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alex | elder millennial | Multifandom.
“Whether he ended up in Ottawa or somewhere else, whoever signed him would have to accept that they were signing Ilya Rozanov’s husband.”
“He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real.”

I’m not gonna lie it’s borderline embarrassing how long I’ve worked on this that I’ve spend 2 days tryna figure out how to caption it to make it less embarrassing but oh well. It also made me realise the banner says exy ncaa instead of ncaa exy but at this point that’s none of my business

Short of being inside Nora’s head here is a (mostly) (I think) biblically accurate and to scale model of the Foxhole Court and Nora I have a several questions.

Also rendered so many images of this I had like 50 cameras in the scene would y’all care if I just did a photo dump.

God I have so many things to say about working on this I had to restart like 8 times it was a mess but if I start I won't be able to stop Imao though if anyone's interested in a breakdown of all the sections and materials I would be more than happy to make a post yapping about it.

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Get To Know Your Moots - 2025 Edition

Rules: Answer these with your top three from 2025 (not released in 2025, but experienced or hyperfixated on).

Tagged by @sunkillerencoder thanks babes! 💕

Celeb crushes:

I don’t have one… but I can tell you my Character chrush: Ilya “The Sperminator” Rozanov.

Movies:

One Battle After Another, Equilibrium, Practical Magic

Games:

N/A

Books:

The Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter, The Cut and Run series by Abi Roux, The Golden Raven by Nora Sakavic.

TV Shows:

The Pitt, Heated Rivalry, Mobland.

Band/Artist/Musician:

All Saints, Bush, Portishead.

Content creators (up to your interpretation):

Obvs the Empty Netters guys were a delight to discover (hockey, heated rivalry)

Three Things That Got You Through 2025:

Listen… Pettiness, a new hyperfixation, and the will to live another day so I can witness the day he dies.

Boyfriend is a label that is only necessary in the context of other people. The conversation with his parents starts with Shane’s inability to label who Ilya is to him, but before that moment, it never mattered because no one else could know. They never had to figure out how to introduce each other to people, because it was just between them. And then suddenly, Ilya’s labelling who is in that room: Shane, your family is here, your boyfriend is here. Those words only ever mean something and are only ever necessary to people outside of those labels. Shane and his parents don’t have to name “family” when they talk or are together; they just are. And prior to that moment, Shane and Ilya didn’t need to label who they were to each other—rivals, lovers, boyfriends—because those words are signifiers for other people to understand who they are to each other. Shane and Ilya already know. And Shane struggles with finding the word because it was never necessary before, and he thought it wouldn’t be for years since no one was supposed to know. And then suddenly, he doesn’t have a word, and Ilya names it: lovers. And just as suddenly, Ilya renames it: boyfriend. Because they aren’t hiding, not in front of the two people who matter most to Shane. Suddenly, the label is necessary because it’s no longer a secret thing between the two people who make up that label.

my tumblr mutuals will take characters from media that is not very good & construct such rich & intricate inner worlds for them in their posts that i will go wow that sounds so compelling let me go check this out….& then the canon character will be like. relatively boring with very little interiority. but that’s okay because sometimes the real character is the one my tumblr mutuals hallucinated along the way….

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