Shall We Talk About Home? [Game Changers, Hollanov]

Shall We Talk About Home? by OtherWaysHome  

“My boyfriend thinks I’m an idiot,” Ilya says. "Well, not really but a bit, maybe.”

“Your boyfriend?” Sandra, the queer studies professor sits down, hard.

“Yes, he thinks it is not smart to say faggot in the locker room when you are locked in the closet and Russia has the keys.”

Ilya had been talking about himself when he’d said it. Making a joke. Sailing a little close to the wind, sick of listening to the background hum of homophobic bullshit. But someone had been filming. The video went viral. The Raiders panicked under the terrible PR. Now he was here.

Sent to Queer Studies 101 to appease twitter. Because he’d been cancelled. For being a homophobe. If was fucking ridiculous.

He turns to the professor. “So, can you help me take on Putin and NHL at same time or I need more advanced class for this?”

Plus Chapter 2 – Social media chapter. Once they've been outed, Ilya gets to demand an apology from twitter.

Im trying to get lost in this fandom. Like really lost, that kind of lost where you find all the weird stuff but good stuff that other people miss. And its kind of really hard, there is just so much good stuf. 

But I think this is a good start. This is so left field and something new, different. Everything. But still fun and now I wanna take a course in queer studies. Where can I do that? Seriously. 

But yeah. I need more. Just more. Love the ending, with Shane outing Ilya as a huge nerd who love the course. Yep. The best. The Putin part was also nice, niche detail. Thank you.