FestiveFerret

I'm three ferrets in a trench coat. This blog is almost entirely my endless stream of fanfic. I spend all my time on Discord. Answers to all your questions on my website: www.festiveferret.ca. Banner by @sirsapling 

[ashes0909]

~~ NEW SHANE/ILYA WIP ~~

What if Shane and Rose were a couple from the start?

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Shane Hollander loves his wife. He loves hockey. He loves the carefully constructed life they built together. But Ilya Rozanov keeps showing up across the ice with sharp smiles, lingering touches, and the unsettling ability to make Shane feel alive in a way he never has before. It's a good thing Rose is such a great wing-wife.

Additional Tags:

Slow Burn, Shane Hollander Has a Gay Awakening, Repression, Emotional Infidelity, Temporary Infidelity, Complicated Relationships, Married Shane Hollander, Rivals to Lovers, Spouses to Friends, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love, Rose Landry is a Good Friend, Eventual Happy Ending, POV Shane Hollander

[sergeifyodorov]

I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide

[demotu-writes]

ETA the chart (or at least a version of it):

ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").

Also, the length of a dick is in inches for SURE.

[mina-logan]

Some art about coffee and certainly nothing else

[festiveferret]

First roadie as both Cens, Shane and Ilya break their hotel bed and their team goes absolutely insane chirping them about it like omg you horn dogs couldn't even make it ONE NIGHT is your bed at home steel reinforced? can't take these guys anywhere.

And the truth is they broke it while roughhousing over the tv remote, fully clothed, but never in a million years will they reveal that to their teammates cause that chirping will honestly be even worse.

[festiveferret]

A Decade Later...

Ten years ago today, I posed Crash Into You, my first post on AO3. If you look at my account, you'll see a few things older, but those were backdated, things I posted elsewhere that I wanted to collect on AO3. So while Crash wasn't technically my first fanfic (in two ways, because I wrote 3 Doctor Who fics beforehand, and because I wrote almost all of If Running's a Plan first, but it wasn't quite done when I blurted out all of Crash and threw it up on my brand new account first) it still feels like the Start of Something.

That start, was being a Part of a Fandom, instead of just someone who loved a property. I'd been in love with things before, but Marvel fic was the first time I participated in fandom community, and wow, I can't begin to express what it's brought me.

I've made so many deeply important friendships, including bonding with the person who is truly my soulmate and is inextricably wound into my whole life now. I've participated in and run so many events, most notably, being a founder and the lead developer of Marvel Trumps Hate, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity - something that still absolutely blows my mind.

In those ten years I've made a human (and started making another one, Ferretling #2 en route for Sept 2026!), ran and then closed a business, got a new amazing job with two of my favourite people on the planet (one of whom I met here in fandom!), started and finished a podcast, renovated my house, lost people I loved, gained people I love, rescued over 70 animals, and written over 3 million words of fic.

3,333,555 words, to be precise (and okay, yes, when I went to check it, it was 3,333,554 and I added a word to a fic because I'm a sucker for a pretty number, so sue me).

So, I mostly just want to say thank you. Thank you to fandom at large, for reading, writing comments, giving kudos, for building spaces, moderating, running events, welcoming newbies, celebrating creativity, and even donating your time and money to worthwhile causes. For giving me a home, even though the shape and colour and size of that home has shifted and changed over the years.

I'm really grateful. I'm really proud of what I've accomplished in the last decade, both here and in offline life. Here's to another kickass decade. <3

[festiveferret]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Relationship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Soft, Sweet, Love, Smoking, Babies, post-retirement, bad habits, Looking to the Future, Fluff

Summary: Shane tiptoed downstairs. The living room and kitchen were both dark, but a shadow moving outside drew Shane's attention. Ilya was on the deck, facing the lake, back to Shane.

Shane sighed; he was smoking.

[lavenderprose]

Things that are ACTUALLY in the Shane Hollander Mic'd Up compilation that we all wish we could watch through the portal:

- "Hey, how was your summer? Good, good."

- "Mic'd up. I'm mic'd up. Don't."

- "Have you ever been to Greece? Told Ilya I would ask you."

- "What? No, man, he didn't say that. He said he was gonna get your ass. Yeah, man, he only fucks one ass. Yeah, I mean, I would say fuck you too but--"

- "Heeeey, davai, davai. Great assist. Hah, no, don't come closer, I'm mic'd and you know I don't trust you."

- "The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal--"

- "HEY MATHESON. You ever been to Vegas? I said, you ever been to VEGAS? I hear they let the good hockey players go there in the summer but I feel like you wouldn't know that."

- "FUCK. Hey, ref, what the fuck was that? Oh, you didn't see that? Fuck you. No, you stay there, my husband's gonna talk to you--fuck you, put me in the bin then, this is bullshit--"

- "You have the smelling salts? Yeah. FUCK--"

- "I am mic'd. Remember I am mic'd. Nope, not even in Russian."

