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    In hopes to improve his English, Ilya Rozanov subscribes to the New Yorker.

    He does not expect himself to fall in love with a column, especially the author.

    Shane Hollander only knows how to write from his heart by cataloguing loneliness as his own, about the performance of public life and about wanting something that he cannot safely name.

    Ilya learns new words from him.

    Yearning. Vulnerability. Home.

    And he is practicing to say them out loud.

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    02 Apr 2026

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    A few months after the FanMail incident, Yuna Hollander decides to do what she does best. With the added benefit of having another son to lovingly manage, of course. The internet, unsurprisingly, loses its shit.

    Or, Shane and Ilya go on the press run to end all press runs, courtesy of Yuna Hollander.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    Shane Hollander was traded to the Ottawa Centaurs without ever being outed. His relationship with Ilya Rozanov is still a secret to most people.
    Everything was going just fine, until they both get added to the Centaurs WAGs group chat.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    It’s totally not gay to give your best friend a dildo of your own dick.

    Right?

    Right??

    Or the one where Ilya gives Shane a dildo as a gag gift.

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    15 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    “Was he reaching for a toy from the drawer that had gone from housing a solitary dildo to an impressive array of sex toys over the past couple of years? Ilya was fond of buying Shane presents.” -Rachel Reid, THE LONG GAME

    Ilya gets Shane a present while he's still in Boston, and he hopes Shane likes it. Shane likes it a lot.

    Takes place in November of 2017.

    (Title from "Bless the Telephone" by Labi Siffre.)

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    15 Mar 2026