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    In an AU where Shane joins the Montreal Metros the same year he's drafted, Ilya stays in Russia and Shane is pretty pissed off about it. He's released to go to the 2010 World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland because he wants his rematch, damn it, and because he wants to try to convince his rival to get to the MLH as soon as possible and make things interesting.

    When Shane discovers Ilya may not have stayed in Russia of his own free will, he puts together a crack team of idiot teenagers international hockey players to achieve one goal: get Ilya Rozanov to Boston.

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    17 Aug 2026

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    A knee injury ends Shane Hollander's nineteen-year NHL career.

    Ilya Rozanov keeps checking in.

    Shane pencils in "big gay midlife crisis" between physiotherapy sessions.

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    10 Aug 2026

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    Shane’s ex-girlfriends keep coming out as queer. He’s trying to be supportive, he really is, okay? Listen, he’s an ally! But it’s sort of becoming a problem. For pretty obvious reasons, because people are definitely starting to notice—Ilya most of all.

    (AKA, I give Shane the most absurd queer community and convoluted coming-of-age journey of all time and it still somehow gradually makes things better in the long run.)

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    10 Aug 2026

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    His hips shifted against the wall before he told them to. His breath hitched, audible, humiliating, and he felt it land somewhere under his sternum like a stone dropped in still water. His pulse wasn't in his throat anymore, it was everywhere, thick and insistent, pooling low and stupid and undeniable, and underneath it, worse than all of it, was the low animal hum starting up at the back of his skull that he only ever felt right before something in him went sharp and wrong and other — except this didn't feel wrong. This didn't feel like the black-eyed thing that came out for monsters. This felt like his own skin had turned traitor and was asking for more.

    "...Webs?"

    Wade's voice. Different now — the manic edge gone out of it, replaced with something careful. He'd felt it too, probably. Felt Peter's whole body change under his hands, go tight and trembling in a way that had nothing to do with pain, and even Wade, motormouth Wade, apparently knew when to stop talking.

    Peter realized, distantly, that he hadn't moved. Hadn't pulled away. His wrist was still caught, still pinned, and some new and horrible part of him did not want that to change.

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    06 Aug 2026

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    “Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.

    After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”

    A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.

    Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.

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    06 Aug 2026