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[nivora128]

...Why is he so calm like that when people talk about his death like that.

[sabenbos]

People who insist on Pluto being a planet are the biggest larpers

[aalghul]

Have we seen the plot reveal for Dynamic Duo. We're just getting another "X character gets to be Jason and Jason gets to be the fanon version of himself" except this time it's Dick instead of Tim stealing his everything

[fleabagsversion]

I kinda feel like by nerfing Ilya, the fandom is doing a great disservice to Shane’s biggest reason for being attracted to Ilya.

Ilya beat Shane at the draft by coming first. Ilya won the Stanly Cup before Shane.

Fucking hell, Ilya’s team beat Shane’s and qualified for the second round of playoffs, after almost three years of continues embarrassing loses against Montreal.

Shane is obsessed with Ilya because he is the only hockey player in the entire league who can actually beat him. It might not be obvious but Shane is a crazy fan of Ilya as much Ilya is of him.

And yes, Shane is with someone who is as good as him. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been with Ilya in the first place.

[omens-of-what-is-to-cum]

okay put some respect on the name of my good friend Shane Hollander, because this man is the the creator of the iconic chirps “just a bunch of Finnish guys talking about the cousins they're in love with” and “Jeez Hayden, you wanna get me pregnant too?”

like WHAT is this ‘Shane can’t chirp’ propaganda or this ‘Shane can’t tell when people are being sarcastic’ insanity or this ‘Shane needs Ilya or Yuna to do social interactions for him’ silliness

[sabenbos]

Got so mad im still thinking about a fanfic where Shane gets a haircut with a fade and perm(?????) had to click back the moment I saw the word fade

[trueplainhearts]

SHANEWEEK | DAY 3: FAVORITE QUOTE

➳ CHIRPING ILYA (EPISODE 2)

[kateantropova]

19th Television Academy Honors: Heated Rivalry

[peachyjude]

thinking about bad bitch rookie of the year highest hockey iq in the league three time stanley cup winner captain shane hollander. oh and his massive dick

[sabenbos]

Every time someone makes fun of Shane coming out to Ilya in allstars an angel fucking bursts to flames

[sabenbos]

I love Shane’s little microbangs so much omfg im gonna kms

[xohxoo]

SHUT UP IM SO GAGGED

[actuallysara]

Hudson Williams: Shane Hollander understander of all times

"I fell in love with Shane immediately. I mean, I was falling in love with him even when I read the sides, which were just the audition... like, two scenes I got for the audition. By the time I finished reading episode 6, I was crying. I felt like no one else was allowed to play him. I needed to play him."

"Shane is very affable, even though he's sort of a departure from myself. As much anxiety as I have, Shane has quadruple, tenfold more, and it's just pouring out of him at all times. And that was fun to play, even if sometimes my stomach hurt. I always thought of him as sort of this pretty, neurotic character; this little concoction of this flowery, determined, sort of alpha in some ways, or sort of wanting to appear so, and then just this pretty little sensitive painting in other ways."

"I had Heated Rivalry read, and then read again, and annotated many times, on my Kindle."

"After reading Jacob's scripts, even before the book, I immediately saw how he would operate. My dad is on the spectrum, he knows it. He's a mechanical engineer graduated top of his class, first in class in everything, very technical genius in a lot of ways, but sort of socially... I think he would say that he doesn't want to deal with emotions. He has told me, I'm not even paraphrasing, "I relate more with Vulcan than human," referencing the Star Trek, the hyper-cerebral alien creatures. I love my dad to death, and I've always felt very connected to him. He has a sensitivity to him that is very boyish. I think when I read the script, I took a huge page out of living my life with him. Rachel Reid has said Shanel is autistic, so I think I knew how it should look. I empathized with him a lot immediately."

