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    They hoist themselves up onto the counters, Alex on the island and Henry opposite him, tucked into the corner with his knees pulled to his chest. Henry can feel Alex watching him, but he’s not sure he wants to face whatever’s playing out in Alex’s expression. He gets through half of his ice cream before giving in and meeting Alex’s eyes, and he cannot for the life of him read what he sees in them.
    “Can I tell you a secret?” Alex says.
    Henry hums and lifts an eyebrow. “Is it a good one?”
    “Maybe?” Alex says. He pokes at his ice cream and eats another spoonful, looking carefully at Henry. “I was gonna kiss you at midnight.”


    At the NYE Gala, Henry starts feeling the hazy edges of anxiety and an uncomfortable tightness in his chest. It takes him longer than it should to take notice of the feeling, and even longer to realise that the cause is likely the binder he’s been wearing all day. He escapes the party, Alex gets him upstairs to his room to change, and the rest of the night goes far differently than Henry could have expected.

    Featuring: comfort; teasing; so, so much communication; confessions over ice cream; a Very Important List; spilled tea; and the soft, sweet love they both deserve

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    20 Feb 2026

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    He looks Alex up and down, opens his mouth and closes it again. He glances at his equerry, who gives him a slight nod that Alex doesn’t even try to understand. Henry looks back at Alex and juts his chin out just a little. “Are you comfortable with being touched right now?”
    Alex feels himself give Henry a squinty frown as he processes the implications of the question. Surely someone who’s about to kill you wouldn’t ask for permission first. Right? He looks warily at the stuffy security person and Henry’s equerry who are the only people standing still amongst the flurry of movement beyond.
    “Only me,” Henry says, drawing his attention back, “Or you can say no.”
    Alex shrugs.


    In the immediate aftermath of cakegate, Alex’s anxiety takes over and he starts to shut down before they even hit the ground. Henry, who’s been halfway in love with him for years and who aches at seeing him so vulnerable, lets go of his snark and polite indifference to help him clean up and calm down with the kindness and love he deserves.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    Some dip-shit Russian official says, at a press conference, that their hockey team is better off without Ilya in the lead up to the 2022 Winter Olympics: "He has disappointed his country. He did all but wear a dress."

    ... so guess what Ilya does?

    Featuring: Ilya Rozanov's queer joy, Shane Hollander's struggles with internalized homophobia and the sheer healing power of a man wearing a dress.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    Anonymous asked:
    imagine this is your first olympic game and your opponents are the Red Menace and the Wasian Terror

    ridetheinvisiblepuck replied:
    i don’t have to imagine i can hear the rattling of the chains tying clara to the net 

    hockeysucchiaggio reblogged ⇄ ridetheinvisiblepuck
    #this is like watching a national geographic doc #where two lions are performing some fucked up mating dance #while slaughtering a herd of zebras

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    Canada faces Italy in the first preliminary match of the men's hockey tournament at the Olympics, and Ilya is not pleased that Shane has noticed the Italian goalie. What follows: a bad loss, the great condom shortage of the Winter Olympics, and an excommunication.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    The entire time Hayden has known him, and known of him, he has been Ilya Rozanov; violent player and serial womanizer. The media was saying those things about a child, and no one had given a shit, because Ilya had never spoken up for himself. He’d never protested their unfounded claims, and he never tried to prove them wrong, either.

    Which, now that Hayden knows the things he does, makes perfect fucking sense.

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    Hayden finds himself unlearning everything he thought he knew about Ilya Rozanov

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    16 Feb 2026