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It's been a minute and I've not kept up with this fic master post!
(I'm emotionally attached to these unofficial photos so that's staying the banner, at least for now. And no one is allowed to comment on my erratic use of capitalization in fic titles, I don't know what I'm doing.)
Starting with my two most popular:
My Hopes Are Prone to Elevate, Rated E, 24 chapters chapters & 106k words, AU - Shane and Ilya are rookies together on the same team, friends to lovers, slower burn, all the yearning
Permanent Reminder, Rated E, 3 chapters, 35k words, AU - Tattoo artist Ilya + NHL player Shane, flirty banter + anxious/autistic Shane + sweet smut
WIPs:
I've embraced the calamity, in-progress (stalled right now oops), Rated E, 15.7k words, rival indie/local punk bands AU, Shane/Ilya, drummer Ilya and bassist Shane
a series of tender moments, ongoing collection of standalone ficlets and drabbles, various ratings
Standalone one-shots:
Lick a wound that was not ever mine, Rated E, 7k words, honeymoon hurt/comfort feat. Ilya bottoming for the first time
Chat Logs for CenQueers Discord Server, 2018 - 2021, Rated T, 3k words, before working for the Centaurs, Harris was just a fanboy writing hockey RPF with his internet friends
What if I called you baby?, Rated E, 2k words, Shane never uses pet names, but Ilya wants one. They fuck about it.
Where's my fucking teenage dream?, Rated E, 3k words, canon divergence AU, Shane drafted 1OA, revenge seduction
Can't Get You Out of My Head, Rated E, 3k words, Shane's encounter with Hollywood blow job guy
It Started Innocuously Enough... (an in-universe Shayden RPF) , Rated E, 1.7k words, Shane/Hayden in-universe RPF has to exist right?
4 Times Jackie Noticed Shane Being Super Gay + 1 Time it Was Finally Confirmed, Rated T, 3k words, outsider POV
Powerful With a Little Bit of Tender, Rated E, 6.2k words, Shane/Ilya, dom/sub overtones, penalty box shenanigans, post-canon
the best weird, Rated E, 1.7k words, Troy/Harris, the epilogue they never got, beach vacation smut
annviersary vibes, Rated E, 1.7k words, Shane/Ilya, semi-public sex on their anniversary, post-TLG
I'm only cryptic and machiavellian ‘cause I care: Rated T, 1.8k words, canon-divergence, TLG timeline, Troy DMs Shane to ask him out and Ilya is jealous
hey there, baby, I could use just a little help: Rated M, 1.1k words, Shane/Ilya, Ilya POV angst/depression/hurt/comfort
using his tongue as a weapon: Rated E, 3.8k words, Shane/Ilya, Heated Rivalry era, Ilya is a menace - leads to smut
the best revenge is living well: Rated E, 5.1k words, Shane/Ilya, post-TLG, Ilya rewards Shane for his playoffs hat trick
putting on a show: Rated E, 3 chapters, 11.8k words, foursome (Ilya/Shane/Troy/Harris), smut + a lot of Shane having anxiety
You sniff me all the time: Rated M, 2.3k words, Shane/Ilya, fluff and humor, spans both books, alternating POV.
One-shots within the My Hopes Are Prone to Elevate universe:
I'm not proud, Rated E, 5k words, AU of the AU in which Shane and Ilya have a threesome with their captain, Delzy
Conrad, Rated E, 5k words, the start of Delzy's own love story
Remember this post?? I finished the fic! I wrote the smut!
Lick a wound that was not ever mine
7k words. Rated E.
“Hey,” Shane said, when Ilya staggered to a stop and looked up at him. His face had lost the joyful expression that Shane had enjoyed soaking up all evening. “What was that you just said?”
“Nothing,” Ilya sighed. “Being stupid, c’mon.” He pulled on Shane’s hand almost petulantly, but Shane’s legs were strong enough to anchor him to the spot despite the steep angle. He looked down at Ilya — his husband — and his heart stuttered, he loved him so much.
“No, don’t do that. Whatever it is, it’s not stupid.” Shane yanked him back up the few steps separating them until Ilya was right there, chest pressed to his. The liquor on his breath likely matched Shane’s, but it made Shane worry. “Tell me, please.”
His eyes fluttered shut in a defeated gesture, and Ilya mumbled, words slurring a little, “I’m so scared I will fuck this up. Us.”
OR, Ilya's depression sneaks in on their honeymoon, and Shane takes Ilya apart.
It's a total body worship thing!!! Also a relationship thing. Honestly this is about body hair in general. I think they both shave less as time goes on (I know it's a preference thing but if I had my way everyone would have all their body hair, as long as you wash there's nothing dirty about it and I will die on that hill) and shoving their hands down each other's pants and playing with their pubes is like, a comfort thing. Watching TV behavior. They have to actively remember not to do it when the Pikes or the Cens come over for movie night.
Of course it's a sex thing too. Ilya will tackle Shane to the ground when he's still sweaty from a run to shove his nose in his groin and pet over his damp pubes. You know Shane, he's like begging Ilya to let him shower, this is gross, but Ilya wants to drown in this distinctly Shane musk. He licks up Shane's entire body to his armpits where he just buries himself there like he can make a new home. Shane's like "You could fuck it" and Ilya is like "What? Say it Say it Say it" and Shane does and then Ilya's spitting in Shane's armpit and burying his cock in the hair and sweat and getting Shane to make him a nice tight space...
