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[citrusses]

PSA tho everyone if anyone ever pulls the shit on you that Ilya pulls on Shane in ep 2 you need to delete that persons number from your phone and maybe change your last name so that toxic loser can’t ever find you again. Not u tho Shane baby, keep pining! I think he’s the one!!!!

[ticklefighthockey]

where are my anons who have given me great fic recs in the past. can you come back and rec me some more great fic

[dirtypuzzlewrites]

so i tried to keep in mind some of the preferences for characterization i've seen you post about, thus recs tailored as best i can below the cut:

a year safe in your heart by Anonymous - A plane crash time-travel/dimension travel sort of deal. Ilya POV with a happy ending after some decently heavy angst (all related to the plane crash and subsequent pre-travel grief)

you feed me the taste of your fingers by @ziusura - Alpha/alpha omegaverse au smut. All I have to say for this is that it's hot as fuck.

crossfire by makemegentle - Cliff/Ilya/Shane, again this is just hot. Obviously disregard if this pairing isn't your thing, but it's basically just smut not any kind of romantic relationship.

Ilya; My Ilyusha by Anonymous - Another plane crash time/dimension travel, except this one is explicitly Shane traveling from book canon to show canon. Prose is honestly kind of mediocre, but I'm weak for this type of premise and this one has physical consequences for doing a "the Marlow hit is worse than canon" set up.

Combine by @deliciousblizzardshark - Soulmate bonding where high enough bonds have to get drafted by the same team. Not at all similar in tone to that Jaromir Jagyr/Sidney Crosby bondfic that I can't think of the name of right now, but did kind of remind me of it.

the hand on the back of your neck by Anonymous - A video of Ilya being fucked by his Russian hockey coach at 13 circulates the internet. All the warnings on this one.

all the dishes intact by all_delighted_people - Shane goes apeshit oneshot. No resolution, which I liked about it. YMMV on the characterization - I like when Shane gets unfair and bitchy in his head, but whether or not you think the framing pulls it off, that's up to taste.

It's all Canadian Vodka's fault by FriPie - MCD fakeout. Considering all the really heavy and serious MCD in this fandom, I thought this was fun and sweet.

one week, two hours, and six minutes by WingedQuill - On that note, this is an MCD fakeout taking itself 100% seriously and NOT during canon's plane crash fakeout. Heavy angst, I enjoyed it a lot.

Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call by barnes_romazanov - Ilya crashes out (but isn't suicidal he swears! pinky promise) and it nets him a psych hold; Shane' tries to clamp down on his more neurotic tendencies and fails; all around, a great example of a fic series tackling both sets of their issues semi-realistically. Altho this isn't bipolar Ilya, which would've elevated this to a perfect fic.

the weather of your youth by Anonymous - Suicidal!Ilya in Ottawa. That's it; that's the fic. Seriously though, amazing fic, highly recommend.

the infinite playlist by archimedesprinciple - Ilya and Shane go to a bar. Situationship era. Drunk angst ensues. POV jumps around.

And finally, I can't help but rec two of my fics that I like those most:

sveta - Svetlana/Ilya/Shane immediately post tunamelt. Angsty smut. Kind of got out of hand when I wrote it.

corn liquor blues - A new Boston rookie from the Nashville area takes the team out to a family barn party after a late season loss. My version of an Ilya character study (at least until I get around to actually writing an Ilya character study).

[persimmony-snicket]

couple's therapists myshane and myilya have burned through, in chron order--

Greg: came highly recommended by Jackie and Hayden; both shane & ilya think he's absolutely fucking ridiculous and make fun of him behind his back; he suggests sleeping in separate bedrooms, solo hikes, differentiated hobbies, and other bullshit shane and ilya absolutely aren't doing; the final straw is when greg, clearly misunderstanding the situation, suggests that one of them retires while looking directly at shane.

Cole: they go to one (1) therapy session with Cole where Cole recommends they separate to "find themselves"; shane floats suing him but ilya doubts they'd have a case so they never go through with it.

Richard: usually an independent therapist who works with athletes, but has taken on couples therapy before; things are going okay until richard asks if they have a prenup in place and thereby steps on a huge fucking landmine; shane and ilya have such an awful fight after this session that they break up with Richard via email and agree to never bring up the prenup again. (neither shane nor ilya wanted one, but shane caved to yuna's insistence, and the whole thing is the one (1) pressure valve they allow themselves for arguing about yuna's place in their marriage.) they also decide to stop seeing men because clearly something there isn't fucking working.

