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Crucially #myshane plays to his twentieth season which is just long enough to have the experience of meeting Ottawa's new draft prospect, also named Shane, and to smile and jokingly say, "Hey nice name," and for the rookie to gulp and say, "Thank you sir I am named after you" and that makes Shane sit in his stall and stare at the floor between his skates for. Significantly too long to be healthy.

additionally after retirement he watches hockey as usual and there’s a match that has like 3 shanes on both teams and one of the commentators remarked at how many shanes there are and his colleague just stares at him like “why the fuck do you think?” and ilya cackles next to him because there are at least 5 shanes that had cycled through the ottawa roster since their 20th season and a few other in montreal and the atlantic division overall

and like, here’s the thing with tyranny. her being a yearner isn’t confined to simply yearning in the romantic sense. she desires the very nature of humanity and everything that comes with it. she’s jealous of love and of companionship and of freedom of choice. she’s jealous of growing up and of growing old. she wants to experience EVERYTHING. she’s hedonistic and that’s the core of her character.

like in all seriousness your fangs look beautiful in this lighting. But we have to focus

All all all

and i Do think a lot of flanderization/woobification of both shane and ilya comes from people having a limited understanding of what professional athletes are Like and what goes into pursuing and maintaining a career. this goes doubly for shane and ilya, who are the elite of the elite. that does not happen without immense amounts of intentionality, dedication, discipline, and love for the sport

reading gracerocky fic but shaking my head a little the whole time to show that i also support fully aroace grace

thinking about grace, not remembering why he was on hail mary, being confused as to why he had been willing to go on a suicide mission. he couldnt remember, but there mustve been a good reason, some factor that played into why he chose to go. some bravery he mustered that he didnt know he had in him. that even if he couldnt recall it, there was something behind the choice he made to embark on this journey- only for him to discover it was never his choice in the first place. he didnt take a heroic stand. it was not an admirable suicide but murder, all for the survival of mankind.