anyway good morning a crucial tenet of hollanov’s relationship is that they’re equals and they’re the only people in the world who could ever be each other’s equal. they were supposed to stand alone at the top but they’re there together. shane does not view ilya as a lazy useless inconvenience. ilya does not view shane as a nagging killjoy. they are equals and they both think the other is the best thing since sliced bread and they love each other but more importantly they LIKE each other. stop making them not like each other!
like ilya spends his entire life being told (by people objectively shittier than he is) that he’s not good enough, he’s lazy, he’s undisciplined, he lets people down. and then he meets the one person who would actually be in a position to assess whether ilya is any of those things, and shane just earnestly looks into his fucking soul and says no, they were wrong. ‘you’re an awesome player to watch’ ‘i don’t know that side of you at all’ ‘this isn’t what this is. me and you’
and it’s such a fucking tragedy that people are trying to push MyIlya back into a setting where he’s constantly being lectured about his inadequacies by the very person that canonically reminds him all the time that those inadequacies were figments of his dad’s imagination
Post TLG Shane and Ilya have a huge fight, and Shane goes to the guest bedroom to sleep. He’s lying in bed, wide awake, when the door flies open and Ilya walks in. He silently climbs into bed, back to Shane. Shane turns to look at Ilya’s back but doesn’t say anything. He just gets out of bed with a huff and goes back to their room. If Ilya wants the guest bedroom, he can have it. Shane climbs into their bed and starts to situate himself when Ilya comes into the bedroom and gets into bed. Shane rolls his eyes, hops out of bed and goes to the couch. He’s pulling the blanket around himself when Ilya enters the room and sits on the other end of the couch. He grabs a blanket and puts it on himself.
“What is your problem?” Shane asks. “I gave up our bedroom and the guest room and now you’re here.”
“We sleep in same place no matter what.” Ilya says as he swings his legs into the couch. “So stay or I follow you around home.” His feet touch Shane’s but Shane pulls his legs away from Ilya.
“Fine, goodnight.” Shane curls up on the couch to sleep. He isn’t sure how much time has passed but he can tell Ilya is asleep by his breathing. Shane sits up and just stares at Ilya for a while before carefully getting off the couch. He goes over to Ilya and picks him up, carrying him to the bedroom. “Wha?”
“You can’t sleep on the couch. It’s not good for your back.” Shane explains as he lays Ilya on the bed.
“Do not go to couch.”
“I’m not.” Shane climbs into bed beside Ilya. He presses a kiss to Ilya’s temple. “Goodnight. Love you.”
“If I say sorry, do I get proper kiss and proper I love you.”
Shane kisses Ilya on the lips. “Ya tebya lyublyu.”
I love Shane Hollander. I love how anything other than first place is repugnant to him, how a silver medal may as well be a dead rat for all he wants it. I love that any emotion that’s slightly too strong will bring him to tears and I love that he stubbornly refuses to let them fall. I love how snarky he is. I love that his vocabulary is 60% cursing and how his media persona would never betray that. I love his need to solidify himself as the unofficial face of the NHL. I love that he shoulders the responsibility of winning so entirely that every loss is a personal failure. I love that his true desires are buried so deep he barely ever even allows himself to recognise them. I love how much he loves being filled, how he craves having Ilya inside him, how he can’t let him leave without tasting him, even after he already fucked him. I love how the only time he can truly let go is when he trusts Ilya to bring him physical pleasure. I love his awkwardness and his pretty face and his freckles and his complete inability to communicate effectively. I just love Shane Hollander.
i'm not joking when i say ilya admitting to shane that he looked up compatible was one of the bravest things ever. shane also asking for ilya's room number was so brave too. i love them
toddler shane refusing to talk after his hockey team lose a game. yuna & david are trying to be encouraging like “bud!! you played so good!!” and shane is ignoring them while climbing into his car seat where he’s going to angrily drink his juice box and then chew on the straw.
