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HOLLANOV in HEATED RIVALRY | 1.06 "The Cottage"

god i LOVE how incredibly stilted and awkward and tense they both are in the car on the way home from the airport and you're like wow..... will the first true test of this relationship be surviving a two-hour car ride together? and then the fucking END CREDITS where they're driving home together and wahHHHHHHHH WAHHHHHHHH I'LL NEVER BE OVER IT

that first scene in the car they can barely even look at each other!!! both sooooo tense and scared!!!!! ilya with his fuckboy sunglasses on to protect him from showing any feelings!!!! and then at the end they’re kissing each other’s knuckles and smiling at each other just sooooo relaxed and happy and in love driving off into the rest of their lives together it kills me!!!!

Ok, here’s the complete video (don’t turn your sound up when it gets quiet!!!!!! Save your ears!)

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i love how fucking weird shane’s parents were actually. i love that they’re shocked about shane and ilya but they’re almost more shocked that shane managed to shock them at all. i love that they adore their perfect golden boy so much that they don’t even realize he needs any reassurance. i love that they’re clearly not used to having difficult conversations. i love that shane crying freaks them out. i love that yuna still has no idea how much pressure shane is under. i love that they think they know him so well, and they do, but it’s not enough. i love shane’s hesitance about telling them and his abject terror at being found out, and i love that he was pretty damn justified

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that man is actively evaporating

ilya crying in absolute relief and so many other feelings when shane said he loved him too is such an inspired change because i think the happier vibe of the moment works for the book because we have a lot more insight to his thoughts and feelings when reading. in the show it really showcases how hockey is very much not his priority and that it's main point was always escapism from russia in his life. never going back to russia, going no contact with his family and everything after his dad died AND getting shane's love is so overwhelming for him because he has been treading water for so long and repressing his love for shane for so long and finally like coming up for air for the first time since he was 12. he made it to his new life. he has love again. he escaped. it kills me. that's such a big feeling.

“they should put *popular song* in s2 of heated rivalry!” “they should have *famous actor* in s2 of heated rivalry!”

❌ NO! WRONG! it should continue to have indie music and unknown actors! stop trying to taint a beautiful thing!

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nbd i'm fine

outside of the obvious reasons why the hollanov relationship reveal must be crazy to shane’s parents, it’s gotta be wild to them that their shy, awkward kid is dating the league slut. their kid, who cannot even say the word “sex” without blushing, has been fucking a man whose sexual reputation is a topic of conversation. for a decade. they are in fact on a sexcation together. if you want to see them, you need to text them that you’re on your way there, because even if they know you’re coming in advance, they cannot keep their hands off of each other long enough to properly keep track of time. david hollander sees things start to heat up between them and knows instantly that they have probably fucked against every window in that extremely glass house.

idk i’m obsessed with how shane bringing ilya home is not just him coming out as gay, it’s him coming out as an experienced sex freak.

#AND he locked him down#what does it mean when ur kid is the reason the town slut will not sleep with anyone else?!!#heated rivalry @my-moon

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HEATED RIVALRY | 1.06

losing my MIND over the fact that Ilya probably thinks he's actually helping when they go to Shane's parents' house.

They get there and Shane is like "Ilya and I are, uh..." and Ilya is like "hmm we haven't talked about this but I know Shane is really uncomfortable right now, so I will shout out the one (1) english word I know that describes this situation. LOVERS."

Then they're talking about how long they've been together and Shane is like "since our rookie season" and Ilya is like "well, hold on now, you said you don't like lying to your parents, so let's be very clear about when this started. We have to be so clear about the fact that it started the summer before our rookie season. Wait, would it make you feel better if I give your parents the exact date and time of our first hookup?"

And then Yuna is like "you've been in love that long?" and Ilya is like "I need you to understand I've been drilling your son into mattresses from here to Florida for the last decade, but I can't say that because I want you to be my mother in law, so are you picking up what I'm putting down?" and Shane is like ILYA and Ilya is like "I am ANSWERING MY MOTHER IN LAW'S QUESTIONS"

And then he drinks his vodka and eats his pasta in his Boston shirt, very proud of himself for being sooooo supportive, meanwhile Shane is actively praying for a black hole to swallow him up