Don't Smoke Crayolas

ilya and svetlana's friendship is so good they're childhood friends, they're lovers, ilya is her gay best friend who is also a straight bro, svetlana is his only voice of reason, they fuck, they do girls night, they pick hookups for each other, sometimes they can't stand each other, they would kill for each other

I think carter vaughn as a black hockey player who has been in hockey locker rooms his entire life has learned to play the offensive when it comes to loudly being an ally and generally letting other players know where he stands so that he knows which guys are also cool and which guys are calling him a liberal cuck

Go to bed early tonight!

...there's always tomorrow!

I have this marketing idea for season two where they create an actual ottawa centaurs instagram account and post a bunch of in-character content as if it was a real hockey team being run by a real guy and also this is how they announce the actors playing them

bonus idea that works with that and that i've thought about an unhealthy number of times: official ilya instagram account where he posts all the pics that shane eventually realizes are about him/their relationship. every week there's new posts relating to whatever happened during the episode.

this post posits a utopian world where either of these parties would support feeding schoolchildren, making it a masterclass in "hopepunk"