[franniesbridgerton]

I don't think I can keep pretending I don't like you anymore.

You don't like me.

Yeah, I do. I think I like you maybe a little too much.

Don't. Don't fucking do this, Hollander.

CONNOR STORRIE as ILYA ROZANOV and HUDSON WILLIAMS as SHANE HOLLANDER episode 5 of HEATED RIVALRY

[sungifs]

HEATED RIVALRY (2025) 1.04

[themoonandmyman]

Ilya: I’m trying to connect to you and let you know how much I like you in the only way I know how, using subtext

Undiagnosed autistic Shane Hollander:

[hudsonswilliams]

(almost) every time they used their last names vs the one time they didn't

[moonlightmagical]

mind if i get insane about shane hollander for a second?

for those who don't know, during the tuna melt scene in the book, shane is not the one who initiates sex, it's ilya. the show changes this to make it so shane is the one to actively start anything. this, to me, makes the scene read entirely differently in quite frankly the best way possible. in the show, shane hears ilya talking with/about his father in a tone that makes it abundantly clear that something is wrong. this is followed with ilya sitting back down on the couch closer to shane, yes, but not leaning back, not getting comfortable, fidgeting more than he was before, etc. so shane asks if everything is okay, to which ilya makes a little joke, pulls shane closer, but still notably doesn't answer anything. shane initiating at this point reads to me as him not knowing what to do, not knowing how to comfort ilya because they don't talk about things like that, they don't do things like that, this is the first fucking time they've even woken up together. but there is one thing that they do together. he knows the feeling he gets after ilya takes him apart, how safe, comfortable, and sated it makes him feel. so, he tries to give that to ilya. shane takes charge more than he usually does, he speaks a bit more like ilya does, he tries to make ilya feel how he always does when they're together. he tries to make ilya feel better in the only way he knows how to, and he wears the fact that he loves ilya clearly on his face. it is no wonder then, that after this blatant display of his own affection on top of the mutual first names and the simulated domestic bliss, shane—a man that is so repressed emotionally that it's not even funny—would run as far and as fast as he could. he's revealed far, FAR, too much, and he's terrified that it's going to break him.

[kika-ila]

Four "levels" of God Games (in pastel colors)

[in-my-fop-era]

[aggressively-crying]

Telemachus' name meaning distant war is kinda fucked up bc imagine being named after the reason your dad left. My beautiful baby boy, Cigarette Run.

[deanspunchingbag]

sorry i cant stop thinking about it

shane: hey :) play better next time best buddy :)

scott: take ilyas dick out of your mouth before you talk to me

[patrocles]

shane having ilya’s full attention for two years until the second he finally gave in and gave ilya what he wanted only to get ghosted for 6 months. i would have crashed out in ways that earn me a biblical parable

[holyfuckingweed]

Heated Rivalry incorrect quotes part 1/?

[holyfuckingweed]

Heated Rivalry incorrect quotes part 2/?

Part 1

[rylandsgrace]

[kolaicendionysos]

I can't came out like...not- not right now. Too many people depend on me for too much, and it would just... it would fuck everything up. I just thought I would, um, I don't know, wait, I guess. Yeah, wait till hockey was over, and then maybe I could fade away a bit or... heated rivalry episode. 3

[symphoniccowboy]

‘shane fell first!’ ‘ilya fell first!’ BZZT . INCORRECT . they tripped at the same time & bonked their heads together so hard that they mistook love at first sight for having a concussion .

[kerrikins]

I found this show ten days ago and now this can join 'I'll top my top' and 'spit in my mouth' in the 'Unhinged Things Hudson Williams Said' Hall of Fame

[barblaz-arts]

rare het ship art from barb omg(im too lesbian to make it past the sketch tho sorry)