Pulvis et umbra sumus

The Wicked Powers but it’s just Kit and Ash being a mirror of Jace and Sebastian except with a happy ending and them becoming parabatai and playing video games and having a joint wedding with their Blackthorn lovers.

it's important to me that ilya remains captain of the centaurs after shane joins, but i have a specific picture in my mind of shane being assistant captain and being generally harmless and super chill , so the centaurs see him as like the chill parent (something to be said about shane being content in letting someone else, specifically His Someone, have the reins and enjoying not being in charge) but then ilya has to be out for a few weeks for like health or smth so shane goes into Captain Mode and the centaurs are scared shitless by how intense he gets all of a sudden. the most intense drills of all time. the hardest plays they've ever heard of. the strictest practices on earth. and they suddenly understand why shane led the metros/voyagers to victory so many times and why ilya treats him like the boss in their relationship. and then as soon as ilya comes back he turns it off and the centaurs are like Oh Thank Fuck Because What The Hell Was That

if luca haas is not in s2 of heated rivalry i will kill everyone and then myself

sorry i act weird when i’m uncomfortable and also when i’m comfortable

the thing about heated rivalry and hollanov that i see people getting wrong constantly is that there’s no “side” to be on. it’s not team shane vs team ilya. no one is winning those conversations. the whole point is they’re both losing. you can’t really be mad at shane for saying things like “must be nice” on the vegas rooftop because what does he know about ilya’s family dynamics at that point that would elicit a different response? just like you can’t be mad at ilya for how the tuna melt scene goes down. ilya is trying to open a dialogue and shane can’t undo all his compartmentalizing in that moment so ilya understandably responds in kind. you’re asking two athletes with two very different but equally crushing closets to intuit things they don’t even understand about each other. ilya’s monster under the bed is the shape of russia and shane’s is the shape of himself and they’re both valid for being terrified! it’s miscommunication trope all the way down. it’s them vs the ordeal of being known. we don’t have to be mad at anyone!!!