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Many Loved Before Us, I Know That We Are Not New by servetas
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
16 Jan 2026
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“This is hard to talk about,” is all he says, though he knows it will amount to nothing.
Shane’s fingertips are feather-soft on his chest. “You have to.”
He has to, because Shane and Ilya have this thing, now, this agreement. Nothing is too hard to talk about. Nothing is off limits. They have to be bare, have to surrender the deepest crevice of their soul to one another. And Ilya, for whom this is easier said than done, whose chest carries a perpetual weight, an immovable mass, it’s all worth it – worth the relief smoothing over Shane’s features, the reassurance that he’s not worried anymore, that Ilya can give him this peace, albeit only a fragment of what Shane gives him by just being there when he wakes up. He would never say it, but he thinks that what he has to offer to Shane amounts to nothing – nothing compared to what Shane does, what Shane is, by simply nuzzling into his chest and sighing into his sleep, late at night when all Ilya can do is lay awake and just feel.
“I need more,” Ilya says. “And is nothing you can do. I need you inside me, and it feels terrible.” He swallows, with great difficulty. God. “I need to– I need to eat you.”
or, Ilya never knew love can hurt this good
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As the Romans Do by kooksie
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
01 Jun 2026
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As a straight man, Ilya Rozanov has never had a gay roommate before, but it’s going pretty well. Shane Hollander is kind, silly, and an even bigger hockey nut than Ilya.
So when Shane starts bringing men over, and Ilya begins to want to bash their fucking heads in, Ilya comes to a startling conclusion: He must be homophobic.
(He’s jealous.)
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Bookmarked by WouldItWere
03 Jun 2026
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Perfect. Commented: This is one of the best things I’ve ever read. It’s brilliant and adorable and heartbreaking (it made me cry) and hot and funny and precious and beautiful. Also your depiction of the characters and their interactions is so lovely and so believable—as genuinely kind people who are also quirky and complex, and who actually show each other how much they care and do things to make each other’s lives better—and I mean this when I say it’s one of the only actually great romances I’ve ever come across.
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“Shane doesn’t want to take something from Ilya that he enjoys. And he doesn’t want to plant the seed of resentment. He’s already asked Ilya to give up so many things for him. He’s asked Ilya to always come back to him in the end, and Ilya always does and always will. That has to be enough for Shane. It doesn’t matter what Ilya does with other people. It’s just sex.”
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When Ilya offers Shane an open relationship during The Long Game, Shane assumes that’s because Ilya isn’t willing to be monogamous. Ilya has always been with other people. Why would that change now?
Bookmarked by WouldItWere
02 Jun 2026
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Such a Loveable Lamb to Me by silversurfer
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
17 May 2026
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One Russian summer, just the one, and Ilya comes back to find that Shane has discovered kink.
What the fuck.
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- Part 2 of My Moon My Man
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Bookmarked by WouldItWere
18 May 2026
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Perfect. Oh my god. Utter perfection.
It’s actually very serious and thoughtful. Brilliant. -
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“We didn’t kiss.”
Saying the words felt like a boulder had been lifted off his chest for a few blissful seconds before a whole mountain crashed down to take its place. What the fuck was he thinking? Saying something so pathetic, so needy, so utterly stupid over something so insignificant? Heat flooded his face, a different kind of shame, fresh and hot.
(or, I was mad that Shane never got any reassurance or apology for the Vegas humiliation ritual and "we didn't even kiss")
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- Part 7 of Crashing out over Hollanov