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the best part about living w a partner w cock is I can just go look at cock in real life whenever I can touch it and maybe give it a lil kiss whenever I want maybe Iâll hold him softly he has been hanging around all day alone he needs warmth and comfort from a loved one (he as in the cock not my partner)
I feel like Tumblr should really appreciate Iron Lung even if not Markiplier fans whatsoever. It's got all the good stuff. A man being thrown around, going crazy, facing cosmic horrors all while being covered in blood. What's not to love
This is why I love indie productions so much.
interviewer: ilya rozanov, do you have any comment on the alleged homophobic comments targeting you in todayâs game?
ilya: if they could just put their minds off where i put my dick and into where i put the puck, maybe they would notice that it is going into the goal
interviewer: shane hollander, do you have any comment on your husband and captainâs rather coarse language?
shane: is he wrong?

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One thing Iâve seen happens in this fandom- and honestly sometimes in real life discussions about Hudson too- is that people end up flattening all POC experiences into one universal experience.
Race absolutely matters. Racism absolutely exists. But different racial groups are stereotyped in different ways, and those stereotypes can produce completely different social expectations.
For example, Iâve seen people criticize Rachel and Jacob for joking about Hudson being unintelligent because heâs a person of color. If Hudson were Black, I would understand that criticism more, because there is a long history of anti-Black stereotypes portraying Black people as unintelligent. But Hudson is Asian. Asian men are stereotyped in almost the opposite way. Theyâre often assumed to be intelligent, studious, and academically successful. The stereotype is still racist, but itâs a different stereotype. It doesnât suddenly become an anti-Asian stereotype just because weâve replaced âAsianâ with the broader category of âPOC.â
The same thing happens constantly in fanfiction with Shane.
A lot of writers portray Shane as being afraid to fight because he knows heâll be judged more harshly than white players. I understand where that idea is coming from, but as a black person Iâve never found it particularly convincing.
If Shane were black, that analysis would make more sense to me. Black men are often stereotyped as aggressive, which means behavior that is considered acceptable from white athletes is often interpreted differently when black ones do it.
But asian men occupy a very different place in the racial imagination. Theyâre frequently stereotyped as passive, non-threatening, weak, nerdy, emasculated, etc. If racial stereotypes were influencing Shaneâs approach to hockey, I could just as easily imagine the opposite dynamic: feeling pressure to prove heâs aggressive enough to belong. Maybe heâs fighting TOO much.
But that doesnât make sense for Shane. Heâs the leagueâs golden boy. Heâs polite, media-friendly, and heavily inspired by Sidney Crosby. Heâs a superstar. Fighting is often delegated to players lower on the depth chart whose role is specifically to provide physicality. Star players generally arenât expected to be enforcers. Teams usually want their elite talent scoring goals, not sitting in the penalty box after dropping the gloves.
So Shane not fighting much doesnât strike me as evidence of racial pressure. It strikes me as evidence that heâs Shane Hollander.
Crosby is a useful comparison here. For years, people mocked him for not being physical enough (and for talking to the refs too much). They questioned his toughness and masculinity. They called him âCrybaby Crosbyâ or âCindy Crosby.â Fans edited photos of him in dresses or makeup. The criticism wasnât really about hockey. The joke was that he wasnât a âreal man.â
And thatâs a white player.
Imagine how much worse those conversations could become if the player in question were Asian.
Thatâs the kind of racial dynamic I could actually see affecting Shane: not people thinking heâs too aggressive, but people questioning whether aggressive ENOUGH.
Thereâs a good chance that if Shane fought exactly like many white players, he probably still wouldnât be viewed as tough enough. Meanwhile, if a Black player fought exactly like those same white players, he might be interpreted as more aggressive.
People often criticize Rachel for not doing much racial analysis in the books. But sometimes fandom fills that gap with racial analysis that feels disconnected from both hockey culture and the specific stereotypes that affect different racial groups.
Not every POC experience is interchangeable.
