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Last year I brought a big hoodie to the hospital, and spent some of the eternal waiting and painful healing keeping my hands busy embroidering. It was really nice to have something to focus on - something to do. But I also accidentally started associating embroidering (or preparing something to embroider) with bad things happening. (Thanks, brain.) I realized this, and still it was a real effort to overcome that and pick two embroideries I'd left abandoned for the better part of the year.

But I did, and I was really pleased with the results!

( Silly tiger, Wanderlust, autumn leaf. )

I still find different stitches and patterns quite intimidating. I bought a pair of sweatpants second hand, and they came with the logo of a Danish school, which I'm planning on covering up... But I wasn't able to find a pattern of the right shape, so I've scrawled a heart on it? I'll fill it with chain stitch, because I've learned that works really well with that kind of stretch cotton fabric, but I have no idea what it'll end up looking like!

(My biggest woe with embroidery is that I am SO bad at drawing, I can't actually design much in the way of patterns myself. Like. That leaf was really stretching my abilities.)

...and I just realized that this might be the first time I post about embroidering here?? I don't have a tag for it, I don't think? HM. Well. One of my made-in-hospital pieces (this one from 2024) is in my icon! Maybe I should share some more pictures of what I've been up to?

settiai

Jesus, 2026. Can you knock it off with the deaths already? He was only 46.

Current Mood: sad

china_shop

"When people ask me what I think is the single most important factor in an artist's sustained productivity, I know I'm supposed to say something like "solitude" or "an independent income", or "childcare". All of these things are good and many people have said so, but what I think is better and more important than any of these things is what I call "a believing mirror".

Put simply, a believing mirror is a friend to your creativity - someone who believes in you and your creativity. As artists we can constantly build what I call creative clusters - a Sacred Circle of believing mirrors to potentiate each other's growth, to mirror a "yes" to each other's creativity."

– Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way

My day 26: Most of a weekly update post, and a bunch of housework and Chinese study.

The tally
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Day 24:

ashelterofpages,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

ysilme

Day 25:

china_shop,

glinda,

sanguinity

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aurumcalendula

I had an uneventful birthday, but I did get a chance to check out some parks earlier this weekend (the squirrels were very active) and ordered some print copies of books I particularly enjoyed from the local bookstore!

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yuletide

Here we go. Please watch this post! We will update here as each batch goes out:

Candy? COMING SOON (probably last)

Drinks? COMING SOON

Books? SENT as of 10/25/26

( INSTRUCTIONS & REMINDERS )

SENDING DEADLINE: Friday, November 20, 2026

Extensions/Defaulting: Pre-research your post office/courier service hours, and plan to send as early as you can! BUT if your best-laid plans fail, and you need an extension -- we get it! Please bypass the shame spiral and email us ASAP. We want to know what's going on but rarely hesitate to grant brief extensions, especially to historically reliable swappers.

And, of course, if you need to default for any reason, the above is doubly true!! Life happens, but if you let us know as soon as it does, we can help out your recipient AND probably have you back next year with minimal anxiety.

One More Time: don't forget to check in at Swaps Central! And a safe, merry Swapstide to all!

Current FAQ and very old resources post here, for anyone who needs them. Questions and comments here or via email, as always.

Kat & Helen

Current Mood: awake

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

china_shop

“Convenience trains us to avoid friction [...] But friction is also where so much of life happens. Community is inefficient. Friendship is inefficient. Love is wildly inefficient. All the best parts of being human require us to spend time on one another with no guarantee of what we're going to get back. Art is also spectacularly inefficient, and thank goodness because efficiency isn't the point. Being alive is the point. Creating is the point.”

– Nakia, Creative Mornings talk (August 2026)

(All quotes courtesy of the Words of Wisdom from London Writers' Salon Writers' Hours.)

My day 25: Another post to my language-learning journal, and another alibi sentence. Also, an afternoon of manoeuvring furniture between bedrooms, swapping my exercise/storage room with my bedroom.

