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themeowmansion

Kurogiri cat that no one asked for

This exists. You're welcome.

moetxt

i tried making a contrapuntal poem for hollanov, which can be read 3 ways: shane’s side alone, ilya’s side alone, or both sides together. inspired by the long game.

aslongasitsblack

whoever first pointed out that ilya americanises his accent around other people but not around shane i owe you my fucking life

also the idea of like when its just the two of them ilya can like just slip back into the more comfortable rudimentary accent he had at the start of their relationship :’) and that in itself being nostalgic for shane :’)

tteukbyeol

this would also be linguistically accurate!

i speak english the most in day to day life and also think in english sometimes. my accent in english is americanized, pretty indistinguishable from a native (excluding sets of certain phonemes like /rl/) .

but if i’m really tired or spending time just around my wife (with whom i speak english), i sometimes switch to what i call ‘lazy english’.

what this usually consists of is i allow myself to speak english with the russian /r/ phoneme that is more natural for me, i drop articles, replace continuous and future tense with simple present, use the ‘….,yes?’ construct, avoid contractions (bc the verb ‘to be’ is dropped/implied in russian, so contractions aren’t always natural)

for example, when i’m in ‘lazy english’ mode, this is how my speech varies:

‘i’m making the bed’ = ‘i make bed’.

‘you’ll help me later, right?’ = ‘you help me later, yes?’ (for this one, in russian, the same phrasal construct ends with the word ‘yes’ instead of the word ‘right’)

‘can you give me a tissue?’ = can you give me tissue?’

‘where’s the pen? do you have it?’ = ‘where is pen? you have?’

if you pay attention, you’ll notice that a lot of these patterns also occur in ilya’s speech, especially earlier on. that’s why i’m particularly impressed with the writing of his dialogue — it doesn’t come across as stereotyping/caricatural because the way he speaks english is consistent with russian linguistic/grammatical rules. this is often how russian-speaking people speak english when it is their second language and they’re still learning.

i like to imagine ilya reverting to ‘lazy english’ or speaking in a similar manner to me around shane. it is linguistically consistent and a sign of comfort/deep familiarity with the person.

ariaste

The next layer of linguistic accuracy would be for Shane to start occasionally modulating down into a similar "lazy english" that's reflective of Ilya's style. I forget the technical term for this, but it's a legit thing in linguistics -- if there's someone you love/admire/respect and you spend a lot of time with them, you unconsciously start picking up and mirroring a couple aspects of their idiolect (like a dialect but rather than being spoken by a group, it is a single person's unique linguistic fingerprint), whether that's gestures, vocabulary, or speech patterns.

So when Ilya says something like, "Where is pen? You have?" then over time Shane's response might naturally shift towards, "Yes, I have."

aslongasitsblack

he already does this!!!

you still want?

i still want

!!!!!!

noeul-writes

Truly the peacock 🦚

peppersnot

top hero reads thirst tweets

spnyach-n

collab with @shiri88

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prince x knight au

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fractally

My take on the voyageurs/metros is that they’re really big on the respectability politics and the good reputation from bare minimum “progressiveness”. Like they think because they don’t throw around slurs or brag about all the women they fuck that makes them good people. There’s a sense of superiority they have over teams like Toronto and Boston because they have a cleaner reputation than either team, and are known for “rising above” others. And this is a reputation that’s really just the voyageurs win by doing nothing. A lot of their fans are more mad at Shane because his whole scandal and subsequent leaving for Ottawa has made the voyageurs look really bad and they feel like he “ruined” their reputation by not playing happy family with the team, even though the voyageurs very much were the ones who pushed him out. But they do their best to save face and a decent portion of fans believe it.

Essentially they don’t act like the slur flinging bigots of fanon, they’re much more insidious and annoying about their homophobia

Yeah I like this take.

