#literally stop.

His selfishness, protective defensiveness, not-well thought out and unexplained decisions, acting in ways that many do not understand and can't justify with reason while still being someone that loves deeply and is loved by some as well, and by one at most. The consequences of learning about yourself as a white man after 100+ years of no introspection and how the change that occurs is not a clean one.

Yes, he'll still say stuff he shouldn't to a potentially powerful ally because they question a man he loves and literally won't be without. Yes, he'll still use generative AI cause he was never meant to suffer the consequences of that as he never felt remorse about like anything until a couple of months ago. He was literally sobbing while writing about his life and thinking about everything he's done and been.

He no longer wants that power that he came to San Francisco for. Just an easier life. And now he'll have that with the one person he wants to live in eternity with.

HJ Wingstreet doesn't know he's a character and it's the penultimate episode or finale of a show. It's just another night for the books and he's lived 100+ nights. I love that his whole thing wasn't neatly wrapped up for the sake of it being the end of the season.

You’re the ending fairy for today. Please, show your ending facial expression.

bonus: *at the performance*

My original ask mentioned the wags because that's who you had doing the fucking dirty work. That's the one who shared the information to the creepy ass chat. The men absolutely egged them on but the women were the original injury.

Again, Ilya and Shane mention multiple times throughout the fic that they know their answers are going back to the group chat and they are ok with it.

Also this section you used is taken entirely out of context:

"But they both knew it wouldn’t really be okay. Not tonight. Tonight meant a bar, and too many questions, and explanations they’d successfully avoided until now."

This is about their timeline. Not their relationship. That's the only question they have refused to answer so far, and now they are going to because Shane slipped up.

But mostly, this is fanfiction!

It's not real!

Don't like, don't read. And certainly do not send authors hate for it???? That's so fucking weird! We write for free! We publish for free!

What do you get out of this?

A fic author might stop publishing? You get the satisfaction of knowing you tore someone down a peg?

You. do. not. have. to. tell. me. this. This is a discussion for your private group chats, not with the author of a fic. In your opinion, I wrote them weird. In my opinion, I wrote a group of friends who failed spectacularly at being sneaky.