#ir81

[fasthollander]

i think it’s such a shame people miss the detail that Shane gets hard in the showers and that’s why Ilya has the confidence to jerk off in front of him. it’s not just Ilya jumping into the void, simply hoping Shane has interest.

he can see the interest, alright.

[thesegaysaretryingtomurdermee]

Does anyone have hollanov fic recs where Shane is just very freaky. He is 'making up' kinks which are so not boring and Ilya is just falling more in love. Maybe Shane talk with his friends about sexlife and come to the conclusion that Ilya and him have very not so vanilla sex. Thank you

[sleepixgstars]

New post from @official_centaurs!

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canada's shane hollander, and russia's ilya rozanov

[onlythebravest]

things about the long game that makes my blood boil, part 2:

Shane exhaled loudly. “First of all, he told me we were doing good work with the Irina Foundation. He asked me to tell you that.” (Ilya: “Okay.”) “But he also, like, told me not to come out, maybe?” (Ilya sat all the way up. “I don’t understand.”) “He said he’s heard rumors about me being gay and basically that he’d like them to stay rumors.” (Ilya: “He said this?”) “Not exactly. Like I said, it was weird. The way he talks, it’s friendly and scary at the same time. I hated it.”

Ilya was starting to get angry. Mostly at Crowell. A little bit at Shane. “What did he say?”

“I think he doesn’t want another Scott Hunter. He doesn’t seem to be a fan of activism in hockey. Or anything that isn’t hockey in hockey, really.” (Ilya: “He is a fan of money in hockey.”) “He was talking about how great diversity is, and about the league’s LGBTQ initiatives, but also that he hates distractions from the game. The whole meeting felt like an indirect threat. Like, he wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to surprise anyone by coming out on social media or something.”

“Or kissing your boyfriend on TV.” “Right. I mean, obviously I’m not going to do either of those things.” “Obviously.” Ilya said it bitterly, but Shane didn’t seem to notice.

Shane told his partner that he got all but threatened not to come out, and Ilya’s reaction is to get angry at Crowell and Shane? What did Shane do? Shane didn’t do anything to warrant such a reaction. He’d been called into a meeting alone with the head of the league, who is extremely powerful, been all but threatened to not come out and stay quiet, and his partner’s reaction is anger directed to him?

The excerpt above is just in the beginning of the call, the only things that had been said was finally you called, at meeting, how was it, it was weird, how so, crowell said... idk he’s really intimidating, tell me one thing he said. Then the excerpt starts.

Where in this conversation can we find grounds for Ilya to direct anger at his partner? Because I can’t see it. Shane says he had this uncomfortable meeting, was basically told to not come out and the way Crowell talks is friendly and scary and he hated it. Ilya gets angry at both of them. And then, as the conversation continues and Shane says that obviously he’s not planning to come out any time soon - seeing as him and Ilya have their long-term plan to come out when they retire that they both agreed on and neither have said that they want to change it - and Ilya gets bitter. and maybe annoyed that Shane doesn’t pick up on it? that was what it felt like to me at least. which, even if they had discussed coming out earlier, Shane has a free pass for not picking up on Ilya’s tone being bitter after having been threatened by the person that can destroy their careers in an instant. Everyone gets a free pass after having just experienced that and is, seemingly, still in shock. And even if they had discussed coming out earlier and Shane is now hesitant to come out after, again, having just been threatened, that’s fine, Ilya shouldn’t be angry at him for that. Disappointed, yes, absolutely, but surely he can’t be angry at him.

Let me be clear here, this is on Reid. Just like the previous part, I’m not putting any blame whatsoever on in universe Ilya. This is on the author, this is on how she decided to portray this character. She wanted Ilya to be an unsupportive partner here, she wanted Ilya to be more upset about how Crowell likely made it more difficult for him and Shane come out than care about that Shane got threatened, she wanted to highlight that Shane didn’t pick up on the tone of Ilya’s voice, she wanted to show that Ilya cared more about them coming out than he did Shane. And I just don’t get why. I know the majority of the book is written in a way to kinda say that Shane’s issues isn’t as valid or reasonable as Ilya’s, but the way she does it causes damage on Ilya. in the previous part, she made Ilya be completely oblivious to the racism Shane is experiencing. This time, she made him be unsupportive and only care about himself, she made him be angry at Shane for something Shane had to endure and didn’t have a say in. She made Ilya angry at Shane for having been intimidated after having been threatened. We should all just take that in. Ilya was mad at Shane for having been threatened and responded accordingly. Like, come on. Ilya comes off as a real asshole right now, and not in a good way.

[everybodyisaferrarifan]

ik im probably too late to the conversation but I was in the metro doomscrolling and I was just thinking does hudson williams know that oscar piastri's gf name is lily when he said oscar has "bottom eyes"??

[starlighttswift]

I think this is the definition of “two bad bitches at the same damn time”

[nightlyvoids]

mom can we have a sleepover