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‧₊♡‧₊˚ essie || she/he || autistic || adult ‧₊♡‧₊˚ ♡ i am the bad wolf, i create myself ♡

[sunshinereani]

♡‧₊˚ I'm the Pretty Kitty Princess! ˚₊‧♡

Pretty Kitty Princess Zam was so fun to bring to con! She is based on this art by @/manticorecure. Outfit details below the cut.

Pretty Kitty Princess Blade: Made by me - closer details are in this post.

Crown: LolaWhiteShop

Top: Made by my sibling.

Corset: WildLotusCorsets

Skirts: 1000Love

Cape: TechnoDolly (reused from a different cosplay)

Charms: Mostly trinkets gifted from Critters at previous cons but a few are from TheCharmEmporiumUK

[f1-obsessed333]

How are these 1 year apart?

[iressails]

shane hollander grey sweatpants meme

[transthatmasc]

Some old fart retired hockey player goes on ESPN and does an interview where he talks about how gay DEI initiatives are unfair and are ruining Hockey by keeping the good ole boys from getting their chance to prove themselves on the ice.

Ilya, as the captain of the gayest NHL team, is asked for comment on this. Of course, this is half way through the season while the Cens are sitting first in their division and second in the league. So Ilya says, “Ah, yes, I can see how he would think that. It seems unfair that being queer is clearly such an advantage for hockey players. We are just much better players, and having so many of us on one team, while very fun and nice for us, does seem to be putting us above everyone else in the standings. Perhaps more teams could play well if they had gay players? The Admirals are okay, but they only have one and we have four, so it is not quite fair.”

There is a rampant debate online over whether Ilya actually understands that the original comments were homophobic or if he genuinely believes that people think gay guys are too good at hockey. People also start speculating about who the fourth gay player is because Luca hasn’t actually come out publicly yet.

Scott Hunter has to put out a statement that he doesn’t believe his homosexuality has had any impact, positive or negative, on his athletic ability even though he believes being out of the closet and in a fulfilling relationship has made it easier to focus on the game.

Troy posts a tweet that just says “got gayer and got better”

Shane puts up a post with pictures of every time he won the Stanley cup and the caption “I’ve been gay the whole time and I’ve been great the whole time” with a shrug emoji.

[gaygoatshane]

in a world where mpreg is real i do believe shane and ilya would have 3 daughters and ilya would call them their hat trick

[tvuniverse]

HEATED RIVALRY -> 1x06 | The Cottage

[thisfeebleheart]

I'll be OK in a second. Hey, hey, hey, hey. We're good here. Your family is here.

[vousletvous]

details

[decompose1]

people are soooo mean to the color yellow and it hurts my heart like u mean the color of the sun!?!? daffodils and buttercups and dandelions!? canary feathers and fresh butter and the warm glow of light and the trees in autumn???? for shame. joyless.

[pookieshane]

Heated Rivalry || 1.06 - The Cottage

[yonglixx]

💙🐶

[gurlsrool]

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of people say that Shane and Ilya were stupid for not just randomly clarifying one day that the rivalry was never real and they’ve been friends all along. I think people are forgetting or maybe not realizing how much autonomy they’ve lost playing for the NHL

The trade off of getting to play for the NHL is giving up their bodies, names, and likenesses. Their whole identities are used as a marketing tool and that’s part of their job. People are making a lot of money off of their rivalry. The NHL is getting more ticket and jersey sales from it. Fans are placing bets on their games. It really is that serious and people really are that invested.

That’s why the Irina Foundation plan is so smart. The rivalry is a narrative people are buying into, so Shane’s suggesting a new narrative. It gives the league a new marketing angle and it generates enough positive PR that people are kinda backed into a corner of letting the rivalry go. No one wants to be the guy saying a sports rivalry is more important than charity, kids, and mental health.

So no, Shane and Ilya are not stupid for feeling trapped by the stakes of this rivalry. They are trapped. They’re trapped in that tricky dissonance between the Hollander and Rozanov the media, league, and fans expect them to be and the Shane and Ilya they really are.

When Shane wakes Ilya up in the middle of the night with his plan, he’s saying: who we really are matters. What we have matters. I’m tired of giving up happiness to contort myself into the shape of who Shane Hollander is supposed to be. The real me wants you and chooses you and this is how we can make it happen.

It’s not just an I love you. It’s a “here’s how I can love you”. It’s a “I’ve given everything to the league and now I want this for myself and this is how we can have it. This is how we can finally become an ‘us’.” That to me is a lot more meaningful than any casual declaration of friendship would be.

[raincitygirl76]

If it was easy for them to be in contact, Rookie Ilya could’ve just emailed someone at the league and asked them for Shane’s email address. Then emailed Shane and gotten his phone number that way.

Ilya is ESL but he’s definitely not stupid. If getting Shane’s contact information through the league or through their respective teams was possible, that would’ve been much less risky than giving Shane his room number at All Stars while Shane is sitting next to Scott Hunter. Whom Ilya has no reason to believe isn’t both straight and homophobic.

I have to assume that teenage Ilya did try to get contact information for Shane via a less risky route. And he was probably told to fuck off. There’s no good reason for you to email the other rookie that the league and your teams have decided is your sworn enemy. Bad for the rivalry marketing if it turns out the rivals have each other’s email addresses and maybe phone numbers. And are amiably sending each other memes.

