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[ensolleildelune]

Domestic Hollanov Fic

Hi! I'm proud to present my first social media, 5+1 fic of Shane and Ilya being domestic and in love in public, as seen through the eyes of the internet and their friends. It's got:

- Domestic Hollanov

- Social Media fic

- Outsiders POV

- Timeline reveal

- Fluff

Link here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/86119816

Pleae enjoy! Leave comments bc i love hearing what people thought of it

[ensolleildelune]

Upcoming domestic Hollanov WIP

Instead of working on my wips, I started a new one where the world gets glimpses of Ilya and Shane through other people's posts and sightings. This one's got:

Domestic Hollanov

Social Media fic (kinda, sorta)

Outsider POV (kinda, sorta)

Timeline reveal

Coming to an ao3 near you (sat).

[ensolleildelune]

Gonna do one last pass on this when I wake up before sendi ng it to ao3

[ensolleildelune]

Upcoming domestic Hollanov WIP

Instead of working on my wips, I started a new one where the world gets glimpses of Ilya and Shane through other people's posts and sightings. This one's got:

Domestic Hollanov

Social Media fic (kinda, sorta)

Outsider POV (kinda, sorta)

Timeline reveal

Coming to an ao3 near you (sat).

[marciaillust]

curious. anyway,

[branden-aka-cowboyduke]

Never forget how far you’ve come, despite how far you still have to go

[hollanovsoup]

shane hollander definitely has the kind of love language where he just starts quietly fixing things without saying anything

like he notices ilya is out of coca-cola and suddenly there are three new boxes in the fridge and no explanation

[sabotage-on-mercury]

Ilya is the type of husband who realises that Shane hates his healthy nuts and fruits trail mix and yet packs it for every flight or post-workout snack or hike or even movie nights sometimes and Ilya is slowly losing his mind about it. Well, that's not entirely correct. Shane only hates almonds. Not that he said it tho, but Ilya noticed the little wrinkle of his nose whenever Shane eats one with a subtle look of defeat. Obviously, Ilya chirps his husbans goodheartedly about his choice of snack and asks Shane if he is squirrel, yes? Munching on his little nuts with his little hands? No? Doesn't Shane feel guilty then for taking away squirrel food? Maybe he should eat chocolate that's not good for squirrels and Shane would actually do good, with every bit of chocolate eaten he saves a squirrel. Shane rolls his eyes and shoves Ilya's shoulder but he grins widely and his heart is full and then he challenges Ilya to compare their hand sizes because his hands are not that small, wtf man? (Ilya obviously disagrees and pushes Shane's hand into Ilya's boxers, telling Shane that yes his hands are so small, see, he can barely wrap one hand around Ilyas big cock. His boxers are ruined but getting Shane to play along was definitely worth it).

Ilya doesn't disguise his disgust for trail mix but he always has an extra bag stashed in his locker.

One warm summer evening before training camp, they sit in their garden, watching Anya play arould and Ilya listens to the cicadas - well, he would like to, if it wasn't for Shane crunching away his trail mix, intercept with some low but heart-felt sighs whenever he catches an almond.

Why does Shane eat this stuff, if he doesn't like it, Ilya finally asks, why buy this mix exactly? Shane looks at Ilya as if he was obtuse on principle because, well, it's a trail mix, Ilya, it wouldn't be a trail mix without the almonds. This mix is organic. That's good for the stomach. And environment.

But how could can it be really good if Shane just doesn't like it, why not just not eating the almonds, Ilya asks, unable to even begin to understand what organic agriculture has to do with this but okay.

Well, they are part of the mix, Shane explains slowly and Ilya nods in understanding, realising he has to take matters in his own hand. This is wonderful, sweet, law-abiding husband and Ilya will not stand for any almond ruining Shane's happiness just but it's mere presence, organic or not.

So, the next morning Ilya makes it is his personal mission to go through Shane's entire stash of trail mix bags, and fuck there are many, and picking out each and any almond out of the bag and sealing it again. It takes Shane a little moment to realise why his trail mix suddenly tasts so much better (well, maybe Ilya has added pistachios to compensate for the forbidden nuts) and the smile that Shane gives Ilya could power an entire universe.

