juliathephantom

Julia, 23, she/her/hers, Me on AO3

[juliathephantom]

Beginner's Knitting Guide

Feel free to DM me with any questions.

Supplies:

Worsted Weight Cotton Yarn (such as Knit Picks Dishie or Lily Sugar and Cream)

Note: a solid, lighter color will make it easier to see your stitches

US 8 (5 mm) Knitting Needles  (these or these are good)

Darning Needle (these or these are good)

Tutorials:

Knitted Cast On

Knit Stitch

Bind Off

Note: Very Pink Knits on Youtube has a massive collection of excellent tutorials.

Suggested First Projects:

Dishcloth

Cast on 45 stitches. Knit every stitch until the piece is roughly square. Bind off.

Coaster

Cast on 20 stitches. Knit every stitch until the piece is roughly square. Bind off.

Note: scarves are often recommended as first projects, but they can get very boring. For a scarf to be usable for an adult, it will generally need to be at least 60 inches, which is a lot for a first project. That's why I like dishcloths. If they look wonky, they'll still function.

[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.

[deliciousblizzardshark]

Shane writes hockey romance* novels in his spare time and publishes them under a pseudonym (John Dutch) and no one knows except his agent.

A wag somewhere picks one up and discovers the hockey is really accurate and well written from a technical perspective (plus it’s super hot) and convinces her boyfriend or husband or whatever to read it and then somehow it becomes popular among hockey players as a thing that’s kind of a gag but people are also seriously reading it.

Ilya is extremely confused that CLIFF is trying to convince him to read a book but figures he’ll give it a try. Fifty pages in, reading the book on the plane, he suddenly realizes he recognizes the sex scene.

He never says anything to Shane, but starts casually leaving Shane’s books lying around for Shane to notice during their hook-ups.

*i was going to go with ‘gay hockey romance novels’ but then realized cishet hockey romance novels would be objectively funnier

[duckprintspress]

look, would it be easier if I DIDN'T complain? no. no it wouldn't.

[gaynehollander]

Shane slips so easily into subspace that it's honestly a bit of a problem. Sometimes all it takes is a firm kiss and a pat to the cheek and Ilya can already see Shane drifting a little. You can see it in the bathroom in Vegas, how he almost let himself go, how he had to pull himself back when Ilya left the room. And that was early on in the situationship era. As his trust in Ilya grows and he starts letting him shoulder more of the weight Shane is constantly lugging around through the sheer effort of being himself, it only gets easier and easier for him to go to that floaty place where he doesn't have to worry about anything but doing exactly as Ilya wants.

Luckily, Ilya has grown incredibly good at spotting the first signs of Shane slipping - kind of by ill necessity. He has had to pull him back in a crowded bar after a deep kiss, when Shane was a little too tipsy to keep his defences up; in a hotel lobby when their check-in was delayed and Shane was so tired that a single hand pressed to the back of his neck, firmly digging into the knots there, nearly put him under; in several public bathrooms they'd retreated to in order to escape the crowds, when Shane was already wrung out by socialising and having to be Shane Hollander.

It was honestly a little scary to Ilya when he first started noticing it. It was a little terrifying how much blind faith Shane had in him, how deeply he trusted him to take care of everything. Now he basks in it. Places his hands gently on either side of Shane's face and tells him, "not yet. Stay with me." And Shane does. Always so eager to obey. He keeps his head above water, doesn't let himself get dragged down, purely because Ilya said not to. And when they get back home, whether that is their actual home or whichever hotel they are currently staying at, Ilya rewards him by allowing him to let go. Revels in watching Shane's grip on his control slacken as he lets himself drift away, trusting that Ilya will be there to catch him.

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[i-remain-convinced]

I've reblogged this post before but this is the first time I've seen it on my dash since I started using a walking stick and rollator myself. They've made such a difference.

[tryingmybestst]

shane and ilya try and sleep separately for the first time since getting married on an away game with the cens. shane gets so neurotic about the bedsheets he strips the bed and just kinda stares at it for a while. ilya locks himself in the bathroom and refuses to come out. the team realizes they aren’t functional apart and bans them from having anyone but each other as a roommate.

[fiollaigean]

if anyone feels bad that their fic might contain medical inaccuracies, be comforted to know that whatever creative liberties you take with your medical scenes can never be worse than the one I just read. where one character tries to stop the bleeding on their friend's head wound by putting a tourniquet around their neck

[dear-julien]

I think you should be able to afford to live on your own and completely independently off minimum wage.

[transcyberism]

I think you should be able to afford to live on your own and completely independently off disability, welfare, unemployment, etc tbh

[popsunner]

[popsunner]

[popsunner]

[popsunner]

[unashamedly-pratchett]

[gaynehollander]

At some point after the cottage but before the public outing TMZ does an article on “Ilya Rozanov’s most high-profile hookups” which is essentially just a list of Instagram models with paparazzi shots and blurry cellphone pics of Ilya at the club. Shane scrolls through it, absolutely seething, because he is Ilya’s most high-profile hookup - maybe not by their metric, which seems to be Instagram followers, but Shane hasn’t heard about a single one of these women, apart from Svetlana whom he wouldn’t have recognised if not for Ilya talking about her. The guys are talking about it in the locker room, as if Ilya’s a legend for getting with all of these supposedly very desirable women (although that is decidedly not the way the guys phrase it) and Shane is absolutely furious because he can’t tell anyone that none of these women got to keep him. He is the only one who’s gotten to call Ilya his. He is the only person Ilya’s been in love with.

Anyway, after the next Boston/Montreal game Ilya shows up to practice genuinely looking like he’s been mauled. His entire body is covered in hickeys and bruises that look suspiciously like bite marks - his neck is basically covered in purpling marks with a fair few centred on his chest but a couple of the bruises trail further down, one on his pubic bone, a couple on his thighs, and the darkest one on his hip, a large circle of clear teeth marks - not only that but his back has been practically scratched to ribbons. Ilya is basically a walking sign spelling out “TAKEN - BACK OFF” and when the gossip of Ilya Rozanov apparently having been locked down by a wild animal reaches the Montreal locker room Shane can’t help the proud little smile that blooms on his face because, yes, that’s his man.

[boltlightning]

I DONT CARE HOW MANY BEDS THERE WERE. WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

(tearfully) w- working at the mattress store

[boltlightning]

i'm so fucking sorry. can you ever forgive me

[wingsseni]

at a centaurs team dinner

[transtenzin]

not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community. 

[transtenzin]

you can reblog this 😔

[wingsseni]

yuna and baby shane 🐞

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[sovietpostcards]

Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.

[ghostedmarshmallow]

Yuri Gagarin being identified only as an amateur photographer and not literally the first human in space has me on the floor

[o-craven-canto]

[o-craven-canto]

This is a good reminder that there is a lot of texture and complexity to people; every human contains lots of aspects that would be completely unrelated if not for the fact that the same person experiences them. It’s easy to forget this, and compress the people you meet into a caricature; even celebrities usually end up being famous for one thing alone. But even something as glorious as the first space travel by a living human does not fully encompass a life.

This, too, is Yuri.