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Day 23:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

ysilme

Day 24:

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

ysilme

Please check in on the most recent post, and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. You can join in or take a break at any time; you’re always welcome back. And please let me know if I’ve missed you.

aurumcalendula

A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw by Kevin M. Levin:

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I hope the Confabcon vidshow playlist gets posted somewhere eventually - I'm really curious about what was shown!

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fancake

Fandom: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types

Pairings/Characters: Megatron/Optimus Prime, Megatron/Orion Pax, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Original Female Character

Rating: General Audiences

Length: 4,693 words

Creator Links: auri_mynonys

Theme: Fluff, Cutesy, Anniversary, Candy Shop, Gift Giving

Summary: For a second, Volley is certain she’s misheard him. The first words she’s ever heard out of Optimus Prime’s own mouth can’t possibly be a pick-up line. She’s having a fever dream of some sort, maybe. Probably.

But then she looks at Megatron, and knows she didn’t mishear at all. He’s speechless and blushing, opening his mouth only to snap it closed, faceplates heating so abruptly that the air around him shimmers. And why wouldn’t he be?

After all, Optimus Prime just hit on him.

Reccer's Notes: This fic will always be my "go-to" when I need a pick-me-up. Megatron and Optimus Prime both being adorable is too good to pass up.

Fanwork Links: "Like a Box of Chocolates" on AO3

settiai

Ooh! I got an assignment that was already on my short list for treats!

I'm going to have fun with this one.

Current Mood: excited

aurumcalendula posting in

vidding

Title: The Well
Fandom: NCIS: Hawai'i
Music: The Well by The Crane Wives
Summary: 'all the words I couldn't say to you/ fill up the spaces in my chest'
Notes: Premiered at CONfabulation 2026!
Warnings: blinking and flashing lights, quick cuts, violence

AO3 | bsky | DW | tumblr | YouTube

naye

Thursday night someone posted that the Yuletide signup deadline was imminent. My first thought was "Oh, it's that time of year? Neat." Because, see. I don't do Yuletide. I have always been deeply intimidated by multifandom fic exchanges. As a lifelong monofannish type, three fandoms has always seemed like an impossible gamble: how could I possibly write for any of that many things??

Except then something in my brain went "!!!" and wouldn't let me sleep until I'd looked at the tags. And. Yes. The thing I was thinking about was indeed nominated. And the second thing I thought of. And the third.

HMM.

...I think participating in Festivids and FTH has been breaking down my mental blocks? Because I signed up to my first Festivids (I'm on my third now) with the same "How could I possibly...!" attitude. And then I could. Not just make a vid, but also make treats. For completely new-to-me sources. Which lead to me offering to vid literally anything for FTH, and then having a blast with my request.

Also, in the meantime I have been... not writing. Aggressively Not Writing. The last time I felt an actual burst of creativity that made me excited to write was in 2021. I have a fic posted to AO3 in 2022 that was me trying very hard to prove to myself that I wasn't running out of creative juices. Then I ran out of creative juices. (Okay, that's unfair to my creative juices. What happened was my autoimmune system tried very hard to kill me, and I had a hellish six months, and then had to adjust to having a new type of bodily function and then I had another surgery and then my autoimmune system tried to kill me again and I had to have three surgeries and yet another type of new bodily function. And that last surgery was literally six months ago, so. I've been. Distracted.)

Anyway. Thursday night an idée fixe glommed on to my brain like a suckerfish on a shark: sign up for Yuletide. Yes, for real. No, it doesn't matter that I haven't even been reading fic for half a decade. It's only 1000 words! There are no penalties for defaulting! And most importantly: I've missed writing. I've missed it in the sense that it has felt like something missing from my life, being without it. Something I've ached for. And it's been years and I haven't been able to pull more than a drabble together, but it's something I am desperate to do. So: external accountability! A prompt! A recipient who wants to read what I write, even in a new-to-me fandom, even if it falls short of my self-imposed perfectionism.

Why not do it? Why not try? It can't hurt...?

This was less than 24 hours before the deadline. And, again, I have never done this before so I didn't even know that there was a Tagset App or anything like that. I just went to the Yuletide page on AO3 and manually scrolled thousands of shows and books and other things, surprised at how many I recognized, other than the three my little sharksucker of an impulse had already identified.

