still here

he spends like 12 hours furiously watching the bizarro heated rivalry that was only pretty okay & the promo interviews where hudson is laughing at Other Ilya’s bad boring jokes & he’s noticing things like hudson’s ears aren’t pierced anymore & he finds out hudson didn’t get to go to the golden globes or the met gala . by far the worst thing about it is how hudson seems perfectly content with his life in the bad timeline !!!! & this is so outrageous connor finds himself at hudson’s apartment ranting & raving like U DON’T EVEN KNOW . U LITERALLY DON’T EVEN KNOW . U SHOULD BE ENCRUSTED WITH JEWELS & PRECIOUS METALS HUDSON !!!! DID HE EVEN TEACH U ANYTHING ABOUT FIBER ??? HUDSON U HAVE TO EAT FIBER . & hudson is as sweet as you can be to a 6 foot 200 pound stranger in distress yelling at you about how you’re supposed to be a friend of balenciaga not doing sponsored gym shark instagram posts & he eventually sends connor on his way like ‘hey bud, i see you’re upset, but you really need to go home now, okay?’

& connor goes and cries on a park bench because he really thought somehow his soulbond with hudson would transcend space & time & memory & he’d at least have hudson even if he didn’t have anything else . & when he wakes up the next morning in his own bed to his own ceiling & not the cheap motel he’d fallen asleep in last night, he experiences such a pure & profound relief at being back in a world where hudson knows & loves him, he immediately sets out on chase filled w rom-com obstacles & hijinks that ultimately ends four hours later with him making out with hudson in the bathroom closest to the baggage claim in vancouver international airport <3 YAY

DID HE EVEN TEACH U ANYTHING ABOUT FIBER HFJJSKSS SOPHIE HAVE I MENTIONED LATELY THAT I FUCKING LOVE YOU

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

Hi again!

What's strange to me is that the song and the book really have nothing to do with each other. In fact, they're kinda opposite in themes... which brings me back to the actual lyrics in the snippet:

Because I'm still in love with you

I want to see you dance again

Because I'm still in love with you

On this harvest moon

Based on what we know about the book and its themes, to me this reads more as the protagonist musing about his lost love, not about his loveless marriage partner.

if you drink my pain, you can swallow my pride by writer_in_theory (this is the only wip im keeping up with rn, and its sooo blazing hot)

where the city rests its feet by ireverents

down, dog by rendered (lovecubed)

good things come by Ccainao3 (and the rest of the series too)

Snake Bite by IlyaRizzanov (tbqh I didnt Actually jerk off to this one bc I read it at work but i WOULD have had i been at home. this fic is Too hot for work)

Buzzer Beater by mcshrug (if anyone out there hasnt read this series literally What are you doing)

hammerlock by plasticheartrings

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Thank you Gina @twopoppies for linking me this post. I want to share it here, as well - of course with full credit to Sarah (@/SchuSchu8437) on Twitter who took the videos.

I will at the end post a supercut of the videos Sarah took and will add on a video I myself took of those boxes from the opposite end of the pit in the same venue (Uber Arena) on the same night, 1 April 2026.

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[my personal opinion is that there was nobody visible in those 2 curtained out boxes, see also the supercut at the end of the post]

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and here is the little supercut incl. my own video of those 2 blacked/curtained out boxes: