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"Upon your sword sit laurel victory, and smooth success be strewed before your feet." olivia | 27 i like shakespeare and boybands

[laurelvictory]

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

UPDATE: Chapter 8 – Uploaded May 19, 2026

Words: 38,128  | Language: English | WIP

“If you lose that ship, I will hunt you down and kill you.” ​ His mother’s promise echoed in Shane’s mind, taunting him as he surveyed his crew. Shane had made his own promise to his mother before he left: of course, he could handle the crew of the Voyageur. A rowdy band of pirates could always be kept in line with the promise of wealth and women. As long as Shane kept each treasure in a steady stream, the men would obey, the ship would return to harbor, and Yuna wouldn’t murder him. ​ Perhaps none of those promises mattered now that Shane and his entire crew were drowning in the Sōya Strait.

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Historical Fiction Prince/Pirate AU.

Pirate Prince Shane Hollander and the pirate crew of the Dutch/Japanese ship The Voyageur are shipwrecked off the east coast of Siberia.

Tsarevich Ilya Rozanov is on a hunt to learn more about the exclusive Dutch-Japanese trading routes. And a very lucky crew just landed in his lap.

[laurelvictory]

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

UPDATE: Chapter 7 -- Uploaded April 26, 2026

Words: 35,040 | Language: English | WIP

“If you lose that ship, I will hunt you down and kill you.” ​ His mother’s promise echoed in Shane’s mind, taunting him as he surveyed his crew. Shane had made his own promise to his mother before he left: of course, he could handle the crew of the Voyageur. A rowdy band of pirates could always be kept in line with the promise of wealth and women. As long as Shane kept each treasure in a steady stream, the men would obey, the ship would return to harbor, and Yuna wouldn’t murder him. ​ Perhaps none of those promises mattered now that Shane and his entire crew were drowning in the Sōya Strait.

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Historical Fiction Prince/Pirate AU.

Pirate Prince Shane Hollander and the pirate crew of the Dutch/Japanese ship The Voyageur are shipwrecked off the east coast of Siberia.

Tsarevich Ilya Rozanov is on a hunt to learn more about the exclusive Dutch-Japanese trading routes. And a very lucky crew just landed in his lap.

[laurelvictory]

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

UPDATE: Chapter 6: Uploaded April 24, 2026

Words: 29,370 | Language: English | WIP

“If you lose that ship, I will hunt you down and kill you.” ​ His mother’s promise echoed in Shane’s mind, taunting him as he surveyed his crew. Shane had made his own promise to his mother before he left: of course, he could handle the crew of the Voyageur. A rowdy band of pirates could always be kept in line with the promise of wealth and women. As long as Shane kept each treasure in a steady stream, the men would obey, the ship would return to harbor, and Yuna wouldn’t murder him. ​ Perhaps none of those promises mattered now that Shane and his entire crew were drowning in the Sōya Strait.

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Historical Fiction Prince/Pirate AU.

Pirate Prince Shane Hollander and the pirate crew of the Dutch/Japanese ship The Voyageur are shipwrecked off the east coast of Siberia.

Tsarevich Ilya Rozanov is on a hunt to learn more about the exclusive Dutch-Japanese trading routes. And a very lucky crew just landed in his lap.

[laurelvictory]

WE ARE ASLEEP UNTIL WE FALL IN LOVE

UPDATED: CHAPTER 5 posted 4.11.26

“If you lose that ship, I will hunt you down and kill you.”

His mother’s promise echoed in Shane’s mind, taunting him as he surveyed his crew. Shane had made his own promise to his mother before he left: of course, he could handle the crew of the Voyageur. A rowdy band of pirates could always be kept in line with the promise of wealth and women. As long as Shane kept each treasure in a steady stream, the men would obey, the ship would return to harbor, and Yuna wouldn’t murder him.

Perhaps none of those promises mattered now that Shane and his entire crew were drowning in the Sōya Strait.

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Historical Fiction Prince/Pirate AU.

Pirate Prince Shane Hollander and the pirate crew of the Dutch/Japanese ship The Voyageur are shipwrecked off the east coast of Siberia.

Tsarevich Ilya Rozanov is on a hunt to learn more about the exclusive Dutch-Japanese trading routes. And a very lucky crew just landed in his lap.

