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    “Don’t–” Ilya starts, already reaching, already cupping Shane’s face between both hands, thumbs warm and tender against his cheekbones like they’ve always belonged there.

    Shane’s eyes are big and gorgeous and genuinely curious. “Don’t what?”

    Don’t make me look like a lovesick idiot. Don’t make my heart trip over itself for a way out of my chest and into yours. Don’t say it like that—so fucking sincere—like you don’t know how devastating it is for me.

    “Don’t butcher my language,” he says instead and kisses Shane’s smile hard, like reflex, like gravity, like there was never going to be another option.

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    Shane sets out to learn Russian. Ilya discovers he's incapable of keeping his composure.

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    31 May 2026

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    It starts, as most things do, in the morning. Ilya is lying with his head in the crook of Shane’s shoulder, and Shane had really thought that he was asleep. He isn’t. He’s watching Shane, breathing deep and even, and Shane can picture his half closed eyes, his slack mouth. 

    He gives up his hiding place when he murmurs, accent thicker like it always is first thing after he wakes up, “What are you thinking about?” 

    Shane tenses, remembers it’s Ilya, relaxes. “You,” he says, simply, honestly.

    (a litany of the many times ilya asks shane "what are you thinking about" and shane answers as honestly as he can)

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    31 May 2026

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    imagine Heated Rivalry but with a slapdash of magical realism, ghosts, and the slowly dawning realization of just how much Shane and Ilya have to gain, if only they could figure their shit out. featuring: the most supportive team in the world (the Bears), the seething underbelly of malice (Montreal), and three tiny babies (boston's rookies), who just want to meet their stepmom.

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    29 May 2026

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    Yuna Hollander has spent thirty years learning to love her son from a careful distance and calling it respect. When Shane finally comes out, she has to reckon with what that distance actually was — and what it cost him to grow up inside it. The years after are about learning to stop watching him sideways.

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    20 May 2026

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    It kind of looks like junk, at first. Just a random collection of items, like the lost property box at the arena for things the cleaners find after games. But Shane quickly realises that the collection isn’t random at all.

    No, this is a box of memories.

    Ilya’s memories of Shane.

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    10 May 2026