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  1. Rec *

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    After the longest season of his career, Ilya retreats to the cottage with Shane, expecting rest, recovery, and a month of stolen peace. Instead, exhaustion lingers. Small things feel wrong. And the body that has always carried him through pain begins to falter in ways he can’t explain.

    As concern grows and outside eyes begin to notice, the life Ilya and Shane have carefully built—careers, borders, futures—starts to feel fragile. When a medical crisis shatters their summer before answers arrive, love is no longer something they protect quietly. It becomes something they fight with.

    A story about what happens when the body speaks before you’re ready to listen, and the people who refuse to let you face it alone.

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    12 Jan 2026

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    He drives to the airport with an unshakeable urge to pull over and turn around. He smokes four cigarettes in a row before he boards the plane, then chews an entire pack of gum on the flight to try and cover the worst of the smell.

    He exits the airport half-hoping that Shane has chickened out of the whole thing. Then he spots him, tapping his fingers against the steering wheel in the most boring suburban dad car Ilya has ever had the misfortune of laying his eyes on, and he’s so happy to see him that his legs feel unsteady beneath his weight.

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    Or, the cottage, Ilya's version: an extended ep 6 featuring my take on what happened in the gaps we didn't see.

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    01 Jan 2026

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    And the drama of it all is stupid. It really is. Jake is back-hugging Jay so that Jay can’t look at him, they’re alone in the kitchen, and Jay’s muscles are tight enough to feel like he wants to bolt. They’ve been arguing for more than a year, they couldn’t stand one another for more than ten months, and here they are. Back-hugging in the kitchen. Any more dramatic and this could be the sinking of the Titanic.
    “You made me feel bad,” Jay whispers.

    (Or: Jake and Jay live together. They hate each other. Then they stop living together. And then one day Jake hugs Jay's back and hides his face in Jay's nape.)

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    23 Nov 2025

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    When Jungwon wakes up again, it’s not to his alarm on his phone, nor is it to his members.

    Instead, he’s greeted by the damp nose that is Maeumi’s. It’s a little gross if he’s being honest; he’d much rather an alarm, but hey, at least he’s awa-

    Wait-

    Maeumi?

    Jungwon shoots up, eyes flying open at a speed that’ll make them hurt for the rest of the day.

    Why is Maeumi in their dorm-

    Oh. This is most definitely not their dorm.

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    When Jungwon finds himself in a world where his late night ponderings have become reality, he quickly realises that he really can’t live without them.

    (or: the one in which Jungwon takes ‘one, two, connect!’ to another level, and attempts to bring together seven boys whose lives run parallel to each other)

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    23 Nov 2025

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    Piers didn’t bring it up again and Dudley pretended like he’d forgotten about his friend’s weird fairy tale. They were way too old for dumb stories like that anyway. Stories for babies.

    But somewhere deep inside, where Dudley had a tiny spark of the magic that ran in his family tucked in the bottom of his soul, the words that Piers had told him about settled down and waited to be remembered at the right time.

    I wish the goblins would come and take you away, right now.

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    18 Sep 2025