dumbacery
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Ilya likes the chase, and the chase loves him back. Talking shit at Hollander is a pastime he’d wait months to indulge in. Hollander’s more than happy to greet him head-on.
The difference is that Hollander likes being caught too.
or: Ilya seeks in Hollander a consolation prize. It takes ten years for him to obtain something more.
Bookmarked by dumbacery
15 Mar 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Be careful,” Shane frets, one hand hovering over Ilya’s shoulder. “It’s icy, and I don’t want to be a widower.”
“Oh, we’d have to be much higher than this for the fall to kill me,” Ilya says, gaze still fixed on the cool black skyline. “At least seven stories.”
It’s not until much later, as the waitress is clearing the dishes from dinner, that Yuna finds herself wondering why Ilya knows exactly how high a fall needs to be in order to kill him.
Or: Yuna learns about Ilya's past bit by bit over the years.
Series
- Part 8 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,932
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 177
- Kudos:
- 6,652
- Bookmarks:
- 1,173
- Hits:
- 31,094
Bookmarked by dumbacery
09 Mar 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Ilya is sipping a cappuccino and watching Shane do very perverted yoga when he realizes that he doesn’t want to die.
It’s a dumb series of thoughts. He sees Shane bend over, neatly folding himself into a hunchback as his hands flatten by his feet, and Ilya thinks, I bet he’s going to love it when we’re old and grey and he can outrace me with my stupid hip replacement. And then he realizes that not only does he anticipate being old and grey enough to need a hip replacement, but that he actually wants to get there.
-
Or: the existential crisis that happens when you’ve been depressed your whole life and then realize, suddenly, in your thirties, that you’re happy enough with your life that you no longer want to die.
Series
- Part 9 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,619
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 190
- Kudos:
- 3,353
- Bookmarks:
- 627
- Hits:
- 15,866
Bookmarked by dumbacery
08 Mar 2026
-
Tags
Summary
They’d considered it—Shane being gay. It’d been an option. But Ilya Rozanov and the way Shane looks at him like he’s the love of his life has blindsided them. Blindsided both of them, and there’s almost nothing Yuna likes less than being blindsided.
She’s not mad, David wants to say. We’re so proud of you. We’re so happy for you. We just didn’t know.
Somehow we missed it, you falling in love.
or, what David Hollander and Ilya Rozanov talk about while Shane and Yuna are outside in episode six.
Series
- Part 2 of my heated rivalry anon fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,585
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 657
- Kudos:
- 17,194
- Bookmarks:
- 3,117
- Hits:
- 108,576
Bookmarked by dumbacery
07 Mar 2026
-
Tags
Summary
"Sveta," he says, before she can greet him. "I think I'm about to do something very stupid."
"You're always doing something stupid," she laughs, her voice tinny over the speakerphone. "What is it this time?"
"I am in a staring contest with a bottle of pills," Ilya says. "And I think the pills might win."
-
Or: An alternate take on Ilya's mental health after moving to Ottawa, featuring the reality of long distance relationships, Ilya learning to captain a new team, and a series of game tapes made by Ilya's dead father.
Series
- Part 11 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,171
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 219
- Kudos:
- 4,203
- Bookmarks:
- 1,144
- Hits:
- 28,360
Bookmarked by dumbacery
06 Mar 2026