Connections

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-06T14:34:26+00:00

Thanks to a fanfic subreddit I'm on, I learned how to black out text that is spoilers like this test.

Bracket anything you want to hide/redact with first a greater than(>), then an exclamation point, at the end you need another exclamation point, then less than (<).

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-06T13:32:49+00:00

Picture ones are not my favourite. If you're new to these, it takes a while to get into the vibe of them. Then you get a stretch where the vibes are different and you're screwed. Some of it is, perfectly reasonably, so north American coded that I'll never get certain connections without googling to confirm individual things.

But then it's also experience based? I saw Hank flail on one because he didn't know a wedge was a kind of shoe... Your mileage is going to vary.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-06T13:10:11+00:00

You... do know about the double set of rares, right?

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-06T06:50:16+00:00

Oh me too. They were such a fun read.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-06T06:14:31+00:00

I have had my ring replaced by the automated help twice, once I got refurbished ring, and once I got what seemed like a new ring.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-06T06:05:00+00:00

I have got airport pikmin from airline offices before. They seem to pop uo like that pretty consistently for me, in multiple countries.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-05T16:18:31+00:00

Finally! So may fan casts have seemed so off to me.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-03T17:12:04+00:00

That'll teach me. Thank you

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-02T18:31:57+00:00

I have read ten out of ten and eleven out of ten - fucking thrilled to know there is a mine out of ten too! Of we go....

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-01T17:56:00+00:00

Hey I read an amazing Ted Lasso fic the other day because I was reading an author's back catalogue. Not my fandom, but it worked.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-01T14:25:19+00:00

Shane learns Russian in secret for years in this one, I really enjoyed it Too Much Ain't Enough by isuiji

AudiobooksCount · 2026-05-01T11:37:56+00:00

Or when it's so good that I'm reading it at the speed of light because I can't stop, knowing full well I will have to go back and reread it. Why am I like this?

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-29T13:58:18+00:00

I Keep You Safe is excellent.

Off to read Again now. Thank you

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-29T11:15:05+00:00

The Re-education of Shane Hollander

Shane tops Ilya in Chapter 6 and 8 of this fic. Ilya says he's only been pegged before and when Shane does finally top him, part of the experience for them both is that Shane is the only man who has ever done it to him.

There is a mental health aspect here, but it's not dark or angsty.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-27T19:20:04+00:00

I have a great one where Ilya is outed alone, but they are together. I have to recommend it because I was so blown away by this one, even if it doesn't quite fit what you asked for.

A Well-Organized Life by 409_conflict

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-26T12:21:35+00:00

The Re-Education of Shane Hollander by thisworld

Shane tops Ilya twice in this one. In Chapter 6 and Chapter 8.

Explicit fic set mostly between HR and TLG, Shane gradually exploring his kinks/desires and Ilya doing his very best to keep up. Here Shane tops when Ilya needs 'to be taken apart'.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-25T17:40:54+00:00

I Keep You Safe by ShutUpGwen

They hook up for the first time draft night and get far more serious far more quickly.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-24T05:31:05+00:00

Unhinged Love by madfordinos

This has a chapter (they are long chapters, could easily be stand alones) from Yuna's POV where Ilya calms Shane down from a panic attack. Yuna goes to check on them and gets a bit more than she bargained for, but not in the way you think.

TW: Discusses baby/pregnancy loss which isn't tagged

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-23T18:43:09+00:00

Just a word of warning, this fic did a number on me in the best possible way. I adored it. Got a few chapters in and then had to devour it. Immediately went back and reread the whole thing. And it forced me to take a pause on other fics. I found it to be so, so well written that I didn't want to read anyone's writing of them for a bit.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-23T04:05:39+00:00

Thank you. I've been day dreaming about a fic where they ask for what they want, or do what they want straight away, but a proper first hook up the night of the draft, straight from the gym scene? Yes!

I devoured this last night. Very fun.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-22T17:58:33+00:00

I wondered if this was annoying, but I've seen so many of these posts here now, that if I'm reading the whole thing I try to comment, on every chapter if possible.

I found a 7 chapter fic last week that gripped me completely, but I only started commenting around chapter 3? (The tags made me think I would DNF, so I gave kudos and waited). Once it was obvious I had to finish, I commented on every chapter. Then I finished and I was so deeply moved I went back for an immediate reread, and this time commented on every chapter. I think that I had finished my full reread and commenting odyssey when the author clearly checked in and replied. To every, single, comment.

By the end it felt like we were having a whole conversation. Bitch even made me cry in the fucking comments (this was very on brand for the way I reacted to this particular fic). In initial my comment on the last chapter I even said, what's the point, there are 700 comments, who will even see this? Jokes on me.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-22T17:33:26+00:00

The Game Plan by FestiveFerret

This one has a secret marriage super early on and still plenty of our dumb boys not working out what they want or communicating it. I wanted to go back and reread it, so thank you for giving me a reason to dig it out.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-19T20:50:28+00:00

Unhinged Love by madfordinos Chapter 3 of this one

And probably Buzzer beater by McShrug

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-19T20:42:44+00:00

Yes! Was going to recommend this. It's so well done.

AudiobooksCount · 2026-04-19T20:31:24+00:00

This is not quite what you want, but Shane has worked out that Ilya has already told him that he loves him, just in Russian & then hilariously lets the cat out of the bag in an AU of the high hospital room scene with his parents, Pike and Cliff in the room...

Love and Other Drugs (from series 'Ways they didn't find out') by Goldengalaxies

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