A stereotype that affects Black athletes is not automatically a stereotype that affects Asian athletes. A stereotype that affects Latino athletes is not automatically a stereotype that affects Indigenous athletes.
If weâre going to talk about race- and we should- we have to talk about the actual racial dynamics at play, not just substitute âperson of colorâ for a more specific analysis.
Sometimes no racial analysis is better than bad racial analysis.
Also, I understand that a lot of fanfiction writers arenât hockey fans, which is completely fine. But I do think it can create a bit of a blind spot. People will research (if they even bother to research lol) maybe the rules, the stats, the league structure, etc., but not necessarily the culture surrounding the sport.
And hockey culture matters.
Hockey is one of the only major sports where players are allowed to drop their gloves and just start throwing punches. Losing teeth is practically a badge of honor. Violence isnât some weird exception to hockey culture- tâs part of the culture.
The expectation isnât simply that players avoid violence. A lot of the time, the expectation is that they embrace it.
One of Rachelâs other books, Tough Guy, is literally about a player whose whole struggle is that everyone expects him to fight because heâs huge. Heâs a giant enforcer, and people assume physicality should be his role whether he wants it or not. The conflict isnât that everyone thinks heâs too aggressive. The conflict is that hockey culture expects him to be aggressive.
(Honestly, if they canât find a 6â7 white redheaded actor who perfectly matches the description, they could probably get away with casting a 6â2 Black guy and nothing would change).
Thatâs why I think people sometimes miss how much hockey culture itself matters when discussing race in fandom.
There are even real-world examples of this conversation. When the Team USA Olympic roster was announced, a lot of people were confused about why Jason Robertson wasnât selected despite being the highest-scoring American player. And one of the arguments that kept coming up was that players like Robertson arenât always perceived as bringing the same level of physicality or aggression as some of the other stars who made the team.
Whether you agree with that assessment or not isnât really the point. The point is that toughness, aggression, and physicality are things hockey people talk about constantly when evaluating players.
Which is why I struggle with fandom interpretations that assume every racialized hockey experience would look the same.
I hope my rambling made sense and thanks for reading if you got this far lol.
All this, exactly. And we see specifically Asian racial stereotypes applied to Shane within the first five minutes of the first episode. When the announcers at the world junior tournament when heâs 17 say heâs not the most sociable, but has a phenomenal âhockey IQâ.
If Shane was a gifted black 17 year old player, like JJ Boiziau or Carter Vaughn, TV announcers wouldnât be saying that. Theyâd be talking about how Carter/JJ is loud, aggressive, physical, and has phenomenal natural instincts for hockey. Thats the stereotype for black athletes.
Shane is continually stereotyped as an Asian nerd whose nerdery happens to focus on hockey instead of chess or math. Heâs perceived as a sexless hockey robot. Even though heâs incredibly handsome and heâs dedicated his life to (checks notes) a violent contact sport.
I suspect Shaneâs race also played a part in his autism going undiagnosed. Although to be fair, he is low support needs and was born in 1991. Plenty of white autistic kids also slipped through the diagnostic cracks in the nineties. But Shane being a mixed Japanese and white kid likely made it worse.
His childhood teachers and doctors saw his anxiety and his social difficulties, and put them down to him being Asian. Because âeverybody knowsâ Asian kids are quiet, awkward, and have pushy tiger mothers. Nothing to see here, move it along. No need for a diagnosis.
Shane being perceived as a sexless hockey robot is a very specific racial stereotype about Asian men, by the way. Shane is literally an underwear model when heâs not playing a violent sport where he has knives strapped to his feet. But Asian men are popularly seen as less âvirileâ and masculine than men of other races, as well as being supposed to have small dicks.
When the movie Crazy Rich Asians came out in 2019, it was huge. Multiple different East Asian male actors were seen in this movie being sexually objectified as the camera lingered on their cheekbones and their abs. And East Asian moviegoers (at least all the ones I talked to) loved that about it. Because on TV and in the movies, Asian men, even handsome ones, are usually stereotyped as sexually undesirable. They might be handsome but theyâre not âhotâ, and itâs assumed theyâre probably bad in bed.
