what a horrible night to have a curse

mia | 28 | massachusetts | queer | she/her | firelord_zutara on ao3

[meebles]

Welcome! Feel free to call me Mia or Meebles

Mostly Star Wars right now (Clone Wars + Codywan especially) but also sometimes other things. I tag by fandom and ship, and I try to tag spoilers as well. If you'd like something tagged, please ask and I'll do my best!

Edit: Same as half the internet, Heated Rivalry has taken over the majority of my braincells, so expect a lot of that here as well :)

18+ sometimes, ship and let ship

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[meebles]

The Long Game rewrite where instead of Ilya going to Ottawa, I instead reinstate the Whalers and send Shane to the torment nexus that is Hartford, Connecticut.

He’s only there for a couple seasons before moving to Boston though, because I’m not cruel enough to subject both him and Ilya to a Connecticut endgame.

[unalivejournal]

Nobody knows if writing a story is possible

[gloryhollanovjah]

Man I know Shane ruined Ilya's sleepover plans but he really made up for it in spades. I'm sorry I couldn't spend the night; please come to my house for two weeks. You bought me ginger ale; let me buy you Cokes and Doritos and water shoes. You made me a tuna melt; let me make you more burgers than we can eat. You asked me questions I didn't know how to answer; let me make sure you know I'm going to be as honest as I can. I'm sorry I got scared and ran away when you asked for more; let me stay up all night planning the rest of our lives.

[meebles]

One thing that I think is criminally under-discussed when it comes to hollanov is whether the two of them are using smelling salts or not during their games.

I think there’s an argument to be made either way, but personally I do think they’d both be using them regularly or at least semi-regularly.

However! I think it’d be funny if they both never used smelling salts when they played games against each other. After their outing/marriage, this pattern is noticed by fans and some use it to claim that they were actually throwing games for each other/not playing their hardest, regardless of what the stats say.

Which then leads to the Centaurs and their ex-teammates like Hayden and J.J. and Cliff coming to their defense and saying, “Oh yeah, they never used smelling salts for games against each other because we stopped them from doing so. Shane/Ilya were already so amped and pumped up— to a frankly concerning degree— when they played one another, already playing the best hockey of their lives, we thought they’d have a fucking heart attack if smelling salts were added into that mix.”

[xostrawberrymlk]

I see alot of fics where Shane “isn’t good w kids” bc he’s “awkward” but tbhhhh my biggest headcanon is that actually (before meeting uncle Ilya, whom would be the fun uncle, Shane is still a fav however) uncle Shane is the Pike kids fav uncle, but Shane doesn’t baby talk kids. he speaks to children of any and all ages like they are adults (which is better for their development - which is why he does it) and Shane is actually REALLY good w kids.

[meebles]

me while i’m at the flea market: i don’t need any more maps. i have enough maps in my apartment.

me after the flea market:

yay new map of boston! :)

[needyilyarights]

I think little kid Shane Hollander cursed like a sailor. I think yuna didn’t have a great filter and Shane struggled to understand the social nuances of when it’s ok to swear so he’s walking into kindergarten with his big brown eyes and his freckles and his cute little striped shirt like “it’s fucking pouring outside ms bianco, god damn”

[needyilyarights]

Yuna once got called to the preschool because Shane called one of his classmates a fucking hoser and she had to pretend she had no idea where he had heard that (she said it front of Shane about Boston’s new winger last night)

[ilyasvodka]

has anyone drawn this with Shane & Ilya yet

[princejeanot]

Op the vision is hilarious, you win

[meebles]

In love with the concept of Ilya pretending he doesn’t understand English when someone asks him some fuckass question that he doesn’t want to answer. Especially post-TLG.

Ilya gets pulled for a live post-game media scrum, and instead of being asked about the two goals he scored or how cohesively their team played that day, he gets asked the umpteenth question by some smarmy sports reporter about his and Shane’s relationship, with thinly-veiled jabs about how having two married queer players on their team must be bad for their locker room.

