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A couple of people have talked about how married they were when Shane wouldn’t let Ilya carry his own bag at the cottage but their first actual already-married moment was when Shane said he could “smell the cigarette from here” and Ilya let out an exasperated breath and said “I had one.” What do you mean he defended himself like he even had to. What do you mean he revealed he’s trying to smoke less for Shane. He went from “…Okay” (a clear idgaf if I’m not supposed to smoke here and who do you think you are for telling me I can’t) in ep. 1 to “I had one” in ep. 2 lmao he was already a goner by their third hookup.
#Well it’s because at “okay” it was about his health. he never had Shane’s tongue in his mouth#but at “I had one” he wants Shane’s tongue back in his mouth or his in Shane’s and if Shane doesn’t like cigarettes it lessens that chance#or so Ilya thinks. His focus on on making Shane happy. When in reality Shane will kiss him with tuna breath. They just don’t know it yet#heated rivalry
Six. Point. Seven. Seconds. / The crowd went wild. Shane threw his arms over his head and celebrated more than was probably necessary or sportsmanlike, but fuck, it felt good. / He smirked at Rozanov as he skated back to his teammates. Rozanov wasn’t smiling now, but the look in his eyes was… / Shane flushed[.]
Ilya with his competency kink and Shane with his obsessive need to be perfect 😏
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“Oh no, you have nothing– nothing to apologise for. Look at me. Look at me. .... Look at me. I'm sorry that I made you feel like you couldn't tell me. Hey... I am so, so proud of you. Okay? Please forgive me.”
HEATED RIVALRY — 1.06: The Cottage
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Anonymous asked:
not sure if other people will weigh in, but my two cents as a hockey fan: i think in canadian hockey culture in particular they perceive russian hockey and russian hockey players to be different/inferior (this is true of euro hockey in general, but especially in the 2010s the vitriol was really reserved for russians). russian hockey players are considered flashy and selfish, not like the good, hardworking canadian boys. it probably sounds ridiculous but these xenophobic narratives are so baked into hockey discourse. to me, things like "cock-sucking russian" is not saying anything about sexuality so much as "guy who is willing to draw attention to himself" which is deeply frowned upon in canadian/north american hockey culture
LOVE this contribution and I think the idea that calling a guy a “cock-sucking russian” has nothing to do with his sexuality works WONDERFULLY in parallel with there being a russian word for faggot that isn’t actually meant to imply someone is gay. because like but that’s the POINT! the homophobia is so at the foundation of the thing that it isn’t even the actual thing being commented on. the notorious ladies’ man who is confident in his masculinity isn’t being called gay because he seems like he might be, he’s being called a cock-sucker because FUCK that guy! and love all the information typifying russian hockey players—it’s interesting to think that ilya has some awareness of these perceptions and has decided to just play into them or at least not waste time worrying that he might be coming across as a typical arrogant russian player when he’s getting the job done. perfect cross-section of xenophobia and homophobia—for the other players, he’s not a faggot because he’s gay, he’s a faggot because he’s RUSSIAN!
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HEATED RIVALRY | 1.05
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HEATED RIVALRY — PAGE 241
#the last time was when his mom died and everytime i remember that I feel like I’m being bludgeoned#and I wonder how often he cried before that. when he had her. and she’d let him. and try to say something funny to make him feel better#and then she was gone and he had his strict no nonsense too hard on her too hard on him father#and he learnt to just never cry again. to push everything down no matter how sad and lonely he was#and god he was so so lonely#and then he kept colliding with Shane#kept making sure their paths crossed because then he didn’t have to feel alone anymore#until he realized he wasn’t alone anymore#heated rivalry#(I’m aware he has svetlana in the show but he doesn’t not really in the books)
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Heated Rivalry / Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly, Bitter and True
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ilya rozanov funny moments pt. 1
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"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?" - William Shakespeare
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One of my favourite things about the end of episode 6 is that they come out and sort it all out with Shane’s parents … and then the parents are like “ok cool! And since you aren’t actually on a silent retreat we can have dinner together! I’ll bring the mains and a salad, see you at five and … oh right - we have to be considerate of your private time now so we WILL TEXT before coming over from now on even if it’s prearranged. Ok! New boundaries! Great! Love you!”
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“They made me feel really old,” he says. “They were like, ‘What is a wolf and why is it on parade?’ And I was like, ‘I hate both of you.’ And I was like, ‘Feist? 1,2,3,4?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we watched that on Sesame Street.’ And I was like, ‘Again, I’d like to push you down a flight of stairs. Your youth enrages me.’”
Jacob Tierney, Rolling Stone, January 9 2026 (x)
They really are annoying kids winding their dad up, and I love them for it
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"Maybe you could teach me Russian someday."
Source: oliverqsmoak
#he doesn’t know what to do about it!!!!#because where’s he supposed to put it? how’s he supposed to carry it?#keep it? forget it#he doesn’t even think he can have it!!! what’s he supposed to do?!!!#what are they supposed to do?!!#and then he says it and Shane says it back and Shane wakes him up with a plan!#heated rivalry
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HEATED RIVALRY | 1.05