Friday morning I texted my best friend about it, and she immediately enabled me. I tried to tell her I don't know if I can still write, and she waved that away. It's like riding a bicycle! (My idée fixe pointed out that falling off a bicycle hurts a lot more than not writing does.) So I went on Bluesky, and all of a suddenly a bunch of mutuals were waving Yuletide pompoms at me, coming with advice and reassurance, and it didn't seem impossible anymore.

I clocked out of work early so I could go look at it all from the big screen of my home office. Signing up to Yuletide for the first time ever is not a smartphone sort of thing. Also I needed a good dozen tabs open to look at rules and sign-up summary and letters and tags...!

With some hand-holding from Bluesky buddies, and tiled tabs guiding me through the process one step at the time, I started a Dear Yuletide Writer letter of my own, and hit "Submit" with a couple of hours to spare before the deadline.

So. That's happening!

My Yuletide letter is over here - a cautious three requests while I dip my toes in with five offers (I made sure the ones that had letters would be ones I wouldn't mind attempting).

At the same time I am also doing Festivids, but there I've gone all out with ten requests! And only one of them overlaps with Yuletide, because I literally only just finished watching the one that manifested the mental suckerfish.

Oh yeah, both letters include some files for some shows and movies I've enjoyed, so check them out if you're looking for recs!

caramarie

Soviet-era film about a team of geologists looking for diamonds in Siberia over the summer; after failing to find anything, their leader decides to extend the season, as he knows this is probably the last time they’ll be sent out.

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I saw The Cranes are Flying by the same director earlier in the year, during the period where I failed to do any film write-ups. That had the same lead actress, as the woman left behind after her fiance goes to war. It’s a very anti-war film, which makes you feel extra depressed given the current world state.

I probably enjoyed The Cranes Were Flying more (where ‘enjoyed’ includes crying a lot), but both were worthwhile!

china_shop

"Approaching your writing table (or couch) with a sense of guilt will actually create yet another obstacle to writing anything. So try what I call the 'GPS Approach.' ... We used to find our way via outdated maps, wrong turns, and shouting matches. Now we let technology navigate for us. The GPS has no concept of a wrong turn — it simply reroutes us from where we are, and is concerned only with getting us to our destination.

So, rather than expecting to quickly repay the looming debt you owe on the page, just reroute yourself. Every day you write something is new, and everything you write is a victory. You will reach your destination — both faster and happier — if you’re not yelling at yourself from the passenger seat."

– Rebecca Schuman, Are You Working? From New Year’s Resolutions to Reality

(All quotes courtesy of the Words of Wisdom from London Writers' Salon Writers' Hours.)

My day 24: Three posts on my language-learning journal (

china_shops_kjnl), plus an alibi sentence of fic (so far).

The tally
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Day 21:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

cornerofmadness,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch

Day 22:

ashelterofpages,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

cornerofmadness,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan

Day 23:

china_shop,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

the_siobhan

When you check in, please say what day(s) you’re checking in for. You can join in or take a break at any time; you’re always welcome back. And please let me know if I’ve missed you.

serrico

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Current Mood: geeky

naye

Dear Yuletide Writer,

I'm delighted to know we've matched, because it means you like one of these little fandoms too! And (DNWs outlined in my signup aside), the most important thing for me is that you get to write something you enjoy for whichever of these wonderful characters you feel most drawn to. My likes below are there because I have understood it is customary to write something a bit longer than "Yay, go for it!" (Despite being in fandom forever this is my first time attempting Yuletide participation, which makes all of this extra exciting!) But if you've already got ideas or themes that you want to explore, I'm happy to follow wherever that inspiration leads you.

I am also very much open to treats!

Since not everyone may have access to where the two shows I've requested are streaming, but I want more people in the fandoms, I've made them available here on Proton Drive until Yuletide deadline. Help yourself! (This goes for anyone reading this.)

