I regret nothing

And you’re 100% sure he’s straightttt straight?

And Ilya is like

Honey. We used to take home girls from the club and DP them sometimes in our rookie days and whenever he accidentally saw my dick he would lose his boner. MY dick. ME.

With big sweeping hand motions indicating how insane that is when you take into consideration the him of it all.

Bullshit. Shane has anxiety and internet access.

You think once he lived alone and was sure his parents wouldn’t see his internet history that he wasn’t researching how to give the best blow jobs? Not to mention how he even knew he wanted a dildo much less how to use it.

Prior to the cottage there were absolutely desperate horny summers while he was going months without Ilya that he typed ‘hot blonde Russian’ into the porn hub dot com search bar and was momentarily confused why the results were all women and not some guy who looked close enough to Ilya that he could pretend. Then looking for guys who look nothing like Ilya to try and convince himself it’s only because Ilya is convenient.

Not to mention his internal struggle to figure out if he’s gay. He was definitely trying to find something, a female body type, sex position, kink, etc that would get him excited about banging a girl. He hears teammates trading stories about their sex lives all the time, anytime he heard something new you know he was looking it up later.

Even if it was just for research purposes, Shane has watched more porn than his team combined. He told Rose he needed to figure some stuff out and like 75% of that stuff was testing if he wanted to bang anyone besides Ilya.

It really shifted when Shane came out to him. It all makes a lot more sense than Hayden wants it to. But being gay isn’t like, the end of the world. Hayden’s a lot more progressive than a lot of his family. He doesn’t even find it uncomfortable that a gay guy has been watching his kids all these years. In fact maybe this was for the best. Sure, Shane wasn’t going to have a wife, but he could still buy a house on Hayden’s street and he could still find someone to marry and he could always adopt. Jackie would probably love going shopping with Shane’s boyfriend and he would hang out with the other WAGs, like Scott Hunter’s boyfriend did.

But he never really adjusted to the idea that Shane was with… Rozanov. Being with another player was bad enough, but that asshole? Really? The fact that Shane let that guy emasculate him… it made Hayden see red. It was disrespectful.

Well, maybe Shane would come around one of these days. JJ would find a nice man to set him up with and Shane would forget all about Rozanov. What Shane didn’t understand, clearly, was the importance of having someone at home. They were on the road so much that you really needed someone to run your household, even if you didn’t have kids. Hayden didn’t get it. In all those years, Shane had never even hired a house manager, which all the guys did, even the ones with wives.

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His boyfriend of two years dumps him, keeping in mind he is DEEPLY in the closet and doesn't think he's ever going to be able to find anyone else who he'd be able to make a relationship work because of that + his schedule. Three days later said ex-bf announces he's ENGAGED and has apparently been with his fiancé for months (i think...?) so yeah apparently he was being cheated on the whole time while he was busy being madly in love! Also said exbf apparently was okay with being out if it was for someone else, just not Troy!

Then, TWO DAYS LATER, reports start coming out that his best friend of his entire career is a serial rapist, and over the next two days continue to come out and he realises that oh, that's actually completely in character and has to grapple with the fact that that's the kind of person he was best friends with. At that point, he calls Dallas out, yk, tries to do the right thing, and as a result is traded to the worst team in the entire league only a few days later.

Mind you he gets to that new team and they all hate him because, yk, best friends with no. 1 bigot and rapist Dallas Kent, and he can't even really blame them for it cause like... They're right. Also! Can't even grieve said relationship or complain about being cheated on because he would have to out himself to do it! So they all thought he was in a horrible mood just because he was a prick and hated their team not because he just got dumped!

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

Ilya’s like damn, that’s so sad. Half heartedly tries to convince Shane to do it anyway and fuck whatever hockey morning thing it is but is resigning himself because that’s not going to ever work.

Shanes like “um. 🫣🥺🤭 what if you came over anyway.”

Ilya’s like “awww to cuddle? So we still get a little forehead kiss and sleep together for a few hours before you leave?”

Shane’s like “oh. No. Or actually yes that sure.”

Ilya: 🤔🤔😛 ooh you will blow off hockey thing for me?

Shane: wtf no I would NEVER do that you know this

Ilya: …

Shane: …(very red, very awkward)

Ilya:…???

Shane: I need to sleep and be well rested for hockey but what if we still fucked?

Ilya:…????…Time Machine?

Shane: no silly, what if you just fucked me anyway while I was asleep and had your way with my unconscious body and used me like a toy and then I woke up with your cum leaking out of my ass and no memory of how it got there🫣🤭🥰

Ilya: 🫨🤯😵‍💫🤤

Idk is this anything?? Is this out there yet?

Edit: okay also what if they both end up liking it so much that it becomes a regular thing for them. Ilya, critically, forgets to mention to Shane that this is in fact very kinky and perhaps not the most common thing in the world. Cut to some conversation years later with the centaurs or maybe just chatting with Rose or Hayden after a drink or two and Shane casually mentions that this is a regular part of their sex life. Ilya is making frantic cutting motions across his throat but it’s too late. Shane doesn’t understand why everyone is looking at him like he’s got horns growing out of his head, or pulling him aside to make sure he’s “safe at home”. Ilya’s trying to convince well meaning friends that Shane is actually the world’s biggest freak and this was HIS idea and they really don’t need to be side eyeing him like this. He’s all pissed people are ruining everything by breaking it to Shane that he’s freaky as hell because the just KNOWS it’s going to set them back like six months on his long-term goal of Shane letting him hunt him through the woods like a bear.

“Ilya am I 🥺😭😣 slutty???”

But with one urgently muttered ‘1221’, Shane is rushing into Ilya’s room like someone is chasing him, he’s pouncing on Ilya and dropping to his knees before Ilya could finish his sentence. And Ilya is just as desperate for him, picking him up and throwing him to the bed and demanding ‘on your stomach, on your stomach’.

And by the end of the hookup, they’ve discussed sex toys, arranged their next meetup and that they’re going to fuck, exchanged phone numbers and established their Lily and Shane personas. All with Scott Fucking Hunter next door.

And this is their second time together.

For example, Shane doesn't want to be kissed before brushing his teeth because he's prim and proper and that's gross isn't it? But Shane finds it incredibly hot when Ilya presses him to the bed when they've just woken up and tells him he's just going to have to deal with it.

Shane doesn't like mess but when Ilya spreads him open after fucking him raw and watches his cum drip from his ass, he's hard again in minutes and begging for round two.