[jamie-tism]

[stonermossprince]

happy birthday to my depressed bisexual

[perlukafarinn]

Canon divergent AU where Shane is a little more paranoid and when Hayden first comments on "Boston Lily", he decides he has to do something to break up the pattern and make it not so noticeable that he's got someone on Boston.

Not seeing Rozanov is not an option, so instead Shane picks out a few other cities to regularly go out by himself in. He'll go for a long walk, maybe sit down somewhere for a drink, and then catch a taxi back to the hotel an appropriate amount of time later. It's honestly pretty nice, unwinding by himself in this way, and now disappearing after games is not a thing specific to Boston! It's just another strange Hollander quirk!

Unfortunately, he fails to account for the guys on the team jumping on the most obvious explanation for all these disappearances, which is that Shane now has a girl in every port.

Word about this starts to spread quick, because it is so out of character for Shane, and pretty soon half the league is under the impression that he's some secret playboy.

Ilya is extremely not chill about this rumor.

[ilyapricot]

Forever thinking about “Boston is nice too?” and wanting to throw up about it. Just sitting on the floor of a gym across from the stranger who would be the Shane of his existence like.

I am so far away from home. I am so afraid but I cannot show it. I’m going to be all on my own out there and people are not kind to me. I’ve always been alone, but never this kind of alone before. I don’t really know you, but you seemed kind. And earnest. You would not lie to me. Is it safe? Will I be happy there and safe? Boston is nice too?

Ougghhhhgg. My brave little bug I’mgping to be sick

[gaynehollander]

If you're writing a fic where Shane and Ilya's ages are canon compliant and you use "the older man" to describe Shane, especially if it's in the middle of a sex scene, I will simply revolt

[skinnylorax]

shane is so brave making big steps to pursue ilya in HR yes. but he is even more brave in TLG i think because he is even more scared than he was before. putting his hand on ilya’s back in the club gets me every time. standing up against crowell. MUST I REMIND YOU he initiated their first date in public getting chicken parm. he wanted to be out just as bad as ilya and he was so so scared and he was so so brave

[foxhole118lasso]

Also, I think my first introduction to a nonbinary character was also as a child with Zelda/Sheik in Smash Brawl. Before I ever really knew anything about Zelda or Link. LmAoo. Think of the children. This is why I’m queer right now. Jk. Lmaooo.

But happy Pride Month, my non binary icon, Zelda/Sheik.

[foxhole118lasso]

All I’m saying is, my first encounter with Mpreg was Fairly Oddparents as a child. How can I be judged for my love of the trope when it was impressed upon me as a child. Lmaoooo.

[perlukafarinn]

Svetlana visits Shane and Ilya and stays with them for a few days and one night, when they've been sitting on the sofa and talking for hours, she starts reminiscing about childhood memories.

Shane is delighted and Ilya is embarrassed, especially when Svetlana starts talking about when they first met at age eight and how sweet and sensitive Ilya was.

"He was a little bit of a crybaby," she says with a teasing grin.

Ilya pouts, which does nothing to dispel the crybaby allegations.

"He brought an injured bird home once," Svetlana continues fondly. "When it died, he was inconsolable for days."

"What child wouldn't cry over a dead bird?" Ilya mutters, leaning in when Shane strokes his hair comfortingly.

"We gave it a funeral. Ilyushka carved it a tiny little cross."

Ilya huffs. "Jesus, why are we talking about funerals now? How depressing. Didn't you used to be fun, Sveta?"

Svetlana throws a pillow at him.

Later, once Shane and Ilya are alone in bed, Shane leans his head on Ilya's shoulder and tells him, "I wish I'd known you back then."

"Little crybaby Ilyushka?"

Shane pinches his chest. "Yes, little crybaby Ilyushka, you asshole. Sveta said you were sweet. You probably would've been nice to me."

"Am I not nice to you now?" Ilya wonders. "I always fuck you so good."

"That's not even remotely what I'm talking about. I just mean, maybe we would've been friends." Shane swallows. "I didn't really have any friends back then."

