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    The plane carrying the Voyageurs home from Houston crashes just after take-off.

    Shane is on board.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    During his rookie year, Shane goes to a Halloween party at a Montreal gay bar to confirm some suspicions about himself. Unfortunately, it’s 2010, so the official photographer uploads a few hundred photos to the bar’s Facebook page.

    Yuna gives real thought to finding Mark Zuckerberg and strangling him with his own hoodie strings. Probably this particular thought spiral suggests it’s time for her to step away from the PC, but the thought of taking a break – of leaving the burning fuse that could blow up her baby’s life at any moment unattended – makes her stomach churn.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    tbr

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    “Shane Hollander’s having a big gay wedding.”
    Ilya’s ball rocketed sideways into the woods with a crack like a rifle shot; somewhere in the trees, a goose honked in outrage.
    “Jesus Christ,” Tyler said.
    “Wow,” Marly said. “That was…what the fuck was that, Roz?”
    Ilya was gripping the club so hard his knuckles had gone white. “Bad swing.”
    “That wasn’t a bad swing, that was like a physics-defying swing. I didn’t know you could make a ball go in that direction. You okay?”
    “Fine.” Hollander was getting married. Getting gay married. Who the fuck was Hollander marrying? He wasn’t even… Ilya cleared his throat, shoved his biggest club back in the bag, noted distantly that his hands were shaking. “Hollander is gay?”

    OR: Ten years after the Tampa Bay All-Star Game, Ilya Rozanov crashes Shane Hollander's wedding

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    06 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    tbr, yikes

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    “You know you don’t have to do this,” Harris said as they walked from the car to the arena, Chiron prancing along in front of them.

    “I’m doing it,” Troy said.

    “Okay. But you don’t have to.”

    “Harris. I’ll survive reading whatever weird, dirty tweets you found,” Troy argued. “You think I’ve never seen thirst tweets?”

     

    In which the Centaurs read thirst tweets and it goes about how you'd expect.

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    06 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    words cannot express how much i wish this was a real hockey team

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    “Ilya?” Shane said in that same dreamy, loopy voice as that morning. Ilya exhaled in a rush.

    “Shane,” he said, and wanted to sag against the glass with relief. “What happened? Is something wrong?”

    “Not! Any moooooooore.”

    Ilya swallowed. Shane hadn’t gotten any quieter in the past seven hours.

    “Why are you calling me? You need to be resting,” he said, and it sounded softer than he’d meant it to.

    “I forgot to tell you something. Important.

    “You should not be telling me anything, you should be—”

    “My cottage has really good water pressure,” Shane announced.

    Ilya stared out the window while a small plane taxied past.

    “What?”

    ——————

    Shane's cottage has a lot of amenities, and he needs to tell Ilya about all of them.

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    06 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    hilarious and sweet and with just exactly the right touch of poignancy

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    “Russians don’t blush, starshine.”

    “And guys don’t squirt, Ilya.”

    A snowboarding trip turns into a filthy, intimate challenge when Ilya decides to prove a point—repeatedly—in the most overwhelming ways possible.

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    06 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    oh holy shit

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    Ilya has the first proper conversation with David Hollander and comes to find that boringness is apparently not genetic.

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    05 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    tell me you've never read the new yorker without telling me, etc.

  8. Public Bookmark 33

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    For years, Shane Hollander thought paperwork was something that proved ownership or control.

    Then Ilya Rozanov adds black rye bread to a shopping list, a knife handle cracks in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday night, and Shane drives them to urgent care with blood in a towel.

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    Shane realises that husband is not just a word you say when you are happy.

    It is the word that lets you stay.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    Joe Jameson is a good-but-not-great player for the Ottawa Centaurs who has a maybe-kind-of-five-year-plan for telling his teammates his biggest secret.

    Then Ilya Rozanov gets traded to the Centaurs and throws a wrench in Joe’s whole plan.

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    01 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    sweet

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    Shane Hollander is everything a team could want. He shows up early, stays late, and fixes mistakes before they ever become more then blips. By every metric he is the perfect player.

    Perfection, it turns out, is not the same thing as being okay.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    And so, that brings Wyatt here, where he is sitting on a sofa with Lisa on his lap, in the living room of Ilya and Shane’s Ottawa home, watching Shane Hollander on The Tonight Show. A genuinely insane string of words that he would never have thought to put together just ten months ago.

    But, Wyatt knows how to adapt, so here he is.

    Or, Wyatt Hayes and his observations on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Once Shane's parents know about his relationship with Ilya, they begin treating him accordingly. Ilya is prepared for this.

    Until he's not.

    Or, sometimes love comes in the form of unexpected lectures on the rules regarding taxation of capital gains by foreign nationals residing in Canada. And then Shane picks up the pieces.

