Hello

watch me jump from one hyperfixation to another

[transthatmasc]

Saw something earlier that mentioned Ilya becoming a PWHL coach when he retires and it’s completely rewritten my concept of Ilya as a character.

Yes absolutely he is becoming a PWHL coach. He’s doing constant promotional work to expand the league and its audience and doing interviews where he talks shit about all the creeps and losers in and running the NHL. “if me and my husband, Shane Hollander, had been female hockey players, we would have been criminally under paid and almost entirely ignored despite our epic love story. These women take their jobs incredibly seriously and play outstanding hockey. Of course some of them want to kiss each other. Would happen more in the NHL if the vile behavior of some players was not both tolerated and supported by teammates, coaches, and administrators.”

His players love him, the owners don’t understand his methods but can’t argue with results, and the NHL is actively pursuing their second defamation lawsuit against him even as they are actively trying to prevent Luca from doing public appearances with his new husband.

Now that they have his undivided attention, Shane becomes a regular guest commentator for PWHL games (never for Ilya’s team though, he’s in the stadium for those generally) and becomes a highly regarded figure for many PWHL fans.

Also, Shane Hollander loves lesbians. He goes out for mojitos and grain bowls with some of the women from Ilya’s team every month and they all get a little tipsy and grill each other about hockey stats and house renovations. He suddenly discovers the appeal of arranging play dates for your kids when he can hang out with some of the other SAPs and talk about play off chances and the fact that the team is on a road trip during the local spring break week while the kids play with foam blocks in the living room.

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

BBC Merlin is insane as a show. Its an adaptation of Arthurian mythos. It's inspired by CW's Smallville (this is 100% real look it up). it stars 4 unknown 20 somethings and British acting legends. It's aimed at kids and families. its a tragedy. Its campy as hell. It will make you cry. It asks you, like Merlin, to believe in the Golden age of Camelot. It never shows you that Golden age. Everyone in the show is the most beautiful person you'll ever see. people will clown on the CGI. Its one of the most homerotic shows of the 2000's. Its an on purpose allegory for queerphobia, but those allegorious queer characters are largely villains. If you watched it when you were 12 you will never quite be able to let it go. This is a curse. This is an experience you wouldn't give up for the world.

[sandboxthinking]

Feeling nostalgic for some Merlin. I wish I could go back and rewatch it again for the first time.

[angelcuppa]

I’m so glad the storyline of good omens 3 appears to be “we are working together despite the tension and hurt between us” because it lends itself to so many delicious possibilities. crowley leaning over aziraphale on a chair and then stopping himself, leaning back quickly as if burned. the two of them laughing about something like they used to and then remembering themselves - their smiles quickly dropping and the thick silence afterwards that holds everything unsaid. aziraphale doing something that makes crowley almost smile fondly but he grits his teeth instead and looks away. aziraphale trying desperately to see behind crowley’s sunglasses but maddeningly he just won’t take them off. aziraphale eating cake and leaving crumbs by his mouth and crowley unable to stop himself from gazing there and aziraphale noticing and knowing exactly why. settling back into their old dynamic, crowley beckoning come on angel and aziraphale being sweet and silly, but both of them still tense with the thought that nothing is as it was. and no matter how much they pretend otherwise, they cannot truly repair their relationship until they communicate properly.

and that’s the thing. although the scenes from the trailer are thick with tension and hurt, they are also so… sincere. honest. something has changed between them, and goodness, they are talking about it! maggie said “you never really talk to each other” but now they are. they are! aziraphale seems to be saying do you want an apology? I was trying to do the right thing, we couldn’t leave those people there, please understand. I’ve come to help. crowley seems to be saying do you really want to help? I’m so hurt, because none of this had to happen, I asked you to come with me. we could’ve been happy. for once in their ineffable lives they are trying to be honest and desperately wanting to fix the fracture between them, however difficult that may be.

and of course, the hurt won’t last. crowley at the end of the trailer, without his sunglasses and wearing a teary smile, is proof enough of that.

[sacred-portal]

[infectiouspiss]

the most powerful wizard in the aquarium summons his dinner

[grabmyboner]

high school teacher AU. ilya is the gym teacher and shane is the history teacher and the sexual tension in the hallway is so thick the seniors keep asking if it’s part of the curriculum.

ilya’s in his should-be-illegal grey sweat pants and black muscle tee, whistle in his mouth for absolutely no reason other than power, leaning in his doorway like he’s posing for a magazine.

shane’s across the hall in rolled sleeves and glasses, grading essays with a red pen constantly in his mouth. he says “walk, please” and half the school obeys.

they argue in staff meetings:

“dodgeball builds character.”

