Blue Eyed Cutie Patootie

anyway big reveal freckles freckles good god those ARMS, cut to interacting with all the other couples during the vacation/engagement phase. everyone else is looking at them like HOLY shit. good lord. they are such a good looking couple. all the other engagements are falling apart and shane and ilya ARE gossiping about it and sharing looks.

'Virgin Mary' as soon as Hayden loses sight of him:

Wanda Maximoff // Erik Lehnsherr

I can't anymore 😭😭😭

Wtf is this???

The #1 hollanov account who knows the actors personally, and the author of the books herself talking about the only main actor of color like this

In the midst of twitter being a cesspool of racist hatred and threats against Hudson, this is what we're supposed to believe are "nice interactions"?

No wonder this fandom is racist af when the creator herself sees no problem with this behavior

(+ gives 0 depth to Shane's ethnicity - and autism - in the books, going so far as to say that he has no traumas... when he's an autistic closeted gay wasian man in one of the most white and homophobic sports; it's so obvious that she created Shane for Ilya and that he's only half Japanese because she has a fetish; she's one q&a away from saying "Shane is the woman in the relationship, obviously!"; I really can't with this anymore... this show would be almost nothing without Hudson putting in the work to give Shane some DEPTH, and this is what he gets in return)

Masculanized an Asian character

Became a heartthrob as a POC

Gave an award-winning performance for a neurodivergent character

Is dating a woman after playing a gay man

Gets just as much praise as his white costar

Doesn't censor himself to fit in

Shane comes out of the closet sometime after Scott does, and in some random, lighthearted interview, they ask him what he's looking for in a man. And Shane's just, off-hand like, "Well, he'd have to have at least one Stanley Cup. Obviously." And when he gets a good reaction from that, he keeps going, like "Needs to be amazing at hockey. Definitely needs to be at least an All-Star, if not a captain. Hot too. If he can't bench-press me, I'm not interested."

Confused, Shane immediately calls him.

"Is this some new and unique way to psych me out before the final, Rozanov? I didn't know you had money on Detroit."

"No, I am sending for a good reason," Ilya laughs. "I know it sucks for us that when you win all your team will be kissing their girlfriends and Pike will be making out all gross with Jackie, and we will not be able to. So, I wanted to show you exactly where I first kissed the cup. It was on the top, right over where it says Ottawa 1905, left of where it says 'Challenge Cup'. I remember because I did this on purpose. We weren't anything then, but I was thinking of you. I couldn't help thinking of you. So if you kiss the same place, it will be a little like we are sharing a kiss. And only we will know about it."

And Shane feels the air clean knocked out of his lungs and the back of his throat get tight, as he barely gets out, "Baby, that's... Thank you. I don't know what to say. I love you so fucking much. I'll make sure you see our kiss, okay?"

"I will be watching. I love you, My Shane. Go show the world why Shane Fucking Hollander is the goat, okay?"

On the night Shane wins his third Stanley Cup, he kisses their spot on the cup, thinking only of Ilya, and longs for a day where he can pull him onto the ice like Scott did with Kip.