`*Fandom Barf*`

It started when he was a kid and he was trying to help everyone get better at hockey including the opposing teams players, he would say something like “your stick grip is weak” or “you’re slow on your right” (idk i don’t know hockey very well ESPECIALLY little kid hockey) but he says it totally deadpan because little Shanebug doesn’t understand tone yet.

This makes the other teams so mad! They try and fight him constantly! Little bitty baby hockey fights and then Yuna sits him down in middle school after the first fight that he actually gets hurt (black eye and bloody lip) and asks him what he is saying to make everyone fight him?

“Nothing mean I swear mom!!! I’m trying to be nice and help correct their form”

And suddenly Yuna gets it and explains to Shane that not everyone but especially not the opposing team likes to have their flaws pointed out to them even if it’s coming from a good place and how that could be seen as chirping.

So he stops for a while, then his coach for world juniors tells him to try and piss off Rozanov enough that they can draw a penalty. So Shane does what he does best and points out a flaw at each face off. Jokes on him though because Ilya is actively changing those things and getting better every face off because he is taking it for what it is, advice.

Which pisses Shane off, he thinks his chirping tactic won’t work now that he is older. So he points out at his first scrimmage at practice in Montreal that the center who has been there for years (who he is probably replacing) is favoring his left side is staying too far left to compensate (again I don’t know hockey so I am trying to translate things I know about soccer lol)

And the center loses it on him! Immediately yelling about the lack of respect and how a rookie makes it to the MLH and thinks they are hot shit.

So Shane realizes his chirping DOES work just not on rozanov and becomes a menace he studies game tape specifically to find holes in his opponents game and pre prepares chirps and it fucking works because all these men are so far up their own asses that they just get mad instead of using the advice.

they go to an art museum that david recommended because there's a new exhibition and ilya, again, wants to go and shane is looking at him like ??? you know nothing about art, and ilya nods and says, that's why we should go. learn. broaden our horizons, and shane sighs and books them a guided tour.

they get to a painting, you know, one of these things that's just a blob of single colour, and shane thinks he could’ve done that. shane doesn't get it. it's just a blob of colour. and not even a pretty colour, just some weird muddy shade that looks like vomit, maybe. and the guide is talking about it and next to him, ilya is oooooohhh-ing and aaaahhhh-ing and nodding along and saying “of course” and “yes, i thought so” and shane is staring at him as if he's seeing him for the first time, because. what. and they move along and he feels so stupid because nothing of what the guide said about this “painting” made any sense to him.

ilya notices how pinched shane’s expression is and kisses the back of his hand, raising his eyebrows in a silent question. shane chews on the inside of his cheek and finally, whispered, asks how ilya knows all this stuff about this painting, and ilya shrugs and says, i don’t, and, it’s just a fucking a circle with colour that looks like puke, and shane is so relieved. they look at each other and snicker like teenagers about how stupid and pretentious it is and then duck out of the tour to go gossip about terrible art but end up finding pieces that they both actually like and stand side by side admiring and finding new little things to point out to the other.

Ilya with the loon tattoo finally coloured!!! To go with myShane and the sketch versions here and here!!!

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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