hypnosis event

here to document a descent into fandom after years marked safe

[fringe-problems]

when there's nothing left to burn

ch6. WIP, alternating POV Scott and Shane. 39k words.

Shane is annoyed—at Wilson always peacocking, at Hunter for responding, at everything. Hockey is a team sport, too fast for one person to carry a team. The Voyageurs look like sure playoff contenders for Shane’s first year as captain, his third year on the team. As he leaves the locker room, thumping down the hall in skates toward the rink, Shane wonders when he will have the leverage to make a scene like that. Not now. Maybe not ever. 

In which Scott Hunter accepts a trade to Montreal, just as Shane Hollander is named captain.

Or: what if i spin scott hunter and shane hollander at each other like two high-strung beyblades??? ilya and kip, also at the scene of the crime(s). along the way: so much canadiana i'm making myself sick on the maple syrup.

Chapter six: Giving in, putting out, and the middle.

[sladucer]

Say it again in russian please...

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[cupcakesandhags]

b/c of the teaser for francois' under armour campaign...

under armour puts together a whirlwind, last minute, full court press multi-media ad campaign starring scott for pride after he wins the cup and comes out. they were already planning something featuring him to get released over the summer, but with all the media attention he's getting for that kiss? it's rainbow capitalism time baby and scott is cashing in. kip has a moral objection to it but he stays quiet about it. scott confided in him about how scared he was of losing all his endorsement deals if he ever came out so he is resolved to push those feelings down and be a supportive boyfriend.

he's very successful at pushing those feelings down once the first teaser gifs get released. when the first billboard drops he is so distracted by it he walks into a trash can.

[fringe-problems]

hurry home to you

scott hunter/kip grady, 8.9k, Explicit.

The funny thing is that he never really cared about marriage before. It wasn’t on his radar as a plan—he hadn’t even considered it for himself, even as he’d marched and protested for it for other people. He had always seen himself as a long-term partnership guy, building a life on his own terms and expectations outside of the strictures of paperwork.

But then Scott fucking Hunter had barrelled into his life like a slapshot and shown him what a public promise could feel like.

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Scott and Kip elope.

read on ao3.

[fringe-problems]

heated rivalry tumblr low key sucks today if you’ve ensouled scott hunter and kip grady

[nebulastars]

intimacy these days - jess janz. | breakfast for @hollanovbingo

[symbieote]

I don't care if Shane Hollander is a hockey player he does not GOLF I don't CARE if it's UNREALISITC in my heart he has NEVER touched a golf club. I can't be writing this many words of fanfiction about a man who golfs, ergo he magically was otherwise occupied every time that he should have been out golfing.

[scartafacci]

[halles-comet]

my favorite thing about louis is he's a business major in a world of theater kids. everyone's playing psychological games with each other through theater and rock music and the fractured art of storytelling and he's like "but what are the margins on my vampire hotel"

[fibbunny]

It’s so fucking bananas that the last straw for Lestat in that meeting was finding out that Louis was getting 45% of merch profits on his tour. What kind of joker ass motherfucker becomes an investor in their ex’s crash out??? Louis Du Pointe Du Lac no one ever did it like you

[fringe-problems]

MBA x MFA romance

[fractally]

So to give context for why I did a Bell Centre tour so I sound less insane: I work for a French university and am pursuing a research collaboration with a French Canadian one and so am in Montreal for work. Today I had the morning free before my flight home and decided to do the tour I didn’t go to Montreal for this

Ok anyway that said wow I think I have a much stronger handle on Shane’s specific insanity now. The religiosity with which they revere this team and especially its captains. I thought I got it but yeah actually seeing it is kind of a different thing.

Shane is a lunatic but he’s also a completely rational actor.

I am more convinced than ever that if Shane ended the Canadian Stanley drought in 2015 and then brought two more and then trip gate happens and Shane signs with Ottawa that Montreal would burn for weeks. Like people wouldn’t even know who they’re mad at, Shane or Ilya or the GM or god. They’d just be furious

[fringe-problems]

i am quite literally always saying this.

the show is so intentionally claustrophobic, focused on just the romance, that it does not convey the fact that if shane hollander won two back to back cups and then went outside and executed someone in broad daylight the SPVM would cover it up.

if he implied ever so gently in an interview that it was due to internal conflict with team management, someone would firebomb the GMs house.

montreal has more than 700 churches and it loves hockey more than god.

[themoonandmyman]

me liking ur posts

[fringe-problems]

when there's nothing left to burn

ch5. WIP, alternating POV Scott and Shane. 30k words.

"But. All that hiding. You… don’t get the years back. There’s another season and it’s the same game, same expectations, another chance. But the time is gone.” Shane feels a pitying sadness, unsure of where the conversation has gone, these uncharted waters. There’s no screen in the four-seaters, he quite literally does not know where they are over North America, how far to home.

In which Scott Hunter accepts a trade to Montreal, just as Shane Hollander is named captain.

Or: what if i spin scott hunter and shane hollander at each other like two high-strung beyblades??? ilya and kip will both show up, eventually. along the way: so much canadiana i'm making myself sick on the maple syrup.

Chapter five: Scott laughs, runs. At All-Stars, Shane finds Ilya in a pool.

[puppy95]

This video from 2018 of lakeith stanield dancing to lcd randomly emerged from my drunken memory today because tbh being alive still feels like this

[luulapants]

The economics of Rachel Reid's books is frankly so insane. Everyone is either working poverty wages or they're a millionaire.

Fabian is working at a drug store until he makes his big break. There is, presumably, no such thing as a moderately successful musician in this world or any mid-level careers for people with musical training. (He plays violin - you're telling me he can't get studio work? Or work weddings?) Kip sells smoothies and works catering jobs. Kyle is a bartender.

Harris, Thee social media manager of a pro sports team who travels with that team twice a year, claims he makes less per year than some of the players make in a day. The absolute maximum salary for an NHL player in 2020 was $16.3M, but I haven't seen anyone suggest Ilya would be making that much with Ottawa - that would be a terrible deal for the team, since that's 20% of their salary cap for the whole team. Certainly they don't have more than one player making that. Ilya is probably making 10, maybe 12M, which would put Harris's salary below $32k. In 2020. That's crazyinsane. That should be a good paying job!!

And then everyone else? Everyone else in this series is a millionaire. But!! The millionaires do not live or act like millionaires in any meaningful way. Ilya has a car collection, sure, but he has to sell it?? To move to Ottawa?? No he fucking doesn't, he just signed a $10M contract that probably had a signing bonus. Are you stoned? Are we all very stoned? Do we not have basic math skills.

Anyway, fascinated by this universe she's created in which the middle class simply does not exist. Something very bootstrapsy about it.

[kutputli]

And there are no nannies or cleaners!!!!!!!

[luulapants]

And there are no nannies or cleaners!!!!!!!

[fringe-problems]

this also applies to their fame level as well.

shane hollander is the most famous person in montreal, the province of quebec and the citizens of brossard — farther away from ottawa and less anonymous than a downtown condo — don’t notice another car showing up? i think no.

scott hunter has his face all over new york, he gets recognized in the street but also: his boyfriend, the one he kissed on live television, can work at a bar afterward? i think no. i also think no, not at all.

to the point of the revolts, their army of cleaners, couriers, at home medical and physical care never see their secret boyfriends?

relevant because they’re written just as like, some normal guy with a kooky job, but they have enough money to solve many problems written into the narrative (ilya could literally buy his way into american citizenship) and so much attention to create 400 more that are written out.

[shieldofiron]

Recognition through the other. Which naturally leads to:

[lestatdelioncuort]

Amaka Umeh as DEE PHARMA

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