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I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like âOH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.â It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-
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I understand that people think having characters go to therapy is a lazy plot device, but I think in the case of the long game, if Ilya, who has been running a mental health charity for years, didnât go to therapy, it would be worse.
Stop making Shane and/or Ilya menâs singles skaters in your figure skating au fic! Their shoulders are too broad and their biceps are too big for quad jumps (even Connor Storrie in Riley looks too broad)! Make them pairs skaters instead where they can put their muscle to use by lifting their partners up!
In pairs skating, we can have heteronormative media narrative, fun drama with breaking up and finding new partners, also the intersection of Russian politics and sports, thereâs so much potential!
(Also figure skating already has a long and rich history of inaccurate media depictions in romance, stop making inaccurate hockey romance into inaccurate figure skating romance.)
no wonder he was passed over in the line of succession
uncle behavior
actually i'm still worked up over "Shane hates other gay people." when peoples only evidence of this is Shane meeting Fabian, and it's literally evidence to the contrary.
"He was, like, really blatantly not straight in a way that Shane wasnât used to. The kind of man who, when Shane had been younger and still figuring himself out, he would look at and think âIâm not gay because Iâm not like him.â It wasnât a good way to think about anything, but even as a gay man who was in love with another man who he had gay sex with, Shane couldnât help the knee-jerk reaction of uneasiness in Fabianâs presence.
Which just proved that Shane needed to spend more time around other queer people. Particularly, queer people who didnât play hockey."
Yes shane was uncomfortable around fabian but
Shane INSTANTLY realizes it's wrong to feel this way
wants to remedy the situation by being around other queer people
and he's confident getting used to being around people who are visibly queer is the solution
He has a good time with Fabian and Ryan in a queer venue
He's not particularly worried about being seen around queer people. only that his and Ilyas relationship is visible.
I also just hate how the internalized homophobia shane does exhibit here is treated as a static trait. Even though he's actively working through it. And has worked past some issues with it. People often depict him with more internalized homophobia at the end of the long game than he does at the beginning of the book. I also don't like how people interpret shanes actions as the product of internalized homophobia when many of them are actually the product of institutional homophobia
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Currently reading Tough Guy, Fabian apparently had a kind of shitty ex named Claude from Montreal, like a typical shitty ex character, he is very flat (not complaining, itâs the genre), his most distinctive characteristic is that he smoke while complain about non-organic food, and I have to face the fact that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie will probably do the same thing at some point in their life.
whatever enmeshment yuna and shane have would be blown out of the water by ilya and irina if irina was still alive
About Ilyaâs family, while they are definitely (used to be) rich, I donât think Grigori was ever a part of ruling class, he was said to be a high-ranking police (in book) and have a lot of medals (in the show), but how important Grigori was is kind of ambiguous. I think he was close to the actual decision-making people, but never was he one of them, and therefore lost a lot of power and money after the collapse of ussr.
The main reason I think so is simply because of Irina, she was significantly younger than Grigori and powerless, which mean marrying her brings Grigori almost no social capital, and may even cost him some, and thatâs not how upper class marriages usually works. Also in the show, Grigori seems to be kind of deferential to Svetlanaâs father.
This add an interesting layer to Ilya and Svetlanaâs relationship, with this up-and-coming hockey prodigy who comes from a family that used to be great with a father that seems to be hang up on his past glory, and the currently powerful sports ministerâs daughter who has this sort of outsider status due to her race and a very desirable passport. As time goes on, Ilyaâs status keeps growing as he solidifies his status as a hockey superstar while Svetlanaâs stays the same. The power dynamic is just very interesting to me.
I like to believe that Shane is 100% atheist, the kind that doesnât believe in soul or any type of afterlife, because I think it makes the thought of what if the plane actually crash more heartbreaking.
Thereâs no âIlya is in a better place nowâ, no âI will see him again when I diedâ. Ilya is just gone, cease to exist, nobody knows what that means to Shane, and itâs unbearable.
you can choose to suspend disbelief and believe that tv adaptation shane is just as fully anglo-franco bilingual as book shane (which is fair bc the show is also asking us to suspend disbelief over imperfect russian), or you can take tv adaptation shane's brutal anglo accent at face value and decide that ilya has no idea what french is supposed to sound like so he just assumes that shane is beautifully fluent and naturally great at languages and is convinced that shane will pick up russian annoyingly fast and then five years into their relationship when shane can barely say hello please thank you and i love you in the most ear grating accent ever ilya just has to accept that maybe he had shane on a little bit of a pedestal
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Wyatt Hayes is 6â2, taller than the average skater, but small for goalie. I think thatâs why he is overlooked in Toronto and end up in centaurs.