On cishet dating apps, the people who have by far the fewest matches are East Asian men and black women. Because black women are stereotyped as masculine (therefore unattractive to straight men) and Asian men as feminine (therefore unattractive to straight women).
I remember twenty years ago a white female colleague being shocked when we met the fiancee of a Chinese-Canadian male colleague, and she turned out to be white. My colleague couldnât understand why any white woman would ever date a Chinese man. Fortunately she didnât say that in front of him, but she still wasnât that subtle about her shock. Even though she liked this guy and often said how great he was, she couldnât conceive of him as a sexual being another white woman might find desirable.
And queer Asian men run into all kinds of weird racial fetishizing on Grindr, in clubs, etc from men of other races. I have a close friend of many years whoâs an East Asian gay man, so Iâve heard his war stories. And yes, as an Asian man in a relationship with a white man, Shane would be assumed to be the bottom and to be sexually subservient to Ilya. Even by people whoâd never met either of them.
I suspect one of the reasons Shane has so much internalized homophobia is that he feels guilty and self-conscious about what turns him on. Heâs an athlete whoâs constantly being criticized for being too cerebral, not aggressive enough. For being a hockey robot. And heâs secretly gay and likes being topped as well as all the other stuff people already assume about him? Even though they still think heâs straight.
Obviously, people like what they like, sexually. But i suspect Shane feels what he likes in bed makes him less masculine. When heâs already spent his entire life being told that heâs not masculine enough for this sport. Even though heâs phenomenally gifted at hockey, he still doesnât belong.
And the public backlash after they get outed focuses on Shane much more than Ilya. People feel betrayed because it turns out heâs not a sexless hockey robot after all. Heâs been involved in a risky secret relationship with his career rival for years. Fans who thought they understood him see him passionately making out with another man, and it blows their minds. People like Shane arenât supposed to surprise the fans, theyâre supposed to conform to stereotypes. Heâs supposed to be handsome but boring and have no sex life.
Also, Shane Hollander of all people tamed Russiaâs greatest love machine? A bisexual white man everybody assumed was straight. Ilya gave up his club rat lifestyle and torpedoed his career by moving to Ottawa to be closer to that Hollander? Boring, bland, polite, quiet Hollander. The guy everybody thinks of as a stereotypical Asian nerd even though heâs a hockey player.
Shane Hollander, despite being a literal underwear model, is not supposed to be desirable, as far as the average cishet white male hockey fan is concerned. Sure, their wives sigh over his half-naked ad campaigns, but these guys still donât perceive him as a sexual threat. Heâs just a boring Asian guy who everybody knows skips clubbing to review game tape. And he probably has a tiny dick.
Shaneâs not supposed to be an f-slur. Goddamnit, these guys defended him on Twitter and Reddit when other men said he must be a fairy because heâs so boring. They posted YouTube compilations of his greatest goals, and then he stabbed them in the back by being a secret f-slur all along.
Shane is definitely not someone whoâs supposed to be capable of inducing an equally talented white player to risk everything because he fell in love with Shane. A sexually desirable white man who spent his youth publicly renowned for drowning in pussy chose this guy? The fans feel betrayed by Shane because they pigeonholed him due to his race. And then he turned out different from the bland, safe stereotypes theyâd assigned to him.
And a fascinating comment by @hollowistheworld Part 1 below
And then part two and a reply by @meinertapki
Yeah, that would track. If Shane isnât actually a remarkably clean player, everybody just develops amnesia about his actual stats in favour of racial stereotypes.
I could believe that Scott is a remarkably clean player who hardly ever gets into fights. Heâs white, which is the âdefaultâ, so announcers are probably more objective. But Shane could be a bit meaner, a bit more aggressive and pragmatic than Scott. And yet get pigeonholed as the goodest boy in all of hockey anyway, just because heâs Asian.
