monochrome candor

this is just an observation and not meant to start shit, i just think its super fascinating the way people talk about how shane and ilya would be treated by the wider hockey world because sometimes you see it being narrowed down to nonwhite guy vs white guy. like "the media would be so tough on shane bc hes asian and he would experience microaggressions/tokenizing comments" (very true) but then the juxtaposition is usually something like "ilya wouldnt have to worry about things like this because hes white" and this is just not really true. you honestly cannot imagine how genuinely stigmatizing it is to be a russian player in the western leagues. especially in america at the height of the russian election tampering stuff. i know it sounds backwards and old school but you gotta know how backwards and old school hockey is. ilya wouldnt face racism the way shane would, obviously, but he would face a level of xenophobic stereotyping and isolation that would really shock you if you arent already familiar with how the hockey media machine works

they'd get scott as a guest judge on US drag race and his opinions would honestly kinda suck. kip's friends don't ever let kip live that down

i just don’t think shane respects soccer players :/ obviously he gets asked about the world cup and he knows enough about it because his husband is #European so he can give a good enough answer but inside he’s like ugh fucking pussies

SO funny in one breath he’s like ugh theyre so GAY look at them rolling around on the ground like that (as per @space-bakery) and in the next breath he’s like they’re too lanky they’re not even hot what’s the point and ilya just looks at him oh THEYRE the gay ones. uh huh

The reason the Beatles are the greatest band of all time isn't because they revolutionised music or whatever it's because they wrote a song about Killing People With Hammers

Ilya is not a car guy. Like he's a guy who likes and has fancy cars but he's not a car guy. He's taking those fancy cars to a fancy car place to get their oil changed and he's selling it the moment a check engine light even thinks of turning on (not cause its old but because he's going over speed bumps way too fast for these low riding sports cars). We know this because if Ilya was a car guy he would know what the jeep looks like because it would say "jeep" on it.

fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever