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[cowboyhatesithere]

I teeter only on the edge of the tumblr heated rivalry sphere but I gotta hand it to y'all for being the first fandom group I've ever seen where every minor female background character with like, 8 minutes total screentime or only a passing mention are blown into completely realized fanon characters who are treated as important and commonly known key characters of every fic.

[silverssorrysoul]

i am a simple woman; i love to read about women. anyway, here are some of my favourite fics feat. the women of HR

Rose Landry

clouds in my coffee by walkingthroughwindows A scandal breaks. Rose drives to Ottawa, to be not-alone.

and again there is a silence, what a sound by @eemolu “Invite Rose Landry to the cottage,” Ilya said, like it was no big deal.

i could have been somebody else by geniflux Rose asks a lot of questions.

Gossip Girl by @northisnotup A series of vignettes focusing on Shane's friendships with Rose, Jackie and Hayden.

Spilling Secrets by @fiveht Shane, recently cleared from concussion protocol, gets tipsy at his parents' cottage and texts his new best friend.

Pillowtalk by @larkral Shane and Rose talk.

Svetlana Vetrova

Us until You by @rozzed Svetlana has Ilya, and then she does not.

a new orbit by walkingthroughwindows Svetlana quits her job. She can't quite explain why.

the gift by @stammiviktor Only a few months after the cottage, Shane meets Svetlana—and goes to great lengths to defeat his jealousy.

precipice by @gaysie After the Centaurs' plane goes down, Shane and Svetlana meet for the first time at the memorial service.

RoseLana

#noticing by @theburialofstrawberries The first thing Svetlana notices as she’s being introduced to the First Couple of North America is that Rose Landry has great style.

read and make out by @gaysie Rose and Svetlana decide to make out at the club to get the boys' attention.

Yuna Hollander (momager)

Wunderkind by @agoodsoldier Yuna Hollander learns to appreciate Ilya Rozanov, one step at a time.

Enter the wild (voyageur) by @larkral Yuna deals with a PR nightmare.

mom looked like me when she was younger by hl14 Ilya Rozanov will not be playing for fucking Ottawa. Yuna won’t allow that. Is it so wrong, to want the best for your son?

Yuna Hollander (not momager)

icymi by @anincompletelist Between 2012 and the cottage, Yuna texts "Lily."

a boy once cherished by tomato_greens Mothers and sons.

Svetlana Vetrova x Yuna Hollander

I am the private room by Anonymous Svetlana and Yuna meet at a dinner party, at a wedding, at a hotel.

[fellshish]

reading other comments on the fic you’ve just commented on is like. asynchronous book club meeting 🫶

[fawnpalmer]

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[radioactive-earthshine]

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

[twirlingfreckles]

I want to go on record and say I really love when fanfic writers self-promote. First of all, my dash is so chaotic that chances are I actually didn’t see your fic the first time you posted about it. If you reblog it a few times at different times of day (or over multiple days!) I’m much more likely to see it! Second of all, even if I did see your post the first time (or even if I’ve seen it multiple times!) if I was busy or not in the mood for that particular kind of fic at the moment, there’s a good chance I haven’t actually read it yet. So the more times you reblog it the more times you are reminding me that hey, I actually did want to read that at some point. It helps me! And I appreciate it! So please, keep self promoting and self-reblogging!

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Week 4 Fic Rec Part 2: Heated Rivalry

💖 I may be bad (but I'm perfectly good at it) by gurlsrool [Ilya/Shane, M, 5k] — The characterization of Shane is so wonderful, especially through the point of view of several other characters. The author writes him so incredibly well, it’s excellent.

5 times someone's shocked to learn that Shane's a little freaky, +1 time someone isn't

💖 flushed by @probablily [Ilya/Shane, E, 1k] — Oh my god oh my god oh my god 🥵. The author always writes them well, but something about this particular fic just got me. Also! Shane is 100% and affectionate drunk (which, with Ilya translates to handsy) and you can’t change my mind!!

A drunk, handsy Shane chases his release on Ilya's lap.

💖 Slip of the Tongue by @opal-apparition [Ilya/Shane, E, 4k] — 100% Shane and Ilya would discover they’re into this on accident (or rather realize they’d already built the vague shape of this) and then run with it! The author has them dead to rights on that front, and their characterization overall is so fucking good!!

Shane accidentally calls Ilya Dad and realizes he might have a daddy kink

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Week 4 Fic Recs Part 1: 9-1-1

🤍 call you home by ashavahishta [Buck/Eddie, G, 6k] — I really really really love this! The outsider POV is really well done, the characterizations are amazing, and the fic is just so sweet!!!

"Eddie Diaz drinks his 'I fucking love my husband' juice for 6,000 words." OR "5 Times Eddie Told The Firefam About Buck and 1 Time They Actually Met Him".

🤍 What's Your Love Language? by @songbvrd [Buck/Eddie, E, 18k] — This fic is so well written and the pacing is perfect and the characterizations and dialogue are all spot-on. Genuinely one of the best buddie fics I’ve ever read, simply because the focus is just on them and how much they love each other, regardless of what form it comes in (the beautiful writing style certainly helps as well).

After finding out that Eddie doesn't know what his love language is, Buck sets about finding out for him. He begins a five week experiment, one for each love language, to figure out which will make Eddie feel the most loved.

🤍 Closer (series) by EiraLloyd [Buck/Eddie, T, 190k, 7 works] — oh my GOD!!!! The writing style for this is gorgeous and engaging, the characterizations are perfect, and it’s the perfect blend of AU and regular good ole fashioned canon divergence. Also it’s a baseball player au, which, upon further reflection of my bookmarks, is an au type I have accidentally stumbled upon and absolutely adored in three completely different fandoms of mine. I genuinely cannot recommend this series enough!

Eddie Diaz is a baseball player for the L.A. Dodgers. Evan Buckley is an LAFD firefighter at the 118. For better or worse, they're stuck with each other.

🤍 The Suffering of Maddie Han by @songbvrd [Buck/Eddie, T, 8k] — This is funny and sweet and so perfectly in character that it’s a little insane. The writing style is so fucking good—descriptive and evocative and engaging and fantastic—and the author really nailed Maddie’s POV.

Maddie is trying to help her brother and his boyfriend keep their relationship quiet; they are torturing her about it.

🤍 I Would've Read Your Love Letters Every Single Night by @this-is-moony-lovegood [Buck/Eddie, T, 11k] — Excellent writing, amazing characterization, and the dialogue (and the letters!) are so on brand that I can practically hear them!

When Buck is in the hospital for a small injury, Eddie swings by the loft to pick up some of his things so that he and Chris can supervise him during his recommended concussion watch. While packing a bag, Eddie stumbles across a series of letters addressed to him that Buck never meant to send. And Eddie…. Once he starts reading, he can’t stop.

🤍 There's No Need To Ask Directions by @tanktopdiaz [Buck/Eddie, E, 21k] — Jesus fucking christ. The author writes them well as FUCK. Like the characterizations are so incredible and the dynamic works so so well and I may be chasing the high of reading this forever because how am I ever going to find anything else that hits as perfectly as this does?? Genuinely I don’t know. Devastatingly good fic!!

Eddie forgets to disable auto-pay on rent for South Bedford after Buck moves in. They’re as normal about it as you can expect.

🤍 The Christopher Diaz Reddit Takeover. by dylaesthetics [Buck/Eddie, M, 7k] — This made me LAUGH, holy shit! It was so well written and just so fucking funny! The characterization is great, and the format cracks me up!

Christopher takes out his frustrations with Buck and Eddie on Reddit.

🤍 like a diamond (like a song) by SafelyCapricious [Buck/Eddie, M, 5k] — Oh my god this is such a cool au!! I love magical realism! And the characterizations are fucking perfect!

Evan Buckley doesn’t smell like anything and it’s driving Eddie insane. There’s an itch under his skin that says it’s wrong — which is weird since he’s hardly the only person that Eddie’s ever met that’s using a block.

🤍 Mr. and Mr. Diaz by @beforejuko [Buck/Eddie, G, 12k] — The characterization is fucking flawless and the concept is so fucking funny and so well done! I enjoyed this so much!!

Buck and Eddie get married the night of Chimney's bachelor party. Buck and Eddie do not know they got married the night of Chimney's birthday party. At least, they don't until months later, when Chris' new school asks Eddie for documentation of his spouse: one Mr. Buck Diaz.

🤍 What If I Fall In Love Backwards? by RedRidingStiles [Buck/Eddie, M, 9k] — This is so well written and so fucking funny! Idiots to lovers, indeed 🫶

Five Times Buck and Eddie saved each other by pretending to be together and the one time Christopher helps

🤍 Pauses, then says, "You're my best friend." by @this-is-moony-lovegood [Buck & Chris, Buck/Eddie, T, 7k] — The author has such a descriptive and grounded writing style, and it brings everyone to life in such a gorgeous way. And Buck and Chris’s relationship is everything to me and they write them so fucking well here.

When Buck walks in on Chris kissing his best friend, Aiden, Buck and Chris settle in for an overdue conversation about love, family, and being brave.

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flushed

1k, E, Shane/Ilya, drunk shane, dry humping, intercrural sex

"Baby," Ilya coos, moving his hands to guide Shane's hips. "You need to slow down, or you are going to come like this" "No," Shane whines. "No, I'm not. M'fine… just give me a minute." The words come out mushed, slurred together and obscured by Shane's heavy breathing. "We're gonna, we're gonna have sex. I need you inside me." "Okay," Ilya says, disbelieving. ——— A drunk, handsy Shane chases his release on Ilya's lap

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[vagueidiot]

our house

our house is a very, very, very fine house with two cats in the yard life used to be so hard now everything is easy cause of you

Mel King makes Frank Langdon's house a home.

word count: 1,716 rating: general

[lunarfuneral]

that's the way my baby likes it

5.2k, explicit

“I have a bruise there.” “A bruise? From what?” He rubs his thumb back and forth soothingly. Mel’s always stuttered and gone beet red every time she’d tried to lie. He was going to see it soon, anyway, when they took their clothes off to swim, wherever they were going. She can’t believe she met him only days ago and she was in his car, letting him take her down unfamiliar roads to some stranger’s house to swim in some random pool, but she just doesn’t care, she’s just happy to be with him.  “From you,” she admits. 

:) for @francislangdon duh who else

[deqncas]

my hollanov fic recs (10)

<- part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9

bubblewrap me, baby by Anonymous | mature | 3.6k words – the existential crisis that happens when you’ve been depressed your whole life and then realize, suddenly, in your thirties, that you’re happy enough with your life that you no longer want to die.

You're all I ever wanted in my life by mickeysmyheart | explicit | 45.7k words – When Shane Hollander moves to Boston to be with his longtime boyfriend, he doesn't expect to start developing feelings for his boyfriend's oldest friend and roommate, Ilya Rozanov.

la petite mort by anincompletelist | explicit | 9.6k words – Shane’s steps for hockey success are clean cut, precise, and scientific, easy to give in a tidy, pre-packaged answer: a tried and true fitness plan, a macrobiotic diet and meal prep, yoga for relaxation, and a disciplined bedtime routine—yes, even on the weekends and the off-season. And also celibacy. But that one he usually leaves out during interviews.

i only threw this party for you by LunarMoonstone | not rated | 69.7k words (wip 7/8) – In which popular hockey fuckboy Ilya Rozanov falls madly in love with the university's golden boy Shane Hollander. Somehow, they go from being the talk on campus to becoming that couple.

milk and honey by aidaninkling | explicit | 15.9k words – Someone's killing powerful Alphas in the Boston underworld in strange and untraceable ways, and it's giving Ilya, next head of the Rozanov family, a fucking headache. On a different note, Shane - only son of the Hollander family, lowly Omega and known airhead - has just shown up on his doorstep, smelling of pre-heat and looking good enough to eat.

side effects may vary by ghosttotheparty | teen+ | 9.3k words – Yuna’s entire body aches, and it would appear that her instincts were right— Rozanov is small, and he’s vulnerable, and he’s tired, and he needed somewhere safe to rest. And Yuna can’t help the weird sense that she’s honoured— her home was somewhere for Rozanov to go, even if she and David knew nothing about any of it, even if they still don’t, Shane knew it would be safe for Rozanov here. Shane told him to come home.

Party Monster by heauregard | explicit | 13.7k words – Lame ass broke ass weed stank UPS worker Ilya and older single dad Shane, need I say more?

i'll let you set the pace ('cause i'm not thinking straight) by aidaninkling | explicit | 22k words – Because Shane had clearly gotten the wrong advice from someone along the line. And as his RA, his mentor and guide in the first year of Shane's college career, Ilya was meant to correct that. Steer his charge clear of such horrible, terrible ideas as asking their “straight” RA to teach them how to kiss behind their boyfriend's back. Say no, malysh, you really don't need to worry about this, your first kiss should be with someone you love and trust and really want to kiss. “Okay,” he said, instead.

is just ten year plan to fuck by akatomlinson | explicit | 286k words (wip 21/?) – He would never admit it, but he’s been stealthily trying to get Hollander to show up at his club for years now. Hell, Shane was the whole reason he invested in the club in the first place. Bought a fucking house here. Maybe that was an insane thing to do, but he didn’t care. Ilya was insane. Insane for Shane.

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Week 3 Fic Recs Part 2: 9-1-1

❤️‍🔥 wreck my plans (that’s my man) by @anchrblack [Buck/Eddie, E, 34k] — I apparently have a thing for text fics this week (see my recs for The Pitt from this week to see the extent of the format rabbit hole I fell in) and genuinely this fic is kind of why & the one that kicked it off. It’s so fun, and it captures the truly nuclear levels of pining that Buck and Eddie have got going on. I love how much story they can tell in texts, and how much the gaps between texts and unspoken subtext and time between communication is just as much a part of the narrative. They use the negative space of the format (implied non-texting conversations and the like) incredibly well without it feeling awkward. It’s just such a good story from a format perspective AND from a Buck/Eddie perspective. I enjoyed the hell out of it :)

being in love with your best friend is quite often an embarrassing affair, especially when your entire (extended) family is there to witness it.  or, the texting fic with an ungodly number of groupchats & shenanigans

❤️‍🔥 a guy like you should wear a warning by @livesincerely [Buck/Eddie, E, 14k] — The author writes them perfectly!! Their characterization is literally so SO good, and the way they write Buck especially is perfect! (And the smut… my god 🥵)

Eddie’s rut leave gets postponed last minute, but he says he’s fine to get through one more shift. Frankly, Buck’s more concerned about surviving Eddie. (Part of a series of stand alone fics)

❤️‍🔥 this pounding in my heart just won't die by @livesincerely [Buck/Eddie, E, 6k] — As I said in my comment on the fic: “Oh hot damn!! 🥵” Like the other stand-alone fics in this series, the author writes them extremely well, and it’s such a good read.

Buck gets dosed with inducers while on shift. Eddie is his port in the storm. But, Buck has trouble believing he can have the things he wants. (Part of a series of stand alone fics)

❤️‍🔥 i think he knows by @livesincerely [Buck/Eddie, G, 630] — Something about the simplicity of this is so endearing and so incredibly correct. It’s just.. them.

"Oh," Buck says quietly, soft and startled. Which is fair enough, given that Eddie's crawled up his body and flopped down right on top of him, a leg thrown over his hips and an arm slung across his chest, tucking his face into the curve of his shoulder. He feels Buck's breath shudder through his lungs, feels his heartbeat pick up just a little. Then a warm hand settles over the back of his head, fingers raking carefully through his hair. "Oh," Buck says again, a little wondrous. Like Eddie's something worthy of wonder. "Are we doing this now?"

❤️‍🔥 fever dream tangerine sweat by unicornpoe [Buck/Eddie, E, 17k] — The writing style is so fucking gorgeous and evocative! And the way the author writes them is excellent—the characterizations are perfect!! This was such a fucking great to read. (And it may or may not have made me an omega Eddie truther because my GOD. Usually if I’m reading them with the omegaverse it’s the reverse but Christ alive this fic is so good I’ve maybe been converted)

Eddie hasn’t gone into heat since he presented at seventeen. But living with an alpha who takes care of him for the first time in his life is about to change that.

❤️‍🔥 Take Me With You (Or Even Just My Pieces) by Grangers_apprentice [Buck/Eddie, M, 58k] — The writing style is so engaging and evocative, the characterization is excellent, and the author’s ability to create emotional tension and balance it with just enough relief to keep the story progressing while still feeling poignant is incredible. I love the omegaverse world-building too, and how much that element drove the plot but didn’t really change any of the characters. Genuinely such a good fic!

Buck is an omega, but he isn't Eddie's omega. Chris, while a teen, is still a pup, but he isn't Buck's pup. As such when the decision to leave LA for Texas to be with Chris comes up, Buck isn't invited. Why would he be? He and Eddie are just friends. Which Buck is fine with… Until he pretty suddenly, pretty decidedly isn't. Alternatively, Buck is suddenly left behind by the closest thing he has to a pack, and he does not take that well.

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Week 3 Fic Rec Part 1: The Pitt

💛 that’s the way my baby likes it by @lunarfuneral [Mel/Langdon, E, 5k] — Thought I hated infidelity at all as a trope until Kingdon now I’m out here losing my mind because of amazing fics such as this one. Sweet Jesus fucking Christ. The way I barely even have words…

“We don’t have swimsuits.” Neither of them are looking for an out. They’re seeing how far they can go. “I don’t mind,” she says again. The humid air makes everything feel frozen in time. This is a line. Langdon smiles. “Good girl,” he says, crossing it.

💛 texting from schrodinger’s pitt (series) by smallpox_in_wallaboutbay [Mel/Langdon, E (only the last 2 works), 91k, 18 works] — Such a fun and interesting series!! It’s about 90% texts, but there are some narrative bits in the later works as well. The format actually works so fucking well, and the characterizations are incredible. HARD recommend!!

langdon and mel are varying degrees of open and honest about what exactly is going on with them depending on who they're talking to. and also when. mostly told in texts.

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