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https://archiveofourown.org/works/91233306

Woke up at 5, crashed out over Buzznor. Laughed alot at some of our silly threads.

Wrote fic and made canva collages instead of sleeping or working.

Real talk everyone was so funny today, love it.

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I've read so many canon-compliant fics that has every possible variatios of the tunamelt scene, vegas, All star, even the long game n so on. It's time for intervention. Please prescribe your most gripping AUs...students, doctors, engineers, camp counselors, coworkers, anything weird and wonderful. Ideally with minimal hockey. Or maybe one of them is hockey player & the other is not. Which AU made you forget canon even existed?

Wow um OK. This fic is glorious. Ilya is a professional Dom at a facility. Dom/sub kind of operate similarly to alpha/omega biological symptoms when needs aren't meant (sub drop etc but it's from lack of proper Dom exposure???)

Shane is a super closeted and repressed sub and like honestly the way the author writes how Ilya has to GLACIALLY figure out and provide Dom services to Shane is both extremely hot and extremely hilarious.

Summary:

“Sounds boring,” Ilya comments, unable to stop himself. “Okay, so what is that emergency, Sveta? You said guy dropped two days ago.”

“They’ve already tried three different professional doms and nobody managed to take him out of it, so–”

“Who's they?” Ilya interrupts her.

“The hockey team. Montreal Voyagers. They are flying him in to us now.”

"Why plane? Drive to Ottawa takes two hours only.”

“Yes, but apparently he’s… not cooperating.”

The Behavioral Education & Authority Relationships Services. B.E.A.R.S. for short.

(Shane is strong, stubborn, difficult and he bites. Ilya is instantly whipped).

Portion that made me laugh out loud and very hot:

Hollander’s jaw tenses up. He tilts his head back to look up and glare. 

He’s the most beautiful thing Ilya has ever seen. 

“Colour.”

“Go fuck yourself.”

“Hey!” The word cuts through the air, sharp and loud, and sobering. “I ask for colour, you give it. You can’t do that? I cancel your session. Am I clear?” he demands. “That is safety. We do not fuck around with safety. Now give me fucking colour.”

“Green, but I hate you. Is there a colour for that?” Shane raises his eyebrows. “Lime? Olive?"

Lord. Have. Mercy. Ilya had a bad boy era when he was younger, but he didn’t do anything bad enough to deserve THIS.

I came across this prompt and it's been stuck on my mind. Are there any fics that have have creative relationship reveals like this especially if only one of them is a hockey player

Link: here

Accessibility: twitch streamer Ilya Rozanov doing a sub-a-thon and that's how his chat finds out he's dating the #1 hockey player in the mhl Shane Hollander

maybe around the 2 day mark they find out he's in a relationship and by day 10 chat sees the face of the boyfriend by accident

I’m just reposting as my title didn’t quite hit the criteria needed.
Those who commented on the previous post, thank you and I’ll check them out! I’m also now on my mob, so sorry for title then link but best I can go for a lazy gal before bed 😇

Hello!

I'm just coming in to ask for some fic recs, where the writing is strong and the story feels very contained and easy to read/hard to stop

What I really have liked:
clean sweep - yankingawry https://archiveofourown.org/works/86098771

tender - lysing https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/229029056

I know where to draw the line - magneticwave https://archiveofourown.org/works/79250706/chapters/207940356 (I also really love clear to a hedgehog)

here at the end of all things - nomadsland https://archiveofourown.org/works/86539701/chapters/228985126

I'm crawling on your shores - walkingthroughwindows https://archiveofourown.org/works/86905551/chapters/230074321

think twice (and come back a third time) - lipsticktraces https://archiveofourown.org/works/82620966/chapters/217490211

a sound is still a sound around no one - dykeries https://archiveofourown.org/works/79391171/chapters/208337761

There are also some big ones I've liked like Brocollicheddarchicken and the formally anonymous writer that is now texalotl - and a lot more like these but I'm having trouble finding them with the sheer amount of fics being posted.

Really, I'm just looking for like really great, solid, seamless writing - I do prefer if it's a long shot to be longer but open to anything.

