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Shane saying he chooses Ilya without any hesitation when Crowell was trying to intimidate them and then telling Ilya he had recorded the whole meeting too? Wow. First of all, I love that this answered Ilya’s question from their argument before (about if he’d choose him over hockey). Second of all, thank god Yuna was smart and told Shane to record the meeting just in case. Finally, FUCK CROWELL!!!!
I’m ok guys 😭 the book gets a little blurry here for some reason though not really sure what that’s about 😭 oh my god 😭 Shane’s speech 🥹 😭 im fine. I’m fine. I’m ok
I do think the Ilya and Svetlana thing was just a really bad joke, but the other stuff??? The other stuff is crazy. Saying Shane is selfish? What? Saying his diet was just something he focused on too much instead of important things like “his sad boyfriend”? His relationship with food was very unhealthy and was likely an eating disorder. I don’t know why she would minimize it like that. Saying she regrets making Shane autistic?? Regrets??? What?? All crazy things to say. Also to say that she really wanted Shane to tell JJ but Shane was stupid?
She could have just written it if she really wanted it. And I don’t think that Shane was stupid for not telling J.J. Shane was scared. He didn’t know how J.J. would react. Throughout The Long Game, it’s clear that he’s terrified of what will happen if him and Ilya are outed as a couple. And for good reason!! Everything turned upside down for him after they were outed! He wasn’t stupid for not telling J.J.
I just don’t understand why she would say those things. I don’t get it.
Connie from admin bakes everyone cookies at the end of a particularly busy month and everyone’s super grateful. Big Hud really wishes he could have some, but he’s focusing on his protein goals at the moment, so he can’t. Connie notices this and pulls him aside. “I have a special surprise for you,” she says with a coy wink.
In her office, she reveals a small container labeled with a sticky note, “For Big Hud <3” They’re special protein cookies she made specially for him. She tells him it’s a recipe she’s perfected over time because she’s got such a sweet tooth but she also wants to hit her PRs in the gym. It’s genuinely the nicest thing anyone has ever done for him and he feels himself fall for her a little more.
FUCK MONTREAL FOR MAKING SHANE FEEL LIKE SHIT AFTER EVERYTHING HE’S DONE FOR THEM OH MY GOD THEY NEVER WOULD’VE GOTTEN TO WHERE THEY ARE NOW WITHOUT HIM AND NOW THEY’RE ACTING LIKE THIS??????? HELLO????? HE HELPED THEM WIN THREE STANLEY CUPS AND THAT NEVER WOULD’VE HAPPENED IF HE WASN’T THERE!!! THE AUDACITY THEY HAVE TO TREAT HIM LIKE THIS IS ACTUALLY INSANE 😤
also we love Ilya’s neighbors 🙂↕️🥹❤️
Ok so the book is already trying to make me cry what the heck guys
What if J.J. had been at the club during that infamous club scene? What if he had seen Shane staring at Ilya and the random woman? What if he sees Ilya staring right at Shane in that moment misinterprets it as a sort of intimidation tactic?
He told Shane once, if Rozanov fucks with him, he’ll fuck him right back. J.J. is a ride or die. So when he sees Ilya messing with Shane, his instinct is to get up in his face and try to fight him. Who is he to be getting in Shane’s head? Shane is the best player in the league. He has a hot movie star girlfriend. Does Ilya think he’s better than him? The nerve. The audacity. And Ilya is already miserable as hell. He’s been thinking about Shane and Rose and the media portrayal of their relationship, how they can be free and go out in a way he and Shane never could. So why not get into a fight?
J.J. manages to get a few punches in before Shane and Cliff step in, pulling the two guys fighting away from each other. It causes a bit of a scene and it’ll probably end up in some tabloid, but J.J.’s goal was to defend Shane and he did that. Shane is upset, though, because of the scene caused, and also because of what was happening just before the fight. So, he snaps at J.J and storms off. J.J. doesn’t seem him for the rest of the night.
After that night, J.J. holds a bit of a grudge against Ilya. He was already not gonna like him a whole lot because of the whole rivalry situation with Shane, but after he was messing with Shane’s head in the club? He doesn’t like him.
But then Shane and Ilya start their foundation and say they’re friends, and ask him to coach for them. And it’s a good cause and he wants to support Shane, so he does. He even brings the Stanley Cup to camp when it’s his turn to have it so the kids can have a special experience. And he really does enjoy his time there. Maybe it’s during one of the camps, after Shane had come out to their team as gay, that he starts to suspect that Shane has an unrequited crush on Ilya.
J.J. doesn’t really get it, really. He’s still not sure why they’re friends. Sure, they have a foundation with a great cause, but, how could Shane not hold a grudge against Ilya? Did he forget about the night at the club? Sure, it’s been a while, years even, but sometimes J.J. will look at Ilya and remember that night and feel disdain. But he should be better than that, so he tries to be. He doesn’t want to ruin their camp.
What he can do, however, is try to help Shane get over his obviously unrequited crush and find him a nice guy to date. After all, he wants his best friend to be happy. The only problem is, well, Shane. Every time J.J. suggests a nice guy, Shane turns him down. He always has some excuse. But J.J. isn’t going to get discouraged. He wants Shane to be happy! He needs to get out there. He is, objectively, a good looking guy, he’s successful, he’s rich… it shouldn’t be that hard to find someone to date. But it is. Maybe Shane just has really high standards.
Then, Shane and Ilya’s relationship gets outed. Not only that, but J.J. finds out that Hayden knew. For years. And Shane never told him. Even when J.J. brought up what he thought was an unrequited crush on Ilya to him. Did Shane not trust him? It’s a punch to the gut.
It really, really sucks. And in that moment, he says somethings and he hurts Shane. He regrets it later, and he apologizes. Over time, he and Shane build their friendship back up. There are times when J.J. will feel the sting of having not known a little bit, but it’s mostly fine.
It’s at that point that J.J. connects the dots about that night at the club. Ilya wasn’t trying to intimidate Shane or anything like that. He was trying to make Shane jealous. Or maybe he was even trying to hurt Shane the way he must’ve been hurt by Shane dating Rose. He feels a bit bad about beating him up when he was already down, but he was just trying to stand up for his friend. And anyway, he wasn’t completely wrong. Ilya was trying to mess with Shane, just in a different way than he thought.
For the most part, he’s happy Shane’s crush wasn’t unrequited. When he’s invited to the wedding, he readily accepts. Even if he’s still not sure how he feels about Ilya, he’s not gonna miss his best friend’s wedding. And Shane looks so happy to marry Ilya that J.J. starts to think that maybe he can’t be all that bad.
After the wedding, he spends more time with Ilya and Shane. Now that everyone knows, there’s no reason he can’t hang out with them. He usually hangs out with them when Hayden is, too. And it turns out that Ilya is actually a lot of fun. They bond over the fact that they both care a lot about Shane. Ilya says he’s more fun than Hayden is, but it’s not hard to be. They’ll playfully tease Shane too, which is really fun. At the cottage, they’ll swim in the lake and challenge each other to do random tricks and flips. At bonfires, they’ll work together to tell horror stories that freak Hayden out. Any grudge J.J. had against Ilya fades, and he gains a friendship that he truly enjoys.
Bones s9 ep 5 “The Lady on the List” proves that if Sweets was around during this time of AI he would HATE it!! He hated the idea that a computer might replace him. He hated how Booth and Cam were both told that they needed to use it for the investigation. He made it his mission to prove that they didn’t need V.A.L. because he was better. He was constantly trying to prove it wrong and pointing out why it couldn’t possibly be right. Sweets would hate AI!!!
