sharp teeth

shane sleeps best in something moving—cars, airplanes, etc. there’s something soothing about the motion, how it’s repetitive. (i am thinking about knockout by @penandinkprincess which you should if you haven’t already) but ALSO I am thinking about what happens after they get home from a long drive, when shane has wedged himself against the door and found just the right spot to sleep and he’s wearing a good hoodie that’s soft.

and sometimes ilya parks the car and can’t bear to wake shane up so he’ll try his best to make sure he gets shane in the door. one hand braced against his back, shane’s legs wrapped around his waist and sleepily nuzzling into the side of ilya’s neck as he carries him to bed.

it’s good, it’s so good & ilya wouldn’t have it any other way.

ilya falls asleep on the couch after movies and doesn’t mean to, but he’s been used to doing this and then waking up in the dead of night with the tv screen still playing the screen saver before he drags himself into his room and he can stumble into bed.

with shane though, shane will not let him sleep on the couch, especially bc it’s going to fuck up your neck ilya and ilya will grumble the whole time but he likes the way that shane cards his fingers through ilya’s hair and coaxes him to lift up just a little so shane can slide one hand underneath ilya’s back and one under his knees.

and then when they get back to bed ilya flops all over shane.

It started when he was a kid and he was trying to help everyone get better at hockey including the opposing teams players, he would say something like “your stick grip is weak” or “you’re slow on your right” (idk i don’t know hockey very well ESPECIALLY little kid hockey) but he says it totally deadpan because little Shanebug doesn’t understand tone yet.

This makes the other teams so mad! They try and fight him constantly! Little bitty baby hockey fights and then Yuna sits him down in middle school after the first fight that he actually gets hurt (black eye and bloody lip) and asks him what he is saying to make everyone fight him?

“Nothing mean I swear mom!!! I’m trying to be nice and help correct their form”

And suddenly Yuna gets it and explains to Shane that not everyone but especially not the opposing team likes to have their flaws pointed out to them even if it’s coming from a good place and how that could be seen as chirping.

So he stops for a while, then his coach for world juniors tells him to try and piss off Rozanov enough that they can draw a penalty. So Shane does what he does best and points out a flaw at each face off. Jokes on him though because Ilya is actively changing those things and getting better every face off because he is taking it for what it is, advice.

Which pisses Shane off, he thinks his chirping tactic won’t work now that he is older. So he points out at his first scrimmage at practice in Montreal that the center who has been there for years (who he is probably replacing) is favoring his left side is staying too far left to compensate (again I don’t know hockey so I am trying to translate things I know about soccer lol)

And the center loses it on him! Immediately yelling about the lack of respect and how a rookie makes it to the MLH and thinks they are hot shit.

So Shane realizes his chirping DOES work just not on rozanov and becomes a menace he studies game tape specifically to find holes in his opponents game and pre prepares chirps and it fucking works because all these men are so far up their own asses that they just get mad instead of using the advice.

this post is inspired in part by this one by @cheshirepirouette and sponsored in part by convos w @asteriis and @indouscurse here’s to y’all!! this post also goes out to my brothers, who are pale as hell for reasons unbeknownst to all of us (this is a joke).

like any good headcanon, this started as a joke because i thought to myself: Ryland sounds like the type of name that somebody’s Black child would have and only use on church sundays. nobody actually has ever called him that in his whole entire life, except maybe his mama SOMETIMES and that’s why he doesn’t remember it right away. i feel like every Black person knows somebody who is called literally anything except their god given name. people call him lil r, lil grace, gracie, ry, ryry, riri, RG, lando, mr. grace, dr. grace, but nobody calls him Ryland, which is part of why he Can’t Remember for so long.

so of course i went back to the source material to see if he ever actually mentioned being white anywhere and unfortunately it is very much at the beginning of the book. so THEN i started to think about how i could get around that while remaining at least largely canon compliant (as a little treat for myself). what i came up with is what i have affectionately dubbed my “litebrite baby” headcanon.

In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.