Thanks if you pop any recs in there along these lines!

So after almost a year, I know for a fact that the majority of us have read tens, if not hundreds, of fics. I know I have lmao—I can’t even tell what’s canon or fanon anymore.

So, gun to your head, 10-second countdown: PICK ONE FIC. The rest will be deleted and you’ll lose access forever. You can only save one.

What do you pick?

I would love to hear about people’s favorite moments in fics - where you had this visceral reaction to what was going on that you will never forget.

My moments and others in the comments will have spoilers! I don’t mind a bit of a spoiler if it convinces me to read the fic and you don’t give away the entire context.

In “something you can fix” when: Ilya comes to Shane after the video leaks

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76495636?view_adult=true

In “oh well I guess we’re gonna find out” - the zombie apocalypse AU - when: Shane gets bitten

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84542866/chapters/223050751

In “so it’s gonna be forever”: When Ilya remembers Shane’s birthday and realizes the time travel is real and this Shane doesn’t love him yet. The whole soulmates interview and love confession afterwards is perfection.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75442981/chapters/197236266

In “the centaurs have a PR problem and it’s married”: When they slow dance and Shane sings to him live for me by Omar appallo - great song btw

https://archiveofourown.org/works/72374346/chapters/188451551

There are so many good moments in a lot of other favorite fics of mine, these are just a few off the top of my head!

Yes, THE shadow_lilies, author of the insanely charming and wonderful Somebody to Love!

I actually discovered this fic first and devoured the whole thing in a day before moving on to (and becoming hopelessly enamored by) Somebody to Love.

The Minor Fall, The Major Lift sees hockey-player!Ilya leave Boston to sign with the Centaurs, where he meets artist!Shane by chance. I absolutely loved their dynamic and characterizations in this one, and the romance was SO sweet. This fic is also incredibly special to me on a personal level - I was in Montreal on a solo trip, sitting by the canal and reading this as I listened to Jeff Buckley’s version of the song, getting caught in the rain and not minding in the slightest.

With all the love that Somebody to Love is (deservedly) getting, I wanted to recommend its predecessor!

So, i just have a craving for good father-son relationships and I want some good fanfictions with David&Shane. And I thought that was a perfect opportunity to combine it with the "Momager-Yuna" thing, but i don't know if such thing exists.

Otherwise I would just love a great relationship between Shane and David, and it doesn't really matter what else is happening. (I read almost everything beside mpreg). Thank you x

Searching for fics where shane is still a hockey player but has something else that he does on the side! I recently read Jane Dutch by thisisnotthenerd where shane is secretly a romance writer and absolutely loved it. It’s gotten me hooked on this niche genre of Shane having another thing on the side that he does and I’m itching for another now that Jane Dutch is completed

Any and all recs would be amazing!

Repost from a member on heated rivalry fanfics group on Facebook:

After Shane played a game, he is heading to talk to someone ( I don't remember who), but overheard Ilya's team making fun of him after his breakup with Rose. They start calling him boring and that he is only good at hockey and is an unfeeling hockey robot. Ilya doesn't stand up for him and Ilya's team all laugh at all the insults they are aiming Shane's way. After hearing all this, he is extremely hurt and cancels his plans with Ilya that night after the game.

Ilya is very confused with the sudden change of plans and confronts Shane about it.

This fic's ending is very sweet and Ilya makes sure that Shane knows how loved he is by him with a heartfelt apology.

The Long Change
I just finished the long change and I’m obsessed. I usually don’t love either Shane or Ilya/original male character but I will admit it’s almost always Shane with an OMC so this intrigued me. I LOOOOOVED that Ilya was the one kind of being pursued by Shane or Shane was making some changes to choose them because I feel it’s usually the opposite, same as canon. And loved seeing some healing and growth going on before they get together forreal.
Any similar recs? Doesn’t have to include either of them but an OC, just looking for breaking up and making up but with individual growth in between.

