season 2 episode 1: my dinner with Hayden & the events between heated rivalry and the long game

episode 2: tough guy — meet wyatt & troy in this episode

episodes 3&4: the first half of the long game

episode 5: most of role model ends with The Plane

episode 6: starts with The Plane ends with The Proposal (Harris & Troy first hook up in this episode!!)

season 3 episode 1 or maybe 2: finishing role model (episode ends with the Pride game)

episodes 2-6: finishing the long game and really expanding the events of the last third of the book

the books though give me the exact opposite impression. (obligatory disclaimer that i know fully well this is not the author's intent, but these are the implications of the words she put on the page. death of the author and all that)

in the books, shane thinks about his race a grand total of two times. the first is in hr when he's thinking about how lucky he is to have his parents and how his mom, despite being the daughter of japanese immigrants, is a huge hockey fan and montreal fan specifically, being born and raised in montreal. so there's the subtext that yuna is very culturally assimilated, which shane is on some level aware of. the second time he thinks about his race is in tlg when crowell is threatening him and shane is wondering if he's being singled out for his race or rumored sexuality. notably, there's a complete lack of resentment about being japanese or an asian role model. at most he just fears discrimination. and that mirrors his fears about being coming out: contrary to some fanons, shane doesnt spurn queer community or pride, he's just afraid of the very real threat of homophobia. he actually wants to be more in touch with his queerness and the community. i think it's reasonable to interpret that he has similar feelings about his race, that he feels disconnected due to his upbringing and that he wants to be more connected, not less

book yuna hollander though? i think she absolutely hates being a racial minority, which i gather from... well, everything about her. she's very passionate about hockey, which hr connects with her being born and raised in canada. there are even multiple scenes in hr showing how she's more intense about it than her professional hockey player son (this dynamic is somewhat flipped in tlg, indicating the stress shane is under and how afraid he is of being pushed out of his sport). so we know hockey is very important to yuna, it's serious business. she's immersed in its competitive and very white culture. she married a white man who played college hockey. she raised their son to play hockey. she gave that son the whitest name possible and raised him to be culturally white, which we can infer from the absence of race in his narration. book yuna is not telling a rookie shane to think of all the asian kids who see themselves in him

Pairing: Yuna Hollander/Irina Rozanova

Summary:

Irina couldn't help but stare at the girl in front of her.

250 words, POV Irina, pre-canon