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Thinking about the boys joining a beer league years after they retire. They retire in the first place to start and take care of their family so for a while they’re just totally focused on that, expanding the Game Changers camps and the foundation. After a while, though, they start to get the itch to play again. They could coach and get back into it that way but they want to get back on the ice not stand on the sidelines with a clipboard.

They find a local beer league full of other middle aged dads and guys who “could have made it in the show if they didn’t blow out their knee senior year” and of course all of these guys are like HOLY SHIT HOLLANDER AND ROZANOV??? YES YES YOU CAN JOIN OH MY GOD. This is, of course, a Big Mistake.

Because of their well documented history, everyone expects Ilya to be the problem child. He does spend a fair amount of time in the penalty box but ultimately has a good enough time and he's happy to be playing again without the real pressure of doing this for his job… it’s Shane that turns out to be the real problem. Even after all these years, he’s still SO fucking serious about hockey and these guys just don’t fucking GET IT. He’s throwing out chirps left and right, shit that cuts right to the bone, to both the other team and his own team. This is how everyone learns that Shane Hollander is a BITCH. He's got no career on the line, no perfect image to uphold, so going to tell you suck, exactly WHY you suck and he's going to do it with a straight face and a monotone voice that makes it SO much worse somehow oh my GOD?? Like yeah sure the team is winning more than they have in years but at what cost? He lasts half a season before he is asked to leave and banned from rejoining because you can't make your own teammates cry, man, even if you didn't mean to and what you said is objectively true it's just not cool, bro, this is supposed to be just for fun. Ilya tries to quit in solidarity with his husband but Shane tells him it's ok and to keep playing because he knows Ilya was having a great time. Now he comes to every game with their daughters and cheers on his husband with giant glitter and sticker covered poster board signs that say GO PAPA GO!

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(Stick figures: one guy getting slammed to the side and another getting sheared in half at the midsection)

one day i'm going to write a fic set during their first season after shane joins the centaurs. ilya's pov. everything is great. his life is perfect, after all this time. he gets to play on a team with his husband and he's made friends he's really close to and he wishes he could go back in time and tell ilya of even a year ago that things would get so much better.

and then he starts to notice some things. notice a lack of some things, really. he hasn't heard shane laugh in a long time. his husband's always been a little quiet, doesn't love going out too often, and for a while, ilya assumed it was just that. he knows shane's always needed a bit more time to adjust to things. the season's just started.

but shane gets quieter. he smiles and nods and laughs politely at jokes when they go out as a team, but it's not his real laugh. it's not the sound ilya's grown to love. his smiles don't reach his eyes. there's something about the way he holds his body that feels distant.

ilya's kicking himself for missing it. something's wrong. he doesn't know what, though. because shane goes for his morning runs at 6am, goes to practice, plays just as well as he always has. he's the same beast on the ice he's always been. he makes conversation with the team and helps the rookies out and even comes out, sometimes, with the team after a win. nothing is different. but everything is different. shane is different. because ilya knows his husband, he knows something is off. he's determined to figure out what.

he's not supposed to find out, the day he does. he and shane drove separately that day because he had a dentist appointment before practice in the morning. on the way home he realizes he forgot his wallet, and heads back. shane had decided to stay a bit late. maybe ilya can catch a little of him practicing. he loves watching shane practice by himself. he's been doing it a lot more lately.

the locker room is empty. ilya grabs his wallet, and turns to head out to the rink, when he hears what sounds dangerously close to a sob. a sob ilya knows. one he's heard before. his heart is pounding as he peers around the corner, into the shower area, where his husband is out of his gear and back in his street clothes, face red, cheeks wet. sobbing.

shane stays after practice a few times a week. every week.

lemon is so so so fucking good in sweet food and savory food and spicy food and salty food and drinks. she has it all

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does anyone know how to get what you want when you're the type of person who avoids everything

a reminder for every new morning // watercolor, ink and gouache on paper

guards! read me my bedtime yaoi

my liege if you keep having all of the guards come to your bedroom to read you bedtime stories, there will be no one to actually guard the castle during that time!

any intruders are welcome to join us for story time

my liege the enemies to lovers yaoi is affecting your perception of the danger of real enemies.

when will it be my turn.

holy fuck

happy one year to bedtime yaoi

I've got a crush on you 💘

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people who are like "but with universal healthcare you'll have to pay taxes!!!" Are so funny. Like as opposed to the 16% of my gross paycheck that goes to private insurance, that won't cover shit unless i call my insurance company, then my doctor, then my pharmacy, then my doctor again because theyre pretty sure insurance got approved then my insurance company because they didn't get the letter, then my doctor again, then the pharmacy again, and then the copay i still am on the hook for.

Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov Heated Rivalry, S01E05

i will be a bitch & say it i have no compassion for woman who reject feminism. it might be YOUR CHOICE to believe that women are fragile & need to protected or are helpless lil creatures or whatever the fuck but the moment you start imposing those ideologies on other women is when you're done for me. you may like your cage & fuck you or good for you for it ig but stop dragging other women down when we are genuinely trying our damnedest to dismantle this patriarchal world. this specially applies to terfs you're all fucking traitors.

so many people in the notes clearly missing that this is about women who FORCE their patriarchal values on other women. there are various reasons for why you can be comfortable in your hetero-normative/trad life but the moment you try to impose those values on other women who are fighting for their right to be independent & do not want anyone else's say on their bodily autonomy is when you are done for me.

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

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