"Shane is hyper competent at this one thing. He's stereotypically masculine in a lot of regards. He's a kind person, and he's so overtly Canadian. He's harboring something that he thinks is a career-ending secret because he just doesn't have the emotional maturity or societal maturity to sort of understand what his own queerness means. To him, it's most likely detrimental, which is the wrong assumption to some degree, but it shatters his own idea of what his masculinity is, or at least it cripples it. And yet, he still never harms a fly."

"Shane is like a giant wooden suit with not too many articulating joints. I love him dearly, but he is exhausting because although it's my accent to a degree, it's not my voice. I'm very expressive, I'm loud, and he is tight-lipped and tight-throated, and he walks like a little frickin' square. He's like a Roomba, and has the emotional expression of one as well. So it's exhausting, but the friction is also sort of liberating in a sense that I can just be very sardonic and not necessarily earnest all the time. I'm trying to work at that. Even if Shane just says "you're an asshole" or "fuck you," his heart is on his sleeve no matter what. It's just pure earnestness and a real lack of ability to articulate himself into a lie or a less truthful place. His heart is always in his eyes, and that is kind of refreshing to be in, but it's also scary."

"Sometimes I think people might not like him, but it's like, "Oh, I hope people understand him." This is someone who's very close to me. These are family members. These are friends. These are neurodivergent people I know very well. So I'm also scared for him because a lot of the time I'm like, do I make him more cinematic and more sellable and more of a charismatic performance? Shane is not charismatic. There's a wardrobe person on set who said, "Hudson, you're hot as hell, but Shane's unfuckable." And I was like, "Well, yeah, I guess that's Shane."

"Shane feels very much like my father in a lot of ways. Thinking of him while playing Shane, that was a part of the build, the very first ingredients. I think I said my dad has a boyish quality, but he's also mechanical. Shane is boyish, but he's also mechanical. Getting to live with that, be frustrated by that, be frustrated by the restrictions of it, it just made me feel even more empathy and love for my dad."

"To cry in someone's arms is possibly the most intimate thing I think a human can do, let alone bare your heart on your sleeve and have to look someone in the eye. It's terrifying for me, and I'm an actor and my job is to be some soapy bitch. But for Shane, it is like death."

"Shane is not the most observant fella. He doesn't even have a gaydar. So I think Scott was someone he admired and represents the guy who's done it and been in the league-macho, competent. And to see that guy kissing smoothie boy on screen in front of millions of watchers is like a little pressure off his shoulders of going, "Okay, this makes this a little less scary. I'm not sure I'm going to do that, but I'm glad someone did."

"Shane's on the spectrum so he has to be specific."

"And then also the scene where, it's very sweet, when Shane mentions that they can start a mental health organization. I don't think Shane knows how sweet that is to Ilya. I think it kind of comes from Shane's pragmatism and he's sort of thinking, well, this was good and Ilya will appreciate this, but I don't think he knows to the extent."

"And then the final nail through the fucking skull in my eyes was the scene with Yuna. That was the scene that felt the most pointed in my upbringing. You know, Asian family... There were some stereotypes that are true, in my experience and a lot of Asian kids' reality. Perfection, discipline, a lack of straying left and right meant a lot of old, outdated conventions and old biases. Being gay is one of them. So having that release... I didn't know at that point if Yuna would tell him, "Okay, well, do you want to be a part of this family or not? You're not going to be talking about that again." To the degree of which she brought him in and said, "That's okay," really just sent me."

"Shane and Ilya get their ending, but as a reader bringing in my own experience of what that sort of overbearing mother means and the fears that it comes along with, this is the looming anxiety that carries Shane through all those seasons, all those years. "What would my mom think? What would my dad think? Holy fuck, I am breaking their idea of this perfect little image of a hockey player I have built over these years and sort of fabricated, to a degree."

"No, Shane does not know he's autistic. Although autism has always existed, the idea of it being a spectrum... that conversation started to reach me in a more open, accepted way in like 2017, 2018. I kind of forget the exact dates of when our show wraps up, but the overlap would probably be nearing the end of where we leave them in Heated Rivalry And I don't think Shane would be having those conversations in his social circles."

