miyriu

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

lawyers. im getting chills just

imagining it.

Whenever they go out with the Centaurs after games, Shane will find a table and Ilya will head to the bar. That's how it has been since Shane signed with the Cens and none of the guys really think twice about it anymore, it's just the way they do things. Division of labour or whatever. But even as the night goes on, no matter how many rounds they get, Ilya is always the one who goes to the bar to order.

The reason behind it is simple. Whether Shane will be drinking tonight, what he will be drinking, and how much is Ilya's decision. It's his responsibility.

Ilya knows that if the decision was up to Shane he wouldn't really drink at all during the season and, most of the time, he respects that. The majority of the time, he'll return with a beer for himself and a ginger ale for Shane. But sometimes he'll bring over a beer for Shane as well. Shane will usually wrinkle his nose a little at the first sip but he'll always thank Ilya, regardless. Ilya usually makes do with one round for him but sometimes it's two or three and with every beer he brings over, Shane dutifully thanks him and drinks it.

A few times, Ilya has brought shots. He'll never bring Shane shots during times where they would truly impact his performance; never the day before a game, never when the pressure of the season is ramping up. But when their schedule allows for it and the mood strikes, Ilya will bring him shots. For no other reason than because he wants Shane to take them. He wants to watch the way his face scrunches up, like he bit down on a lemon. He wants to watch him sputter at the burn of the alcohol. He wants to hear him thank him for something he knows he didn't want. He wants to watch him get loose and sloppy. Sometimes he just wants to see Shane drunk. And Shane is his. If Ilya wants to see him drunk, then he'll see him drunk.

On nights when Ilya buys Shane shots, he usually stays sober himself. At most, he'll have one beer before switching to Cokes. He wants to stay alert enough to make sure he doesn't make Shane overdo it and he wants to stay alert enough to get to enjoy Shane's lack of inhibition. He also knows that if both of them got drunk, they'd likely end up with a public indecency charge, because drunk Shane loves nothing more than putting his hands on his husband's body. He'll stroke up Ilya's chest, run his fingers through his hair, he'll hold his hand and hardly ever let it go. On more than one occasion he has fully crawled into Ilya's lap and stuck his tongue down his throat without any prompting.

A full body shudder goes through Shane at the third shot and his eyes are wet, looking up at Ilya through his lashes and saying, "I don't like it, please don't make me do another." His words are slightly slurred already and he looks beautiful.

And Ilya is like "No I'm out for drinks with the guys. Did you not see that we won, Hollander?"

And Shane texts back like "Of course I saw, that's why I'm texting." Then a few seconds later: "Download this app right now. Be discreet." with an app store link. And Ilya texts back like '??? 🤨 Shane, have you been hacked?'

And Shane is like 'Just download the fucking app, asshole. This is your reward. Username is Jane2481. Fucking HURRY.'

"I'm just thinking about when we met. There should have been some sort of sign."

"There was, you pointed out the no smoking sign, was first thing you said."

Shane smiles, "sure but it just seems crazy to me that I met you and no one told me that I'd just met the most important person I'll ever know."

Ilya felt like he'd just been sideswiped by his husband. It was so like Shane to just be thinking the most romantic thing Ilya's ever heard while Ilya's playing candy crush.

"I thought that I'd found the thing that would make me happiest in the world already, and I did, because hockey led me to meeting you. It's just crazy is all"