the desert, and you, and me.

i cannot stress how much shane hollander is ilya rozanov’s dream man. he does not want a hot supermodel blonde wag who lives for wild nights and a fast life. he wants someone who is the best in the world at what he does and pushes him to do better. he wants someone who is earnest and honest and brave with their emotions and will gently coax the ghosts out of him until he feels like he can fall into safety. he wants the stability and love from someone that his family was never able to give him. it also helps that shane is a freak who is ready to warm ilya’s dick with his mouth at any given moment but that’s just really the cherry on top. good job ilya you won the jackpot

i love the “hollanov has a crush on carter vaughn” take not necessarily in a “i think they would invite him to watch” way but more in a “ilya would accidentally let it slip while chirping at shane to fluster him that vaughn is at the top of their ‘would’ list and vaughn is a little thrown off and straight so he’s like “are you guys asking?” and ilya laughs and pats his shoulder and assures him “absolutely not, i do not share my shane, we just think you are good looking man, i like that you are pretty and fun and my shane likes that you are serious about hockey and have good grooming habits. is not serious, do not worry vaughny we will not be asking you to witness me and my beautiful husband ever” and vaughn low key is overjoyed about it, his teammates who are around and hear the exchange are sometimes like “that doesnt bother you? you dont find that a bit weird?” but vaugh genuinely is just like “rozanov just called me pretty and fun enough to hang out with and hollander thinks im good at hockey and clean enough for him, you could hand me a nobel peace prize and it wouldnt come close to this achievement” and eventually it gets out to the general public so vaughn is captioning his instagram posts shit like “#1 contender for being the hockey husbands third goes fishing” despite shanes mortification about this getting out and vaughns clear delight with it” way