#recklesssoph

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“they should put *popular song* in s2 of heated rivalry!” “they should have *famous actor* in s2 of heated rivalry!”

❌ NO! WRONG! it should continue to have indie music and unknown actors! stop trying to taint a beautiful thing!

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that adhd feel when lay down to fall asleep and suddenly your brain and limbs start twitching so you have to get up to pace around your room for awhile

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name aesthetic: Sophie

[mythsofher]

an underrated thing about heated rivalry that i love is the fact that the straight allies in this show are super well meaning but consistently miss the mark.

carter vaughn is being supportive! but he assumes that a male figure skater Must be gay based off nothing while he’s sitting next to two gay men who are hockey players. he’s being supportive and yet it hits both of the gay people that are there wrong.

elena is standing up for kip to scott in a way that pays off in the show but, can we be serious? if the friend of the secret boyfriend of a closeted nhl player told the nhl player essentially that he has to come out because he’s making his boyfriend miserable, that would be so deeply out of line. but i can totally see it happening.

this one’s super minor but it bothers me. rose. saying you wish you were a lesbian is not the woke take you think it is. dating women instead of men is not inherently easier, and you’d have to be crazy to think being a lesbian is easier than being a straight woman. it doesn’t bother shane, but it does bother me.

yuna hearing ilya and shane’s future plans and saying “oh no, that’s sad” is a perfect example of this. she’s right! it is sad! but saying this to shane and ilya, who have been grappling with this for 9 years and are fully aware of how depressing it is, obviously hits them both wrong. the look on ilya’s face, and shane’s “i know, we know.”

it’s very real to life.

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these two statements back to back make me laugh every single time i watch it. what an apt description

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everyone else has done a fic rec post, now it’s my turn!

these are probably not like niche fics, i’m sure most people have read them, but on the off chance you haven’t, here are my all timers, in no particular order:

MLH Breakdowns #7 | How this one INSANE Free Agency Signing Sparked a Three-Year Hockey Frenzy 😱🏒 by rightnowimtoad. reddit’s reaction to ilya going to the centaurs.

dust bowl by thathastu. a reimagining of the first season with shane as a closeted trans woman. (amazing.)

This is heaven and I'd die for it by Deerlie_03. incomplete. a video of ilya blowing a man leaks.

Shane Hollander Starts a Bar Fight by spaceyloser. for everyone who wanted shane to start punching people in tlg (me).

love will call by mightyd0lphin. sasha sells the story of his and ilya relationship to tmz. shane plans as a love language.

Halt and Catch Fire by mashawisotsky. incomplete. gambling syndicates hack 7,500 athletes private data. ilya’s one of them. (this is one of the best fics i’ve ever read, period. and it’s not even finished yet!)

another inscrutable house by questioningly. ilya’s niece turns 18, and reconnects with ilya for the first time in years.

the song’s out of key again by multifandomhomo. after shane and rose break up, he sleeps with miles.

the soviet montage by pressuretoparty. cold war era fic. ilya defects from the soviet union to play for the centaurs.

Live Through This (And You Won't Look Back) by Snaptic. shane and ilya come out to scott hunter. things snowball from there.

Day 90 by kuragin. shane gets stuck in a timeloop.

still the best (still an asshole) by pucksandpower. 4+1 fic. despite everything, ilya’s still an asshole.

The MILF Theory (And Why the Internet Got It Wrong) by pucksandpower. the internet thinks ilya rozanov is sleeping with shane hollander’s mom. (made me laugh so many times. delightful.)

something you can fix by some1_around. someone recorded shane’s conversation with rose. as you can imagine, it’s pretty fucking bad. (the sequel’s great too!)

love takes miles by corsi. 10 years of the hockey rpf fandom. (this one’s fucking amazing.)

i'll follow where your light goes by countdracilya. ilya attempts suicide (offscreen). (beautiful, but proceed with caution!)

Many Loved Before Us, I Know That We Are Not New by servetas. ilya loves shane so much he wants to eat him. no cannibalism involved.

the things you buy, the secrets i keep by sleepberries. the person selling shane hollander a ring notices some things.

spun out so far by ultravioletdaydream. incomplete. in shane’s first season playing for the centaurs, he can’t get his footing. autism diagnosis fic.

(feel like) sugar on the floor by servetas. shane needs a fucking break. ilya helps.

woof! that was long! turns out this fandom has written some great stuff, but you knew that.

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my favorite comments from the eric bogosian tiktok lurking insta trilogy

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after seeing project hail mary in theaters i decided it was time for my third read of the book and WOW i forgot how much i love stratt. what a fucking character. i’m sad she got a bit nerfed in the movie but i understand the run time was already very long so. anyway read the book if you want to read eva stratt bombing antarctica and making a climate scientist cry.