the number 1 rule of fanfic is have fun and be yourself. the number 2 rule is the average healthy adult male can lose roughly 2 liters of blood before dying.
shane putting his head down on the table and still being able to respond is exactly the “autistic meltdown” everyone always blows way out of proportion. it always gets portrayed as full-blown panic attacks, sobbing, sitting in a corner on the floor. and not that it can’t be that, but it’s almost never that. it’s literally just shutting down and dissociating for the most part whilst stressing out in your head. heated rivalry is an amazing show for many reasons but accurate representation of autism might be one of my favourites.
Quite frankly if a cis woman wants he/him pronouns a. Good for him and b. So much the better for everyone else. Enough biological linguistics, everyone needs to get a little weird with it
He realized, suddenly, as if waking from a dream, that he was standing alone in the middle of a dance floor…not dancing. Just…staring. At Ilya. — Heated Rivalry, Chapter 14
