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the intricate brocade of this happiness, by waxing__crescent (rated t, hollanov, 10k)

But Ilya shakes his head, absolutely mute. There’s no universe, no universe where he can talk about this. He moved to America to forget.

#HELLO

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trippedlaces

Okay, but we don’t talk enough about how exactly this transpired. Feel like there are three most likely scenarios for why Shane asked Scott for gay vacation recommendations and they are all pretty funny:

(1) At some point in the four years prior, Scott's gay vacation sexcapades became public knowledge because his hookups talked, basically @gurlsrool's ten out of ten on a sped-up timeline.

(2) At some point in the four years prior, Scott dropped the dime on HIMSELF talking about his tortured closeted life in a sad wet dog interview that Shane read with a mixture of revulsion for Scott's weak ass and a longing that he did not care to investigate further.

(3) The funniest possible option: Shane did not know at all about Scott's European sex vacations, but he did the math and realized that: Scott is the only guy that Shane knows personally who a) has been publicly out as gay for at least one off-season and b) most crucially, is also in Shane's same income bracket. Because what else were they going to do, have Ilya ask Harris for ideas? Harris might have sent them to a Best Western in Quebec City.

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fractally

Okay can we talk about this because Scott Hunter sending them to Ibiza keeps me up at night. It's so fucking funny

As for why Shane asked I think its gotta be #3. I think Shane was just like. This is the only out gay man I know with money. Because I think Shane "forgot Troy Barrett is gay" Hollander wouldn't remember Scott Hunter's gaycation past even if he did hear about it somehow, nor connect it to his own honeymoon. Shane just doesn't care about other people's experiences that way.

Ironically I think Shane really ought to have asked Rose instead because Hunter gives him the incredibly sinister advice to go to trashy anonymous gay hookup island for his honeymoon 6 months after being at the center of one of the most publicized sports scandals of all time. I don't know if this is Scott's payback for all the chirping over the years but I like to imagine it is

trippedlaces

Yeah, okay, now it is received knowledge to me that Shane and Ilya's honeymoon was actually kind of miserable. They had no choice but to stay in the hotel room having a 24-hour-a-day fuckfest because every time they left the room they were fighting for their LIVES getting asked if they were looking for a third. And somewhere in New York everything was finally coming up Scott Hunter.

asraeas

Josh O'Connor napping behind the scenes of La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher

garagepaperback

fic: decadent stress chamber pairing: hollanov words: 48k (complete) tags: frat au excerpt:

From the vantage of halfway up the stairs, the bodied sea almost makes sense, has a certain current to it. Parting and cresting, surging, slowing down. There’s a guy right in the middle defining the tide. He’s not huge huge—he’s like, Shane huge. Just noticeable. Anything so sturdy in the middle of the ocean would be. “Who’s that?” Shane asks, and regrets it.

garagepaperback

chapter 8

Rozanov blinks. “It’s Khishchnik.” “Keeshnook,” Shane repeats. He shakes his head, slows it down. “Khishchnik.” “Kheeschnik.” “Better.” Every tendon in Rozanov’s face is taut. His face is red in the same shade of brimming need Shane's entire body is tangled with, wound around and gripping each individual rib. He takes a step forward and then another. Tight, tighter. “And, Ilya, also. Il-ya.” Shane swallows. “Ilya.” Ilya nods. No more wire; only glow left inside Shane’s chest.

#khishchnik #heated rivalry fic

pspsps as a fellow Social Media AU Avoider - guarddog (theslymoon) has a fantastic HR hockeytwitter series (https://archiveofourown.org/series/5733046) that is so worth reading :)

Looooove this series, one of my favorites! Everyone should read, social media AU lovers and avoiders alike. Thank you!

#asks #heated rivalry fic

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3,7,10!

Ty anon!

10. How do you decide what to write?

decide...... if only...... fic ideas come to me like eye-stinging wisps of debris flitting thru the wind. two of my longest fics are based on a single typo and a bad pun that I had no plans to write. i wish i had more agency in this process.

#asks

elvendeity

I who have never known men, Jacqueline Harpman

hello hello! 3 & 12 for the fic writer asks

hi !!! ty for the asks.

