[cakepopsandcoffee]

Shane chasing Ilya's lips.

[mythmagicetc]

ilya on his couch trying so hard to sound nonchalant: so is there a mrs real estate

[fuckrozanov]

if ilya rozanov purred “such a good trick” in my face and then kissed me like i was ancient valuable porcelain with a five figure insurance policy and then proceeded to ghost me for 6 months i would kill him with a hammer

[citrusses]

PSA tho everyone if anyone ever pulls the shit on you that Ilya pulls on Shane in ep 2 you need to delete that persons number from your phone and maybe change your last name so that toxic loser can’t ever find you again. Not u tho Shane baby, keep pining! I think he’s the one!!!!

[gaynehollander]

I truly don’t think Ilya realises how physically attracted Shane is to him in book canon. He suspects Shane is gay and so knows he’s not in a position to be openly dating anyone and he knows Shane is an over-thinker who would obsessively worry about his secret getting out. Ilya is as safe an option as the come, a man who has as much (or arguably more) to lose if anyone were to find out about them. Supposedly there’s at least a level attraction there and the sex is certainly good but he caught Shane at a time where he was inexperienced and maybe would have wanted anyone who made his interest so blatantly obvious. Ilya’s more willing to actually compliment Shane, such as calling him beautiful in the prologue, while most of what Shane actually lets himself say to Ilya is closer to chirping, mostly calling him an asshole at every turn, telling him that Cosmopolitan ranking as the fifth hottest player in the NHL “does seem generous”. Ilya doesn’t actually take it seriously but all of Shane’s monologuing about how hot he finds Ilya is internal. He’s truly shocked when Shane says it aloud at the cottage because Shane has never actually verbalised how fucking attracted he is to him. Now, don’t get me wrong, Ilya know he’s hot shit, he knows he’s talented enough on the ice to capture Shane’s interest while almost no one else is and he knows he can make him lose his mind in the bedroom but he’s all the way in love with Shane and committed to trying to make this work before Shane ever allows himself to overtly thirst after him and there’s something so heartbreaking about him throwing himself in head first without expecting Shane to give an inch on that front.

[bisexualrozanov]

you used to be fun, ilya.

[sinmonger]

Hollanov + tweets (part 2)

[hudsonswilliams]

SHANE WEEK - DAY ONE 🩵 FAVORITE MOMENT

Shane being totally normal

BONUS:

[smokey-ilya]

today's low stakes headcanon is that one morning ilya catches shane looking up lasik eye procedures on his laptop and he freaks out. "you would take them from me? me? your husband who you claim to love?" and shane laughs saying that he was just looking into it after meeting with the team doc yesterday, he's noticed that his eyesight has changed over the last season and he doesn't want it to interfere with his game. ilya shakes his head "impossible, you are best hockey player" and shane's like "oh yea? best hockey player?" with a huge grin and ilya loves when shane's praise kink comes out so he fans the flames saying, "ahh yes very best so good you do not need eyes, only hands" and ilya runs his hands through shane's hair as they look at each other, laptop and eye procedures forgotten about

[ilyarozanovgifs]

1.06 "The Cottage" | Do you want me to come with you?

[shaneposting]

anyway good morning a crucial tenet of hollanov’s relationship is that they’re equals and they’re the only people in the world who could ever be each other’s equal. they were supposed to stand alone at the top but they’re there together. shane does not view ilya as a lazy useless inconvenience. ilya does not view shane as a nagging killjoy. they are equals and they both think the other is the best thing since sliced bread and they love each other but more importantly they LIKE each other. stop making them not like each other!

[upset-to-dead]

Obsessed with Ilya struggling to straddle Shane for a second bc Shane's first instinct after being pushed onto a bed is to spread his legs

[hollanovarchive]

Hello!!

I remember reading a fic that was around Shane being able to read Ilya’s thoughts and for the life of me can’t find it again. Have you come across it?

