Quintiple A’s

It is perfectly okay to not read the books, but I would really REALLY caution non-book readers to be careful with what they discuss unless it stems from an actual excerpt from the text.

This is not me gatekeeping. (Please! Go read the books! If you’re unsure of where to start, I would recommend reading Role Model first, which gives proper context for The Long Game) This is me attempting to counteract the misinformation that has only grown tenfold since Troy and Harris were cast.

With all that being said, a list of things that Did Not Happen In The Books: 

Troy is not racist. This is a reasonable conclusion to draw, that a homophobic bully could also be racist, but there is no textual evidence of this. 

On that note, Troy does not hatecrime Shane. Troy actually does not have any direct interactions with Shane at all. The closest they come to speaking with each other is when they’re on the ice at the same time during an Ottawa v. Montreal game. 

Ilya does not hate Troy. Like all of the Centaurs, Ilya is wary and uncertain about Troy at first. He’s annoyed with the situation surrounding the trade, and he definitely hates Dallas. But he does not hate Troy. 

I hate to break everyone’s hearts, but... Troy does not ask Ilya for Shane’s number. Troy thinks about doing this, but doesn’t actually follow through. This concept is so funny that I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually does this in the show. This is the actual excerpt from the book:

YAAAAA i had a good laugh looking at it . the whole site is really cool, all of his work is fantastic, and scott hunter's credit card is on there so i plan to have ilya dox him naturally. idk why scott hunter's credit card is designed and put on there but i love it lol

ew. i dont want to fucking smell that adfsdgf

ALSO i knew the reason orpheus could finish the song was because he finally understood the fear and doubt hades has every time persephone leaves BUT I DIDNT REALIZE THAT THE TRIAL HADES GIVES WAS ALSO BECAUSE HE UNDERSTOOD ORPHEUS AS WELL!! like hades knew he'd fail because HE'D fail!!

also also I know there's a Thing between hades and eurydice but I didn't realize that there was also one between persephone and orpheus until now, and I think it's intended to show that they're foils of one another, that pre-seasons hades was more like orpheus and pre-seasons persephone was more like eurydice and that their focus on orpheus and eurydice is because they remind them of what they had (and think they lost) - the love o+e have for each other reminds them of themselves, and so hades wants to take eurydice away/lock her away and persephone wants to protect orpheus/let him escape because they're trying to prevent them repeating their own mistakes in their own ways

In TLG the diet is a new thing, and is directly linked to his age. His family and Ilya rib him about it because it’s new. He’s able to give it up fairly easily because it wasn’t an integral part of his psychology it was something he was doing in response to an acute worry (aging). There’s also the implication that Shane is soothed psychologically by restraint and discipline in general. But Shane’s diet stuff in TLG feels closer to like the year your friend watched Supersize Me and cut out fast food or something. And then decided eventually ah fuck it we all die anyway.

a ringer PA

a court transcriptionist

an improv pianist

an adult performer

a kink therapist

an increasingly improbable series of aliases for Paul Robalino