General likes

Hurt/comfort: The comfort aspect is important to me, though I'm not adverse to some good old whumping (including non-con as whump) first. I'm particularly into characters getting to be self-sacrificing and protective - the "take me instead" trope is catnip to me (especially when characters try to out-sacrifice each other). I like characters being (metaphorically) cracked open to show their vulnerabilities, especially with someone around trying to keep them together, or offering them a safe space to fall apart. I have a soft spot for drugging/mind manipulation etc, where a character has to fight their own body or their own perception of the world to keep from being controlled or hurting a loved one. (Actual hurt is fine, too, as long as it doesn't get to the point where the entire story turns into a relentless guilt trip.) That said, sometimes the best thing for my heart is a fluffy sickfic or someone getting cuddled after a nightmare.

More of the characters: I've nominated characters from these tiny fandoms because I am so, so fond them, and so anything that gives me more is wonderful! Everything from missing scenes to the immediate aftermath of the story, as long as it's the characters doing their character things I'll love it. I'm a sucker for a good case fic (whatever your definition of "case"), and of tying up lose ends, or trying to answer questions canon left us with. I'm also of the mind that no fictional character is ever permanently dead, and no villain ever truly defeated, so everyone can be brought back for more.

Warm fuzzies: I am very partial to vignettes that are all about setting a particular mood. It doesn't have to be literal warm fuzzies - a bit of melancholy or introspection is fine. But I love scenes where you can experience the characters' feelings. Things like the excited fizz of wanting to stay up all night talking, or of the drowsy pleasure of knowing it's safe to fall asleep, or of the simple comfort of preparing and sharing a meal with your loved one(s). Maybe the characters are finally visiting somewhere they've always wanted to go, and nothing terrible happens, or maybe they spend a rainy day in a library. Those little moments canon is usually to busy to go into - give them to me!

Smut likes

"It can feel like this?": First time with each other, first time trying something new to the POV character/introducing their partner to something new, figuring each other out, figuring themselves out, wonder and delight at new sensations, overwhelming love/connection/desire/pleasure the POV character hasn't felt before.

Power dynamics - especially in the heat of the moment, without negotiation (though it can also have been negotiated off screen): possessiveness, light D/s, light bondage, praise kink, dressed/naked, edgeplay.

The works, turned up to 11: characters desperate to touch each other, multiple orgasms, overstimulation - anything leaving them reduced to a happy, sloppy, quite possibly aching mess.

DNWs

Bad relationships: I like ships who love each other, without infidelity or jealousy, except where this is canon (Shiono, I'm looking at you). And no matter how realistic it might be, I don't want anything where the on-page sex between characters in the ship is unenjoyable for any of them. (References to previous bad experiences etc is fine.)

Changing the characters and their canon too much: Omegaverse, kidfic (including anything related to pregnancy), genderswap etc. What-ifs and twists on canon are fine!

Kinks: Anything not on my list of smut likes that you'd normally want to check in with a partner about first (especially if humiliation is involved) is probably not something I'd enjoy. Take biting: a love bite or three in the heat of the moment? Hot! An entire PWP focused on biting to draw blood? I'd probably not click that.

Bad endings: I am all for the hurt as long as there's comfort, and the angst as long as there's a (relatively) happy ending. I put "stories that leave the characters or their relationship worse off than by the end of canon" in my signup, because for Yuletide I'm not looking to have my heart broken.

Body horror: I love h/c, but I can't handle forced body modification/amputation or graphic descriptions of injuries or torture. Injuries or torture in general is fine, but a paragraph detailing the anatomy of a wound would squick me. Also realistic chronic illness and surgery hits a little too close to home to be fun!

My requests are:

雨霖铃 | Zhan Zhao Adventures - Bai Yutang, Huo Linglong, Zhan Zhao

Zhan Zhao is unconscious. Huo Linglong cradles his face in her hands as she leans him back against a carriage wall. Bai Yutang is helping steady him.

Look at this beautifully tender bit of h/c! Look at the intensity of the intimacy between three people who just met! (Bai Yutang in white has literally never spoken to unconscious Zhan Zhao, and Huo Linglong is still pretending she's young man of no importance.)

