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He’s not unfamiliar with students’ parents trying to matchmake. He’s not even unfamiliar, sadly, with students’ parents trying to match him with the student in question. He is, however, unfamiliar with being the target of the much-beloved daughter of the University’s chancellor. When he tells his department head, the response he gets is: “Be ready to marry whoever she proposes.”
Casting around frantically, fearfully, for the best response that is absolutely not I will be happy to court your daughter, he settles on the truth not as it is, but the truth as he wishes it were.
“I’m sorry,” he tells the lovely woman in the twinset and pearls, over tea in the university’s upscale faculty club. “I already have a boyfriend.”
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17 Apr 2026
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The Boy Who Got Too Cold (and then got thoroughly warmed up) by trippednfell
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
27 Feb 2026
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Lan Zhan is a photographer who gets roped into photographing for the Next Top Model show and things take a rather unexpected turn. But they end with him cuddling Wei Ying all night to keep him warm so it can't be all bad.
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09 Mar 2026
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“Hollander’s Metros have had a challenging few years, with back-to-back knee injuries and a concussion keeping the two-time Stanley Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist off the ice for three consecutive postseason runs. Hollander is apparently back to fighting trim, but everyone’s wondering if that will still be true come April. The Metros have promised that they’re behind their franchise star one hundred percent, but there are signs they might be hedging their bets. The Metros announced last week that they have penned a deal with San Francisco’s dynamic young Russian star, center Ilya Rozanov. The move has sent shockwaves through MLH, as San Francisco was widely expected to sign a contract extension with Rozanov, who became a restricted free agent in June.”
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08 Mar 2026
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Coming out to the Pike's was not the plan for the evening.
It wasn't even in the top 10 list.
And yet, here Shane is, sitting on their living room floor, having fought Rose Landry to get his phone back, and making a Face. He knows he is making a face, he can feel his forehead scrunching and his jaw aching and he can do nothing about it except wait for -
"So who's Lily?!"
Fuck.
This is mostly a series of vignettes focusing on Shane's friendships with Rose, Jackie and Hayden, in that order.
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23 Feb 2026
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She knows everything about hockey by SpaghettiShimmy
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
16 Feb 2026
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Shane smiled as he typed a response, then settled back on Ilya’s chest. “You and my mom have to meet up while you’re in town, Sveta. You’d get along so well. You should sit together at the Admirals game.”
Sveta hesitated. She’d briefly met the Hollanders at Ilya and Shane’s wedding, but they were so swarmed by people offering them congratulations that she hadn’t really talked to them. If it had been Ilya who asked, she would have laughed at the idea. “Really, Ilyusha? You want to introduce me to your in-laws? Are you going to tell them about all the times we hooked up? All the clubs we’ve been to together? How much vodka we used to drink together?”
But it was Shane who asked, and Sveta had grown to understand just why it was so hard for Ilya to ever say no to him. He was so earnest and sweet. Shane made her best friend happy, and if this would make him happy, she could do it. Probably.
“Yeah, that sounds nice,” she said quietly.
Or, Sveta believes she is ill-equipped to impress her best friend's husband's parents. She is unfamiliar with Yuna Hollander's game.
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- Part 1 of Into the Sveta-verse
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16 Feb 2026