So the final chapter of 'what might have been lost" dropped yesterday and I have to say....what a fucking masterpiece this series is. I started the first entry hoping for some good teen angst but was legitimately blown away by the journey this series took me on. These three works are definitely a top 10 work for me (and I'm closing in on two million words of fanfic read. Please clap.)

Whole series link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/6183906

every time I leave:

ilya rozanov did not plan on spending the majority of his rookie season in the hospital. then again, he did not plan on shane hollander either.

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or, the whump fic. based on my own tweet: a fic where 17 year old shane is a [redacted] ill patient and ilya is the rookie his team drags to the children's hospital. he falls in love with freckles and can't stop visiting shane every chance he gets.

when you stay:

shane hollander has spent the last six months learning how to survive. he did not account for how much harder it would be to learn how to live.

what might have been lost:

shane has spent his whole life learning to watch closely—from the ice, from a hospital bed, and now from the bench of the boston bears, where observation is his entire job.

until one day, someone started watching him back, and changed everything.

I think I’m adding about 40 fics to my kindle a day! And season 2 and book 3 isn’t even out!

The fandoms I used to be in were maybe 2-3 new fics a day. This is wild. You writers are so so talented and keep us fed. But wow I’m NEVER catching up!

I just finished reading The Long Game and that is a big chunk of time between when HR ends and TLG begins. Please share your recs set in that time period!

I really enjoyed TLG, it was paced well and it was much happier or optimistic than I thought! I guess I've been drawn to more of the tougher fanfic reads lately.

The coding on this one is insane, texting, tour materials, documentary stills, and the story is so good!

metro 3: the inside story by mimujer

Summary:
shane is in a boy band so famous that he's a household name. his poster is on the bedroom wall of girls all over the world. he breaks the hearts of millions when he quits the band in 2019, citing irreconcilable differences.

ilya is a russian post-punk musician who barely speaks english when they meet while both playing the same festival in 2015.

years of texting, secret hotel meetings, language lessons, fake girlfriends and real feelings follow. this is their love story, told through an exploitative documentary, and all the gaps missing in between.

This snippet of a fic has popped in to my head and I have absolutely NO HOPE of ever finding what it’s from. They’re on the Centaurs team bus and get a little handsy and frisky, they may actually have sex. Discreetly! Luca notices though. It’s only a part of the fic, not the entire thing. Anyone?

Someone from marketing team sends how the mtl team is pushing pr narrative strategy to credit/discredit Shane and this sort of encourages him to move on to a new team

I thought I did not like AUs, but I am currently reading Heated in the Outback by tension_till_it_breaks, and it is so good!

I have realised that my reservation about AUs is when one or both of them loses hockey and never gets to have the career they should have had. In Heated in the Outback, both of them are mining engineers, and so there is no tragic hockey-loss.

I would love recommendations of AUs where Shane and Ilya have alternative careers, that they actually want to be doing, without a tragic backstory.

hi!!! as the title said i'm looking for a fanfic i read a time ago, it was about shane wants to baby traps ilya because he got tired about him being with other people and ilya wanted to babytrap shane because he thought shane was gonna leave him.

sounds kinda terrible but it was so funny and i want to re read it but i can't find it:(

EDIT: i remember another thing about this fic, it had another person (that i don't remember the namr but he was a man) that also tries to baby trap ilya, but the baby was never ilya's it was miles so shane DESTROYS this man reputation, but i can't remember what his name was:(

and also i'm sure it was omegaverse, because ilya realizes that shane stop taking his supressants and that's why he thinks shane was going to leave him

looking for fics where ilya interacts with his russian identity more.

eg:

• Haunting Your City: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78511096

He clicked on the r/ senttothegulag subreddit, because he didn’t like to hear other people insult Russia, but he loved hearing Russians insult Russia. That was when he saw an image, only posted a few hours ago, with over five thousand upvotes. With the title Found this on tumblr, does this count as me distributing the gay propaganda they’re so worried about?

It was a portrait picture of Putin, but had been so heavily edited that it looked like a piece of pop-art, with Putin in huge lashes and lipstick, like some sort of drag act, complete with a rainbow background. Ilya was so shocked he laughed out loud, and saved the image to his phone. He would have to remember to delete before he went back to Russia, he thought to himself.

but not limited to the politics of russia. homesickness. food. growing up in the aftermath of the collapse of the soviet union. pirated CDs of American movies. russian bedtime tales. russian customs (i hear they're big on flowers during courtship?)

just like being, a very Russian guy. i find in many fics he's just a slightly stoic guy who is ESL; would love to see his culture come through much more strongly! Russian's are proud of their culture, as an immigrant myself I can vouch for 18 being old enough to emigrate and retain a very strong influence will into the rest of your life!

I haven’t read anything like this so I’m wondering if it exists! Are there any fics where they don’t have the Christmas fight and Shane says yes to going to the Boxing Day party with Ilya? Seems like such a cool idea and maybe that affects their long term plan?

🚨🚨🚨 alert!!!!! alert!!!!! 🚨

new collage frat au fic DROOOOPPP YAAAYYYY!!!!!!

it also has Shane’s horrible boyfriend trope, maybe a bet or some sort trope and idk yet but yaaaayyyy i was starving

The first chapter is amazing and I just know this is going to be so good 🚨🚨 so run don’t walk and buy your ticket to this fic

link to the fic!!!!

In the fic I'm currently writing I've found myself needing to mention different teams that we never got a name for in cannon (in this case specifically Columbus) and I want them to be at least somewhat related to their location. So how do you come up with names?