It would probably drive Shane nuts. But part of his image, and part of being a model minority, is not bitching in public when people misrepresent your stats based on racial stereotypes.
My absolute favorite fact about Ilya is that he's lying about the size of his dick. Like very obviously lying. Lying by enough that Shane doesn't hesitate before being absolutely certain that he's lying, even though he hasn't seen Ilya naked for months.
I think it says so much about Ilya. Even with someone he's already hooked up with, he can't be honest. He can't just be, he has to be the ideal of sexuality. Otherwise, who would want him?
Meanwhile, it says so much about Shane. I see right through all the bullshit you put on and I want you anyway, he says when he rolls his eyes and laughs at Ilya's "nine inches."
Ficlet below the cut
Is this on AO3, by any chance?
It is now!
Nine Inches (368 words) by MusicallyChaos Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Relationship Discussions, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov reflect on the past, Post-Book 2: Heated Rivalry (Game Changers), Kink Negotiation If You Squint, Originally Posted on Tumblr Series: Part 1 of Hollanov fics Tumblr forcefully pulled out of me Summary: Ilya is lying about the size of his dick. Shane calls him on it for the first time.
i've seen some posts saying ilya would own a gun. i think this is only half true. i think he would buy a gun just for the novelty of it (haha you americans love gun. let's see what all the fuss is about) and then very quickly do something irresponsible with it like forget to put the safety on and accidentally shoot his tv. or almost shoot marly. and after that he never touches it again.
so sure i think technically he owns a gun but i wouldn't describe him as a gun-owner in the traditional sense
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
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i love the âhollanov has a crush on carter vaughnâ take not necessarily in a âi think they would invite him to watchâ way but more in a âilya would accidentally let it slip while chirping at shane to fluster him that vaughn is at the top of their âwouldâ list and vaughn is a little thrown off and straight so heâs like âare you guys asking?â and ilya laughs and pats his shoulder and assures him âabsolutely 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 everâ and vaughn low key is overjoyed about it, his teammates who are around and hear the exchange are sometimes like âthat doesnt bother you? you dont find that a bit weird?â but vaugh genuinely is just like ârozanov 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 achievementâ and eventually it gets out to the general public so vaughn is captioning his instagram posts shit like â#1 contender for being the hockey husbands third goes fishingâ despite shanes mortification about this getting out and vaughns clear delight with itâ way
i believe that one of the penalties shane gets a lot is unsportsmanlike conduct. in the nhl, this penalty can be issued for players who argue or challenge the refs calls. now, captains are allowed to discuss a call and rule interpretations with a ref, but you gotta be cordial.
shane âhockeytismâ hollander HATES when a ref makes a bad call. this is literally your job and youre fucking it up?? that was not slashing are you blind?? he gets heated about this, even when heâs just watching a random game. heâs shouting and cursing and making a well-informed case for why the ref is wrong.
hockey refs are notoriously bad so i guarantee shane gets into it a lot. i do think he knows when to quit so he doesnt get an unnecessary penalty but sometimes the call is so bad he cant help but be furious. his teammates have had to physically restrain him on the bench multiple times so he didnt hop the boards and scream at them.
imagining shane hanging out with his parents and while he's away from his phone doing something with his dad a call comes in. yuna sees this and goes, "shane, someone's calling you!"
and shane says, "who is it?"
"lily!"
"oh." shane immediately sets aside what he's doing and walks over, saying to his mom, "that's ilya."
yuna looks at him in confusion as he picks up his phone. "why is ilya saved as 'lily' in your phone?"
and shane looks at her, away, shrugs as if it's obvious and simply says, "I can't have ilya rozanov saved on my phone, mom" before answering the call with a, "hey, baby" and walking away.
leaving yuna (and david) standing shocked and, once again, shaken at how little they knew about their son and the layers of concealment he's had to operate under for years just to love who he loves.
will I be burnt at the stake if I say that I donât think Ilyaâs fuckboy persona is entirely an act. will people draw and quarter me if I say that I think he is a different person with different people and none of them are entirely separate from who he is. will people stone me if I say that ilya loved being a fuckboy and loved sleeping around at the time and had a fucking blast doing what and who he wanted even if he wanted to be with shane for most of it.