Conversely, Shane's shoving his face in the crease of Ilya's thigh after blowing him, licking him there, dragging his tongue all the way to Ilya's happy trail and licking the curls practically straight. Lifting Ilya's leg to spread him open and licking all the way down to his hole just to get him to twitch and moan, oversensitive. He pets over Ilya's hairy thighs while he eats him out until Ilya's begging for mercy.
Do you guys think people who have only read HR and TLG don’t process that there’s a three year gap between the end of HR and the start of TLG?
Because I think people forget that Shane and Ilya were in a secret committed relationship for three years.
I just saw a post that started with criticizing Ilya for inviting Troy and Harris to the cottage “without asking Shane”, saying it was crossing a boundary (I blocked the account, because we can do that! We can just block accounts we don’t agree with!) and I wonder if the poster just…doesn’t understand that Ilya and Shane had been dating for three years.
That’s not just Shane’s cottage by that point. It is also Ilya’s cottage. It had become THEIR cottage.
This is also why I think people really struggle with how Ilya and Shane act in TLG. Because those readers are not thinking about their “favorite” characters being in a secret relationship for three years.
ANYWAY! Don’t forget to use that block button liberally. You’re allowed to block accounts.
weird to me that so many people are convinced that Alexei was blackmailing Ilya rather than the simpler (and more devastating) explanation that Ilya has been conditioned his whole life to give 'til it hurts and expect nothing back because that is what he deserves.
this also deeply informs ilya's whole thing in ottawa by the way.
like yes, he's freed from his family, but this is still subconsciously his paradigm for love.
the only difference is shane doesn't expect or want that, or crucially even know that that is the framework ilya's got strapped to his back like a russian orthodox cross to bear.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
9.2K | T Rated | Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander + Ilya Rozanov & Boston + Ilya Rozanov & His Pre-Montreal-Game Routine
For the @hollanov-reverse-bang, inspired by the art from the wonderful @maddiemak96!
[It’s hard not to think about how this will be the last time Shane darts through his doorway with his hood pulled up and a baseball cap pulled low like he’s in some low budget spy thriller. Or the last time Shane will kick off his shoes without looking away from Ilya and kick them into Ilya’s shins instead.
The last time Shane will do that thing he does where he skips his fingertips over things like doorknobs and plumbing fixtures and light switches, things Ilya would never give a second glance to if Shane weren’t lingering and commenting on their quality and design and fuck. Ilya has a stack of fantasies about Shane in this space that he still wants to make good on.
He should spend extra time rolling out his quads and hips today, too. He’s going to need the stamina.]
OR,
It’s the last time Montreal and Boston will face off in the 2018 season, the last time Shane will come to this home, the last time Ilya Rozanov will play against Montreal and Shane Hollander as a Boston Bear. Not that anyone else knows about those last parts.
Ilya better make sure he’s ready.
I’m using my credentials to call bullshit on Shane not being good with kids. On a fundamental level it is impossible for him to be bad with kids for the simple fact that the kids would be truly so obsessed with him. Even if he wasn’t Shane Hollander Pro-Hockey Player I promise you a beautiful man who is good at sports will never struggle to connect with kids, they eat that shit UP.
Yes and-ing this by saying that the only person who thinks that Shane isn't good with kids is Shane. He's the person who will get really nervous and go "What do I even say to them? What if I do something mean? What do kids even like?"
Meanwhile, Shane:
"That's really cool stick tape, buddy! Oh, it was a gift from your aunt, because she knows you like dinosaurs? That's nice of her! I wish I could have dinosaurs on my stick tape. Have you seen dinosaur fossils at the museum?"
"Hey, it's okay to be scared of getting hit, but you can't let that stop you from doing your best. Nobody is going to be slamming into you here, and if that happens, we have a lot of people who are here just to help. Ready to get back out there?"
He talks about it with Ilya on their way to camp like "ugh I probably sounded so awkward, I know they like you better because you're fun." And Ilya has to "there, there" him while trying not to ruin the surprise that the campers has planned to give Shane a huge dinosaur-themed thank you card with all of their names and personal notes scribbled inside at the end of camp.
Sometimes the best fic you’ve ever written isn’t on ao3. It’s in 50 frenetic discord messages sent over a fifteen minute span where you and your friend yes and each other into a perfect story that will never actually be written.
I think I’m so fond of Hayden Pike because I know that in-universe, I would 100000% be a Shayden shipper because I have never once resisted codependent bffs (and then I would eventually get ostracized for OT3ing Jackie/Hayden/Shane because I can never resist a pretty lady)
I don't know I think it's just like. I know this is show fans and they don't know about Bood yet but it does kind of get to me that there's canonically a black man in the GCU who *is* Ilya's actual friend and is a big loveable parental sort of guy who gives Ilya advice and support and is a hashtag ally. And is Ilya's winger.
And instead fandom has latched onto the white dude who is described only as "incredibly stupid"
the thing heated rivalry fandom really needs to get into is how wealthy russians decorate their homes, incl those who've moved to north america. i want to see HR fic where Ilya lives in a mcmansion with gilt and brocade and fake fruit bowls