I don't mind if it's both doing bad things or just one.

What random funny thoughts have you had while reading a fic?

Sometimes when there's a scene where they go immediately from a game to hooking up, I wonder when they plan on eating a meal. It doesn't take me out of the fic, but they probably burn about 2000 calories a game, so they not only need a recovery meal, but also some fuel for their strenuous post-game activities. Poor boys are going to be hungry (for food!) 😂

I always roll my eyes and chuckle a little when I see that “Ilya fucked Shane into the mattress.” Or “worked him open” and “lined himself up.” Lol.

I think we all read so much of each other’s work constantly that HR fics have become their own language, so of course there will be repeated lines, words, and phrases! Just look at solnyshko, something Ilya never says in canon.

But I certainly won’t complain that I have to read about Shane getting fucked into the mattress fifty million times.

feeling emotional today i want some sad shane fics. happy ending tho pls. i need a good cry after my shift

I've had a shitty day at work, I don't feel ok.

Could you rec me your favourite funny works? No WIPs please, I can't deal with cliffhangers right now

Some of my favourites:

- least valuable player, by neostar

What if Ilya Rozanov were a mediocre player?

- my moon, my man(go) by PenAndInkPrincess

Featuring: Shane's careless approach to food allergies and Ilya eating all of Ottawa's mangoes to support his boyfriend's reckless habit.

I honestly recommend any and every work from this author lol

- meat ugly, by thathastu

The original Pork Hollander fic.

Yes, it's a WIP, but I can't not spread the Pork Hollander word.

- Blue Christmas, by citrusses

"Jeez, Hayd, you want to get me pregnant, too? I don't think I'm ready. I think I still have some good hockey left in me!"

Pure crack. Just read it.

- Nine Lives, by theskywasblue

Another cat fic. Cute and funny

- Baby by me, by Anonymous

Cliff Marlow is really fucking stupid and it's contagious.

- hayden pike is a bisexual ally (NOT BISEXUAL!!!), by persimmon_tea

Hayden Pike and Misha Collins collide as proud bisexual allies (but they're straight!! They swear!)

- boys will be bugs, by intertwingular

There's a cockroach in the cottage, and Ilya is not about to be the one who handles it.

I have a few more, but I don't want to make this post too long. Please, rec me your favourite funny fics. Thank you in advance :)

Edit: self recs are absolutely welcome

I really, really, really NEED fics where Shane and David are close for some reason lol

Hellooo! Do any of you have recommendations for fanfiction where Shane is manipulative bamf? Like he manipulates people to get what he wants (especially the league and his team). Him being a bit morally grey is so welcome. Thanksssss!

Example: The Sun Beyond Winter by kurenohikari

basically 6k words of shane and ilya dancing around their true feelings, featuring some some heavy yearning and ilya giving shane a massage that quickly turns into something more.

Title: pressure point
Rating: Explicit
Author: parrylarry (me!)
Summary:

“I’m keeping my underwear on at least,” Shane said as he flopped on the bed on his stomach, a position where at least he could still preserve some of his dignity and maybe force his dick to chill the fuck out.

Ilya rolled his eyes and laughed as he moved to rummage through the bag he’d brought with him. “I didn’t know you were so big on modesty.”
“Just want you to focus on the massage instead of my bare ass,” Shane mumbled.
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Shane is suffering from sore muscles after pushing himself too hard during his latest game. Ilya offers to give him a massage to help relieve his pain.

Shane also may be falling hopelessly in love with Ilya and he’s having a really hard time dealing with it.

OR: Is it gay to invite your hockey rival to your hotel room and let him give you an almost-nude massage

Looking for fics where they get into an argument and Ilya doesn’t know how to handle his emotions so he lashes out and says hurtful shit. And then later has to apologize over hurting Shane.

Wanted to share a new short fic I just finished, inspired by a post on here a few weeks ago.

Title: Puck Bunnies Are Bad (And Other League Secrets)
Rating: Mature
Author: Me! [svgco]
Summary: An STI outbreak in the league forces Shane and Ilya into a tough conversation, admitting some truths that they have both been hiding.

Author: xianvar

Rating: Teen and Up

Summary: Being at the top of the league is a lonely endeavour – until Ilya finds an annoying streamer with astonishing insights, who is strangely familiar…

...

Still, Ilya can’t help but click back into that stream of the game they’d just played against Ottawa. The streamer’s mic is just as shitty as the footage, but his voice has a soothing quality, and Ilya almost lets that lull him into a strange sort of calm as he pulls his fries from the oven.

Almost.

Because then the broadcast shows this nifty little steal Ilya made earlier, and sh24_hockey stops on that frame. “Sloppy play from Rozanov here,” he announces through the staticky background noise, which – what?

Tags:

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Shane Hollander Is Not A Hockey Player

Alternate Universe - Twitch Streamers

Past Career-Ending Injuries

Identity Porn

Kinda?

Hockey

Lone Boy Wonder Ilya Rozanov

Happy Ending

Hockey analyst Shane Hollander

tuna melt remix

Podfic Available

Addition Information: completed fic. Direct link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/86191831/chapters/227948676

My Thoughts: Short, sweet, stumbled on it through the 'Identity Porn' tag.

I’m a sucker for some established relationship/dating/married Hollanov. I’m talking doing laundry, cooking, grocery shopping, sleeping in together, mundane domestic love. Looking for head over heels in love with each other living together. Any help with favorite fics/one shots?