FOURTH LINE FOUR LIFE

#MarchWithUs into suffering. (i follow and like as morsebobbi)

[stormsies]

Finn who’s going to be okay

[andreisvechnikov]

ssebastianaho June 15, 2026

[beauvilliers]

STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP | June 14, 2026

[emilyaxford]

i keep it tight, now they call me mother

[toneelspeelster]

i am glad you are here. me too.

[googledocsdyke]

cathal kelly, the globe and mail

[googledocsdyke]

@gaysie

[1016s]

the softest anyone's ever been ever

[holllanov]

ilya + kissing shane's neck

request for @skamstruck

[littlegirlinvisible]

HUDSON WILLIAMS For Timid Magazine (2025)

[kateantropova]

#Ilya's Shane's baby

[livingasaghost]

genuinely i do think it's crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn't a money grab and it didn't think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they're fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn't have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it's canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn't take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it's deeply queer and it doesn't shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it's almost word for word, the original source material from the book.

like damn it's no wonder this thing has made us all insufferable and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!

[shut-up-gwen]

The show’s so serious when it comes to treating the subject matter with care and respect, be it the queerness, the sex, the languages, the cultures…

But then, it’s so deeply unserious when it comes to just having fun. Calling the podcast ‘man in the crease’. The extra banana jokes. The fucking top and bottom jerseys.

It’s such a perfect balance and I don’t think it could have been achieved by anyone else other than Jacob Tierney with the help of Canadian tax money.

[evanzbuck]

Ilya felt like his smile was going to split his face. He was overwhelmingly happy. Shane was beaming up at him, eyes bright and freckles crinkled, and Ilya loved him. And Shane loved him. Holy fucking shit. Shane Hollander is in love with me.

[pemguims]

also saw some heated rivalry fan getting into the morality of rpf and saying its bad...girl on whose foundations is your castle built

[sobadbad]

HEATED RIVALRY 1.06

[ilyaslouis]

HEATED RIVALRY 1.01 | 1.06

[littlegirlinvisible]

# ILYA ROZANOV IS A COMEDIAN  

CONNOR STORRIE as ILYA ROZANOV HEATED RIVALRY (2025—)

[texasbama]

Heated Rivalry | 1.06 'The Cottage'