Meghan

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[yrsonpurpose]

heated rivalry + original series soundtrack

[lavenderprose]

Heated Rivalry really is a lot of people's introduction to many of the concepts of gay sex. Like I genuinely think that there are people (GROWN ADULTS) who did not know that gay men could fuck in missionary or cowgirl style. It's the only explanation I have for how people talk about some of the scenes in HR. And yeah okay sure it's important that these things are discussed in the mainstream just like straight sex, believe me I am THE onscreen explicit gay sex defender, I have many posts about this. I'm definitely not trying to discourage people from finding out new things about themselves. But also the next time I go into the comment section on a video where a real gay man is talking about his real life and I see someone say the words Shane Hollander I may start killing. Like did we not get it out of our systems with the yaoi paddles. This is very 2013 of us people. Well then again some of you were learning to read in 2013--oop. Was that mean.

[artbychiara]

you're brave.

[itsineffhazbinle]

so I just randomly remembered that in the final scene where everyone pairs up with the "reincarnated" version of their other half, Mutt's spouse doesn't pair up with a resurrected Mutt. They're the only one who is left out. Yet another marvelous detail from this stupendous, queer friendly finale! And I can't believe they didn't even give them an actual name.

[themoonandmyman]

Shane’s ‘this is such a bad idea’ was the beginning of his blossoming cnc kink btw

[grabmyboner]

every time someone implies shane is a twink i shank them in the kidney when they least expect it

[lavenderprose]

Boggles the mind when people don't like it when Ilya is mean. He's mean in the entire show. And Shane thinks it's so fucking hot.

[penandinkprincess]

this

does make me think extremely chewy thoughts about how fucking complicated this has to be for ilya. like obviously things with his father are SO fucking complex and layered and there's so much pain there, but also what emotional potential of being the only person he consistently remembers. even ilya's older brother gets forgotten, but when he's distressed, ilya is the one he calls? he ALWAYS seems to know ilya?????

it adds to the guilt also that he's the only one who can calm his father down or at least handle him when he's like this and yet he's the one on a whole different continent, but also what a twisted wreck of feelings it has to be to be the only one their father consistently remembers. like there HAS to be love in there, doesn't there? if i'm the one he remembers when he forgets everything else? i'm at least THAT important to him? i have to be, don't i? even if everything else is gone, i'm still in there. that HAS to mean something, doesn't it?

but also what fucking guilt to know that alexei almost certainly feels resentment about this as confirmation that ilya is their father's favorite and always has been and always will be. and like from ilya's pov, it didn't save him AT ALL, but also how fucking complex to be the younger sibling and yet be the only one their father consistently remembers.

[hudconcore]

You might think a light shoulder tap is just polite and harmless, but for a celebrity, that kind of physical contact is a huge red flag. The average person isn't being constantly approached or followed by strangers, so a tap doesn't register as a threat. Celebrities on the other hand, deal with invasive fans and stalker situations all the time. When someone sneaks up, touches them, and starts walking their way, it stops feeling like a friendly hi and immediately feels like someone crossing a line. What feels like normal social behavior to you actually feels really unpredictable and unsafe to them.

[il81ya]

Can we please have a conversation about boundaries for once?

Connor has spent the last year keeping a pretty low profile. He doesn't seem interested in living his life online, he isn't active on social media, he does his job, promotes his projects when he has to, and then disappears again. That's clearly a choice he's made, and it's one that should be respected.

The second he's back in Canada filming with Hudson, it's like all of that goes out the window.

People are posting sightings in real time, tracking where he's been seen, waiting around filming locations, waiting at airports, waiting outside hotels, and now there are people openly admitting they touched him to get his attention while he was just trying to walk somewhere. Read that back to yourselves.

He's a stranger.

If someone politely declines a photo, that's the end of the interaction. You don't keep pushing. You don't touch them. And if they think you're following them back to where they're staying, maybe ask yourself why that feels like a realistic concern for them in the first place.

What's even weirder is seeing people relocate or make plans around filming just so they can "accidentally" run into them. That's not dedication. That's not being a supportive fan. That's crossing a line.

The irony is that so many of the same people claim to care about Connor while completely ignoring the fact that he has consistently shown he values his privacy. If you actually respect someone, you respect the boundaries they've set, not the ones you've decided you're entitled to ignore.

You are not owed a photo. You are not owed a conversation. You are definitely not entitled to touch another person because they're an actor.

