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    Ilya doesn’t even realize when Arthur slips from his thoughts. There’s no sharp turn, no clear moment where the article stops being about a little boy who loves reptiles and starts being about the man lying beside him in bed. It just… happens. The way his mind always seems to find Shane eventually, like water finding its lowest point.

    a character study on shane’s undiagnosed autism

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    The Swiss National League doesn’t care about the legendary Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. When the MLH can’t negotiate with the Hockey Players’ Union in time to prevent a hockey lockout at the start of the 2015 season, the Zürich Lions jump at the chance to sign both Shane and Ilya to short-term contracts. For four months in Switzerland, they share a team, a line, a house, and a bed. 

    Then the lockout ends in January, and it’s time to go back. Back to different countries, cities, lives. Beds.

    Reentry is harder than expected.

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    07 Mar 2026

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    Somewhere behind him, Ilya hears his husband saying something. But the waves crashing loudly between his ears forbid him from being able to hear any of his words.

    All Ilya can hear are the thoughts hammering right into his brain. 

    Why would you do this?

    Why did you hurt him?

    Why did you enjoy hurting him?

     

    or; Ilya spanks Shane during sex. And then, he drops. Hard, fast, and like he never has before.

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    04 Mar 2026

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    “This is hard to talk about,” is all he says, though he knows it will amount to nothing.

    Shane’s fingertips are feather-soft on his chest. “You have to.”

    He has to, because Shane and Ilya have this thing, now, this agreement. Nothing is too hard to talk about. Nothing is off limits. They have to be bare, have to surrender the deepest crevice of their soul to one another. And Ilya, for whom this is easier said than done, whose chest carries a perpetual weight, an immovable mass, it’s all worth it – worth the relief smoothing over Shane’s features, the reassurance that he’s not worried anymore, that Ilya can give him this peace, albeit only a fragment of what Shane gives him by just being there when he wakes up. He would never say it, but he thinks that what he has to offer to Shane amounts to nothing – nothing compared to what Shane does, what Shane is, by simply nuzzling into his chest and sighing into his sleep, late at night when all Ilya can do is lay awake and just feel.

    “I need more,” Ilya says. “And is nothing you can do. I need you inside me, and it feels terrible.” He swallows, with great difficulty. God. “I need to– I need to eat you.”

    or, Ilya never knew love can hurt this good

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    12 Feb 2026

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    It’s late afternoon, the end of a long day of meetings about land holdings and finances, and now he has to sit through another one about Henry and his damned indecision and wavering on what he wants to do with his life. As though that’s a thing they get to think about, as though anyone has ever thought to ask Philip what he might want to do. Philip has never been asked what he wants in his bloody life. But this is it, that’s the life they have. He doesn’t see why Henry should be any different; why Henry thinks his own whims and fancies should take priority over the needs of a country and the duties of their birthright.
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    Five times Philip protected the monarchy, and one time he protected his family.

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    10 Aug 2023