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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    The right thing to do with an unjust war is to lose it. The right thing to do in a battle is to win it. Ilya Rozanov has won every battle and lost the war, which ought, by some reckoning, to leave him twice in the right.

    He is sent across the sea as the surety instead, handed over to the very kingdom he spent eighteen months burning in his father’s name. If the heavens keep accounts, they keep them badly.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    At ch 3, really interesting

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    With the Montreal Metros suddenly in need of a new head coach, General Manager Shane Hollander turns to the one person who might know as much about winning as he does: his fellow Hall of Famer and ex decade-long situationship, Ilya Rozanov.

    But what starts as a simple job offer soon becomes a life-altering sea change neither could have ever imagined.

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    30 May 2026

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    At ch 10, really good, interesting

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    The video opens with an air of domesticity and almost innocence to it that foreshadowed nothing of what would follow. A quick sweeping shot of a bedroom, lights low, before the camera settles on a man standing in front of a mirror. The atmosphere is intimate and cozy. Ilya Rozanov is just finishing pulling the jersey over his head, abs and a trail of hair disappearing under a sea of blue. He turns to look in the mirror. His black boxer briefs visible where the jersey ends. HOLLANDER spelled across the back with 24 in the center

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    Well it's yet another Hollanov getting outted Pre-Tuna melt fic because this one is haunting my brain.
    How will the boys handle it when a stupid video they decided to make gets posted at the start of the 2016 season? Before they've ever had a chance to establish what they want with each other. What will the consequences be in a era before Scott Hunter kissing on the ice and Ilya's still the captain in Boston.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    At ch 17, really really good

  4. Public Bookmark 35

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    Shane Hollander's life is defined by zero. In all things hockey, it was the starting and the end point, but it could not, would not, be anything else. Staying at zero meant shut-out. Staying at zero meant failure.

    But in other things, like the roiling, magma-hot anger underneath his skin that never seemed to fully fade away, zero was paramount. Zero was holy. Zero was the difference between life and death.

    It's too bad that no one ever told him that suppressing that anger would just make the explosion more devestating.

     

    Or, a character study into Shane Hollander, anger, repression, and the concequences of trying to make yourself less than human.

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    23 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    At ch 3, interesting

  5. Public Bookmark 18

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    it's simple: it isn't over, it's just begun. it's green. it's still green. --richard siken

    or: Ilya is still a hockey player. Shane isn't, and hasn't been in years.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    Finished