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gens du pays by khafre
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
01 Jul 2026
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Shane wished there was someone to tell him what to do, because he didn’t know. There were no rules for this, no directions, no destination, no future. He felt like he was waiting for something to happen to him. He wondered if he was a bad person.
Or, Shane embarks on casual sex with yet another Russian.
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01 Jul 2026
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He crowds Shane into the hood of the car, hands up under his shirt and jacket again. October is getting cold; nights are getting colder. The places where Ilya is touching him are the only parts of Shane’s body that are warm right now. Maybe that’s why he wraps his arms around Ilya’s neck and clings to him, though he doesn’t necessarily surprise himself with it. They don’t even kiss for a moment. Ilya busies himself breathing into the crook of Shane’s neck, trying to regain control. Shane opens his eyes and gazes over Ilya’s shoulder at the dark field and realizes that an utterly foreign feeling has risen up in him. It’s Ilya’s broad shoulders and beautiful hair between Shane and the world and he feels—small. Protected.
“Oh my God,” Shane whispers, completely ashamed of the feeling and hungry for it. It curls warm in his stomach. His toes arch inside his shoes. Something about being so close to this man, something about Ilya putting himself between Shane and—the world. Whatever lurks in the deep night. It’s a feeling like a ghost, something that Shane isn’t allowed to look directly at except for moments like these. Quiet and dark.Shane, Ilya, Vermont. Meeting in the middle.
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25 Jun 2026
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can't believe it took me this long to read this.
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Lean on me not by slagglass
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Jun 2026
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“Honestly, dude, you’re fucking handling this like a champ.”
He’s not. He’s handling it the way he has to, the only way there is to handle it. “Well, I am champ, so.”
Marlow chuckles.
He sounds like he’s about to say something else heartfelt and misinformed, so Ilya flicks on the radio.
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Ilya gets outed fall 2014. Objectively it's good for gay hockey but it sure doesn't feel like it. -
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Shane was there when Ilya got the call, his arm heavy across Ilya's stomach, like even in sleep he could tell something was trying to take Ilya away from him.
When Boston realize Ilya wants out, they send him to the highest bidder. The highest bidder is LA.
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- Part 9 of perfect from now on
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23 May 2026
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the anonymous does it again... expert balance between leaving things understated & unsaid, and keeping the characters credibly self-aware & trying to make it work. life-life pacing & resolution, no false notes.
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Two months after Jackie lets the backyard fire pit fall over and just stands there letting it burn, Hayden has a boys trip. Arrangements are made. Enter: Svetlana Vetrova, daughter of the famous Soviet goaltender, and Ilya Rosanov’s best friend.
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22 May 2026
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after conjuring up an interiority for the players, one must consider the wags.
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After nearly a decade separated by weight class, Shane Hollander has given up his cruiserweight title to challenge undefeated heavyweight champion of the world Ilya Rozanov. The following is a presentation of HBO Boxing.
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26 Apr 2026
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what if everything was worse? if only because it was happening in las vegas, the most evil, most tacky place on earth.
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Like this, he’s got Hollander in his grip from tip to toe. His wrists, belly, hips, all stuck steady under Ilya’s weight, and it’s not like Ilya’s never been on top before, but he’s never quite held Hollander down this way, and he’s definitely never seen Hollander go this still, this suddenly.
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16 Apr 2026
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absolute gag of an ending. there's always more to say about the ep4 montage.
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Shane never spent money on things that made it look like he was spending money.
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15 Apr 2026
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sometimes fics will mention specific brands & products for the reality effect, but what if brands & products were the entire narrative tissue & the medium of the relationship? having a coke & a hot chip dorrito with you. plus one very accurate sentence on "bilingualism."
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“You are…” Ilya licked his bloodied teeth and tried to remember the word. “Squeamish?”
“No,” Hollander said. His eyes were still so wide, tracing over Ilya’s bruised face like searchlights. “Fuck. Just—”
He stepped back, stumbling a little on socked feet, and jerked his head at the doorway. Get in.
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07 Apr 2026
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what being tenderly nursed on his dead mother's birthday does to a man.
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The Formless Being by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Dec 2025
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Ilya is at the door.
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Walking back to the restaurant in a daze he had sobbed at random, at the sheer look of Moscow in the night, thinking, this is literally it. I’ll never come back. And maybe he would, but so far down the line that all would be totally unrecognizable. The orange light, the blue light against the snow. His nose running. Cars buried in snow, cars buried in snow.
Moscow, Shane's cottage, Boston, New York.