Ilya takes his own personal mission extremal serious. Whenever Shane buys a new pack of trail mix for himself, Ilya reaches out for it so Ilya can immediately pick out the almonds. Shane still thinks it's ridiculous, he can just eat them it's okay, but not on Ilya's watch no. Ilya gives him a stern look and says give and Shane really falters too easily, what can he can do, he loves when Ilya bosses him around to take care of Shane, sue him.

Of course Ilya still occasionally calls Shane his little special squirrel with his fancy pistachio trail mix. Only now that they have huge amount of almonds laying around, Ilya got used to snack them too, only for the environment that is, but he actually started to like them and now Shane calls Ilya his big chipmunk.

(sequel to Shane's version)

[bigandlong]

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

[jae-felidae]

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Fan Changyu: Yan Zheng doesn't even exist so we weren't even married

Xie Zheng (to anyone who will listen): MY WIFE, WHOM I MARRIED

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Because it was confusing in the novel and somehow more confusing in the drama, this is what happened in Pursuit of Jade (spoilers, obviously):

Wei Yan was in love with a childhood friend and was supposed to marry her. She suddenly married into the palace as a consort (Novel: this was because her cousin, the empress, was losing power to another consort so they sent her a cousin to help). He never had an affair with her, but this is the only woman he ever loved.

Wei Yan and his brother-in-law, Xie Zheng's father, were friends with the crown prince. The crown prince already had a son, Qi Min, and because of this the line of succession goes Crown Prince - Qi Min - go back up the tree for other sons of the emperor. However, the emperor has been favouring another prince recently and he can always switch crown princes. So Wei Yan, when drunk, says, "Why not just replace the emperor?" This is treason, so bad idea.

Because of this threat, the former emperor frames Wei Yan. He drugs Wei Yan with an aphrodisiac first. It seems like Wei Yan slept with a maid instead of his One True Love, but the emperor still pretends the consort is pregnant. The emperor starts interrogating the consort.

Wei Yan and Xie Zheng's father are supposed to defend a city from another attacking nation. General Xie is already there with the crown prince, Wei Yan is bringing food/reinforcements. Wei Yan hears about what is happening with the consort and turns back, but he gives Fan Changyu's father, Wei Qilin, the tiger tally so that the troops and food will still arrive.

The Sui family claims the tally is fake. The city falls, General Xie dies along with the crown prince, all the blame is pinned on Wei Qilin. Back at the capital, Wei Yan realizes this is all a plot to kill/impeach him. The consort lets herself die in a fire in an attempt to save Wei Yan. Wei Yan goes scorched earth and kills everyone, deposes the emperor, and installs a puppet baby emperor, Qi Sheng.

In the chaos, the crown princess, afraid that Wei Yan will kill her son too, sets the palace on fire and burns Qi Min's face and then hides him in the Sui family. The real Sui kid is dead.

At this point, Wei Yan's #1 priority, besides having All the Power, is keeping the consort free from blame. So he lets all the blame fall on Wei Qilin, who fakes his death and takes the identity of the dead Fan son. Wei Yan's sister, Xie Zheng's mom, realizes that she knows too much, so to save Xie Zheng, she commits suicide. Now she's not a threat and she hopes Wei Yan will keep her son alive (he does).

Wei Yan marries his already-pregnant wife and claims Wei Xuan as his own, but he's not his child and he prefers his nephew, Xie Zheng (though this preference doesn't mean he's nice at all. In the novel he lets Wei Xuan torment Xie Zheng pretty severely, probably to "toughen him up" or whatever, we see this in a flashback in the drama.)

Everything is basically chill for 17 years.

Xie Zheng takes back the city his father lost and kills all the citizens of the other country within it. This is 1:1 revenge, it's what the other country did to them, but that is why his reputation is so bad and why he's surprised that Fan Changyu praises him at his fake funeral.

The Sui family wants to rebel, and Qi Min, hidden within them, wants to use their rebellion to claim the throne for himself. The Li family also wants this so they can finally get rid of Wei Yan. The Sui family leak information to Xie Zheng in an attempt to drive a wedge between the two of them.