Itâs strange for me that Shane is the one who value legacy more since he is the atheist one. Maybe this is a Canadian thing where a lot of people may be irreligious but still believe in soul and other spiritual things? Is there any Canadian that wants to comment on this? I have always associated the belief that âhow a person is remembered is importantâ with some level of spiritual belief, which Shane doesnât seem to have.
itâs actually so important to me that ilya isnât like a fuckmachine 2000 that just has endless stamina and knows how to hit all the good spots on the first try with his cucumber sized penis. sure thatâs what he wants you to think but he is literally just a guy sometimes he cums in four thrusts because he canât help it and it takes longer than he would like to get hard again and his dick is 6 inches maybe 7 on a good day and he gets a leg cramp that kinda kills the mood and maybe his eye does a weird twitchy thing when he orgasms
"@shanehollanderhockeyplayer would come out of the closet and still be dating a blonde #whyaretheyalllikethis #stereotype"
You just know someone tweeted this in the gceu.
A lot of people seems to dislike that Ilya thinks Shane doesnât know about hockeyâs dark side, but I do think this is the only logical conclusion he can come to as a Russian immigrant.
Thereâs different waves and different types of immigrants to North America, and they come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, but being able to immigrate to us or Canada has long been a sign of success where I grow up (Taiwan, since 1950s, so about the same time Yunaâs parents immigrated, I think itâs also the same for Japan at that time period), and the Russian immigrants to North America when Ilya was growing up are highly skilled workers and athletes, so I think Ilya has similar views for immigrants as me, he view them as elite.
So Ilya likely thinks Shane comes from a wealthy, stable and loving family and a privileged background (he isnât wrong), born with what he dream and work hard for, and basically untouched, or at least unaffected by the ugly things like political turmoil or racism. (I am not saying Ilya is oblivious about racism, but I do think he has a somewhat romanticized view of North America, where thereâs so much less racism and prejudice compared to Russia and so much better for minorities like himself and Shane.)
Show!Svetlana being half-black will also reenforce Ilyaâs idea that wealth can shield you from most negative consequences of bigotry, and he also isnât entirely wrong.
I honestly think if Reid wrote Ilya any other way, it will be inaccurate for a Russian man who has been dreaming of going to North America since 12.
The more problematic part is that Shane also has similar thoughts, but again, wealth can shield people from a lot of shit, so like, not exactly unbelievable at least to me. (Especially at the start of the book, before being confronted by Crowell.)
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Job Interview Tip: if you come to the end of an interview and your interviewer asks if you have any questions and you don't, yes you do, your question is 'what does the timeline look like going forward'.
This demonstrates a) your interest, b) your attention to relevant detail, and c) that you're treating this like a professional whose time is valuable. It's also useful information for you, since it means you will have at least a loose sense of when to expect news about your success or failure. And unless the interviewer has already explicitly discussed it, it's always relevant.
I truly donât think Ilyaâs reaction regarding Shane after trip gate is out of character.
One thing that I disagree with most of the fandom is that Ilya is the one who thinks he canât have everything he desire, in contrary, Shane thinks he can have everything he wants if he works hard enough. This is my interpretation of the characters because Ilya almost seems ecstatic to sacrifice (agree to go to Ottawa with basically no time to consider) and his life in general seems to just be a series of pick and choose and Shane keeps pushing himself even when the goal is unrealistic.
Combine with the fact that Ilya almost seems to put Shane on a pedestal (he believes Shane is better than him), I think he sees the reaction of voyageurs/metros as genuine stupidity that is beneath, and therefore couldnât effect Shane. Shaneâs career did take a big hit at the end of tlg, but I truly canât see a version of Ilya that doesnât see this as a sacrifice Shane made for their relationship, and after all, everyone have to make sacrifice, Ilya made his, isnât he?
Perhaps a more controversial opinion, I also donât think thereâs anything wrong with Ilyaâs reaction.
