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Achilles Come Down by Sombrbird
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Jul 2026
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“I’m done with this conversation.” Shane’s exasperated now. He stands up, his legs shaky after sitting so long, and heads to the patio door. Ilya is not far behind.
“No. We are just now talking. Don’t run.” Ilya tries not to yell, but it comes out louder than he intended it to, bouncing off the trees.
“That’s all I know!” Shane spins around, blanket still wrapped around his waist. “All I know is to run. There’s fight, flight, freeze. I choose flight. I can’t fight because then I’ll be the Asian guy with an attitude problem. Oh, now the Asian gay guy with an attitude problem. Hell the internet apparently insists I’m autistic, and fuck I might be? So let’s throw that in too! The Asian gay autistic guy with an attitude problem. So better to run then! There isn’t a day I’m not running from something.Series
- Part 4 of Shane Hollander Puts His Foot Down
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Vignettes Of Home by yhk
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
07 Jul 2026
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Shane got told a lot to go back home; “Go back to your country” was a normal chirp for him. He thought it was a stupid comment, because home was Ottawa for him. Unfortunately, everyone else thought differently and waved him off to some generic Asian country instead.
A series of short episodes of Shane, Yuna, racism, and microaggressions.
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Agreeable by pinkkryptoooo
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
15 Jun 2026
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Shane Hollander can't shake his lingering negative feelings about reformed asshole, his husband's best friend, and his new teammate, Troy Barrett. As much as he tries to stop it, something's got to give, and the world may be better because of it.
Or Shane Hollander finally gets to crash out and its directed at Troy Barrett
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To Know The Truth by Sombrbird
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jun 2026
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“I know you’re like, quiet about being gay. But this isn’t some like self hating shit, right? I mean, if it is, I’m happy to talk about it.” Shane barks a laugh, louder than he means to which results in drawing the attention of a few other players around him. Shane doesn’t notice though, locked in on Barrett. He slides out from under the man’s arms and turns to face him.
“You want to talk to me about being a self-hating gay? You?” Shane’s voice isn’t quiet like it was when the two first started talking.
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- Part 3 of Shane Hollander Puts His Foot Down
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Ilya may seemingly have forgiven Troy’s homophobic and racist past. But Shane hasn’t forgotten. And he sure as hell isn’t gonna forgive Troy as easily as Ilya has.
A what-if where Shane stands up for himself, with the help of his friends, and Troy earns his forgiveness instead of it being handed to him because he’s the poor white gay boy.-
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Troy gets to have a happy ending. A celebration to finally be himself after all of those difficult years being a douche bag to other players. A celebration to freedom of loving his boyfriend openly, even if he mocked and called Shane a fag more time than he could remember.
And the fact that he now has to deal with a new, 'changed and pure' Troy Barrett feels like another type of insult that he could never address.
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Excavating Honesty by chellefic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
23 May 2026
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Barrett apologizes. Shane responds. Ilya learns.
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Honey You Don't Know The Half by Sombrbird
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
05 Jun 2026
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"You stare at my race every time you look me in the eye! What the fuck do you need to guide you too look for? Flashing neon lights?” Shane’s face is flushed, and not in the way Ilya likes to see. This is not a cute blush. This is a rage and a hurt he doesn’t think he’s ever seen from Shane.
“Okay, okay.” He scratches the back of his neck. “I-I fucked up a bit here.”
“A bit? A bit?! Ilya, you ignored one of the most influential pieces of my fucking life!”
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- Part 2 of Shane Hollander Puts His Foot Down
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a tiny splinter on the tip of your finger by burritosong
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
08 May 2026
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Troy Barrett is a better person now. Out, proud, and outspoken, he's completely turned his life around for good. He has great friends, a good team, and a wonderful boyfriend. He's going to prove to the world he's turned a new leaf and he's going to make amends with the people he's been a dick to.
Shane Hollander doesn't want to be a stop on the Troy Barrett Apology Tour, no matter how good of a person he is now.
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The Axe Forgets, The Tree Remembers by gevaisa
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 May 2026
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Shane knows it’s not a good time to have this conversation. He should wait until they’re not both tired from a stretch of tough games, until he’s not exhausted from having all the Centaurs over for the day. He should wait until he can’t feel anger simmering inside him and his shoulders aren’t tense. That’s probably why he doesn’t wait.
“Stop trying to make me be friends with Troy Barrett.”
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- Part 1 of Wide Turning Radius
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You Get To Be The Role Model Now by Sombrbird
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Jun 2026
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“You were being extra nice knowing you were going to throw me into the fire the second the sun went down. You didn’t think to tell me this was about my friendship with Barrett?”