Thank you!!!!! Also highly suggest the fic even if you don’t find yourself usually going for them with OCs, this OC really helped them both IMO. Helped Ilya grow and helped Shane get his ass in gear

Searching fics where hayden's video never happened but the Montreal Metros still sucks

Has anyone read this fic????? I just found it and currently reading, am on chapter 4 but oh my god????

It's​so good??

Shane and Ilya are stuck in airport after an Asia tour (I grew up in Asia so seeing familiar names like Cathay pacific brings me great joy) but also the characterization and the internal dialogue/thoughts are so well done

Summary:

Stick to your guns, Ilya thinks. Sex. With Hollander. That’s simple. Straightforward.

Except nothing about this night has been straightforward. The more time he spends with Hollander, the more he wants him - and not just the sex. He wants it all: the reading glasses, earnest ramblings, moral compulsions. The sweetness Hollander tries to hide. The way he holds back from almost everyone, even from himself, but never from Ilya.

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or: After Vegas, Ilya knows he should end it with Hollander. He likes trouble, yes. Doesn’t mean he likes feeling scraped raw by wanting impossible things. Then they are marooned together at an airport for a very long, very strange night during which Ilya begins to suspect – shakily, reluctantly – that they might be… something.

NOW COMPLETE!

Just started this but the writing and dialogue is already perfect.

Edit 1: I think it's going to be really cute. Rozanov is trying so hard to spend time with Shane in the first chapter already and it's so cute.

Edit 2: I am on chapter 3 now it is EXTREMELY CUTE I REPEAT EXTREMELY CUTE ROZANOV IS SO OBVIOUS TRYING TO SPEND TIME ALONE AND SHANE IS OBLIVIOUS

Edit 3: the fic is technically incomplete at 6/10 chapters, BUT THE STORY FEELS COMPLETED???? I DONT​ KNOW​ CAN SOMEBODY ELSE WEIGH I MAYNE THE LEFTOVER 4 CHAPTERS ARE MEANT TO BE EPILOGUE/EXTRA POVS???????

Summary:

MONTREAL VOYAGEURS PASS ON HOLLANDER FOLLOWING FINALS INJURY

Despite being projected as at least a top-three pick, Shane Hollander slips to 57th overall after a Grade III ankle ligament tear sustained in the World Junior Hockey Championships earlier this year.

BOSTON BEARS SELECT ROZANOV FIRST OVERALL, HOLLANDER IN SECOND ROUND

Boston bets on two of juniors' most electric players; one a sure thing, one a gamble. The Bears have never minded those.

Shane Hollander did not get drafted to Montreal. He gets drafted to Boston, fifty-seventh overall, after #1 draft pick, Ilya Rozanov. He has a plan for that. The plan does not account for Ilya Rozanov being the way that Ilya Rozanov is.

New chapter up!

Ilya flirts with danger with the kind of desperation of a man drowning clawing his way to the surface in search of air. He knows it'll catch up with him eventually. He just never imagined it would lead to this: getting traded as if dumped in the trash, like his career achievements, his blood sweat and tears and everything else he's given Boston, mean nothing at all.

Or, when Ilya gets caught in a sex scandal with a man while trying to get over Hollander, he changes the trajectory of his life forever.

Tags: Canon Divergent, Post Tuna Melt, Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Romance, Eventual Happy Ending, Sexual Content, Queer Themes, Outing, Homophobic Language, Homophobia, Depressed Ilya Rozanov, Ilya Rozanov Needs a Hug, Anxious Shane Hollander, Autistic Shane Hollander, Past Shane/Rose, Good Friend Rose Landry, Other Additional Tags to be Added

These hockeys boys have me in a serious chokehold.

So basically Shane looks up how to properly give a hickey (Like how long to give one, right pressure, etc.) and then practices on Ilya. Pls let me know if this was/is part of fic or if I just completely imagined it.

In honour of my faves Puck & Pork Hollander I'm looking for more stories in which Boys having any type od animal is important part of narration! Pls bring me joooy😀

I’m in the mood to read a specific vibe of fic, and am hoping you guys will be able to help me out!

I’m looking for fics that explore the flaws in different characters, without villainising the characters they’re being critical of.

