Thoughts and Fiction

26 | TV lover | she/her

[clytemnestraaa]

it's been said before but it is truly just very good that ilya is on a decade-long quest to be like shane it is normal to be horny that's literally a normal experience. and shane is on a decade-long quest to be like ilya it is normal to want emotional connection that's literally a normal experience. they're pspspsing each other

[thoughtsandfiction]

Ilya and Marley are obsessed with Kristian Nairn. They texted each other when Hodor died ("shit man," "bro :(" ). They've been talking about a boys' trip to catch one of his sets for forever, but their schedules just didn't line up.

[cassie-darlin]

“nobody likes abortion” i do. i think its awesome actually.

[ticklefighthockey]

I’m still intrigued by the idea that shane has a harder time adjusting to ilya’s captaincy style in ottawa than he expects. I feel like the metros vs. raiders locker rooms were probably soooo different. I imagine shane as the kind of captain who runs an extremely tight ship with very high standards for professionalism but maybe, uh, not as much room for fun or goofing off or all the casual bonding stuff that makes guys feel like Brothers In Arms. it’s a good place to work in that you can expect everyone to work hard and excel but it also feels very much like a workplace where you are sort of tacitly expected to leave your personal life at the door. like shane is going to treat you well as a colleague but unless you’re hayden he’s probably not going to remember your wife’s name or your kids’ ages and favorite sports at school. and if you’ve got personal life stuff going on outside of work it’s like… ok but you’re at work now? he’s got personal life stuff going on too (see: messy secret gay situationship with a disaster bisexual) and he’s not letting it affect his game.

whereas I think ilya as a captain is one of those people who seem to be running an extremely loose ship (it’s noisy it’s chaotic guys are roughhousing during practice people prank guys other all the time everyone’s out a little later than they should be at the bar together etc etc) but actually the second something starts souring in the atmosphere it becomes obvious that ilya has his finger on the pulse of the room and absolutely nothing escapes his notice. and he has a knack for fixing things or smoothing things over without it actually seeming like he’s intervening at all, just by saying the right thing to the right guy at the right moment or giving someone a little nudge or taking some of the guys out drinking and by the end of the night it’s somehow all resolved even though no one can remember what happened or how he did it.

ANYWAY I think when shane comes into that cens locker room it would be fun for him to be initially silently appalled by how cavalier ilya seems be about his leadership position. like shane has no problem not wearing the C on his new team but is ANYONE wearing the C here??? and I think it would be funnnn for them to have some friction about it at first where shane’s being silently judgy about it but refusing to come out and say anything and ilya’s getting annoyed but also like a little wounded by it because it’s the same attitude his dad always had about his leadership style. and ALSO in his secret heart of hearts he sort of feels like… his raiders, to a man, would have died for him and still loved him even after he left boston in the lurch with zero explanation, whereas shane’s metros threw him under the bus the second he came out… and then when they finally have a big blowout fight about this & that last part surfaces it’s very hurtful to shane because of course everyone loves ilya that’s because people are so EASY for ilya!!!! ilya doesn’t even have to work for it he just shows up and winks at people and cracks a few jokes and everyone is falling all over themselves to make him happy!!!! and maybe shane isn’t good at people but he’s good at being a fucking professional and that’s why he has three cups to ilya’s one!!!! anyway it gets messy and everyone storms off to lick their wounds and then they make up later and eventually ilya admits that OKAY maybe he could stand to be a little more of an hardass when guys are slacking off in practice or whatever and then shane admits that OKAY maybe remembering stuff about your teammates’ families or knowing when a guy’s in the throes of an ugly divorce and needs a little bit of grace is important to helping guys click with each other and feel emotionally invested in what you’re building together, and also it’s kind of hot when ilya makes crazy scoring bets with the guys and then comes back to collect. and then of course having resolved all of this they fuck about it

[brarchives]

mailihair

[thoughtsandfiction]

Walk with me... Heated Rivalry War of the Roses/ early Tudor Era AU

[mttztrading]

Let's do the time warp again!

Amber Gray, Anania, and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez in The Rocky Horror Show

[your-cab-is-definitely-here]

I'm about to be controversial! (I think.) At the outset I have to say I love Svetlana. She's such a distinctive character who owns every scene she's in, is obviously a huge support to Ilya without ever losing herslef in the role of that support, she's terrifying, she'll eat you for breakfast in the daintiest most menacing way possible and you'll thank her for the privilege afterwards. I'm preaching to the choir, we all love Sveta.

