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    Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?”

    “Okay,” Hollander says, voice cracking.

    He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies pressing down on you. Danger always feels like hockey; it’s the most dangerous thing Ilya knows, except for this. Everything dangerous in his life involves men’s bodies and just how close he can get to them. Closer than he probably should.

    A year after mysteriously dropping out of the 2009 draft, Shane Hollander is signed by the Boston Raiders, right behind Ilya Rozanov. Having the two biggest stars in the league on the same line is great for Boston — but playing alongside their worst rival was never exactly in Shane or Ilya's plans. Especially not when staying away from each other starts to feel just as impossible as getting along.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    well written alternative universe where the boys have their own anxieties and fears to go through but at least they have each other

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    Ilya laughs. He finds that once he starts, he can't stop. He laughs at the fact that he's in France with Shane Hollander. He laughs at the fact he's Shane Hollander's boyfriend. He laughs at the fact that he gave up Moscow for a better life, only to end up in fucking Ottawa. 

    Ilya's dick stops working one month before he's supposed to leave for the South of France. 

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    28 Mar 2026

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    beautiful work. it's hard to find resentful angry arguments with an established couple, especially as sweet as hollanov, and this was a breath of fresh air. the way they would dig at each other. when I was reading the tlg, something about ilya's behavior seemed too mellow for me, and with this fic I finally understood what. I was seething with anger on his behalf, mad at the situation he found himself in by leaving Boston and moving, I assume that I would have similar emotions, even though it was his choice to make.

    super super super

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    Ronan's always Ronan. Even when he isn't.

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    06 May 2026

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    GREAT first time

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    Daniil Dankovsky, reduced to working as a pathologist, is summoned to an idiosyncratic port town to help hunt down the man suspected of a string of gruesome, ritualistic murders. Dankovsky quickly deduces that he was not selected by the Behaviorists for his medical expertise, but for his personal connection to the Ripper—and, perhaps, his outlawed thanatological studies.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    as a person who has never played pathologic, the world was very confusing at first. I was mainly looking for mindhunter fics and found this beast of work. I was reading it as an original story with a sprinkle of familiar characters and boy did it deliver. you don't have to understand everything straight away or at all, really. the answers are not presented to you, just live in this weird reality of things that simply happen, accept it end enjoy. the writing is so vivid and strong, I have never read anything quite like this. one of my favorite stories of this year.

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    If he were sober, he might have recognized how catastrophically bad this idea was. That the roulette ball was not a sign, that they’d been playing for over an hour and it was bound to land on twenty-four eventually. But there was a buzzing warmth flooding his veins and a very loose grip on his rationality, so he headed away from the bar, through the lobby, and out onto the balmy Vegas strip. He leaned against a shadowed wall and scrolled to a contact he’d hovered over a thousand times before.

    This time, he called.

    Or: Five years after Rose helped Shane come to terms with his sexuality, he’s done everything else on his own. Coming out, surviving the backlash, being traded to Ottawa. When the dust finally settles, Shane meets a nice guy from Montreal and tells himself he’s ready to move on. He’s definitely not thinking about Ilya. Or Ilya’s gorgeous Russian wife. Not at all.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    that was very nice. all the tension couped up in them — you can feel it through the text. i like fics with years of build up, and we didn't have it here, year by year, but you can certainly feel it, slipping, text drenched in it, delicious.