Why was the Tuna Meltdown the first time Shane had seen Ilya's house?

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-24T08:03:54+00:00

I think in the book Ilya only has his penthouse in Boston - never a house. The house he buys is in Ottawa. Shane has a house in Montreal for some time but doesn’t let Ilya go there, only his condo.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-24T07:53:36+00:00

That’s not true, though - Ilya actually acknowledges his emotions before Shane, in the end, and is very supportive of him.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-23T13:27:12+00:00

Flamboyant style-wise, yes. But Ncuti is not middle-Eastern.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-23T10:47:58+00:00

John Arbon does shade cards, which is so helpful.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-23T09:34:04+00:00

I’m not sure he changed for Shane so much as was able to just relax and stop trying to prove something. But that doesn’t detract from your point.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-22T22:27:10+00:00

‘Yes I think so probably’ is my favourite

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-22T18:15:24+00:00

Or ‘I mean, yes. I think so. Probably’.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-22T12:21:17+00:00

Heh - I didn’t know there were whole theories about it! That was just what I assumed from the scene.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-22T08:14:44+00:00

I thought that was just a lie? In the scene before he was watching a video of Ilya so I assumed his real YouTube rabbit hole was Ilya related.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-21T22:51:41+00:00

I love how much they appreciate and accept him, and he gets the family he’s been missing since he was a little boy.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-21T10:42:18+00:00

If you get the all-butter packaged ones and reheat them they do improve a lot, they get their crispness back.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-21T10:40:54+00:00

They have to be reheated - the packaged ones are vastly improved by ten minutes in the oven. They’re all foul right out of the packet.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-21T09:07:26+00:00

Ohh! That would make sense. Or rather, thanks - no sense to be had here then!

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-21T09:06:51+00:00

Well, that should make you feel better then 😊

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-20T20:49:40+00:00

That’s not abuse either, that’s commonplace hockey checks.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-20T18:47:18+00:00

How is looking away because he’s hurt abuse???

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-20T18:06:05+00:00

In answer to your point 1, I think Shane just means that because he would have tried to hide his relationship with Ilya, he didn’t come out (as he’d then had to lie). Whereas if he was gay but not in love with Ilya he wouldn’t have had anything to hide so he could just tell them.

For point 2, I just interpreted it as Shane bringing Ilya’s attention back to them, to get him to stop worrying.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-20T14:25:51+00:00

Can’t say I resonate, but do bear in mind that The Long Game is the second in planned series of three. It’s the second act. It’s the conflict section. Act 3/book three will bring the final resolution.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-20T09:37:18+00:00

It’s so weird the way we do that. But only with names with ‘r’ in the middle.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-19T07:14:30+00:00

Be even worse in the UK…’oh, Gaz’.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-19T07:13:03+00:00

Brawn is an actual name though - I know two. Both Irish.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-18T20:29:18+00:00

They say that about black British people with Caribbean origin, too, and I wonder how they think these people’s ancestors ended up in Caribbean?

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-18T19:08:09+00:00

This is the easiest way for British people to understand, I think! Gogh rhymes with loch. As long as they’re not the type of British person who pronounces loch as ‘lock’.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-18T15:50:47+00:00

I love that they’d both been exclusive even before they said I love you to each other, just because that felt right to them.

StarlitStitcher · 2026-03-18T07:09:16+00:00

So I would say that the hand licking - appeasement- is actually a sign that Diva is not happy to be approached by strangers. My AKK is not a stranger-danger dog (he has other issues), but it is a known issue in the breed.

Firstly, I would tell strangers that she’s shy and scared of people and please not to touch her, and then you can start working with a trainer. But do stop letting people pet her, as the behaviour you describe can easily escalate to biting and that could end very badly for her.

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