here comes the rain (again?)

[shittyidea]

A super long audio book with just silence and an “oh, out loud?” at the end

[goth-queen]

[apesoformythoughts]

[hutsonwoolyums]

Ilya’s kissing Shane and saying ya tebya lyublyu and Shane doesn’t even know what he’s saying but he’s smiling like oh we’re kissing now yay

[creamsiclemelt]

"This is real though, right?"

[herpsandbirds]

Can I ask for your roundest birds and bugs?

I need borbs to ponder.

BY YOUR COMMAND!!!

Green-headed Tanager (Tangara seledon), BORBING, family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Brazil

photograph by Aisse Gaertner 

Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor), BORBING, family Paridae, order Passeriformes, GA, USA

photograph by Richard Clark

Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca) BORBING!, family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, Locust Valley, NY, USA

photograph by Ash van der Lay

Bearded Reedling aka Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) eat a tasty bug!, family Panuridae, order Passeriformes, found in wetlands across much of Europe and Central Asia

This species is the only member of this family.

photographs by David Drangsland

White-browed Tit-warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae), male, family Aegithalidae, order Passeriformes, Qinghai, China

photograph by David Irving

[parcai]

To Shane, this is what Rozanov's masculinity looked like from the outside:

He was the first overall pick who'd grown into his body with the ease of someone who'd always expected to. Six-foot-two, 215 pounds, curly golden hair he did nothing to manage, a jaw and a nose the hockey press described as rugged and distinctive and occasionally as unfairly photogenic for a man who'd had his face rearranged by pucks three times. He had a chain with an unusual cross on it, usually tucked below his shirts and jerseys, gold and delicate—the kind of thing that on most men would read as a statement and on Rozanov read as simply a thing he wore because he probably liked it. He spoke Russian in a tone that suggested he should be kept at least five hundred feet from a confessional booth. His English was technically parseable but emotionally informed by hockey fights and Bruce Willis films—which was how Shane once got told "shh, I know, baby, I know" like someone was talking him through cutting the red wire.

Rozanov played hockey with open aggression that was not undisciplined. It was precise, targeted, deployed with complete awareness of its effect, but read as appetite. He wanted things. He went and got them. The violence of his game was not performed; it was structural, like he had been built for collision and the collision was just what he did when he was fully himself.

He also did this: In February 2011, in a scrum in front of the Boston net, a forward from the Montreal Metros—not Shane, a second-liner—shoved Rozanov's helmet and said suck my dick, Rozanov, you fucking hack, which was fairly standard scrum language, the verbal equivalent of a warning shot, and Rozanov looked at him with an expression of total and relaxed amusement and said, you would like that, yes? I know you been watching me all night.

The ref laughed. He actually laughed. The second-liner looked like he'd been concussed. Rozanov skated away, lighthearted and almost giddy with it.

Shane, watching from fifteen feet away, felt something in his jaw lock.

more wip snippets

[handsywoman]

this scene should've been at least 7 minutes

[lavenderprose]

Things that are ACTUALLY in the Shane Hollander Mic'd Up compilation that we all wish we could watch through the portal:

- "Hey, how was your summer? Good, good."

- "Mic'd up. I'm mic'd up. Don't."

- "Have you ever been to Greece? Told Ilya I would ask you."

- "What? No, man, he didn't say that. He said he was gonna get your ass. Yeah, man, he only fucks one ass. Yeah, I mean, I would say fuck you too but--"

- "Heeeey, davai, davai. Great assist. Hah, no, don't come closer, I'm mic'd and you know I don't trust you."

- "The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal--"

- "HEY MATHESON. You ever been to Vegas? I said, you ever been to VEGAS? I hear they let the good hockey players go there in the summer but I feel like you wouldn't know that."

- "FUCK. Hey, ref, what the fuck was that? Oh, you didn't see that? Fuck you. No, you stay there, my husband's gonna talk to you--fuck you, put me in the bin then, this is bullshit--"

- "You have the smelling salts? Yeah. FUCK--"

- "I am mic'd. Remember I am mic'd. Nope, not even in Russian."

