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Staring at the Sun by Nerve_Itch
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
20 May 2026
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The first sound Ilya hears is a thin, discordant symphony of beeps and whirs. Something vibrating.
The next thing he hears is…wet. A sort of shaking, gargling sound, that feels like the ugliest crying he’s ever heard. And through it, Shane’s voice.
“I’m with him now, mom. He’s— he’s not fine. He’s not. I know—”
Ilya wants to ask who's not fine, but he can’t feel his own body, his mouth, enough to ask.
“Yeah,” Shane is saying, only slightly calmer. “I know. He wasn’t breathing—"
Ilya knows there's a link, between the clinical musicality of medical settings, Shane’s audible, awful distress, and his own physical incapacity. It’s just, it’s so tenuous, and the air around him is so thick, so heavy. It would be easy, to sleep, a little.
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Footage of the last game between Ottawa and Montreal is everywhere; it’s breached containment from the sports world, and now it seems like everyone is baying for Montreal’s blood. Except, Ilya is oblivious. Not exactly blissfully so, but as the fight for accountability within the league rages on without him, Ilya just wants someone, anyone, to tell him what happened.- Language:
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18 Jul 2026
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bad idea, right? by cherhorowitz8
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Apr 2026
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After making up a fake boyfriend so his teammates would stop setting him up on dates, Shane is suddenly faced with the task of finding a real one on short notice in order to avoid humiliation.
Shockingly, his old rival, Ilya Rozanov, is willing to do what it takes to help him. Even if that means pretending to be in love with Shane for a full weekend.
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28 Jun 2026
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Shane Hollander learns there are both pros and cons to accidentally adopting a kitten with your situationship.
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25 Jun 2026
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Just Another Day in Paradise by Zavia
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Jun 2026
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Shane Hollander is on vacation.
This is, objectively, a great idea. There is sun. There is a private villa. There is Luca, who fits into Shane’s life with the ease of something long-established. Brotherly, familiar, and currently eyeing the entire resort like it’s a personal challenge.
There is also Ilya Rozanov.
This was not mentioned. This was not in the plan.
It’s fine. They’re fine. They’ve always been fine. Years later, different lives, perfectly capable of sharing a beach, a drink, and conversation that slips a little too easily into something familiar.
Fine enough not to think about it.
Around them, things stay uncomplicated. Luca is already making decisions Shane will have to deal with later. Marley is encouraging him. Svetlana is watching like she already knows how this ends.
And Shane, who is absolutely, completely fine, starts to realize something mildly inconvenient:
nothing else ever really measured up.
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14 Jun 2026
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@Wadjilicious gave the prompt: Montreal Club AU Fix It.
I heard: All the things they (never) said but make it worse. Alternate ending to Ep 4 and the missing scene in room 1217 in Tampa Bay
AKA "I ordered a beer and all I got was the crushing realization I might be gay"Smutbrix to the face.
We're crying, we're smutty, we're crying while we're smutty. Enjoy. Happy Ending Guaranteed.- Language:
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01 Apr 2026
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the secret society of stick handlers by gurlsrool
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
23 Apr 2026
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The queer NHL players (begrudgingly) unite via group chats in the face of social media scandals.
These stories take place on a (slightly loose) chronological timeline and make the most sense when read in order. However, they're all independent stories/scandals and can be read as standalones.
All stories take place post TLG and include spoilers for the books.
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23 Mar 2026
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down for you always by dreamtiwasanarchitect, liadan14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 May 2021
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Joe squints a little. “So you were born in what, the 1060s?”
Nicky nods. “1069, I believe. I died during the first crusade. For the first time, anyway.”
“Wow,” Joe says. “You are very well preserved.”
Joe's a millennial with student loan debt, a dead-end career as a personal trainer, and a lumpy futon for a bed. He's also the new immortal.
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- Part 1 of the new me (is really still the real me)
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06 Nov 2025
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Come down slowly, Joe thinks hysterically as he descends the ladder right into the arms of this man who, very unfortunately, smells incredibly good, just a hint of sandalwood on his skin, and feels incredibly firm and comforting against Joe as he makes sure the ladder doesn’t break while Joe’s still on it. Come down slowly, he thinks, and imagines, against his better judgment, coming down slowly next to this man in bed.
If only his opinions on literature weren’t so wrong.
(In which Joe is accidentally seduced into happiness by Schrödinger's hipster.)
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27 Mar 2025
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The Silk Road, 1101.
Yusuf and Nicolò meet the Amazons from their dreams, who reveal to them the possibilities—and limitations—of immortality.
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03 Feb 2025
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“We cannot let anyone see us die. We cannot let them see us heal. We must get out of this city, away from them. If they catch you, they will kill you. If they see what you are…it will go as badly for you as it would for me. Neither of us is safe with them, you understand? You need me to help you get past them, away from this place. I need you to help me out there, in the desert, until we reach a port. Do you understand? We are the same. We must get out.”
He stopped; he was not sure how to make himself any clearer, and the Saracen was not evidently interested in conveying anything other than his loathing. Nicolò waited, and after a long, uncomfortable moment, the Saracen finally responded. He spat an incomprehensible sentence in Arabic, heavy with disdain, and thrust his bound hands forward. A demand to be released? That would make sense. Nicolò hesitated.
“Do you understand me?” he pressed, repeating his gestures. “We are the same. We go together? Away from here? Both of us?”
The Saracen repeated also; his Arabic phrase, and the twisting of his wrists against their bindings. Nicolò nodded, and crouched before him.“I am going to free you,” he said. “Please help me.”
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30 Nov 2024
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“Okay, I’m going to need your contact information and I’ll have to ask a few questions about what it is you’ll be needing during your rut. Is that alright?”
