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    Shane and Ilya meet as first-year students at The Juilliard School of Music. What started as a bit of fun competition in the violin section turned into something more - until Ilya disappeared the summer after Freshman year.
    10 years later, Ilya returns to New York City as the Assistant Conductor for the New York Philharmonic. What he doesn’t expect is to see Shane Hollander sitting first chair violin.

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    29 May 2026

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    I’m caught in the spam trap where all my comments are seen as spam. I hope you can see this—I love this story and I’m eagerly reading!

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    TL;DR: It's like Friends meets Almost Famous with HR incidents and better oatmeal continuity.

    Shane Hollander is a freelance concert photographer with a day job at a camera shop, a bank account in active distress, and a long-standing professional fixation on Ilya Rozanov, front man of the Russian rock band Rozanov. Professional. Definitely professional.

    For years, Shane has shot Ilya from the pit: first three songs, no flash, get the shot, get out. Then Rozanov’s lead guitarist gets arrested at the border, the tour starts rearranging itself around disaster, and Shane finds himself getting closer to the machine than any photographer is supposed to get.

    A photo pass becomes a backstage pass. A backstage pass becomes a job. Access becomes proximity.

    And proximity, unfortunately, has consequences.

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    24 May 2026

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    Hello frenetic_muse, AO3 software has decided that all my comments on any device are spam. I think you can see this? This fic is SO DAMN GOOD and I’m laughing out loud all the time. I love Kozzy. He’s like one of the muppets. I love all of them. I’m so hooked. I hope you can see this. Thank you for this.

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    Lachlan Pucey joins the Montreal Metros as a rookie with all eyes on him. After a year spent in the AHL, developing and preparing for his NHL debut, he's not going to let anything distract him from playing the best hockey he can and proving to everyone watching that he's just as good of a player as his old man was and his big brother is.

    Hank Crawford is a second round draft pick that comes into the league after two years playing the college circuit. He's got no one's expectations to live up to save for his own, but there's a lot riding on him making a name for himself in Montreal. It's the best day of his life when Shane Hollander calls to invite him to training camp in September, bar none.

    Lachlan and Crawford are fast friends. Hard not to be when they have so much in common, when it's so easy to kill an afternoon hanging out and playing video games beside each other on the couch. When it starts to feel like the only deep breaths they're able to take are the ones they take when they're side by side, on the ice or at home or out in the city.

    They're fast friends. Good friends. Best friends. That's all they can be; hockey is everything else.

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    24 May 2026

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    Same author as Home Economics, other players in that universe.

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    Ilya Rozanov, get loved.

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    17 Feb 2026