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    Ilya starts calling Shane boring regularly after that, not cruelly but persistently, the way you press a bruise you know is there just to confirm it still hurts. Shane's cereal is boring, Shane's training schedule is boring, Shane's shoes lined up by the door are boring, and Shane responds with variations of "fuck off" and "you're an asshole" that become increasingly creative and occasionally surprising. They do not talk about anything that matters. They talk about groceries and whose turn it is to take out the trash and whether Ilya's music is too loud at midnight, which it is.

    On the ice, Shane is someone else entirely. Ilya watches him from the upper stands every morning with vending machine coffee going cold in his hand and doesn't tell anyone.

    Or: Shane asked Ilya once how you know when it's the right person. Ilya described Shane to him, and Shane didn't recognise himself.

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    23 May 2026

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    “Maybe we need to get used to this,” Dan says one night, completely out of the blue. “It’s been what, weeks? Maybe we have to accept that this is our life now.”

    “Easy for you to say,” Phil spits out bitterly.

    “What do you mean?” Dan gives him a look of confusion, but also phrases it like a challenge.

    “Well, you gave up on us, did you not?”

    or: Dan almost dies and wakes up in a universe where he and Phil broke up in 2012.

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    26 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    Patrick’s first wedding anniversary gift to David didn’t land quite the way he had expected.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    I love art 😭😭😭😭

  4. Public Bookmark 68

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    What am I doing? he wondered. The answer came back at once:
    Flirting.

    He sank deeper into the pillows, let the mist and blur of the wine settle around him, let it shore up his nerves and dim the warning signals that flashed dully in the back of his mind. He let the rest of the disappointment about Lucy and his strange accommodations and about the weekend as a whole fade into obscurity. He let the vital, missing piece snap into place as surely and as cleanly as if it had always been there.

    He was flirting with Sherlock Holmes.

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    20 Oct 2023

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    Alex could have walked out of the Williamsburg apartment at any time. Instead, he decides to sign up to twelve months of Henry.

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    Alex makes a rash decision and Henry inexplicably runs with it.

    (The "accidental housemates" AU that literally no-one asked for).

    (Art by @stardisnight - chapters 7 and 12)

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    25 Aug 2023