Some of the behaviour I've seen lately is genuinely unsettling, and it's exactly the kind of thing that makes actors become more guarded over time. Supporting someone's work should never involve making them feel like they're under surveillance every time they leave the house.

[ineffablyannoyed]

[msmazingham]

[nicolegendary]

the parallel drawn between ilya and his mom isn't meant to be subtle. she was so funny and beautiful. she was so sad. my dad was so hard on her. she would've loved you like i love you. so when ilya says he doesn't want shane to think she was weak, that line makes me want to scream. he has so much shame around his depression when it comes to shane. he doesn't want shane to think He is weak. (spoilers) he spends all of tlg keeping his issues secret from shane because he's determined to "fix" it on his own so shane never has to know, ilya never has to be a failure or an inconvenience to him. so in the end when he is finally in a place to come out and say listen if you're going to commit to me you need to know that i'm like my mom and i might always be - and for shane to just hear him and say well i'll be right here - is a massive release of shame for ilya

[writemeialive]

The silliest thing I find about this whole "they only got 30 years together in the end with no memories of their shared history so what was the point" is that EVERYONE THINKS THEY ONLY MET EACH OTHER IN THIS ONE SINGULAR LIFETIME REALITY instead of my immediate thought that as its architects, Aziraphale and Crowley were wound so deep into the fabric of the new universe that there is a version of them finding each other and falling in love every single generation for billions and billions of years??????

A Roman version and a French Revolution version and a WWII version and ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND---

For goodness sake the song that plays over this version of them finding and falling in love is "Time After Time"! THE IMPLICATION IS THAT THEY WILL ALWAYS FIND EACH OTHER!!!!!! ***ALWAYS*** IN EVERY LIFETIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[child-of-ineffable-divorce]

Thats up to interpretation. We’re shown no textual evidence of that, and using the song and end credits as proof doesn’t account to much, because the credits have always been an ‘artistic liberty’ type thing, and the song is just that, a song. Not a promise that what you’re hearing is exactly what’s happening, it’s just a general theme.

If we’re taking implications as canonical evidence, the implication of no angels and demons means that there’s no magic, no reincarnation, no ‘other lifetimes’ (see how my interperetation of the implications is different? This is because there’s no explicit factual data to base off of, so there’s no way to confirm any one interpretation is right or wrong)

And if they DID become these ever-present entities finding each other throughout time and space, why not show us that? Why show us the lamest excuses for revamped characters with one definitive ending (human, limited lifetime together), instead of what is said to be implied (present across the fabric of reality.)

I’d be able to accept the ‘always finding each other’ interpretation if there were literally ANY clues in the actual story, but there aren’t. Even the snow globe can’t be used as proof because it’s an easter egg at best

[in-the-hollanov-trenches]

So considering that season 1 of Heated Rivalry uses two songs by Canadian singer Feist (My Moon My Man and Sealion), I think season 2 should open with a montage set to I Feel It All. Walk with me.

We get a montage of shots with Shane and Ilya being in love, with specific focus on Ilya looking happier than we've ever seen him. But as it goes on we see him make the move to Ottawa and slowly that happiness fades into something else. We see him lying in bed next to Shane who's sleeping, staring up at the ceiling, looking empty. We see him smiling and kissing Shane goodbye, only to close the door and turn around to his now empty house and not know what to do with himself. Maybe he even takes some pictures of Shane on his phone and then later we see him sadly deleting them because he can't have evidence of their relationship.

We see more shots of Ilya hanging out with the Centaurs, except while everyone else around him is having fun, he's always in the corner on his phone, going through his messages with Shane. Meanwhile this is interspersed with more shots of Ilya all alone in his big empty house with cuts to Shane playing hockey and thriving in Montreal while Ilya's team keeps losing.

The song ends on a close-up shot of Ilya sitting in a chair, staring directly at the camera, then a further away shot where we see him Googling the symptoms for depression.

[ilyapasta]

There's a few things with pacing and stakes in TLG that I take issue with and one is that I want Shane to think Ilya is DEAD when the plane thing happens. No no don't boo me I know it's like Lifetime movie dramatic and I don't want Shane to be like, punished, for the fight he and Ilya had, that's not what I'm saying.

