I'm on a Double Date

at what age do they start saying, there's this kid in russia who's fucking good. gets under your skin, plays hard, the softest hands you've ever seen. could be a match for hollander. could be better.

at what age does shane start looking at videos of ilya rozanov tearing up russian juniors. it's just tape. it's blurry and pixelated and shane keeps his eyes on 81, marks when he slams a boy straight into the boards and then skates off with the puck, watches the buttery smooth deke around the d, backhand snipe, top shelf, fist up in a celly. you're an awesome player to watch. it's the most beautiful thing he's seen.

But, you also have the "more" of it all. Shane doing as he's told from the off; Ilya effortlessly slipping into the dominant role right from the start and Shane revelling in the submission, before they've even gotten physical with each other. And you have "no" in that Vegas bathroom. 'No, you are not in charge here'. 'No, you cannot have what you want, even though you did exactly as I asked'. 'No, this is not on your terms'. 'No, you will wait until I decide I want you'. And then you have Shane standing there, at the cottage, revelling in the fact that Ilya is finally here, in his space, with him. He's preening, patiently waiting for Ilya to touch him; for Ilya to kiss him; for Ilya to decide what it is they will do now. Because he's a good boy. He won't act out of turn. He won't presume he's owed a kiss. He will wait for Ilya to decide what he deserves.

and just as importantly that's NOT how ilya is!! its not!!! he's got a natural sleaziness about im that comes from being extremely hot and extremely sexually desirable and extremely skilled and extremely confident. it all coalesces into this ilya who pushes pushes and pushes and when he gets what he wants takes takes and takes

he's persistent about wanting shane and he's consistent in pushing shane's boundaries sometimes. ofc he backs down at times (asg scene where shane's soooo nervous but he's so pliable so he turns over anyways and doesnt say anything until ilya asks) but he is straight up still touching shane's hole the entire time. and afterwards, he rolls over on top of shane, he's pinning shane down. and he's not exactly trying to stop touching shane and breaking contact that may be making shane nervous.

Y'all okay, maybe I'm a little bit annoyed that this person came up with a clever gambit to get past The Lego Heated Rivalry Ban before I did, but I will be even more irate if we don't get this thing over the finish line.

Just go make an account and support The Lego Cottage project, okay?

i think he's a "you definitely won't come if you're bad, but maybe you can earn an orgasm by being good. or maybe it won't matter if you're good and I won't let you come anyway" type of dom.

and so shane can be perfect. he can be good. he can do everything ilya orders and he can win their little games. and the reward might be that instead of coming on his face, ilya will come in his mouth and let him taste. maybe the reward will be ilya putting shane in a cock cage so that he doesn't have to worry about coming in his sleep at night like a pathetic teenager.

to tie back to dog shane for a moment... shane likes that he can obey ilya for the sake of obeying ilya. he doesn't want a treat to be the motivator.

the patient needs to be entirely and radically freed from a fear of the consequences of his own failures to liiiiiive. shane is always living in a world where he has to be good and perfect and never mess it up and get it right all the time and i think he would thrive with ilya just setting him up to fail. or being like "you did take that perfectly but i changed my mind, i don't want to watch you come anymore."

shane is walking around his whole life with this belief that if he Just Does Everything Right And Perfect Forever The Face-Eating Tigers Won't Eat His Face Oh God Oh God If Anyone Sees My Terrible Secret They Will Throw Me To The Tigers and ilya is like "ok. well, i am the tiger, and i see your secret, and i don't care if you do it right or wrong. i'm gonna get you if i want you either way"

This to me does not yell man with a plan. This to me says man who is so desperate to love and be loved that he is digging his nails into the only thing he wants and clinging to it. Desperate enough that he'll stay up until four in the morning with his heart rabbiting in his chest and his mind spinning faster than the earth itself trying to come up with something, ANYTHING that lets him. Fucking. Keep. This.

But on a normal day? He thrives on routine SPECIFICALLY so that he does not have to plan shit. Mr. I Hired A Stylist pays people and his MAMA to do that for him. For the things that don't involve hockey or his brand deals, Mr. A Designer Bought These Pillows just trundles along behind his husband and goes where he's told no questions asked. He fucking LOVES to wake up in the morning and have every aspect of his day prepared for him. He loves to wake up and scroll his color-coded calendar and know exactly what's on the docket. He's got a routine that he does not deviate from if he can POSSIBLY help it and it looks a little something like:

wake up when the alarm goes off.

SOMETIMES: Sex with Ilya. Whatever Ilya decides.

If sex with Ilya: Shower (Unless the sex with Ilya was in the shower)

Smoothie

go on run when the alarm goes off.

Come home and drink exactly the amount of water in the bottle he prefilled before his jog

Do yoga until the alarm goes off

Shower

Meal prepped breakfast

Game Tape OR admin OR workout OR whatever Yuna's put on the schedule until the alarm goes off.

SOMETIMES: Sex with Ilya. Whatever Ilya decides.

Shower, if needed.

Meal prepped lunch

Pre-game nap

[INSERT HOCKEY HERE.]

Come home.

PROBABLY: Sex with Ilya. Whatever Ilya decides.

Eat meal prepped dinner.

Wind-down time until the alarm goes off.

SOMETIMES: Sex with Ilya. Whatever Ilya decides.

Bed

keep fighting the good fight 🫡

YESSSS fuck yes he's a SADIST. It's there in the text for those with eyes to see. I'm going to relate this back to the look on his face when Shane says no to him immediately before the phone call blowjob. The way his eyes are working, the expression on his face...the man is a sadist. He loves causing Shane distress and embarrassment. And Shane CANONICALLY loves taking all of it and being rewarded afterwards.

I go back and forth on whether I think Rachel completely understood the kind of gas she was cooking with. Currently my theory is that she knew these things were HOT, and maybe specifically hot TO HER, but that maybe she didn't entirely understand the context of the tropes. Some things are SO OBVIOUS while other things she says in the narration are like. Okay well that's very clearly kink but it's being couched in a weird way. Maybe it's a consequence of the editorial process or maybe it's Rachel herself, it's genuinely hard to tell.

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