sorry for the bombardment of reblohs from me lol but I found ur blog yesterday and ur actually the most correct person ever and u manage to articulate everyghing i feel abt tlg soso well!! am just wondering if u have any fic recs that capture any of this?? im in desperate need of catharsis
never be sorry for that, what's more validating than a bunch of reblogs when i start rambling??? thank you, i LOVE to have opinions and i'm glad to know you enjoy reading them!! <3
as for fic recs... unfortunately, i don't have any that deal specifically with how fucked up tlg is in the ways that most bother me (i.e. fics that actually address how cruel ilya is to shane in it), presumably because no one really wants to grapple with that when we all like hollanov. i do also wish there were fics that would rewrite tlg so that ilya isn't so horrendously ooc compared to hr ilya, but to be fully honest at this point i've just blacklisted tlg as a tag entirely when browsing on ao3 because i'm so tired 😩
that said: i have a couple of general recs about the Vibes at least? here's two that deal with the consequences of shane being outed in two very different ways:
snapping birch - an epistolary fic focused on the fallout of hollanov getting outed during the season following heated rivalry, after shane comes out to his team and it goes poorly. deals REALLY well with not only realistic internet responses but also shane going through the fucking horrors (he plays a contact sport! it is dangerous!). i LOVE this fic. it's probably my favorite hr fic i've ever read.
the montreal metros go broke for woke - by contrast this is not a serious fic in the slightest but it gets points for making me laugh out loud multiple times. what if the metros made a very earnest attempt to be Allies because they gotta keep hollander, that's their weird little funky fella who wins cups, they love him, they gotta figure out how to support him so he doesn't want to leave. also they're stupid.
and then a couple other general recs that i just like (even if they don't really fit "fuck tlg" vibes specifically):
hello from moscow, goodbye from montreal - canon divergence where shane and ilya talk a lot more over the summer and things spiral from there. their banter and developing relationship is really good in this one, i like them :)
carrion comfort - au where the plane to sochi crashes and shane ends up leading the survivors in, well, surviving, in the wilderness. the field medicine and the ocs are both stellar but i LOVE the shane characterization in this fic so much. also the slow burn and the pining is chefs kiss.
sea lion woman - an au where shane met and befriended svetlana (well, she decided they were hockey obsession friends and he said okay <3 yay <3) when he was 17. once again i really enjoy this take on shane and ALSO SVETAAAAA she is so good she's SO good.
BUT MY REAL ANSWER re "fics that let ilya actually be supportive of shane and/or grapple with how fucked up tlg is": give me (and a couple of my friends, hehe) a few months, we're workin on it 💪💪💪