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She is not.

In the follow up video (So planned because Ilya had SO MANY OPINIONS about the pickles they gave him and also asked why there were no beets) it's a bunch of different kinds of pickle. Beets, asparagus, okra, brussels sprouts, asparagus, pineapple, eggs. Ilya likes the pineapple best and laughs for way too long about the brussel sprouts being called Frog Balls.

(Shane is there this time because the Pickle Threat Level is slightly lower with this batch and there's a cute little moment after Ilya tries the pickled pineapple where his face is all lit up and he's excitedly saying, "Shane, Shane, come try--just a nibble, love, try try--" because of course he wants to share his new favorite thing with his favorite person.

"Buy me twelve jars," Ilya says, and the mic clipped to his collar can pick him up perfectly, though it struggles slightly to pick up Shane's response.

"Two," Shane says. "I'll buy you two. What's the brand?"

Then, after Shane tries it: "You like? Is good?"

"Mm. It's a little weird. I guess it might be good in a salad."

"Maybe. This is my new favorite. We must have them always now."

"Okay. Love you, baby."

P.S David asked me to tell you that he is very excited about the puzzle he picked out to do with you."

All the pics are of ilya being soft 🤧

Him at the dinner table stuffing his face with chicken parm with a mountain of cheese, the marinara sauce tinge the corners of his mouth

Him and Yuna on the couch, his head on her lap, her fingers lost in his curls

Him in the backyard of his house, sat on the ground while Anya licks his face

Him and shane passed out on different parts couch on their tummies, with their fingers tangled together

Him with the pikelings treating him like jungle gym. The twins hang from his biceps while Arthur is licking an ice lolly sat on his shoulders totally zoned out and little Amber has wrapped her teeny tiny hands around one of his knees. To be noted, he is wearing one of his expensive ass ray bans and his nails are painted in the bi flag and he's wearing those necklaces from the DIY jewellery making kits for kids.

Him solving a puzzle with David at the dinner table with a blanket around his shoulders

Him posing with 2 hotdogs as if they are guns, face scrunched in mock strain

A family photo of four of them in a restaurant all happy smiles, a bit shaky due the staff being nervous

Him sticking his tongue out at shane with the TV remote in one hand keeping it out of reach while the other arm tries to push shane away

The hudcon lick™️ on the ice but hollanov in their Ottawa jerseys

Him and shane at the dock with Shane's arm around his waist and his wrapped around Shane's shoulders at they watch the sun rise at the cottage

A picture of them at their wedding, shane throwing his head back laughing, his hand on his stomach with the wedding band glinting as ilya tries to hide his smirk into his champagne glass

When ilya finds out, he blushes deep red and tries to hold back tears.

i love the idea of melissa finding her future wife after she moves to ottawa because very funny both to imagine shane being like. VERY lowkey a lil jelly he's sharing more of melissa's attention now because anjali is in the picture so sometimes he now goes to melissa's office and now has someone else in there 😒😒😒. but also in my heart shane has NO gaydar. at ALL. i feel like ilya clocked melissa as queer immediately, but shane WHO HAS KNOWN HER FOR YEARS AND CONTRIBUTED TO HER MOVING TO THIS TEAM hears her mention in passing "oh man, the girl i dated in college-" and is just

But also I think like. For Shane during years in which his every gay experience is tied to secrecy and shame, who does not interact with people he knows to be gay and who feels so terribly lonely I think just seeing queer joy sometimes could be transformative even if he still doesn't think it's possible for himself.

like melissa respects confidentiality! she doesn't tell anyone about shane's needs/requests/requirements, but when shane is regularly sending her snapchats and texts and melissa talks about him at home because a lot of her job IS him, of course anjali has the impression of like. beloved blorbo. lol.

(OH MY GOOOOD. ANJALI ALREADY LIVED IN OTTAWA! SO MOVING TO OTTAWA WORKED OUT WELL BOTH IN TERMS OF STILL GETS TO PLAY DIETETICS WITH HER FAVORITE SUBJECT AND ALSO NOW CLOSER TO HER GIRLFRIEND WHO BECOMES FIANCEE AND THEN WIFE BECAUSE NO LONGER LONG(ISH) DISTANCE.)

like anjali has taste tested things melissa has come up with because anjali happens to have some similar texture preferences (she doesn't Know This because melissa wouldn't violate shane's trust in her like that, but if you've got an in-house "will my favorite project at work like this?" system, why not use that lmao), so she also has a fond, "aw, you're the one i had to try five different granola combos for. hi bud. glad you liked the maple butter-pumpkin seed combo, too."

If your doctor makes multiple documents confirming that you suffer from alopecia because of stress and the medicine you have to take for your epilepsy and that wearing a bonnet or something is recommended for your mental health as you’re not ready to go out bald in high school as a teenage girl, instead of admitting they are wrong the school will accuse the doctor of lying and report him to the Ordre des Médecins (equivalent of the General Medical council). Your doctor will find himself asking you for a document stating that you are not Muslim in order to defend himself and prove that no he wasn’t colluding with you so you could wear a substitute for hijab.

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In France if you are a North African nurse at a public hospital and wear a fabric surgical cap they will try to make you remove it because apparently it’s a hidden hijab. They will accuse you of going against secularism and when you’ll argue that they are discriminating you by assuming you’re Muslim for a surgical cap on your head they will change their angle and claim that you should wear nothing on your hair because you wear the same surgical cap in multiple bedroom which is unhygienic apparently (which is a bullshit argument cause you wear the same scrub/uniform in different bedrooms as well). They will go as far as claiming that disposable scrub caps (you know the thin papery ones?) are not okay to wear in a hospital even if you change it regularly. And then they will fire you for a lack of hygiene because you wear a surgical cap.

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All of that will be done in the name of secularism and women’s right despite having nothing do with either quite the opposite.