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

[citrusses]

PSA tho everyone if anyone ever pulls the shit on you that Ilya pulls on Shane in ep 2 you need to delete that persons number from your phone and maybe change your last name so that toxic loser can’t ever find you again. Not u tho Shane baby, keep pining! I think he’s the one!!!!

[ticklefighthockey]

With all due respect to you and the asker please continue to cross the streams. I came here from hr a while back and have come to appreciate the occasional hrpf morsel drawing me in. I just read my first hrpf from your recent rec (the biblical sense. Color me fucking dead). Maybe a happy medium could be tags to exclude?

hehehe my dastardly schemes are working... I’m actually an undercover agent placed here to convert you all to hrpf

[ticklefighthockey]

Thank you for your rose post. I actually find it really scary how many people are happy saying that sexuality is something you choose like... it's actually conversion therapy rhetoric to think you should be able to will your way into changing your sexuality. The attitude that disappointed straight women can just choose to become attracted to women is really gross bc it also sets up women as being a back up choice (sincerely, a grumpy lesbian).

Also just from a narrative perspective it takes away any responsibility from Shane for disappointing her when he's not able to reciprocate her romantic feelings!! I think it's so juicy to make it a point of friction there because even though obviously Shane can't change that he's gay and he shouldn't apologise for it, it does hurt Rose to an extent! It also makes their friendship so much more beautiful because it means she's had to work through her disappointment, like Shane is worth that effort for her.

yesss to that last part in particular! you can be earnestly grappling with your identity and trying to figure yourself out and still end up hurting people in the process, and it doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to figure yourself out it but it does mean that you have to reckon with the fact that you hurt someone! I like fics that dig into that a bit more in the rose era… give me the mess it’s so interesting.

re: your first point… I mostly agree although I do think that sexuality is more fluid than people think and in the right situation I think many people (not all) could probably experience attraction that falls outside of their usual preferences. so I am sympathetic to the general attitude of like… if we open ourselves up to a wider array of possibilities we might be surprised at what we find. but I agree that the “struck out with men? not to worry, just try plan B: becoming a lesbian!” attitude is kind of insulting to queer women lol.

[ticklefighthockey]

Re: the lesbian Rose thing,

whenever I see fandom taking a female love rival of a M/M pairing and shipping her with another woman, particularly if it’s another love rival or a trusted friend of the protagonists, I just end up thinking, “Boy, you’d spay her like a cat if you thought you could make that sound fun and progressive.”

oh my god that imagery 😳🫠 I mean I definitely think you’re right that some of that rhetoric is rooted in a desire to neutralize the female friend/love interest so they’re not a “threat” to the main ship anymore. I feel like I’ve seen that more in fandoms where the m/m pairing isn’t canon and so it feels more Urgent to fans to somehow sideline the women in the story. in heated rivalry I think it feels like it comes more from what another anon described as like the candyland gay wonderland vibes of the game changers universe where YIPPEE everyone is gay!!!!!! we don’t have to EVER think about heterosexuality ever again thank GOD. but idk show!rose literally says she wishes she could be a lesbian but she’s not. she’s attracted to men. and it just feels weird to me to then be like omg GIRL do I have the solution for you 🤭👩‍❤️‍👩

[hr-rep]

In #myhrtimeline Shane is on Sesame Street to talk about good sportmanship whether it be a win or a loss and then a week later he tries to physically fight Scott on the ice after winning his game against him. Ilya sends him pretty much nonstop memes about this. Most of them are just Elmo wildly swinging his arms around w/ “you” attached.

[ticklefighthockey]

going to start blocking people who reblog that rose post saying they have the solution: rose should just start dating women. this is petty I know lol and I’m not sure why it annoys me so much as I have spent 26 years of my life making canonically straight characters gay in fanfiction so why shouldn’t HR fandom make rose gay. I think in this case it speaks to a larger cultural frustration I have which is the attitude that straight women should just change their orientation to be gay/bi because men suck. when ACTUALLY what I think we should do as a society is hold men to higher standards for treating their partners so that women can safely date, sleep with, fall in love with, etc the type of people they are most attracted to. which for some women means men.