Like I think people eschew that persona from him too aggressively in favor of making him a Soft Boi but there are multiple facets to ilya and I dont think any of them are necessarily fake. Just because he used promiscuity to cope doesnât mean he didnât have a marvelous time participating in it. That man loved pussy. He loved fucking pussy and eating pussy and making women come and whine his name. You cannot convince me otherwise. He was a very proud slut. Just because Shane made a housewife out of a hoe doesnât make the Hoe Phase not genuine. U feel me?
I'd argue that Shane didn't really make a housewife out a a hoe! Ilya is STILL a fuckboy post-tlg and just happens to ALSO be in a very happy committed marriage. He wants his dick in Shane's ass constantly, and part of why they work as a couple is that Shane can/wants to keep up with Ilya's desires.
Shane jokingly calls Ilya a manwhore once and Ilya very seriously says "yes, obviously" because yes, they have sweet, emotional married sex, but they also have lots of "we both want to feel good" sex. It's not all meaningful, some of it is just fun! Because Ilya has always thought sex is fun, and he's never going to let himself and Shane turn into that couple that talks about married sex like it's a bad thing. They're horny? They fuck. It doesn't always need to be more than that (as much as he loves it when it's more than that)
One of the joys of Ilya as a character is that he's always held both soft little guy and fuckboy within himself. From their first hookup, Ilya is enamored with Shane. It's sweet from the very beginning. But he's also a horny teenager who's pretty down for whatever when he thinks the sex will be good. He has that same capacity for both well into his married life!
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Happy pride!
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AS PROMISED: fics ive enjoyed lately
there is no rhyme or reason to this ive just been depressed and reading an insane amount of fic and wanted to share
a decision to stop needing things softer than they are by greymcknot - 24,853 words - not complete - the ilya retrograde amnesia fic of my dreams it's so so so so good
for jessica (or not) by 21cg - 10,079 words - complete - im not even a big au guy but this hit so good. shane and ilya are roommates and shane is bad at sex with his girlfriend so he asks ilya for........... advice
white collar crimes by anonymous - 10,692 words - complete - shane stealing ilya's clothes. that's the fic and it's perfect.
if i could save time in a bottle by imbihesgay - 4,947 words - complete - hollanov aging fic my BELOVEDDDDD. if you know me you know that's the thing im SENSITIVE about......
would you still love me by UglyGreenJacket - 4,187 words - complete - ilya asks if shane would still love him if he's a worm and then they both end up spiraling about it 10/10 no notes
Operation Get Roz a SAP by dntat - 9,781 words - complete - a fun and slightly canon divergent fic where the cens think ilya is lonely and try to set him up with various people
Leave It On by beedeer - 9,730 words - complete - the best jealous shane x jealous ilya fic.... ilya forgets to put his ring back on after a game and they both end up spiraling about it. possessive4possessive hollanov
Is This a Jeep? by beedeer - 4,100 words - complete - all the sweet, anxious moments between "im coming to the cottage" and shane picking ilya up from the airport. i love this so much and i think this author writes them perfectly
u & me at home by static_radio - 3,325 words - complete - shane at ilya's ottawa house for the first time reacting very normally to the fact that ilya clearly bought this house with the intention of it one day being Their house
The Shane Hollander Debacle by nineteenohtwo - 9,791 words - complete - the internet trying to cancel shane for not using pride tape ASDHDKSFHAS every part in this series is like crack to me. i am this author's biggest fan.
guilty pleasure by WeeBeastie - lots of words - ongoing series but can all be read as one-shots or out of order - a 7-part series of shane wearing lingerie for ilya. you're welcome.