And Ilya loves being able to openly talk about Shane and their relationship, but he’s so sick of this offensive line of questioning. So instead he just makes his innocent-confused-puppydog face and replies in rapid-fire Russian. The reporter is thrown off and repeats his question, but Ilya just replies in Russian again, going on and on until the reporter gets flustered and gives up.

Later when the internet translates what he said, it’s something along the lines of, “I don’t understand such idiotic English questions, but if the sports reporter wants to ask questions about the sport he’s paid to report, I can answer those,” and then it’s just him praising his teammates on how well they’ve been playing.

Harris is also sick of the invasive questions, so he doesn’t throttle Ilya over it. Shane thinks it’s absolutely hilarious. He’s later asked about his husband’s “behavior” by some reporter in the states. He also plays dumb and does the same thing as Ilya, but in French.

[pinkbeetroot]

*cliff marleau voice* : does it count as sex with a guy when there was also a girl in the bed ? i mean roz is a really good kisser but i wouldnt say i fucked him you know

[night-the-starfish]

Fish out of water, gouache and markers on paper.

[eightbitpale]

Belated get well soon gift for my lovely mutual, @dontbelasagnax

May the gentle kiss of obi-wan kenobi heal your wounds. I tried something a little bit different with this one, I hope you like it!

[meebles]

I like to imagine that Cliff Marlow is from the suburbs of Boston, specifically the South Shore. Like Braintree of Weymouth or Plymouth or some shit.

He’s loyal to Dunkin’ even though it’s gone downhill and isn’t the same as when he was a kid. His parents are both school teachers. He still shops exclusively at Market Basket even though he can now afford to shop elsewhere. Bought a summer home for his family on the Cape that he visits with them every year.

Anyways. One day he takes Ilya and the rest of the team out bowling, but specifically candlepin bowling.

(If you don’t know, it’s just like regular bowling but the pins are much thinner and the ball fits in your palm:

You get 3 turns per frame. It’s considered much harder than regular bowling, as no one’s ever scored a perfect game.)

Ilya’s never been bowling, at all. He’s also never watched anyone bowl. He ends up loving candlepin though, and he and Marley end up going fairly regularly.

When he moves to Ottawa he doesn’t try going bowling, he goes when they play in Boston sometimes but that’s it. It kinda feels like just his and Marley’s thing.

Not until later at least, when Ilya’s newly married and Shane surprises him with a bowling date after Marley offhandedly mentioned how much Ilya likes it at their wedding.

But when they show up at a regular 10-pin bowling alley, Ilya is SO confused. He’s like “WTF is this?? Weird Canadian bowling?? Why are the balls so big??” and then Shane is so confused because. This is just normal bowling?? What other kind of bowling is there??

They still bowl and have a good time, but Ilya is peeved when he googles it and learns that candlepin is only regional. He thought 10-pin was just something they made up for Wii Sports.

[rainbow-femme]

Cliff wants to be a good bro and a good ally so when he and Ilya hang out to watch a movie, he decides they’re gonna watch a Gay Movie. And what is the one Gay Movie every straight guy knows? Brokeback Mountain. And what is the only thing straight guys know about Brokeback Mountain? That it’s the gay cowboy movie. And hey that sounds fun, cowboys are fun

Shane gets a text two hours later from Cliff that’s a picture of Ilya on the couch with his head down between his knees and he’s just like “HELP I BROKE HIM IM SORRY I DIDNT KNOW THEY BROKE UP AND THEN THE ONE GUY GOT HATECRIMED TO DEATH I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE GUNS AND TRAIN ROBBING”

[rainbow-femme]

“Bro what are you so upset about? It’s just a blonde guy and a black haired guy who spend years in a gray area secret relationship where they hook up a few times a year and have feelings for each other but are kept apart by society, only for the black haired guy to not be able to wait for the blonde guy anymore and tries to move on only to be killed in a brutal homophobic attack that the blonde guy hears about well after the fact because no one would know to contact him. I don’t understand why you’re identifying so heavily with this narrative, it’s crazy.”

[whatthebodygraspsnot]

ilya cuteness-aggression boyfriend-squeezer rozanov vs. shane sensory-seeker hollander

they’re not fighting btw don’t break them up

[amikoroyaiart]

Happy May the 4th be with You ☀💙