i would like to propose that ilya's fashion sense is the same as geno's 2000s-10s style

i would like to propose that ilya's fashion sense is the same as geno's 2000s-10s style

Born to hang with hags

Forced to spend time with professional male athletes

10,00,000,000 years closeted

Hockey is a fuck

based on this edited tweet

Shout out to all the writers that are dedicated to putting Hayden Pike in Looney Toons ass situations where he finds out about Hollanov!

everybody's like "I want famous actor X in season 2! I want ridiculously expensive song Y in season 2!" shut uuuuuuuup the only stunt casting we need in season 2 is Gritty

oh so when ilya comes into the hospital room and walks toward Shane and finally takes his hand Shane's heart rate slows to 81. ilya's jersey number. right. right. right. ri

okay guys, this is it. firing up ep 1. here's what I know from osmosis:

okay going in, will report back soon!

I think enough time has passed for me to talk about the fact that one change I absolutely hated from the book to series (even though I love the series ,not so much the book) is Shane fucking giving Ilya heart eyes and giggling when Marlow hits him.

I'm sorry Shane and Ilya were like heads over heals for each other and everything but one thing they never did was compromised their game because of their feelings. Especially Shane fucking Hollander. He would never be giggling at his man in the middle of a game and then be knocked out because of it. He just won't. I have rewatched the series a few times and it bothers me every single time. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

I read that scene as symbolic/non-diegetic rather than literal like a lot of the nightclub scene

Things I want from season 2 that aren’t necessarily in the books:

- JJ not being so shitty

- Shane/Svetlana meeting and friendship

-Ilya dealing more with the guilt of not missing his father

- more of Ilya and Hayden being immature dickheads with each other because it’s funny

- Diamonds by Rihanna not existing in this universe

- Anya is a tiny purse dog

- way more trans rep

- for the love of god if they leave out the butt plug car journey I’ll riot. I need to see Shane absolutely losing it over every speed bump and freaking out

A whole episode that's just plugged up Shane driving in real time like the Tom Hardy movie Locke. 🤞

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

A man after my own taste

Oh it was the best, bow and tearful card included! 🎀

the thing that's been rotating in my head like a horrible little rotisserie thorn is that yuna says: i think we thought maybe you were gay.

we thought maybe you were gay.

we thought maybe you were gay as you grew up and became a professional athlete. rookie of the year. as you navigated this famously homophobic career path. as you tried to put together a public persona, as we guided you through sponsorships and brand deals. we thought maybe you were gay as we watched you, our shy and anxious and awkward son, as you grew into an isolated adult. few friends, no real romances. your mom still buys your shirts. you have always lived alone.

we thought maybe you were gay, but we didn't say anything.

i think - your mother, i - for a while now, we've thought maybe for a while now - we thought - we thought it, we didn't say it, never out loud - because that would mean we had to address it and that would mean we might be right. we kept our eyes down and our mouths shut and we know you so, so well, but we didn't ask and we didn't say anything, not even when scott hunter did all that right out there in front of god and the cup and everyone, and we let it slide off us and into history, past tense, and didn't look too closely at your reaction because we thought maybe you --

i'm sorry that i made you feel like you couldn't tell me.

because i did that. and i knew i was doing it while i was doing it. and i know that you know, now, that i knew i was doing that. i looked away so things could be easier for you because it's there's nothing to tell there's no need for a statement. no need for a plan.

and all this time, all your adult life, since your rookie season, the summer before, you've been in love - lovers - no, look at the way you look at him, you've been in love - and you've kept it secret while we made him your rival. pitted you against him. played up conflict and animosity against him. we sat together at tables with an empty chair where he should have been, where he is now, and hated him if we thought of him at all, and now you sit here and tell us you want to keep that secret another ten years, another fifteen because we made you think that this - this weight, this pressure, this fear we can see in the line of your shoulders and the way you breathe - that this is somehow easier.

you would have kept that secret another ten years, another fifteen. you aren't telling us now because you're ready, or because you want to. you're telling us because you were caught.

found out what, exactly? as if maybe your father was still going to keep that secret for you. as if he didn't tell me, not the whole of it. not everything he saw. as if you could have pretended you hadn't seen him, and he would have pretended he hadn't seen you. another ten years. another fifteen.

we thought maybe you were gay.

but we hung onto: maybe not.

