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    a companion piece to back and forth from new york showing the in-world social media response to the events of each chapter!!

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    19 Feb 2026

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    After coming out to Rose, Shane decides he doesn't want to lie anymore, even if he isn't sure coming out will mean he gets happily ever after with Ilya. When coming out to the Voyageurs leaves him wondering what his future in Montreal might look like, he lets himself be a little selfish, he lets himself wonder if there might be somewhere else he might be happy. If Montreal wants to get rid of a generational player, he's not about to stop them, especially if it means he can get a little closer to joy.

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    Or: Shane Hollander leaves Montreal in search of something better.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    Shane Hollander only meant to attend a few hockey games — a small act of rebellion against the boyfriend who controlled every part of his life. But that night changes everything. The arena becomes a refuge, Rose becomes a friend, and the Montreal Metros become the first place he’s felt safe in years.

    No one knows he’s living with domestic violence.
    No one knows he’s planning to run.
    No one knows how much he’s breaking.

    And no one expects him to fall for Ilya Rozanov — the loud, brilliant, closeted Russian winger recently traded under suspicious circumstances.

    Ilya has secrets he can’t share, a past he can’t escape, and feelings he doesn’t know how to handle.

    Shane is learning how to live again.
    Ilya is learning how to feel again.
    Both are learning how to trust.

    But when the truth about their pasts threatens to surface, they’ll have to decide whether they can face it together — or lose each other trying.

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    Or: A story about healing, found family, and the terrifying, beautiful risk of choosing love after surviving what was meant to break you.

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    29 Jan 2026

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    It was like there were two of him, whole but only partially under his control. There was more there, hiding beneath, currently unconscious, but he knew it would soon regain itself and share control with him. Without that part of him there, he felt somehow incomplete. It probably would’ve been overwhelming for any other creature, but because he was, well, Bill, it didn’t do anything.

    The other part of him, though, was unconscious for a reason. Mason “Dipper” Pines, or Pine Tree, as he liked to call him, had only been a human, gifted magic by a god, and later granted a shared godhood because of what a good f- devotee he had been. The boy had been tormented so much by his own kind, cast aside, whether directly, as by his bullies, or indirectly, as by his parents or sister. All Bill had needed to do was show him the understanding and attention he had received nowhere else, and he became putty in his hands. He hadn’t, of course, accounted for the genuine care Pine Tree seemed to show him in return, and he had come to some uncomfortable realizations in his ministry that he refused to acknowledge, even to himself.

    So he wouldn’t. Simple as that.

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    28 Dec 2025

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    Percy was four years old the first time his dreams led him to his many-great-grandmother’s chambers- a woman long dead yet somehow still seated in front of him, fingers grasping at her hair tightly as she wails about a wooden horse on the beach while her servants look on in pity. He feels the weight of something ancient and heavy settle on his shoulders in that moment.

    He was in his 1st grade classroom when his teacher screamed at him for making up lies about gods and monsters and scaring the other children. He was eight when his mother's own visions become too much for her to bear.

    He's at Yancy when Grover Underwood finally finds him and says "I believe you" for the first time. And as Percy begins to feel lighter, that ancient weight that has followed him his whole life slowly dissipating, he realizes that being believed can be just as horrifying as being thought mad.

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    24 Dec 2025