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  1. Summary

    “He gives the wood kisses, and the wood shrinks from the kisses.
    The god said to her, since you can't be my bride, at least
    you will certainly be my tree!”

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  2. Summary

    Loosely connected one-shots of Shane and Ilya’s relationship, as told through BDSM.

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  1. Rec *

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    Shane Hollander has been in love with Ilya Rozanov for twenty-eight years and has never said it once.

    When Ilya's nineteen-year-old son Nicholas - same face, same body, same cock, same ruinous Rozanov gravity - drops to his knees in a locker room shower and says "I've wanted you since I was fourteen," Shane doesn't stop him. He closes his eyes and pretends.

    This is not a love story. This is a sin repeated across two generations, and Shane is the altar. All characters are adults (19+).

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    30 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    “Everything between Shane and Ilya started as a joke and ended as a wound.”

  2. Rec 9

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    a continuation of ‘all these measured steps.’ the storm has passed, but the silence feels just as loud. Ilya and Shane navigate fragility in their new routines and learn a little about what it means to love someone and succumb to being loved in return.

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    20 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    “Loving someone feels like being handed something fragile in a house where things have always broken.”

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    It all makes sense.

    Ilya has probably already reached out to the next person on his list — someone less boring, less demanding, more responsive to instructions. Obedient. Maybe untouched. Perhaps as inexperienced as Shane was in 2008. Someone good.

    After all, Shane has nothing left to offer anymore.

    — The aftermath of their Las Vegas encounter leaves Shane struggling to stay afloat. Ilya isn't there to help.
    Another alternate version of what happens after s01e02.

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    01 Jan 2026

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    Bookmarker's Notes

    “He also wishes they could kiss. He can't remember the last time they did it, but everything went wrong when they stopped.”

  4. Rec *

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    In 2008, Shane Hollander lost to Ilya Rozanov. Fresh-faced, hungry. Like he’d been living off victory points that were scraps compared to the real thing, compared to beating Rozanov, the first man in the world to make him feel second-best. Back then, he’d thought that was the only thing he felt, too. That the electric pulse jostling between them in the gym some time later was a trick of the mind. It was like seeing sky above for the first time. See you at the draft. Life in that paper body.

    or: Ilya comes back. This is the crux of it.

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    09 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    “He touches the shapeless static in Ilya’s body and closes his eyes for the first time, and he just feels. He’s so hot against Shane’s palms he burns, scalding water. Shane’s eyes fill in for him: he must be dark pink or red, a hot color, maybe sunshine warm, because the humming of cicadas is surely the color of gold.”

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    “Marlow’s death is a tragedy for the hockey community. We lost an athlete at the peak of his career, well before his time.”

    “Our hearts go out to Boston.”

    “This casts a long shadow on Raiders captain Ilya Rozanov. What really happened that night?”

    “Yes, lots of speculation about Rozanov, whose year has been nothing but casualty after casualty. Truly bizarre series of events in the hockey world.”

    Something dark is going on with Rozanov. A curse from the past that won't let him go.

    Shane has his own secrets to protect. No one can ever know what he really is. Not even Ilya.

    But if they’re going to tread dangerous water, they might as well do it together.

    (Cursed!Ilya and Folktale Creature!Shane, a ghosts and monsters AU)

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    10 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    “He wouldn’t be able to see Shane or Irina anyway; ideas are like ghosts in that way.”