#the galaxy brain..................................

[creekfiend]

I identify the most with the woman who has a green velvet ribbon around her neck and keeps being like "DONT untie my neck ribbon or something really bad will happen" and then her husband unties the ribbon and her head falls off. this is extremely real to me. spent my whole life like "please don't do this thing to me or really bad stuff will happen" and everyone around me being like "that sounds fake" and doing it anyway. and then my head fell off!

[eerna]

wait for me, I'm coming

[unlikecharlie]

No because with everything we know about Ilya after the fact (as we get to know him in the series in future episodes, as we get to know him and his internal monologue in both Heated Rivalry and The Long Game), his snappy line at Shane at the Olympics gains a whole new meaning.

"No, I did not answer your boring text," is what he says. Right? It's an insult, obviously. It's meant to hurt, to be dismissive. Because he's on edge - about losing to Latvia, about his family situation, about being in Russia in general and about everything that comes with that as the Captain of the Russian Olympic Hockey Team. Shane is hurt by it. He's meant to be, so that he will leave Ilya alone and not offer him safety and comfort in this place that's all ice cold hostility and fear, so that he will not tempt Ilya to fall to his knees and find solace in Shane's Canada fleece-clad arms, so that Shane won't give them away with his big brown eyes full of kindness and yearning.

"No, I did not answer your boring text," he says and anyone who hears it won't think twice about it. If someone were to be listening. Which they probably are, this is Russia. And Ilya is a person of interest.

But the thing is... Ilya loves boring. We know this. He knows this. Shane doesn't, not yet, but he will. Ilya fell in love with boring - with Shane folding his clothes and answering sexts literally and as unsexily as possible, with Shane's sexy, boring glasses and boring, blue sheets. With Shane whose boring dad reads the New Yorker.

Ilya loves boring. He craves it. He chases it. Exciting and wild lose their appeal the deeper he sinks into boring. Into Shane's boring.

So yeah, he did not answer Shane's boring text and everyone else hears a dismissal and an insult but what Ilya is saying is, "I did not answer your thoughtful text. Your kind text. Your sweet text." He never answers it, partly because of safety reasons, partly because it becomes moot. But the entire time he's in Russia, that text keeps him going. It wards off the chills of his countrymen's glares and his father's disappointment.

Shane's text was boring, yes. But Ilya loves boring so much he married it.

[lissa]

2.05 “11:00 A.M.” vs. 2.07 “1:00 P.M.” | THE PITT

[makaira-art]

Volt with his hair tied into a ponytail! :)

Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure he’d let you borrow his hair tie if you asked nicely

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

The reason that the transmisogynistic harassment ring is fixated on insisting that forcefem is just, only, and always a kink is made abundantly clear by this post from britts-galaxy-brain on kiwifarms.

They believe that some trans women are actually predatory men with a fetish. They have appointed themselves as the arbiter of truth on this. "We can always tell". Calling them TWERFs is not hyperbole, it's not a rhetorical device, it's just an actual fact.

[themoonandmyman]

Shane crying on it? Beautiful. Of course. Ilya crying because Shane’s hole feels too fucking good and he feels so close to him they could be one being and he can’t help the tears of being completely overwhelmed with love even when it’s accompanied by a deep seated conscious and unconscious shame of displaying raw unfiltered emotion? Inspired

[rantarang]

Saw her shooting down a bunch of the bullshit, so i thought i would share here because i witnessed it, and shes right. something people might want to know also, is that since these stalkers are insane they have actually managed to back up a lot of patricias blog on the wayback machine. meaning you can go and read for yourself what she was dealing with, and verify for yourself. if youve seen any of these lies. they were perpetuated by these people: britts-galaxy-brain, encyclipediamorbidica,rambling-crerchur. these people continue to lie, and double down to this day. please block these people. thanks.