Let's forget reality

Yuna watched as David put down multiple X 2s, resulting in a whining Rozan- Ilya. Now, Ilyas stack of Uno cards in his hands is slightly smaller, only enough for someone as competitive and overly serious about children's cards games like Shane or Yuna to notice.

Yuna and David had only met Ilya officially yesterday when David had an awkward run in with the boys at the cottage. They spent a dinner together to clear things up, now a significantly calmer lunch at Shane's cottege and a game of cards, a Hollander classic.

The air is still a bit awkward and the boys are both still slightly tense. Give them time, Yuna reminds herself, repeating the words David said to her in the car before they arrived.

"Ah! No looking at my cards, Hollander! Is cheating." Ilya says back dramatically, not denying that he himself has cheated but putting on an innocent act.

"Oh and fucking smuggling away cards isn't cheating?! Dad just made you pick up a shit ton." Shane responds, mouth like a sailor.

Yuna has always played card games since she started dating David. Shane was just as competitive as her and it's one of the only times Shane drops his sensible, media trained act he seems to wear even off cameras. But it's never much.

Yuna opens her mouth to interrupt their old married couple bickering. I guess the 10 years of them... 'Seeing each other' is quite evident. But Yuna is cut off when Shane suddenly gets his hands on Ilya, who let's out a ridiculous noise and shuffles deeper in his seat to get away from the wandering grip.

"Hey! There in your pants." Shane hisses, sounding angry but he's got a big fat smile on his face once he officially catches Rozanov cheating.

"Ah- pervert, hands off! Is your parents house!" Ilya retaliates, receiving a groan from Shane when he's made out to be a pervert.

Suddenly the boys are up, practically tackling each other as Shane attempts to (innocently) shove his hands into his squealing boyfriends pants, retrieving many cards that he picked up earlier.

Yuna watches as they play fight, calling each other names and declaring who's a cheater and she realises she hasn't seen Shane like this in years, not with her or David, not even Hayden or any of Montreal, he doesn't even look so full of joy when skating. It's childish and loud. Shane has a handfull of cards Ilya had hidden in his pockets and waistband, catching him red handed as Ilya tries to insinuate that Shane had set him up and placed them there. Yuna and David share a glance, speaking without words- a language learnt of many years of two people being in love, something she noticed Shane and Ilya have picked up together as well.

They are both thinking it. Shane has found someone. The one- as cheesy as it sounds. Yuna would always tell Shane one day he'd find that person, who makes him feel wild and crazy and someone he can just be himself with and Shane would groan, faking disgust in all his teenage dramatics. But it happened.

@mybloodstream-caffeine oH OH!

Apollo's really sweet, treats her like the most precious thing in his life (bc she is), he's super inteligent, but has never called her stupid and he is so funy. Percy thinks, no, she knows he's the best guy around and that she's the luckiest person in the world bc that's HER boyfriend...now, If only people could focus on that instead of the videos of him doing fuck me eyes at the camera while showing off his jawline, that'd be great.

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i’m seeing lots of folks talk about this moment as ilya being jealous, and friends, this is not jealousy

this is self-loathing. this is self-contempt. he is staring into a mirror. (side note, this reddit post about mirrors symbolizing internalized homophobia in hr is well-worth a read)

he is not angry at shane. he’s furious at himself. he’s disgusted with himself. altho i don’t think it’s just internalized homophobia in this case. it’s more about his shame in general, because he actually let himself think that maybe someone would love him back. that he would be worth staying for, when no one has ever stuck around for him before

and he let himself believe for one tiny little moment that shane hollander, MLH golden boy, would risk (really risk, not just this dalliance a few times a year) his career and reputation and heart for him. what a fool. he should know better, because when has anyone ever loved him like that? never, except his mother, and she’s still gone, isn’t she? so what did he think he was doing, letting himself get pulled in so deep that he actually thought he might get loved back

folks have been putting lots of hollanov stepbrothers stuff on my dash (delicious btw keep doing that) but my fuckin brain was like “okay but how would they Become stepbrothers” and basically we have one of three options:

1. invent totally new parents for both of them (lame)

2. yuna and grigori get married (EWW EWW EWW)

3. david and irina get married

and yeah yeah okay MAYBE irina and yuna could be a thing but since this would still prolly be in the early aughts im thinking prolly not possible esp with irina being russian and would need to immigrate and marriage would be the best way to speed that along SO me being me, i have latched onto darina and now my brain won’t let go

“but starr how do they meet” PARENTING FORUM. 2003. THREAD ABOUT BEING A HOCKEY PARENT. poor sad irina stuck in moscow hideously depressed and reaching out any way she can for connection on her fuckass dial-up internet… constantly apologizing bc english isn’t her first language…. yuna (who amicably divorced david) being like “honey i think you’re getting catfished” when he tells her about irina… david helping her LEAVE GRIGORIS ASS AND BRING ILYA WITH HER!!!!!

i just think david would be waiting for them at the airport with flowers and a little “welcome to canada!” sign. and he would help her get therapy and medication and not want to kill herself. he would be so kind and support her passions and take care of her and help her heal from grigori’s abuse.

