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    They’d considered it—Shane being gay. It’d been an option. But Ilya Rozanov and the way Shane looks at him like he’s the love of his life has blindsided them. Blindsided both of them, and there’s almost nothing Yuna likes less than being blindsided. 

    She’s not mad, David wants to say. We’re so proud of you. We’re so happy for you. We just didn’t know. 

    Somehow we missed it, you falling in love.

     

    or, what David Hollander and Ilya Rozanov talk about while Shane and Yuna are outside in episode six.

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    Barstool Sports Canada reports that Montreal Metros captain Shane Hollander has started learning Russian from new teammate and Russian rookie Sergei Dovonchezky.

    Ilya has some thoughts. None of them are particularly kind.

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    14 Mar 2026

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    “Yes,” Ilya responded. “I love waking up with you. I love holding you in my arms before we have to face the world, I love feeling you warm and sleepy and soft. I love not understanding English but hearing you talk all hoarse and growly. I love it when you have morning breath and I love to convince you it does not matter so you give me kiss me anyways. I love it so much I want to wake up one hour before just to get more time.”

    Or, Ilya is tired of waking up alone while Shane goes on his runs in-season. He decides to do something about it.

    Alternate Title: Ilya's Cuddle Alarm

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    14 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    Shane will remember this smell, he knows. He catalogues it too carefully to believe any different.

    In his brain, the drawer with special scents is: Yuna’s perfume, the smell of the first spring day, petrichor, the way the pines around their cottage smell at the height of summer, a campfire about to go out as his family sits around it, the first bubble-gum he ever chewed, the strawberry-scented condom he once opened just to see what it looked like, his hair gel, and then, at the very back of it, Ilya Rozanov’s cigarette.

    or: the five times Shane Hollander wants to let Ilya Rozanov go, but can't.

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    14 Mar 2026

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    Shane’s life these past few weeks has been nothing short of perfect.

    After the cottage he felt like he could breathe again for the first time in a very long time.

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    The first time Shane and Svetlana meet doesn't go as well as you may think

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    13 Mar 2026