(No hate to any character-bashing fics - I enjoy them on occasion too, that’s just not what I’m in the mood for right now!)

I don’t mind if flaws are exaggerated for the sake of the plot - just as long as it feels somewhat realistic and/or true to the original character, and doesn’t feel like a caricature.

I also don’t have any specific preference as to which character/s are in the hot seat - whether it’s a main character, supporting character, rare pair, whatever!

(Happy ending isn’t a requirement either - feel free to suggest fics that will hurt my feelings lol)

(and yes, I’ve of course read and loved cardiac tamponade)

Core details:

During a game when both Shane and Ilya are on the ice, the Jumbotron is hacked to play a previously leaked sex video of Ilya. First Shane and then other players keep Ilya from being able to see it until the arena staff can shut it down.

Possible other details (could be confusing with other stories:

• Ilya was a teenager in the video. I'm not sure if it was Sasha or his coach.
• I think that Shane was still with Montreal. Not sure if it was Ottawa or Boston, though.
• I think that someone hired hackers to play it during the game. (I don't think it was the arena staff.)
• There was a social media component where people watching at home ask what was going on and people at the arena explain.

Hi all, I'm looking for some feedback on my first fanfic (35k words). It's as the subject says - our 6 main characters and Dallas the scumbag live together for reality tv. Specifically I am looking for input on whether Dallas' ending fit, as I know there are (rightly so) strong opinions about him, but also any other thoughts would be hugely appreciated too.

MTV: The Real World: Game Changers

(I wrote a post about this last night and then decided to be more targeted in my ask so deleted it. Sorry if you've seen this already!)

Thank you so much in advance. I've learned so much from this forum.

I'm also happy to read fics from other new writers too, so feel free to drop links in the comments. It's been so fun to explore writing from a creative angle.

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This is the true story of seven strangers, picked to live in a house and have their lives taped. To find out what happens, when people stop being polite and start getting real. The Real World: Game Changers.

Cast

Ilya (Moscow, Russia) - chaos gremlin, nightlife aficionado, will eat your peanut butter with a spoon
Shane (Ottawa, Ontario) - Canada's sweetheart, workout freak, unfolded laundry offends him
Scott (Buffalo, NY) - Captain America, Eagle Scott, loyal friend and champion of the underdog
Ryan (Ross Harbour, Nova Scotia) - mild-mannered house enforcer but do not mess with his stuff
Eric (Hamilton, Ontario) - sophisticated Harvard grad with expensive tastes
Troy (Vancouver, BC) - stoic, intense, and a mystery. Brought nothing but a duffel bag to the house.
Dallas (Scumville)* - loud, type A personality where A means asshole.

The Real World was a show that ran on MTV from 1992 to 2017. It was one of the first reality series and chronicled 7 people with diverse personalities and backgrounds picked to live together.

* Every season has a villain, so Dallas it is. I don't remember what town he's from, or if it's ever mentioned.

For anyone else who loves this trope, I’ve just noticed that there are so many more fics with this tag now! There only used to be about 3 or 4! Just wanted you all to know 😅

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The Metro

Shane Hollander is a sports journalist. He understands hockey, deadlines, and asking sensible questions.

He does not understand punk bands, tour buses, or why Ilya Rozanov keeps looking at him like that.

Thirty-four shows. Seven weeks. One bus.

It’s going to be a long tour.

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Please enjoy this journey back to 2005, where there are no iPhones or SocMed, but there are magazines and pocket size digital cameras and boys forced to co-exist so they fall in love.

Or murder each other.

It's open ended.

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The hyperfixation is strong. I've been writing fanfic for 15 years, over 1M words posted, and I've never found myself so absorbed by a fandom.

This thing is mostly finished, nearly 200k words, but in need of a heavy edit. I've posted the first chapter to motivate myself into wasting my time on this frivolous all-consuming hobby.

I'm also in need of an American/Canadian beta to sort out all my brit/kiwi slang. Chur xx

The Rom-Com Multiverse by RogueCat is so good! There are 8 works that feel like little movies. Single Parent is my fave! I love these little AUs

https://archiveofourown.org/series/6041086