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Something that I love that the show has done (that the book really did not do) is really, really illustrate how Shane’s Asian identity is so tied up in his relationship to his public identity. Again and again we're hit with all of Shane’s commercials, his brand deals, the little comments Yuna makes about the kids that see themselves represented in him for the first time, the comparisons to other athletes of color, the young fans coming up and asking for pictures with him. The tokenism is clearly something he feels uncomfortable about but also feels a lot of pressure to uphold. You can literally see Shane’s physical discomfort anytime this is brought up, particularly in the French interview scene and the conversation with Rose (thank you Hudson Williams).
I think this is going to add a lot of depth to his story arch in season 2 (his anxiety about and unwillingness to come out, his selfishness in comparison to all the sacrifices Ilya is making) and make him a much more empathetic character. Because in addition to all the other reasons being in love with Ilya is complicated, Shane is a brand. He's already the poster boy for Asian hockey players, which comes with a lot of responsibility—I just know he's thinking do I really want to be the poster boy for gay hockey players, too? Do I want to risk falling short of the image I've so carefully crafted for the public eye? Do I really want to give them another reason to see me as different, to add another minority identity I’ll have to represent and the impossible standards that comes with? Not to mention the intersectionality of being queer and Asian, and all the harmful stereotypes about femininity and Asian men that are bound to come into play alongside all the run of the mill homophobia that exists in sports.
So, yeah, Shane is (at times) a little bit shitty and oblivious in the second book. But I think the show is doing a lot of legwork this season to make the audience understand that Shane has a lot at stake, and has at least a tangential understanding of what it would mean to be out in this predominately cishet space.
Tbh I think Shane is really underwritten in the Long Game writ large. OP is right about one really important aspect that spans both books. But in The Long Game we never really see any connection made between Shane’s behaviors and experiences at all, certainly not in the same way all the other characters, especially the hockey players get. His trajectory in The Long Game is not dissimilar from Scott’s in Game Changer, but we have sympathy for Scott because the book explains where he’s coming from.
But what I see mostly in The Long Game is anxiety, perfectionism, and not wanting to come out treated as personality flaws. Homophobia happens near Shane, but we never see him actually experience it. We know that at least some of his team doesn’t love that he’s gay, we know his coach says homophobic things, we know that the commissioner tries to bully him into staying in the closet. Is it hockey that blinds Shane to what Ilya needs, or is it what hockey asks of him? To be perfect, to be straight, to be quiet?
The first half of The Long Game has no interest in exploring where Shane’s anxiety comes from, why he’s scared to come out, what he’s afraid of losing. It has no interest in the fact that Ilya’s on a team that embraces him, that’s a space place for queer hockey players, that has a respectful coach and a positive atmosphere; meanwhile there is plenty of textual evidence that Shane doesn’t have that, that he has no reason to expect a positive reaction to coming out more publicly or to revealing his relationship. It makes no connection between Shane’s fears in the beginning of the novel and the fact that all of them come true when his relationship is outed. All of this stuff is factually true in the series, and on the page, but the text never connects it to why Shane acts like he does.
I think it makes perfect sense in the context of Shane’s character why he might be a little blinded to what Ilya wants/needs with respect to coming out. I think having a hero arc for him in The Long Game makes sense - he has to overcome his own fears and anxiety, to realize that as much as he loves hockey, hockey as it stands in his life doesn’t really love him back right now, and that he is going to have to work to make the sport more accepting and inclusive, and that starts by celebrating the environments within the NHL that are already like that, and by standing up for himself. I think it makes sense for Shane to have to come to grips with how his own fears and anxiety have hurt someone he loves, even if he was trying to protect Ilya and himself. And I think it makes sense for Shane to realize the role that the toxic masculinity and homophobia have played in hockey and thus necessarily in his life, and to finally stand up for himself and the love of his life.
And I wish that had been what had happened in The Long Game, instead of what actually happened which was that Shane was given anxiety and perfectionism as personality flaws, never explored the connection between homophobia in the NHL and his own experiences as a gay man in the NHL, got in a big fight with his boyfriend who then almost died, and then changed his whole life without any introspection whatsoever. The last 40% of The Long Game is suddenly a great read for me because a switch flips in Shane and he’s now aware of what’s going on with Ilya, of homophobia in sports, of what’s wrong with NHL leadership, and is aware how these things might have impacted his and Ilya’s experiences. And I'd be interested in a book (or show) that actually explored how he got there, and what he needed to understand/change to get there.
The book does such a good job exploring Ilya, his mental health, the impact of his experiences on who he is today, what he needs and wants and thinks about the world. And I wish that Shane’s experiences had been explored with equal compassion and validity, even if the narrative remained that those experiences and the behavior that resulted from them made him miss what Ilya had sacrificed for him, and what Ilya needed from him. For a hero arc you need to learn and grow, which means acknowledging where you’ve come from and what you need to change to be better in the future.
And I hope the show continues to actually balance the narrative in favor of exploring and understanding, exploring, and loving both characters.
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Oasis at Red Rocks in 2005 aka the "Happy Birthday, Liam" moment.
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This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:
If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.
This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace
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I think oasis has accomplished enough not to be known ONLY as “the incest band” if they suddenly broke up with their respective partners after the tour and went on to live in Liam’s incest cottage and were rarely seen without each other again and also holding hands on their villa and perhaps photos from a distance that seem to intimate to even be printed and and and Noel Gallagher I am speaking to you directly listen to me Noel Gallagher he wants to you could Noel Gallagher hear me out Noel Gallagher pay attention
I think it would cement their legacy in rock and roll history. What's a more rock and roll thing to do than be out and proud about incest, looking at you Noel 😇
If this isn't overstepping, do you have any advice for not falling into defeatism? You seem good at having hope for the future
I know this is gonna sound basic and maybe stupid to some people but if you want me to be completely honest: I just woke up one day and it just clicked that I made it this far so naturally I’ll keep going. and if I’m gonna keep going at least I’ll try to be gentle to myself and see beauty in every little thing I find. if the world isn’t kind to me I’ll try to be kind to myself. I’ve spent way too much time beating myself down over things that were never my fault to begin with, I deserve at least to make peace with myself
As someone with a younger sibling with a 5 year age difference who I am very fond of: I can definitively say that Noel loved/loves Liam an unholy amount. Cos if our kid had made fun of me and called me weird for years while I painstakingly taught myself the guitar, and then one day magically displayed the ability to sing like a siren and joined a band, and on top of that was better looking and cooler and funnier and universally more beloved by everyone from girls to our mother, you best believe I would have bashed his head in with a cricket bat much sooner.

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