And teenage Ilya couldn’t keep pushing for Shane’s email address when a bunch of adults were telling him he didn’t need it. Risky that they’d think it was weird of him to keep wanting to talk to Shane. Start looking into Ilya (who is hiding in plain sight, and absolutely can’t afford to get sent back to Russia in disgrace).

They were both barely 18 when they got drafted, and 19 when they started playing for the league. They had a lot of talent and potential, but very little actual power at that point in their fledgling careers. Especially compared to the suits. Those men held teenage Shane and Ilya’s careers in the palms of their hands. And the suits had invested a lot of money in the rivalry narrative.

When they were 29 year old established superstars, Roger Crowell, Montreal’s coach, and the league still tried to push them around. Even though they had a good support system. Their agent knew about their relationship, Shane’s parents knew, Ilya was separated from his abusive family in Russia and already had Canadian permanent residency.

As 19 year old rookies, it would have been much easier for Crowell to push them around. Their agents and Shane’s parents didn’t know about them, Ilya’s agent would’ve been a Russian handpicked by Grigori, he would’ve been on a work visa, they didn’t have the financial cushion of ten years in the league, etc, etc.

Crowell walked into that meeting with 29 year old Shane and Ilya full of confidence that he could bully them into going along with a lie. His confidence was misplaced. But if that meeting had been with 19 year old Shane and Ilya, he would have had a whole lot more leverage.

[raincitygirl76]

Also, some great tags starting with @humsaphar

Then we have @strangers-fiction

And then @gayfertilitygoddess

After that is @assortedpuzzlepieces

Next up @winterequinoxx although I disagree that Alexei knows Ilya is queer. If he did know, he would’ve used that information to blackmail Ilya until the end of time. In the restaurant after their dad’s funeral Alexei is panicking. He knows full well there’s a good chance his rich little brother will cut off funds now. Without Ilya’s money Alexei can’t pay his coke dealer. He doesn’t seem to be high enough up in the police to be worth big bribes. If Alexei knew, he would’ve used it then, to keep the money tap turned on.

Then @honeyedheartss

And then two more sets of peer review by @fanshipper1412 and @allalrightagain

And then @jesuisnilunnilautre

After them @jewishhollanov and @sunshinereani

And finally @jakeranda

[assortedpuzzlepieces]

@raincitygirl76 literally took a post I was already so excited about & then went through the tags & made a carefully curated list of people with excellent opinions???!

I’m so in love with it. It’s like the perfect little follow list just for me. This might actually be my favorite thing anyone has tagged me on since I joined Tumblr

[raincitygirl76]

You’re most welcome! And peer reviewing your new tags as well, @assortedpuzzlepieces

Also, Shane and Ilya were both very young when they first met. Not even old enough to open a bank account without parental permission. They were doing the best they could with the information and life experience they had at the time. Which wasn’t much.

If they’d both known at 17 how things would work out, they’d probably have made different choices back then. But neither of them was psychic. Also, I think I’ve said this before, but not in this reblog chain. Shane and Ilya are millionaires. The team owners and the owners of the sports TV networks are billionaires.

The billionaires would not be happy if teenage millionaires were endangering their revenue stream because of friendship. Athletes are essentially very well-compensated itinerant labour. Who risk CTE to make their millions and whose careers will end as soon as their bodies break down.

Yuna Hollander isn’t pimping her son out to brands because she’s evil. It’s because her son plays a contact sport with a high likelihood of catastrophic injury. Shane’s career could end in one night, with one unlucky hit. So she’s raking in as much endorsement money as she can for him while he’s still young and healthy. So if his career does suddenly end, he will be well provided for in his retirement.

[mymansmoon]

ilyashane cuddling. shane wearing one of ilya's thick hoodies with the hood pulled up over his hair, lying on ilya's U shaped sofa with ilya snuggled into his front, his face hidden in the fabric of his own hoodie, strong arms holding shane around his middle while shane's hold him around the shoulders. their legs criss-crossing, ilya rubbing his bare feet over shane's socked ones, self-soothing with the familiar texture of them. or them in shane's montreal bed, decorative pillows thrown to the floor (ilya's doing), shane tucked into ilya's front, ilya's exhales ruffling the short, soft hairs at the nape of shane's neck. shane is gently playing with ilya's fingers, looking at the way they bend and move without resistance to his directions. ilya's eyes are closed as he just enjoys the feeling of whatever shane is doing, and how close he is to ilya, and the calm quiet of his room.

[sunshinereani]

Hi I think this will cause HR pain. Please let me know :)

https://www.tumblr.com/professorsparklepants/822801698006417408

-twin

[link] you will be receiving my therapy bill 🙂‍↕️

[s-o-r-i-n]

heated rivalry au where everything is the same except instead of releasing a statement after being outed ilya just tweets a screenshot of half the worldwide trending page being about him and shane and a closeup of them making out in the fanmail video with the caption "maybe no one even noticed...?"

[shanehollandergirl]

i have come to the conclusion that wyatt hayes is who hayden pike thinks he is

[shanehollandergirl]

to elaborate: wyatt is a nice guy and a seemingly very good and reliable friend to ilya, guys on the cens, and even guys on other teams. his allyship is not couched in weird homophobic bullshit and his allyship is also not situational or conditional (see role model, tough guy, and tlg). and of course wyatt is good at hockey and seems dedicated to changing hockey culture in a way hayden is visibly incapable of doing.

[ilya-rozanova]

forehead kisses