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05 Apr 2026
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flows well. you can do anything with a good voice.
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Coming this fall to ABC… MLH star Shane Hollander is The Bachelor!
Bachelor Nation, we have one question: will you accept this rose?
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03 Apr 2026
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has anybody else seen the lifetime show UnREAL. a truly inspired choice of a setting, amplifying the canon's interest in performative heterosexuality (is it not all not one big publicity stunt?). so quick to crystallize the dynamic between ilya as the producer and shane as the pliable subject.
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Ankle sprain at fifteen, broken ribs and another lost tooth at sixteen. At seventeen, a hairline clavicle fracture that almost cost him his spot at Juniors. Shane's a good patient. Quiet, says please and thank you to the nurses, always does his physio. Never, ever complains.
And then he gets his first concussion.
[AU after the end of ep 4]
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29 Mar 2026
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beautifully rendered experience of concussion ("The world comes to him in grey outlines and sudden collisions—the coffee table, the edge of a chair" — like a cubist painting). shane expertly constructing a saw-trap to keep himself & ilya together after rose.
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We won’t release a statement right away, someone from the front office said, but if you’re missing a couple games there’s going to be questions. What are we going to call it? A family emergency?
Ilya had almost laughed. What emergency? His father is already fucking dead.
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Ilya wrings out his shirt and tries to swallow the humilation burning at the back of his throat. "It is very funny," he says, flatly. "I am enjoying these jokes. I love to pay damages at every hotel. Is good for your poor sad American economy."
"They do it to everyone," Price repeats, as if Ilya is just anybody and that makes it ok.
Or: Ilya's rookie season costs more than expected.
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29 Mar 2026
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it's tax season! more attentive to genuine financial anxiety ilya might have been experiencing than nearly anything else I've seen. two well-observed scenes, followed by a looser character study. in conversation with the Monologue ("more, more, more").
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“Marly, you bitch,” Ilya howled. He already sounded three sheets to the wind, which was saying something. “Come out, you stupid old cow.”
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29 Mar 2026
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rashōmon at the club. feels like a bottle-episode, comedic, but not without weight.
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In 2009, Ilya says goodbye to his childhood. In 2011, he faces what it means to come back.
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29 Mar 2026
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ilya vs the abyss, losing. possibly the only context in which the "still mad about vegas" text would have made sense.
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Over the course of the three days, there are plenty of opportunities to tell Shane about Moscow.
There’s dinner the first night. They’re having pasta and salmon and Ilya’s whining about the amount of chicken and beef they’ll have to eat now that bulking season is approaching. Shane says well, they’re high protein foods. Like Ilya isn’t also a professional athlete who’s been doing this for just as long as he has. That’s not what he shoots back, though. He says, lamb is a great source of protein but we never have lamb. Okay, good lamb’s hard to find. You know what has lamb? Pelmeni! We should get Russian take out sometime soon, Shane says. I’ve always wanted to try. And always means nothing in this sentence, because always is only as long as they’ve known each other for.
Forget about take out, Ilya could say then. The best pelmeni can only be found in the motherland. Russia, Moscow! I am going there in ten days for a box of my dead-dad’s things and maybe, my dead-mother’s suicide note. But of course, he doesn’t.
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29 Mar 2026
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pains of emigrating, with wonderfully, frustratingly oblivious shane (jealous of a country?). felt true, to my experience at least. reminded me of the fact that the grocery store across the street that used to sell kasia's pierogi ("old world goodness") finally closed down for good last month.
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car wash redhead, tube top R.E.M. concert, juror #6 by rockbound
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
08 Feb 2026
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The only trick is to have no fear, and even less fear than that the more trouble one is in. Ilya cannot teach that to a man who has directed his energies into becoming, not like a saint, but like a painting of a saint, all dripping in symbolism: the way the robe drapes here, yes, that is on purpose, and the angle of the light, the patron’s face in the crowd, the instrument of the martyrdom in his hand and the fruit in the bowl on the table, all arranged except when—
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28 Mar 2026
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this went from unassuming to batshit (!) crazy (complimentary) so fast. wonderful economy, especially of dialogue. discovering in my old age a real love for stories about paperwork & logistics.
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I. ONE LITTLE GOD FALLING OVER ANOTHER by toyourdetriment
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 May 2026
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Lily, 9:19 a.m.
i mean they were right
just early. we hadnt won our cups yet
but yes cocksucking faggots took over the majorIlya knows what he wants; he can wait out a year.
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- Part 1 of Mother of a Spartan King
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26 Mar 2026
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let's take everything so seriously. appointment reading.