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    19 Jul 2026

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    The structure is so fun, jumping back and forth in time. Characterizations are perfect and all of the different povs are amazing.

  2. Public Bookmark 83

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    ”You are sleepy." When Shane starts to reach with his hand, no doubt to take the phone from the tripod to say goodbye, Ilya stops him in a hunch. "Don't; I will finish the call in a minute. I want to—”

    “Watch me fall asleep?"

    It’s so stupid. Maybe Shane will think he’s fucking creepy. “Sorry, I was—”

    “Okay,” Shane says, simply, the tiniest smile blossoming on his face. “It would be almost like being home.”

    He says home not as in Montreal or the cottage. He says home as in Ilya. Ilya smiles.

    Ilya is very unlucky on Valentine's Day, until he isn’t.

    From ’16 to ‘22, five Valentine’s days that do not work out for Ilya, and where and with whom he spends them; and one that it does.

    (No, we do not talk about Rose Landry’s Valentine’s Day shitty movie campaign in ‘17.)

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    19 Jun 2026

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    To go through or into (something) in a forceful or noticeable way.

    -Second definition of 'pierce' in The Britannica Dictionary

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    28 May 2026

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    Shane is heavier than he used to be; his weight bears down on Ilya in a new way. He’s put on pounds of muscle since Ilya last touched him like this. Ilya flattens his palms, skims them under Shane’s undershirt, feels the flat solidity of his abs, the bulk of his lats, the swell of his chest. It’s the same and it’s new, this body; it’s the boy he couldn’t stop thinking about when he was 18 and the man he loved enough to let go at 26 and the person who somehow always comes to find him when he’s lost.

    A stranger, and the love of his life.

     

    or, Ilya's father doesn't die in 2017; Ilya breaks up with Shane instead of confessing his love. They get older, but not any less stupid about each other. Shane gets a boyfriend; Ilya gets on medication; they work on becoming whole people. And they always find their way back to each other.

    OR a story for those who love Shane and Ilya's baby love but ALSO think it's hot when people in their thirties make active choices about who they are and what they want in their partner!!

    Note: the "cheating" tag refers to the relationship between Shane and his aforementioned BF, not to Shane and Ilya cheating on each other.

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    22 May 2026

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    Ilya knows it’s a bad idea. Of course it is. But everything he’s ever done in regards to Shane Hollander has been a bad idea.

    So he sends the text, even though they’re playing against each other in just a few hours. Even though it’s reckless, and it’s breaking all their rules. Even though he’s supposed to be rebuilding the distance that Tampa tore down, instead of letting it shrink even further.

    But he just can’t seem to help himself.

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    16 May 2026