I rlly appreciate that Ilya just had that fuckass jean paul gaultier leopard shirt just rolling around in his suitcase just in case he needed to make homoerotic eye contact with his rival/ex fuck buddy at the club
"you're looking very pretty today. hm? different, maybe. someone take you shopping?" with the last part delivered in the most disdainful and unbothered way possible like he does Not care about the answer. does Not care if shane's girlfriend took him shopping. does shane have a girlfriend? oh, ilya hasn't heard. he doesn't really concern himself with shane hollander's personal life. yeah he's like. just going to drink his second beer kinda fast now in a really casual and unbothered sort of way. many are calling ilya rozanov totally unflappable. can't faze this man. DID SOMEONE TAKE YOU SHOPPING PRETTY BOY
ilya thinks shane is probably bringing rose (because svetlana plants that seed) so the obvious idgaf countermove would be to convince svetlana to come with him (or bring one of the women who are apparently lining up at ilya’s door trying to get a piece of that). but he doesn’t. and then he makes sure shane knows he didn’t bring anyone even before shane has confirmed he’s there alone. this is more fodder for my “ilya came to tampa ready to be the other woman” theory
So I'm maybe just a liiiiiiittle obsessive, and I wanted to work out the timeline of the show, and figured I'd share it with you all. I can't quite figure out how to format this for tumblr, so I'm going to just c&p images of the tables and then dump all of it in unformatted text I guess under a read more? Please let me know if you can think of a better way for me to do this (without retyping it all!) and please let me know if you see any errors to be corrected.
ETA: I'm sorry, I added some info to ep 6 after rewatching and somehow deleted the table for ep 5? But it's back now!
Bonus: season calendar pics that are not accurate (since the
Boston/Montreal games don't line up)
Metros: 2015-2016:
Boston 2016-2017:
Hopefully some folks will find this interesting and/or a good fic resource!
The episode timelines in unformatted text:
Episode 1
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
December 2008
World Juniors (IRL held end of December – early January)
One week later
End of World Juniors
3:15
6 months later
NHL draft (IRL in 2009 held on June 26-27, 2009 lines up with the 6 months later note)
9:24
6 months later
World Juniors again; New Year’s Eve 2009-2010
11:27
6 months later
(so, end of June/beginning of July 2010)
Commercial filming; first hookup
26:37
3 months later
Beginning of 2010-2011 season (rookie season)
(October 2010 ish) BOS @ MTL
31:46
4 months later
(February 2011 ish – IRL ASG was January, 30 2011)
Middle of February according to reporter
Second hookup
40:22
2 weeks later
(End of February, beginning of March 2011) BOS @ MTL, but game cancelled due to weather
43:16
4 months later
End of 2010-2011 season
(Beginning of July – IRL awards June 22 2011)
Episode 2
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
Summer 2011
1:26
Fall 2011
Start of 2011-2012 season
BOS @ MTL (no hookup onscreen)
1:55
Winter 2012
MTL @ BOS (no hookup onscreen)
2:28
Spring 2012
Boston playing San Francisco in playoffs, Montreal already out
End of 2011-2012 season
3:07
Fall 2012
Start of 2012-2013 season
MTL @ BOS (dick pic sent)
3:35
Winter 2013
Text re: 9 inches
3:55
Spring 2013
Montreal playing Boston in playoffs? No cup outcome in show
End of 2012-2013 season
5:11
Fall 2013
Start of 2013-2014 season
BOS @ MTL for first game of season (sex at Shane’s), presumably in October
14:46
Winter 2014
Sochi Olympics (12-23 February 2014)
26:19
Spring 2014
Ilya wins the cup
End of 2013-2014 season
Summer
Awards in Las Vegas (IRL June 24 2014), Ilya wins MVP, sex in Vegas hotel
Episode 3
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
February 2014
Sochi Olympics (12-23 February 2014)
Four months ago
(Mid/late-October, 6 games into the regular season)
Scenes over two more games
Kip says the fundraiser with Elena is in ‘like two months’
13:22
2 days later
NY @ BOS
13:44
1 day later
NY @ MTL
33:01
Kip tells Elena it’s been ‘a little over two months’
(So around end December/early January)
Post-episode:
January 2015 – May 2017
????
Episode 4
Timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
(game at some point, maybe from previous season?)
