It’s a list of works from here and my ao3 account. I realized that almost all of them were created from my hours-long commutes from home to university and vice versa.
NEWSIES
Series: However We Know
(Series Begun: 2018)
Stories of finding one another.
1. When the sun calls us deeper inside (2043) / JoJo De La Guerra
Some days he longed for something. Or was it someone? Or was it someplace?
2. Face to face with the sky (2201) / Albert DaSilva
He was nine when he tried to run away, trying to get to a place that’s long forgotten him, to where people no longer knew him because so much time has passed.
3. Into which the others fall (3374) / Racetrack Higgins
No one called him by his other name because they knew how much it made him flinch.
4. Carry me along (3495) / Spot Conlon
He makes a lot of bad decisions. He commits many mistakes. Really, this shouldn’t be any different.
5. I can see you still (2567) / Jack Kelly
It felt like a piece of home.
6. Your soul echoes (2801) / Crutchie Morris
They talked as if one of them wouldn’t be gone by tomorrow.
7. Where the light shines on us (2776) / Davey Jacobs
He never told them how the boy pointed out the small cracks in their ceiling and walls and made up stories about vines crawling out of them.
8. Keep me in your world (2800) / Katherine Plumber
She had grown so tired she couldn’t pick up a pen anymore. She had been broken enough that she let herself soak in the sun, hoping the light would fill in her cracks.
MORE ON: Albert DaSilva & Racetrack Higgins
You’re one heck of a problem (6394)
Math was fine, alright. He got it. It was Albert DaSilva he didn’t get.
All these walls I’ll break (2511)
That was what he asked the Sorting Hat.
“I want to be who I am.”
On the subject of sea turtles (5337)
And Albert knew. He always knew.
** In a headspace (a scenario after the fic above)
He remembers the video he posted and the top comment in it was:
Movement memory (11190)
Albert used to feel sick at the thought of dancing again, like it would lock his joints but he would keep on moving anyway.
Warm (3229)
Race’s expression had softened and Albert saw the most of it in his eyes because it was where he was looking at. It’s just blue, blue, blue, and blue.
HARRY POTTER
MORE ON: Marauders’ Era
We’ll have tomorrow / James Potter & Lily Evans
Granted, a near death experience can make you do spontaneous decisions but his mind was already made up long ago. So, he asked her.
Heaven help a fool (1932) / James Potter & Lily Evans
Lily would walk away just like James has let her so many times.
Soft landings (1003) / James Potter & Lily Evans
“Can we live on the moon?”
Viva la Pluto (1978) / James Potter & Lily Evans
Or the one where James and Sirius offer their couch and tequila to their neighbor
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The salt and pepper in Ilya's hair doesn't show up as clearly as it does in Shane's. Instead Ilya, despite sometimes admitting to feeling like he has to claw his way to joy and happiness from the bottom of the deepest pit, develops laugh lines.
They start as creases in the corners of his eyes, the natural consequence of David's awful dad jokes, or Yuna's brand negotiation horror stories, or a stellar Cens reunion, or something wild and out of the blue that their toddler says, or a bitchy comment from Shane from their seats in the stands as they watch games rather than play them, or the way Shane's hip now clicks in a comically loud way every time Ilya spreads his legs.
Initially the lines fade away immediately.
Then, as the years go on, they linger, so that Shane gets to look at them and hear the sound of Ilya's laughter in his head for longer and longer. Then, they stop fading, and Shane can see the evidence of every beautiful moment they've had together etched onto his favorite face in the world.
When Ilya finally concedes and says they're not laugh lines anymore - he's officially got wrinkles, Shane beams at him and kisses each one reverently.
"You know me, I would never complain, but what was that for?" Ilya asks and Shane smiles back at him, knowing the lines on his own face largely mirror his husband's.
"Just grateful that I've spent long enough with you to get to see you with wrinkles."
And when Ilya swoops forward and kisses him, it feels every bit as wild and exciting as it did when they were nineteen.