The thing is we have so little info on what the room is like in Montreal---I'm sooooo fascinated by the like three tidbits we get about Theriault. He'd be such a major figure in Shane's life and we know almost nothing!!! What was he like? Was Shane his golden boy? His whipping boy? His second in command? What was the viiiiibe

I definitely could see this though and I can see the fans reacting in this way. One of my major head canons is that fans who hate Shane don't hate him for Ilya (or believe they don't hate him because of Ilya) but rather because he leaves Montreal and it's a big drama that leaves egg on everyone's faces. And it's not Shane's fault, but it is *because of him*. And also blaming Shane for leaving in a huff is a great way to get mad at a guy you wanted to hate anyway because his relationship grosses you out.

But yeah I agree--I don't think Montreal is slinging slurs around or being all toxic, Shane was gay in the room for a while and it was apparently fine. I agree it's a more insidious thing (which is more interesting)

hollanovices

thinking about how shane and ilya's expressions of queerness are so different and how it doesn't relate to their preferred positions during sex at all, because it's so refreshing to see.

shane is a bottom through and through, but unlike in many other queer media, he isn't effeminate or delicate. he's masculine and brash and jocky, he works his grill and sets up fires and wears fucking.. khaki pants or whatever. he's just a guy. a guy that prefers to be fucked.

ilya likes topping (although he would be down for whatever as long as it makes shane happy) but he isn't some burly, macho "i will dominate you" dude like tops are shown. he wears his cunty little jean paul gaultier tiger print and slutty tank tops, and he's sassy and has a gay accent in russian and makes these flamboyant hand gestures. they don't take away from his masculinity, but the important thing is that ilya doesn't have to be gruff and manly and stoic.

and it makes me so happy to see that the weird gender role adjacent stereotypes about topping and bottoming arent placed on them.

iscreamvanilla

BUG 💜

springtimetemerity

Perhaps my most controversial yet unserious Heated Rivalry opinion is that I'm glad the sex building didn't make the adaptational jump for the show. I know people think it's funny and illustrates Shane's need for control, but.

To me, it's much juicer for that to be Shane's real home, and Shane's real bed. He had so much anxiety about letting things with Ilya advance any more physically, and showing that barrier coming down by having him let Ilya into his home as well... I think it's great. It adds layers to the six months of silence as well—there was a real vulnerability to that whole encounter that Ilya was good about in the moment, but (for very understandable reasons!) kind of trampled over in the aftermath. So even when they reconcile, things are different. Ilya gets to be close to Shane, he gets to come over to Shane's house and they have lots of great montage sex, but Shane's learned that it doesn't mean what he felt like it meant, that the closeness they share can't be vulnerable in that way. Which helps move past things in the moment, but sets up issues for further down the line.

And to underline that, we're left to assume that, in Boston, they only ever hook up at hotels, maybe some crashpad apartment near the rink that Ilya doesn't think of as his home at a stretch. For years, there's been a gap in vulnerability, in how far Shane is allowed into Ilya's life even after gaining entry into Shane's.

Shane can't know about Russia or Ilya's family life, and he can't see inside his home. Ilya comes back to him, but the barriers are all still up. They're just holding hands through the fence, both looking the other way and pretending it's not happening.

So on Tuna Melt Day, Shane is coming over to Ilya's house for the very first time with his badly learned lesson that This Isn't That Deep Don't Worry About It Be Cool Hollander. And Ilya is doing his devastating I want more but I can't ask for more so I'll pretend just for today thing (I am a staunch believer that this wasn't Ilya planning on asking Shane for a real relationship. If he had resolved to give things between them a serious shot, his reservations in Tampa through to Scott's coming out would have been coming from a very different place). To Ilya, having Shane over to see his real house and to share his real bed, even for just the night, is vulnerable and significant too, just like it was for Shane, but he's dead set on pretending to be casual about it. Shane is supposed to be let in, but he isn't supposed to know that he's been let in.

The symmetry there is so delicious. For both of them, there's a pivotal change in their relationship attached to having the other person in their home—the place they spend their real life—for the first time. And it provokes a near relationship-ending crisis both times because it's so scary and its such a big deal.

When they're separated, Ilya longingly watches footage of Shane's most private home. Missing him, fantasizing about the level of closeness that would let them be there together. Feeling like he'll never get to have it. And then Shane invites Ilya to share that truest home for the summer! And Ilya manages to accept, even though it's scary! They go there together! Gorgeous.