Rotund & Full of Cheese

1997 | Any Pronouns | Yelling into the Void

[galecstatic]

this official promo picture hits like crack ngl plus hudson's red ears with their intense eye contact is selling the fuck out of it

[finelytaylored]

Jacob Tierney talks about “boring” and “fuck you” meaning “I love you” for Shane and Ilya:

“A really good friend of mine—a person who reads my scripts who's a brilliant novelist named Rainbow Rowell—she read the first episode and she said to me… “just remember that every ‘fuck you’ is ‘I love you,’ and maybe you're saying ‘fuck you’ too many times”

“And I was like oh, that's such a good call. That's a great call. Because it was just a reminder of all of the things they say to each other that are not ‘I love you’ and that are not—”

“Boring, you know, when Ilya calls Shane boring, he's saying he's in love with him. And he's not boring, [Ilya] is endlessly fascinated by Shane. And the only way he can communicate that is by making fun of him and calling him boring, because anything else would rip his soul out through his face.”

“Like that's the idea, and so even the words we use to obfuscate matter, you know?”

(via live Q&A with Stage 32 on March 24, 2026)

[lovedbyflesh]

oscar’s hudcon 🐆ྀི

[ilyashaneconnorhudson]

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[knownqueerbaiter]

a sound is still a sound around no one

Shane lifts one eyelid again to look at Rozanov. His eyes are red-rimmed. Like he’s been crying. “Why…why aren’t you in Boston?” Rozanov’s brow furrows. “Why would I be in Boston?” “You, you’re captain. Raiders. Boston.” The room is silent except for the beeping of monitors.

In 2023, Shane takes a bad hit on the ice. When he wakes up, the last thing he remembers is a tuna melt.

There’s a lot to get used to.

aka: the amnesia fic. 43.2k, complete at 9/9 chapters. rated E. read on ao3 here.

[wilmvandrr]

feel like this took forever- so very worth it!

special mention to @babywarning for their sweet comment, and thank you to everyone who voted :)

(i was gonna draw shane shaking ass, so go democracy!)

[gusgus-the-rat]

freaking out to myself because holy shit 600 people liked my fic??? i have no words except thank you 🥲🥲🥲🥹🥹🥹

[wilmvandrr]

finished!! i had posted a wip of this a while back :)

[gusgus-the-rat]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Post-Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers), Post-Episode: s01e06 The Cottage (Heated Rivalry), POV Shane Hollander, Press and Tabloids, Married Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Established Relationship, Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov, Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander, Protective Shane Hollander Summary:

When an outrageous tabloid claims that Shane Hollander's marriage to Ilya Rozanov is a farce, Shane is ready to sue.

[gusgus-the-rat]

I hc shane starts pursuing higher education after he retires from hockey.

Yuna suggested it in passing: since he has so much free time on his hands, without any pressure to get a job in that particular field of his study, it’d keep him occupied while still doing something meaningful.

He supposes he could study in University of Ottawa, it’s near. Then he really looks into the programs and got consultation for courses that focuses on neurodegenerative disorders, especially Alzheimer’s (he doesn’t want to lose Ilya to that 🥲)

So, he quietly submits his application without telling Ilya what his course is until he’s admitted. Cue Ilya crying because what the fuck, Shane? You’re supposed to want to continue doing hockey after you retire! How dare you be so sweet and romantic and practical and this disease has no cure—you’re wasting time—

[finelytaylored]

“married Optimus prime and megatron” is an all timer line

[lavenderprose]

As a married person I do need to tell you all that Shane and Ilya do weird shit all the time.

They routinely have entire conversations where Ilya is very softly smacking Shane's foot the entire time. Shane enjoys the percussive feedback.

Ilya mispronounces the word "Application" and they just sit there mutually whispering 'Aaap-li-caaa-shun' at each other for the next thirty seconds.

Ilya comes up behind Shane while he's trying to make a smoothie and says 'HELPING HANDS' and puts his arms under Shane's armpits.

Ilya sees Shane undressing in the bathroom and yells, "Take it all off!"

