The semester starts today and I'm trying to figure out how to make it clear there's only one thing I'm interested in talking about.

Read: most anything available, especially as an audiobook, from my library.

Recommend / some favourites: @catswrites.bsky.social's Midcentury books, @kjcharleswriter.com's Will Darling series, @freyamarske.bsky.social's A Marvelous Light

I like the idea that it was a running joke – here's the league antagonist, what a circus, etc – and then Reid thought 'not for Scott, but what would it be like for a player to be with Rozanov?' and the rest is history.

Given a couple later interactions, I think Reid knew what was coming, but still.

Sara Simon's (@sarambsimon.bsky.social) ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/108..., which I think is a version of her master's thesis.

On my recent reread of Game Changer, when Scott is coming out to people and they keep asking a version of "it's not Rozanov, is it?" made me wonder how much of the series Reid had planned out at that point.

Oh! That makes a lot more sense.

Though Ilya flies into Ottawa when he's arriving for his time in cottage country (this is hardly the most important detail, I'm mostly enjoying the Ottawa dis)

When Shane's recovering at their house (I thought?) the title card is for Lanaudière, though I may have misunderstood.

Two notes:

• It is solo Ottawa in Episode 6, Ontarioless

• Do David and Yuna have a third house, in Lanaudière, to be closer to Shane? Will they be back in Ottawa in time for The Long Game season?

with abs like these, who needs editing?

... and after that, each day was slightly longer than the last.

Plus there's the scene of the Metros watching the Boston / SF game and talking about shaving off playoff beards after they're out of contention – the playoff beard is definitely a thing in this world (that we are cruelly denied)

I feel like this is an attack on the Beastie Boys' catalog if nothing else.

totally different if it's a main project not a side project y/n?

Rectangles!