SweetShireBones

she/her, mid-twenties, kid fic connoisseur, find me on ao3 at SweetShireBones

[mymansmoon]

shane's face after ilya picks him up my god he's so turned on. this guy is 200lbs of pure muscle he follows a diet other professional athletes have never even heard of and spends half his life in the gym, the other half muscling big strong hockey players out the way to get to a puck. and ilya just lifted him right off the ground and is ferrying him over to the bed where he Is Going To Fuck Him. my sweet steaming-engine-brain shane has never blanked so hard in his life. he's barely a person in this moment he is just Hormone

[graceebooks]

#if you are a person who is not little and have ever been picked up easily by a partner for the first time in your life... u get it

[hudconera]

happy pride month to this iconic scene

[drawballa]

Family ice time 🏒

[russianblush]

for season two i need ilya at hockey camp being followed around on the ice by a bunch of little kids in hockey gear like a mama duck and her ducklings while shane watches send tweet

[sirens-scales]

We don’t talk about this enough. With all the big romantic gestures in The Long Game, this, to me, is one of the most romantic moments.

We know Ilya isn’t a fan of Shane’s restrictive diet. He teases him about it, but Ilya is an expert ragebaiter who knows how to tease the people he cares about when they feel safe and in ways that never really hurt.

Shane is “frantic” in this scene. Ilya has the perfect opening to say something about his diet, and he doesn’t take it. He sees that Shane is panicking, steps in and fixes it. He was looking at that menu thinking about Shane and Shane’s fuckass diet that Ilya doesn’t even like. But he knows this is important to Shane. He knows Shane is already nervous about being on a date with Ilya in public and being with another queer couple. So he meets Shane’s needs without Shane ever having to ask, and he does it quietly, without drawing any attention, so that Shane can save face.

Of course he’s gonna tease him about it a little bit later because that’s what they do. But he only does that AFTER Shane’s had a chance to catch his breath and feel safe again.

To be loved is to be known indeed.

[sergeifyodorov]

I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide

[themoonandmyman]

Hollanov with the fattest fucking baby you’ve ever seen. They’re biting her lil arm rolls and she’s giggling like a hyena. Ilya’s carrying her on his hip with it jutted out in a pair of short shorts like an 80s mom and Shane is wearing the ugliest khaki pants available with a fanny pack full of baby wipes. and they’re all caked in sunscreen and smiling brighter than the sun that’s beating down. Baby Hollanovs First Waterpark. Are you seeing the vision I’m painting

[mina-logan]

Some art about coffee and certainly nothing else

[penandinkprincess]

delighted by imagining ilya having to process the cuteness overwhelm of their bb copying daddy and saying "let's go! :D" when they get excited

[welcometothehole]

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

[penandinkprincess]

unreasonably amused by the idea of passenger princess ilya on vacation with shane

obviously shane hired a travel agent to create The Optimum Vacation, but he also studied and approved everything and also has custody of all important documents just because it makes HIM feel better and in control

meanwhile ilya?? straight elevator music. where are they going? unclear. when's the flight? not his concern. how long are they staying? who's to say. where's his passport? his husband has both of theirs.

his job is look pretty and "he asked for no mayonnaise" and that is IT

[totearup]

One of the things the time jump between Heated Rivalry and Long Game robs us of is seeing the effect coming out to his team has on Shane in real time. And that experience does a lot to inspire his anxiety and responses in TLG.

No one will ever convince me that there's not a connection between Shane coming out to his team, it not going well, and Shane volunteering to start an even more intensely restrictive diet than he was already on, that also punishes his relationship. Just like I will always view Shane's anxiety around Ilya coming out to the Centaurs/his friends as a trauma response based on how badly it went for him.

One of the most heartbreaking parts about Shane's performance diet to me, is how in both My Dinner with Hayden and TLG Shane and Ilya mention how they love to cook together, and it's like a fun couple thing for them. It's a point of connection, something they do together aside from hockey. And, unlike hockey, it's something they don't compete about.

Shane's performance diet robs them of this. There's a scene in TLG where Ilya has done a bunch of research to find a meal they can cook together that fits in Shane's diet. And Shane is delighted by this. But, notably, he puts no effort into finding other recipes they can do this with again. He tells Rose he likes the discipline of his diet, and I don't think he means just in regards to what and where he's eating, I think he also means in his relationship.

There's another major change we see in Shane between books. At the end of Heated Rivalry he's talking fairly optimisticly about both of them coming out to friends.

This is at the cottage. Very soon after they've decided they're in a real relationship. It's hard not to compare this with Shane's sheer panic in TLG when Ilya talks about coming out to Troy - not even about them, just about being bi - and also to the possibility of even meeting the rest of his team.

So, what's happened to Shane in the last three years that makes him go from joking around about coming out to his friends to rabidly controlling his relationship and protecting every small detail of it that he possibly can?

The fucking Voyaguers.

[gaynehollander]

the duality of man is Ilya Rozanov being simultaneously so straight passing that Shane Hollander could own up to being in love with him and have people assume it's an unrequited crush, yet so visibly queer that in 66% of instances where Scott Hunter came out to people prior to the on-ice kiss, they immediately assumed he was dating Rozanov

[themoonandmyman]

schrodingers queer

[drawballa]

Sleepy boys 💤

[smokingrozanov]

Shane in any pet store staring longingly at the cat trees and sighing every few minutes. Ilya is very deliberately Not Looking and trying to get Anya to pick out a toy because if he watches the way Shane runs his hands over a scratching post with his face all mopey then he knows he’s going to cave and drive straight to the nearest shelter

[smokingrozanov]

One day they go in to buy dog food for Anya and they have cats available for adoption. Shane makes eye contact with the smallest black cat he’s ever seen in his life and moves towards her like he’s being drawn in by a magnet. Ilya is marching behind him like ‘nono Hollander. We are here for ANYA. Remember? Dog?’ But Shane isn’t listening because this little black fuzzball has started arching her back and hissing like she’s an auditioning to be a Halloween decoration and Shane is looking at her like she’s the only thing in the entire world and Ilya just groans and goes to find an employee to ask about the adoption process. Because he realizes Shane is having that same instant connection that he had seeing Anya for the first time

[smokingrozanov]

He names the cat Puck by the way. Like hockey puck. But if you ask him he’ll get embarrassed and say like the Shakespeare character

[ilyapasta]

“Fanfiction is a fun hobby and at its heart is a transformative and flexible medium” I say as I work tirelessly to unearth the One True Shane Hollander Characterization with nothing but my anemic little word processor and a sour beer I got for free at trivia

[jenderstudy]

heated rivalry fandom we must learn how to spell Ottawa