“your version of character growth is physical injury.”

the tension is… visible. people start quietly leaving the room when they begin to debate.

students use their weird tension to their advantage saying things like “mr hollander said if you can’t go the whole class without saying how we’d all fail russian gym we have to write our two-page essay on like how russia literally trained dolphins for military purposes.”

meanwhile ilya and shane are making accidental eye contact every five seconds like it’s a competitive sport.

ilya struggles to control himself at the way shane says “mr rozanov” like a threat and his knees feel weird every time shane adjusts his glasses.

shane thinks if he hears the heavy breathing ilya does when he’s doing push ups between classes one more time he will physically rip the classroom door off its hinges.

[evanactually]

Shane fought SO hard but his boyfriend’s determination won in the end.

[livingasaghost]

genuinely i do think it's crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn't a money grab and it didn't think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they're fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn't have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it's canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn't take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it's deeply queer and it doesn't shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it's almost word for word, the original source material from the book.

like damn it's no wonder this thing has induced mass psychosis and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!

[rozanovs-skates]

Nobody touch me because it’s actually not okay that professional asshole Ilya Rozanov woke up before Shane to look at him like he can’t believe he’s holding the sun in his arms and then PRETENDS HE JUST WOKE UP THE SAME TIME SHANE DID.

[spending-life-pretending]

the ‘MONTREAL: ONE DAY LATER’ title card is what really sells the fight scene as a comedic moment for the viewer bc it’s SO funny to see shane skate up with a devious little twinkle in his eyes, already looking so proud of himself with his chirp prepared just for scott to choose absolute violence bc this old man does NOT have the energy to keep censoring himself when he has to deal with both of them back-to-back in under 24 hours

[freezethismoment]

shane was sooo proud of his snarky little comment and then scott shot him with a gun i’m crying

[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 .

[hansoeii]

I reblogged the destiel phan is real meme and now people are asking me who dan and phil are. I thought you could only join this website if you had a problematic parasocial relationship with them when you were 14

[instigatorjosten]

someone pointed out to me if andreil’s band arms are identical, Neil’s has sheathes too. but Neil doesn’t carry knives so I’ve decided he puts candy in there for Andrew and uses it like motivation to get him to behave in public.

[la-venere]

nothing sexier than that picture with the italian players on top of eachother after the win and the english ones going through the 5 stages of grief in the back

[la-venere]

THIS ONE

[phthalooo]

i can see it

[hamster-is-tired]

ITALIAN MANWHORE SUMMER

[icarus-died-laughing]

always reblog italian manwhore summer

[ghostsgnomestruelove]

the funniest injustice in aftg will always be that andrew gets eidetic memory instead of aaron. meanwhile aaron’s killing himself in med school studying to become a neurosurgeon. like imagine knowing your twin could literally recite the entire brain atlas from memory but instead he’s using that power to bully strangers and keep exy stats. aaron must have been so so pissed. i too would be bitter for life

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

BBC Merlin is insane as a show. Its an adaptation of Arthurian mythos. It's inspired by CW's Smallville (this is 100% real look it up). it stars 4 unknown 20 somethings and British acting legends. It's aimed at kids and families. its a tragedy. Its campy as hell. It will make you cry. It asks you, like Merlin, to believe in the Golden age of Camelot. It never shows you that Golden age. Everyone in the show is the most beautiful person you'll ever see. people will clown on the CGI. Its one of the most homerotic shows of the 2000's. Its an on purpose allegory for queerphobia, but those allegorious queer characters are largely villains. If you watched it when you were 12 you will never quite be able to let it go. This is a curse. This is an experience you wouldn't give up for the world.

[mycroftscafe]

you will also never be able to look at christmas eve the same ever again.

[koffeinkaos]

Hear me out: another goblin episode in season five where the goblin possesses sir leon and during a meeting of the round table he gets up points to merlin and says: "he has magic"

But before Arthur could react the goblin looks at merlin and points his finger in Arthurs direction and screams "he married you without telling you"

And then the goblin in the body of sir leon runs away