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  1. Rec *

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    “Hello,” Ilya repeats, still kind of stuck on those freckles.

    “Hi?” the man says.

    “Hi,” Ilya says—again.

    Oh god, he's said hello three times now. He should literally say anything else. His name, probably. His phone number, preferably.

    “Hi,” Ilya says again, because he can’t help it. “I am—”

    “Are you Nick?” the man asks, and it comes out as a breathless sound.

    OR: Shane gets stood up on a blind date, and Ilya comes to the rescue, and proceeds to make a series of questionable decisions.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Ilya Rozanov is in love, closeted, catastrophically lonely, and apparently incapable of referring to Shane Hollander in present tense.

    The Centaurs come to a- given the circumstances- reasonable conclusion.

    Or:
    Five times the Centaurs thought Ilya Rozanov was mourning his dead wife, and the one time they discovered his wife was actually Shane Hollander.
    Shane, for the record, is alive and really confused.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    After Ilya's first season with the centaurs, Shane and Ilya want to spend as much time together as possible. Which leads to increasingly ridiculous conversations, one magically transformed boyfriend, and Ilya proving that there has never been a version of Shane he could not love.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    When Maya Hollander has an emergency, she does exactly what her dad always told her to do: call the fire department.

    The problem? The emergency is her Russian homework.

    Or: one phone call, one very confused dad, and an unexpectedly helpful firefighter.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    January 15, 2017
    For immediate release.
    (English version)

    The Montréal Metros are devastated to announce the unexpected and tragic passing of our beloved captain, Shane Hollander, at the age of 25.

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    or, a canon-divergent au in which shane and rose never met, in epistolary format.

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    30 May 2026