[beif0ngs]

Water, Earth, Fire, Air.

[shnehollander]

this is what i mean when i call shane kitty

[lilyhollander]

Sorry it’s literally just because I’m Japanese but I get so worked up over the fact that RR decided to make Shane specifically Japanese-Canadian and then never talked about anything specific to the Japanese diaspora in a post-WW2 context. Like I’m crazy. I know. I know I’m being crazy it’s literally a smut novel but that shit matters!!! The type of desperate assimilation and disillusionment of North and South America-based Japanese immigrants that occurred during and after WW2 cannot be overstated. None of my cousins or even aunts and uncles can speak Japanese— and this isn’t a mistake, but a defense mechanism. Being Japanese was synonymous with “the enemy,” being a spy or traitor, so people were forced to become as American or Canadian as possible, anything to distance from their heritage. What’s crazy is so much of Shane’s mindset makes sense from this assimilationist perspective!! And RR just doesn’t have a significant awareness of any of this so she doesn’t utilize it at all

[queenofshenanigans]

Sometimes I think about Shane's "sex condo" and yes it's crazy work that he bought a whole ass apartment building to get railed, but I don't think you have to dive too deep to get a little more nuance out of that. I imagine that at 19, the apartment Shane had in Montreal was, largely, picked out and decorated by his mother. The rental/purchase was probably arranged by the team, as part of his contract, and let's be so for real here: his mom would have picked out a lot of the furnishings because he's a teenage guy with not a lot of strong opinions on that kind of stuff and he just wants to play hockey.

So he's 19, living in a space managed by his mom. She probably has a key and not a lot of boundaries. And there's this hot sexy Russian begging to fuck him. For two years. And nothing really changes in those two years with his mom or his apartment (especially in the show -- show Shane is way more passive and managed by his mom than book Shane is, I think) and he wants to get railed so badly but there's no way he can relax enough for it to happen here. Where his whole team knows he lives, and the doorman knows he never brings anyone back, and his parents walk on with barely a five minute head's up (because Im so sorry, ilu David, but if you're still doing it at the cottage when Shane is 25 when you could just go buy a new charger for why the fuck do you only have one charger anyway that is crazy work, they are definitely doing it when Shane is 19, 20, 21).

So he buys a building. Maybe it's his first truly independent move that his parents have no say or knowledge of. He spends months researching neighborhoods and property values and his Google search is a mix of 'how to flip an apartment rental' and 'mixed commerical and residential zones montreal' and 'how to prepare for anal sex - men' (the last one is done in an incognito browser, on a laptop he bought specifically for that type of search, and from which he then deletes his internet history) and eventually buys a moderately sized building that's zoned commerical on the ground floor and has room for two loft apartments. It's in a decent part of Montreal, where he could get a reasonable rent from people and not feel gross about exploiting them. It needs work, but he's kind of excited about that.

And his parents have no idea about it. It's private, secure, and his.

So yeah, it's not completely furnished by the time Ilya comes over, but he picked everything out himself. And the sheets he picked out feel really great against his back as Ilya fucks him until he cries

[handsywoman]

Ilya Rozanov and the love to overpronounce his p's

[ot3]

one of my favorite types of media to experience is stuff that i know in another lifetime i would have been absolutely obsessed with as a kid/teen. going through something as an adult and being like yeah that was pretty good. however if this had made its way to me when i was 12 years old it would have fundamentally altered me and i hope it's fundamentally altering some other 12 year old out there right now. that's the good stuff.

[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[hrsocials]

.one hundred and twenty-one :)

[dsmsix]

make me laugh you fucking rectangular device

[themoonandmyman]

can we talk about Sveta pegging Ilya or are you going to start throwing rocks at me and my wonderful penis that I use to think

[aisatsaa]

looks like the orders got mixed up

[mina-logan]

Ilyushenka

[ottawacentaurshq]

HUDSON WILLIAMS APPRECIATION WEEK

favorite performance: Shane's gay, yearning, little bottom eyes

[heatedpigeon]

Hudson Williams Appreciation Week

Day 1: Favorite Performance | Shanebug Scenes, Heated Rivalry

[young-waverer]

1x05 ➛ 1x06

[lesbianshepard]

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

[lesbianshepard]

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

[key--lime--pie]

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

[notaflippinmermaid]

No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.

…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

[dinosauriaawesome]

I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them

[thesaltofcarthage]

I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic. 

[wholesome-dragon-lady]

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.

[penandinkprincess]

shane and ilya probably stick to a very similar sleeping schedule during the season, but i feel like shane starts getting ready for bed probably a little earlier than ilya because he likes sitting in bed and reading

and i'm laughing about ilya feeling absolutely BETRAYED the first time anya hops off of his lap to trot after shane up to their room

his OWN DAUGHTER-

ilya, she just likes our bed and knows i'm going up

-TO BETRAY HIM LIKE THIS, AFTER EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE-

dude, you could also just come upstairs if you're that fucking bothered about it

-NO LOYALTY IN THIS HOUSE. NONE. ALL AROUND HIM ARE TRAITORS-

you could doomscroll on your phone upstairs if you want, ilya. you're the one choosing to hang out on the couch. c'mon, anya.

[penandinkprincess]

ilya trying to tell himself he wants to stay down on the couch and not give shane the satisfaction of giving in but also experiencing MAJOR fomo because the rest of his family is already upstairs for the night