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    After Ilya leaves the cottage, Yuna comes over to cheer Shane up. And maybe—maybe—excavate some shit she's buried inside herself.

    Basically I think Yuna and Shane should let their hair down and gossip a little. And, you know. Heal.

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    23 Aug 2026

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    Entering an actual relationship near the very beginning of when they first meet, Shane is still paranoid about pictures of them getting shared so Ilya buys him a Polaroid camera instead to document their relationship all the way back from 2012. The only problem is that he never intended for Yuna to find the album.
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    “I know we can’t have pictures of each other, but I still want them,” he confessed, still fiddling with Shane’s hair for his own comfort. “And I thought maybe...if they were just ours, you might be okay with it.”  

    Shane stayed silent, eyes glancing between his tense expression and the bag as he pulled out a Polaroid camera. His thumb was gripping it so hard he thought it might crack, his anxiety manifesting physically.  

    “Ilya...” He paused, finally sitting up a bit more. Enough that Ilya had no choice but to let his hand fall away from his hair or else, it would seem too clingy.  

    “Is fine, if you don’t like idea,” he clarified, even though the thought of being rejected terrified him more than he could possibly express. “Was just a thought—” 

    “I like it,” Shane interjected before he could spin himself into a tizzy he would deny ever feeling in the first place.  

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    19 Aug 2026

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    At thirteen, Ilya Rozanov's heart-marked soulmate bird shows up.

    It’s a woodpecker that won’t let him skip hockey practice.

    Ilya believes in soulmates. He just doesn’t think he's allowed to have one.

    or;
    A Soulmate Goose of Enforcement AU where Ilya’s marked bird is a woodpecker and Shane’s is a loon. It still takes them years to admit they belong to each other.

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    17 Aug 2026

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    “Ah.”

    “‘Ah’,” Ilya repeats, giving him a look before he looks back to the tidily stacked frozen mouse packages in the freezer and makes a face as a little badly-hidden shudder moves through him. “Why the fuck do you have mice in your freezer, Shane? You are doing serial killer shit now? This is why you have cottage in the middle of nowhere? For serial killer things?”

    “It’s for Spaghetti,” Shane says.

    Ilya gives him an absolutely horrified look at that and turns a little green, which makes him remember that Spaghetti isn’t just his snake's name.

    “Not food!” He rushes to explain. “Not food spaghetti! Snake Spaghetti!”

    “What the fuck are you even saying right now,” Ilya says, looking honestly a little concerned that Shane might have something going wrong in his head.

    (Distancing himself from almost twenty years of owning a snake, Shane can indeed see why this situation might be a little alarming for someone on the outside looking in.)

    (It also clues him in to the fact that maybe it’s not just Spaghetti who should have gotten a little adjustment period.)

    (in which i give shane allergies AND a snake)

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    25 Jul 2026

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    Irina had put on her first pair of skates at age six. The boots had to be shared with both her closest-in-age sisters, but Irina could be willful when she wanted to be, and by age eight, Nadia and Katya aren’t willing to fight her for the privilege of ice time anymore. By age nine, people in town were noticing the way Irina cut through the ice, how fast she could spin, how high she could jump. By age ten, the owner of the rink approached her.

    Fitness was the state religion in the Soviet Union, Papa used to say. Mama hated that; religion was religion, she’d huff. Irina had often thought of her mother as a product of a world that was dying. Still, she had still dutifully gone to Divine Liturgy on Sundays with the whole family, wearing starched clothes and sitting silently in the pews. Irina believes in God both as a habit and a conviction. She always loved church, loved the music and the ritual and the burning candles. But she had always loved being on the ice more. Even at a young age, Irina understood her body as a tool; something that could take her somewhere else.

    Or, an Irina lives AU. An exploration of boys and their mothers.

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    20 Jun 2026