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Shall We Talk About Home? by OtherWaysHome
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
09 Apr 2026
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“My boyfriend thinks I’m an idiot,” Ilya says. "Well, not really but a bit, maybe.”
“Your boyfriend?” Sandra, the queer studies professor sits down, hard.
“Yes, he thinks it is not smart to say faggot in the locker room when you are locked in the closet and Russia has the keys.”
Ilya had been talking about himself when he’d said it. Making a joke. Sailing a little close to the wind, sick of listening to the background hum of homophobic bullshit. But someone had been filming. The video went viral. The Raiders panicked under the terrible PR. Now he was here.
Sent to Queer Studies 101 to appease twitter. Because he’d been cancelled. For being a homophobe. If was fucking ridiculous.
He turns to the professor. “So, can you help me take on Putin and NHL at same time or I need more advanced class for this?”
Plus Chapter 2 – Social media chapter. Once they've been outed, Ilya gets to demand an apology from twitter.
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09 Jun 2026
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Guard Your Man by elizziebeth13
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
18 Apr 2026
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In Hockey, when a fight breaks out, all other players pair off with a player on the opposite team to prevent anybody else from entering the fight. It's a form of self policing to prevent a 2 on 1. Players guard their man to stop unfair play.
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Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov always pair off during fights. It's apparently a tradition, and the fans can't get enough of it.
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09 Jun 2026
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26 May 2026
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courage [it couldn't come at a worse time] by veilofimagination
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Feb 2026
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"Why are you not scared?"
"I am scared," Ilya admits. "I just am tired. Of hiding me. Of hiding you. Of hiding how much I love you. I want to go to the rink— how do you say it? Authenti."
"Authentically," Shane supplies, automatically.
"Yes. Authentically. I want to go to the rink authentically, as me," Ilya confirms.
Ilya looks at Shane, pauses until Shane meets his eyes. "I want to say: I, Ilya Rozanov, love a man, and that man's name is Shane Hollander."
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Or, sometimes it takes a little more time, and some courage, to be with the one you love.
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- English
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23 May 2026
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Reckless & Young by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Apr 2026
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Ilya was used to hazing. He had been subjected to it, he had participated in it, and, as a captain, he had stood guard over the rookies and protected them from anything truly harmful. But if he had been asked, Ilya would have approved of this prank. He would have authorized it, given Cliff and Vicky his seal of approval, perhaps even helped orchestrate it.
Any other day, Ilya might have been happy to play along.
But, in perfect dramatic irony, it had not happened any other day. It had happened today. And, cherry on top, of course the rookie had to walk in when Shane was already freaking out about Ilya saying his name.
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A prank-gone-wrong leads to the Boston Bears finding out about Shane and Ilya’s relationship in 2016. The day Ilya first invited Shane into his house. Right after they say each other’s names for the first time. Fuck his life, honestly.
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- Part 1 of lost in the haze
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- English
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- 30,173
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- 3/3
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20 May 2026
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Shane leaves that Vegas penthouse suite feeling wretched, and like an idiot, and like he never wants to see Ilya Rozanov again.
Except, well. Then there are zombies.
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- English
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- 95,670
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- 3/3
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17 May 2026
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re: hi by fleezerweezer
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Apr 2026
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At eleven years old Ilya Rozanov's class is given an assignment:
They will be randomly paired with a student at another school in Canada via email. In order to get full credit on the assignment, they must send at least five emails back and forth and gather enough information to write their project.
After seven years, Ilya is pretty sure he's done enough for 100%
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Shane and Ilya sending emails throughout the years. What happens when they meet?
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- Part 1 of re: hi
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- English
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- 67,472
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- 21/21
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24 Apr 2026
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Overheard by epexegetical
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 May 2026
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The soundproofing in room 1221 is exactly as bad as Shane fears. He and Rozanov can hear every word as Scott Hunter engages in a deeply depressing annual ritual, and decide offering comfort is more important than keeping things a secret.
It sparks a friendship that ends up changing more than just the trajectory of those three men's lives.