- "Oh, yeah, the pickle video was funny. Harris said it got a lot of views, so. Yeah, no, he actually really does love pickles that much."

- "Sinclair, you got something to say? Yeah, I'm better at hide the pickle than you are at hockey. You want to ask another stupid question?"

- "You know, I run a charity too. Oh, I just assumed that you were doing some kind of Make-A-Wish thing out here with your wingers, since it looks like this is your first day on the ice."

- "Oh, hey, look. Jackie and the kids are waving at us. Okay. Okay, Rozanov, that's enough."

- "Mic'd. Mic'd. Mic'd."

- "Hello Hockey Night, welcome to my husband's shoulder pads--" "Fuck OFF, Rozanov."

- "Great goal. Great goal. Lyublyu tebya. Yes, baby, you did that."

[drawballa]

Sleepy boys 💤

[festiveferret]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Relationship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Hooking up, Established Relationship, Through the Years, Explicit Sexual Content, Hook-ups to Lovers, Sweet, Just give these poor boys some privacy for once

Summary:

Lily: 3852 Bayberry St. N. Millbridge, Vermont Jane: Did you mean to send that to me? What is it? Lily: Is half way Lily: between Jane: What? Between what? Lily: Between Montreal and Boston.

For the @iceouthr event!

[mychemicalrachel]

It took 3 months and lots of editing but I did it!!! My contribution to @iceouthr @festiveferret

MORE, MORE, MORE

Shane/Ilya

2,250 words

Rated T

"My brother," Ilya said. His tongue felt swollen, filling his mouth in a way that made him feel like he was going to choke, but he swallowed and tried again. "Svetlana called me. She said—"

Shane's thumb trailed down his cheek like a tear.

"He is dead," she said.

And just like that, Ilya's world crumbled.

[ashes0909]

Rating: Explicit

Fandom: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid

Relationship: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov

Additional Tags: Post-Book 2: Heated Rivalry (Game Changers), Pre-Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers), Established Relationship, POV Alternating, Canon Compliant, Idiots in Love, Competitive Flirting

Summary: Between Heated Rivalry and The Long Game, Shane and Ilya learn to build something that lasts.

“That’s enough.” Shane looks up at him with a smirk. “Is it?” “Da. You are mischief.”

Written for the @iceouthr fandom fundraiser!

[ashes0909]

Fandom: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Explicit Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Post-Book 2: Heated Rivalry (Game Changers), Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Mic’d Up, Dirty Talk, Blow Jobs, Possessive Shane Hollander, Flirty Ilya Rozanov, Claiming, Hockey

Summary:   Ilya’s chin nudged towards the scoreboard. “Always chasing after me, huh, Hollander?” 

I wrote this mic’d up one shot for @extrasteps and the LOVE SHOTS: Hollanov Valentine’s Exchange 2026 - thank you so much for the prompt! I had a wonderful time writing it and pretending I knew about hockey.

[isolabellz]

equal opportunity thieves

[festiveferret]

what does Ilya think of Dollarama?

Lmao this question cracked me tf up. I honestly can't imagine Ilya has been in a dollar store ever, or maybe at most during like juniors when they were teens and the whole team went across the street from the hotel for doritos and energy drinks lol. He definitely gets everything he needs delivered once he's a rich hockey boy.

I was thinking about what Canadian stores Ilya would be charmed/flummoxed by after he moved. At first I thought the LCBO would be weird for him but probably not since he lived in MA and I think Boston has limited grocery store alcohol. As much as I'd love him to be a Tim's guy, he's probably addicted to Starbucks already when he moves. Ooo maybe he becomes a Second Cup guy. I miss Second Cup!

I don't know, what do you think??

[festiveferret]

Maybe Ilya wore the Raiders shirt to spaghetti night because it was the only shirt at the cottage that wasn't Shane's and actually had sleeves. He was like I shall be respectful and put the guns away. It's like going to meet the in-laws and instead of a slutty mini skirt you go for the nice respectable knee-length that has "fuck authority" embroidered on it. U tried.

[huckleberryhal]

Grandma Ferret. (X)

[huckleberryhal]

Today’s Grandma Ferret

[magicratfingers]

REAL TEARS I AM CRYING REAL TEARS

[thewatcherandthewarden]

This is Sarasota County Ferret Rescue (linked above) and she posts all sorts of ferret outfits!

Consider donating to her, she takes crazy good care of her ferrets. She always chooses to try to save them, rather than getting them put down. Even when the surgeries are expensive and have low success rates, she always gives them a shot. She does everything for those ferrets, including only feeding them homemade raw food diets, and converting multiple rooms in her house into ferret paradises so they can free roam rather than living in cages. She really is the best ferret parent.

[vriska-serketboard]

@paradoxspaceheater

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