[comingatthecottage]

re: ilya's terrible therapist

okay i think i'm obligated to say that although i am a mental health professional very obviously nothing i post on my heated rivalry tumblr is professional advice nobody sue me or anything. i should also probably caveat that i am coming from a very specific perspective: i'm a relational psychoanalyst; i have adjunctive training in several behavioral modalities but i believe very, very strongly in relational psychodynamic work as being THE thing. for patients with complex relational trauma (aka mr. ilya rozanov), i don't believe anything else can create lasting change. i also don't believe in the medical model of mental health. these are things about which reasonable people can, of course, disagree, so i'll try to separate out things i think she does WRONG vs things i think are missed opportunities to do well/what i would do differently

[comingatthecottage]

THINGS THAT ARE WRONG the biggest and worst: patient presents for therapy for first time despite significant treatment barriers. patient discloses that he believes he is depressed. patient has a first-degree relative who died by suicide. your next question, your very next question, is "are you thinking of killing yourself". you don't beat around the bush, you don't imply it, you don't wait until the patient volunteers. you must ask directly and you must do so before the patient leaves your office, because there is a huge and immediate risk that this appointment is someone's last cry for help before an attempt, and the odds of a depressed patient with a trauma history related to the suicide of a parent attempting suicide is fucking staggering. it is in my opinion malpractice not to even screen for suicidal intent at this first appointment ANYWAY, i do this for all patients and to not do it for someone with ilya's history is outrageously dangerous. life-threateningly incompetent care. lack of treatment planning: doesn't take a history or anything at the first appointment. jumps directly into talking about a horrific trauma (finding his mother's dead body). sometimes people do come in to a first session in an escalated state and have to begin directly with discussing whatever is happening at that moment, and then you meet them where they're at, but ilya arrives in a calm if slightly nervous state. she should have started by laying out what therapy would look like and beginning to build rapport, not immediately being like "so how about your mom's corpse". the way she makes the diagnosis of depression is bizarre. “I think you are depressed”. she doesn't clarify whether or not she's actually diagnosing him with depression under the medical model, explain what that means, or ask what it means to him to hear that. it's also MONTHS in, after he came in suspecting depression, that she makes this diagnosis (in the US it has to be in the first session generally for insurance purposes, different, also bad). no actual screening for symptoms, no psychoeducation about what it means to have depression, no sense of prognosis which clearly upsets the patient. it is so important to contextualize a diagnosis, both what the particular diagnosis is and what the act of diagnosing means. no differential diagnosis. she knows that ilya has experienced at least one criterion A trauma for PTSD (his mother's death) but does nothing to screen for symptoms. she doesn't ask how old his sexual partners he had when he was fourteen were to screen for sexual abuse. she doesn't rule out bipolar which is a must when diagnosing depression. she doesn't ask any questions about substance use or screen for potential neurodivergence or any of a million other things. she doesn't refer to medical for potential physiological contributors for a guy whose career is "getting hit really hard in the head".

[comingatthecottage]

no clear treatment plan or goals, and no sense of how therapy is going to work besides… talking? the only goal ilya really sets is "be good enough for my boyfriend," and although she (rightly) pushes back on that she doesn't help him identify an alternate goal. she also doesn't explain what therapy is going to be like or how it works or help him get on board with what the project of therapy is going to be. she seems unshaken when he misses five appointments in a row (if i had a passively suicidal patient miss five appointments in a row i would not be brushing that off, we would be having a good chat about what the barriers to treatment were). culturally incompetent care: they're part of the same minority group (Russian immigrants) across one axis of identity, but Galina is not a queer hockey player (or as far as we know queer at all). she minimizes and dismisses the discrimination ilya is likely to face in his career from coming out, including the fact that he could get deported to Russia, jumping to a CBT technique that asks him to imagine the worst case scenario without engaging at all with how it feels to be in this position or validating his fears. mental health professionals have an ethical obligation to educate themselves about their patients' identities and to listen first. "I could lose my job and be deported and jailed because of my sexual identity" is not a cognitive distortion, it is a terrifying reality. perhaps an unlikely reality, but it exists. trying to use cognitive therapies to "reframe" real experiences of discrimination is, flat-out, therapeutic abuse. she also should have explicitly responded to his fear that she would out shane when he's afraid to say shane's name, not obliquely implied that she knows they're both hockey players: "i want to let you know that confidentiality extends to anything and everything you tell me, except (reiterate legal carveouts). there are no circumstances under which i would disclose your partner's identity to anyone. if you want to use his name, i won't repeat it to anyone except when we're in this room" THINGS THAT ARE POOR THERAPEUTIC STYLE IN MY OPINION AND WHAT I WOULD DO BETTER #MYNARCISSISM lack of curiosity: she does not prompt him to reflect emotionally, even when there are very obvious entry points to do so to do so. i.e. ilya says he's glad his father is dead, which is a huge emotional disclosure that is very risky for a patient to make, especially in a first appointment because he might expect judgment. and she just… asks a factual question about the timeline, rather than engaging with the emotional content in any way (as a relational analyst what i would do here is ask "what does it feel like to share that with me?", but i do not think any good therapist would like, change the subject away from the feeling)

