Stardust

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

I truly don’t think Ilya realises how physically attracted Shane is to him in book canon. He suspects Shane is gay and so knows he’s not in a position to be openly dating anyone and he knows Shane is an over-thinker who would obsessively worry about his secret getting out. Ilya is as safe an option as the come, a man who has as much (or arguably more) to lose if anyone were to find out about them. Supposedly there’s at least a level attraction there and the sex is certainly good but he caught Shane at a time where he was inexperienced and maybe would have wanted anyone who made his interest so blatantly obvious. Ilya’s more willing to actually compliment Shane, such as calling him beautiful in the prologue, while most of what Shane actually lets himself say to Ilya is closer to chirping, mostly calling him an asshole at every turn, telling him that Cosmopolitan ranking as the fifth hottest player in the NHL “does seem generous”. Ilya doesn’t actually take it seriously but all of Shane’s monologuing about how hot he finds Ilya is internal. He’s truly shocked when Shane says it aloud at the cottage because Shane has never actually verbalised how fucking attracted he is to him. Now, don’t get me wrong, Ilya know he’s hot shit, he knows he’s talented enough on the ice to capture Shane’s interest while almost no one else is and he knows he can make him lose his mind in the bedroom but he’s all the way in love with Shane and committed to trying to make this work before Shane ever allows himself to overtly thirst after him and there’s something so heartbreaking about him throwing himself in head first without expecting Shane to give an inch on that front.

ilya being in a period of Bad depression and between playing games and going to practice he doesn't really have the energy to do much else and he just kind of collapses when he gets home and he hasn't shaved in days and his hair is unruly and he just feels kinda gross and ugly but doesn't have the energy to do anything about it so shane is like Not On My Watch so he drags ilya into the tub and washes his hair with his special curly shampoo and carefully shaves his face and lathers him in too much body lotion which means he has to stand stark naked in the bathroom for 10 minutes before he can put clothes on and shane tries his best to do his curly hair routine for him he gets the special towel and the curl cream and his eyebrows furrow in concentration as he scrunches ilya's curls to the best of his abilities and ilya sits on the toilet lid with tears in his eyes

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

married hollanov, still so happy and sexually compatible. they have a multitude of toys that are in frequent rotation. upping the ante and having so much fun always. sometimes though shane is like. can you um. can we pretend like we're meeting for the first time. like maybe even when they're showering together and shane suddenly takes a couple of steps back and looks down at ilyas dick. SHANE is the one who starts touching himself and looking at ilya. and ilya is like oh ok and gets w/ the program pretty quick and roleplays their first shower meeting but this time it ends with shane giving head crazystyle like he wished he would have been able to back then.... Blowjobs can make me emotional you see

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer