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hello my name is dorothy

[smalltownthot]

i’ve been super scared to say this online for fear of backlash and hate but i don’t think it’s okay to laugh or have fun at all

[closetfascination]

Getting murdered in a dark, scary alley in Montreal.

Heated Rivalry, S1E4, Rose

[irrevocablecondition]

shane: hello mr. scott hunter 😁☝🏻 you played a lil badly today 🧍‍♂️ i hope next time we see each other we have 🤗 more fun 🤗 yippee !

scott: Your Soul Is So Entwined With Your Decade Long Situationship. Not Even The Strongest Sorceress Could Tear You Two Apart. You Are Gay.

[symphoniccowboy]

hollanov's separate issues w denial are soo funny . ilya's inner monologue is like i love DANGER & HOT SEX ! which is why i am obsessed with fucking shane hollander who only eats plain steamed fish & bitches me out for having even ONE cigarette & doesn't listen to music because he doesn't "get it" . meanwhile shane is staring grimly at a view overlooking a city skyline like he's batman going "This Horrible Fucked Up Thing Between Us ....... It Has To Stop ." & then the second he gets ilya alone he's like HIIIIIII stupid asshole 🥰 if u dont let me suck your dick right now im going to kill myself . awesome work guys seriously .

[asthedeathoflight]

"its so sad that everyone who knew how to do film lighting or cinematography died in 2017" 🚨WRONG🚨 They are working on canadian government funded yaoi

[artsylou]

Thing is, i do believe Ilya when he says that Irina didn't suck like the rest of his family. Whether from reading the book or watching the show, i believe him.

The proof? Ilya.

He's gentle and respectful of consent and boundaries, he never made shane feel uncomfortable for how he folds clothes before hooking up even though he did find it amusing, or how shane felt uncomfortable with so many windows even tho they were on one of the higher floors, mind you that at that point their feelings for each other weren't nearly as intense as its been later.

But he's also funny and made shane laugh alot even when he was uptight and nervous, ragebaity on the ice yes (he's still a hockey player after all) but he's a good captain and knows how to uplift his team whether its with jokes or speeches that made ME want to win their game lmao, he's always there for other people's important moment ie after scott came out and his speech at the awards (when he met scott at the bar, in the books).

Its so obvious how caring he is at the hospital scene too, he went to check on shane while also mentioning how marleau feels bad for what happened and wanted shane to know that. In episode six, reassuring shane when his dad found them, told shane he'd of course go with him to his family with zero hesitation, was there for shane as just a quiet support until shane really needed him while panicking and ilya immediately jumped in to reassure him.

But, he also cared for his father who was absolutely terrible to him and his mother, whom he FOUND when she committed (thats an entire trauma of its own). He spent his summers in russia taking care of his father, when he was away he was sending an absurd amount of money over, made sure they eat the best of food and wear the best of clothes in the hopes that it would be good enough but it wasn't and yet, and YET he still took care of them. Even after his father died and his brother being an ass, he's leaving money for his niece because none of this is her fault. It also broke me how emotional he got when shane talked about the foundations he wants to donate too and his plan like, after all this time taking care of others he got shane (and the hollanders) taking care of him and making future plans with him in mind and it got to him.

But he's also polite and respectful, he smiled at the nurse and said thank you, apologized to the bartender for his team being idiots, in episode six he's respectful of shane's family and dug into the food happily and said thank you for it later and also complimented the vodka they brought out. He played with the children at the all star weekend so beautifully and made them laugh and for god's sake! He likes to spread joy.

So yeah i do believe that she was beautiful and funny because, even though it was for only twelve years, she raised him! and he is exactly the way he describes her. Strong and beautiful and funny despite the circumstances.

He's proof that being kind is a choice you actively make every single day, that even with a shit upbringing or circumstances you can still be a good person because you choose to be. But also even though his mom left the battle at the end, she still powered through just like he is. Except he has Shane to be there for him while he fights his fight.

You can never make me hate Ilya Rozanov.

[gffa]

I am so emotional about Shane trying to tell his mom that he really, really tried not to be gay, that he just couldn't help it. Shane who has all these complicated issues with being gay, because it's not something he can control, like he does with everything else related to his body. He can't fine tune this. He can't fix this with focus, exercise, or diet, like he can with all his other problems, because everything else about him is being a professional athlete. It wrecks him because it jeopardizes everything he's centered his life around, it's not just the money aspect of playing hockey, but that Shane lives and breathes and eats and sleeps hockey, if he lost it because he was found out, what would he even have left? That's Shane's journey, to realizing that, as much as he loves hockey, he will come to love Ilya more. But right now, he's so devastated because he can't stop this thing that he can't control, this thing that's a problem for everything else in his life, this thing that he fears will make his parents upset because it's going to derail his career, like they put all this effort and time into him, and he's going to mess it all up. And when Yuna apologizes with such heart, because she loves her kid so much, that she's so sorry that she made him think he couldn't tell her, and asks for her forgiveness--Shane doesn't say, "There's nothing to forgive." It's, "I forgive you." That healed something in me. Not because Yuna was anywhere near being a villain here, but because Shane's devastation deserved acknowledgement and validation. He deserved to be an injured party here. Yuna was completely human and never really did anything wrong (I WILL FIGHT THE INTERNET FOR HER, her son is a high profile athlete in a world that will notice he's Asian, she's locked the fuck in on what kind of game plan he needs to survive what the hockey world will throw at him), but Shane deserved to be the one giving out his forgiveness. It was him saying that of course he accepts that she loves him and this can be put behind them, but it's also a moment of Shane not having to downplay what he went through and how much hurt he was carrying around. That the lack of support in his life deserved to be acknowledged as having real weight.

