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[rho-delta]

been thinking about Hudson’s speech like.. He really went through most of his speech a little nervous, faltering here and there, reading out names from a piece of paper a little blandly.

But as soon as he reached Connor’s name, it flowed out of him perfectly. It’s the provocative and bold sound bite everyone expected from him, but more than that it’s earnest to a fault. Like he really said:

I won’t let you go unacknowledged. Every news article and social media post and tv snippet about my win will have your name too because I’m gonna make sure it’s going to be tonight’s most reported quote. You were overlooked because of technicalities and lines drawn on maps; but I’ll make sure you go down in history with me.

[papayajuan2019]

hey, do you mind if i immensly value our relationship, in a way i'll never properly be able to fully verbally communicate

[otterbadger]

Hollander Headcannons.

Yuna can understand Japanese but doesn't speak it well. (Shane finally learns for his youngest son who gets obsessed with the European Middle Ages and Japanese Samurai. Ironically it's the son who turned out to look exactly like Ilya's mini me!)

I'm absolutely firm on Yuna being Yuri Katski's Auntie. I read the Ao3 fanfic "Figure Skating for Hockey Players" and now Shane and Yuri are cousins, no questions.

Hollander Men are gentle. Hollander Grandad, Hollander Uncles, and David. They're strong, capable, kind and quiet. Autistic? Oh probably...definitely. Uncle Robert has a train set in his attic.

The first time Ilya sees David lean over the sofa at bedtime to kiss Shane on the head, Ilya's heart grows three sizes, then it happens to him!

He calls Ilya "Son". He calls Haydn "Son" too, but Ilya doesn't mind. It's said with so much love.

David calls Shane Sweetheart.

Yuna is also extremely kind and capable. She struggled a lot after Shane came out because she had to examine where her positivity could be a bit...overpowering. Shane never used the word "Toxic" but Yuna is down with the kids. She's done some soul searching and wondered how many times she'd told her son "Don't cry"...

And he's taken it as an order not the immense love that she felt 😞.

The relationship between mother and son was never broken, and the flaw that caused any pain is just a crack in the metaphorical bowl. Mended with gold.

Ilya is Off. The. Charts. Smart. I cannot stress this enough. His brain squirrels away facts, figures, techniques, bits of music, history, physics...

Even Ilya didn't really understand how intelligent he was until he got bored and did a crossword in one of David's newspapers and a trophy showed up a few weeks later with his name on it. (David submitted it obviously!)

Shane isn't stupid. He really isn't...but his grades were atrocious. He's hockey clever. That's plenty.

Yuna was briefly worried that a concussion at the age of 14 had knocked all his mathematics out of his head.

And a quick Rozanov headcannon.

Ilya's sister in law reaches out to him after her inevitable divorce. Her daughter is showing promise as a ballet dancer and she wants to at least show her uncle. Ilya's niece ends up in Japan being trained by Minako but puts on a pair of figure skates one day and the rest is history!

Centaurs Headcannon.

Downtime activities include

Darts at the pub

Football (They end up with a Brit on the team!)

Curling...

Well, they have curling brooms but no stones. They use Shane instead, in lotus position.

Learning to Waltz. This began as helping Bood before a posh wedding and became a competitive and combative sport. The only person who'd ever waltzed before was Ilya "Russian Rennaisance" Rozanov.

The only problem was, he could only lead. Cue multiple borderline HR violation jokes about his Marital Sex life directed at Shane.

There's A Smell in the locker room. A few of them can smell it at all times, some of them can smell it in certain spots. It moves. Shane thinks he heard it squeak. You can drop a crumb on the floor before a game and it'll be gone when you get back.

[otterbadger]

Gender Euphoria.

My oldest friend told me I looked "Effortlessly cool" the other day.

I'm riding that high until I crash.

[gaynehollander]

When Shane and Ilya get married at least one club in Boston hosts a wake for Ilya's slut era and hundreds of women gather, some to reminisce, others to mourn what they never had.

