vencer no es convencer

dari | languages | sports

[mayflowersinapril]

A universe grows on my body, where your hand touches me Suddenly the world returns, all that it has taken away

- Mashrou Leila, Radio Romances

[boitterfly]

like. what do u mean they were so inseparable the whole time they were at the cottage that shane got into his trunks and waded out to sit on that rock while ilya splashed around silly style even though it was cold and he didn’t want to get in… what do u mean the first time they have a chance to spend real time together they realize they like being around each other so much that they wont be apart for even a minute if they don’t have to.. what do u mean they have to go to the secret long distance torment nexus after that. i’m sick

[nicolegendary]

i knowwwwww in my heart ilya would love taking shanes last name and after they have kids referring to their family unit as hollanders. ilya turning around to the backseat like okey hollanders here is plan. we are going to be in and out of costco in thirty minutes. you may choose ONE item each. if we get separated we meet at optometrist. we will get ice creams on the way out as long as everyone is cool and nobody tells dad. hollanders on three.

[russianblush]

hudhealings are among us

[jewelcoatfish]

on one of the days ilya wakes up before shane in their shared beds, a few years down the line married, he holds his breath and watch his husband sleep, his hand lightly caressing his freckles and his plump lips and his eyes— is that a wrinkle on the corner of shane’s eyes?????? they’re faint, barely noticeable unless you’re staring at it 5mm away, but there’s faint wrinkles on shane’s eyes.

and ilya gets struck (again) about how time moves and leaves traces on the human body, how he got to grow up and now gets to grow old with shane, and be the person to notice the first trace of wrinkle on his face.

shane wakes up when he feels his shoulder a little damp, and was welcomed by a teary husband with fingers on his eyes, and is very confused. when ilya tells him what happened he smiles and says. “funny, mom used to tell me eye wrinkles represents a life filled with happiness and laughter. i guess you’re the perpetrator of my wrinkles.”

[shanerozanov]

may he never ever figure anything out forever 🙂

[boitterfly]

wow and the next time we see shane and ilya on our screens they will be in a relationship. and in fact they will be in love. the whole time. and we get to watch…..

[userilyarozanov]

What room are you in? HEATED RIVALRY (2025 - ) ▸1x05, i'll believe in anything

[omens-of-what-is-to-cum]

Okay justice for Ilya Rozanov, a man who notably managed his entire families finances and his dementia-having fathers caretaking since he was literally a teenager, while also essentially raising himself to be an elite, generational athlete by himself.

like what is this ‘Ilya needs the threat of a sex ban to pick up his socks’ slander or this ‘Ilya has terrible financial literacy’ misinformation or this ‘Ilya only eats junk food and needs to be forced to eat his veggies’ tomfoolery

[rozrozhollander]

Shane laughed, which made Ilya’s heart race. What if he’d never heard Shane’s laugh again?

[ngalitzine]

He had been reeled in by this annoying Canadian, and all that he knew was that he wanted to stay. He wanted to anchor himself to Shane and just...stay.

[cherryysundae]

From everything we've seen and heard, he may not be the most sociable...

[lesbianrozanov]

myshane is finding the most skrunkly looking kitten behind the cens arena and No Ilya We Aren’t Keeping It he’s just going to take it to a vet to get checked out and then drop it at the shelter. until they get to the vet and the tiny kitten won’t let him put her down so they have to do the whole appointment with her in the palm of his hand. then he’s Only Taking It for The Night because The Shelter is Closed Ilya. of course the next morning comes and he can’t bring himself to give her up and that’s how Ottie Hollander-Rozanova joins their family.

[lesbianrozanov]

they’re concerned with how anya might react and instead MyAnya is like “oh that’s a weird looking dog but it’s mine now” and adopts ottie as her own baby

[mymansmoon]

imagining shane hanging out with his parents and while he's away from his phone doing something with his dad a call comes in. yuna sees this and goes, "shane, someone's calling you!"

and shane says, "who is it?"

"lily!"

"oh." shane immediately sets aside what he's doing and walks over, saying to his mom, "that's ilya."

yuna looks at him in confusion as he picks up his phone. "why is ilya saved as 'lily' in your phone?"

and shane looks at her, away, shrugs as if it's obvious and simply says, "I can't have ilya rozanov saved on my phone, mom" before answering the call with a, "hey, baby" and walking away.

leaving yuna (and david) standing shocked and, once again, shaken at how little they knew about their son and the layers of concealment he's had to operate under for years just to love who he loves.