[comingatthecottage]

she regularly offers direct opinions about/interpretations of things ilya says, very early in their therapeutic relationship. "that must have been very hard" in response to his father's expectations of him (which he interprets as being about sochi--he seems to hear 'it must have been hard for you to fail like that', which is, uh, bad!), "it's good that you had that," etc. in spite of the fact that he's already indicated a complex relationship with his family and himself that mean he might feel quite differently than someone else expects! was it good that he had hockey, or did it just create another burden on him and his relationship with his father, or is it somewhere in the middle? did his father's expectations feel hard? traumatizing? was he proud that so much was expected of him? when did he notice those feelings? just some questions i might ask. describing how ilya must feel about things closes off conversation. her affect and presentation in the session: ilya repeatedly notices her masking her reactions to things, like the fact that he became sexually active so young. i guess technically you're still allowed to be a blank slate style therapist, even though i don't know anyone who still does this. but if you're a blank slate, be a blank slate. don't let patients notice that you're hiding your reactions to things. so for instance i would approach that conversation by having whatever reaction i had and then saying, "you might notice i had a reaction to you saying that," and either asking the patient how they interpreted my reaction or asking them if they'd like to know what i'm thinking (and then how does it feel to know that i'm feeling concerned, etc, the relational field goes on forever). my way isn't the only way but if you're visibly swallowing reactions it's bad. she doesn't check in with ilya about how he's feeling about therapy and dismisses his fear that it's not working. tbh the only thing she says that i like is "i'm good, but i'm not that good," which IS something i might say. but she doesn't go from there, it becomes a way of dismissing his fears. i would have asked what it's like to have to tolerate such a slow and uncertain recovery process. does he think therapy can help? are there ways in which it has helped? how does it feel to talk about it? how does it feel to talk to me about it? bizarre attitude towards self-disclosure. she gives ilya next to no information about herself, which, again, is an old-fashioned but not per se wrong way to do it. just because i'm the relational yapper machine 3000 doesn't mean that every therapist needs to tell their patient anything about themselves. but she does self-disclose twice. she tells ilya that she's watching their season/is a hockey fan, and makes a weird comment that she also enjoys shopping as a coping mechanism but that bedsheets are more in her price range than sports cars. even though i'm the yappatron 3000 i would not choose to make these particular disclosures! admittedly if i had a famous patient and i knew about their career i would probably tell them that directly in the first session, i would not however make asides about it because now you're kind of creating a dual relationship. the bedsheets thing is weird bc you gotta keep a wiiiide birth around anything even quasi sexual, like don't invite a patient to imagine what your bed is like you weirdo. also finances are usually an inappropriate thing to self-disclose, because therapy is also a financial relationship! i would never joke about how a patient has more money than me (even though most of my patients have a lot more money than me), it seems likely to induce guilt and also to disturb the therapeutic frame around money which is hard to manage anyway

[comingatthecottage]

therapeutic interventions: i mean the biggest problem is that she doesn't really seem to have a consistent style or approach or anything. they just kind of chat. the things she does say are… weird. she directly gives advice about what he should do in his relationship with Shane repeatedly. She doesn’t otherwise tell ilya what to do, which would actually be more appropriate--there's a place for giving depressed patients clear instructions imo. but she doesn't do that, she tells him what to do with his boyfriend which is far riskier because she's never met shane! the worst bit is that she also directly predicts what the outcome of one of the conversations she tells him to have will be, which is… bad, because she does not know Shane, and this is like their fourth session, and she could be wrong. That’s how you destroy a therapeutic rapport forever btw, is make a promise you can’t keep. i have never in my career assured a patient that a conversation they were gonna have with someone else would turn out well, because i don't know that person. maybe shane is an abusive asshole who is going to say "well if you're depressed just kill yourself already". she doesn't know this man!

