Scott takes Kip out in the ice as a romantic date and but he's so elderly that his hip gives out, he falls and takes Kip down with him. He hits Kips arm with his skate blade and that's how Kip loses his arm.
Unless anon you have a funnier idea on how it happens.
one important fact about deserted island Shane is that he gets rescued by the Disney Cruise company scouting out a private island for their new cruise destination. They try and invite him back to the island three years later for a luxury vacation and he Respectfully Declines
This does mean that the first thing he eats in 18 months, other than fish, crabs, and coconuts, is a waffle in the shape of Mickey mouse.
The fun thing about the deserted island survival fic is that it's actually a Survival story for both of them. Shane is trying not to die from starvation, exposure, and scurvy, and Ilya is beating away the suicidal thoughts with a stick made of pure spite
Notably, I'm planning on setting this during Ilya's first year with the centaurs, so he truly picked up his entire life and moved away from his support system to be with his boyfriend...only for his boyfriend to immediately go and "die" on him. It's really rude of Shane, honestly
The fun thing about the deserted island survival fic is that it's actually a Survival story for both of them. Shane is trying not to die from starvation, exposure, and scurvy, and Ilya is beating away the suicidal thoughts with a stick made of pure spite
I could SO imagine an au where Ilya thinks Shane is playing like some 4D level mind fuck game with him when he comes over to shake his hand (twice) and compliment his playing, so instead of doing his cocky asshole schtick he earnestly takes the compliment and returns it in kind. And then Ilya goes in for the kill, expecting to call Shane's nice guy bluff by asking for his number. Ha. Bet you weren't expecting THAT, Hollander.
But then Hollander seems,,, weirdly pleased?? And,,, actually complies?? Before practically skipping off, like he got what he wanted?? What??
And then they're texting back and forth and Ilya still partly thinks this is some kind of long con, but then it's been weeks and then it's been longer and suddenly they're at the draft and Shane is looking around the room and when he spots Ilya his entire face lights up and he's making a beeline for Ilya and he's still smiling as he says "Ilya!" like he's happy to see him,,, because he IS happy to see him. Because they've been messaging basically constantly for months now and oh fuck oh shit Ilya is so so deeply screwed.
And so, instead of their canon rivals-with-benefits arrangement, we get the ten year slow burn best friends to lovers narrative.
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#ok but we did know this#recaptcha was explicitly invented for crowdsourcing fixes for OCR errors#and it was a really good idea at the time because the ocr algos were way less accurate#none of this was secret#arguably recaptcha launched a whole line of crowdsourcing work in ML fields it was an important and well documented technique#obviously the end result isn't great!#but again none of this was secret. they told you if you ever clicked on info about the captcha
Yeah this has been public knowledge for almost 20 years. I don't think I really buy the labor argument either-- I think two seconds of identification work is a reasonable price to access an otherwise free website, and a price I'm WAY more willing to pay than displaying ads. There ARE machine learning projects worth doing and I would argue that OCR and, yes, vehicular computer vision are among them. And as pointed out in the above tags, information on what the recaptcha was doing was available to any given user.
Captchas that didn't do anything BESIDES spam filtering predate recaptchas, and we'd still be spending that time on them if recaptcha hadn't been invented. The whole idea was that we might as well be doing something useful with it.
Like. Article from 2007. We have known about this.
A new service launched by Carnegie Mellon makes use of the collective public intelligence of people on the Internet to help digitize scanned
I think at some point Ilya’s therapist gets concerned by what seems to be a codependent and anxious attachment btw Ilya and Shane. When Shane the Doer hears about it, For the sake of his husband’s mental health’s improvement and the preservation of a healthy marriage, he convinces Ilya to try installing boundaries and do activities separately. It lasts a week before Ilya comes home sobbing from a video game session with Troy communicating that if they keep this boundary thing up he’ll need to switch his meds’ dosage because he’s miserable. Shane jumps from the couch he’s been sitting on for 40minutes because he was supposed to eat diner with rose but he kept wanting to make jokes and look at ilya to see him laugh but he wasn’t there and it SUCKED OMG and Shane starts sobbing too because if they keep this up he will have to get on his own meds and let’s never do this again I hate it when I can’t smell you near me
I am in fact in tears at the thought of Shane thinking to himself that he can never die because if he dies then Ilya will kill himself and he has to stop that from happening so he has to live forever
working on the shane doe fic and i've decided that baby shane only laughed one (1) time before he was kidnapped. yuna has spent her entire life trying to remember exactly what it sounded like. the first time shane laughs after the reunion, she bursts into tears.
So I'm maybe just a liiiiiiittle obsessive, and I wanted to work out the timeline of the show, and figured I'd share it with you all. I can't quite figure out how to format this for tumblr, so I'm going to just c&p images of the tables and then dump all of it in unformatted text I guess under a read more? Please let me know if you can think of a better way for me to do this (without retyping it all!) and please let me know if you see any errors to be corrected.
ETA: I'm sorry, I added some info to ep 6 after rewatching and somehow deleted the table for ep 5? But it's back now!
Bonus: season calendar pics that are not accurate (since the
Boston/Montreal games don't line up)
Metros: 2015-2016:
Boston 2016-2017:
Hopefully some folks will find this interesting and/or a good fic resource!
