listen, the sheer fucking balls to the wall bravery shane puts out by saying “you feel it too, don’t you?” is actually insane because he phrases it like a question but it’s basically a statement. he knows ilya feels it too. this is just to give him a little grace.

was there a convo of "shane...what about rose?" when they found out?? where there whispered discussions in the kitchen of david going its probably sorted and yuna going what if hes cheating david? and davids like we raised him better than that and yuna throwing her arms up bc yes but she also needs to know for certain

cackling about the idea of the ottawa team doing challenges for social media because shane's first question would be, "how many did rozanov get?" and ilya's first question would be, "how many did my husband get?" because they want to beat anyone, but they ESPECIALLY want to beat each other

with how much shane enjoys getting pinned down, i'm laughing about the idea of ilya who knows academically that he and shane are equally matched but who never really transfers that thought to the bedroom because he and shane playfight/wrestle as foreplay but shane enjoys "losing" these particular struggles and thus doesn't really ever use his full strength beyond the opening few seconds

Grace crediting Carl as an essential co-contributor for figuring out why astrophage is attracted to Venus and for the breeding of astrophage doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.