her ideas about how to treat depression seem limited to pills and exercise. which is crazy because the man is a professional athlete. and she's like "well maybe go on a bike ride." because rachel reid clearly doesn't know how therapy works or what the mechanism of action is! she doesn't lay out the many, many possibilities ("i recommend speaking to a psychiatrist, options might include ssris or snris, other antidepressants, mood stabilizers, etc. there are also interventional methods like intravenous ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation, or ECT. i mention those only so you understand that there are a lot of options, and a lot of hope). she doesn't actually offer psychoed about lifestyle interventions--why exercise? what does nutrition look like? sleep? she tells him he needs to come out to his friends but doesn't offer anything to help him actually understand how social isolation and depression interact. she doesn't look at any of his strengths, notably the fact that he has a partner who adores him, that he has survived a lifetime of immense trauma, that he has a brilliantly successful career, etc. there's a stab at one CBT exercise but otherwise no concrete skills (again not my thing but it would be something). and no information about different therapy modalities and how they could potentially help him. okay that's the end of my essay sorry to anyone who doesn't care and had to watch this get reblogged like 8 separate times becasue tumblr was mad abt how long it was if anyone wants to know My Case Formulation of fictional character Ilya Rozanov and how i would Fix Him let me know @stunkbug here is the essay!

[aaliyahsparrow]

"It followed me home", Ilya Rozanov [Connor Storrie] and a "friend", based on this post of Erling Haaland returning home

I saw someone @brokenberries post this with an art request, so I saved the screenshot, and now I cannot for the life of me find it again. If/when I do, I'll link it in. Whoever you are, please feel free to request stuff like this more often because it is GENIUS!

Photoshopped image (images sourced from instagram, and google), watercolour texture from stock image databases, overlines by computer program and me (I was not going to try to do the raccoon by hand, I'd still be there in six hours). This is not AI.

July 2026

Please do not repost my images to other sites without permission

[virginshane]

ilya fuckboy style hitting on his own husband!!!!!

[shanesloverboy]

Come on guys, the weird shipping has to stop. Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have only just recently put their differences aside to start the Irina Foundation and they're doing a lot of good. We don't want to jeopardize that with parasocial rpfing.

[magneatio]

a few tears from baby shane after a TOTALLY preventable loss at his baby hockey game…

[nicolegendary]

sometimes you just gotta fuck up your sleep schedule by reading all 100k words of a fic you're not even enjoying, and don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise

[ticklefighthockey]

me shrieking and tearing out my hair: it’s so MEAN to be mean to him at the olympics and then ghost him for six months after you took his gay virginity so tenderly and kissed him like that in the stairwell while he snuggled your hoodie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dailyhollanovgifs]

the horrors ™️

[ticklefighthockey]

do you know if there are any fics where Shane and Ilya are just. shit hockey players. not like they're actually bad in the scheme of humanity's skills, but like within NHL standards, where they're like 4th liner journeymen who keep getting bounced up and down to and from the AHL and NHL

ughh I wish to write it (see the tag). not that I know of but I crave it!!

[ticklefighthockey]

Jes I am So Sorry to ask this but do you think you could reblog the non HR stuff that you post here on ur other account? I'm unsure if this'll be too much work and pls don't respond ahdjjd I feel ashamed asking.

I think it's on me for not being into HR or not checking both of ur accounts or for having fear of FOMO due to your excellent takes. And I'm making it your problem in a way. Sorry.

I will do my best 🫡 my posting style is extremely erratic and there is no real rhyme or reason to why I do anything but I will do my best

[clytemnestraaa]

sorry but i do like and enjoy when shane is a kind of bad captain and bad friend and partially reaps what he sowed with the metros as a result of years and years of a willfully blind eye and a locker room culture he enabled and i have seen the opinion that the metros team loves shane and that’s an interpretation i can understand but don’t myself hold because what i see is not the team loving shane but sucking up to shane and shane not totally having the social skills to recognize that while this group of guys seems really friendly and nice to him it isn’t actually motivated by friendship which is why the pivot takes him by such surprise