Things Sublunary

Shona, she/her, currently transported to 2013 by hockey yaoi hence back on tumblr

[themoonandmyman]

listen. listen I know they’re all muscular stereotypically attractive dudes. but it is important to me when Relaxed Tummy.

[tearsofshane]

aaahh tummmyyy so soft so squishyyy 😭🥺

[totallyboatless]

I finally figured out how to put words to the detail that makes me deeply obsessed with this exact moment:

(Gif by @hollanderdiaz)

Ilya being a goofball is funny on its own, but it’s the fact that NO ONE is paying attention to him here that elevates it. The kids are already way past him, Shane is watching the kids, literally no one is looking at him. Ilya isn’t performing for anyone here. He came up with a game and is having fun playing it himself, regardless of if he has an audience.

It’s hitting me harder now why Ilya loves being around kids so much. He gets to initiate play with an excuse to use as a shield to his teammates later that it was entirely for the kids and not for him. The kids Ilya plays with have absolutely no idea that they’re seeing a more real version of him than the vast majority of the people in his life.

It’s also why it’s CRUCIAL to have this scene cut together with the All Star game and Ilya playing with Shane on the same team for the first time. It’s the perfect way to communicate to the audience that playing hockey with Shane allows Ilya to find his boyish joy again. Ilya is having the same emotional experience playing hockey with Shane as he is playing shark attack with the kids in the pool.

There’s an interview where Connor says he doesn’t think Ilya really cares about hockey, and this is a demonstration of what I think he means. Shane loves hockey specifically, Yuna loves hockey specifically, Svetlana loves hockey specifically.

Ilya likes competition and play, but he’s only playing hockey because he’s naturally very good at it. Being the best isn’t what keeps him happy—it’s playing with Shane and finding the fun he must have experienced as a child with his mother on the ice before his father turned it into a job.

Anyway this is in my top favorite shots of the entire show for the way it makes me crack up but also feel all that.

[totallyboatless]

GET PEER REVIEWED FUCKER

why would you do this to me @hit-the-showerz 😭😭😭

[my-2nd-account]

[maxxie-or-smth]

i am an unreliable narrator both because i do not remember and also i love to lie

[manny-jacinto]

legend 🙌

[sublunagh]

ELLE FANNING as Catherine the Great The Great, The Beard (s01e02)

[hollandershane]

#you a princess to the public, but a freak when it's time 🎶

[chewbacca]

A Little Princess (1995), dir. Alfonso Cuarón

[nnicknnelsonn]

the full balcony scene with sound

kit connor and rachel zegler as romeo + juliet

finally the whole thing with pull-up and dialogue

source: @chandersonlover_hs (X)

[bi-panic-actually]

This is my favorite balcony scene in any version of Romeo and Juliet I’ve ever seen, which is so many.

One of the highlights of my life, seeing this with my international besties 💖

[rylandsgrace]

Ilya soothing Shane the way he soothes himself (insp)

[ineedhjalp]

I love fanfiction because sometimes The Character needs to be held gently and sometimes they need to be beaten to death with a club. and you 🫵 can make both of those happen. for free

[thirteenstorytelling]

— ELLE FANNING as Catherine The Great (DARK BLUE outfits) in The Great (2020-2023)

[fishsticksgobrr]

Kinda disappointed by the lack of Svetlana and Shane content ngl. You’re telling me this absolute masterpiece of a woman didn’t meet Shane for the first time irl, and instantly decided he was her little autistic gay boy that she could cart around like an anxious purse dog???

Shane finds out he can info dump about player stats and plays to someone who isn’t Ilya or his mom… that’s a safe person now, he is safe to yap and and

Look I just need Ilya fighting for his life as the two people who know him best, just, autism mind link

[emziess]

Shane: Trying to have a serious discussion with his parents Ilya: 😌😌🍝🍝

[optional]

THE GREAT  1.02 | A Fake Beard

[3416]

"I'm assuming your buddy's gay? Fucking brave for a dude to show up to a place like this and be like 'hey, here's me.' Russia is not safe for folks like that. Fucking balls of steel, man."

[maxanor]

KSENIA DANIELA KHARLAMOVA as SVETLANA VETROVA HEATED RIVALRY | Season 1, Episode 5, "I'll Believe in Anything"