I know nothing, so I try to learn everything

Shades of grey, not black and white, context matters, and so do weird intp:s in the wild

[penandinkprincess]

okay but with how much ilya loves being a little shit and splashing shane or shaking his hair out close enough to soak shane, i'm CACKLING imagining shane being so smug while sticking close to his mom one day when they're having a family lake day

yuna thinks oh maybe shane is just having a rough time with so many changes happening all at the same time in his life and just needs a little extra love rn and meanwhile every single time she turns away at all shane is behind her back 😈🖕at his husband because the Mom Shield makes him INVINCIBLE

[octothorpe-dealer]

op your tags are a treasure im keeping them

[penandinkprincess]

yuna coming back outside just in time to see shane holding ilya in place to shake his hair out on him and ilya spotting her from the corner of his eye and "shane, stop! i said i'm cold!" and yuna "shane, that is not nice."

shane is fucking FURIOUS

[penandinkprincess]

cackling about the idea of shane who has only ever known Mom Is Home Base facing the concept of Mom Is Home Base And Also Weapon for the first time and being SO mad about it. no fair!! that's cheating!!!! >:(

also feeling emotional about the idea of ilya getting to play like this again. it's been SO long since he's gotten to have fun in a family dynamic, and as much as he's always joked about being yuna's favorite son, it does feel SO good to know that he's accepted enough to play like this and have her take his side even when he's just using it to fuck with shane. he's absolutely baiting shane when he sits at yuna's feet around the fire pit later, but he also closes his eyes and leans into it when yuna idly smooths his hair back the same way she would for shane.

(meanwhile shane is still SO mad he got got earlier lmao)

[penandinkprincess]

bone apple teeth, my children

[knightofleo]

[herpsandbirds]

Common eider

[phynoma]

This needs to be immortalized because it's what made me turn on the sound. And they were right

[penandinkprincess]

okay but connor saying that in this scene

he didn't play it as ilya deliberately not answering the question and instead just as ilya who was pleased by shane caring enough to ask it and thus pulling him into a cuddle without answering because his only thought was, "oh, he cares enough to ask about my family"

makes me laugh imagining it being an ongoing thing between them in the early days of shane asking a personal question in passing and ilya being so pleased by the curiosity that he doesn't always. actually remember. to answer.

which means shane has a google search history that sometimes looks like

russia asking about family rude

don't ask about family russia

rude to talk about family in russia

rules for conversation russia family personal

becAUSE ILYA DOESN'T SEEM MAD?? BUT ALSO HE JUST??? LEFT HIM ON READ?? BUT IN A REAL LIVE CONVERSATION??? WHAT THE FUCK???

finally shane settles into their relationship enough to be like *deep breath* "can we talk about something that i think might be hard?"

and ilya is just *internally sweating because oh god this sounds so fucking serious and-* "yes, of course"

"okay" *deep breath that just makes ilya even more tense in preparation for the worst case scenario of shane breaking this off or delivering other bad news* "why do you sometimes just not answer when i ask you questions?"

"...why do i do what?"

[penandinkprincess]

shane, whose question about what ilya's favorite childhood cookie was got him folded like a pretzel and fucked to within an inch of his life and then cuddled close like a giant teddy bear while ilya kisses his face like he's something precious-

but who didn't actually. get. the fucking answer.

[hardlyhinged]

Op’s tags

[penandinkprincess]

shane in a full snowsuit, boots, and balaclava in mid-june, standing thirty feet away: so what's your favorite color?

[penandinkprincess]

okay but connor saying that in this scene

he didn't play it as ilya deliberately not answering the question and instead just as ilya who was pleased by shane caring enough to ask it and thus pulling him into a cuddle without answering because his only thought was, "oh, he cares enough to ask about my family"

makes me laugh imagining it being an ongoing thing between them in the early days of shane asking a personal question in passing and ilya being so pleased by the curiosity that he doesn't always. actually remember. to answer.

which means shane has a google search history that sometimes looks like

russia asking about family rude

don't ask about family russia

rude to talk about family in russia

rules for conversation russia family personal

becAUSE ILYA DOESN'T SEEM MAD?? BUT ALSO HE JUST??? LEFT HIM ON READ?? BUT IN A REAL LIVE CONVERSATION??? WHAT THE FUCK???

finally shane settles into their relationship enough to be like *deep breath* "can we talk about something that i think might be hard?"

and ilya is just *internally sweating because oh god this sounds so fucking serious and-* "yes, of course"

"okay" *deep breath that just makes ilya even more tense in preparation for the worst case scenario of shane breaking this off or delivering other bad news* "why do you sometimes just not answer when i ask you questions?"

"...why do i do what?"

