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The first time they hooked up, Rozanov had kissed him before Shane got on his knees. They kissed when Scott Hunter was in the room next-door. And they kissed slowly and sweetly, on his apartment stairway, after Rozanov had taken his world apart and put him back together again. Hell, even in that bathroom, where he felt as if the Russian was trampling on his bared soul, Rozanov had kissed him.
So why was it different this time? What did he do wrong?
Shane aches with how much he wants—needs the other man. There is a hollow numbness in his chest every time he thinks about those golden curls and ocean eyes, and he hates himself for wishing he could have more.
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Wanting Hollander is dangerous, because Ilya is wanting more than he’s allowed to have. But Ilya keeps wanting more and more, because he is vain, selfish, undisciplined. He wants to have Hollander in his arms, sweet, warm, and gorgeous.
And he will always regret it later, in the quiet moments that come in the aftermath, in the small and lingering ache that follows him once they are apart.
Or: Shane spirals and avoids Ilya post-Vegas. Ilya chases after him, and they talk.
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- Part 1 of Woe like velvet, tears like jewels
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Bookmarked by Quirk97
24 Feb 2026
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Good amount of grovelling and repentance from Ilya in this post “we didn’t even kiss”. All his trauma does not forgive his hot and cold treatment of baby Shane.
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The Swiss National League doesn’t care about the legendary Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. When the MLH can’t negotiate with the Hockey Players’ Union in time to prevent a hockey lockout at the start of the 2015 season, the Zürich Lions jump at the chance to sign both Shane and Ilya to short-term contracts. For four months in Switzerland, they share a team, a line, a house, and a bed.
Then the lockout ends in January, and it’s time to go back. Back to different countries, cities, lives. Beds.
Reentry is harder than expected.
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- Part 8 of my heated rivalry anon fics
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Bookmarked by Quirk97
23 Feb 2026
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There’s yearning and then there’s whatever this is which is like a whole different interplanetary level of pining while together. I wanted to die while reading it, it was so angsty. HFN ending.
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Barstool Sports Canada reports that Montreal Metros captain Shane Hollander has started learning Russian from new teammate and Russian rookie Sergei Dovonchezky.
Ilya has some thoughts. None of them are particularly kind.
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- Part 6 of my heated rivalry anon fics
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Bookmarked by Quirk97
23 Feb 2026
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The softest, most vinegary story ever with a new low for the idiot bar in the idiots to lovers tag - but so sad too when you think that the jealousy is because of their set up and what the relationship can’t have. Ilya’s life is such a story of absences and emotional deprivation
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A Blade By Your Side by athena_crikey
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
01 Aug 2024
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In the end, it had been the Yiling Patriarch’s stratagems and his fierce fighting which had turned the tide of the war. He had killed both Wen Ruohan’s sons, and floored the traitor so that Meng Yao could strike the final blow. His status as the strongest warrior on the field had been undeniable.
Thus, the offer extended to him by the Lan court. Take his place as the Emperor’s consort, the only one permitted to lay hands upon the Emperor, the only one to share his bed with him while he sleeps, unaware and vulnerable. His last, best line of defense.
Or: Forced by his court to accept a consort, Lan Wangji is certain he has seen enough of the so-called Yiling Patriarch to know what he's getting: an uncouth ruffian. Slowly, he begins to realise that even an emperor's assumptions can be misplaced.
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24 Aug 2024
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AU - no cultivation palace drama. Magnificent in its span and delightful in its attention to the small details. Completely immersive. Wangxian are infinitely sexy and intelligent in turn as they work together. They take no time at all to fall for each other after Emperor LWJ is (arrange) married to WWX - LWJ’s initial wariness and high walls falling slowly then very quickly to romantic and sexual besottedness and trust. Political intrigue and relationship restoration. This is so so good. Can’t ask for anything more.
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Wei Wuxian, the Yiling Patriarch, demonic cultivator and perpetrator of the massacre at Qiongqi Way, destroys the Stygian Tiger Amulet three days after his nephew’s one-month ceremony.
His family's safety has been assured: Jiang Cheng is in command of Lotus Pier, Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan, and Jin Ling are ensconced in Koi Tower. The Wen Remnants will be secluded and guarded in the Cloud Recesses, where Wei Wuxian trusts Lan Wangji to look after them, even when Lan Qiren disapproves.
Wei Wuxian destroys the amulet before negotiations over his own life start, which may, in retrospect, have been foolishly shortsighted.
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In which Wei Wuxian survives a negotiated cease-fire, the Yin Iron is destroyed, and being alive when you expected to be dead is much harder than anyone expected.
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Bookmarked by Quirk97
03 Oct 2025
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This is cry on the train good angst. A diminished depleted depressed WWX shrinks his existence down to a room in the Unclean Realm for years as agreed punishment after QQP (JZX lives) and is slowly coaxed back to life by NHS. Hopeful ending in tandem with its also excellent predecessor story charting JGY’s return from the dark side courtesy of four niblings’ affections and JYL’s battle to recognise him.