Maybe You Are Fireproof

B or Bee - 24 - Dallas. I still cry about not seeing them the day Harry was all glassy-eyed in Dallas despite the fact that I was neither a fan then, nor living in Dallas.

[eemolu]

don't get me wrong i love the fact that shane and ilya retcon their relationship to be love at first sight. like good for them!! but when i look at the source material im like .. you were charmed. you were jealous. he had everything you wanted (supportive family and his country behind him, able to be big and brash and move through life with ease) and you wanted to see if you could make him feel good (can you debauch the golden boy, can you be good for the man who's had everyone) but the love didn't come until you started to take apart the things that attracted you to this person in the first place. shane fell in love with the ilya who checked in on him and with the sweetness behind the barbs and with the ilya who couldn't stop kissing him in that stairwell. and ilya fell in love with the shane who thinks buffalo is stupid and can barely get his shoes off before he throws himself at ilya and can't tell his parents he's gay because he's suffocating behind his own image not because he thinks they don't love him but because he wants to honor everything they've done for him. and so it's really nice that ilya goes "i loved you from the first time i saw you" but i, omniscient reader, call bullshit. i think you love that boy now because no version of you could ever not love any version of him. but at the time i think you were mostly just curious and then the love grew despite all odds in the most hostile of circumstances because everything you learned about each other made you want more and more and more. and also probably that's even MORE beautiful. so.

[sladucer]

"And one day I couldn't. And I saw that he couldn't either, even though his blade was digging into my ribs. Damn, that was terribly romantic, wasn't it?"

~Forever and Ever and More

[aaliyahsparrow]

"Chokehold", Hudson Williams [from Heated Rivalry] for BVLGARI #GoldAndSteel Collection

May, 2026

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[oftirnanog]

I am begging you all to understand what is happening during the Vegas bathroom scene.

the reason shane folds so easily is that he doesn't think he should be upset with ilya in the first place. if he's thinking about it logically—which he is trying very hard to do!—then he thinks ilya is doing the smart thing by staying away. that six months of no contact? the correct move! from Shane's objective perspective. but he's not obejctive about ilya. and he is upset. so then he's also upset with himself for being upset with ilya in the first place. because he thinks he shouldn't be! what the two of them have going on is a very bad idea! and if they talk about it at this point, the conclusion will be that they should stop. so they don't talk. because neither of them can walk away from the other. they are down horrendous and they don't. know. what. to do about it. because they cannot have a relationship. that is what they believe at the core of it. this thing between them is impossible. and yes, they are hurting each other, but they are also hurting themselves. and they know it! but they'll take what they can get! like everyone thinks it's just Shane taking what he can get from ilya, but it works both ways! ilya is also taking what he can get from shane.

I cannot stress this enough—by following shane into that bathroom, ilya. breaks. first. some of you are forgetting about the very specific nature of their situation and how impossible they believe it to be. they literally cannot see an alternative to what they currently have going on. and so the constant push and pull isn't just happening between them, it's happening internally. they are constantly, CONSTANTLY telling themselves to walk away. so when the other pulls back, they're like yeah! smart move, my man, I wish I had the strength! except neither of them can actually maintain that distance because neither of them really does have the strength. they are so catastrophically down bad! they are sick with the wanting. it is killing them. which is how they end up hurting each other and themselves so badly.

[ahskp]

HUDSON 😭😭😭😭

but then he continues on to say this….

“so i think he, even though he didn’t say it first, he made that cottage a home for ilya to be able to say it” …the screen is blurry because of my tears

[divorcedfranklangdon]

just a reminder that it's fuck ICE forever

[hunybody]

to be honest i think ilya razzes scott hunter even more after he comes out and it’s mostly a joke but some of it comes from a very real place of ohhhh my godddd this other orphan is suchhhh a chicken pussy about being gay and he isn’t even under threat of being disappeared forever to the gulag

[hunybody]

scott hunter voice Living my authentic truth was really frightening. for a long time i couldn’t even imagine it. But then i realized… the only thing holding me back… was me

ilya rozanov, six months after scott hunter comes out and getting sort of tired of this whole huge ordeal: Wow. cannot believe they have not given you, what do they call this. medal of bravery.

