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    Shane and Ilya sign with Ottawa on July 1st 2018. It goes startlingly well (apart from all the bits that don't).

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    25 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    At Alderbridge College, Professors Qifrey and Olruggio insist they’re “just colleagues.” Everyone else assumes they’re married.

    Qifrey teaches art education with warm smiles, wandering tangents, and a cup of tea he’s already misplaced. His office is full of plants and student art; his heart is full of things he never says. He cares too much, works too hard, and hides exhaustion behind gentle humor.

    Olruggio teaches industrial safety engineering with immaculate PowerPoints and the blunt promise that he’s “here to make sure you don’t die.” Students think he’s terrifying until they realize he’s just structured, observant, and quietly protective. His office is spotless. His patience is not.

    They orbit each other through shared routines—tea left on a desk, broken things quietly fixed, soft chaos meeting steady structure. A slow burn built on unspoken affection, domestic habits, and the kind of devotion neither of them names.

    Everyone sees it.
    Except them.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Olruggio didn’t think Qifrey liked physical touch at all, but now that the curse is gone, the white-haired man immediately decides that Olruggio’s personal space is his personal property and he will be burrowing into Olruggio's ribcage, thank you very much.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Everyone in the NHL wants Shane Hollander. Maybe that should make Ilya feel proud, accomplished, even. Because he's the only one who has ever really had him. The only one who will.
    But really, it only seems to piss him off. Make him possessive.
    Shane kind of likes that.

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    24 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 47

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    He wants to ask about the implications of Yoshiki’s statement—so he’s the one who takes it? Makes sense, he’s never been especially physically active. But he’s tall and handsome and not especially effete. He imagines Yoshiki laying beneath him, demure and unguarded. Without meaning to, he says, “So you’re the girl?”

    “Go die,” Yoshiki says automatically.

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    20 May 2026