But I want the scene to mirror JJ being like "Did you hear Rozanov did not going to Nashville?" in season 1. To me, you can leave viewers wondering what happens to Ilya without resolving the plane emergency. So ideally to me he sends the (fuckin') Instagram messages to Shane and then it cuts to Shane without resolution. So my fantasy scene would open with JJ being like "[Quebecois swear] Ottawa's plane went down!" and Hayden is like wide-eyed trying to contain the situation and district the team because Shane is frozen in the dressing room, his bag hanging from his hand, and Hayden is like "give me that" and grabs JJ's phone, scanning the headline and news story and is like "They're just reporting trouble with their plane, there's nothing else reported at the moment" and Shane turns on his heel with his phone already at his ear and some guy is like "Wait Hollander probably has Rozanov's number for that charity thing, someone tell him to call him!" but Shane is already gone, locking himself in a staff bathroom down the hall and when the door clicks shut a seemingly never-ending loop of "Hi this is Ilya I will never listen to your voicemail" begins and Shane is breathing heavy and huffing and kind of groaning under his breath and leaning on the wall and the swinging doors of the bathroom stalls and at first he just hangs up and tries again but then he starts leaving voicemails:

"Pick up, fucking pick up you asshole I know you're okay. I know you're okay you just have to pick up."

"Ilya. I love you, baby. Just answer, okay?"

"Ilya. I have ideas, I don't want to hide forever, you know that right? I told you that right? I don't want you to die thinking this was it for us. Oh my god, fuck—" retching heard over the line

"I keep refreshing this fuckingheadline but there's fucking nothing. How long does it take for a plane to crash and for people to hear about it? God I can't fucking believe this. I can't fucking believe you did this to me."

And then when he hangs up the last time he sees the notifications in the muted set from when he had his phone on Do Not Disturb during his game, weird Instagram notifications that he doesn't recognize because he never uses the messaging function. The messages are from Ilya's account. Through tears, Shane only sees—

Safe in your heart

Before completely breaking down, a hard sob breaking from his throat as the phone screen goes dark in his hand. A few beats pass, I'm thinking no music, just the air sucked out of the room, but then Shane's phone starts vibrating, lighting up with a call. Ilya's name is flashing across the screen. Shane scrambles to answer, a thick, distraught:

"Ilya."

answered with a fond, relieved:

"Shane. I'm okay."

(Also I disagree with myself on this a lot, please see my tags for a counterargument to my own bullshit here lol)

[grabmyboner]

has anyone talked about hollanov doing that dirty polaroid thing delivered by a best friend….. perhaps shane gets convinced by rose thats its a great idea and then throughout the night of like their anniversary party or something rose and sveta secretly deliver dirtier and dirtier polariods to ilya and he’s like unable to function all night and ends up tricking shane into meeting him alone outside and they frott against a tree in the woods with shane’s big big hand holding their dicks together and ilya’s thumb in shane’s mouth while he’s talking about what a dirty slut shane is for him ……

[mojoscircus]

Jacob Tierney liked this post on Instagram about respecting the cast and crew during filming of Heated Rivalry Season 2 | post by shades.of.rebecca x

[ineffablyannoyed]

Louder for the people in the back.

This fandom is quite unfortunately very unhinged in a lot of ways, and a lot of people here a) have not participated in fandom prior to this show, and b) do not seem to understand respectful boundaries when it comes to the cast and crew. I am quite literally begging y’all. Do not ruin this for everyone. Do not making the filming experience unpleasant for the cast and crew. Do not do anything that will result in season 2 being anything less than the masterpiece we all know it can be just because you can’t rein in your inappropriate parasocial behaviors.

This is a project that everyone involved has said they are passionate about, and the absolute masterpiece that is season 1 is a direct result of that passion. With how big the show has become, I unfortunately don’t think they’ll ever be able to replicate the magic for themselves on set that came out of a 36 day production schedule on a budget of 12 Canadian dollars. No one ever expected the show to get as big as it did, and the fame and attention that has come from the success of season 1 will absolutely impact the vibes on set to a degree. But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and that doesn’t mean that the people involved are going to be any less passionate about making this. What WILL kill that passion with a quickness is disrespectful fans making the cast and crew feel unsafe on set.

These are people doing a job. I get that it isn’t a “normal” job, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is still a job. Let these people do that job, let them create their art so we can all enjoy the end result. Do you really think Hudson and Connor are going to be able to give their best performances if they’re worried about unhinged fans hiding in the bushes or trying to mob their trailers?

Parasocial, stalker like behaviors are the kinds of things that drive celebrities to step away from acting and the spotlight. If you love this show and these actors the way you claim to, you will respect their boundaries and stay as far away from that set as possible. Let them exist in a bubble where they can make their magic. There will be conventions and panels and meet and greets and fan events. The filming set is not any of those things, so have some respect.

[wolfbirds-and-smoothies]

*taps this sign*