Witch, Scholar, Poet, Dreamer, And The Rest

dylan | she/her | austen heroine

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[madamerowina]

[rainbow-femme]

They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.

[whenthegoldrays]

Georges Rochegrosse, Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers) (detail) (1894), oil on canvas

[peachyjude]

something really really bittersweet about ilya correcting david to call him by his first name when david calls him rozanov. like. for years and years it’s been hollander and rozanov. big bad rozanov, the arch rival. but when shane and ilya finally come clean, ilya’s stepping into it completely. we’re lovers. i love your son. i’m not this cocky person you see on television, i’m not even the player you see on the ice, rozanov, 81, captain of the boston raiders. i’m not the guy you’ve cursed and badmouthed — i swear, that’s not all i am. i’m also the man that loves your son. this thing we have, i’m in it for the long haul. i want to be a part of your family one day, maybe. and so i want you to call me by my first name, the name my mother gave me, the name your son keeps safe in his mouth. ilya.

[loveridden1999]

girl whatever

[theelastword]

the count talking to the gang in bram stoker’s dracula

[mahgnolias]

mariellehaon

[cottaqecore]

iza miko

[notspecialbabe-archive]

i was making a bunch of shane gifs and i kept getting fixated on how heart-in-throat, gut-wrenchingly gorgeous he is in this shot so i thought it deserved its own post 😌

[petaltexturedskies]

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (originally published in 1957)

[pemberlaey]

*taps mic* hollanov’s daughter is a theater kid

[7pleiades7]

Forest Nymph (Waldnymphe), (detail), (1870), by Paul Hermann Wagner (German, 1852 – 1937), oil on canvas, 86.4 cm (34 in) x 110.5 cm (43.5 in), Private Collection, Texas

[breathtakingdestinations]

Sheepbanks Bridge - Ireland (by Rob Hurson) 

[myshangel]

how shane and ilya are sitting at their daughter's preschool after she got put in time out for saying "hello gay boy" (ilya has used this greeting to piss shane off for years and did Not know she could repeat it)

[zendayacolemann]

PRIDE & PREJUDICE dir. Joe Wright | 2005

[bugslibraryy]

“Someone talk to me abt Shane and Ilya snugglin and smooching before my heart dies”

Ok bet. I think that the cens have a shared album that only contains pics of hollanov napping on eachother in various public spaces. The bus, the plane, in the locker room, whatever — it’s all fair game

Yess yes yes yes ! After they are out too the boys sometimes post it to their stories, always with Ilya or Shane’s approval first. One picture goes mega viral, it’s them in an airport, the boys waiting out a delay from snow, and Ilya and Shane have jenga’ed themselves into a small armchair. Ilya is laying sideways on it, his long legs over the side and Shane is in Ilya’s lap, curled towards Ilya with his face shoved into Ilya’s neck and one of his legs is sprawled off the small armchair and they are holding hands between their chest, all smushed together.

It gets posted with “puppies” and breaches containment, goes medium viral and Shane is a bit unsure about it, how widespread it goes given how they were outed but then everything he sees is just. So positive. So sweet. People saying it makes them believe in love and that makes Shane all gooey inside because. They do look so in love, in that picture, they are so fucking in love so in love everyone can see it, it radiates. And Shane comes to love that picture most of all.