WIP | Language: English | Words: 27,338 | Chapters: 5/?

[laurelvictory]

WE ARE ASLEEP UNTIL WE FALL IN LOVE

WIP | Words:16,292 | Chapters: 3/?

Hollanov Historical Fiction Prince/Pirate AU.

“If you lose that ship, I will hunt you down and kill you.” ​ His mother’s promise echoed in Shane’s mind, taunting him as he surveyed his crew. Shane had made his own promise to his mother before he left: of course, he could handle the crew of the Voyageur. A rowdy band of pirates could always be kept in line with the promise of wealth and women. As long as Shane kept each treasure in a steady stream, the men would obey, the ship would return to harbor, and Yuna wouldn’t murder him. ​ Perhaps none of those promises mattered now that Shane and his entire crew were drowning in the Sōya Strait.

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Pirate Prince Shane Hollander and the pirate crew of the Dutch/Japanese ship The Voyageur are shipwrecked off the east coast of Siberia.

Tsarevich Ilya Rosanov is on a hunt to learn more about the exclusive Dutch-Japanese trading routes. And a very lucky crew just landed in his lap.

[laurelvictory]

Chapter 5 is now live

[laurelvictory]

WE ARE ASLEEP UNTIL WE FALL IN LOVE

WIP | Words:16,292 | Chapters: 3/?

Hollanov Historical Fiction Prince/Pirate AU.

“If you lose that ship, I will hunt you down and kill you.” ​ His mother’s promise echoed in Shane’s mind, taunting him as he surveyed his crew. Shane had made his own promise to his mother before he left: of course, he could handle the crew of the Voyageur. A rowdy band of pirates could always be kept in line with the promise of wealth and women. As long as Shane kept each treasure in a steady stream, the men would obey, the ship would return to harbor, and Yuna wouldn’t murder him. ​ Perhaps none of those promises mattered now that Shane and his entire crew were drowning in the Sōya Strait.

****

Pirate Prince Shane Hollander and the pirate crew of the Dutch/Japanese ship The Voyageur are shipwrecked off the east coast of Siberia.

Tsarevich Ilya Rosanov is on a hunt to learn more about the exclusive Dutch-Japanese trading routes. And a very lucky crew just landed in his lap.

[laurelvictory]

Chapter 4 is now live!

Words: 21,521 | Chapters: 4/?

[inki-drop]

"And he gave it to me for free, Bob!"

I saw this on bsky last night and had to draw the guy

[irlpretear]

[epicsause-official]

"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.

[epicsause-official]

wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them

see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L

ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молодцы ребята продолжаем в том же духе.

colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.

and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania

[unwastelandunbaby]

asked a student what their favorite animal was today and they said “a cheetah AND a sloth” and I said “wow smart, you’ve got both ends of the speed spectrum covered!” and they looked at me like I was the only sensible adult they’d ever spoken to

[dwinkus]

peasant visionary: & then it stood before me, a towering wheel of flame that beheld me with 10,000 shimmering eyes!

me: idk man it still sounds like an ocular migraine

peasant visionary: #MyGrain

[speedlimit15]

i think if your account has existed on this site for a certain number of years you should be grandfathered into ad free browsing. a decade seems reasonable like if you signed up in 2012 or prior you have tenure

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

Were you a victim of the Mishapocalypse? You might be entitled to compensation

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[oknotgood]

it's crazy to me that out of all the different social media platforms, tumblr is the one where Heated Rivalry fans are the most normal. that feels so backwards. we're all so old.

whether in literal years or just in our souls, we are elderly. we are worldweary. we're like, "i am NOT here for reality. fantasy only, baby! i just want to live in this fictional world and forget about the real one for a while. i want to think and write and talk about made-up scenarios for these fictional characters. even if we're talking about the real people, we're talking about the fictionalized versions of the actors' public personas. we're playing with dolls, here, people. this is not real life. that's kinda the point. idgaf who that 25-year-old is actually fucking. that's his business. that has nothing to do with this. leave the kid alone ffs"

and i love that. it's a pleasure to play dolls with you, fellow 'old' people

[gaytanic-panic]

[angelbabymikaa]

i’ve been so well-behaved i deserve to light things on fire now

[recolored-classics]

Geese in the creek (1874) by Claude Monet