Sunshot Champagne

That is to say, yes I would beta.

Omfg I will read the hell out of that!

"Man, nobody does it like you, Rozy," the general manager said. "Nobody does anything like me," Ilya said, giving him his most obnoxious grin. "You should probably cool it down a bit on the Twitter beef with the Philly mascot though," the GM said. "It's kind of a lot." Ilya frowned. "Is true love, sir," he said. "We are match made in heaven." "Maybe slow the pace down a bit," the GM said. "If you get pregnant you'd have to be on IR for the rest of the season." "Maybe longer," Ilya said solemnly. "I don't know what Itty is, might not be human baby." "That's a fair point," the GM said. "To be honest it's kind of weird." "I like to keep people guessing," Ilya said. The GM sighed. "Everything about this sport is weird, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this," he said.

"Which category sounds most interesting?" Ilya asked. "I don't know what these mean," Shane said. "It's English words!" Ilya said, indignant. "Guys," Shane said. "I presume this is gay porn." "Smart," Ilya said. "Multi," Shane said. "What's that?" "More than two people mostly," Ilya said. The realization struck him: "Oh God you're going to judge me." Shane laughed. "I think it's a bit late to worry about that," he said. "But yes that's kind of why people are embarrassed about this sort of stuff." "I have never had shame," Ilya said. "I do not know this feeling. Oh no! You feel this always, don't you." "Well," Shane said, "yes." "Oh no," Ilya said. "I don't care about what people think but now I care what you think. Humiliating!" "Well," Shane said, "I mean, yeah."

"Were those all Russians?" Hollander asked, warm and friendly in his ear. Oh he would bite him, just a little, later. Not here, that was important for some reason. "Yes," Ilya said. "No. Well. Orlov is-- well. He's Russian but he's really. He's Latvian." And he made a face. "Oh," Hollander said, "yeah, the Olympics, I remember." "Are you all right?" Ilya asked, distracted. He felt like Hollander should have probably shoved him off by now, but Hollander was holding onto him. He looked--not well. "No," Hollander said, "I feel weird." "Weird like how?" Ilya asked, suddenly worried. "This is so bizarre," the Admiral said, too close. "I thought you guys hated each other." "It's called a job," Ilya said. "It's our job. Unlike Hettrick I don't have to be jackass off the clock." "You are, though," Hollander said musingly.

"We cannot call my mom," he said thickly. "Russia isn't that far away," she said. "My mom is not in Russia," he said, with a strange bitter little laugh. "Unless-- I do not know. Is unknowable mystery how that works." "What does that mean?" she asked. "She is dead, Masha," he said. (It had taken her some time to get him to call her by her first name, but from there he had explained how Russian names worked. It was like hockey, where nobody was ever called by their formal name. She felt extremely honored that he would use an affectionate name for her, when everywhere else in his life he seemed to have stripped away a lot of the Russianness to fit in.) "Oh," she said, horrified. "Oh Ilya. I'm so sorry." "Was long time ago," he said dismissively, but he looked gutted. He was so young, it couldn't have been that long ago. Maria sat down on the couch next to him, defeated. "Well, I'm sorry I made it worse," she said. She reached out and took his hand. "No, don't touch me," he said, "you'll get sick too." But he didn't pull his hand away.

A selection of some of my favorite bits of these baller fics.

It was so good!!

Thank you for this rec! I just devoured that whole series and it was incredible.

We’re going from outside pov of sad bb!Ilya to gritty-adjacent shenanigans to TWO different fics about getting high with Shane and Ilya and bonus porn sharing.

Please read them all immediately!

Series: Doing the Work by bomberqueen17

archiveofourown.org/series/5649296

I have devoured this little series in one evening. It’s so funny and smart. It needs more attention.

Catching up on men’s figure skating this evening and Adam Siao Him Fa’s coaching team are a couple of hotties. That is all.

12:54m 19 : < Fall Out Boy Mix • •• Sugar, We're Goin Down + Fall Out Boy You're Gonna Go Far, Kid E • Video • The Offspring Thnks fr th Mmrs + • Video • Fall Out Boy Misery Business • Video • Paramore Dance, Dance • Video • Fall Out Boy The Middle • Video • Jimmy Eat World Uma Thurman • Video • Fall Out Boy Mr. Brightside • Video • The Killers CALL OUT BOY Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is You... Penny in the Lake 日 Ratboys Home Search Your Library + Create

Here are the current favs 🙃

The only Fall out Boy song I actually liked in 2005 was Sugar, We're Goin Down. Now I listen to far too many of them for past me's comfort.

I do this on the elliptical but with a very specific set of pop punk songs I was not actually a fan of when they were released.

We make deconstructed onigiri, which I started doing post-college. It’s tuna mixed with kewpie, a little sesame oil and soy sauce, over a pile of sticky rice with a sheet of nori cut into strips on top. Sometimes I also add whatever furikake we have.

On Heated Rivalry and Queer Desire as an Unequivocal Good - Reactor In a world where queer desire is nearly always framed as something that destabilizes, this series gives its audience an alternate narrative

"But I think one reason why Heated Rivalry has hooked so many of us is that Shane and Ilya’s romance insists that queer desire and love belong at the heart of the world, not on the margins. It gets you where you live."

Author @oliviawaite.com on how #HeatedRivalry presents queer life as thriving:

100% this. This is a brilliant metaphor.

Good thread.

I like aerie underwear and the drop off has been unreal. I bought a bra this past Black Friday that is advertised as the same product I have bought for years, but it is literally designed differently and with different materials. It’s not the same bra! Panties similar but not as bad. I’m so upset.

Very extremely frustrating when you have been buying the same several products from a specific clothing retailer for the last decade or so and can in real time see and feel the quality drastically slipping in just the last two years due to *frantically waves hands at everything*

Ooh boy. I know that feeling.

Ugh. The worst.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“Text me if you need anything/anything crazy happens,” To my staff.

And, “Do you know your password?” to everyone else.

I just love Ilya in this fic SO MUCH:

“Because two things could be true. Ilya could love to win and he could also love coaching a team that had taken him in when his world was collapsing around him. He could be competitive and loyal. He could love and suffer. Look at him go.” 😭😭😭

The final chapter was just posted and I’m about to read the whole thing again. It’s so good.

Ilya receives a career ending injury before the ASG in 2017 and is recruited to be assistant coach (and team gay dad) for the Centaurs. Then Shane, who he hasn’t spoken to for years, is traded to Ottawa. 🥰

Change Your Win Conditions by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)

archiveofourown.org/works/77346456

If you know me, you know I love a novel-length fic and this fandom is entering the stage where dedicated authors are completing some really fucking good ones. I’ve read half/most of this fic twice now.

You can go live now on this app? Literally never done that before but like, I’d really rather have polls and private posting. 😬

Good idea! I’m so bad at writing things down.

🤞🤞🤞

I talk like alot about this because hey.. its the johns playing live why would i pass this over?!? Theyre so cute dude ugh i love them i love when their voices clash together in a harmony its so good.... TikTok video by Marty 🪗🎸

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh5MHFSd/

I had gotten sad and stuck on a blow job scene in the sex pollen HR wip I'm working on, but I beta read a bit of a friend's wip tonight and got inspired to go back to it. Had a little breakthrough and wrote like 350 words! \o/

Exactly what I was thinking…

circle back season by Anonymous

archiveofourown.org/works/76957611

Shane is afflicted with the time traveler’s wife time traveling problem, so naturally his younger self appears at the cottage post/ep 6. I wasn’t sure about this premise either but it turned out wonderfully sweet. Very well done!