There's No Room in this Hell

Chapter 2 Up of Hail of Bullets

Anyways here's me in the club bathroom last night. I could not convince a man to not buy me a drink despite the fact I was there with my wife and that's the power of titties folks.

Don't Feed Me (I will come back) By Captain Grayson (Ada_Parker)

Magical Realism - Complete

Ilya goes missing shortly after the first time they hook up. Shane gets injured, has to retire early and becomes a hockey biographer. He goes to Russia to try to write a biography about the man he couldn't forget. There is shape shifting and the protective love of places of importance and the magic of letting go so you can have hands to grasp new things.

The last few chapters of this had me sobbing. Not because of sadness entirely, just strong gorgeous feelings. This was fucking beautiful. I love magical realism so much, but it is so hard to write (the last time I tried, I swore off writing original fiction for a decade, lol) so I respect it so much.

The Afterimage by theaftercare

Photographer Ilya/Model Shane NYC AU - WIP

As someone who's lived in New York for nearly a decade, one of the fastest things someone can do to take me out of a fanfiction is to mischaracterize New York.

Weaving my love of the city and place is one of my favorite things to do in my writing and I don't think that most people's mistakes about New York are malicious. I simply think they don't know. This fiction immediately felt like someone who knew New York on some level, particularly the description of your average New York City rooftop. Not that you have to be here to understand it but it helps. I once read a fic where a someone had said for Ilya to go back to Moscow in Brighton Beach of all places. Immediately I had to stop reading that fic. That would never fucking happen. 

But this had me saying things like "Why do I know that place?" when Casa Cipirani was mentioned. Of course, it's built into the ferry terminal I was at just a few weeks ago to go to Governor's Island. The fic has the same beauty and care and art of their last fic, Dare You Twice, but in New York instead of the Adriatic. And therefore perfectly attuned to my tastes.

Super Straight Broz (Live) by Stickyslut17

Streaming AU - WIP

I started reading this after seeing this fanart on Instagram. You should see it too.

Hello, I’ve been working on this Mafia AU fic for a few months and I’m finally ready to start sharing it. Hope you enjoy. Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Explicit Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Svetlana Vetrova, Hayden Pike, Yuna Hollander Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Russian Mafia, Organized Crime, Blow Jobs, Gun Violence, Blood and Injury, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Character Death, Out of Character, Alternate Universe- Mafia, Mafia AU, main character death?, The question mark is doing a lot of work here, slow burn emotionally, Physically it's going down Chapter 1 Summary:

Ilya’s eyes glinted in the low light as he leaned closer. “I get the sense you would prefer it the other way.”

Shane's breath caught in his throat for just a beat before he moved his jacket to flash the handgun at his waist.

“A bit dramatic, are we?” Ilya laughed.

“I don't tolerate disrespect.”

Ilya used the advantage of his extra few inches in height to plant his arm to the left of Shane's head and crowd him against the wall.

“It would not be disrespectful,” Ilya whispered in the other man’s ear. “Unless you want it to be. Of course.”

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