right thing to do 🫡

jes | 30s | used to be a hockey rpf blog and then this happened to me | hockey content now at @ticklefightgeno | saysthemagpie on ao3

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[ticklefighthockey]

recommending this situationship era fic where Ilya gets chlamydia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88443821

this was fun and I enjoyed it thanks for the rec!

[ticklefighthockey]

omg wait am i part of the sexism in fandom problem by making svetlana/marly also a little about ilya. or is that jsut a main character bias?

no I think it’s more fun if they’re both hung up on ilya in different ways. I mean they can also have their own romance but yknow. ilya should be haunting the relationship imo

[ticklefighthockey]

it's funny, in highschool my bestfriend was obsessed with sidney crosby (we're the same age as him and her family is from Halifax so they were all following him avidly) and i was like meh whatever hockey boys are dumb

and now she's totally normal about all that and here i am in the hrpf trenches (I still think hockey boys are dumb though)

we must never lose sight of how dumb they are 🫡

[damnnmilkovich]

[pjharvey]

we have to start running a massive PSA campaign to young gay people so everyone understands there is a difference between being a dom and being a top and between being a sub and being a bottom. and also that sometimes you are neither a sub nor a bottom and you're just like shy. we need to be handing out flyers we need ads at every train station spreading the word

[clytemnestraaa]

this might be my favorite scene lol there is nothing i love more than characters snapping at each other in a kitchen like yessss domestic misery. this is a one-act play.

There were things, Shane suspected, that Ilya wasn’t telling him, which made Shane anxious and a bit angry. Why would Ilya keep anything from Shane? He’d thought they were beyond that. If Shane didn’t know better, he’d think Ilya was cheating on him or something. Or that he wanted to break up. But, Shane kept assuring himself, he did know better. Maybe Ilya’s mood was purely hockey-related. Shane would certainly be in a pissy mood if his team sucked as much as the Ottawa Centaurs. Whatever it was, Shane was getting tired of it. If Ilya had a problem with Shane, or with anything, he should talk to Shane about it. Not dig into him about his diet or his friends or whatever else Ilya decided to make fun of him about. Ilya entered the kitchen as Shane was irritably extracting seeds from the pomegranate. “Need help?” he asked. Shane sighed, releasing some of the tension in his shoulders. Maybe he was being annoyed with Ilya for no reason. “I’m good.” He pinched a seed between his finger and thumb and held it out. “Want one?” Ilya opened his mouth, and Shane slipped the seed inside. Ilya closed his lips around Shane’s fingers for a second, which made Shane smile. He really did love Ilya so much. “Good,” Ilya said when he’d swallowed the seed. “Not as good as the cookies, but good.” “Yeah, yeah.” Ilya opened the fridge and pulled out a carton of eggnog. He glanced at Shane as he made his way to the cupboard where the glasses were, as if waiting for him to say something about the nutritional horrors of eggnog. “What?” Shane asked testily. “No lecture?” Shane slammed the pomegranate half he was working with down on the cutting board. Juice flew everywhere. “Would you please fuck off? I don’t give a shit what you or anyone else eats, Ilya.” Ilya snorted. “This is not true. You bitch at me all the time.” “Because you always start it!” Ilya didn’t reply. Instead, he pulled a large glass from the cupboard and poured himself about a gallon of eggnog. Shane’s pomegranate-stained fingers curled into fists. He was not going to say anything. Ilya raised the glass in a toast, and took a long haul of eggnog, which was disgusting to watch. Shane stared him down anyway. Ilya finished with a loud, obnoxious “Ahh,” then wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Shane turned his back to him, grabbed a dishcloth, and began cleaning the spattered pomegranate juice from the counter. “Your parents want to exchange presents now,” Ilya said. “Okay.” “Come to the living room when you are done, yes?” “I know where we exchange presents on Christmas.” God, Shane knew he sounded like an absolute bitch, but he couldn’t help it. He could hear Ilya leave the kitchen as Shane continued to aggressively wipe the counter.

[talahui]

cold | drew hayden taylor

[firstprinced]

me 8 months later still. the thing about the bathroom that gets me isn't the wow genetic but "when did your english get so good?" AUGH. shane's little face and soft voice. we haven't seen each other in so long this has changed about you and i didn't even know.

[thesedarkcafedays]

Heated Rivalry Week 2026 Day 3: Favourite Kiss/Hug

Worth the wait?

[ticklefighthockey]

nothinggg is more ilya than the tampa hotel room sequence where shane comes out, ilya acts like a dick while keeping himself physically as far from shane as possible, shane gets his feelings hurt and starts looking a little chin-wobbly, and ilya audibly GROANS and flings himself across the room to sit next to him on the bed. but he’s still not looking at shane or touching him because ilya is NOT here to comfort him or anything ok he just randomly and totally unrelatedly got tired of standing up at the exact moment that shane’s big brown eyes started getting all wet and shiny with tears and the nearest place to sit down happened to be on the bed next to shane. do NOT read anything into this none of this means ANYTHING (in under two minutes he will be crying in shane’s arms btw)

[therozanov]

[cream2luv]

look at us. blogging

[ticklefighthockey]

goshhhh I love that hudson plays show!shane as way more emotionally vulnerable than book!shane. show!shane is always rolling over and showing ilya his soft underbelly (often without even realizing it) and ilya is always like AAA AAAAAAAA YOU CAN’T DO THAT YOU CAN’T LET PEOPLE SEE YOU FEEL and then shane’s big brown eyes start getting all shiny/wet with tears and his bottom lip wobbles a little and ilya is like well now I have to kms. or take care of you forever. AGH

[ticklefighthockey]

if sveta/cliff is based on the premise that sveta’s type is “cocky jocks” then we also need to add “bisexual europeans” to the list. unfortunately this opens the door to sveta/luca haas

I hear you but I’m not quite ready to think about luca to me he is like ten days old. his time will come. for me sveta/cliff is actually more of a “ilya rozanov left us both behind” premise where they both feel responsible for and abandoned by ilya. I think they don’t actually know each other that well until after ilya leaves boston. and as you may recall I like to headcanon that sveta and ilya get into a BIG fight over the decision to sign with ottawa and aren’t speaking for most of his first season there. sveta is furious with him for throwing away his career when shane’s making zero sacrifices, and also she recognizes the gleam in his eyes… that’s a man who thinks he can leave his baggage behind if he just severs all ties with his past life and vanishes completely into his new happy family. and idk I’ll have to think about cliff’s relationship to ilya but I think he too is pretty worried about him and hurt by his inexplicable departure. anyway I think they run into each other out in boston after ilya’s gone and they wind up going home together and then they just kind of keep seeing each other, without really planning to. and then idk the fic becomes a slow atmospheric character study-y piece where they’re not openly talking about the third person in the room with them and the complicated feelings they both have about him. but maybe they’re also lowkey kind of building something together and healing each other’s damage in the process. who can say

[hudconvent]

can i share my controversial opinion

[hudconvent]

i like when ilya is nice to shane

[ticklefighthockey]

there’s an author whose fic I really enjoy but they’re posting decently long to quite long fics every 2-3 weeks and ughhh can I trust that it’s not the machineeeee