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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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@mystifyblog suggested flowerlight as a shipname, because Svetlana means light and I am obsessed!
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has anyone drawn this with Shane & Ilya yet
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“You’re so far away,” Shane said, sniffing hard. “I want to rent a car and drive there.”
“Would be a long drive,” Ilya said with amusement, “from Washington.”
“Thirteen hours,” Shane smiled sheepishly. “I looked it up.”
TLG AU - post near crash but Shane does that 👆 after hanging up
spoilers for TLG obvs - just go read it already
Ilya is in a Florida IHOP booth with Harris, Wyatt and Luca Haas and he doesn’t feel real. He knows distantly that this is the combined effect of a hangover and the massive adrenaline crash after the near death experience yesterday. It’s unbearable and he doesn’t care and it feels like it will last forever.
He's been staring out the window at the parking lot without seeing it for probably too long.
“Too bad Chiron isn’t here,” Harris jokes. “That would cheer everyone up.”
Ilya’s mind fills with terrified puppy noises and his attention snaps back to his companions. “Then Chiron would have been on the plane. What the fuck, Harris? He would have been so scared!”
Harris puts his hands up, startled. “I was just saying. A puppy would be nice right now.”
Ilya glares and takes a bite of his toast and feels completely justified but also like he needs to bury himself in his phone. He pulls it out of his pocket while Harris tries to be cheerful.
He finds texts from Shane, the first of the day. They came in just a few minutes ago. Ilya feels his pulse lower and loses track of the conversation around him.
J: I did something stupid J: good morning also J: where are you
L: morning L: harris made us get pancakes L: what did you do?
J: IHOP or Denny’s?
Ilya’s cheek tugs a little like he might smile. He only ordered black coffee and toast for himself - he had no appetite - but maybe he'll take a picture of Luca's pile of whip cream just to gross Shane out. He's not sure why it matters if it's IHOP or Denny's (Florida is ridiculous, the two places are right next to each other in a hideous parking lot across the street from the hotel) and he doesn't care; he likes that Shane is texting like normal and not like they were both crying over facetime 12 hours ago.
I: IHOP, thank god, I could not have dealt with denny’s bacon today
J: oh good J: wyatt, luca and harris are cool right? Like they’re not… dallas kent?
I: they're cool
Ilya frowns after hitting send and scrolls back up through the short conversation. He never told Shane who he was sitting with.
I: shane... I: what stupid thing did you do?
There's a timid knock on the glass door of the restaurant, the one Ilya was staring out of minutes ago. He looks up again very slowly.
Shane Hollander is standing there in the Florida sun looking exhausted and anxious. He's in pajama pants and a McGill hoodie. There's luggage on the sidewalk next to him. He's shifting his weight from one foot to the other like a kid who has to pee. His face splits into an overwrought smile when their eyes meet and he waves and then winces at himself and crosses his arms.
"Roz," Wyatt says, "you okay?"
Is he? Probably not. He's hallucinating, which can't be good. Shane is in Washington. Shane's worst fear in the world is being abruptly outed. Shane doesn't like Florida.
Or maybe Shane feels like Ilya does, and all the reasons to stay hidden seem very, very feeble right now, so fuck it all and here he is, waiting for Ilya in broad daylight.
The hallucination knocks again, loud enough for Harris to glance over his shoulder at the door. Harris turns back to Ilya, his eyes wide and his mouth a perfect "o" of surprise.
"Is that... Shane Hollander?" Luca squeaks.
That's enough proof to get Ilya crashing out of the booth and running to the door. Shane pulls it open just as Ilya reaches it.
They collide together and barely keep their feet, stumbling in a circle across the sidewalk, Shane's arms tight around Ilya's neck, face buried against his throat. Ilya knots his hand in soft, dark hair and tries to pull him closer.
"Fuck," Shane is saying, "fuck, you scared me, fuck, fuck fuck-"
"How-how-"
Shane laughs against his skin. "D-don’t ask what I spent on that Uber."
They hold each other in the sunshine for a very long time. Shane's heart pounds against Ilya's chest, and Ilya, for the first time since that plane dropped, feels completely, vividly, joyfully alive.
it’s 2016. you are nhl player ilya rozanov and you just auditioned to be the boyfriend to your 8 year situationship and he left you covered in cum on your living room couch. you recover from that as best as you can to then go to work the next week to find out he is now dating a hollywood actress. your heart breaks even more and then you stub your fucking toe. suddenly, before you can escape the room, the social media team enters blaring harlem shake from a speaker. you and fifteen grown ass men are now forced to do the harlem shake challenge. you are considering driving off a cliff on the way home
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utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people
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heated rivalry is set in a wild fantasy world where male professional athletes deserve to live
I read and write about men in romance the same way I read and write about dragons, which is with the understanding, that they are made-up creatures, that are not real.