[penandinkprincess]

shane, whose question about what ilya's favorite childhood cookie was got him folded like a pretzel and fucked to within an inch of his life and then cuddled close like a giant teddy bear while ilya kisses his face like he's something precious-

but who didn't actually. get. the fucking answer.

[penandinkprincess]

shane when him bothering to keep track of ilya answering or not and caring enough to ask why makes ilya so mad with lust and love that he HAS to ravish him immediately but now it's two hours later, ilya is knocked out, and shane still! doesn't have! a goddamn answer!!!! because ilya DIDN'T ACTUALLY SAY ANY OF THOSE THOUGHTS OUT LOUD.

[penandinkprincess]

okay but the difference in best friend dynamics between ilya/cliff and shane/hayden truly delights me

ilya and cliff are lovingly getting in each other's faces telling each other to get FUCKED <3 and meanwhile shane and hayden are running bits with transatlantic accents and jokes about mpreg

[penandinkprincess]

Im sorry, but I saw this, and it's VERY babey ellie coded

(Also trouver Claudia, just a little bit)

CACKLING

[penandinkprincess]

laughing about the fact that i know in my heart that ilya babytalks anya while shane talks to her like a colleague

ilya is holding her like a baby and cooing in russian going, "who is my beautiful little baby bunny? is it you? it IS you, beautiful little baby with your beautiful little baby paws and your beautiful little baby face and-"

and meanwhile anya took off with the zoomies instead of standing still in the entryway so shane could wipe her muddy paws off after a walk in the rain, and shane is toweling her off after re-capturing her and going, "that was not our agreement, anya. we had an understanding. this is not treat-earning behavior."

[hardlyhinged]

Op’s tags

[penandinkprincess]

shane swinging around the doorway into the laundry room only to find ilya halfway through and going ??? i was going to get that, you didn't need to.

"oh, so you are not the person who just said 'god, you can't even do one load of laundry?' to me five minutes ago? is okay, luchik, i know you have-"

"oh, that wasn't to you."

"...what?"

"no, i was talking to anya. she didn't take the garbage out, either. we really need to talk about her chores."

"...hollander her only chore is be cute, and she does it every single day."

"she could for SURE load the dishwasher. i know it."

[hardlyhinged]

Op’s tags

[penandinkprincess]

ilya is the one who plays with her, but this made me cackle imagining that the one game shane does play with her is "face off" over her toys. he puts it down with his left hand, has his right hand ready, and when he says "go," they both try to grab it first.

if you want mr. squeakers, anya, you will win him fair and square through the established traditions of this family.

[penandinkprincess]

"look, look at this, anya. this dog knows how to open fridges and retrieve drinks. look at what--no, stop licking my finger, focus up--look at what you could do if you lived up to your potential. what do you have to say for yourself?"

*sassy yip that usually gets her cuddles and treats from ilya for being cute*

"okay but that doesn't pay the mortgage, anya. lock in."

[imsodishy]

One thing about the Hollander men; if you hit them with a social situation they don't know how to react to, they will straight up leave ✌️

call that the Hollander Goodbye

[penandinkprincess]

thoughts and prayers to ilya, who is marrying into a family of flight risks 🙏

[sweetshirebones]

Ilya, some indeterminate time in the future, chasing after their toddler whose instinct is to do a runner the moment everyone starts standing too long, thus perfecting the Hollander Goodbye early: wow…genetic

[penandinkprincess]

ilya who is consistently the first one to find their child after they make a run for it because he has had to develop the survival skill of "if i were a hollander, where would i elope to?" over the years in order to find where the FUCK his family is after they just vanished

[penandinkprincess]

skill transfer

[penandinkprincess]

ilya who has learned to bring up flight risk conversations in a hollander residence because well *sips vodka* they'll have to come back eventually

[theprincessandthepie]

maybe one day. (yt)

[mdgart]

interrupting my Richonne spam with all I have to offer from the drafts before the Last Time....a sad boy and his dreams

[black-pussy-supreme]

A work of art.

[tangerineprettygreen]

Peeped that she wears it as a bracelet now 🥹❤️

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

“I was in love with my son’s best friend. I didn’t know what to do. Then you asked for that toothpaste. I was damned if I wasn’t gonna find something.”

- Rick Grimes

[onlyifyoubadd]

the sex scene/panic attack from our captains themselves:

i have no additional thoughts cause they articulated the importance of those scene and his panic attack so well!

check out the full article with Danai, Andy, and Scott here.

[majima4587]

Rick with Judith 🥹❤️🥹

[itblackgirlsstuff]

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

This show is doing wonderful things for Rick's character specifically. The fact that at his core he is the cheesiest hopeless romantic on earth is so fucking funny. POV your clinically insane, rabid animal of a husband who has killed hundreds has a gift for you

he also wrote you a poem