Trailer

A 37 episode wuxia from this year with an OT3 I am more than slightly feral about! I wrote a very extensive rec post for it a while back. I have so many feelings about how Zhan Zhao, Huo Linglong and Bai Yutang manage to end up both alive (for Yuletide Ming Zhu'er can also be alive!) and in what I can only call a canon queerplatonic relationship?? They do that thing I love when characters aren't forced together by circumstances, but choose to stay with each other, because they fall so hard and so fast that they just... don't want to stop being together?

I'm desperate to read more about these three! Gen or ship or some secret third thing - it's all good with me, as long as they are each other's most important people. I love the way they care about each other, and worry about each other, all equally ride or die for the other two and equally reckless about their own safety. And as canon proves over and over again, they are a perfect trio for getting into hurt/comfort scenarios!

I really love Huo Linglong's arc - she grows so much, and ends up in such a fantastic position of power and responsibility. Fortunately it's a time-honored tradition for martial sect leaders to go wandering the Jianghu, so she doesn't have to give any of that up to go on adventures with the other two. I will also point out that she already had more than her fair share of worrying about the other two - it's high time they were the ones having to panic that something's happened to her, or nurse her through an illness/injury/exciting Jianghu poison.

Show specific DNWs: No breaking up the trio - they are a set, do not separate! I am more interested in plot and character moments than pure PWP with these three, but if sex is part of the story I'd prefer something along the lines of "It can feel like this?" in my likes above. (Mostly because I don't have a solid headcanon for when they would have gotten together - who made the first move, and how, and when? There's a lot to explore there...)

Oh, and I don't like localizing/ignoring the character's terms of address for each other! Huo Linglong calls them "Zhan Dage" and "Bai Dage", Bai Yutang calls her "Huo Xiaomei", Zhan Zhao calls her "Linglong", and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang just call each other by full name. I'd be fine with more intimate terms of adress as well, as long as they're culturally appropriate.

キスは捜査の後で | Kisu wa Sousa no Ato de | Duty First Kiss Later - Takoi Heisuke, Shiono Shu

Shiono (with a bandaged head) is laughing at a tiny piece of salad pinched between his fingers when Takoi grabs his wrist. It immediately refocuses his entire attention on Takoi's serious face. As Takoi takes a small step towards Shiono, Shiono's eyes are helplessly drawn to Takoi's mouth, his expression turning nakedly vulnerable in his want.

No but look at the yearning. Technically Shiono (with a bandaged head) has already kissed Takoi (not the best workplace behavior but it's a HEA BL so it's all good), but he hasn't been kissed by Takoi, and as you can see the longing for that is Doing Things to him.

Trailer

This recent Japanese BL of 10 x 20 minute episodes took my heart by storm, because Takoi and Shiono are just so... so cute, in a "Help, I ship them?!" kind of way. They are also very much characters influenced by one of my formative ships: Aoshima and Muroi from 踊る大捜査線 | Bayside Shakedown (I see your red tie, Takoi). It's one of those dynamics I imprinted on so hard I still go "!!!" at any hint of it twenty years later.

Anyway, I love them very much, and they are adorable, with chemistry through the roof. They both have their own issues to work through before they can end up together, but I really like that, for each other, for their shot at a relationship, they do.

And then the show is over?! So rude! I want more of the two of them. I really, really want the sex we didn't get to see at all, and more of the tender kisses and the handholding, and definitely more of handwavey plot reasons to get homoerotically menaced and sexily injured. And what else do they face once they're over their original issues and misunderstandings? Is Takoi gonna get hung up over their age difference? Is he going to learn about their first meeting and be weird about it? How is Shiono going to deal with the fact that he will have to let Takoi be his easygoing, sweet self with a whole new bunch of colleagues once Takoi makes it to HQ?

I really appreciate keeping the canonical Japanese forms of address (that perfectly delivered "...Shu" did things to my heart), and while I don't care about realistic politics or descriptions of police work, dropping details like seasonal KitKat flavors at the conbini would be a delight!

Show specific DNWs: I love that the show gives Takoi supportive colleagues, and Shiono a loving and accepting family, and I'd like for a fic to be set in their happy yaoi land where homophobia does exist, but as something they've mostly gotten over and aren't bothered by. Hell, go ahead and legalize same-sex marriage in their Japan if you want!

