Fortitude



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    This is mostly meant as thought and translation exercises for myself, but I still publish them so maybe someone else can cry with me about how much I love these characters.

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    Shane Hollander is hockey’s closeted golden boy with everything to hide. Ilya Rozanov is a professional Dom with everything to lose and an expired visa.

    Through their arrangement at a discreet Montreal kink bar, where NDAs protect secrets and sessions are charged per hour, they discover the most dangerous thing isn’t being caught—it’s wanting more than those hours allow.

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    25 Feb 2026

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    a gorgeous character study told through sex and intimacy. desperately torn between wanting to know how it ends and never wanting it to be over. This quote from chapter 13 is how i feel abt this fic: "It was the ache of a body remembering a language it had been forbidden to speak, the same ache that hit him at fourteen when he’d heard Richter’s recording of Rachmaninoff on his mother’s radio and understood for the first time that beauty could be a wound—that you could hear a thing so complete it broke you open with the knowledge that you would never make it yourself."

    (read up to chap 14/?)

    (Wolfbird by OpalApparition, downloaded)

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    Shane and Ilya are different behind closed doors.
    A multi POV fic that allows other characters to get a glimpse behind the wall.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    I never thought I’d cry this much at a fic about sex, but wow what a gorgeous character study

    (Walls by AC91, downloaded)

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    Yuna getting stuck in an elevator with Ilya for two hours doesn't change everything... but it changes some things. Like Yuna getting to be on a first-name basis with Ilya a full year before her son is.

    (Part 2 (the smutty part) is not actually essential reading if you are not in the mood for smut!)

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    07 Apr 2026

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    When you’re going up in flames, sometimes other people can smell the smoke. On the flip side, at least: when you’re on fire, sometimes other people can feel the warmth.

    Or, scenes from Home Economics, told from the perspective of everyone else.

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    02 Apr 2026

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    In Vegas, after they’d said everything right up to the edge of I love you, Shane and Ilya came up with a plan. It was long term, with many, many steps. There might be a spreadsheet somewhere that Shane won’t admit to.

    But it’s a plan, nonetheless. Over the summer of 2014, they tweak it and add things important to the both of them. There are even many, extensive, contingency plans.

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    Thanks to Shane's small lie the first time they hooked up, Shane and Ilya are together years earlier. Now, they have to figure out what to do about it.

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    19 Mar 2026

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    (the ten step plan by WriteThroughTheNight, downloaded)