Shane carries Anya into the bedroom and holds her over Ilya's chest and moves her paws and says, "Papa it is me. Papa it has been an whole hour since I ate. Papa I am so hungry and sad." then drops her on his stomach.

Shane comes into the home office and grabs a pen off the desk and puts it against Ilya's cheek and says, "Any last words?" and Ilya says, "I wish I had eaten more dumplings."

Ilya spends an entire episode of House Hunters International with his hand down Shane's pants. It's not doing anything in there either it's just keeping warm.

Sometimes they are just mutually awake at three AM for No Reason and they go stand on the porch and stare at the empty street together.

Sometimes they are laying there playing footsie on the couch while on their phones (Parallel play) and Shane says, "Does your mouth ever do that squeezing thing. You know. When you eat." And Ilya says "Explain" and they spend the next ten minutes dissecting whether this is a Human Experience or a Shane Experience.

Sometimes Ilya will put his head on Shane's stomach and say, "Show me your boooones" and wait for Shane to lift his shirt so he can burrow under it.

I just think that we as a fandom need to embrace how Weird married people get about each other. From personal experience I am telling you it is SO FUN.

[hyperfixation-fix]

Can't stop thinking about how much of a relief it must have been for Ilya to realise how insanely predictable Shane is. Like, he's lived his whole life with a mother who had horrible mental illness, a father who was unstable and always angry, a brother who couldn't even hold down a job. He's had to keep secrets and lie and read between the lines just to survive.

And here's Shane. Shane who folds his clothes before sex. Shane who will always be happy with a cold ginger beer. Shane who has a stylist and an interior decorator because he likes things to look objectively nice.

Shane who answers "How many times can you cum in an hour?" completely literally. Shane who has no filter and comments on the bed being dirty within 0.2 seconds of cumming all over it. Shane who comes out to Ilya the moment he figures it out himself, and who tells him point blank that it's not just sex, because he never ever expects Ilya to read his mind.

Their relationship is far from simple, but it's probably one of the most predictable things in Ilya's world. Shane is a safe harbour throughout the years, even while the hurricane around Ilya only gets more and more destructive.

[gusgus-the-rat]

HC that older, retired hollanov shift from strict top/bottom to switches/vers. Because on top of juggling family life, sometimes Ilya’s knees ache and he can’t jack hammer into his husband like he used to. Or Shane wants more control since retirement and Ilya gladly hands him the reins, more secure in himself to let Shane dote over him. Just older hollanov evolving in life and in their relationship with each other 🥲🥹

[icaruswar]

im so extremely protective towards hudson williams especially in this hollywood climate.

this man, everyone assumes has no media training just because he is unabashedly 'himself' everywhere he goes, is in fact so well media-trained that he knows how to be the charming 'boy-next-door' while also maintaining boundaries where necessary. it also helps a lot that the man is a college graduate, a cinephile with a thirst of knowledge about life in general (he watches random documentaries about random things on the internet as he has mentioned in of the interviews), AND an avid reader.

hudson 'i am vain, I have no depth, I have no real-world value, besides my aesthetic beauty' williams whose face morphs into '☹️' every time someone genuinely compliments him. hudson wiliams, who doesn't forget to mention people by their names when complimenting their works. hudson williams, who took a character as stoic as Shane Hollander and brought him to life with his unfathomable talent of expressing the innermost thoughts of the character just with his expressive eyes, wobbly lips and his sweet squeaky voice of a panicky Shane.

i swear i could go on and on about him and it wouldn't be enough.

my point is, the industry that's so hellbent on not giving hudson his deserved spotlight, will one day realise that the talent and the unstoppable star power he carries will eventually wash away all their efforts of trying to dampen his magnetism and artistic brilliance.

[gusgus-the-rat]

shane will always be the best hockey player to me but i cant stop giggling at the thought of Shane being an Uber EATs driver who can’t help but judge the amount of junk food the Ottawa hockey team captain, Ilya Rozanov, orders whenever he’s at home

[gusgus-the-rat]

i know hollander’s pecs are worshipped but technically ilya would be more likely out of the two to lactate just from his piss poor luck with antidepressants