Ilya does love seeing old photos of Shane. Fat Baby Shane™ in all his forms, toddler Shane in his little hockey gear, Shane in elementary school with a big missing-teeth smile, Shane blowing out the candles on his 10th birthday, Shane holding up his brand new driver's license at 16. The list goes on.
One day Yuna finds an old disposable camera. The expiration date on it says 2009. She tells Shane about it; it might have some old photos from his graduation on it or something. She'd gotten a digital camera around that time so she can't remember what she used this one for. Shane is pretty indifferent about it.
Yuna sends the camera off to some company that still develops old camera film. It's about 15 years old at this point, though, so whatever is on it might not even develop correctly.
A few weeks later Shane and Ilya are over for dinner. Yuna tells them she got the photos back and they actually turned out ok. She hands over the stack of 10 photos. Shane rolls his eyes, but Ilya grabs the photos and starts flipping through them. The first two look like they are from some school event; there's Shane surrounded by similarly aged kids in an auditorium. There's one of the three of them on Thanksgiving that year and another of the three of them with Yuna's parents at the same dinner. Two of David asleep on the couch with the family dog clearly taken on different days. One of a Christmas tree in the Hollander's living room. The next two are Shane on the ice in a rink that Ilya recognizes as the one in Regina. The one from their first World Juniors Tournament.
And Ilya freezes. The last photo in the stack is a close-up of Shane. He's in a white hoodie with a black coat over it. He has on a dark green beanie and he's standing next to the door to the rink. He's smiling for the camera and his freckles are crinkled near his eyes. It's the Shane that so awkwardly and so confidently introduced himself to Ilya the first time they met. The Shane that had tried so hard to talk to Ilya then. The Shane that Ilya could admit to himself now that he'd had a bit of a crush on already. His Shane.
His Shane was getting blurry as tears filled his eyes.
i think if hollanov decide to have more than one kid at least one of them will be a goalie. and you know that kid is going first in whichever draft they end up in because they practiced on shane fucking hollander and ilya fucking rozanov (because if your dads were casually the two best centres in the nhl and two of the most successful hockey players on the planet, then you defend that net like your life depends on it)
everyone else in that years draft thinks this hollander-rozanov child got picked first out of nepotism (because who the fuck is that desperate to pick a goalie first overall in the draft?) until one day that team’s starting goalie is injured and all of a sudden your scoring chances have gone to hell because you’re trying to get the puck past cerberus, the three headed dog that guards the gates of hell
someone says something about nepotism and in a fit of rage ilya posts a bunch of videos of their kid at the grand age of eight years old defending the net from their father. and it’s an unacknowledged fact that The Shane Hollander has never gone easy on the ice at all, and the fact he’s playing his still single-digit kid does not change this one iota
and the kid is WINNING. shane is clearly not pulling his punches and a significant number ARE going into the net (because, at the end of the day this is still The Shane Hollander vs a middle-schooler) but the kid is saving enough goals that it’s noticeable
and ilya captions the post. “if our child is capable of this level of goaltending at 8 imagine how good he’ll be in ten years” and then his next post is “oh wait, you don’t need to imagine” and the accompanying video is some of the best saves he’s made that year
(their child also has a brutal sense of humour that the world discovers the first time he’s mic’d up. “why are they mic’ing the goalie?” everyone asks, then the commentary starts and they immediately understand. a petition goes round for him to be mic’d every game. he’s not, but he is mic’d more frequently than the average goaltender)
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ilya posts a video on instagram with the caption “my husband and the dog he didn’t want” and it’s shane cradling anya like a baby outside the vet’s office whispering “you were so brave, honey. we’ll get you a pup cup on the drive home and you can sit in my lap while papa drives. you did such a good job when the scary lady poked you. such a good girl” and people everywhere lose their fucking minds
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Remember, just because you can run that fast when a tiger is chasing you, doesn't mean you should be expected to run that fast. Or that it's okay for you or anyone else to set a tiger loose on you to get things done faster.
Humans can do incredible things under threat. That does not mean that panic is a good thing for you or your body in the long run.
i tried making a contrapuntal poem for hollanov, which can be read 3 ways: shane’s side alone, ilya’s side alone, or both sides together. inspired by the long game.
