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[alice-is-annoyed-deactivated202]

[whattheship]

Hua Cheng shooting himself in the foot in volume 4 with the "I have a beloved" thing will always be funny to me. Like, I get why he does it. He's gotta be stood there like, "Well fuck, I can't let anyone think I'm still on the market, but I can't just confess my feelings to His Highness. What if he rejects me? What if he feels guilty that he's the reason I can't rest in peace? What if-"

And then you have Xie Lian in the background, valiantly trying to ignore that he is currently having what I like to call a Mr. Brightside moment.

[ilyarozanovsmouth]

Concept:

Ilya does love seeing old photos of Shane. Fat Baby Shane™ in all his forms, toddler Shane in his little hockey gear, Shane in elementary school with a big missing-teeth smile, Shane blowing out the candles on his 10th birthday, Shane holding up his brand new driver's license at 16. The list goes on.

One day Yuna finds an old disposable camera. The expiration date on it says 2009. She tells Shane about it; it might have some old photos from his graduation on it or something. She'd gotten a digital camera around that time so she can't remember what she used this one for. Shane is pretty indifferent about it.

Yuna sends the camera off to some company that still develops old camera film. It's about 15 years old at this point, though, so whatever is on it might not even develop correctly.

A few weeks later Shane and Ilya are over for dinner. Yuna tells them she got the photos back and they actually turned out ok. She hands over the stack of 10 photos. Shane rolls his eyes, but Ilya grabs the photos and starts flipping through them. The first two look like they are from some school event; there's Shane surrounded by similarly aged kids in an auditorium. There's one of the three of them on Thanksgiving that year and another of the three of them with Yuna's parents at the same dinner. Two of David asleep on the couch with the family dog clearly taken on different days. One of a Christmas tree in the Hollander's living room. The next two are Shane on the ice in a rink that Ilya recognizes as the one in Regina. The one from their first World Juniors Tournament.

And Ilya freezes. The last photo in the stack is a close-up of Shane. He's in a white hoodie with a black coat over it. He has on a dark green beanie and he's standing next to the door to the rink. He's smiling for the camera and his freckles are crinkled near his eyes. It's the Shane that so awkwardly and so confidently introduced himself to Ilya the first time they met. The Shane that had tried so hard to talk to Ilya then. The Shane that Ilya could admit to himself now that he'd had a bit of a crush on already. His Shane.

His Shane was getting blurry as tears filled his eyes.

[snowsmoked]

One thing I've been thinking about recently is that the Metros were holding Shane back. The Admirals holding Hunter back makes sense, in an oh shit he's going to kill this kid way. But the Metros holding Shane back? Shane who never fights? Shane who is a known peacemaker? Maybe the argument can be made they wanted to protect him from getting hurt/getting fined but, Shane is their captain, if he wants to fight, a fight there shall be.

Unless.

You consider that the Metros know that Shane absolutely does know how to fight. They've all done checking clinics with Shane. They've all wrestled and roughhoused with Shane. He's strong and he's fast and he wants to win.

The Metros understand that Shane doesn't fight, not because he can't, but because he's a little too good at it. And Shane generally doesn't even like violence. He likes to win by playing the game, not hurting the other team.

So when they see Shane, after the whistle, drop his gloves to Scott Hunter, there is a collective thought of oh shit he's going to kill Hunter and they have approximately 1.5 seconds to grab their captain and prevent him from getting arrested.

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

Fandom is so obsessed with contrasts in ships that they force them onto hollanov, a couple who are FAMOUSLY supposed to be similar. There is no slutty one and prudish one. They both love sex. There is no smart one and dumb one. They both excel at the same career where traditional metrics of academic intelligence don't apply. There is no jock and nerd. They are both professional athletes. There is no neatfreak and slob. They both pay other people to clean their houses. Please release yourself from the need to manufacture an opposites attract dynamic in every facet of their relationship, ESPECIALLY when the central conceit of hollanov as a couple is that they're more alike than everyone else seems to think.

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

Fandom has a tendency to say "because this person does this, their partner has to do that", even for arbitrary headcanons. This is probably because it's an easy shorthand for narrative conflict, but I'd argue that characters being similar can be just as intriguing, especially when (as is the case for hollanov) people instinctively assume that they're NOT the same

[shanehollandergirl]

always thinking about the ep6 coming out in the hollanders' entryway scene re: pride and prejudice (2005). [yuna voice] i thought you hated the man. we all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of fellow. but this would be nothing if you really liked him. [shane voice] i do like him. i love him. he and i are . . . he and i are so similar. we're both so stubborn!

[evilscientist3]

California quail we're unforgettable,

Black head with big feather on top

[thememedaddy]

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[jedusaur]

for NHL fans only: without looking it up or asking anyone, do you know what "dick trick" or "rooster" means in a hockey context?

yes

no

Remaining time: 10 hours 59 minutes

if "yes" I would appreciate additional info in the replies/tags about your age or generation, how long you've been an NHL fan, and whether or not you were active on hockey twitter back in the day

(trying to figure out how much this joke broke containment—I wanna put a reference to it in my superpowered-hockey novel and I think it might be too obscure by now but I REALLY WANNA lol)

(here's the answer btw)

[cowsnotcrows]

Some self-indulgent Donnakory <3

[gatorzaeder]

Take my gay cats, Tumblr!

This is part 1, the next part will be gender identity centered :)

[katebeckets]

"it's a tv show" "it's not real" i don't care. NO SHOES ON THE BED

[bolaneno]

the color signatures of various elements when ignited

FB image credit: Ceres Science

[trashgnomesanonymous]

Do you love the colors of the combustion

[koshercosplay]

forbidden menorah

[omtai]

oh log we’re really in it now

[dogpuppy]

[mandywondering]

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

[dietspam16]

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

[strawbebbynya]

all yall make jokes about couples and their nonromantic third wheel having fun together, but im the one getting treated to food tonight by the couple im nonromantically third wheeling. you wish you were me

[whitachi]

I'm sorry I read this as "necromantic third wheel" and went on a very rapid powerful imagination adventure. hello lovebirds I'm the skeleton here for breadsticks

[faiasakura]

you, your boyfriend, and the guy your boyfriend brought back from the dead