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THIS COLLAGE IS INCREDIBLE OMG WHAT A GIFT!!! Thank you so much, Cat!!!!! The bottom right and bottom left are fucking inspired hahahah
jacob tierney is literally changing the game imagine being like we had no budget and 37 days to shoot six episodes but we were ahead of schedule so had the luxury to reshoot to catch the magic of a sunset. imagine being like i brought brilliant people together to work on this so why wouldn’t i listen to their interpretations and ideas and collaborate with them. imagine being like if you have to keep redoing takes of the same scene the issue isn’t your actor it’s the scene. imagine being like i didn’t like an actors choice in the moment but i respected it and then my editor loved the choice and so in the edit i did too. imagine having the mandate of heaven in every way you run your set. and your show is the most popular piece of television there has ever been 🥰🤧
We really don't give him enough credit. That man changed the way an entire community views romance adaptations with a SINGLE project. It's truly insane. Four months ago I and many people in book spaces said shit like "I don't want them to make a movie/TV show based on my favorite book, they'll just ruin it.", but now it's suddenly shifted to the possibility, that it might be done with care. The people on that set took this project SO SERIOUSLY. Jacob, the actors, the entire crew tried their hardest for a romance show. That is unheard of. It's usually people shrugging, going "well I needed the money" and doing a lacklustre job, because it's only a cringey romance show/movie. As someone, who read the books years ago, I wasn't excited when I initially heard about the show, because I expected it to be awful and I was partly right. I expected the show the big production company, that Jacob pitched it to first wanted. Prudish, less explicit, they kiss for the first time in episode five, my beloved characters watered down to awful stereotypes, portrayed by actors with zero chemistry. Something I would have supported for Rachel's sake and for the gay agenda, but not actually enjoyed. That's what we're used to getting, but Jacob said no, found three Canadian dollars and the gay audacity. He really is that guy, who changed the game. People will try to replicate what he did with this show for years.
As a queer phannie for 10 years at this point, hearing Phil talk about how Shane and Ilya still weren’t safe to be affectionate in the empty stairwell of Shane’s own building because someone could hack into the cctv footage made me actually feel physically ill bc oh my god
Oh. Ilya isn’t being nice to all the gay hockey players he meets by tripping them into the arms of their love interests because he wants them to be happy. He’s tripping them away from his love interest. He’s gonna make sure those hot rich men are otherwise occupied so they don’t go sniffing around Mr. Hockey himself, Shane Hollander, who they may or may not have heard a rumor about him being gay and probably available— Quick! Diversion attack! Go flirt with the cute social media guy! Look! Attractive bartender! Sexy musician, go go go!
This was def inspired by Troy calling Shane a Total Babe™️ and the idea of Ilya having to fight off eligible suitors with a fucking knife
I appreciate how honest Heated Rivalry is about how sex is not this thing thing that is perfectly divided from the rest of our lives, even in situations that everyone acts like it is, and when most people would even think it’s inappropriate or unrealistic for it to overlap.
Ilya is friends with Svetlana but they casually have sex sometimes. When Shane is freaking out about his dad catching them he self-soothes by crouching and nuzzling Ilya’s dick. After Ilya cries in the Tampa hotel, and Shane comforts him, it’s implied they follow that with their typical passionate and filthy sex. When Ilya is in Russia for his dad’s funeral, and probably experiencing all of the grief and regret and resentment and pain that comes with that and with seeing his family, he initiates phone sex with Shane.
Some of these examples are more extreme than others but they all depict sex overlapping with the nonsexual, and what most believe should remain nonsexual. Friendship shouldn’t be sexual. Panic shouldn’t be sexual. Despair shouldn’t be sexual. Grief shouldn’t be sexual.
But in real life, sex is not neatly divided from all other human experiences. It especially isn’t for queer people, who not only tend to be more open-minded about sex and sexuality, obviously, but also by virtue of being queer now have sex and sexuality interwoven into all other areas of their life, including their fears, their pain, their trauma, their grief, their regret, etc.
Obviously, some of this is probably just because it’s a romance or because Reid wanted to write smut. But in the tv show, it’s depicted so naturally and at times it’s so raw and it feels so real to me. I think some people probably find it unrealistic or worse, think it in some way taints these other scenes that in a different show wouldn’t have been given a trace of anything sexual, but I think it’s so smart and I’m grateful for it. It’s reflective of real life, especially queer real life.
I really don’t think anyone but a gay man in complete control of the show would have allowed Shane to self-soothe that way. He gets it.