Julia: very sweet but so young it's jarring for both of them; LOTS of fan-girling over shane, which makes ilya jealous, which makes shane feel like maybe he wasn't doing enough to show his affection, which makes shane clingy, which triggers ilya's avoidant attachment, which makes ilya feel like shit, which makes ilya bring up julia more often because he was trying to do her homework, which makes shane briefly believe ilya is attracted to julia, which makes ilya furious because he would never cheat on shane. they fuck about it. ilya breaks up with julia over email, then shane has to send an apology email because ilya's email was... perhaps not the best.

Michelle: goes by chelle (which shane remembers by saying: like celly but chuh); specializes in couples therapy for couples who work high stress jobs / careers; the absolute GOAT; gives them permission to bring play into their relationship again through check-ins, conversation starters, challenges, and other relationship rebuilding and strengthening strategies; also wants them to practice independence but knows a bonded pair when she sees one and tempers her expectations accordingly; ilya gets really into home pickling and shane takes up jazzercise and chelle will take what she can get; she closes her private practice so they go their separate ways.

Brenda: just... such a weird lady, harmless but weird; ilya likes her in the way one likes a beetle trapped in a jar; shane finds her vaguely offputting and thinks her office smells like an elementary school gymnasium; she asks interesting questions about their history and gives them space to tell each other the story of their love from their own perspective, which is legitimately helpful and lowkey a breakthrough for their marriage; ilya wants to keep going becuase he wants to know everything about brenda; shane thinks that's definitely not the point of couple's therapy; they break up with brenda in person; she's chill about it.

[ilyasmole]

should I keep the horny thoughts going and share another depraved hollanov exhibitionism idea....

[ilyasmole]

shane and ilya fucking/getting each other off in the same room as some of the centaurs....and everyone Knows it's happening but no one bats an eye bc that's just hollander and rozanov, they're nuts. and tbh......the guys find it pretty hot. they'll all just be chilling at one of bood's bbqs, everyone various degrees of tipsy having a little fire pit convo, and everyone is fully aware of ilya's hand slowly moving up and down under the little blanket both he and shane have draped over their laps. they hear the breathlessness in shane's voice as he continues with the group conversation as if nothing's happening. they like when he cuts himself off and comes into ilya's fist beneath the blanket, and they all try to sneak a peek at ilya's sticky hand as he gets up to wash it in the kitchen sink.

[fuckrozanov]

they’re all sitting around one night and shane has his head in ilya’s lap and ilya casually grabs a fistful of shane’s hair and presses his cheek into ilya’s crotch and everyone pretends not to notice he’s hard but shane gets all droopy-eyed and starts breathing heavier and rubbing his face against it…..finally ilya drags him to the bathroom and makes shane come back out with his lips all swollen and his voice wrecked. they’re like fuck roz is he always that eager and shane hides his face in ilya’s neck and ilya is like usually he is much worse :)

[ticklefighthockey]

this might not be your thing exactly, but I think it's really enjoyable!

wait can you send again?? I didn’t get a link

[ticklefighthockey]

where are my anons who have given me great fic recs in the past. can you come back and rec me some more great fic

[ticklefighthockey]

I FORGOT I HAD NEW @rozzed FIC TO READ

[ticklefighthockey]

where are my anons who have given me great fic recs in the past. can you come back and rec me some more great fic

[ticklefighthockey]

read some great fic this weekend… revisited an old favorite in the biblical sense… had big feelings about omega shane in pencil in the rest… got my heart smashed into a million pieces by second, third, and hundredth chances… shrieked with delight over clean sweep… and thoroughly enjoyed contemplating the improbable but compelling pairing of shane/sasha in gens du pays

[ticklefighthockey]

got my heart smashed into a million pieces AGAIN in a different way by dawn in the altered world which I am still thinking about

[parcai]

fixed it.

[ticklefighthockey]

sidgeno has jen from PR who is a beloved and important minor character in many fics… HR needs some of these front office or equipment team people to fill out the ensemble cast in fic. like who has shane’s back in the front office and gives him all the gossip. whose job is ilya regularly making harder but he’s so roguishly charming they just roll their eyes and let him get away with it

[top-cheese]

All Great Soccer Players Are Poets by Duy Doan

[ticklefighthockey]

I’ll never know who slayyyter is and there’s a real peace in accepting that

[cuppydogshane]

the amount of people that are like

(looks at ilyas constructed persona that he puts on to avoid intimacy) AWESOME THIS IS HIS TRUE CHARACTER

is certainly something

[ticklefighthockey]

found this hilarious list I made when I was super stuck in a draft a few years ago. I sound like an alien taking notes for an anthropological study of humans. swallow pills with or without water

[ticklefighthockey]

I’m still feeling so sad about the apocalypse and it didn’t even happen!!!! it was a work of fiction!!!!!

[pemguims]

sends an offersheet to my neighbours wife

[ticklefighthockey]

just when you think there’s nothing new under the sun to say about heated rivalry someone invents skip divorce