All The Things & Stuff

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If you want Shane in lingerie, recognize that hockey is the ultimate lingerie sport. The full head canon is that’s what’s happening in the shot where Ilya slams Shane down on the couch after the shot of him slamming him against the boards. Ilya taking him rough while Shane’s wearing his jock, garter and socks. Maybe later in the relationship they have a bet where the game’s loser has to wear the other’s jersey, but then it’s the first thing to go when things get heated. 100% masc4masc energy.

People out here find one word in the HR series and then write the craziest theories about the sexist, racist, ableist, kink-shame, kink-praise, disordered, chaotic, satanic, blah, blah, blah meaning of this word as if the context and rest of the entire novel doesn’t exist. Buddies, friends, viewers, as an English lit teacher, I beg you, receipts or it ain’t real. Please preface your unhinged rants as au fan fiction theory, because it is not literary criticism.

I know there is a group that thinks it’s about fetishizing queer men, but it’s just the exhaustion with patriarchy, yall.

When your favourite Ao3 author hasn’t posted a new chapter in five days and you are dying inside.

Hockey is DRAG

Why do so many au’s put Shane in a femme role? Can we not celebrate Jock for Jock? That Sub tones are not inherently femme? That anxiety and emotion are not female? Like, you do you, or whatever, but interesting that it’s pretty exclusively Shane that is feminized.

Totally NOT CANON, but I love the idea that Shane doesn’t learn Russian because Ilya asks him not to. Being able to say how he is honestly feeling to Shane without him understanding has become and important part of Ilya learning how to drop his mask and be vulnerable. It’s a safe space for him to say the words and not be punished for them. To build up courage to say them in English to the world.