[parkayquarts]

now im imagining what pride events in ankh morpork are like

[parkayquarts]

there will EXCLUSIVELY be kink at the ankh morpork pride parade

[wondersmith-and-sons]

(via @takiki16)

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

(Tags via @romanceyourdemons)

Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.

Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.

Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren't welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it's good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.

The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.

[skarabrae-stone]

Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She'd get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).

Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors' items.

I don't get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don't think the queer community's history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch's support.

Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the "new, updated version" if anyone questioned him)

The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade

Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why

Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully's concept of allyship is loudly saying, "Well done, that man!" and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.

Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail

Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon

Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

More from the tags, I love all of you

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The Assasins Guild have a float for queer youth dealing with unsupportive parents that has a banner that reads "Over their dead body? WE CAN HELP"

[saphronethaleph]

There's only one problem with this post, and it's that it has not yet considered that it would end up being called the Prid Parade owing to a series of misprints.

[elfgrove]

We can't be leaving this in the tags, friend.

#If Granny was in town she be raising her eyebrow at the whole thing #until she sees a group of people who declare they don't crave or want sex #and she's like 'finally #some people with sense #and then death glare at anyone who said acearo people didn't belong

[otterbadger]

Reg Shoe...

Genius touch there. We ALL know a Reg.

[literary-claustrophobia]

As soon as Shane realized he was gay, that mf Locked In. He said, we need to get this relationship Sorted, hired a stylist, and showed up to All Stars weekend ready to lock down the best dicking he had ever gotten in his life. And it worked.

[this-is-trans-joy]

I don’t know if this is an obvious take or a hot take, but I think people need to start re-framing feminism as the fight for body autonomy as opposed to whatever this second wave revival gender essentialist bullshit we have going on right now. Once you reframe it in this way, it’s easier to understand intersectionality and why cis women are not the only people who need feminism. The lack of body autonomy effects cis women, trans people, intersex people, disabled people, poc, homeless people, sex workers, etc. and your feminism needs to include and prioritise all of these groups of people (which will include men btw) because feminism is about autonomy, not about establishing a matriarchy. Body autonomy is the biggest threat to the patriarchy, both with reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and even the right to not be drafted into military services. Once body autonomy is established for everyone, the patriarchy no longer has a leg to stand on.

And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.

Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.

TERFs are some of the biggest opponents to body autonomy, and if you find yourself thinking “oh people can do whatever they want with their bodies as long as it doesn’t harm them or make others uncomfortable” then you are far more susceptible to TERF propaganda than you think.

[fartmobile]

Hug :)

[otterbadger]

Bood:

So do you guys like...you know? Fight?

Illya:

"Of course"

Bood:

"I mean fight fight?"

Shane:

"Argue?"

Bood:

*Fight* (Holds up fists)

Illya: (Dangerously)

"Because we are both men?"

Bood:

"No Dumbass, because you're both hockey players!"

Shane:

"Oh....yeah of course we do"

[sinmonger]

Hollanov + tweets (part 2)

[programmerhumour]

Anon visits webpages in 2022

[mornington-the-crescent]

As others have pointed out before, if you visited a web page 20 years ago and it acted like that, you would rightly assume your computer had gotten a virus.

[should-they-kiss]

Should they kiss?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 3

[otterbadger]

No, but Ilya has slept with Chris.

[gzeidraws]

a heated meeting 🔥❄️

bonus:

[capsensislagamoprh]

First off, Victor is gonna discuss all that with Chris because there is NO WAY those three are *not* gonna have conversations to make a house of ill repute blush. Second. Shane can practice his Japanese with Yuuri and prove to Yuri that he doesn't have to hate *all* of Canada because of *one* Canadian. Third: The late night dear gods help me Peaches, they are *encouraging* Victor! Late night call. I need this. And I need it with Yuri walking in mid-conversation to ask something perfectly benign, twitching like a cat who just popped a balloon full of cucumbers as he backs out, and the subsequent fall out of trying to die while curled around Otabek who is quite confused because all BOTH Yuri's can do about it is make incoherent pillow scream noises. Both Ilya and Yuri - filterless chaos gremlins with Issues™ - in the same place would cause Victor to unleash his claws. And this is why they are glad Otabek chills out spicy ice cat. The same way Shane and Ilya do for each other. The same way Victor and Yuuri help each other as well. Oh, look. Parallels.