    (There are no actual tax lectures in this fic, only drinking about them.)

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    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    short, smart, full of heart

  13. Public Bookmark 78

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    Ilya follows because someone says Shane needs him.

    That is all it takes.

    By the time Shane realises Ilya is gone, there is a gap in the camera footage, a dark van leaving the loading bay, and a message from Ilya’s phone that does not sound like Ilya at all.

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    Shane knows Ilya better than anyone. He knows his tells, his temper, his stupid jokes, the exact shape of his fear. None of that lets Shane save him from being abducted. This is not that kind of story.

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    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    tbr, trepidatiously: the author has FORM

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    adulting
    /əˈdʌltɪŋ/
    noun informal

    The practice of behaving like a responsible adult, especially by completing ordinary but necessary tasks such as paying bills, managing a home, making appointments, working, cleaning, cooking, or caring for oneself and others.

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    For Shane Hollander, adulting had once meant signing contracts, buying and building property, investing in sensible furnishings, and handling the pressure of being in the public eye; then he started building a life with Ilya Rozanov, and the word began to mean something else entirely.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    Shane was fourteen the first time a number felt like safety.

    The nutritionist worked out of an office in Kanata, framed certificates, a calm voice, laminated charts with columns. She explained it simply: fuel in, output required, timing of each. She said it was a starting point.

    Shane took notes in the margins the way he took notes on everything—completely, past what was required. Yuna had found the nutritionist herself, sat beside him, and took notes too.

    Like mother, like son.

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    Or: Shane’s system works until it doesn’t; Ilya notices first.

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    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    so good, very ouch

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    Shane is in the front pew. His face is—Ilya does not have words for what Shane's face is doing. He has seen Shane angry and afraid and exhausted and soft and undone. He has never seen this: living at the very bottom of a person, surfacing only when every single thing above it has given way.

    This is what it looks like when Shane has nothing left to manage.

    Ilya reaches for him.

    His hand passes through air.

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    Or: Ilya Rozanov turns the same age his mother was when she died. Featuring strange dreams, tarot readings, and a woman with her back to him who keeps appearing where she shouldn’t.

    A man who spent twenty years preparing to die, and one husband who refuses to let him.

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    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    this is so good and so shattering
    i listed it as tbr trepidatiously and the trepidation was well founded

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    The rules of the sex interview were not explained because the rules were the point. The room needed to see the specific heterosexual performance that proved you were the right kind of boy—the kind who had done the expected things and would keep doing them and had nothing to hide.

    Shane had the girl ready. He’d built her in the shower a week ago, just in case.

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    Or: Shane learns, in order, how to skate, how to perform, how to survive a room, and how to want something he will not name for years. Featuring minor hockey, the OHL, one fabricated girl named Jess, and eleven pages of notes on one Ilya Rozanov, who he has never met. Yet.

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    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    tbr, maybe?

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    "You are Hunter's boyfriend," the guy says, looming. He's holding a glass of vodka that probably costs more than what Kip earns in a day.

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    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    ilya & kip have a nice chat <3

  19. Public Bookmark 54

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    A girl in every port. That is what Hayden had said. So that’s what Shane does. He’s got Jessica in Montreal, Lily in Boston, and he hooks up at least once a year on the road. Sure, Jessica is just a friend, and Lily isn’t even a girl, and the girls he meets in clubs and bars never get his phone number, but he’s trying. He just hasn’t met the right girl yet. Someone who can tolerate his lifestyle. Who doesn’t see him as just a friend. A girl who fits right.

    He knows he’s not really trying, because he’s got Rozanov a few times a year and the sex is so great that everything else pales in comparison. But hooking up with Rozanov isn’t the same as having a girlfriend. He’s just delaying the inevitable.

    Or, comphet is one helluva drug.

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    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    tbr

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    intermission

    /ˌɪntəˈmɪʃən/
    noun
    An interval between two parts of the same story. Often mistaken for an ending.


    The All-Star Game is supposed to be harmless. Bright lights, broadcast smiles, forced camaraderie, famous rivals pretending none of it matters.

    Shane can handle all of that. What he cannot handle is Ilya two corridors away, wearing the wrong jersey, captaining the wrong team, and acting like they are not in love.

    Then a bomb threat empties the arena before puck drop. The players are told to stay in their dressing rooms. The delay becomes a lockdown. The lockdown becomes captivity.

    Below the ice, with the league’s most valuable players held as hostages, Shane and Ilya have to survive the night without reaching for each other, without giving themselves away, and without letting fear turn into something worse.

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    A hostage crisis, three targeted All-Stars, and Shane trying not to lose his mind every time Ilya opens his mouth.

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    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    11/10, peak stuff, just phenomenal

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