Xie Zheng starts to investigate the truth. Now this is where the drama was so strange and blamed Wei Xuan for the assassination attempt. It was Wei Yan in the novel. Let's just pretend he did it in the drama too because that makes more sense. Wei Yan is so desperate to keep his secret that he tries to kill his own nephew to bury the truth.

Wei Yan, fearing the truth will finally get out, tries to kill the entire Wei/Fan family, as they are the last real witnesses. This is why assassins come for Fan Changyu. General He, who has been in very sneaky contact with the Wei/Fan family, receives the Letter of Evidence and they commit suicide in front of him to save their two daughters.

And I think that explains everything. So the Biggest Bad was the former emperor, who tried to frame Wei Yan. Wei Yan still sucks because he killed many, many people to keep his secret. Wei Qilin, Fan Changyu's father, was innocent. The Li & Sui families are guilty of attempted rebellion. Qi Min was the true heir to the throne.

In the little extra scene at the end: Wei Yan gets to try again, he marries his one true love and everything turns out better. In this version, Fan Changyu and Xie Zheng are jokingly betrothed from birth and end up together as before. I think the point of this extra was actually for the author to assure us that even if Xie Zheng had a happy childhood, he'd still be weird and intense.

[cyrjovie]

Y'all have no idea how much I appreciate when even antagonistic women are not made out to be villainous bitches. So many times, the antagonistic (or not fully antagonists, but causing trouble for the protagonists) women are given no story beyond that antagonism, no understanding, no room to err, while even the worst of villainous men will often have at least a little of the audiences favor.

I appreciate that, for the most part, that is not the case with Pursuit of Jade. SPOILERS FOR EPISODES 18 AND 19 FOLLOWING:

Sure, there's Madam Song, because there are always selfish people, but Madam Song's backstory lends some understanding to how she became the way she is, though it doesn't excuse it. And, she didn't give Fan Changyu up until everyone had been killed for refusing in front of her. Fear is a real thing that not everyone is capable of overcoming.

ADDITIONALLY, Granny Kang starts out as a largely dislikable character, but as you learn more about her family's hardships, she becomes more understandable, and (spoiler of you haven't watched today's episodes) gives her life in hopes that not only her grandson but also Changning will be safe.

When we meet Cui Qianjin, she seems to be nothing more than a snobbish rich girl, but as the story goes along, while she is disinclined to believe Changyu's warnings about Song Yan, you notice she can't help but give a little heed to them, and when Fan Changyu shows up during the mini coup of the magistrates office, she trusts that Changyu can help her, and then urges her father to actually do something about the situation, when he's obviously not really wanting to, and, in the end, she gave up her own life before giving up Fan Changyu.

Qianqian has always stood up for Changyu and helped her as she could. The other women on Xige Lane, though gossips, give no information to Commandant Li when they find out he's a government official. Though the Princess is being forced into a marriage she doesn't want, her mother takes no joy in it, until it seems Qi Shu and Li Huai'An are getting along.

When Qianqian gives in to Qi Min, you can see the sympathy in the maids eyes, and the other woman (the princes' mother? EDIT: correction the head maid/housekeeper? I think), as well. Few women want to see other women trod on.

While the leader of the bandits (forgive me for not remembering her name, I am at work and can't go rewatch to find it) did kidnap Changning, and while she does lead bandits who do horrible things to everyone, she does still stop Sui Yuanqing from bullying Changning needlessly. It's a small thing, but it's something.

I cannot begin to explain how much I appreciate how womanhood is portrayed in this drama, it's so important to me that women are being better and better written, and I love how visible it is in Pursuit of Jade.

[yingtan]

PURSUIT OF JADE 逐玉 (2026) Ep. 16│Ep. 22

[labseraph]

Deep in their sick, twisted hearts, the Sui brothers longed to be dommed hard.

[cyrjovie]

Xie Zheng, any chance he gets: I'm married *divorce letter is in his hand* this? Ignore it. I'm married. My wife sent me these candies, the only sweets I eat. Sui Yuanqing has my wife's sister, I'm going to save her at the risk of my own life and 1,000 of my men, but our lives are only at risk if we fail, and we won't because I WILL save my wife's sister. *pauses for a few moments* Have I told you about my incredible wife and her sister?