My Mental Lexicon of Hollanov's Physical and Verbal Tics (thus far):

- Ilya's little "okee"

- Ilya scratches his nose/sniffs when he's deflecting/lying

- Shane repeats things for clarification a lot

- Shane's knee jerk insult compendium: "Fuck you" and "You're an asshole". He actually swears a LOT more than Ilya which surprised me my first time watching

- Shane's 'hey~' -> go-to means of gaining Ilya's attention, especially in more serious/intimate moments

- Shane is fastidious, picks at lint and crumbs a lot

- Shane wells up with tears when he's emotional but rarely lets them fall

- Ilya touches his mom's cross to centre himself

- Ilya full-body shakes off stressful/high intensity conversations

- Shane puts on a shirt real weird, he puts it over his head completely before weaving his arms through the holes

- MUTUAL ORAL FIXATION!!! Hoodie strings in mouths / Ilya's chain in his mouth. They're for sure gnawing the shit out of pen caps

- Shane awkwardly puts his thumbs in his pockets when he's standing (thank you @sneakyliz !!)

(Nsfw habits lol)

- Shane throws back his head and closes his eyes a lot when they're Really In It

- Ilya's boob grabbing obsession obviously

- also Ilya's chin grabbing obsession!! He's always grabbing that boy

- he is also always slapping/patting/swatting that boy

- Shane mimics how Ilya touches him a LOT

- Ilya's kind of a mouth breather when he's really turned on, lips are almost always parted

- CONSTANTLY touching and clinging onto each other throughout, they use physical contact for reassurance

- FINGERS IN FUCKING MOUTHS ALWAYS!! Oral fixation part 2: electric boogaloo

- Shane nuzzling Ilya's crotch to bliss out/clam down lol

- and of course Shane's socks stay ON during sex!!!

Feel free to add to the collection, this is an ever expanding list because hudcon are insane and have created entirely new people from the ground up

I get annoyed when people are making posts that are shocked that Shane pulled Ilya. And like maybe, /maybe/, Shane locked down Ilya (there's an argument that Ilya 'domesticity kink' Rosanov locked himself down as soon as he could get Shane to agree to it) but Shane did not pull Ilya, Ilya pulled Shane.

Canonically Shane is one of the hottest men in the world, he's rich, he is at the top of his high intensity career, and he has the biggest saddest wettest most beautiful brown eyes out of anyone on the planet. The moment Ilya saw a scrap of interest he was arranging for them to be in a commercial and jerking off in the shower at him. Ilya watched this man fold his pants one (1) time and thought "well i gotta fuck him forever now". Shane tried to say there wouldn't be a next time and Ilya was like it's too late, I've got your number, you're never getting rid of me, if I annoy you enough you will come organize my socks as like a sex thing.

i get that its all a fantasy and you can write whatever you want but with both hollanov and hockey rpf if i read a fic where they go to therapy and communicate their feelings perfectly and like have safe words lol i just dont really....believe you...like i dont wanna feed into this hockey brainless jock stereotype but they are athletes in a full contact sport that (culturally and somewhat in-game) rewards short tempers and stunted emotions. they are suffering from weekly blunt-force head trauma and they are also men idk girl

ok i’m rewatching e5 and it’s really getting to me how painful shane’s closet is. like he has to be closeted i understand the logistics and his position. i get it. but he uses it against himself all the time. it’s so painful for him. having sex with women is humiliating & difficult but he thinks it’s necessary. keeping distance between himself and his loved ones is isolating but he thinks it’s necessary. having his emotional and sexual needs only barely satisfied for ten whole years is agony but he thinks it’s necessary. everything he does is calculated, everything he does is a fight to not be Too Obvious. being closeted is hard enough, but shane is torturing himself inside his. he punishes himself for being gay all the time. it’s almost like self harm. maybe if he’s a little harder on himself, maybe if he pushes until it hurts, maybe if he tries and tries and tries and just never accepts failure and just works really hard on it then it’ll be fine. he takes that approach to hockey and it works. maybe if it hurts for long enough, badly enough, then he will become a better man by enduring it. maybe it has to hurt for there to be a positive result. maybe the punishment is necessary. and the only person who can punish shane for this is shane himself. so he does. but every time he goes back to ilya it’s a failure, every time he can’t get hard with a woman it’s a failure, every time he thinks about maybe letting himself be what he knows he is it’s a failure. do you ever want to just cry