✩ MONTHLY FIC ROUND-UP ✩
The fics I’ve read and enjoyed for the month of January 2026. Reminder: This list features any and all ratings and themes. Please look at tags and warnings on ao3 before reading.
Fandoms included:
DC
Star Wars
Heated Rivalry
DC
The Great Superman Custody Battle by cassiopeia721
u/city_0f_day_after_tmrw • 45 minutes ago I can’t believe the freaks of r/onlyingotham think Superman should move there He would have to become mediocre man or possibly even “fucking sucks” man #52nd in water quality #49th in literacy #only thing it’s number one is in is cannibalistic serial killers per capi…
Tim and Kon v. the World (PODFIC) by Elusion_Podfics
this is a podfic of Tim and Kon v. the World by Hayleythewriter
Tim prank calls Kon and tells him he's becoming a supervillain. He expects him to laugh or be annoyed or hang up.
Kon doesn't. He believes him. And he's into it.
Star Wars
Shards of Beskar by spookysister7
The hut'uun had a boy slave, a rather good-looking, fair skinned one, and nothing good could come of that.
Jaster Mereel: Mand'alor, part-time mercenary, father of Jango Fett, and notorious collector of pitiful life forms, decides that the boy will be freed before the sunrise.
Heated Rivalry
circle back season by Anonymous
“Oh my god,” the intruder says, voice coming faster and higher-pitched. “Shane, what the fuck? Oh my god.”
“Eeleeyah, come to my cottage,” Ilya mocks, voice muffled by Shane’s skin. “Don’t go to Russia. Come to my house instead. Is so private. No one will know…we will be completely alone. Together.”
“Oh my god, is that Ilya Rozanov?” the intruder yelps like he's about to start hyperventilating. “Why is Ilya Rozanov half-naked in our kitchen, Shane?”
“Okay, I know how this looks,” Shane tells Ilya, “But I mean, technically, we are still alone. Together.”
or: At the cottage, Shane and Ilya meet eighteen year old Shane Hollander. This is really only a surprise for one of them. Everyone handles it as well as can be expected.
Judges by a_good_soldier
Ilya tries to breathe. Shane is the one who panics. In fact, Ilya has been so calm over the past hour. So, so calm. Soooooooo so so so amazingly calm that maybe Shane will reward him with a very nice blowjob later. Ilya has been calm because Shane needs a rock to lean on, but Shane is gone and now Ilya is panicking. This is his only chance to rectify the first, shirtless impression he made on Shane’s father.
“Do you still read New Yorker?”
OR: Ilya, on the confluence of Shane with David, Yuna, and Svetlana.
Russian Lessons by hcsvntdracones
10 moments in the long process of Shane learning Russian.
A New Friend by nyxlyx
During his next lap he winds up beside a boy about his own age with glossy black hair and freckles sprinkled across his cheeks. Ilya likes looking at them. The boy speeds up to try to race past, but Ilya catches up with a grin. The boy beams back and takes off like a shot, Ilya zooming after him as they chase each other through the crowd.
Ilya and Shane meet at an ice rink in Ottawa when they're ten years old.
enforcer by moonlitgarden
Ilya knows there is a thing about himself he has to always keep hidden in the deepest recesses of his body, behind his molars and in his core. He thinks Shane Hollander might be the same, except the thing about him he cannot hide.
Ilya Rozanov is the biggest hockey talent of his generation. So is Shane Hollander.
But over the years Ilya notices that the vicious media and the clamouring fans and some of his more foul-mouthed teammates treat Hollander differently than any other hockey player.
in the middle of the darkest night (in the middle of the hardest fight) by GatheringBlue
“Ilya,” he clarified, wincing as he swallowed, his throat feeling like he’d eaten a fistful of glass. “I need to call Ilya.”
He fumbled around for his phone, desperately needing to hear his fiance’s voice. Together, they could figure this out. They’d make a plan. Ilya could drive with his parents from Ottawa and–
But Ilya wasn’t in Ottawa. He was in Russia.
No.
No.
