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Found this on twitter

how it feels when the thing i like is something i really like and thats because i really like it and it makes me happy to like it

madebymothman

If I have to suffer through this Hell Season I can at least make my blorbos suffer with me

madebymothman

Shhhh.... he's eeping...

ffishstick

anyways id love to watch more shows but its extremely dangerous. what if i end up liking a character. that could be fatal

thisfeebleheart

the sweet little shin kiss is so dear to me

finelytaylored

he was down SO BAD IMMEDIATELY

evilbeehivedemocracy

They're so Shane and Ilya ngl

swordbymyside

boitterfly

….shmiski

hilarynights

shaune the sheep

cosmonautroger

Planet Earth, 1968

hollanderthoughts

When I was 12 for my birthday my cousin got me a copy of zoo tycoon (expanded edition) and I mastered the game quite easily and became bored of it. Though I would still boot it up occasionally when I was feeling particularly small and misunderstood and things around me were to loud like when mom and coach would insist “practice is over Shane” “you can’t keep skating Shane” “you have to go home now Shane” well I would go home and I would turn on the family computer and load my save file on the marine mania expansion pack and I would partake in a self taught self soothing technique where I would make a really small but extremely tall whale tank and fill it with as many whales as possible and watch as they got so mad at each other and then one by one start selling whales until there was one last happiest whale on earth. But he would quickly get lonely, and then he was sad again. Which made my stomach hurt for some reason.

wordsonapage2

I wonder if part of the reason that the Game Changer's series is so broadly popular is that it positions homophobia to function as the same mechanism as classism in regency romances. That is, it's an unjust societal force that has elevated people in certain categories as better than others, but crucially, it is a force of societal disapproval, not of danger. The concern of classism that it will result in ostracism from 'polite society' has substituted in a professional hockey league. The dynastic concerns of scandal have been mapped to Russian laws against homosexuality causing Ilya to never be able to go home again. Losing one's inheritance becomes risking the single, lucrative job they are trained for. Crucially, class differences don't carry a risk of sudden, extreme violence so the concern about other players targeting them in a full contact sport is omitted.

It doesn't even cross Kip's mind that hate crimes exist when he asks Scott what's the worse that could happen, because that's not a consequence possible in regency romance. A demand to choose a partner over hockey polite society happens all the time in regency romances. The privileged partner not understanding the dark side of hockey classism, check. A partner caving to the societal expectation of his station and staying the closet is framed as an act of selfish cowardice that he needs to overcome to be worthy of love.

And usually in regency romances, like Pride & Prejudice, the solution to this barrier is for the couple to just choose each other and declare their love and it all works out (due to the man's extreme privilege shielding his wife, which doesn't map to homophobia) or for the couple to happily leave the nasty gossip-mill of polite society (Montreal) to more comfortable country social circles (uber-supportive Ottawa). This could be why the Russian issue is waved away, because regency stories usually end with the couple either winning over dynastic acceptance or with them in a more powerful position than their disapproving relatives. Neither of which can be applied to this situation, so there is no roadmap for Reid to continue the issue.

This could explain why Reid feels that coming out publicly is imperative to a happy ending. If homophobia is positioned by the writer as the modern take on romance novel classism, then remaining in the closet--in any capacity--functions as an adherence to social hierarchy, which the regency genre demands their love interest grapple with and reject.

Well, I'm not a romance genre devotee, so I could be totally off base.