I’ve been thinking so much about the ilya/hollander parents relationship!! I find the idea of them becoming his new mommy and daddy so unlikely. That man hasn’t been actively parented in best part of 20 years, he is going to chafe so hard at their style of being in my opinion! Like he doesn’t need a new mom, he had one and she was perfect (in his eyes ofc) so I do think he could feel a little prickly towards them and take quite a while to warm up to any kind of closer relationship..

And he would have Feelings about shane’s relationship with them like you said. Like aren’t you a grown adult man why are you letting your parents have such a role in your day to day life. I think the lack of backbone towards them would Such an issue for them. and the way yuna is used to being able to steam role shane a little bit like there’s no way ilya isn’t getting involved and telling her to please actually listen to her son.

There is so much juicy angst potential there I do not understand the fandom compulsion to make them some big new happy family from the day they meet ilya who are just sitting around eating ice cream all day!!

I keep seeing crackship edits of scott and Shane on tiktok and it’s so funny bc even Shane would be so bored of that man

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I just had to run here and say thank you and I appreciate you. I have been following along with your Asks and your HR meta and you always make me laugh along and love this show even more. But I ran here to post this Ask today specifically for this paragraph of yours...

... because you just perfectly summarised my lived experience. I am in my 40's and most of my adult life I'd felt uncomfortable in my skin and my sexuality. Lesbian or bisexual never quite sat right but growing up fluid, ace, pan etc just were not terms really in my radius. Coupled with I'd always had trouble socialising (didn't even realise that what was happening was my missing social cues) and it wasn't until this recent more open discourse about late diagnosis autism and neurodiversity that I realised ah maybe this applies to me. But just as you say in both cases I got so caught up in trying to figure out which label applied to me and whether I had the right to identify a certain way, that I actually started to pull away from myself and my life even further. Long story short, I realised I'm very label averse and now I just try to embrace my 'complex lived experience'. If I label myself anything I keep it broad as in queer and neurodivergent. Also I totally agree with your takeaway about Shane on this too. Today I felt very seen :) So just to say again I appreciate you and I love your blog ❤️

Tell me why Twitter is canceling Connor for shouting out Odessa thinking that he’s talking about a city in Ukraine and not Texas……

Google is free.

I really appreciate how miserable Shane looks at the draft, meanwhile Ilya is like teehee I annoyed him what if I brush my hand against his while we are holding our jerseys up that could be fun