“Sweetheart that’s the thing, you don’t have one and he’s my best frie-” Shane doesn’t want to hear it. He turns to Barrett who unwisely followed him to the kitchen
“You’re a fucking piece of shit you know that, right?”Series
- Part 1 of Shane Hollander Puts His Foot Down
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The Architecture Of Silence by lettersbylina
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
03 May 2026
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Shane Hollander has spent his entire life being quiet.
Troy Barrett trying to make nice was the straw that finally broke the camel's back
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shane hollander princess of wasia by faeyra
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
11 Apr 2026
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Rachel Reid: refusing to write about the wasian experience and how that fundamentally shapes who Shane Hollander is, and how everyone interacts with him
Me: fine, i'll do it myselfaka The series where I, a Wasian Canadian, delve deeper into the character of Shane Hollander, a Wasian Canadian.
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What happens when your model minority isn't a model anymore? by JudeCH
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV) RPF, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
18 Apr 2026
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Everything that Shane Hollander has done will always be connected to his race because some of you simply can't see him as human.
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This is a brief blog styled fic on how I believe fans would react in universe to the relationship reveal based of how this fandom treats Hudson.-
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Turn The Other Cheek by shanebug1410
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
25 May 2026
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“I turned the other cheek every fucking time. I still got tossed on my ass the second I went too far over the line, and threatened by the commissioner, and told to kill myself on just about every social media platform because my nightmare that I’d get outed came true. And you, after everything you did, got to come out to a supportive team and fans, get a slap on the wrist, and have your happy fucking ending.”
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An exploration of Shane Hollander's struggle against racism and homophobia in hockey, and how others come to understand it
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- Part 1 of Shane Hollander Deserves The World
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biting my tongue swallowing it down by yellobaby
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 May 2026
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Shane can’t look at him. He can’t really look at anyone but he manages to lift his head and stare right back into Troy’s glistening eyes.
“I never had that advantage, Troy. I never got to take it out on anyone, for any of it. All the times I got on that ice to play some hockey and some… fuckwit idiot like Kent, or whoever was calling me slurs— whether they were gay ones or racist ones… I couldn’t just hurl them back and call it a day like you did.”
He swallows hard. He thinks he might be sick a little bit in his mouth.
“You know how fucking lucky you are? To have gotten away with it? They love you, Barrett. This team loves you! You’re fucking celebrated because you overcame this big, terrible thing but for me it’s—”
He thinks about his mom in that very split second. His beautiful, wonderful mom who’d coached him his entire life on how to be polite, how to be well behaved. How to answer to teachers the right way, to coaches, to cops to the press to the general public to his fucking teammates—
He looks away. The fight suddenly drains right out of him and he goes back to his bag.
or: shane decides to confront troy if no one else will
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Someone’s posted a shaky video from the stands, just behind the whole altercation. It’s close enough to catch the snarl on Rozanov’s face as he charges up the steps. He’s so pretty, Shane thinks faintly. The video starts too late to show what set him off, but it catches the tail end of what the man is yelling, the things he's saying about Shane, before pivoting to calling Rozanov a cunt and bitch and a pussy instead.
Rozanov drops his gloves for Shane. He wishes he could just be grateful, but it feels a little bit like the end of the world.
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Hyo-Jun by floydfairy
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
17 Feb 2026
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“I’m sure it didn’t help being the only Asian kid on the team…”
Shane blinked before letting out a laugh. “I wasn’t the only one. There was one other.” He tilted his head to the side, memories of a time long past flashing through his mind. “He, ah, didn’t really like me, though. Since I had a more Westernized name, everyone kinda forgot to make fun of me.”
Rose nodded understandingly. “What was his name? Or maybe it’s been so long that you don’t remember.”
Shane shook his head. He did remember. They grew up together, after all. He didn’t think he could ever forget it.
“He went by Julian, but his real name was Hyo-jun.”
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in defense of a moral victory by A_Different_Type_of_Flower
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
01 Jan 2026
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He walked back to the living room, where Jackie and Hayden were standing, having a whispered conversation, Shane’s jacket folded over Jackie’s arm. They stopped talking and turned to Shane as he entered.
“Hey, bud,” said Hayden slowly, not moving.
“Uh, do you want me to leave?” asked Shane, gesturing to his jacket, panic rising in his throat.
“What? No. No. Absolutely not. We were afraid you’d try and sneak out of here, so I grabbed your coat and keys,” explained Jackie.
“Oh,” said Shane, letting out a shaky laugh as he ran his hand through his hair. “Good call. I can’t say it didn’t cross my mind.”
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Ilya has a new philosophy in how he picks fights, Shane doesn’t understand the appeal of a moral victory, and Hayden is so fucking glad he married Jackie.
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