[hunybody]

shane voice You’re such a fucking liar rozanov you thought it was brave.

ilya voice Yes this was before i knew he had no real problems in his life i thought perhaps he also had an evil brother who is “not” mob police threatening him with glock each christmas but it turns out this is not the case. He was scared of brooklyn art gallery

[lavenderprose]

“You can come out to your parents without giving them a list of all the guys you’re fucking,” says Ilya Rozanov, way too confidently for a man who has never actually met Yuna Hollander, who will Definitely Ask,

[goodsongnever]

oh, shane, you are dating someone!! this is great!! can we meet him? (no) can you tell us his name or what he does for a living? (no) can you tell us what city or even country he lives in? (no) can we see a picture? (no) does he have social media? (no) so.... shane, honey, it kind of sounds like you don't have a boyfriend (yes I do, he lives in… some other part of canada, you don't know him) and maybe you're just saying that because you're not ready to date, but honey, you should date! I have a list of men here, I have a plan to get you a boyfriend, I have the NDA forms right here, we'll get you a raya account… (no!!! mom, I do have someone already, I just can't tell you anything about him, ever)

yuna: ah I see, hmm, one moment please, let me bring up an alphabetical list of all 700+ current MLH players. is it aaron a. aaronson???

shane: of course not!! mom!!!

yuna: you know what, of course not, I'm sorry and it was ridiculous of me to even think so. aaron a. aaronson is a second-rate player on a third-rate team, let me re-sort this list so that the stat leaders are at the top and start again from there, haha, here's a funny one to cross off the list right away, I guess: is it ilya rozanov???

[sosaneitsinsane]

fall in love again and again...

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[the-ladyrae]

That was delicious. I genuinely don't think I've seen anyone line up those scene parallels so well before. This was a perfect snapshot of every branch, rock, and mattress they hit on their way down

[spicyvampire]

HEATED RIVALRY (2025-) WEEK: Day 2 — Favorite Outfit/Look → Whatever is getting taken off of Shane

[ceriseangels]

robby vs anyone that reminds him of himself in any possible way

[hucklenberries]

this is the gaze of someone trying to sear into memory the face of their lover who they won’t see again for a long while. robby don’t do That because you’re coming back right. Right

[fuckrozanov]

tonight i am thinking about book shane saying “they weren’t you” when ilya asks him about the two other guys he hooked up with. and just. the implications of that. they weren’t you. almost the entire foundation of what i know about sex has been built around you. imagine my surprise when i hooked up with other people and they didn’t grab my jaw and kiss me soft and all over. they didn’t pin my wrists above my head or make me cum without touching me. what did i think about? nothing. everything. the fact that i am ruined for anyone else. that i didn’t even let them kiss me on the mouth because i didn’t want to erase the last time you did it. that i didn’t want to be there at all and it wasn’t the first time i’ve had that feeling. because i never desired anyone before you and i’ll never desire anyone else again. they weren’t you.

[fuckrozanov]

[buckpussy]

joshuashediak

[spicyvampire]

Ilya + watching Shane undress and fold his clothes before sex

HEATED RIVALRY (2025−) 1.01 "Rookies" // 1.02 "Olympians"

[qedart]

So - there's a tonne of incredible, heartbreaking theories about how the season and Robby's trip (and/or his intentions for said trip) will end. I adore all of them (I mean they stress me out - but they're incredible) - however I think we're missing out some comedic potential here.

Or, Robby heads out on his big trip, manages to lay down the bike almost immediately, and finds himself brought back to Pitt in spite of his very best attempts to escape it (Sisyphus, meet boulder).

Meanwhile Jack's got plans for his newly captive audience - and all of them are good for him, whether he likes it or not.

[ask-me-what-my-sideblog-is]

I am so tired of the she should have complied arguments and the he feared for his life ones also. I know they’re not good faith arguments and I have to believe that most people who are pedaling them don’t even really believe them, but seeing them everywhere is exhausting me.

So let’s say for a second, we take them as true. Let’s say Renee Good was actively trying to run over this ICE officer who was in front of her car and he did fear his life…

That still doesn’t make shooting her the correct choice of action! Like in no world does that make sense. If you had time to pull out your gun and fire it, then you also had time to MOVE OUT OF THE WAY. Which, if your aim is to save your own life, would be the best way to do so. Also…shooting her does nothing to stop the vehicle (as we horrifically saw the vehicle keep moving after she was shot), so if you don’t move and you shoot her instead, you still would get run over if that was what was about to happen.

So as we’ve established, shooting her is not the smart or safe choice in that situation. At which point, the only argument becomes “he wasn’t thinking clearly because she was threatening him with a vehicle!!” to which I say “but she was supposed to act perfectly and rationally with a gun in her face?”. It’s absolutely unconscionable to hold untrained civilians to a higher standard than (theoretically) trained law enforcement officers and anyone who has enough intelligence to be reading these words can see that.

So let’s just stop with the bullshit arguments about compliance and just agree that anyone who is on his side believes law enforcement should be able to kill anyone that annoys them, regardless of the situation, and I find that deplorable.