local confounding being

My name is Rimü. I use they/she/he pronouns.

This multifandom blog (18+) is primarily a creative outlet for me but racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, homo/queer/transphobia, misogyny, fatphobia,ableism & saneism are NOT welcome. While I use this to write about books, music, shows and films I’m enjoying, this blog is still abolitionist, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-Palestine and Pan-African.

Media I’m enjoying:

The Mighty Nein (TV)

The Pitt S1 & 2 ONLY (TV)

Heated Rivalry (TV)

Gen V (TV)

House of the Dragon (TV)

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (TV)

Castlevania (TV)

Castlevania: Nocturne (TV)

Supernatural (TV)

Bones (TV)

The Mentalist (TV)

Scandal (TV)

Bridgerton Season 2 (TV)

Avatar the Last Airbender (TV)

The Legend of Korra (TV)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (Film)

Bottoms (Film)

Sinners (Film)

DC

They would kiss with SO MUCH tongue, they’d honestly look like they’re devouring each other.

Jack would stay covered in scratches and hickeys i fear. He absolutely loves that he can get Samira to loose control to the point that she doesn’t care where she marks him just if she does. Shen and Ellis tease him relentlessly about it of course. Samira stays hearing about it from Santos, Javadi even joins in from time to time.

The way they look at each other after working a trauma causes a sexual harassment seminar, it’s just so… indecent. Like no one can point out exactly what it is, they just feel like they, one, shouldn’t be seeing whatever it is and, two, that it shouldn’t be occurring in public, let alone at work.

Ilya caring for Shane during and after sex isn’t anything more than being a good (but it’s honestly bare minimum) sexual partner. I understand why it’s canon that it was more, it’s a central theme in the romance genre and I do eat it up every single time. That said, it speaks to something very concerning at a broader societal level.

Sex can be very physically and emotionally demanding with or without a ‘deeper’ or ‘more romantic’ bond and/or setting. Sharing pleasure is vulnerable. It is intimate, especially in our pain-filled world that requires us all to be masochists to survive. So the care is not optional, at least it shouldn’t be. Obviously for romance genre purposes it transformed into more and this does also reflect reality for many, but I do wonder if that’s more so because we so rarely have care extended to us. That we are accustomed to extraction rather than mutual exchange in all parts of our lives

All of this to say, care and consideration is the bare minimum. I mean what that really was for Shane and Ilya was regular check ins and aftercare ie clean up and some cuddling. It wasn’t naive of Shane to be affectionate with Ilya afterwards & vice versa (thinking of the light forehead kiss in Ep 2 & the stairwell kiss). They’d shared a pleasurable and vulnerable intimate moment, whether or not it was romantic, it demanded care both during AND after.

They’ve both been stereotyped in terms of the positions they play. Like yeah they do put the big dark skin Black kid in defence when he’s playing as a kid. He’s still fantastic at it but the fact is, he wasn’t allowed to be anything else. Of course Shane is described as one-dimensional and an amazing strategist, it’s what’s expected of him because he’s Asian.

That awkward convo at the draft where the Metros GM talks about how they have no problem with Shane being Asian, yeah JJ probably had something similar AND they probably laughed about it together and then sighed heavily because they know they’ll never win in that sport. They have to trade off micro aggressions for macro aggressions, but sometimes they wish for a slur because it’s better than the derision wrapped in faux kindness that no one will believe them about.

There are many aspects of Shane’s characterisation in fanon AND canon that I dislike but it all boils down to the fact that he doesn’t seem to be a full person. Yes, he is autistic and hockey is his special interest and his career. He loves it and his life is oriented around it, but he’s still a person with other interests.

Ilya is extremely popular with a widely recognisable name & discography, but most importantly, he has a RABID fan base. They go to BAT for him & anyone associated with him. It’s perfect for Shane and even better for Ilya who’s had a crush on Shane.