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Mal | She/Her | Queer | Indian | This blog is a hot mess of my hyperfixations and I'm sorry to all my followers | Avatar is by @buckybarsn & header is a photo taken by me :D

[that-house]

Thunderstorms are nature’s most fuckable events

[shanerozanov]

may he never ever figure anything out forever 🙂

[vickyishn]

First and second draft picks

[state-ofgrace]

Out of all the heated rivalry analysis I’ve seen I’ve never seen someone mention that after the all star game Shane no longer drafts and deletes texts. He says what he intends to say the first time and stops editing and second guessing himself and it’s one of my favorite details showing that their dynamic has changed and no one talks about it

[cuppydogshane]

GODS BLOOD HOLLANDER THERE ARE THINGS UNDER HEAVEN WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU

[cuppydogshane]

shane voice SO TELL ME OF THEM THAT I MIGHT KNOW!!!!!!

[peachyjude]

no but who needs ai when we have the most beautiful minds of our generation who love to yes and a bit to death on tumblr dot com

[shanehollandergirl]

and what doth thou desire from me, rozanov? thou hast refused to answer my missives for the passage of six moons! and when thou dost cast thine attention my way, it be for our asinine jester's performance! so prithee, tell me: what doth thou need of me? well????

[weavingshaw]

and the reason i love medieval rivalry is because the knight/prince dynamic could go either way. walk with me here, ok?

a) knight!shane and prince!ilya. i feel like this is usually the dynamic most people think of first, and for good reason. it's soooooo yummy and it really gives ilya the opportunity to slip into that more flamboyant side of himself that we've only seen in pieces up until now. i want him spoiled and prissy FOR REAL. and then knight!shane, who is so dedicated to protecting ilya, almost to the point of neurosis. he takes his duty seriously and never strays from his post—until the night that ilya finally manages to seduce him (his royal highness has only been trying for eight or nine years, give or take. no big deal!)

ORRRRRRRRRRRRR

b) prince!shane and knight!ilya. OUGHHHHHHH THIS IS DELICIOUS. shane has always tried to do everything right and make his parents proud, so when they tell him that it's time for him to find a wife, he takes the news in stride. never mind the fact that he can't make small talk at balls to save his life. never mind the fact that he can rarely, if ever, look people in the eye. never mind the fact that he's supposed to take a wife, yet he's never felt that carnal sort of desire that he's heard the servants whisper about. but it's fine. he'll do his duty to his country and find a nice girl to marry and he'll give her his seed and she'll give him an heir and then a spare. that's how these things go.

except shortly thereafter, a few staffing changes are made, and suddenly shane is being introduced to a new member of his personal guard: ser ilya. and it's the first time shane has ever felt that spark, that pull low in his gut. ser ilya just shakes his hand and smiles at shane like he can see right through him, and then the game is afoot.

[calamitys-child]

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

[impulsivelycontentious]

Broccoli. I'm not even a lesbian (some of you will get that reference). It;s just pretty! It gets covered in this spray of little cheerful yellow flowers.

[thuriweaver]

Shooting Stars

[malgudinights]

Gulmohar

And idk what it's called in English but there's this flower we call raat ki rani? Literally translates as queen of the night. It blooms at night, and it's insanely fragrant. Like, if a tree is in bloom you can smell it 2 streets away, it's so sweet. I can't get a proper pic because idk what it's called lmao but have an extremely crunchy gif i posted to my insta stories years (and years and years) ago.

[carby]

Roses are red, my favorite season is fall,

[anyataylorjoys]

Shane in Heated Rivalry (2025) vs Ilya in Heated Rivalry (2019)

[penandinkprincess]

it's actually so important to me that even before they had REAL space for it in the cottage, ilya and shane have always been able to understand when the other is going "play??"

everyone always seems so surprised when shane is funny or makes a joke, and i don't think it's meant to be mean, but like? yeah shane is funny. he's always been funny. he's picky about his audience (because he has his image to think about and also because he's just naturally reserved), but he is snarky and quick with it. you know who has ALWAYS found him funny, though?

and on ilya's part, he chirps partially (i think) strategically to have the other team playing annoyed because that's not going to have them on their a-game, but also?? it's for fun. he is puppy nipping and going "play??? play back??? play??" and with almost everyone (because of the reputation he's been branded under), the response he gets is fuck off and a refusal to engage, like we saw with scott hunter. you know who's always understood that this is supposed to be for fun, though?

like these two have SO many communication issues between them, but it's so special to me that from the START they've been able to go, "play????" "yeah, i'll play"

[mellosdrawings]

Maybe -- just MAYBE -- don't spit on other characters and ships and works when the artist you congratulate and reblog from also draws those?

