#silly silly

[keep-on-rockying]

extremely big fan of depicting a change in rocky's emotions by turning him into ball. I am not immune to a little silly

also extremely big fan of the Other options for this: photo of Real Actual Rock, and photo of James Ortiz The Actor

[tinylilhollander]

Thinking about Shane and Ilya only starting to discover each other's likes and dislikes after knowing each other for almost a decade is actually so funny.

Because like, picture it, it's their first morning waking up together at the cottage, and after a little bit of lazy making out and cuddling, Shane decides he wants to sleep some more. So Ilya takes it upon himself to make breakfast, partly to thank Shane for everything, partly because he's now sure that he's absolutely in love with this man, and partly to show off his excellent culinary skills.

And even though Shane looks so touched when Ilya wakes him up with breakfast in bed, Ilya notices the smile drop slightly when his eyes land on the scrambled eggs. But then it's back twice as big a moment later as Shane thanks him, so Ilya figures it's nothing.

And then Shane actually starts eating and Ilya watches as he eats his bacon and all of the toast around the eggs. When Shane finally takes a small forkful of egg, he's like "Mmm, delicious," but he looks like chewing it is an effort in the way that scrambled eggs just shouldn't be.

"Shane," says Ilya, trying to fight down a laugh, but only because this man really is the sweetest person in the world, "is there something wrong with the eggs?"

"No!" he replies, a little too defensively, taking an even bigger mouthful. He immediately looks like he's concentrating really hard not to gag. Shane then takes an enormous swig of coffee like he's trying to wash it as far down as possible, and now Ilya is laughing because this man is ridiculous and his heart feels like it might explode with how much he loves him.

"If you don't like eggs you can just say so," says Ilya, grabbing his hand to prevent him from inflicting any more of it upon himself. "I won't be mad."

And Shane gives him the biggest most apologetic look with those stupidly beautiful brown eyes of his.

"It's just scrambled eggs," he mumbles, cheeks red as he sets down the plate on the nightstand. "Sorry, I should have just said. I just still feel like shit about that time in Boston and I... I didn't want you to think that it's a problem with your cooking or something."

And Ilya can't help it, he laughs and leans forward to steal a coffee-flavoured kiss.

"I know my cooking is not why you keep me around," he says, and runs his tongue over Shane's bottom lip. "And now I know that scrambled eggs are evil. You want me to help you forget all about them?"

And until the two of them emerge from bed several hours later, they do.

[tinylilemrys]

Shane is not an animal guy at all. Ilya knows this. He's reached an understanding and level of affection with Anya, but beyond that he doesn't seem to have any interest in any other creatures.

Except, sometimes, between all the hockey videos Shane gets on the rare occasions Ilya sees him scrolling through Instagram, he'll get a video of otters. And to Ilya's surprise, Shane almost always sits through the whole thing.

This seems so out of left-field that Ilya ends up texting Yuna about it. He'd ask Shane about it, but he's scared that he'll get embarrassed and stop watching them when Ilya's around. Yuna immediately texts back like, "Oh yeah, Shane loves otters. Always has. He hasn't told you about Wa?"

And Ilya's heart immediately beats faster in that way it does when he learns something new and unexpected about his husband.

"No he has not. What is a 'Wa'?"

He gets sent a photo a few minutes later of what was probably once a very cute otter plushie, but is now squashed beyond all recognition and missing an eye and an ear.

"Sorry, it was hidden in the back of his closet so I had to dig it out. This is Wa. Or Otter-Wa. David called him that as a joke and it stuck. We got it because Shane was upset we couldn't take the otters home with us, and it became his favorite toy. He wouldn't go anywhere without it."

Ilya is, of course, delighted to learn this and immediately begins plotting.

A few months later, on Shane's birthday, Ilya leads him blindfolded to the surprise he's organised for him.

"I hear water. Baby, you didn't just drag me to a pool after hours, did you? Because I've talked to the contractors and we can install a pool if that's what you want."

And Ilya laughs as he undoes the blindfold, revealing the otter enclosure.

"After all these years I hope that my surprises are a little bit better than that."

And Ilya watches as Shane's eyes fill with tears as he realises where he is.

"Otters?" he asks, looking at Ilya in wonder. "But how did you... I've never told you about the otters."

"You didn't need to," he says with a shrug. "I pay attention to my beautiful husband when he does things. I thought you might like to actually meet some."

"Ready for introductions?" asks one of the zookeepers, and Ilya nods, following them over to the pool.

"But how... Ilya this must have cost a fortune."

And Ilya laughs again at that, pressing a kiss to Shane's cheek.

"Lucky you married someone rich and famous then."

[userfpurteen]

well

[dapinnipedpolice]

Festively plump Yo-Chan with her long whiskers

[theclowntoon]

THE AUSSIE THING❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[melancholypolywog]

so here’s a thing that timothy stoker definitely has done.

inspired by this post by @mikasnazz

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But hey, that’s just a statement. A [insert fear] STATEMENT