Oh, this sounds interesting. Here is what i could find below.

Cherry Magic: A Heated Rivalry AU

On his thirtieth birthday, Shane Hollander wakes up able to read minds through touch. The problem? According to an urban legend no one thought was real, there's only one way to make it stop—and it involves doing the one thing he swore he'd never do. As the captain of the Montreal Metros navigates this unwanted ability, he's about to discover that sometimes the hardest thing to read is your own heart, especially when a certain charming new player seems determined to crash through all his carefully constructed walls.

welcome to the jungle 

Shane gets registered as a telepath when he's seven. He sees (most) colors, flits of sentences, and images, but when he meets Ilya, all he sees is green.

intrusive thoughts 

After insulting a suspiciously vindictive fortune teller at a street fair, Ilya Rozanov wakes up cursed with the ability to hear people’s thoughts through touch.

Does this fic sound familiar to anyone else? Please let me know x

[illeeya]

Maybe My Love Infinite by taylorhamilton? Although it’s more of a soulmate mental link than it is mind reading.

[hpandcarbs]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77302971/chapters/202382261

Hollanov fic rec!

Long WIP - During the last year of Ilya playing for Boston / the season following the cottage, Ilya gets badly injured during a game. Changes up between Ilya’s and Shane’s POVs. Amazing characterization and great look/feel at hospital recovery, autism, found family, etc etc etc. I’ve subscribed to updates!

[sunnys1de-d0wn]

myshane is an ilya enabler, not an ilya apologist.

[lucylehane]

Jacob with some spot-on Ilya character analysis (and general thoughts on sex-as-self)

It's Open With Ilana Glazer

[wolvieispunk]

I loved this interview, yayyy a gifset!!

I think this is something lost on the audience in the show that is explicitly implicit in the books.

Shane thinks Ilya is a sex god bc

1) he is "better at sex" than shane

2) shane up to this point hasn't had a successful and Very Good sexual experience. He literally says once Ilya dick is inside him that he "finally understands why people are sex- obsessed." It has clicked, and his brain says its because of ilya, not bc he is gay

3) ilya is a whore so that translates in shanes brain to very experienced, good at it, therefore sex god

They tease back and forth that ilya has ruined sex for shane bc no one else will do, and while shane is embarrassed by this, he agrees.

In TLG it comes out that ilya has maybe been with like 5-10 guys at most. Personally i think its the lower end of that. He specifically says that men are a "rare treat," implying that 1) its safer to pull women (he really is terrified of being outed and shipped back to russia), and 2) he only pulls men when he is missing shane so much he cant stand it.

Shane has canonically been with 3 men. Two pulls he didnt care for, and ilya. Again, in his mind, ilya is the key, but its not inherently bc of ilya's skill, its because of their crazy deep connection.

I LOVE that Jacob said this, because its not so explicit in the show. You get little tells (ilya's "wow" at Shane's desperation and automatic submission; his quick orgasms in ep1 - he is just as overwhelmed and turned on as shane is; his face the first time he fucks shane, especially when he goes in from behind) but in the end, ilya is so desperate to please shane and make it perfect that he just makes it happen out of sheer willpower. But the second he realizes shane is coming untouched under his he makes way too much noise, bites his lips to squash it (embarrased, wants to be more in control than that), and immediately comes. Its not inherent skill, its attention and the overwhelming desire to please, mixed with a little control freak energy and genuine exhilaration at Shane's automatic submission.

[laviejaguardia]

I love the everyone wants to fuck Shane Hollander agenda so picture like, Ilya at a team member's bachelor party and the whole Raiders team is there and everyone is drunk and they're playing games and just yelling out answers at the same time to questions like what's your favourite position and age you lost your virginity and giving each other shit for the answers but then there's what player you would go gay for and suddenly the whole team yells Shane Hollander at once to stunned silence afterwards and Ilya has the worst fucking night of his life

[illeeya]