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    He crowds Shane into the hood of the car, hands up under his shirt and jacket again. October is getting cold; nights are getting colder. The places where Ilya is touching him are the only parts of Shane’s body that are warm right now. Maybe that’s why he wraps his arms around Ilya’s neck and clings to him, though he doesn’t necessarily surprise himself with it. They don’t even kiss for a moment. Ilya busies himself breathing into the crook of Shane’s neck, trying to regain control. Shane opens his eyes and gazes over Ilya’s shoulder at the dark field and realizes that an utterly foreign feeling has risen up in him. It’s Ilya’s broad shoulders and beautiful hair between Shane and the world and he feels—small. Protected.
    “Oh my God,” Shane whispers, completely ashamed of the feeling and hungry for it. It curls warm in his stomach. His toes arch inside his shoes. Something about being so close to this man, something about Ilya putting himself between Shane and—the world. Whatever lurks in the deep night. It’s a feeling like a ghost, something that Shane isn’t allowed to look directly at except for moments like these. Quiet and dark.

    Shane, Ilya, Vermont. Meeting in the middle.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    can't believe it took me this long to read this.

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    “Honestly, dude, you’re fucking handling this like a champ.”
    He’s not. He’s handling it the way he has to, the only way there is to handle it. “Well, I am champ, so.”
    Marlow chuckles.
    He sounds like he’s about to say something else heartfelt and misinformed, so Ilya flicks on the radio.
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    Ilya gets outed fall 2014. Objectively it's good for gay hockey but it sure doesn't feel like it.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    ilya's route 96 kanata.

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    One day all the sisters were gathered to hear the news: a new sister had just arrived. She could be at the center of a fountain, she looked like her natural state was announcing the changing of the seasons. But there was also something rugged about her. A sunbleached bronze. Her name was Lily, and the day after she arrived the rain stopped.

    or: Sister Jane is a young Augustinian nun who lives a perfectly devout life. She excells at her duties, subdues her flesh the most she can, errs as is human but always repents her way back, and does everything as she's told by her convent's Mother Superior because Mother knows best. With the arrival of a new sister to the convent, her world is turned upside down and her devoutness is put into question. She has questions, she has doubts, and she has to figure out if the problem lies in her flesh or in how she's been taught to control it.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    1000 kudos in my heart. touchingly careful historical fiction. if you loved "carmilla" & caroline walker bynum's studies of medieval nuns...

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    Shane was there when Ilya got the call, his arm heavy across Ilya's stomach, like even in sleep he could tell something was trying to take Ilya away from him.

    When Boston realize Ilya wants out, they send him to the highest bidder. The highest bidder is LA.

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    23 May 2026

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    the anonymous does it again... expert balance between leaving things understated & unsaid, and keeping the characters credibly self-aware & trying to make it work. life-life pacing & resolution, no false notes.

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    Shane had agreed readily. Yes, he wanted. To be hunted by a stranger with twenty dogs and a knife on his belt. To see him again. To find the source of the squirming thing in his chest and bring it to light.

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    20 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    a delightfully specific erotic fantasy, unabashedly uninterested in anything beyond it. I would love for it to be embedded in a 50k novel that would consider how shane feels about the career-ending injury, the move to the UK (is it post-brexit? how does he feel as an immigrant? how does ilya feel as a markedly eastern european immigrant? how tf did he end up in this line of work?) -- but I do admire how much it does not matter to the world of the story & enjoy the resulting dreamlike effect. it does remind me of medieval romances, similarly divorced from material realities, and obviously big on the erotics of the hunt (sir gawain and the green knight - the hunt & the flaying & the skinning can be the most erotic things to do to another living animal).