meh.

meh.

[tayasui-mono]

The hottest thing husbands Hollanov can do now is annihilate all nasty critics on the ice. I imagine a few loudmouth scum taunting their sexuality and marriage during a game and Hollanov murder their team on the scoreboard in response. Like it becomes suffocating for the opposite teams after a minute when they realize that they're playing Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.

[dntat-makesthings]

Ilya describing Shane like an angry kitten will forever be one of my favourite moments from the book.

[rozanovy]

Shane Hollander's First Gay Panic Heated Rivalry Sneak Peak

[hilarioushilarity]

Still laughing about how close Troy Barrett came to death

Role Model, Chp. 5

[gngerale]

HEATED RIVALRY, EPISODE 3 'HUNTER'

[shanehollandertwentyfour]

There’s so much in this 30 clip that makes me insane.

Shane’s bare feet! He took his socks off! He’s comfortable there!

Shane’s face when he asks “you wanna make me a tuna melt?” Is somehow so confused and so fond and delighted AND teasing at the same time

the way Ilya counts starting with his pinkie!!!!! Feels very European to me and makes me feral for some reason

Ilya’s little hand clap before he grabs the stuff in the fridge like he has PREPARED for this moment and now is his time to shine (heehee)

Shane looking around like “wtf is going on I’m in Ilya rozanov’s kitchen” but he loves it

Ilya making casual conversation and being a cute smiley guy while he talks to Shane about his next games “all the hot spots” we’ve never seen him this soft out of the bedroom before, not with anyone

“ginger ale cold enough?” Because HE JUST PUT IT IN THERE LIKE AN HOUR AGO BECAUSE HE WAS PREPARING FOR THIS

Shane still so confused because his baby bird brain can’t fathom Ilya being nice to him like this and he loves it so much but does NOT get it yet.

And scene.

[avadaniels]

He realized, suddenly, as if waking from a dream, that he was standing alone in the middle of a dance floor…not dancing. Just…staring. At Ilya. — Heated Rivalry, Chapter 14

[russianblush]

#ilya baby get behind me

[russianblush]

HEY HELLO JUST GIVE ME THE GUN INSTEAD

(sorry @joyousmistake these tags killed me)

[goth-queen]

[perlukafarinn]

At some point after they're married, Shane and Ilya are apart for like a week for ~reasons~ and when they're both home again, Shane basically jumps Ilya by the front door and drags him to the bedroom.

After they're finished fucking, Shane says something to the effect of, "I can't believe I used to go months without this."

And Ilya, as smug and satisfied as the cat who got the proverbial cream, replies, "Bet you wouldn't have held out for two years if you'd known what getting fucked felt like, huh?"

"Maybe," Shane says. He's still kind of out of it, so the next words slip out thoughtlessly, "I mean, I wanted to when we first planned it. I just kind of freaked out when it fell through and you left me on read."

Ilya's heart drops. "What do you mean?"

Shane does not pick up on his change in tone. "Just made me feel like I was alone in how much I wanted it. Obviously when you kept messaging me I realized I wasn't but it took a while to get over that feeling, y'know?"

Then he yawns, turning over to cuddle into Ilya's side, already drifting off and unaware that Ilya is now wide awake, staring up at the ceiling and wondering if wanting to go back in time and wring his nineteen year old self's neck counts as thoughts of self harm.

[darkstarknight03]

The concept of Shane being in voyageurs superhell post outing and meanwhile in every press interview the other centaurs will NOT refer to Ilya as anything other than Shane Hollander’s Boyfriend.

“Yeah, Shane Hollander’s boyfriend scored that nasty goal in the third, tying up the game, really brought the energy back in—”

“There’s a lot of good chemistry on the ice — playing on the first line with Hollander’s boyfriend and Barrett is some of the best hockey I’ve ever played.”

“Yeah, the team is really pulling together for playoffs. When you’ve got an all-star like Shane Hollander’s fiancé as captain, he really makes you believe in yourselves. What? Oh, yeah, apparently he’s been holding that out on us since January. They still call each other boyfriends, though — I think cap has a grudge against the French language.”

The league keeps telling them to stop and Harris KNOWS that but also their engagement numbers have never been so high and it’s definitely not just because they’re going to playoffs…

[shanyshko]

david gets this for ilya as a gag gift because he sees it at the thrift store dropping off some old donations and says "you can just put pencils or something in it" and ilya has to go to the bathroom so he doesn't cry big baby tears

[urie]

i looooooooove how annoying shane and ilya must be as the two best hockey players in the world just both of them being able to see the game at such an elite level and notice things no one else does and theyre basically speaking their own language to one another and saying things like "i dont even count a hat trick if its on an empty net if the goalie isnt there its NOT a real goal i think they should not count these" "absolutely if theres no challenge it isnt real" "exactlyyyyy" and they will say things like this in front of players who have Zero career hat tricks

[urie]

hayden is struggling in the postseason and says its bc he is "playing with a broken rib" and privately shane is thinking "okay but just one though jesus christ" and ilya is texting him like "is pike playing on severed legs" "broken rib" "ok???? just one????" and shane is like wow thank god finally someone who gets it

[azaablue]

personal hc that one of the hollanov kids loves hockey but it's just not clicking even though they practice all the time and shane and ilya both try different coaching methods with them and it only makes everyone more frustrated and then one day wyatt comes to the rink with them and after 1.5 seconds on-ice he's like "hey i think they're a goalie" and shane and ilya nearly black out because oh. ohhh my god. they're kid is totally, completely, a goalie. and that's why it wasn't fucking working. they have a fucking goalie.

[my-castles-crumbling]

okay stay with me for this one.

When Ilya moves to the Centaurs he doesn’t get to keep his number. Some old fuck on the team already has it and refuses to trade, no matter how much Ilya bribes him.

so, in true Ilya Rozanov fashion, he picks the number 24. People think he did it to be an asshole, which is true, but he also did it to have Shane with him all the time. Shane was both infuriated and touched by it.

but then of course, years later, SHANE transfers to Ottawa. And lo and behold, the old fuck who had number 81 retired, so when Shane has to choose a number?

81 is available.

so the first day of training, Shane walks into practice in a jersey that says Hollander, 81, with an absolutely shit-eating grin on his face.

and Ilya goes insane.

[ilyas-left-nut]

ilya’s trying so HARD to act nonchalant here it’s actually comical, when we ALL know that man is seconds away from begging on his hands n knees

[sheheatedonmyrivalry]

Cliff teaches Ilya the prayer he says to St. Anthony when you lose things (Tony Tony please come down something’s lost that can’t be found) and now ilya walks around the house like

“TONY, you motherfucker, I need my KEYS! WHERE ARE MY KEYS TONY”