But! I do think her particular place in the narrative and who she is to Ilya opens up some interesting avenues wrt her feelings about Shane. I've generally seen her in fic as being aggressively supportive of their relationship, though I've read a couple where she is uneasy about the move to Ottawa (reasonably so!) and one fantastic one where she straight up dislikes Shane because she doesn't think he's doing enough for Ilya.

There's plenty of jealous!Shane, but what I'd love to see more of is jealous!Svetlana. Not jealous in the romantic sense--we see pretty clearly that Ilya's not like that for her--but Svetlana reckoning with the presence of Shane in Ilya's life and what that means for her place in it.

The scene with Sasha in Sochi is fascinating to me. She tows Ilya along like he has no say in what's happening, she tosses Sasha at him like she's ordering for Ilya at a restaurant, and then even with Ilya's old squeeze in the room splaying his body out for Ilya in the exact way that she clearly wanted, she still monopolises Ilya's attention. There's a benevolent peremptory presumptuousness to her behaviour that I love: she's clearly used to having to muscle him into things that are for his own good because he won't reach for them himself, and I think it's so juicy that she's used to having the sole right to do that for him.

How would she react to having that exclusivity taken away? Ilya very obviously lets only her behind his walls, until Shane bulldozes his way past them in Tampa. I think it's interesting to examine how Svetlana would react to losing that primacy with Ilya--it's not jealousy in a romantic or sexual sense, but Ilya's never had anyone like Shane before,and that would be an adjustment for Svetlana, I think. She's not just going from being Ilya's first call to his second call: she's going from being his only call to his second; from being the only one behind the wall to sharing that space for the first time. From having the surety that she can walk into Ilya's house to surprise him, in whatever way she wants, to having to reckon with Shane or even having to check with him first. Especially given the much closer relationship in the show--I can't imagine that show!Svetlana meets Shane the day before their wedding, and given their closeness, Shane forbidding Ilya from telling Svetlana would be a lot less excusable than it was in the book.

We don't know much about Svetlana outside of Ilya, so we don't know how strong her support system is without him, but there's room to wonder how crucial his availability for her, for lack of a better phrasing, is, and how she'd grapple with no longer being his first priority. To be clear, she knows, and we know, thst the worry is baseless and that Ilya would drop everything for her. But there's a security in being First and it's interesting to wonder how Svetlana would deal with losing that, and how that would affect how she interacts with Shane.

There's also the hockey of it all--Ilya is surrounded by it, but for Svetlana, he's very likely to be one of the most hockey-intelligent people in her life and they're clearly accustomed to constantly talking puck with each other. Now, there's Shane: famously high hockey IQ but can also engage directly with Ilya as a player and is probably the only person in the world who can, who has access to Ilya's hockey brain in a way Svetlana never will. This is kind of a mirror of my headcanon for Hayden's jealousy of Ilya: being supplanted as the best friend's First Hockey Person.

Honestly I just like to think about what it would look like if the completely baseless jealousy went both ways. I think they would eventually grow to like each other, and of course they're both ultimately grateful for each other's presnece in Ilya's life because it ensures his well being and happiness. Any possessive feelings would be subsumed by their love for him, but Shane obviously has some jealousy to navigate through to get to that point and it would be an interesting dynamic for Svetlana to have to navigate that as well.

[thoughtsandfiction]

Ilya/Jackie/Sveta have a threesome in the bathroom of a club in Mexico City. Jackie's there on a girl's trip with her recently divorced sister and two friends from before. She doesn't allow her brain to fully get there on how much this guy who's on his knees eating her out looks like the guy she watched lift the Stanley cup from the comfort of her crowded living room; Svetlana's playing with her nipples, and kissing her and whispering filthy shit in her ear, there's no room for those thoughts here. She does think about how good it feels to be pressed between them and to dance and to wear a low-cut dress and impractical shoes in a place where she isn't anything to anyone. When all is said and done, she's fingered Svetlana, blown the guy and cum twice.

Her sister asks her what she thinks she's doing, but it's half assed. It was a random hookup in a club bathroom, and she never liked Hayden anyway. It really doesn't matter. Jackie's just burning off some leftover party girl angst. Jackie's just dealing with twin mummy stress. It doesn't matter. She'll never see them again. She's not trying to blow up her life. She just needed a moment. She spends the rest of her vacation reading big little lies for the wag book club and getting spa treatments. She's good.

2 months later, she's pregnant with baby #3.