1:37
Summer 2014
Some texting, Ilya partying
2:45
---
Start of 2014-2015 season
As per calendar in locker room (but incorrect probably), October 11
Game & sex
3:07
Cup win for Montreal (May-June 2015)
End of 2014-2015 season
3:21
Summer 2015
Texting, working out, Ilya partying
4:16
Start of 2015-2016 season
As per calendar in locker room (but incorrect probably), October 11
Game & sex
4:36
Cup win for Montreal (May-June 2016)
End of 2015-2016 season
5:00
Summer 2016
Texting each other during normal activities, Ilya texting rather than partying
October 2016
Start of 2016-2017 season
Biodome trip with Hayden
Possibly Oct 17 as per locker room calendar; MTL @ BOS and tuna melt
Meal with parents
Meets Rose in Montreal – snowing outside (so anywhere Nov – April theoretically)
Two weeks later
BOS @ MTL – club scene with tATu
(probably some time in Late Nov/early Dec?)
Episode 5
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
Wakes up with Rose – presumably NOT the night after the club with tATu
3:00
Dinner with Rose ‘later that week’
Ilya and Svetlana discussing upcoming ASG
11:27
2017 All Star Game
IRL ASG in 2017 – January 29
24:52
Two weeks later
MTL @ BOS
Shane visits Ilya for an hour
The next day
Shane finds out Ilya has left the team
Ilya says he’s going to stay in Russia for a week (so maybe approaching end of February)
42:19
1 week later
BOS @ MTL (I think?) - Metros ‘clinging to a wild card spot’ (Regular season IRL ended April 9 2017, so maybe missing a few weeks here?)
Shane gets hit, out for playoffs (Broken clavicle usually 6-12 weeks recovery; this could be beginning of March
46:44
May 2017
Shane still in sling; Boston eliminated from playoffs
49:45
One week later
NY wins the cup (must be a series sweep if it’s only one week for the whole round?), Scott kisses Kip on the ice
End of 2016-2017 season
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
NHL awards (IRL June 21 2017) – confirmed to be in June by Ilya talking to David and Yuna
I get annoyed when people are making posts that are shocked that Shane pulled Ilya. And like maybe, /maybe/, Shane locked down Ilya (there's an argument that Ilya 'domesticity kink' Rosanov locked himself down as soon as he could get Shane to agree to it) but Shane did not pull Ilya, Ilya pulled Shane.
Canonically Shane is one of the hottest men in the world, he's rich, he is at the top of his high intensity career, and he has the biggest saddest wettest most beautiful brown eyes out of anyone on the planet. The moment Ilya saw a scrap of interest he was arranging for them to be in a commercial and jerking off in the shower at him. Ilya watched this man fold his pants one (1) time and thought "well i gotta fuck him forever now". Shane tried to say there wouldn't be a next time and Ilya was like it's too late, I've got your number, you're never getting rid of me, if I annoy you enough you will come organize my socks as like a sex thing.
The thing is that Ilya has no fucking clue what autism is. He probably read the word when some twitter user called Shane autistic and wanted to look it up but got distracted by a post about Shane's tits or smth.
What he does know though is that Shane folds his clothes before sex. And he smiles at him with adoration when he does it and doesn't rush him or make fun of him for it. He knows Shane doesn't always pick up on his jokes and sarcasm "That's French, Ilya" but he doesn't mind it and would never make Shane feel bad about it or dismiss his response "Yeah I know, Shane". He knows Shane has a PhD in The Arts of Overthinking "Now the bed's all dirty" so he playfully chases his worries away and closes all those open tabs in Shane's brain "What? Shut up". He knows Shane will not rest until he has everything in his life under control so he grumbles when Shane wakes him up in the middle of the night to tell him how they can make it all work but still listens intently to his plan. He knows Shane feels overwhelmed and anxious when stuff doesn't go down as planned "This is my actual fucking nightmare, Ilya" "I'm okay I'm just freaking out I'll be okay in a second" so he softly comforts him and supports him through it "Then maybe it's time to wake up, yes?" "We're good here, your family's here, you're boyfriend's here, we're good here, ok?" He knows Shane has to hear it to believe it "My boyfriend?" so he gently goes "I mean yes, I think so, probably".
He doesn't know Shane is autistic but he knows Shane and he loves Shane and Shane happens to be autistic
Thoughts, Feelings, Opinions @sunnysideblogup - Tumblr Blog | Tumgag