“Yes, yes, of course,” Nicky says, aware that he’s panicking and it reads in his tone. “Before you accept my booking, you need to—“
“It will be just fine,” Joe says, smooth and professional. “Why don’t we start with your name?”
“That’s just it,” Nicky says miserably. “It’s Nicolò di Genova.”
There’s a long pause. “Oh,” Joe says.
He hasn’t hung up, which is what Nicky was expecting, so he uses the silence to start apologizing.
In which both Joe and Nicky struggle to fit into a world where your cycle determines so much about your romantic prospects when neither of them have typical cycles or even know if they want that kind of romantic relationship. In which Joe co-runs a center where people with atypical heat and rut cycles can come and receive the help they need. In which Nicky really wishes he hadn't written a series of very stupid letters to the editor of the local paper back when he was pretending he didn't need the kind of help Joe was offering.
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18 Jul 2024
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Joe al-Kaysani, professor of art history, has a very clear idea of what he's looking for in a partner: a fellow academic with his shit together who can provide deep intellectual conversations on demand.
Nicolò di Genova, surly food services chef who doesn't even warn people about pork or have a bed frame, does not hit the brief.
Still, there's something magnetic about him, and Joe figures there's no harm in having a little fun while he waits for Prince Charming to arrive.
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25 May 2024
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The Unreconcilable Calculus of This by sheafrotherdon
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
10 Mar 2024
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A humidor, a jigsaw puzzle, and a chair. A new home, an old colleague, and love.
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- Part 4 of The Repair Shop AU
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10 Mar 2024
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your love is sunlight by kaydeefalls for Mary_berry_boo
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Jul 2023
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The worst part is that Nicky knows he's too old for this shit. A summer romance—that all-consuming passion crashing over you like a tidal wave and lasting about as long—is one thing for a teenager. But he's much closer to thirty than twenty at this point. He should damn well know better.
Yet here he is, flat on his back in the late morning sunlight, his shoulders splayed halfway off the side of the bed, sheets rumpled beneath him and Joe's beard rough against the skin of his inner thighs, and it's the closest to God that Nicky has ever felt.
(Modern!AU. Nicky's a bartender in Cinque Terre, Joe's a tourist just passing through, they fall in love. Because of course they do.)
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18 Jul 2023
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The resort stretches far down the coast in either direction. Little square cabins on raised foundations, all a merry brown with pine green roofs and shutters, screen doors and barbecues for warmer months, stone chimneys and stacked wood piles for cooler. On either side of the path, tall grasses sway, and there’s sand underfoot blown in from the beach. He has to be careful where he puts his boots, rounded stones here and there. In the distance, reaching into the ocean, huge rocky blocks of unforgiving granite, covered in lichen and dried seaweed and barnacles. The bare trees that dare grow close to the surf stand out like dark scratches against sheets of clouds overhead.
And so windy.
Nicky takes a vacation.
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27 Jan 2023
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an art to life's distractions by raedear for paigian
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
11 Sep 2022
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'I've been pulling at it all day, is it my hair that makes me look like I'm on something?' he pauses, rethinks. 'Something other than academic stress.'
A little light of understanding turns on behind Nicky's eyes, loosening his frown. He gives Joe a tiny hint of a smile, and makes a little show of looking him up and down.
'Sure,' he says, 'Let's say it's the hair.'
Joe's stressed, and looking to relax. Nicky would love to help him do that.
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12 Sep 2022
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must be an imaginary love (to start with) by kaydeefalls for andrealyn
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
03 Sep 2022
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In which Nicky joins a queer football club, makes some new friends, and offers to help Joe piss off his ex by pretending to be his new boyfriend. This is a very reasonable scheme that will definitely not lead to any feelings whatsoever.
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04 Sep 2022
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life is not the things that we do (it's who we're doing them with) by knoepfchen
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
01 Aug 2021
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They sit in the quiet half-dark, too lazy to turn on the light. A lone sunbeam illuminates Nicky's eye, his nose.
'I don't know about changing the world,' Joe says finally. 'That sounds like I want to do it all by myself. I just want to do my bit. So we can all be a bit happier tomorrow than we are today.'
'You and me, too?'
For a moment, Joe thinks this might turn into the talk he had been giving Nicky, about the importance of taking breaks. But Nicky is quiet after that, squinting into the sun, and suddenly, Joe isn't quite so sure what to reply.
'I hope so,' he says finally. 'I hope so.'
When the world grinds to a halt around them, Joe and Nicky are forced to navigate who they are (and who they are to each other) from the confines of a flat in Northern Italy.
A little love story about the things that are important in life.
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- Part 1 of the lockdown series
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07 Aug 2022
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hold my cigarette while it’s lit (let it burn ya, baby) by maddielle
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
22 Jan 2022
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Onstage, the drums and guitars steamroll to a crashing crescendo, and Joe belts out a final note, bringing the song to a thunderous, impressive close. In the screaming aftermath, chest beading with sweat and heaving, Joe lets the mic fall from his mouth, grinning wildly, eyes alight, so beautiful and untouchable that Nicky’s stomach tightens.
“Oh, Andy,” he says, resigned to his fate.
She taps her bottle to his arm, just says, “You’re welcome.”
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07 Aug 2022
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His back is to the door when Nicky first fully sees him.
“Joe,” Nicky breathes.
“What do you think?” Joe asks, not daring to turn around.
In an instant, Nicky’s warm body collides with Joe’s back, sending goosebumps all down his exposed skin; Nicky’s mouth attaches to his neck, pressing hungry, gentle kisses to the space between where his hair ends and where the flimsy spaghetti strap of the silky negligee he’s wearing strains to fit around his shoulder.
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02 May 2022