[thetangledsheet]

Anyway I think more video game quests should make you uncomfortable and guilty and mislead you and corner you between a rock and a hard place and offer hollow victories. There's nothing more annoying than quest writing that scrambles to assure you that you're niceys and good and nothing you put your hand on can ever have negative consequences. "You cannot save everyone" and I cheer and whoop etc.

[throesofincreasingwonder]

Also sometimes the purpose of a sex scene is to be titillating and that's, like, fine. You wouldn't go out there and argue that movies shouldn't have jokes unless they "serve a narrative purpose" because you understand that generally the purpose of a joke is to make the audience laugh and perhaps release some tension. Being horny is a normal human emotion like being amused or being scared and sometimes media is trying to evoke that particular emotion; the artist doesn't owe you a 30-page double-spaced justification for trying to make you feel something through their art. Your separation of horniness and sex from other emotions and experiences is sex negative and deeply ingrained in cultural conservatism.

[lavenderprose]

“You can come out to your parents without giving them a list of all the guys you’re fucking,” says Ilya Rozanov, way too confidently for a man who has never actually met Yuna Hollander, who will Definitely Ask,

[goodsongnever]

oh, shane, you are dating someone!! this is great!! can we meet him? (no) can you tell us his name or what he does for a living? (no) can you tell us what city or even country he lives in? (no) can we see a picture? (no) does he have social media? (no) so.... shane, honey, it kind of sounds like you don't have a boyfriend (yes I do, he lives in… some other part of canada, you don't know him) and maybe you're just saying that because you're not ready to date, but honey, you should date! I have a list of men here, I have a plan to get you a boyfriend, I have the NDA forms right here, we'll get you a raya account… (no!!! mom, I do have someone already, I just can't tell you anything about him, ever)

yuna: ah I see, hmm, one moment please, let me bring up an alphabetical list of all 700+ current MLH players. is it aaron a. aaronson???

shane: of course not!! mom!!!

yuna: you know what, of course not, I'm sorry and it was ridiculous of me to even think so. aaron a. aaronson is a second-rate player on a third-rate team, let me re-sort this list so that the stat leaders are at the top and start again from there, haha, here's a funny one to cross off the list right away, I guess: is it ilya rozanov???

[omtai]

She literally does not give a damn what that old fool is yelling about

[unaloid]

the lion does not concern herself with papa

[rozanovshollanders]

[curiositysavesthecat]

Have you ever owned an iPod, like the one in the photo above (in terms of it being an OLDER MODEL, the color is irrelevant)?

Yes, like the one in the photo above

Yes, but it’s a newer model, not like the one in the photo above

No, but I know what it is

No, and I don’t know what it is

Voting ended onMar 21

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[scunthotter]

Ilya giving Shane teeth. Ilya gets into a fist fight against another team and gets a tooth knocked out. The next time he hooks up with Shane, he slips it into Shane's pocket when he's in the shower. Shane never says anything but he always knows what game the teeth came from. Later when they're officially together he gets the 3 or 4 teeth set and strung on a chain. He only wears it in private but when Ilya finds out he goes fucking feral, Shane is limping the next day fr.

[stuff-that-irks-me]

[saltoncity]

scientists are trying to discover something harder than getting out of bed to go to work in the morning. and dont make a fucking penis joke ok they already checked everyone’s dick and it doesn’t even come close

[kosmogrl]

hey, don't cry. summer fruits soon, ok?

[idontwikeit]

Shane & Ilya // I Will (Mitski)

I will take good care of you I will take good care of you

[youtube]

[cuntylestat]

being obsessed with captain america: the winter soldier in 2014 is something that will always be inside of you

[maxsmin]

hey everyone is this anything

[sheisraging]

SNL | Season 51 Episode 13 | Connor Storrie

[clytemnestraaa]

ok wait sorry before i leave to take care of the dog to MEEE the deal with ilya can be explained that he was a very camp child whose mother was like uh-oh this is 1997 in moscow so we’re sticking you in hockey to butch you up. except she ALSO behind closed doors was the one playing mermaids with him and watching ice dancing. she’s the one being like “baby they can’t see you cry out here okay, but when we get home you can cry all you want.” so he’s out in public in his little hockey uniform with his very beautiful very glamorous mama who is wearing her big fur coat and smoking her… i don’t know what a russian luxury women’s cigarette brand is. anyways. and then they go home and mama takes off her makeup and they jump on the bed while singing along to… again the russian cultural touchstones fail me. whoever the analogous musical artist is to ABBA. you get the idea.

[calware]

gender affirming pointy teeth

[rotzaprachim]

one of the big chewy Shane Hollander things to me is that he’s a gay Asian in an overwhelmingly white and heterosexual sport, but that reality coexists with the fact that almost every single aspect of his physical life and body have been commercialized and analyzed and traded and put on display since he was a literal child. He has undoubtedly got so much pressure to conform to a hypothetical hockey standard and to repress his diaspora Japanese and gay identities! This is very true! But where it kind of looses steam in both canon and fanon stuff for me is where there’s less focus on his relationship with Ilya and his sex life and their romance basically being the only part of himself yet that’s not been packaged and sold and commodified into a brand deal. It is about the only thing he has which can be private: his and Ilya’s alone. His mother markets his ethnicity for brand collabs and to get him to wear the right kind of tennis shoes for the deal. His super private vacation house is still something film cameras come in to and rearrange his relaxing yoga sessions for what looks good on tv. Rose is about the first friend he really makes who isn’t a coworker and their relationship is headline Twitter feed news. He’s been stripped to his underwear for ads he clearly feels uncomfortable. Coming out is different for everyone and there’s always going to be so much behind it, but how’s it gonna be when the guy who has been scrutinized in the public eye since he was eighteen looses, even to the most well meaning and supportive people, the only thing he’s ever really chosen that’s ever been privately for him?

[themoonandmyman]

This is indicated perfectly by Yuna’s almost immediate pivot back to business in the coming out scene.

Shane doesn’t want to be a gay role model or a gay brand ambassador, he just wants to play hockey, and live a life with his boyfriend. This is yet another thing that he’s holding onto so tenuously and that’s one of the reasons he doesn’t want to come out.

As soon as he does, it’s not his anymore. Nothing truly belongs to him.