@pscentral 6 month gift exchange for @tylerhoechline

Pa Kent: Good morning Alfred. Are you busy today? Ma and I are in Gotham for that fancy art gallery Clark is writing about. Did you have some time to meet us for lunch before the event?

Alfred: Oh, sorry, Pa, unfortunately, I have my hands full with the latest shenanigans of the children.

Pa: Oh? What happened?

Alfred: Master Dick, has discovered he is a father.

Pa shocked: Dick has kids?

Alfred: Yes, we believe they're from the same place as Mister Bart Allen.

Pa: Oh. That makes sense. How is Dick handling everything?

Alfred: Very well. He's ecstatic to be a father. It's his children who are....reluctant.

Pa: What do you mean?

Alfred: Hold on. Let me send you a picture of the children when Master Dick told them he was thier father.

Danny/Dan/Dani:

Pa: Well....they certainly resemble Dick. He looked the same when I asked him to help me birth a calf. How old are they?

Alfred: Master Dan is the oldest; he's twelve. Master Daniel is the middle one at ten, and Miss Danielle is the youngest at eight. They're sweet children, but they do not seem interested in being brought into the Waynes' home. They've negotiated with Master Bruce to get them rooms at the most expensive hotel in Gotham, in exchange for not running away. It took us months to even corner them.

Pa: Wow that sounds so stressful. I understand that your busy we could reschedule-

Ma taking the phone: Alfred, let Dick handle his kids. You deserve a day off. Join us for lunch, wine and dine at the art gallery with us and if the night goes well, let us get you naked between us.

Pa scandalized in the background: That's too forward!

Alfred: What time and where are we doing lunch?

Bruce sitting across from Alfred and overheard everything: Now Clark will know the pain of the butler dating one's parents. Let's see him laugh now. I hope he suffers.

All of Jason’s kills in Lost Days are stated to be super heinous people, but when he gets into the stuff readers would find less acceptable (fighting Ollie, fighting Bruce, kidnapping Mia, his crime lord acts) we have to rely on other people’s narration and whatever bullshit he’s saying to try and piece together how he genuinely thinks about like anything happening. Does he consider himself a villain or does he still group himself with heroes? Does he think killing is a personal moral punishment or a utilitarian tool? I can extrapolate my answers based on lining his actions up with his statements, but if someone takes the words on the page as accurate at face value they’re going to find something different than me, because the words on the page are inconsistent and include things he says to taunt Bruce, Bruce’s repression cope over his son becoming his villain, a conversation between Black Mask and his assistant, and none of Jason’s thoughts.

Ilya: everyone is welcome to dunkin’s funeral on friday

Cliff: who the fuck is dunkin?

St-Simon: you’re selling your ducati?!

Connors: you named your bike after dunkin donuts?

Ilya: yes and also yes; jane says either i sell dangerous motorcycle or i can never eat her ass again

Ilya: was easy choice

Cliff: man you’re whipped can’t belive you’re actually giving up on your fucking Ducati

Ilya: if you had seen janes ass you’d understand

Connors: what are you getting instead?

Ilya: Nothing. Jane says I have enough cars and should invest money in more safe investments in case i loose my job and visa

St-Simons: jesus kid

St-Simons: you sure she’s not your wife?

Yes thank you this is perfect I luv ya I luv ya I luv ya. Obsessed with the idea that Ilya has wanted to get Shane flowers for a while now, had thought about it maybe before- seeing the elaborate bouquets in flower shops in passing, wondering if Shane would like them. Wondering if he likes roses- or something less classic. If Shane’s ever been given flowers before. It makes something in Ilya’s chest ache to think he never has. Shane is so, gorgeous, so beautiful, he deserved a bundle of flowers are pretty and radiant as him.

And I AGREEE I think shaney bug would have a weird reaction at first, concerned that well, guys don’t get flowers do that? But then again Shane guesses he never really thought about it. He’s only ever really known the stereotype of the man buys the girl flowers. But Shane loves, he looooves how it feels when Ilya presents him with a bundle of brightly coloured flowers, the bouquet so large it’s heavy in his hands. They smell sweet, are gorgeous and it makes Shane’s stomach swirl, it looks like Ilya’s love, how he makes him feel, wrapped up in a thick ribbon bow.

And Ilya’s simple “do you like them” and it overwhelms Shane, makes his heart flutter, butterflies his belly. “Yes, he’s very much” and Shane has to use a glass serving jug as a vase but he puts them in the kitchen, so he’ll walk in and see them every morning, first thing.

I see the words 'Captain Ilya' and 'rookie Shane' and I start grinning like the Grinch meme.

And, honestly? An Ilya who had to grow up as the undisputed number 1 champion of the NHL, with no one to challenge him, to make him better? An Ilya who never had Shane as a tempering influence over his wilder part boy days? Who had to go through losing his father and cutting off his family mostly alone? I think he'd be faaaaar from well adjusted, and I think that means he'd be EASILY tempted by the thought of corrupting the little rising star's innocence. And honestly, the kid's so obvious, he's lucky Ilya's the one he's crushing on - Ilya can show the kid the ropes, give him a good time before he drops him. Ilya would be doing him a favour by popping his gay cherry for him, honestly - there are a lot worse options out there. Ilya can at least teach the kid to be a little more discreet.