- "Oh, yeah, the pickle video was funny. Harris said it got a lot of views, so. Yeah, no, he actually really does love pickles that much."

- "Sinclair, you got something to say? Yeah, I'm better at hide the pickle than you are at hockey. You want to ask another stupid question?"

- "You know, I run a charity too. Oh, I just assumed that you were doing some kind of Make-A-Wish thing out here with your wingers, since it looks like this is your first day on the ice."

- "Oh, hey, look. Jackie and the kids are waving at us. Okay. Okay, Rozanov, that's enough."

- "Mic'd. Mic'd. Mic'd."

- "Hello Hockey Night, welcome to my husband's shoulder pads--" "Fuck OFF, Rozanov."

- "Great goal. Great goal. Lyublyu tebya. Yes, baby, you did that."

[tv-opinion]

heated rivalry is truly what an adaptation should be it stays loyal to the essence of the source material but makes so many changes that make the narrative stronger and more compelling such as yuna being a more hyper involved momager, more of an emphasis on shane’s racial identity, svetlana being ilya’s childhood friend and telling ilya she knows jane is a man, the coming out scene between shane and yuna that wasn’t in the book (there’s probably more i’m forgetting) adaptations SHOULD make changes and SHOULD approach the material from a different perspective even if it doesn’t always succeed in the way heated rivalry does

[my-castles-crumbling]

Okay but imagine someone makes a “what MLH hockey players are you?” quiz and Ilya of course tells Shane about it, saying it’s “so funny,Hollander, it is so accurate, I got me and Marley got himself, and annoying rookie got Pike!” So Shane, bored one night, decides to take it and—what the actual fuck?—he gets Ilya as a result.

They fuck about it later.

[oxfrnk]

don’t!!! fake!!!! your!!!! interests!!!! to!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

[the-last-d-boy]

don’t!!! bury!!!! your!!!! interests!!! to!!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

[wind-at-your-back]

don’t!!! go!!! wasting!!! your!!! emotion!!! lay!!! all!!! your!!! love!!! on!!! me!!!

[sinmonger]

Heated Rivalry | Forehead Touch

for @some-mad-lunge, happy birthday!

[sinmonger]

jane austen pride and prejudice / julio cortázar hopscotch / sylvia plath the unabridged journals / unknown / madeline miller the song of achilles / jack kerouac the dharma bums / richard siken "crush" / walt whitman "when i heard at the close of the day" / james baldwin giovanni's room / hermann hesse narziss and goldmund

[catchymemes]

blue sunset on Mars is a real phenomenon caused by the way Martian dust scatters sunlight.

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

[mymansmoon]

imagining shane hanging out with his parents and while he's away from his phone doing something with his dad a call comes in. yuna sees this and goes, "shane, someone's calling you!"

and shane says, "who is it?"

"lily!"

"oh." shane immediately sets aside what he's doing and walks over, saying to his mom, "that's ilya."

yuna looks at him in confusion as he picks up his phone. "why is ilya saved as 'lily' in your phone?"

and shane looks at her, away, shrugs as if it's obvious and simply says, "I can't have ilya rozanov saved on my phone, mom" before answering the call with a, "hey, baby" and walking away.

leaving yuna (and david) standing shocked and, once again, shaken at how little they knew about their son and the layers of concealment he's had to operate under for years just to love who he loves.

[mymoonandmyshane]

i believe that one of the penalties shane gets a lot is unsportsmanlike conduct. in the nhl, this penalty can be issued for players who argue or challenge the refs calls. now, captains are allowed to discuss a call and rule interpretations with a ref, but you gotta be cordial.

shane “hockeytism” hollander HATES when a ref makes a bad call. this is literally your job and youre fucking it up?? that was not slashing are you blind?? he gets heated about this, even when he’s just watching a random game. he’s shouting and cursing and making a well-informed case for why the ref is wrong.

hockey refs are notoriously bad so i guarantee shane gets into it a lot. i do think he knows when to quit so he doesnt get an unnecessary penalty but sometimes the call is so bad he cant help but be furious. his teammates have had to physically restrain him on the bench multiple times so he didnt hop the boards and scream at them.