[swearphil]

ILYA WEEK | day 5: favourite relationship

[thoughtsandfiction]

I would like more fic to interrogate how much Ilya misses the club. He laid his sleazy club rat ways at the altar of Shane and love and prayed for happiness in return, but it is a sacrifice.

I'm just not convinced the pinnacles of (independent) joy for that man are quiet bars and bbqs and puzzles with the in-laws. Not to this extent anyway

[thoughtsandfiction]

I think Shane would like Plastic Off The Sofa. Maybe not musically, I have no conception of what that man's tastes are, but lyrically.

Rose played the album for him in a bid to "educate him" and said oh this song reminds me of you when you talk about Ilya lol. And Shane doubts that because nobody around him seems to really get it. Rose is dating LA douchebags and being a heteropessimist, Hayden is Hayden, J.J is a whore. But he'll indulge her and listen to it and look up the lyrics....and oh! would you look at that, I mean, Ilya tries very hard not to wear his emotions on his selves, but you know him long enough and intimately enough, and they're just there.

Huh, someone does get it. That's nice

[nicolegendary]

the notion of shane as "team mom" of the centaurs is obviously problematic in many ways but most importantly shane has never gone out of his way to give a shit about a teammate in his life. he's the main character and the rest of his team are Also There

[clytemnestraaa]

just saw that post where you said you think “shane and svetlana meeting is not that chill, because svetlana does NOT think ilya is cool, she thinks he is a messsss” oh my god your mind!!!

who do you think would be the first one to realize how differently they view Ilya? would it be Svetlana being like “oh my god Ilya has fooled this guy” or her being like “oh my god Shane Hollander is so naive/blinded by love he doesn’t see who is in front of him”? or would Shane be upset with her because she doesn’t see the incredible, put together Ilya he does?

i think she’d be invited to spend a weekend with them in ottawa, and shane would lowkey dislike her for her intimacy and closeness with ilya but be perfectly polite, and i think it would really come down to svetlana sitting there watching shane and ilya interact and her smile is getting tighter and tighter. and of course she would never bring that up with shane but she would bring it up with ilya and be like “just tell me, are you happy?” and ilya would be like “*sniffle sniffle* you know sveta i never thought this could happen for me, i love him so much he’s amazing he’s the most incredible person in the world he is so good to me and he is kind and sweet and i would die without him and—” and sveta is like “ilya. ilya. that is not what i asked.”

and then ilya is going to feel attacked and panicky and refuse to address her question and instead he’s going to get aggressive the way he always does when cornered and he’ll get sulky and and snappy and petty about how if SHE had ever been in a real long term relationship she would know that it takes teamwork and compromise (compromise is possibly something svetlana does not do fantastic with) and she’s going to be like “well it just seems like you’re the only one compromising right now” and ilya’s going to get even more vicious and accuse her of being jealous and she’s going to be like “i can’t talk to you when you’re like this, i love you but i’m flying back to boston, i will talk to you at a later point.”

and then ilya is going to go inside and be upset and refuse to talk to shane and say sveta had to leave and shane isn’t going to ask that many questions because he’s never really understood ilya and svetlana’s relationship anyways, and shane and ilya are going to keep on keeping on as ilya circles and circles and circles the drain

until ilya does something so Unwell that shane is freaked out, like actually freaked out, he’s not a therapist, he doesn’t know how to handle this shit and he doesn’t react all that well. and they get in a huge fight and then ilya is shouting and locking himself in the bathroom and refusing to come out and shane is like “ahhhh what the fuck am i supposed to do here!” and he calls svetlana and is like “uh has this ever happened before, for the love of god what do i do in this situation, what the fuck!!!” and she’s like “alright. put me on speakerphone and slide the phone under the door.” and so shane does and after like 20 minutes of intense russian conversation ilya unlocks the door looking marginally less crazy and says “ahem. hello shane. i think it is probably time to involve a mental health professional.”

[thoughtsandfiction]

Betty Draper shooting the pigeons is Shane Hollander if he'd been the one to join the Centaurs

[ellisonwongparty]

ballad of the bisexual terminator

Heated Rivalry (TV), Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Svetlana Vetrova/Ilya Rozanov E, 12k, one-shot

by pressuretoparty

Ilya Rozanov finds himself stuck between two great loves.

Or: partying and pining in New York, situationship-era flirting, and semi-ironic marriage pacts. Just a day in the life of Ilya Rozanov!

read on ao3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

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