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  1. Public Bookmark 97

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    “What does gen nine twelve sixteen mean?”

    “What?”

    “Over there,” Haasy says, pointing across the ice to where the Metros are also warming up. “On Comeau’s helmet.”

    Troy looks up awkwardly from his hands and knees—his hips are always a little tight these days—and cranes his neck. And narrows his eyes. “That’s…that’s a Bible verse.”

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    The Metros try to ruin the Centaurs' Pride Night. Love wins.

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    12 Aug 2026

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    Bible verses referenced (Yeah, We Stole the Rainbow, by timptoe)
    • Boodram: John 15:13 — Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
    • Chouinard: 1 John 4:19 — We love because he first loved us.
    • Troy: Song of Solomon 6:3 — I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies. [CEV: I am his, and he is mine, as he feeds his sheep among the lilies.]
    • Young: Psalm 139:14 — I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. [CEV: I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me. Everything you do is marvelous! Of this I have no doubt.]
    • Holmberg: Matthew 6:5 — “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
    • LaPoint: Galatians 5:12 — As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
    • Rozanov: Ezekiel 23:20 — There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

    Text from the New International Version, except where noted.
    CEV = Contemporary English Version.
    Song of Solomon = Song of Songs.

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    At the 2017 All Star Weekend, Ilya takes fate into his own hands to produce at least one out MLH player by the end of the season. Thus begins his part-time side hustle as community organizer, mastermind, and Commander-in-Chief of the Gay Hockey Army.

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    25 May 2026

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    Up to ch 33 (The chips are set to fall, by icopythefax)

  3. Public Bookmark 63

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    Click.
    “Is she with you?”

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    26 May 2026

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    up to ch 3 (Hyaline (see-through), by JaneGreyTheQueen, quod_amatur_vivit)

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    Welcome to the Ultimate Game.

    If you’re looking for a chronicle of redemption or, worse yet, a fairy tale ending with a kiss under the snow, you’ve walked into the wrong locker room. This is the story of a sabotage.

    For ten years, the hockey world has feasted on the rivalry between two captains with the same hunger one brings to a public execution. And us? We served them the blood on a silver platter, while in the shadows of hotel rooms in Montreal or Boston, we exchanged fluids and secrets with the precision of two spies in enemy territory.

    They believe the ice is a sanctuary of heterosexual secrets. They don’t realize that while they were betting on our next elbow to the face, they were witnessing a long, violent decade of foreplay.

    Now, it’s time for El Plan.

    Shane is the butterfly flapping its wings on an underwear billboard. I am the tornado about to level the entire NHL.

    Grab your popcorn. It’s going to be a beautiful massacre.

    My name is Ilya Rozanov, and you can thank me later.

    Or: how Shane and Ilya gaslit the entire world by officially "starting to date" in 2020.

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    28 May 2026

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    up to ch 7 (The Chaos Theorem (or: Shane Hollander needs a nap and a therapist. He got Ilya instead), by Goffi_3197)

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    He could already see himself there, [...], explaining to his audience [...] that the media are lazy animals. If they aren’t fed a buffet of prime cuts, they start digging where they shouldn't. Consequently, one must arrange the corpses just right.

  5. Public Bookmark 88

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    “He was such a prodigy,” Scott said while they lay tangled in bed, watching highlight reels. Kip never expected to spend nights watching hockey, but then again, he never expected to be dating a secret multi-millionaire in a Manhattan penthouse either.

    “Was?” Kip asked. “He looks pretty talented to me.”

    “I mean, he’s still fucking amazing,” Scott’s eyes never left the screen as number 24 snuck a puck through the legs of the goalie and the announcer rattled off a list of stats. “But a bit off his game since he missed the Olympics.”

    Or: It's the playoffs, and Shane and Scott Hunter are going head-to-head - literally. Meanwhile, Ilya's past comes back to haunt him.

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    31 May 2026

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    up to ch 10 (Where the crawfish spend winter, by gsmaxwell (PrinPrin))