The episode timelines in unformatted text:
Episode 1
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
December 2008
World Juniors (IRL held end of December – early January)
One week later
End of World Juniors
3:15
6 months later
NHL draft (IRL in 2009 held on June 26-27, 2009 lines up with the 6 months later note)
9:24
6 months later
World Juniors again; New Year’s Eve 2009-2010
11:27
6 months later
(so, end of June/beginning of July 2010)
Commercial filming; first hookup
26:37
3 months later
Beginning of 2010-2011 season (rookie season)
(October 2010 ish) BOS @ MTL
31:46
4 months later
(February 2011 ish – IRL ASG was January, 30 2011)
Middle of February according to reporter
Second hookup
40:22
2 weeks later
(End of February, beginning of March 2011) BOS @ MTL, but game cancelled due to weather
43:16
4 months later
End of 2010-2011 season
(Beginning of July – IRL awards June 22 2011)
Episode 2
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
Summer 2011
1:26
Fall 2011
Start of 2011-2012 season
BOS @ MTL (no hookup onscreen)
1:55
Winter 2012
MTL @ BOS (no hookup onscreen)
2:28
Spring 2012
Boston playing San Francisco in playoffs, Montreal already out
End of 2011-2012 season
3:07
Fall 2012
Start of 2012-2013 season
MTL @ BOS (dick pic sent)
3:35
Winter 2013
Text re: 9 inches
3:55
Spring 2013
Montreal playing Boston in playoffs? No cup outcome in show
End of 2012-2013 season
5:11
Fall 2013
Start of 2013-2014 season
BOS @ MTL for first game of season (sex at Shane’s), presumably in October
14:46
Winter 2014
Sochi Olympics (12-23 February 2014)
26:19
Spring 2014
Ilya wins the cup
End of 2013-2014 season
Summer
Awards in Las Vegas (IRL June 24 2014), Ilya wins MVP, sex in Vegas hotel
Episode 3
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
February 2014
Sochi Olympics (12-23 February 2014)
Four months ago
(Mid/late-October, 6 games into the regular season)
Scenes over two more games
Kip says the fundraiser with Elena is in ‘like two months’
13:22
2 days later
NY @ BOS
13:44
1 day later
NY @ MTL
33:01
Kip tells Elena it’s been ‘a little over two months’
(So around end December/early January)
Post-episode:
January 2015 – May 2017
????
Episode 4
Timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
(game at some point, maybe from previous season?)
1:37
Summer 2014
Some texting, Ilya partying
2:45
---
Start of 2014-2015 season
As per calendar in locker room (but incorrect probably), October 11
Game & sex
3:07
Cup win for Montreal (May-June 2015)
End of 2014-2015 season
3:21
Summer 2015
Texting, working out, Ilya partying
4:16
Start of 2015-2016 season
As per calendar in locker room (but incorrect probably), October 11
Game & sex
4:36
Cup win for Montreal (May-June 2016)
End of 2015-2016 season
5:00
Summer 2016
Texting each other during normal activities, Ilya texting rather than partying
October 2016
Start of 2016-2017 season
Biodome trip with Hayden
Possibly Oct 17 as per locker room calendar; MTL @ BOS and tuna melt
Meal with parents
Meets Rose in Montreal – snowing outside (so anywhere Nov – April theoretically)
Two weeks later
BOS @ MTL – club scene with tATu
(probably some time in Late Nov/early Dec?)
Episode 5
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
Wakes up with Rose – presumably NOT the night after the club with tATu
3:00
Dinner with Rose ‘later that week’
Ilya and Svetlana discussing upcoming ASG
11:27
2017 All Star Game
IRL ASG in 2017 – January 29
24:52
Two weeks later
MTL @ BOS
Shane visits Ilya for an hour
The next day
Shane finds out Ilya has left the team
Ilya says he’s going to stay in Russia for a week (so maybe approaching end of February)
42:19
1 week later
BOS @ MTL (I think?) - Metros ‘clinging to a wild card spot’ (Regular season IRL ended April 9 2017, so maybe missing a few weeks here?)
Shane gets hit, out for playoffs (Broken clavicle usually 6-12 weeks recovery; this could be beginning of March
46:44
May 2017
Shane still in sling; Boston eliminated from playoffs
49:45
One week later
NY wins the cup (must be a series sweep if it’s only one week for the whole round?), Scott kisses Kip on the ice
End of 2016-2017 season
Approx timestamp
Text on screen
Notes
Start
NHL awards (IRL June 21 2017) – confirmed to be in June by Ilya talking to David and Yuna
people don't take the boston of ilya seriously enough. ilya rookie year hungover as hell speaking 50 words of english getting dragged out to plymouth and having a terrible time stuck with women churning butter. hungover as hell again at the chipotle where thomas paine wrote common sense. navigating the city via his fallout 4 knowledge.
Canon to me: Shane, before important games--the games that determine playoff spots, the games that knock a crucial division rival out of the reckoning, Game 7 of a brutal playoff series, the conference final, all three Cup finals--going through his pre game rituals, psyching himself up, settling into his headspace, reaching for that ice-cold calm inside himself, standing in the tunnel waiting to feel the bite of his skates on the ice... In those moments, the last thing he says to himself, the last voice in his head, is "Shane Hollander... will you disappoint them?"
And Shane, soft and barely a breath, will whisper, "Nope." And then he goes out onto the ice.
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