And they all get their happy end / In the end

Without the strange neutered sex symbol vibe that he had going before (or the born sexy yesterday vibe) Shane is finally free.

Shane only pulls his punches in the context of his NHL contract. His interviews in his personal capacity are scathing, direct, and scandalous. To be clear Shane is still respectful but it is very much an eye for and eye kind of situation.

Shane is at the club with Ilya, grinding and singing along to the club hits. Shane is getting tipsy and telling people to fuck off when they try to talk to Ilya. Shane is wearing see through shirts and necklaces, he is flipping people off, he is getting bottle girls/boys for the VIP table.

Shane does the Wonderland shoot, he goes on the Canceled podcast, he shows up to Andy Cohen's show, he and Ilya are doing the internet interview circuit and being unapologetically "grown men".

Twitter and Tabloids and Hockey shows all go from discussing the strangeness of the pairing, then how Ilya has corrupted Shane's demeanor and then finally arrive at the conclusion that Shane has always been like this. (This is only after the revelation that Shane and Ilya have been a thing the whole damn time)

Yuna and Farah are pleasantly surprised that after the initial scorched earth media approach, Shane and Ilya actually start getting sponsors once more. BVLRGARI and Ferrari are in Yuna's inbox, hoping to monetize on the hype and Hollanov's authenticity.

A reminder that what Ilya’s jerk of a depressed brain tells him is not reality. His biggest fear that Shane would choose someone “easier to love” was never on the table. Shane is every bit as obsessed with him as Ilya is with Shane.

"I found myself watching a young Asian man stand under the Golden Globes lights, completely unguarded, received by white-dominated Hollywood with genuine delight — and looking like nothing the industry had ever deliberately produced. He hadn’t been media-trained into blandness. He hadn’t distanced himself from the show’s fanbase to seem more serious, more Hollywood, more palatable. He’d arrived exactly as he was, from exactly where he came from."

"They didn’t quite know what box to put him in. So they just let him exist.

Which, for an Asian man in Hollywood, is rarer than it sounds."

"Where Hudson Williams goes from here is still being written. The scripts are piling up. The agency is CAA now, not The Old Spaghetti Factory. He has walked runways in Milan, attended the Met Gala, wielded the Olympic torch. The world that didn’t know his name two years ago can’t seem to stop saying it."

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Ilya is sitting in that bed like "wonder why I feel so empty". I'm very pro-doms-need-aftercare-too and Ilya needs to shower Shane in tender little kisses or else he also crashes.