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

lots of talking but appalling communication. i do like a bit of pain but i also make an effort to be funny and I laugh at my own jokes. agony is sharper when you compare it with levity, and vice versa :)

#asks

18 (for Penalties), 49!

same answer baby! ty for the ask <3

18. If you wrote a sequel to [penalites], what would it involve? / 49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it! below the cut:

#asks #I am gonna change this scene quite a bit I think #but WIPs are WIPs

thank you @larkral <3

7. Any worldbuilding you're particularly proud of?

This is an old fic of mine and it’s drarry, but my quasi retelling of the calypso section of the odyssey. christopher nolan WHO! I love the lighthouse. i love the little seabird.

#asks #calypso meets Desmond from lost #meets a bird

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26 and 48 FOR* the fic ask meme. That'll teach me to proofread lol.

thank you for this beautiful and typo free ask :)))

26. Would you rather write a fic that had no dialogue or one that was only dialogue?

only dialogue ALL THE WAY! a constant unfiltered stream of yapping but no one is saying anything they mean or feel..... that's my sweet spot.

48. What's the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

i just read get gone by geniflux. it was perfect. the last chapter is ilya, shane, yuna, and david involved in a four-way tense horrible double dinner date fight. i would propose marriage to that chapter if i could.

#asks

49 ♥️

thank you anon!

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

i am working on 3ish fics right now, two short and one long. one of the short ones is a sequel to my fic penalties. oops! they can't stay away from each other. they're both so sad! snippet below cut:

#asks

Fic writers ask game: 7, 17 and/or 37 pretty please <3

thank you for this one!!

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

my least read heated rivalry child: the domovoy. just bc the main pairing is ilya/sasha and shane isn't in it doesn't mean it isn't a hollanov fic!!!

#asks

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

well as you may know @garagepaperback... i consider tropes, in and of themselves, neutral. i have one thing i won't read due to my weak stomach, but anything else ... bring it on. the trope is the box that the story lives in, but the box itself could be beautiful or hideous or interesting or boring, that all depends on what you fill it with.

the only tropes i don't like are ones that exist for no reason; where, if you removed them, the story (and the characters!!!) would be fundamentally unchanged. i think anything in a story should support/expand/propel it. for certain ships there are tropes i don't think are as easy a sell, but that is a fun challenge for the fic to rise to.

anyway my answer is social media AUs. this one i read yesterday is perfect.

#did you ask me this as bait #asks

garagepaperback

#s 6*,9

*troll

6. What’s one fact about the universe of troll that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself? ilya got into catfishing after his short stint working for russia's internet research agency where he sat next to someone who kept a sticky note next to their keyboard that said: the target is trust. also once he gets to boston he gives up catfishing and goes on the straight and narrow ie camboying. he gets pretty famous for it, borderline as nichely famous as shane with a very different audience. maybe even some overlap of audience :,) 9. How do you find new fic to read? sometimes reclists but most often bookmark trolling? wait actually no most often it's when u send something to me and say "this was so good"

#CATFISH ILYA IS THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE

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40 and 45 for the fic writer asks!

thank you for the asks! <3

40. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

I LOVE rereading fics (and books). there are so many details that can only be appreciated on reread and i love to savor them! i will finish a fic/book and immediately restart it from the beginning.

45. What's something you've improved on since you started writing fic?

i'm better at editing my own writing, killing darlings, etc. all of my beta readers live in my head like a greek chorus and sometimes when i read a line back i think of exactly how a beta reader would change it/delete it. and then i say to myself who am i to argue with this voice in my head and make the change.

#asks

9, 25, 36!

Thank you for the ask my friend! ☀️❤️

9. How do you find new fic to read?

I subscribe to an author immediately upon finishing a fic I enjoy* so my email inbox is a nice trove of a TBR. I stalk bookmarks like it’s my job. I troll the bookmarks of my favorite authors; I look at the people who bookmark my favorite fics and then I go read the other fics they have bookmarked. I mark for later liberally. The day ao3 lets you filter your MFL will change the trajectory of my life. I don’t really read tags (I hate spoilers!) but sometimes this means I accidentally read two harrowing MCD fics in a row and cry so hard I make myself sick. In spite of usually skipping them I do like to go spelunking through a tag once in a blue moon. I beg for recs on tumblr :) rec blogs are incredible, and reccing is my love language, nothing makes me happier than giving/getting recs catered to personal taste!!

*(even if they have only ever written one fic for a fandom I read, even if they wrote it 10 years ago, even if they clog my inbox with the most random pairing for the most random media I’ve never heard of in my life for years… it takes a LOT for me to unsubscribe! I live in eternal hope!)

#asks

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