[lavenderprose]

So Harris decides to do something special for the moms of the team for Mother's Day and lines up a series of posts to go live hourly throughout the day, wherein there is a featured picture of each player's mother wearing that player's jersey and a few extra pictures provided by that player's mom--pictures from Timbits games, family vacations through the years, holidays. A few players' moms actually provide Harris with pictures of themselves in the hospital holding the newborn who would someday become an Ottawa Centaur! Super cute! And if making these posts in alphabetical order by last name means that Harris gets to make sure that his own wonderful mother-in-law goes first, well...you didn't see anything.

It's just a day of cute posts, and Ilya keeps checking to see if Yuna's post has gone live because those baby Shane pictures always hit like crack and Shane so rarely lets his parents pull them out.

Delightfully, Yuna chose one of Ilya's favorites--a VERY nineties newborn photoshoot where Shane already has a shock of black hair sticking up in all directions, and a pinched little expression on his face. He is all cheek and eyebrow, and Yuna is twenty-four and has bangs and denim overalls, and it is so nineties.

"Yuna sent Harris the Sears photo," Ilya tells Shane, giddy.

"Oh great," Shane groans.

"People are saying you make the same face when you argue with ref."

"I don't argue with the refs," Shane mutters.

"True, you have very smart and sexy Captain husband to do this for you now."

Ilya scrolls through the rest of the pictures--not to be outdone, Yuna has provided more than most. Shane in the Metros onesie that Ilya knows he was brought home from the hospital in. Yuna holding a year-old Shane in her lap, her narrow frame nearly dwarfed by his chubby body. Yuna with little Shane at what is clearly a Centaurs game, circa 1995.

The next one--he sort of wasn't expecting, but he isn't completely surprised either. His own face, smiling politely next to Yuna and David the day he flew out to Ottawa to sign some paperwork for his contract with the Centaurs. It was only the second or third time he'd seen them without Shane, and maybe the first picture they'd taken together as well. He'd been carefully cropped out of previous ones.

"Oh, that's nice," Shane mumbles. He's stopped pretending he's not looking over Ilya's shoulder, watching him scroll.

The next picture is of their wedding day, unsurprisingly--one of several pictures from that day wherein Shane and Yuna had matching misty eyes and Ilya was actually just visibly crying with his face pressed to someone's shoulder.

Lastly, Yuna in her jersey--custom-made, Hollander-Rozanov on the back and 24|81 below. She's smiling over her shoulder at some game or other, proud of it.

Then there is one more picture. Yuna's hand in frame, holding a wallet-size picture of Irina Rozanova as she was thirty-two years ago, young and smiling with a baby Ilya pressed to her cheek.

It's one of only a few pictures that Ilya knows exist of his mother, and he thought the only copy was in a frame in the room he's currently sitting in.

"Why does Yuna have tiny picture of Mama?" Ilya murmurs.

"Oh." Shane rubs the back of his neck. "She, uh, she does this thing--she has pictures of all of us in her purse. It's, like, so that she has us with her. She asked me for Irina's picture a little while ago."

In the picture, Yuna is holding Irina's picture up next to the Jumbotron broadcasting Ilya's grinning face from the season intro video.

"Oh," Ilya murmurs. "That's..."

"If you think it's weird--"

"No," Ilya snaps. "Don't even finish that sentence, Hollander. I love it."

The caption of the post reads:

Yuna Hollander, mother of #24 and mother-in-love to #81! Mama Hollander is a reformed Metros fan and a proud Ottawan who can almost always be seen in the crowd at Canadian Tire Centre cheering on the home team. We love you and your boys, Yuna! Happy Mother's Day!

The Hollander-Rozanovs also treasure the memory of Irina Rozanova, mother to #81. Happy Mother's Day, Irina.

[mothsartart]

turns out not wearing that A comes with perks

[lavenderprose]

Ilya Rozanov can you hear me through the portal. Do you know about the Stanley Pup Ilya Rozanov. 32 puppies representing every team in the NHL. Ilya are you there.