Summary:

If you’d already decided love was more than enough, that being together was bigger than fear; if you’d already picked each other over everything else, already picked a season to make it known; if you’d exchanged rings and vows and you knew this was forever and—most significantly—no one’s idiot best friend accidentally outed you early with his stupid side-hustle video scheme: would you stick to the plan?

Or, would you play a slightly longer game to make your point; would you wait a couple extra months if it meant seizing the opportunity to go big, go bold, shove loving this much in the faces of the naysayers and the assholes and the bigots on an oh-so-convenient, quadrennially-available global stage?

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Or: No FanMail. No outing. No forced free agency. Just their terms. Just their choice. Just their love.

So hell yes: Shane and Ilya use the 2022 Winter Olympics as their hard launch. How’s that even a question?

Scott Hunter’s gonna be so pissed at being upstaged that bad.