They’d kill Ilya in Russia. They’d kill him, or arrest him, or– or–
Oh god, they’d kill him. __________________________________________________________________________
A family emergency means Ilya is in Russia when Hayden's FanMail video ends up on Twitter, outing them to the entire world. It, predictably, ends horribly.
the boston raiders have been eliminated from playoff contention by ohtempora
u/octranspohaterr • 19 hours ago
I do think OP is either crazy or fucking with us, but I checked their post history and they definitely at least live in Ottawa, they post all the time in the UOttawa subreddit. That being said, it’s a little bit suspicious Rozanov hasn’t re-signed with Boston yet. They're running out of time to give him an eighth year.
Still, if he’s holding out for a ton of money, I don’t know if the Cens will be the ones to pony up.
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right by errantgods
At the penalty box, Shane grinds his jaw so hard his ear starts hurting. Then he remembers that ESPN caught one of his players using a homophobic slur in front of the most famous gay player in the league, flaunting Shane's authority as team captain in the process. His ears are ringing and he feels like a zoo animal, but he catches Scott Hunter’s eye for long enough to say, “I’m sorry,” then averts his eyes.
When Hunter says nothing, Shane looks back up long enough to see the guy bracing himself to say something pitying, and Shane would rather die, so he cracks a joke first. “So what d’you think? Most dramatic way to come out in the NHL? Or do you still have me beat?”
Hunter snorts so hard he almost overbalances, then looks at Shane like he’s lost his fucking mind. “I think we don’t need to talk.”
i could take away the shaking knees by gurlsrool
“Kip, help,” Scott says. “Rozanov’s trying to make us play never have I ever because he never matured past the age of twelve.”
“I am trying,” Ilya slurs more than says, “to make memories.”
“Yeah, because you’re definitely gonna remember this tomorrow.”
Show Up by baletgir
Five times the Centaurs show up for Pride Night on the road, imperfect and unscripted. Plus one time they do it at home, deliberately and out loud.
Takes place after The Long Game, once Shane has joined the Centaurs.
Featuring: rainbow tape, merch tables, fashion mistakes, friendship bracelets, and Pride as something you do, not something you announce.
It Takes a Village by DistantStorm
An exploration of the first few months of Ilya and Shane’s “official” relationship, featuring Shane’s extremely supportive parents who do not do anything by half measures. Starts in September 2017.
Heel Turn by DistantStorm
“If we are burning jerseys,” Ilya begins, eyeing the massive blank space on Shane's side of the room where his Montreal sweaters used to live, “I would have gone to the store for marshmallows.”
“Burning polyester smells like shit,” Shane replies, scrunching his nose.
OR: The one where Ilya is attracted to Shane an absolutely normal amount, the Centaurs go 1-1 in their first two games against the Metros, and Shane reckons with Montreal as a concept.
to the tempo of your uptight (he flickers through your damage) by barnes_romzanov
Part 2 of Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call
It didn’t really click for Shane until his boyfriend nearly broke down their steel-inforced bathroom door to get to him; Something Is Wrong With Ilya.
or: Ilya goes off the deep end. Shane doesn’t realize he’s already down there with him.
(you know this moment, don’t you? (time is strangely calm now) from Shane’s POV.)
I'll be Jane by gurlsrool
It’s not going viral because Jane’s true identity was exposed—or even because Ilya was blatantly sexting in public. That part’s as expected as Shane doing yoga or any human being on earth breathing.
No, the texts are going viral because no one can believe how bad this “Jane” is at sexting.
The women of the world are outraged. The men of the world are baffled. No one can understand why Ilya Rozanov, whose abs have their own fan club, is wasting his time on ‘a piece of cardboard that wished to be turned into a real girl’ (this particular joke has 300k likes and counting).
Or: After a social media trend mocks Shane's sexting skills, he tries to improve them. It goes about as poorly as you'd expect.
Halt and Catch Fire by mashawisotsky
In March 2019, gambling syndicates dump data from 7,500 hacked athletes online - the biggest breach in sports history. Shane and Ilya's years of private texts are buried somewhere in three million leaked files. A story about privacy, professional hockey, and what happens when the internet finds what you thought was hidden.
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(HCF): An early computer command that sent the machine into a race condition, forcing all instructions to compete for superiority at once. Control of the computer could not be regained.
connecting the dots [PODFIC] by Opalsong
“Holy fucking shit, it all makes sense now. Lily is a dominatrix.”
Or: Hayden is connecting the dots. Maybe.