"He would need to go to a therapist, and Ilya is the only one in therapy in season two. And I don't think either of Shane's parents are the type to be like, "There's a spectrum. You're on it." They just think he's driven and antisocial. To me, reading the scripts, it didn't even have to be acknowledged. I was like, "This guy is farther along the spectrum than a lot of people." And I kind of aw, even how the dialog was written, how it manifests. Sometimes autism's portrayed in movies with quirky head movements, weird blinks, and weird inflections. And it's like, Okay...? That is sometimes truthful but that's always the reach. That's always the way it's expressed. And it's like, No, sometimes it is flat affect. It's just being immobile in your seat and taking 10 seconds to move your hand to do something because you don't know what this movement looks like or means."

"Shane is not a talker. In our show, he talks very little, and so we need to kind of set that up. Even Shane just coming up to him and saying, "Ilya Rozanov?" is huge, and it needs to be huge for the rest of the show."

[fairycosmos]

Omgggg they shouldve taken me out back and shot me 20 years ago

[escapepodding]

A list of some the thinly veiled fictional adaptations of the Hollanov romance Ilya and Shane will live to experience. They never share the actual relationship timeline or many/if any pre-outing details but that doesn't stop these from existing:

It's the same but the fictional Hollanov are playing a different sport. They consider these lazy.

It's the same but they're lesbians. Starred Rose Landry as Lilya which definitely made them both feel a certain way. Honestly their favourite though.

The straight version. Why are they rivals? Why are they straight? Who thought to make a straight romance forbidden in hockey???? They're least favourite.

The one where they are magical fairies and their magical kingdoms are at war. Not convinced fairy isn't being used as a slur but points for originality, they grudgingly enjoyed.

The one that cared way more about the actual hockey than the romance, which they respect. Unfortunately the people they could get to do the hockey scenes aren't generational talents and so they disliked because it made them look worse at hockey than they were, which is a hate crime in itself.

So. Many. Porn. Parodies. Accuracy varies wildly because they refuse to talk about their sex life, they've shared enough, fuck off. Almost weirder when they get it right, though.

The incredibly chaste one where they hold hands and tearfully speak poetry to each other and their first kiss is their wedding day. They prefer the porn and would rather be called slurs to their face.

The one where they are UN Ambassadors for their respective countries. How often do UN Ambassadors actually meet? Do they have rankings? The missile plotline was wild. Shane did think the seriousness of the stakes appropriate, the Stanley Cup is that serious, actually.

The one that barely changed their names, and Pozenov has a really, really bad Russian accent and he is from an unspecified Eastern European country. They had to turn off, Ilya was infuriated. Shane is once again asking their lawyers if they are sure they cannot sue.

The one where they remove the romance entirely and it becomes rivals to friends who put aside their differences to save The Centaurs. Why? The closest Dane and Nikita get to each other is manfully clasping hands over the Gregory Cup. Obviously awful but does inspire Ilya and Shane to exclusively refer to each other as Bro for a whole week. Yuna can't bear it and does finally break and sue that one.

The Centaurs have a movie and book club exclusively reserved for these which is how Ilya and Shane know. They have never knowingly consumed fictional Hollanov content, though occaisionally get jump scared by the realisation that is what they are accidentally watching.

The Centaurs give them a report and rating for each, and this team tradition continues for decades, well after Ilya and Shane retire. Yes, they even write up and review the porn.

[sabenbos]

Everybody arguing over whether Diamonds should be in the show or not, but I think that’s a pointless discussion. I just don’t think they are gonna waste their limited budget paying big bucks to Rihanna when they could use that money for plenty of other things

[batgirl3000]

i can’t believe some people on the internet made up primehood as a joke and then enough people got into it that they’ve willed it into existence and now dan mora is drawing superboy prime with a fatson todd necklace wearing a “bring red hoods helmet back” tshirt… phenomenal stuff really