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Do you ship it?

Alexey Pajitnov/Henk Rogers

I ship it!

Sure, why not/I can see it

Neutral

I don’t ship it

I don’t know them

I don’t know them but they seem cute

Non-rpf shipper button

Voting ended onJun 19, 2025

Reason:

“They refer to each other as partners sometimes, referred to themselves as Mr and Dr Tetris in the same way a married couple would, they used to sneak out of hotels at night to meet each other, and in an "accurate to real life" documentary about them there was a homoerotic ballroom dance scene between them”

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“I wanted to smile to him and be friends with him because he’s the creator of this great game,” says Rogers.

Pajitnov is more wary. “Basically I was invited for a routine meeting with some kind of con artist, or adventurer who pretends to be a businessman for Tetris,” he says. “My first impression was rather negative.”

Pajitnov continues, “But what melted my heart is the moment when he said, besides the other stuff, that he developed a game himself. So he was a game designer. And that was the first game designer I had ever seen in this world besides myself. So it was a very rare opportunity to look [into the] eyes of a colleague. And that’s why we got together very quickly.”

“These times are much more dark than we had at the Tetris time,” says Pajitnov. He looks at Russia and can only hope that a movement will re-emerge to echo the changes of the late ’80s and early ’90s. “I really hope that maybe in a number of years, the same movement will be woken up in Russian people.” For now, Pajitnov has stopped visiting Moscow. “I have no idea when I will be able to go there again.”

“He’s such a pain in the ass,” Rogers exclaims, with the comfortable fondness that comes of many years of friendship. In the end, Pajitnov has been cajoled into an Armani jacket and Prada shoes, and the pair retired to his house with a bottle of wine.

@gavimp just remembering this sweet little interview for fic inspo. 😎

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Screenshot redraw (or rather repaint) I did a bit back of Henk and Alexey. Half way through the painting my sketchbook decided to fall apart, so the transition from one page to the other isn't the smoothest but still I'm quite happy with the result. I absolutely adore this film and ship :)

Close-ups under the cut

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@gavimp we should have known this scene was absolutely canon. 😏

#tetris 2023 #tetris movie #alexenk #taron egerton #nikita efremov #henk rogers #alexey pajitnov #parallels #looks like they're in Pajitnov's apartment in the U.S. idk #like there's that CARPET on the wall that's super Russian #and at the same time he's wearing a Tetris T-shirt that was obviously made in the U.S.

Hellooo! I finally watched Tetris a few days ago (after having it on my pc for a year and a half rip) and I loved it so freaking much you have no idea!!! So I decided to take a little trip here on tumblr because I thought there’s no way I’m the only one who noticed Taron and Nikita’s insane chemistry and I was in fact right because here you are! I know the movie was about the game but I genuinely feel like I watched a love story unfold right in front of my eyes because there’s literally no way those two weren’t madly in love by the end of the movie, I mean that hug??? Did Henk really have to close his eyes like that????

*big Soviamerican hug* 🙋‍♀️

LMAO it's like I'm listening to my sister-in-law aww'ing right after we finished watching Tetris (it was her first time watching it, mine was, um, the fifteenth..?). She was like "Awww look at them hugging, they're so in love, and Henk is even closing his eyes lol wut aww." And she's not even a shipper like me, go figure. 😆

Yeap, their chemistry was in-SANE, every scene of them together was, like, magic. You get a bit close to them and you can feel the heat, they make this New Cold War era we're living in feel even more colder when they're not around, know what I mean? Because their bond is so strong despite the difficulties and the hatred and mistrust between their nations. Like the Aespa song says, "We were built to be two enemies But somehow I know we're meant to be This world's a battlefield, I will be your shield We got something real, worth disrupting the peace"

Oh it was totally a love story, there's no doubt about that. Me and @gavimp like to take excerpts from their actual interviews (not that we ship the real people) to fan the fire of our Alexenk fangirling, like this tiny audio of Pajitnov calling Rogers "My eternal partner". 💗

Madly in love indeed.

And to go back to your comment about Henk closing his eyes during the hug, there was a post here on tumblr back in the day saying how Taron has such WILD chemistry with each and every one of his male co-stars, it's crazy. Like, why did he have to close his eyes like that, courting, teasing and hugging Alexey in front of their wives? Because Taron. You know his character is in love because he wants to take Alexey out to dinner, he brings him flowers, he literally begs him to dance with him, he's super angsty when Alexey wants to cut ties with him, and he's so so so thirsty for that hug every time he sees him. Like, you guys get a room already.