ilya making a beeline for shane during a team hangout and sees shane at the sofa with a few other boys. he comes over and shane sees him and switches the ginger ale to the other hand before holding his arms out for ilya to sit in his lap. ilya sits down and he kisses ilya’s shoulder gently while maintaining the conversation with others.
ilya joins in too but his heart is also racing because their intimacy is so casual now and shane is comfortable enough to hold him and kiss him in front of the team and he’s so happy and he never would’ve thought he could have this.
#myshane loves the pwhl and the pwhl loves him back. in montreal, he would go to every victoire (triomphe?) game that he could given his schedule. he has jerseys and gets wedding invites and the entire roster's numbers in his phone. they adore him and he loves being around people who share his love of hockey without being boisterous dickbags
this leads to a full fledged uprising when shane gets run out of montreal though. they're so pissed off because really?? you got rid of your best player because he's GAY? the victoire no longer even associates with their nhl equivalent. it doesn't exist in their minds. meanwhile ottawa's pwhl team is already best friends with the centaurs and is just excited to have another addition that happens to be shane thee hollander
“Everybody is asking, from our wardrobe department to our grips, ‘Is there a way to bring him back?’”
Criminal Minds, now Criminal Minds: Evolution, has had legendary celebrity guest stars over the course of its 19 seasons. Many of them, including Aaron Paul and Evan Peters, got to play creeps, killers, and kidnappers/kidnappees before they became household names. This season, Heated Rivalry breakout Connor Storrie will continue the tradition with a four-episode guest stint. As Lance Kingston, “a charming narcissist with a deep sense of entitlement,” Storrie becomes a major player in a Behavioral Analysis Unit investigation after being accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend.
It’s a perfect time for any show to cash in on Storrie-mania — fans are clamoring for more of the actor while waiting for season two of Heated Rivalry — but series creator Erica Messer tells Vulture that Storrie was cast and shot his part last summer, long before anyone knew the Canadian hockey romance would become such a sensation. “We were very much interested in finding somebody that would stand out a bit. Connor won that, hands down,” Messer says. “The interesting thing is, none of us knew what Heated Rivalry was. Even if it was on his résumé, I think the conversation was, ‘He’s just finished this thing that hasn’t aired yet.’ It wasn’t anything more than that.”
When casting director April Webster and her department chose Storrie, he was only meant to appear in one episode and shoot for two days. He brought such enormous screen presence, however, that the writers immediately expanded his part. “We were like, ‘Okay, I know he was important for episode four, but we’ve got to make him more integral to the rest of the season,’” Messer says. Storrie went from a one-episode guest-star slot to a four-episode arc, “100 percent because he was so compelling,” Messer says. Vulture got an exclusive first look at the character alongside series stars R.J. Hatanaka, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez, and A.J. Cook.
As for what fans can expect from Storrie’s arc, Messer says he goes “toe-to-toe with the BAU,” and there’s a scene where “Adam’s character kind of alphas him, in a way.” On set, Messer says Storrie made such a good impression that “everybody is asking, from our wardrobe department to our grips, ‘Is there a way to bring him back?’”
Well? Is there a way Storrie could come back? “I would just say, on Criminal Minds in general, you never say never.” Storrie’s first episode, titled “The Witching Hour,” premieres June 11 on Paramount+.
Shane who, growing up, always wanted to touch the marble statues he saw in the museums he visited with his parents.
He spends ages staring at those ancient stone torsos wondering how it would feel to run his hands over the carefully carved bumps and ridges. What it would feel like beneath his fingertips.
He doesn't know why he wants it so bad, but it's all he can think about whenever he's there. And he hates that it's all he can think about. He always shoves his hands deep in his pockets and hopes that no one nearby can read minds.
And then one crazy night he finds himself alone with a man he's supposed to hate and well...
ep 1 of heated rivalry when the announcers narrate that canada struggled to find their identity (shane not knowing he's gay) and they couldn't get past russia's defense (ilya's walls) but "ilya rozanov kept getting past theirs"
hollanova au where ilya's a barber and shane's finally stated presenting less femme and she decides to get a haircut somewhere she Knows will actually cut her butch (everyone knows the pain of walking into the hairdresser with a clear image and leaving with some fem bullshit they wanted to do instead). lilya manoeuvering her head around with her big hands and shane just desperately wants to bite at her tatted forearms. and when she's got her head tilted down, one warm broad hand cradling her skull, and the buzzing for her undercut starts she almost comes
ok well you know what this is actually exciting because now Troy and Wyatt will for sure be played by unknowns and I can't wait to love and support these fresh new actors who are probably working at Tim Hortons and waiting for their lives to change as we speak
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