live laugh lobotomy

the humble charles xavier:

NFL teams play 17 games in the regular season with a week where they play no games at all.

Shane is playing 82 games in a regular season, plays all the teams in the league at least twice, more often if they're in the same conference. NFL teams don't even play all the other teams once.

He will go to a Superbowl watch party if he's not play, and knows enough to have a conversation at a barbecue but he does not follow a team or really give a shit what they're up to.

Basketball? tThey play 82 games a season like Shane. BASEBALL? 162! Those are athletes being pushed in the same grueling schedule as Shane. He is like hell yeah what stretches are baseball players doing, what are the golden state warriors doing for cardio, what are they feeding these guys, how was the draft?

Jor-El: Ok, the planet is going to explode.

Zor-El: Uh huh.

Jor-El: So I'm going to send my son to another planet to save him.

Zor-El: With you so far.

Jor-El: And the yellow sun will give him great power to conquer the world so he can take a harem of wives to repopulate the Kryptonian species.

Shane on the other hand talked a mile a minute. He was always babbling and bubbling about one thing or another. He was a yapper.

As they got older, Ilya realised that it’s simpler to hide in the spot light and that it’s easier to get away with things when he’s loud. It’s whole another kind of invisibility, hiding in plain sight, everyone sees him, believes they know him, but they only know the parts he allows them to see.

Shane became quiet. He figured out that people didn’t want to listen. He understood people find him more likabke when he’s quiet. So he keeps his thoughts to himself, doesn’t talk, doesn’t make people uncomfortable by having too much information to share and not knowing when to shut up.

Fast forward to the cottage. They’re sitting on the couch, Shane’s legs in Ilya’s lap as he waves in arms around, talking excitedly about something. And Ilya, Ilya just listens. He doesn’t interrupt him, doesn’t tell him to stop talking. He enjoys not having to be the one talking for once, actually. There’s a small smile dancing across his lips as he listens to his boyfriend (boyfriend!!!) yap about beavers, their importance for the ecosystem and how they became the national animal of Canada.