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  1. Rec *

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    Life feels so chaotic for Shane sometimes, with all the loud noises and the unwritten rules he’s expected to follow, even though no one ever taught them to him. It’s why the bookstore feels more like home to him than anywhere else in Boston. It doesn’t ask Shane to be anything other than himself. Doesn’t ask for any more than he can give.

    He can just exist here.

    Shane likes slow, likes taking his time. And Ilya - without saying or doing anything in particular - makes Shane feel like that’s okay. Like he isn’t doing anything wrong by standing still sometimes.

    (Or, Shane works in a bookstore, Ilya plays hockey, and they both go to the same college. They fall in love in every universe.)

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    26 Jun 2026

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    At the age of 22, Shane Hollander has never had sex. Not because he doesn't want to, but because he's strict about only sleeping with someone he's truly committed to. Except for the past few months he's regularly making out with Ilya Rozanov, his best friend of three years, and it drives Ilya so crazy that Shane lets him go jerk off in the bathroom after nothing more than just kissing. But as the weeks pass and the want between them grows, Shane starts to realize that the person he's been waiting for might have been there all along.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Shane: Ilya, what, what is happening, it's seven in the morning.

    Ilya: (calling back, still grinning) I am vlogging.

    Shane: You're what?

    What starts as a “simple vlog” turns into a soft and deeply intimate snapshot of Ilya's domestic life.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    “I do not want to make you uncomfortable. With how I talk about us. To others. Like . . . reporters. Or how I treat you in front of others, like the guys on the team.”

    Something like understanding settled on Shane’s face now, and it immediately made Ilya’s heart stop racing. “You think I don’t like PDA.”

    “First time I held your hand in public I thought you were going to have a panic attack,” Ilya admitted.

    --

    Or: Shane's first season on the Ottawa Centaurs, as told through five times Ilya initiated PDA (and one time Shane did).

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    22 May 2026

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    this was kinda lifechanging and i meant literally
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    "Oh my god," Bood said. "You're literally married to the guy Roz, you don't have to spend the whole game looking like you're pining after him.

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    It was nice that he got his happy ending, hockey and teammates who cared about him and Shane Hollander loving him back and playing with him and a dog and a house and a family. It was so nice that he felt, abruptly, a bit like crying, right out there on the ice.

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    Still, power play was exciting because that meant Shane and Ilya would play together.

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    (...) but the truth was that Ilya knew in his heart that he was the one that was - how did they say it? - whipped. That Shane could say jump and Ilya would always ask "how high?" He'd been in some form of love with Shane Hollander since they were eighteen years old. (...) because truly Shane was always in charge. He could say "come" and Ilya would trot after him like Anya, on his heels, desperate for his affection and attention. Always, always, always.

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    "They know it is captain's orders - to protect Shane Hollander's beautiful, perfect face at all costs."
    "You're such a sap," Shane said.

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    "I am going to kill him now, yes?"
    Like he said: he liked obeying orders.
    "I am not stopping you," Shane said back, tone deceptively light.

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    "I don't want to go if you're not there," Ilya had admitted. He didn't want to leave town for a few days without Shane. He didn't want to go to awful parties with awful men if he have Shane's hand to hold. He didn't want to spend time apart, in different beds, if it wasn't necessary. They'd lost so much time.

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    (Ilya) wanted to say I would choose you every time. Over hockey. Over everything. Forever.

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    Sometimes Ilya spent the time after dinner staring at it, until Shane came and took him by the hand and led him quietly back into the living room.

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    If Crowell was going to try and stifle them by cancelling the All-Star Game, then Ilya would just have to love Shane even louder and more publicly than before. What a burden. (What a joy. What an endless, wonderful, perfect joy.)

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    Ilya shrugged back, to say I am willing to shout from every rooftop in the world that I love you, but I would not do anything that you do not want to do.

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    "Maybe I'm turning over a new left," Shane said dryly.
    "Don't turn over new leaves," Ilya said. He could admit his tone was a bit whiny. "I like your leaves. I married your leaves."

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    Jane
    Are they both bad?
    Do you hate them?

    Ilya
    Have been having a mild breakdown, sorry
    You see, my boyfriend sent me two photos of himself wearing glasses when he knows that this makes me insane man

    Jane
    Oh come on
    You literally see me in them everyday!

    Ilya
    I do
    And I have had an orgasm every day for the last 421 days
    You see the connection, yes?

    Ilya does lots of boring things with Shane. They are his favourite things in the world.

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    20 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes


    no one does domesticity like u op 😭

    the intimacy in the smoking scene oml ♡♡
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    Shane passes him a piece of gum and he chews it obediently, winding Shane up by sticking his tongue out with the gum on it, before leaning in again. Shane meets him, sniffs, and pops another piece in.

    (...)

    Ilya chews for a minute longer before leaning into Shane once more, who nods approvingly at the smell, apparently satisfied.

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    "Sweetheart," he whispers softly, smiling when Shane furrows his brow and grumbles in response. "Slide down."

    Between a half-conscious Shane and a besotted Ilya, they both manage to get horizontal.

    (...)

    He's still laughing as he falls asleep, his final thought a prayer to remember it when he wakes up, so he can tease Shane over their scrambled eggs in the morning.