[otterbadger]

I need all the crossovers

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I was curious about your description of the playoffs game in the latest snapping birch chapter. Is real hockey actually like that?

Sort of.

When I was writing the hockey descriptions in snapping birch, I wanted to keep Shane and Ilya’s feats within the realm of human possibility, but I also wanted their skill to be far beyond the average hockey player’s.

Because Shane and Ilya are lightning strikes. They hit the earth at the same place at the same time in a way that defies probability. Both of them would be once in a generation talents if the other did not exist. They are operating at a different level than every other player in the league and it shows.

So to make any of their play by plays, I spliced together a bunch of my favorite hockey highlights. Shane and Ilya don’t just do one cool thing on the ice—they do multiple cool things at the same time.

Take, for example, Shane’s goal. He hops over a fallen Cliff Marleau to intercept Ilya’s shot and make his goal. I was basing that in part off this goal by Nazem Kadri where he had to jump over a fallen player and do a 360 spin to make a goal. Because I thought it looked sick as fuck. It’s one of my favorite hockey moments of all time and I thought Shane Hollander should get to do something similar. As a treat.

I didn’t have a specific moment in mind for the mid-air interception, because it’s happened more than once and I think they always look sick. I was mostly thinking of Sidney Crosby with that detail. He’s had a lot of really cool moments intercepting the puck midair.

Goalie goals are also real! But they are rare. They are stupid difficult. A feather in the cap of any goalie who manages one.

They also have pretty much have always happened on unmanned nets. Basically, sometimes hockey teams have their goalies leave the net unguarded so they have an extra attacking skater. When that happens, sometimes the other team’s goalie takes the chance to score on the unguarded net. Matt Brodeur is the only goalie to have recorded a goal on a “guarded” net, but frankly the goal was pretty empty it was just technically guarded because the goalie was on his way to the bench and didn’t make it back in time to stop it.

So, are you going to get these exact plays out of hockey? No. I made them up. But I made them up by stringing together a bunch of real moments in hockey,

Shane and Ilya’s achievements on the ice in snapping birch are meant to be slightly fantastical. They’re meant to be the one-in-a-billion, you-can’t-believe-your-eyes moments. Because Shane and Ilya are one in a billion players. The fact that they exist at the same time is borderline miraculous.

There’s always that one person that redefines what people thought was possible in a sport. The person who sets records and has a highlights reel that will be watched fifty years down the line. Ilya and Shane are both that person. Their plays are meant to reflect that.

And part of the reason for that in snapping birch specifically is to make it excruciatingly clear that the NHL’s story is pretextual. If these two assholes are trying to lose then what the fuck could it possibly look like when they’re trying to win.

They’ve both been out here redefining the sport in their games against each other. The NHL is out here like “*gasp* you were TRYING to lose” but the only plays they can point to as proof are plays every other hockey player alive couldn’t pull off with a gun to their fucking head.

You need to be able to see how unbelievable Shane and Ilya’s games together have been to make it undeniably clear that the NHL is simply making shit up. They are historical talents, both of them.

When I’m writing them on the ice, I try to have them do something a step beyond what’s happened in real hockey while still keeping it within the bounds of what is humanly possible. Because in my mind Shane and Ilya are meant to be better than every other hockey player in history. They operate on a level that no one else does.

[otterbadger]

As a non sports fan this is extremely satisfying to imagine.

[projectnightrunner]

*bangs fists on table* AU AU AU AU in which Seregil was never banished and Alec was raised by the Hâzadrielfaie. 

plotty plot under the cut. 

Keep reading

[otterbadger]

Illya: (In Russian) in another room.

"My beautiful darling, my sweet thing I won't hurt you. Is that good? Shall I move you? I'll be gentle. Oh look you're so speckled and pretty. Oh lovely lovely...."

Hayden:

"Shaaane? Who is Rozy talking to?"

Shane: "Houseplant".