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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    The first year of any relationship is an experiment in many hypotheses about how two distinct lives can correlate long-term.

    After admitting that what they have is far more than casual at Shane's cottage, Shane and Ilya navigate this new chapter in their lives during the 2017-2018 MLH season with the varying degrees of pining, frustration, and exorbitant phone bills that long-distance tends to result in. It's a twelve month calendar filled with the constant cadence of games, flights, and holidays that they've always known and a variety of new effects that can only be found when one gets to finally gets to spend more than a handful of hours with their partner, both in and out of the bedroom.

    A series of domestic, smutty, and fluffy vignettes about how hockey's most valuable rivals start to build a life together, and the key to all of it: love.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    In 2003, Shane Hollander is assigned a PenPal, and gains a friend. A friend who smokes, calls him boring, and gives him ridiculous nicknames.

    Across the world, Ilya Rozanov practices his English with a curious Canadian boy whose name he can't fucking remember.

    Or, before they were Canada's Shane Hollander and Russia's Ilya Rozanov, they were Cat and Elijah. Shane has no reason to suspect his childhood PenPal is his hockey rival, and Ilya has never even considered that the man he's falling for is also the boy he already fell in love with through letters and postcards.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    Shane was there when Ilya got the call, his arm heavy across Ilya's stomach, like even in sleep he could tell something was trying to take Ilya away from him.

    When Boston realize Ilya wants out, they send him to the highest bidder. The highest bidder is LA.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Shane never had any vices until he met Ilya Rozanov.

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    15 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 81

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    Two cosmologists at the bottom of the world.
    Shane Hollander, a Toronto astrophysicist with a careful posture and a careful life, has spent years being good at not-thinking-about other things. Ilya Rozanov, Russian, a postdoc at Fermilab, brilliant and difficult and good at being looked at, has a reputation for being uncomplicated about who he wants and a wound he does not discuss with anyone.
    They meet on the ice. They keep meeting.
    The South Pole is a small place. Six weeks of summer is one thing. Nine months of winter with forty-eight people, no flights in or out, the sun gone since February, is another thing.

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    15 Jun 2026