🫂🫂🫂 please take care friend

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noo it's a big step towards a goal (whether it's a career thing or a personal enrichment thing), and the first step is always the toughest and im proud of youuu

i give a shit??? congratulations!!! look at you go

im like so mad im supposed to be asleep but im so irritated like u don't even knooowww naruto get out of my fucking houuuuseeee u don't even know how shitty the politics in it are. the central plot resolution is two victims of child abuse deciding they want to integrate into the system

😭😭 U JUST HAVE TALL ENERGY I GUESS

that's okay bby. don't stress yourself about it. ptn will survive me missing events

which is not a lot taller but u have to understand i was under the impression u were taller than me

5'4"

you're shorter than me?!?

oohh have fun!!!

like give him a break man

is probably the only thing he DOES have agency in so then to want that too to be taken away from him WITHOUT his choosing is soo... esp when its alr taken away wo his choosing (atl in part) when he gets outed and kicked off the montreal team

it's genuinely so strange to see bc people CONSTANTLY want to deny him agency (and tbf it's true for the author as well considering the canon). he doesnt get a say in anything in his personal life (which is so easily conflated w his professional bc his mom is his manager) and liking/playing hockey+

have been able to be if had chosen ilya? why would anyone choose him when there are always easier, better options to choose? (8/8)

rejected. ilya who must reckon once again with the fact that he is perhaps not meant for anything more than a convenient arrangement. how could he be, when soon after shane begins to date rose landry, loud and public about his affections in a way that he would never (7/8)

he asks shane to stay—shopping ingredients for a sandwich he thinks is easy enough while also up-to-shane's-tastes, buying a six-pack of shane's favorite drink, writing and re-writing the text(s) he will send to shane to ask him to come over—only to once again find his tenderness (6/8)

about their lives. a summer when shane seems to reciprocate because shouldn't it be past midnight when he replies to ilya's texts in the russian morning? so he takes the chance.
ilya now in his early-20s, once again soft and loving, planning out the "casual hookup" with shane where (5/8)

person who stands to lose as much as (maybe even more than) shane if this unspoken acknowledgement of their sexualities was to be outed. ilya rosanov who takes the chance still, after a summer of sleepless nights texting shane back and forth, flirting and talking (4/8)