[ticklefighthockey]

when shane's like hey why don't we try this crazy new thing where we say what we think and feel instead of disguising our emotions behind layers of deflection and bro-y fuck yous and ilya's like ummmmmm idk if i can make any promises..... cut to ilya opening his eyes the next morning half awake blurting out I LIKE YOUUUUUU!!!!!!! like he'd been practicing it in his sleep. baby's first taste of emotional security lol he's riding HIGH on that rush of feeling loved and safe

[baelonthebrave]

had many many favourite parts of that episode but I did love shane's mom being like 'so do you love your team ilya?' and ilya so confident he knows how to answer this question right like 'not as much as i love your son mrs hollander' and shane's mom being like EH ❌🙅🏻‍♀️ WRONG ANSWER and shane being like mom what the fuck??

[alltoowille]

Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute

[shnehollander]

Shane & Ilya Heated Rivalry S01E06

[lierdumoa]

When I say that Rachel Reid's books are written like fanfic, I want it to be understood that I don't mean this in any derogatory sense. Some of the greatest novelists of our age are fanfic writers.

What I mean is that the writing style contains recognizable linguistic markers that are characteristic of fanfiction, and particularly of AO3 fanfiction.

Like, here's one example:

If you visit AO3 looking for an erotic scenario in which a character experiences a prostate orgasm without any physical stimulation to his groin, you will find it under the tag: #coming untouched

If you visit pornhub looking for this same erotic scenario, you will instead find it under the tag: #handsfree

Rachel Reid specifically uses the term "untouched" when she describes Shane having this kind of orgasm in her book. That's the term she's more familiar with. Jacob Tierney, in contrast, uses the term he's more familiar with, when he has Ilya say to Shane, "Remember when I made you cum hands-free? Such a good trick."

Both writers are well-educated on the subject matter, but it's clear they graduated from different schools.

[steveyockey]

“don’t marry svetlana” is awesome because it’s ike period piece dialogue as though ilya’s been betrothed since birth but has fallen in love with the coachman’s daughter

[blond-shell]

now we’re cooking with gas…..

[blacksheepcolorfulskin]

I love that Shane is surprised about Ilya’s jealousy about Rose. He only knows about Ilya macking on that girl in the club. He didn’t see his man go full bisexual terminator before that. He didn’t hear the Kill Bill siren going off in his head. He didn’t see Ilya staring at himself in the mirror wishing he could cease to exist.

[my-2nd-account]

Yuna Hollander when Ilya Rozanov walked into her house: the devil is amongst us.

Yuna Hollander 3 seconds later: Ok Ilya sweetheart my precious baby do you like your pasta we do dinners on Sunday text me your faves so we can get the groceries and we can cook together ok and we have a spare bedroom- no fuck that you'll sleep with Shane won't you ok then I'll get you some extra pillows when's your birthday what's your favorite color can you send me a baby pic of you I want to hang it on the wall next to Shane's what's your coffee order you'll always have a home with us you're my favorite son

[hoko-onchi-writes]

I bet young Ilya Rozanov never thought he’d get slapped in the face with that tism rizz and he would be so fucking cooked.

This man has eight of the same shirt and five of the same hoodie. This man memorizes hockey stats for fun. This man will have a cold ginger ale. This man will look awkwardly at the camera with a smile like he wants to incinerate himself in every wet t-shirt contest sports drink ad his mom books for him. This man will take everything you say absolutely literally. That’s French, Ilya. You just said a French word and we’re talking about Russian, are you unfamiliar with your own language. This man takes three days to recognize a social cue. And ten years to name an emotion. You’ll tell him you like him in the most roundabout way and you’ll think you NAILED it, and he’ll promptly have a panic attack on your dick. When he names that emotion finally? He’ll be absolutely relentless and will not stand down; he’s had an emotion and he knows you have one, too. By that point, there’s no escape. He’s imprinted on you and is starting to ovulate in your vicinity. He will bludgeon you with adorable nerd and insatiable ass. And his oral fixation is so mighty he’ll suck your remaining brain cells out through your dick.

This man drives a Range Rover because it’s good in the snow. This man does a loon call. This man will make you eight cheeseburgers. Buddy it’s over for you.