[comedydoctor18]

FANDOM ETIQUETTE NEEDS A RETURN SOOOO STRONGLY

[ilyasmole]

apologies if anyone has already pointed this out but i just realized ilya chose to wear a turtleneck to his father's funeral therefore his mother's necklace is not visible......

[russianblush]

it's also tucked away when he's in sochi in episode two while his father is still alive, his brother is harassing him through texts, ect

and noticeably absent here when he's caring for his father during the summer in ep 4

but of course the moment when he's alone in moscow in ep 5 after his father has passed and he's speaking to shane, it's out. the details of this show will make me go insane

[penandinkprincess]

unreasonably amused by the idea of itty bitty shane not wanting to get off the ice after practice to the point that david gets ON the ice to get him, so itty bitty does the "my bones are gone now" resistance move kids are so good at.

but fails to consider that ice is. so slippery.

like stage your protest all you want, buddy, but you have literally never been more move-able.

[butimaficwriter]

Read the post and loved it exactly for the potential of what's in the tags: uh oh now David made it funnnn and Shane, quick little bean that he is, riiiight as he's getting to the edge of the rink, about to be picked up and passed to mom, gets up and skates away to the middle of the rink and PLOMP lays down on his back, giggling and kicking his little skates. "Again, Dad (Shane does not call David daddy in front of his friends, he's not a baby!), again!!"

It doesn't help David and Yuna that everyone and their mother thinks this is the funniest, cutest thing ever and laughs, just spurring Shane to do it more and more.

[penandinkprincess]

OH MY GOD

coupled with the idea of shane's conversation with rose when he talks about how hockey got less fun because it got more intense and so so did he: the idea of ilya dramatically flopping on his back on the ice one day at camp when they're done running drills with the kids

and he is teasingly refusing to get up because he is dead now, hollander, can you not see this, and shane hesitates for just a second, grabs his hand, plants one of his skates, and just sends him sliding off towards the side of the rink, thinking about how his dad used to do it to him after every single practice

and ilya laughs and shane laughs and for this moment at least, being on the ice is nothing but Fun again

[penandinkprincess]

@somanystars G O D

shane as a teenager who still refuses to leave the ice after practice, but it's not for fun anymore. it's because he feels like he didn't do well today and needs to practice more, get faster, get better, get-dad, get OFF the ice. you're in the WAY.

just so frustrated with himself and mad because he's BETTER THAN THIS he KNOWS he's better than this. and david tries to get an arm around his shoulders and shane just defaults to. sitting down. go home if you want, he'll just-

the idea of david starting to gently swing protesting teenaged shane around by a shoulder pad until he can't help but smile at least because GOD dad you're SO weird, but rn it's just him and his dad on the ice together, and the spotlights feel a little less blinding

[meghan-maria]

AAAA there's an adorable clip floating somewhere of Brad Marchand and his daughter on the ice and this child just completely drops and starfishes on the ice, and that dad knows what to do! He uses his hockey stick to push her leg until she's spinning like a little ninja star on the ice, only for the other child to plop down and demand the same. He had two little kids spinning like turntables and giggling like drains I love it

Extension on that of yuna or David with little toddler Shane. And how one day kids get carried for the last time or whatever, but he officially outgrew ninja star time, he just got too long and lanky and yuna had a moment about that.

David relives his glory days spinning the under fives at camp and becomes the favorite of three coach Hollander-Rozanovs. Ilya adopts it as a game for teammates kids in his quest to be superior uncle

[penandinkprincess]

GOD i know yuna BAWLED the day jackie tagged shane in a post on instagram of him doing turntable time with the pike kids when they came to the arena one night during a family event

her baby turntable now spinning baby turntables

[penandinkprincess]

@connorsbackpocket "calibrates his brain like a wii remote" has me in TEARS from laughing

[skeletonclaw]

[kingcatnine]

reminding everyone to wear sunscreen because the sun is a deadly laser: 😁😊

having to spend 10 minutes slathering yourself in grease just to safely be outside in the sun for 20 minutes. because the sun is a deadly laser: 😐👎