Mystical? Maybe.

my secret hollanov hc is that post tlg it actually gets worse for them relationship-wise before it gets better

I like the idea of Luca consistently being the only witness to all of Hollanov’s insanity and truly not knowing whether it’s accidental or psychological warfare. Like, Ilya is bleeding profusely from the mouth after a hit on the ice and the husbands are dragging behind a little on the way to the locker room. Only, exactly as Luca glances back at them, he sees Shane opening his mouth and leaning in and, as he watches, Ilya fucking spits in it.

has the discourse cycle advanced past the point where I can post my ridiculous mental image wherein shane hollander does feel some resentment towards troy barrett (some of which is lingering and justified anger about troy's bad behavior and some of which is envy about troy coming out on his own terms and some of which is troy catching strays) and during a Rather Heated conversation troy is like "genuinely, I'm sorry and I'm trying and if there's anything I can do I'll do it but I don't know if there's anything else I can say here, like, go ahead and take a swing at me if it'll help" and shane is like "What." and they go round the What a few times before shane is like, you know what if you're offering, and slams a very solid right hook into troy's ribs, and then when troy straightens back up and gestures like, go ahead, shane lands another few hits on him, and actually it does help and it's honestly pretty cathartic for both of them like troy feels better afterwards too, and they find a balance with each other thereafter, and then three to twenty-two months later shane is doing some research for his own sex life, as you do, and goes down a rabbit hole of articles about nonsexual kink, and wakes ilya up at 4:26 in the morning to say "ilya I think I cheated on you by beating up troy barrett in a parking lot," and ilya is like "am I having a stroke??????"

every day i think about connor storrie's impassioned "What about male chests??" in that buzzfeed interview because its like. yeah man we watched the show we get how you feel about it

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

someone asked shane "what's the best movie of all time?" and shane responded "well i havent seen every movie yet so i cant say"