Swordheart Series - T. Kingfisher - Learned Edmund, The Dervish

From Daggerbound, Chapter 17

I just read Daggerbound, and it was ridiculously up my alley. I absolutely loved Swordheart and all the characters in there as well, but the combination of the Dervish's fun personality (and horrible trauma) and Edmund's... Edmund-ness... was just so good. The fact that the Dervish starts off wanting to get rid of Edmund so he doesn't have to protect him against his will, and ends up wanting to do anything to protect Edmund? While Edmund nearly gets killed trying to protect the sword even before he gets to know The Dervish (because the sword is important, and he isn't), and it doesn't even cross his mind to use The Dervish the way all the precious wielders did? Yeah. They're both so good for each other.

The book dealt wonderfully with the Dervish revealing his past to Edmund, but it's very possible they both need more time to process it. The Dervish has a lot of trauma, and he's still immortal and magical and the target of sinister people (and possibly a god or two) who want to use him. And Edmund has a recent kidnapping to deal with, and finding his way in the world, and neither of them have been in this kind of relationship before - and that's before even getting into the Sword/Wielder thing. But yeah - I'd love to see both of them getting more comfort.

And though they're not in my signup request, I loved Dog Violet, and of course Large Francis! Please include as much of them as you want. The four of them are the best little ragtag group of odd ones out turned loyal friends. (I have read all of the books set in The World of the White Rat, so feel free to include anything you want from those as well.)

Book specific DNWs: I know you can just put the Dervish back together, but he's been through so much already, maybe not any new body horror? Flashbacks are more than fine, and so's all the h/c mentioned in my likes.

oracne

I am currently wading through my DW reading list as I await email responses for working from home.

Please let me know if you have current news I am missing! I am very behind.

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yuletide

Do you love receiving or writing end of year holiday stories? Are you prompting a snowed in Hanukkah celebration or an Australian New Year's beach party? Season's Treatings may be for you!

This mini-challenge is all about November, December and January holidays, traditions, and cultural celebrations big and small and all over the globe--and perhaps some fantasy worlds, who knows. If you want to prompt it, someone may want to write it.

When you comment, please include:

AO3 Name:
Letter Link (if applicable):
Holiday(s) Requested:
Fandom and character(s):
Prompts:

When you upload, tag it as Season's Treatings so we can all find them.

Current Mood: cheerful

mific posting in

fancake

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Yuna Hollander, David Hollander, Joe, Svetlana Vetrova
Rating: general
Length: 8769
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: jukoist on AO3
Themes: Fluff, Pre-canon, Backstory, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, Kidfic: as kids, AU: fork in the road

Summary: “Ilya Rozanov,” Shane repeats slowly, letting himself taste the words. He grins. “Wow. You’re, like, a really good player. How come you’re in Canada for summer camp? Is that weird to ask? Sorry if that’s weird. I just meant-”

Shane is cut off by a hand on his mouth. He flushes.

“Too fast,” Ilya says. “My English... not good.”

“Sorry,” Shane mumbles into Ilya’s hand. Ilya grins and shakes his head, curls dancing, as he pulls his hand away.

“Is okay. Slow words. Okay?”

This year marks thirteen year old Shane Hollander's third summer at Coach Marakov's elite hockey training camp. In attendance for the first time: Ilya Rozanov, visiting from Russia. Shane isn't the most sociable, and Ilya's English isn't the greatest, yet the unlikely duo soon become the best of friends.

It's just one summer, but it makes a world of difference.

Reccer's Notes: In this story Shane and Ilya meet aged 13, at an Ottawa-based hockey camp. They become best friends despite Ilya having very little English and Shane having no Russian, and bond over being the best players at the camp, and while petting the camp cat. Ilya is withdrawn and brusque at first but Shane's artless directness wins him over. They stay in touch through adolescence and it results in a very different meeting when they next see each other at the Prospect Cup in Regina. Charming and heartwarming with great characterisation - a lovely read.

Fanwork Links: Young and Hopelessly Smitten