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#BIGROZNATION (banner n pfp art by me!!!)

[hudkarma]

I have to squeeze him genuinely

[blacksheepcolorfulskin]

TELL ME WHO IS PLAYING BOOD

[hugetinymistake]

x

[graceebooks]

OH MY GOD?

[xohxoo]

LMFAO watch your back cameo

[niceshootingrook]

What is the most Hollanov song?

[cottagehillsunset]

Ruby Pike ranting about her date during a Barbeque at the Pikes while Illya and Shane are visiting. "He ate, like, an entire plate of pasta with tuna and then just expected me to kiss him!", she scoffs. "Didn't even use chewing gum or a mint. Why would I want to kiss him with his tuna breath?"

Shane and Ilya just quickly looking at each other because. Well. Depending on the person the tuna breath really isn't what you're focusing on.

"Who even orders a dish with tuna on a date?", Jade asks shaking her head.

"But tuna is nice", Arthur says. "The tuna melts Uncle Ilya makes are always really good."

Jade rolls her eyes at her brother. Boys.

"Yeah, we like them too, Art. But obviously he wouldn't cook those for a first date", she says. "If someone made me a tuna melt on a date I'd run out of that room so fast. Right, Uncle Shane?"

Ilya chokes on his wine. Shane looks as if someone just punched him in the gut. Jade is happy that her Uncles are appropriately horrified at the thought of a tuna melt as a date meal.

Arthur is still trying to understand what's so bad about a tuna melt.

[filmfliiicks]

When it comes down to it, Shane Hollander was not crafted with care.

His race is inconsequential in the text. He is a POC playing in a hyper violent, hyper masculine, mostly white sport but that is not considered nor explored meaningfully.

His autism was accidentally written (and then the writer wished she never agreed that he was autistic).

His control over his eating habits was never meant to be anything bigger than what it’s been made out to be.

The writer has called him selfish. The writer when asked about how his race hasn’t been explored, redirected her response to speak about the white characters trauma.

The writer created a list (the controversial core differences list!) where he’s described as not as cool or not as intelligent as his white love interest.

The Long Game, which was meant to be the final book about Shane and Ilya, left Shane in a new team, yes with his husband but still stripped of captaincy and being paid less then he’s worth. His lead up to there is also a humiliation ritual (the outing and tripgate) with no real comfort in the aftermath from Ilya or catharsis for the reader. He is either teased or threatened with the trophy room.

[leook-art]

Janaya photobash! (Cuz I don't feel like drawing)

And a version with color!!!

Yea they have some headcanons what with that

[ur-l0c4l-m4g3]

ive never been so happy knowing that somewhere people could be filming in a trophy room

[ur-l0c4l-m4g3]

im nonbinary right, and my bf called me "neutral" idk y but that was the funniest shit I've heard all night 😭

[gimmiekiss1221]

somewhere right now in toronto they're bolting a chair to the floor for the trophy room scene never kill yourself babe

[gimmiekiss1221]

somewhere right now in toronto they're bolting a chair to the floor for the trophy room scene never kill yourself babe

[mucho-smasho]

we are going to see this. on our tv screens. holy fuck.

[deathoftheaudience]

Cannot stop thinking about how the rushed ending of TLG means that romance genre conventions traps shane into being happy :) while everything he ever feared came true in the worst way possible WITHOUT DEALING WITH ANY OF IT.

You're being tarred and feathered in the media for tripping in a hockey game and your teammates who you thought of as brothers believe your did it on purpose. You're so happy to go see your partner play with your family :) Your friends of almost ten years don't come to your wedding. Ten years of long away games and deep playoff runs. Ten years of being their captain and their friend. Ten years and they don't come to your fucking wedding. You're so happy to be marrying your partner :) You're run out of the city you lived in for your entire adult life and the team you dreamed of retiring on. The team with your three stanley cup banners, the team where you should have gotten to see your number raised to the rafters. You're so happy to get to sign with your husband's team :) You're worried if any team will sign you at all (3 cups. 3 CUPS. 3 FUCKING CUPS). You cannot be paid what you're worth because there is no cap space for it. Never mind that you might be taking a hammer to every step you paved for children like you (Why would you be worth that much? Just look at what they pay Shane Hollander) You're so happy to be playing with your husband :) You are not even given an A to offset the low salary. Shane fucking Hollander, 3 times Stanley cup winner, Conne smythe winner and Olympic medalist without a letter in a team that made its first playoff the season before. You're happy you're happy you're happy-

[russianblush]

“who do you call when you’re in a crisis?”

“crisis about the industry, it’s always connor”

[hollanovices]

thinking about how shane and ilya's expressions of queerness are so different and how it doesn't relate to their preferred positions during sex at all, because it's so refreshing to see.

shane is a bottom through and through, but unlike in many other queer media, he isn't effeminate or delicate. he's masculine and brash and jocky, he works his grill and sets up fires and wears fucking.. khaki pants or whatever. he's just a guy. a guy that prefers to be fucked.

ilya likes topping (although he would be down for whatever as long as it makes shane happy) but he isn't some burly, macho "i will dominate you" dude like tops are shown. he wears his cunty little jean paul gaultier tiger print and slutty tank tops, and he's sassy and has a gay accent in russian and makes these flamboyant hand gestures. they don't take away from his masculinity, but the important thing is that ilya doesn't have to be gruff and manly and stoic.

and it makes me so happy to see that the weird gender role adjacent stereotypes about topping and bottoming arent placed on them.

[hollanderthoughts]

Sent Ilya this dog pic I found online and said “you ❤️” and he called me crying so hard I thought he was gonna throw up