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my live reaction to this moment
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Ilya Rozanov getting back to his CCM-shoot hotel room after hooking up with Shane Hollander and absolutely blasting "All I Do Is Win" on his 5th generation iPod nano.
not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!
“can’t believe women fought to work!! i don’t wanna work!!” women have Been Working they fought to get Paid you know that right ?
toddler shane refusing to talk after his hockey team lose a game. yuna & david are trying to be encouraging like “bud!! you played so good!!” and shane is ignoring them while climbing into his car seat where he’s going to angrily drink his juice box and then chew on the straw.
He’s had a rough day…
I do love the concept of love at first sight for Shane and Ilya, but I think what happens is more interesting when viewed as love at first sight in hindsight.
In hindsight, the trajectory of both their worlds shifted the moment they met, but in the actual moment and in their initial few encounters, neither of them ever thought the other would be someone they could have an actual connection with. There is a lot of friction, combativeness and and mistrust between them early on, and I think part of that comes from the fact that they both think they have the other figured out immediately, but they keep learning over and over that the other is more complex than they originally thought.
Shane disarms Ilya with his lack of guile and how he challenges him emotionally.
Ilya disarms Shane with how he treats him as a normal person without expectations and how he challenges him sexually and competitively.
I have no doubt that when Shane walked away from Ilya in the Saskatchewan parking lot, Ilya decided then and there he was gonna fuck him, and there was something about Shane that was intriguing to him, but he wasn’t in love. He wasn’t anticipating it would be anything more than a one-time hook up. It isn’t until the All Star game in Nashville that Shane, once again, surprises Ilya, and makes him come back for more. Shane’s ability to surprise Ilya continuously intrigues him.
I think the point is that once they realized they catastrophically in love they were, there was no way to trace it back to a specific moment. At first it was the little things here and there - Shane’s guilelessness as he shakes Ilya’s hand in that parking lot, their giggles during the CCM photoshoot, Shane folding his clothes, their teasing, their competitiveness, their ability to affect each other in ways literally nobody in either of their lives have ever managed to - until there was no reality that existed where they weren’t in love with each other.
It wasn’t love at first sight in the traditional sense. It was I love you so much now and you’ve impacted and altered the trajectory of my life so much that there is no longer a version of me that exists that doesn’t or didn’t love you.
It’s looking back on memories with rose-coloured glasses. Even if it wasn’t love then, when I look back on those memories now, love is what it feels like.
"I'm just like you." [implied]
anyway I love things like having independence, being intelligent, taking pride in my skills, not feigning incompetence, referring to myself as a woman instead of a girl, aging unapologetically, having pores, stretch marks, grey hairs, wrinkles and body fat, listening to my body's needs, eating as much as I need to satisfy my hunger, being bare-faced, wearing comfortable clothes, etcetera
ALYSA LIU in MADWOMAN by LAUFEY (2026)
when reading a book, do you read the prologue/epilogue?
yes
prologue only
epilogue only
no
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Looking at the tags, a lot of people are blessedly unaware of the Discourse, for posterity:
do they think... that prologues and epilogues... which take place within the story and are very much inside of the same book as the rest of the pages... don't count as part of the book....???.....
Keeping an alive tumblr in 2026 is proof of one's sincerity and authenticity - a type of person who enjoys posting for the sake of it with absolutely nothing to be gained....just the enjoyment of curation and self expression untainted by opportunity and relevance
no you know what i'm still talking about "good morning i like you"
because ilya spent the previous night having what he previously thought would be the most boring night he could imagine. he sat in front of a fire and looked at it all night! that is so boring!
and YET
getting to sit quietly in one place with shane for a whole evening is transformative for ilya. they spend a whole slow evening in each others' presence, softly talking and learning about each other, constantly gently touching in a non-sexual way for the first time ever maybe? and he liked it so much
he liked it SO much you guys
he is so clearly comfortable, pliant and soft that evening - even when he's having these hard truths wrenched out of his throat he is able to be soft about it. he actually likes talking to shane! he likes sharing parts of him he hasn't before! he likes the quiet mundanity of sitting in front of a fire with someone you care about and just breathing it in for a few hours!
like it's literally their "i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you" moment! everything ilya thought would feel mundane (and would make shane realise he wouldn't want him any more) was thrilling and joyful
ilya doesn't just get to love shane, he gets to like him too! it's SUCH an important step for them! they've never had time to like each other before! ilya likes shane through the mundanity as much as in the thrill! they finally get to like each other!!!!
ICE IN MY OJ | HAYLEY WILLIAMS n1 @ citizens house of blues, april 3rd '26 | x
Hollanov + not breaking the kiss
ilya ALWAYS going for shane's lower body to pull him closer and make sure not to break their kiss 🚬🚬🚬