Fan Changyu, at least a few times a day: I'm looking for my husband. *divorce letter in bag* don't look at that. My Yan Zheng is too good at martial arts to die in battle, so I'm going to find him, make sure he's okay, and then see about bringing him home. Have I mentioned he married into my family and is very smart and handsome and good at martial arts?

[monostardust]

No coz they were straight up ignoring the divorce letters they had 😭

[writing-prompt-s]

You were a god of textiles; respected, but generally considered a minor deity. But everything changed when mortals started regularly describing spacetime and reality as a 'fabric'.

[sunriseverse]

can’t go wrong with pining while fucking as a trope. truly it has it all. pining. awkward sexual situations. weapons grade insecurity for all parties involved. the desperation as they inevitably fall further and further while hating themselves for being unable to stick to the contract of no strings attached. etc. you understand

[princessamericachavez]

I’ve read a lot of “Ilya and the Centaurs are protective of Shane during their first game against the Metros” fics, an I LOVE them

but hear me out: Shane ask not to be coddled and Ilya resorts to ragebaiting him on the ice instead.

Ilya makes an offhand comment about keeping an eye on him during their game and Shane jumps because he’s a professional hockey player, has been for over a decade, he can take the heat thank you very much, and when Ilya points out the whole team will be probably coming for him, he’s like:

“Yes, I am the best fucking player in the league. The entire team coming for me is, like, a normal game night for me”

because he is The Shane Hollander and Ilya is kinda proud and very turned on by the sudden cockiness.

Until game night rolls around and ofc some of the team make comments about having Hollander’s back and Ilya has to swear he didn’t put them up to it (Shane won’t admit it but it makes him feel all warm inside, that’s his new team hell yes).

So 1st third he’s taking it like a champ but by the second, after he scores, the hits & chirps keep getting meaner & it’s getting to Shane. At some point he’s struggling to get up & Ilya skates by and says

“You good, Hollander, or do you need me to kiss your boo-boo?” with THAT tone and it makes Shane startle, but he chuckles and tells him to fuck off.

after that Ilya keeps chirping AT HIM, like he did back when they played against each other “no, no, don’t get up, I can score all the goals we need”, “taking nap, Hollander?”, “maybe you need to find softer sport, yes?”

And somehow Shane finds it easier to focus when he’s feeling annoyed and competitive and as usual Ilya is just pushing him to be The Best he can be (everyone else, Metros and Centaurs, is extremely confused by this… except maybe Hayden).

[ensolleildelune]

Alexei was once Ilya's brother

My 1 am thoughts on Alexei and Ilya Rozanov.      

I suppose I feel bad for Alexei Rozanov, or at least, what he once was to Ilya. In this short essay, I specifically say, Alexei and not Andrei.

     In the show I believe we see more depth to him than in the books, and its shown, in just a fleeting moment in Grigori's funeral. When Ilya finally snaps, and fight back, Alexei was momentarily terrified, and you could see the conflicting emotions in his eyes.

      I like to believe I saw just a flash of heartbreak, and resignation, perhaps even regret in his eyes, that despite being a horrible piece of shit, it humanized him for me.

      It made me think that before he was his father's son, he was firstly, Ilya's brother.

      I wonder if Alexei helped Ilya up when he slipped trying to skate. I wonder if he ever kissed Ilya's scrapes away like their mother did. If Alexei ever read Ilya to sleep or shared his favorite toy. Did he ever fight people who made fun of his brother? Was he the one who taught Ilya to throw a punch?

    Did Ilya ever have a nightmare that monsters were out to get him and he rushed to Alexei for protection? Was there ever a time that Alexei got a glimpse of his father's cruelty, and looked at his younger brother's bright grin and hoped Ilya never experienced it?

      In Alexei's blank stare, when Ilya finally cuts him off, I see flashes of pain, like he's finally realizing that he's crossed a line and he could no longer go back.

      He is a piece of shit, truly his father's son, Alexei. But for a few moments, I wondered what he was like when he was still just Irina's first born, when he was simply just Ilya's older brother.

I'm sorry Ilya, you deserved a better brother.

[khashanakalashtar]

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