This commnent from @palmpalshane about hollanov RPF got me lmao
Because YEAH. I hadn't considered it but given Shane and Ilya's rivalry and Shane's stoic outside persona I bet the Cliff/Ilya shippers start out always writing him as a horrific villain in their story. Like Shane finds out about the Cliya romance from sneaking around and is like "this is my chance to win the cup" and blackmails them or something
and then the fandom goes "guys you know this is super problematic...writing one of the few Asian men in the NHL to be a sneaky villain feeds into stereotypes about Japanese men that go back to WW2" and besides Hollander wore pride tape last year, he's an ally
So then there's a truce between the Cliff/Ilya people and the Shaydens and instead Shane is cast as like, Ilya's gay mentor who advises him on how to date his winger successfully
This of course causes a rift with the Shrose fandom, but they already have beef with all the MM hockey RPF people because most Shrose-rs are MCU cross over fans who like Rose Landry RPF and they're all lowkey a little anti MM in general because the MCU slash shippers keep making Rose and her character villains in everything in service of their gay ships
















