Theriault burning into the side of his face. He doesn’t turn his head and blithely goes on.
“Yeah, specifically 3 girls. I have 3 girls so if they have 3 girls, we’d have a whole hockey team to start in the pee-wees and get to the PWHL. My Ruby would obviously be a defender. She’d spend her whole life in the box, but she'd be such a good enforcer, especially if she was playing with her sisters. Jade is sneaky fast, so forward for her. And I know Amber is a baby, but I swear she’s got goalie eyes. My son Arthur is already the peacemaker of the family, so Uncle Shane could start training him up on all the rules so he can be our ref. But Shane and Ilya would have to get themselves another defender and a right or left wing with a center. Yep, that’s the future in hockey I’d love to see with Hollander and Rozanov”
Thus Hayden makes headlines bigger than any other time in his whole career. His time in the locker room does get shittier, but it’s all worth it for the call from Shane telling him that Ilya loved his vision of the future so much he cried looking at baby girl names online and researching PWHL teams.
people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets
A twitter-famous puck bunny (she makes it her whole brand) makes an AMA on Reddit about the hockey players she’s managed to net
PuckBun32 gets asked how she manages to bag them, and the answer is pretty simple: show up to the city they’re playing in and go to the best sports bar (or club) in town wearing the jersey of the player she’s hoping to bag. Redditors in the comments are like, yeah that checks out
But then PuckBun32 gets asked who the most famous player she ever netted is. Her answer was a jaw-dropping “Depends on whether you consider Shane Hollander or Ilya Rozanov the most famous player.” Naturally, this gets hockey Redditors in an absolute uproar. Because Shane Hollander? THEE Shane Hollander???? Details of his sex life are more tightly guarded than the Coca Cola formula!
Redditors spend a minute or two arguing about the logistics of which player, exactly, could be considered the most famous. Fortunately, one clever Redditor gets everyone back on track with a follow-up question: Who was better in bed?
PuckBun32’s reply is faster than expected. “Rozanov was better at fucking, Hollander was better at oral.”
Reddit goes wild. This was not the answer anyone was expecting. Well, everyone was more or less expecting Rozanov to be the better lay, but Shane Hollander better at going down on a woman? One Redditor remarks “I guess that’s why his chirping is so shit. He’s saving that mouth for more important things.” In the days to come, Metros (and Shane Hollander) fan blogs would make that comment go viral
The last thing PuckBun32 gets asked before she concludes the AMA is: Where you wearing their jerseys when you netted them, or were you wearing a different player’s jersey and traded up when you had the opportunity?
PuckBun32’s answer leaves everyone absolutely gobsmacked. “That’s actually a really funny story. When I netted Hollander, it was after a Montreal-Boston game. I was wearing a Rozanov jersey. And when I netted Rozanov, it was also after a Montreal-Boston game, but I was wearing a Hollander jersey that time hoping to run into him for a repeat performance. Not complaining though!”
PuckBun32 says her goodbyes and leaves the forum. After a full minute of silence from the Redditors, someone finally comments “Leave it to Hollander and Rozanov to have a rivalry so intense, they have to fuck each others’ puck bunnies about it.” About 80% of the hockey Redditors run with that theory, the other 20% are very much raising eyebrows at this. Their voices are easily drowned out by the still-present shock of Hollander having a magic tongue.
Screenshots of the AMA spread like wildfire. By the next day, a few more women come out of the woodwork to say that they, too, have experienced the wonders of being eaten out by Shane Hollander. None of them have had experience with Ilya Rozanov (yet), but they make it known that they would be very interested to contribute to the study of who is better in bed. Rozanov responds to a couple of them with a wink emoji, but no promises about anything. He and Hollander are obviously trending for the entirety of the week
After the next Raiders game, Ilya is on press and gets asked to comment on the recent update in the Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. Ilya answers, “Most important thing first: is Rozanov-Hollander. Not Hollander-Rozanov. Best player come first, always. Next import thing: people are forgetting that I am best at stick-handling. This online woman was very honest when she said that. Is right of her to say. I am best with stick, yes. Always have been, always will be.”
Everyone is too busy laughing to notice the vein pulsing along Ilya’s jaw. The sharpness in his eyes. The accent thickening with barely restrained emotion. The few fans who picked up on in would refer to it as seething jealousy. Wow, Rozanov must really hate being shown up by Hollander in bed, huh? The next Metros-Boston game was absolutely brutal. Rozanov was checking Hollander into the boards left and right, to the point where Hollander started checking back as good as he got. Hopeful women (and some men) flooded all the sports bars and cool clubs in the area with Hollander and Rozanov jersey after heated the game was over. Some Metro players were spotted in a couple of locations, a few Raiders players were spotted in others.
Rozanov and Hollander were nowhere to be seen.
“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY
"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.
Someone online makes a comment about how Shane probably isn’t a very good boyfriend, saying his flat affect and resting neutral face in paparazzi pics and video must mean he’s detached and not affectionate compared to Ilya who is much more overtly affectionate
Ilya then has the rest of the Centaurs help him make a compilation of secretly filmed Shane moments showing how good a boyfriend he is
Ilya doing the “would you still love me if I was a worm?” thing and without missing a beat or asking any questions Shane just goes “Yeah”
Harris films himself asking Shane random Ilya questions and Shane always having an answer. “Hey what Ilya’s favorite milkshake flavor?” “Mint.” “I’m buying everyone fun socks, what’s Ilya’s favorite color?” “Blue, but only if it’s light, he doesn’t like dark blue.” “What’s Ilya’s favorite fruit?” “Pears.”
Troy waits for Shane to sit on the bench looking at his phone or tying his skates then says “Oh hey Ilya’s coming in” and catches multiple examples of Shane immediately scootching over to one side to make room for Ilya to sit next to him
Ilya puts his feet up on Shane’s lap silently and Shane starts lightly massaging them. Ilya lays his head on Shane’s shoulder and Shane starts quietly playing with his hair
They film Ilya handing Shane random things and asking him to hold them and Shane does without question. The internets favorite is the one where Ilya pulls a pineapple out of his bag and asks Shane to hold it and he agrees, getting his gear on one handed so he can keep holding the pineapple in the other
Hayden gets a video of Shane letting Ruby brush his hair and fill it with clips while he and Jade do Ilya’s nails, Ilya laying with a face mask and cucumbers over his eyes and his head on Shane’s lap