He'd been too weird. Too quiet most of the time, and too loud when he wasn't. He likes the thought that maybe sweet and sensitive Ilya, who cried for days over a dead bird he couldn't save, would have been kinder to him than the other kids were.

Ilya exhales shakily, breath tickling the top of Shane's head. "Yes, of course I would've been your friend. We would be, ah, childhood sweethearts?"

Shane's heart jumps at the idea. "Childhood sweethearts," he echoes happily.

Ilya hums. "Yes, I think so. Poor little Ilyushka would be defenseless against your boring Canadian charm."

"Poor big Ilyushka didn't do such a great job of resisting me, either."

"That is true," Ilya agrees.

He gently grasps Shane's chin, tilting his face up to meet him for a kiss.

[spicyvampire]

[tswizzlesfan]

in preparation for tbc, has this been done yet

(ft my favorite art by the genius @pepeshka)

[mcmilkan]

A little thing I headcannon is that Andrew never asks where Neil is. Neil is CONSTANTLY asking where Andrew is if he hasn’t seen him for approximately 0.5 seconds and even Jean notices how they give “lingering looks when one fell out of orbit for too long”, but Andrew never asks, wanting conceal to the others how much Neil is a weak spot for him. Instead, his eyes slide across the room, scanning, and if he can’t see Neil then Andrew simply gets up and goes in search of him, he knows all of his spots anyways. The foxes, initially just put Andrew’s abrupt leave up to his blatantly disrespectful self, deciding he wasn’t interested enough in the conversation, so they don’t really care. However, that isn’t until they notice the pattern. First, Renee, then Dan and Aaron, and soon the others catch on. They observe the way Andrew’s fingers start tapping at his sides when his head swivels round and cannot find his specific ginger. They observe the way he gets up immediately and strides towards the door. They also observe the way Andrew hands still slightly as Matt says, “he’s on a run” or Kevin tells him Neil’s just practicing on the court. Andrew doesn’t acknowledge it openly of course, he never asked and would’ve been able to find him himself easily, but they all don’t miss the way his head lowers for a second, giving a subtle nod, placated by the fact someone always knows where Neil is. I guess they all know the alternative, when his hands were shaking, wrapped round Kevin’s neck in Baltimore. He didn’t ask, “Where’s Neil?”, he screamed it. And the others didn’t know. And Andrew couldn’t find him.

[penandinkprincess]

okay but i feel like after their relationship is already public and shane has had some time to settle into "well, people are going to ask anyway," he actually gets more comfortable chirping ilya in interviews and on the ice because atp what are people going to read into? they're already married.

but this then makes people go ??? are things okay at home??? because shane hollander who has had a few comments here and there over the years but has largely always been very professional and polite now pulls things out like "hey, if you wanna focus up on hockey and not your standup routine, that would be fucking great, thanks" and "worst part of playing with my husband? having to go home with him after he does something impressive, yeah. after that goal tonight, he's free to a good home if anyone's interested."

and making this even MORE confusing is that ilya is just all heart eyes during everything because what HE knows is that this is who shane has ALWAYS been, and now he just gets to see it even more.

[foxhole118lasso]

Happy Pride Month Dottore. 🏳️‍🌈

[foxhole118lasso]

RIP Dottore. You would’ve loved Heated Rivalry.

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

We do need to reckon with how hudcon has changed the game regarding on screen kisses tho. Like tell me why I just watched a romance movie and the penultimate kiss scene was like watching two Barbie dolls get smashed together. Where's the PASSION, where's the HANDS where's the TONGUE, where's the CLAWING EACH OTHERS FACES OFF, where's the LONGING, where's the SENSUALITY, where is the PALPABLE DESIRE????

[penandinkprincess]

okay but i'm laughing about the sister thought of "ilya finds shane folding his clothes neatly before sex both endearing and a turn-on" being "years into their arrangement but before the cottage, ilya finds himself getting the ick when a one night stand just throws their clothes to the side carelessly and is then horrified at himself because what the FUCK was that"