The Paster Of Muns.

The Nebra Sky Disc - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world; showing the sun, moon and several other celestial constellations.

Found in a burial in Saxony - Germany, associated with the Bronze Age Únětice Culture

Affirmations from yours truly. 😌

Epilogue - Part 2

The end.

Thank you for everything.

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Epilogue letter in text form:

Kittens can’t regulate their own body temperature. That’s why they pile up.

Cats see us as colony members.

Masha saw a kitten that was on its own, no mommy, no other kittens to cuddle with. She instinctively knew that was a cold kitten. She knew that a kitten alone on a cold night was very likely to die. Because a kitten would have died too.

So, all she was doing was what any good colony member does - protecting the abandoned kitten. Then when the abandoned kitten’s mommy didn’t come back, she called the rest of the colony for help.

People have this bizarre idea that housecats don’t have a social sense. They do, and it saved this kid’s life. And possibly Masha’s too, as life on the streets is dangerous for a kitty.

I have compiled a bunch of links to meta posts about Shane Hollander that I encountered and enjoyed. I hope you also enjoy them!

This list will continue to evolve. If you see any posts you think would make a good addition, tag me! 😁

I'm also working on an Ilya version. I will update this with the link when it's done.

To any users I've tagged in this post, I just wanted to credit you, but if you would like me to untag you or remove your post from the list, please just let me know! Also, I think tumblr limits me to 50 tags? If yes, that's why most of the tags in the latter part of the post don't link directly to the user's blog. But all the links to the posts themselves should work.

I will update this with links to some of Hudson Williams' interviews eventually, because Hudson usually has some excellent Shane meta.

Shane + Autism:

@boyguilty : Shane's identity is Hockey Player

@draegmuth : Shane's relentlessness regarding being a bottom

@lavenderprose and @tawnyow-l : Shane likes Ilya's dick autistically

@superkitty21 : Shane and under-stimulation

@sonnyandshare : Shane + insults

@gayhockeyshowenjoyer : Shane's response to Ilya's "I love you"

@soul-wanderer : why a diagnosis might be helpful

@cjjade : Shane on pain meds

@themoonandmyman 's commentary on @my-2nd-account 's post Shane being surprised at the word boyfriend

@butimnomickey :

Shane's autistic moments in ep 1

Shane's autistic moments in ep 6

Shane unmasking in ep 6

Shane + Autism + sexuality:

@whattfisausername : Shane is a breath of fresh air

@mr-stump-sir : Shane is a freaky little slut

Shane + sex:

lavenderprose (tagged above) : Shane's first homosexual experience

@fuckrozanov and @rozanovx discussing how life-altering that must have been for Shane

@family-discord-server : some meta, some headcanon-ing

fuckrozanov (tagged above) : Shane "winter soldier activates"

@sickness-health-all-that-shit : how they make each other better

The Tuna Melt Scene:

@spiders-hth-is-an-outlier : why Ilya brought up Svetlana, specifically (this is mostly Ilya meta but there's a little bit in there about how Shane might have interpreted that conversation)

@swanlakeprincess1 : why that conversation was so scary for Shane

@wtf-is-hockey and an anonymous asker discussing the real reason for Shane's freak-out

@young-waverer : Shane first-naming Ilya was intentional

The lunch with Yuna and David in ep 4:

@shaneswhitesocks 's post about the line, "I don't want you to lie" and @sterling-dragons 's tags in their reblog

and sterling-dragons own post about that moment

@myarchiveforme : that lunch with Yuna and David

@kalinara 's interpretation

Episode 6:

@threehams : why Shane hadn't come out to his parents yet

@illuminetic : *half* his good looks

The Line "I tried really, really hard."

@gffa : "I tried really hard"

@hilarioushilarity : that same line

@gayhockeyshow : their take on that line

@howeverbriefly : the ambiguity of that line

@ahotknife : the costuming in that scene with Yuna

Shane + confidence and emotions:

@raincitygirl76 : Shane introducing himself

@ticklefighthockey : Shane has a secure attachment style ; Shane is the Emotions Dom ; Shane is observant and emotionally intelligent

gffa (tagged above) : Shane goes all in on his relationship with Ilya

@cuteandtwisted : also about Shane being all in

@gutsybitsies : Shane is not the insecure one (TLG spoilers)

@aslongasitsblack : Shane is cool!! (TLG spoilers)

@nevcolleil and raincitygirl76 (tagged above) discussing how Shane enjoys submitting but he's not meek and he is usually the one to escalate things between himself and Ilya

@flower-of-the-desert : Shane being attuned to Ilya

@imaginemyreality03 's commentary on themoonandmyman 's (tagged above) post regarding the phone call in ep 5

@madlori : Shane making himself a safe place

@sunnys1de-d0wn : Shane's behaviour during the Russian monologue

fuckrozanov (tagged above): Shane's earnestness

Shane + race, his public image, need for control, compulsory heterosexuality, internalized homophobia and his relationship with his parents:

some important context from @maxanor about how white professional hockey is

@shanehollanderstits : Shane's internalized homophobia being tied up with being mixed race

@sanjuwrites : Shane being "too different"

ahotknife (tagged above) : Shane not disappointing people

@lifeofbrybooks : Shane's facade of a perfect life

@cchapsticck : Shane's body as a product

aslongasitsblack (tagged above) : Shane's denial

aslongasitsblack (tagged above) : Shane does NOT think out loud

@catalpa-waltz : the "silent retreat"

cchapsticck (tagged above) : Shane's sense of self vs expectations

ticklefighthockey (tagged above) : Shane's cognitive dissonance about his (lack of) attraction to women

@lucydacusgirl : Shane actually can't hide as well as he thinks he can

@dedecorus : Shane being so focused on the optics

@mythmagicetc : Shane's parents just don't understand

@intergalacticmca : Shane compartmentalizing

Other stuff:

@lierdumoa : Shane's diet

@dimir-charmer , @twilitdragoneye and raincitygirl76 (tagged above) discussing Shane living in Montreal as a closeted celebrity

@sylvies-chen with some irl hockey context for the hollanov rivalry

ticklefighthockey 's (tagged above) input on another similarity between the show "rivalry" and the irl "rivalry" by which it was inspired

@freakoutgirl : Shane isn't even pushing the rivalry

@fresh-bag-of-ham : ginger ale symbolism

ticklefighthockey (tagged above) and anons re:

the differences between Shane's and Ilya's relationships with hockey and what Shane's "love" for hockey actually is

(this one is gently critical of RR's writing style, not in that it's not good, just in that the style is not really OP's cup of tea, even though OP did enjoy the books and read them multiple times) difference between the book characters and the show characters (the last part, added in a self-reblog, talks specifically about Shane)

making Ilya wait two years to fuck him

the Rose effect

how Shane must have felt in the time between Sochi and Vegas and an additional post about Shane's possible internal monologue

Shane in The Long Game (spoilers, obvs):

@austenwazright : the power imbalance

@sylvies-chen : Shane's POV

lavenderprose (tagged above) : Shane's disordered eating

@with-my-murder-flute : Shane has no precedent for this

wtf-is-hockey (tagged above) talking about one of Shane's kinks (doesn't actually specifically mention TLG but it's VERY in line with TLG canon)