the widening gyre

Bucky, Sam, and Steve.

I was just imagining someone taking photos of these three at gym.

and my hand slipped.

OH BOY DO I EVER!!!

I think an essential part of the make up sex Vision™ is knowing what hollanov were fighting about beforehand - please consult this excellent ask that details examples of possible big blow up hollanov fights. I think it adds important context for HOW their make up sex plays out.

I also have some other asks (one , two) that detail the rough sex™ version of make up sex, where the sex itself is kind of a continuation of the fight.

But I think my favourite version of hollanov make up sex is still when they treat the sex as them like,,, bridging a gap between them; I've spoken before about how sex is hollanovs number one touchstone of intimacy, so I think that's why I love this version of them making up.

I think Ilya's go to Move™ when he's the one who fucks up and he's trying to coax an angry Shane around, is to go for Shane's neck - it's literally his weak spot. But he has to time it veeeery carefully because if he comes in too hot too soon, Shane will just blow up like "You think you can solve everything with your dick WELL GUESS WHAT-", so he has to wait for an opening.

After Ilya lets Shane cool off, I can picture him walking up behind Shane while Shane's pretending to be busy at their kitchen counter or something and wrapping his arms around Shane's waist, hooking his chin over Shane's shoulder. And Shane is still huffy at this point, but he's playing it up just a little bit - there's a sweet spot that Ilya's gotten good at noticing with Shane where Shane gets a little performative with the displays of his anger, banging pots and pans and sighing and grumbling just loud enough for Ilya to hear, as a way to signal to Ilya "You could probably fuck this mood out of me" (the real danger is when Shane goes icy and closed off - that's when Ilya knows Shane is actually still furious fr).

And if Shane doesn't immediately shoulder Ilya off when he makes his opening bid for attention, then Ilya will start softly kissing his way up to that spot on Shane's neck that makes him melt, and the whole time he's murmuring soft apologies - moya luybov, I'm sorry, I've been awful, you're right to be angry, but please forgive me I hate when we fight - and usually Shane will thaw and then turn around to wrap his own arms around Ilya's neck and sigh because: I hate when we fight too.

And then Ilya will softly pepper kisses over Shane's face, his closed eyelids, his nose, his freckled cheeks, before nosing behind Shane's ear and saying, all soft and sweet, Let me make it up to you, milyy, let me make it better. And by that point Shane is pretty much putty, he's ready to be convinced into bed (all is already forgiven, but Shane likes it when Ilya has to 'convince' him to come to bed with him, so Ilya always plays up his imploring a little, too).