After spending an embarrassing amount of time researching baseball, I came to a realization: if Shane isn't playing hockey, then baseball is absolutely his next great love. It's a sport with one of the largest percentages of Asian players among the major North American leagues, and one that lets him push himself to the absolute limit as a rare two-way player. Honestly, what more could Shane ask for? Yuri, from Tadaima, Okaeri, is back! This time, she's the daughter of Alpha!Ilya and Omega!Shane, who are now captains of the Boston Bears and the Boston Red Sox, respectively. I really hope you'll enjoy Out of Left Field. ❤️

@baseballnerd44 HE ADOPTED HER AS A ROOKIE??? @historybuff617 The adoption story is actually pretty well known around Boston. After he was drafted, Shane flew to Japan to visit his grandparents in Kyoto before reporting to the organization. On the trip back, he stopped in Paris and met a young woman who was trying to escape an abusive husband. He helped her get safely to Canada, connected her with organizations that support women fleeing domestic violence, and stayed in contact while she got back on her feet. When she gave birth by the end of his first year as a professional baseball player, she made the incredibly difficult decision to place the baby for adoption. Shane adopted her. Her name is Sofia Yuna Hollander.

"You signed with the LA Kings?" she demanded. "What were you thinking? You know the plan. We'd go to the draft, get first pick, and go to Montreal." "What are you even talking about?" Shane shot back. "If I got first pick, I'd go to Boston, not Montreal. And I don't even want to go to Montreal." "Why?" Mom asked immediately. "They're one of the best teams in the league. One of the Original Six." Something inside him snapped, and before he even realized it, he switched to Japanese. "I don't know," he said, his voice tight. "Maybe because they're full of racists and homophobes. Do you even understand what I'm saying? Or have you become so white you forgot your own language?"

𝙎𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝘿𝙒𝙏𝙎 𝙥𝙧𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙-𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙖 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙄𝙧𝙬𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙. 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙. 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙠 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧? ─────── ❝trying on shoes, puttin' on glitter ❞ robert irwin x dwts femoc fanfiction ©anbuss󠁯 •󠁏 2026 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 1.12.26 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝: 7.2.26

Princess Anastasia knows the rules: smile for the cameras, follow protocol, and never - ever - fall for a rock star. Especially not Louis Tomlinson. Former One Direction heartthrob turned rock icon, he's everything the palace warns against: loud, unpredictable, and impossible to ignore. But love has never much cared for royal protocol. Caught between duty and desire, dodging paparazzi and palace gossip alike, Anastasia and Louis must decide whether their love is worth going public - and what it could cost them both. With the Queen's sharp counsel, Prince Philip's mischief, and the One Direction boys stirring the pot at every turn, one thing is certain: nothing about this romance will be normal.

Lando Norris has been designing helmets with Fern Fletcher since karting. Flames, lightning bolts, bad emails, worse ideas - she's been making him look like himself since before anyone else was watching. So when Lando wins the championship, there's only one way to ask the girl who designed every version of him to marry him: with a white Sharpie and a championship helmet.

Oscar Piastri had always been a calm, collected kind of guy. Unshakeable, even. Lando Norris, on the other hand? Not so much. And today? Today was the day Lando fully lost it. (Also known as: Oscar Piastri got married at 18...and forgot to mention it.)

Max Verstappen to Mercedes? The paddock is buzzing. The media's in meltdown. Dr. Anastasia "Ana" Wolff, Mercedes' notoriously brilliant, emotionally unavailable lead systems engineer and Toto Wolff's eldest daughter, is not handling it well. Because Max isn't just a potential signing, he's the man she's been sleeping with in secret for nearly a decade. And if the rumours are true, and Max Verstappen really is joining Mercedes, then Ana's carefully compartmentalised world is about to explode.

Charles Leclerc goes to meet his newborn niece and immediately slides headfirst into baby fever. Unfortunately for his wife, Aimée, who has been trying to find the right moment to tell him she is already pregnant. Unfortunately for everyone, Arthur Leclerc has known since the sushi incident and is being exactly as unbearable about it as expected.

Charlotte Fischer has spent years making sure no one in Formula One knows who she really is. At Red Bull, she is simply Charlotte: Cambridge graduate, simulator engineer, owner of a deeply judgmental cat, and the woman responsible for making the team's broken 2025 car model finally tell the truth. She prefers it that way. No family name. No questions. No one looking at her like she is someone's daughter, someone's mistake, or someone's failure to protect. Max Verstappen notices her anyway.