#bea talks

Shane Hollander is asleep on the couch. SHANE HOLLANDER. Canada’s golden boy. Mr. media-trained, never-out-of-line, does-not-get-wasted-at-all-star-weekends Shane Hollander.

he is wearing Ilya’s shirt. but not just any shirt. no, that shirt. The leopard one.

he is, for reasons Cliff cannot begin to unpack, cuddling Svetlana Vetrov?????

Cliff did not even know Svetlana was in the middle of fuck-nowhere Ohio!!!

Cue: Ilya’s friends + rival (???) forming the world’s most dysfunctional search party trying to figure out where the hell their captain/ex-captain/best friend/rival went

And for SOME REASON Hollander is the most invested person in finding Ilya?? All of this would be less suspicious if he wasn’t:

still wearing Ilya’s shirt

refusing to explain why

acting like he personally misplaced a husband

and Cliff, hungover and barely clinging to reality, is so close to cracking the real case here:

Shane Hollander’s biggest secret!!!!

obviously

can we talk about this? can we talk about how the biggest western adult animated show in the world right now has a lesbian couple as its main (endgame!) couple? can we talk about how nothing about either of their characters or the way their scenes are handled are fetishised or reliant on stereotypes? can we talk about how their s*x scene is treated with care, reverence and respect, demonstrating their intimacy and passion in a way that FEELS like wlw wrote and directed it, rather than catering to the male gaze? can we talk about how they got a sapphic artist to create the song that plays over this scene? can we talk about how both of their characters are written so well, in a show that has so many interesting characters but still manages to give each one the attention and development they deserve? can we talk about how their queerness is just a fact of the show - it is never commented on, never highlighted, never used as a source of conflict. they are both incredible and unique characters in an incredible and unique show, and they just also happen to be lesbians. i fucking love arcane, man.

still not playing LoL though, sorry.

people still never made up their minds about me, but hey at least i got a single stall bathroom. still a weird as hell experience though.