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i’m 26 dude

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

the thing about heated rivalry is that it is that serious

[blond-shell]

HEATED RIVALRY PRIDE WEEK ➤ day 4: nature

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[hidiane]

laptop just started ticking like a bomb does anyone else think this sounds kind of maybe not ideal

[eemolu]

don't get me wrong i love the fact that shane and ilya retcon their relationship to be love at first sight. like good for them!! but when i look at the source material im like .. you were charmed. you were jealous. he had everything you wanted (supportive family and his country behind him, able to be big and brash and move through life with ease) and you wanted to see if you could make him feel good (can you debauch the golden boy, can you be good for the man who's had everyone) but the love didn't come until you started to take apart the things that attracted you to this person in the first place. shane fell in love with the ilya who checked in on him and with the sweetness behind the barbs and with the ilya who couldn't stop kissing him in that stairwell. and ilya fell in love with the shane who thinks buffalo is stupid and can barely get his shoes off before he throws himself at ilya and can't tell his parents he's gay because he's suffocating behind his own image not because he thinks they don't love him but because he wants to honor everything they've done for him. and so it's really nice that ilya goes "i loved you from the first time i saw you" but i, omniscient reader, call bullshit. i think you love that boy now because no version of you could ever not love any version of him. but at the time i think you were mostly just curious and then the love grew despite all odds in the most hostile of circumstances because everything you learned about each other made you want more and more and more. and also probably that's even MORE beautiful. so.

[ticklefighthockey]

nothinggg is more ilya than the tampa hotel room sequence where shane comes out, ilya acts like a dick while keeping himself physically as far from shane as possible, shane gets his feelings hurt and starts looking a little chin-wobbly, and ilya audibly GROANS and flings himself across the room to sit next to him on the bed. but he’s still not looking at shane or touching him because ilya is NOT here to comfort him or anything ok he just randomly and totally unrelatedly got tired of standing up at the exact moment that shane’s big brown eyes started getting all wet and shiny with tears and the nearest place to sit down happened to be on the bed next to shane. do NOT read anything into this none of this means ANYTHING (in under two minutes he will be crying in shane’s arms btw)

[abba-enthusiast]

Riverdale is a masterpiece, actually

[thebookluvrr1816]

Merthur + eye contact - 02

[ughmerlin]

BBC MERLIN: “THE DIAMOND OF THE DAY” first aired 13 years ago on December 24, 2012

[lottienats]

DANA SCULLY & FOX MULDER The X Files, ‘Never Again’

[lauraaaborealis]

I mean, I wish I could say that we were going in circles, but we’re not. We’re going in an endless line - - two steps forwards and three steps back. While my own life is...standing still.

[hidiane]

i do admire heated rivalry for bringing back the genre of tv where i can’t fucking see anything but in a cool way. #respect

[hidiane]

shane hollander voice its ENOUGH!!!!!

[spikedaily]

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

i feel so cheated that we never got to hear isaiah mustafa say some of mike's book lines tbh

[honeyybrii]

shane effortlessly defying ilya's internal self deprecation with the most blunt, heartstopping, to the point sincerity is such an important part of their dynamic to me

"but you know me, i'm lazy, so." "i don't know that side of you at all."

"is that what we are going to do? relax?" "i hope so. i would like to relax with you. for once."

"because you like to be bad." "hey, that's not what this is. you and me. maybe it was at first but, not now, and not for a long time."

to the point where it even usurps other peoples interpretations of ilya before he gets the chance to internalize them -

"but, you hate him." "no. i mean, i get that. but no. i love him."

and ilya has that exact same subtly gobsmacked expression every time he does it

[nemfrog]

Sound asleep. Health Habits. 1925.

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[materialistses]

Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton on the set of ‘READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME’ (2026)