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i find it so funny how we collectively as a fandom have resorted to 'and shane is out of the house doing a commercial' as the one all-encompassing excuse for any post-TLG headcanon where they have to not be in the same place for plot reasons, because it's an actual mental gymnastic to conjure up any other circumstances where they would ever willingly be apart once married.
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Heated Rivalry — 1x06 ⤷ PHONE BLOWJOB
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I had to make him into TLG Shane
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okay but for sure baby shane on his first hockey team got to play on the ice during an intermission at a centaurs game in the 90s. he scored a goal and did a cute little celebration jump (and immediately lost his balance and fell on his butt). harris pulls the clip from somewhere deep in the centaurs archive. he makes an insta post after shane's first game with the cens and includes the video with a caption about tonight being shane hollander's second ever centaurs goal.
ilya just barely manages to keep himself from sobbing in delight at the video.
the thing about the end of TLG is that it isn't really about Shane losing everything he's worked for his entire adult life (although it maybe feels that way for a moment both for the reader and for Shane himself). what actually happens is that Shane looks at everything he's worked for his entire adult life and he goes "wait, this is it? this is what I wanted? damn, this kinda sucks. you're telling me I did alllll that and you're upset about me marrying the love of my life? for real? yeah, no, fuck this shit, I'm out ✌️" and then he skates off into the sunset with his husband, whom he loves so fucking much that he was willing to give up everything he's worked for his entire life for him because he has realised that he wants Ilya more than he wants any of that
this part of the long week by @trippedlaces has become my #shanethesis for all of TLG
wait okay one more take. the thing about shane is that he is so so brave even when he is so so scared, and he throughout both books is always the one who, when it’s down to the wire, keeps making the decision to push past his fears and desire to stick to the status quo and propel his relationship with ilya forward. so when people try to dismiss his choice to get engaged/go public (even though he’s terrified of the potential consequences) + tell crowell to go fuck himself when he’s offered the chance to go back in the closet (even though this is his life’s work going up in flames) + leave a toxic and abusive work environment (even though he’s going to leave behind the team he’s been the star of for a decade)……. and claim that ilya orchestrated the whole thing……. well no. it was actually #mybraveshane who did all of that
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That's straight up not a happy ending though. The only non-white gay hockey player in the entire series loses almost all of his friends (unintentionally due to the friends he doesn't lose, so there will always be that hanging over their relationships), he goes to his husband's team where not only is he paid way less than what he's worth, he's demoted (they could've given him the A or had a rotating captaincy, that does happen in the NHL), he's called a prima donna, his boundaries are trampled on, everything he feared happening comes true. What sort of message does that send?
He shouldn't have had to choose. Yes, Ilya had to make the decision to go to Ottawa but he ended up getting a raise, close friends, and supportive teammates out of it. Shane got none of that.
Okay so maybe YOU don't think it's a happy ending? And like, you're doing a whole lot of conjecture there. We don't actually know what either of them get paid. Shane doesn't lose Hayden and he reconciles with JJ, the only two Voyageurs he was really close with. We don't know that they don't ultimately work something out about the captaincy because we literally only see them stepping on the ice for their home opener. Nobody actually calls him a primadonna in the book or anything like that? We don't get any of the reaction to him leaving on the page other than his loved ones going "good for you dude I get it".
The Voyageurs don't kick him out, Shane chooses to leave and he chooses to go to Ottawa where his husband and his parents are and where he knows he can play kickass hockey with a great team. And who's to say that Shane doesn't get close friends and supprtive teammates out of the move? Why would Shane not make friends with the Centaurs? He already IS friendly with Wyatt and Bood who both coached at foundation camps. Shane isn’t punted to the beer leagues, he's going to play with an insanely promising team that also has his husband on it, who he fucking loves playing with and who he will finally get to see more than once a month. And he wasn’t happy in Montreal anymore even before they got outed!
If anything, Shane gets a better deal out of his move than Ilya did because Ilya was fucking miserable for two years before it started getting better. He built the Centaurs from the ground up. They were the literal worst team in the league and Ilya ground through loss after loss after humiliating loss and the media DID mock him about his move and Shane just gets to waltz in and probably win a Cup immediately.
And again, the whole point is that he realises success didn't protect him. That's the message being sent. Don't make yourself fit the mould they're trying to stuff you into because it's not worth it; find your happiness and fucking claim it (which is the same message of Game Changer, and of Heated Rivalry, and of Tough Guy, and of Common Goal, and of Role Model. Rachel is not subtle). Shane was the undisputed best (because Ilya was stuck on a shit team!) and it didn't mean shit. The book is so fucking clear about Shane moving to Ottawa being an improvement and not in any sense a downgrade because he's not actually losing anything, he's leaving a hostile and toxic work environment and taking control of his life and yeah, sure, he isn't captain immediately. But if your husband had spent years on a shit team, to be closer to you, and finally got them in shape just before you joined him, it would be really fucking shitty to go and say actually, I should be in charge now. Ilya deserves the recognition and their relationship is based on real, honest competition. Shane still has two more Cups and an Olympic medal. He's fucking fine.
So yes, everything he was scared of came true. And he realised it wasn't nearly as scary as the thought of losing Ilya, so instead of bowing and scraping and going back in the closet, he chooses Ilya, and he's damn well rewarded for it.
How are these 1 year apart?
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stop it he sent the finger heart like a bow and arrow
idk it's just Shane reaching for Ilya's hand on the team bus and Ilya dragging Shane onto the ice by his hand for practice and Shane and Ilya holding hands waiting for the hotel coffee machine and Ilya sitting on Shane's left at tape review so Shane can still take notes if they hold hands and Shane scrolling on his phone while Ilya catches up with Harris and they're holding hands and
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@pscentral event 51: shapes: Shane & Ilya Heated Rivalry
from shaking hands to holding hands 1.01 "Rookies" | 1.06 "The Cottage"