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- English
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- 66,337
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20 Apr 2026
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we cannot waste time (—only ourselves.) by llamallamaduck
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Jun 2026
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The photos leak on a Wednesday. Ilya sets his life and career on fire on Sunday, mostly out of spite. On Monday, he is the first out queer player in the NHL.
Nobody handles the ensuing circus well, least of all Scott Hunter.
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- Part 1 of Where does such tenderness come from?
- Part 1 of Set in Heated Rivalry-verse
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- English
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- 221,671
- Chapters:
- 41/?
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- 14
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17 Apr 2026
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02 Apr 2026
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Once is a mistake, twice is terrible judgment, three times is enemy action. After four times, it might just be something worse.
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What if Scott hooked up with Ilya during the summer of 2010 entirely by accident, then kept doing it on purpose.
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- Part 1 of Tearing Down Our Walls
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- English
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- 116,915
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 3,902
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30 Mar 2026
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Unpicked and Restitched (apart and back together) by Captain Grayson (Ada_Parker)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
12 Apr 2026
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Then Scott Hunter looked at him, really looked at him with no panic or consternation or grief, just something heavy and piercing that made Ilya feel like his heart was on the outside of his ribcage. “Be safe out there, okay?”
“Okay,” Ilya said, softer than intended.
In real life, they both turned around and walked away into the night. But in Ilya’s memory, that never happens. They just stand there, eye-to-eye, until the sun comes up and it’s too bright to see anything else.
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- Part 1 of Unpicked and Restitched (All Works)
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- English
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- 49,254
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 220
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- 1,360
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14 Mar 2026
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Happy Together by buckdogbuckley
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Jan 2026
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Shane gets in the car and slams the door shut.
“What was that?” his dad asks, voice slightly worried.
“Nothing,” Shane says unconvincingly, looking down at his hands, tearing at the skin around his fingernails.
“Didn’t look like nothing, bud. It’s unlike you not to say bye to your friend like that. Or slam the door.”
“Ilya Rozanov is not my friend, Dad.”
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Shane Hollander thinks he's ready for 8th grade. For the most part, he is.
Enter: Ilya Rozanov.
Shane is not ready for the way his life is about to change.- Language:
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05 Mar 2026
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Young and Hopelessly Smitten by jukoist
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
15 Dec 2025
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“Ilya Rozanov,” Shane repeats slowly, letting himself taste the words. He grins. “Wow. You’re, like, a really good player. How come you’re in Canada for summer camp? Is that weird to ask? Sorry if that’s weird. I just meant-”
Shane is cut off by a hand on his mouth. He flushes.
“Too fast,” Ilya says. “My English… not good.”
“Sorry,” Shane mumbles into Ilya’s hand. Ilya grins and shakes his head, curls dancing, as he pulls his hand away.
“Is okay. Slow words. Okay?”
This year marks thirteen year Shane Hollander's third summer at Coach Marakov's elite hockey training camp. In attendance for the first time: Ilya Rozanov, visiting from Russia. Shane isn't the most sociable, and Ilya's English isn't the greatest, yet the unlikely duo soon become the best of friends.
It's just one summer, but it makes a world of difference.
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05 Mar 2026
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come home by inches by Sporkess
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Feb 2026
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An unexpected encounter with Ilya Rozanov - and a newly changed perspective of him - leads Yuna into a series of conversations with both halves of the rivalry - and slowly into both an unexpected friendship and a new understanding of what the 'rivalry' entails.
Or: (5 times Yuna reached out to Ilya, +1 time he reached out to her first; 5 times Yuna tried to get Shane to talk to her, +1 time she didn't need to.)Series
- Part 4 of It starts in an elevator
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- English
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22 Feb 2026
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Small Serendipity by the_hemlocked
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Feb 2026
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When he was seven years old, Shane Hollander was briefly lost at an airport. Luckily, the kindness of a stranger ensured he made it back to his parents safely, putting an end to a terrifying three hours for the Hollanders. It takes twenty years (and one heated rivalry) for Shane to learn the name of his rescuer. It takes twenty years for Ilya to learn his wish had already come true.
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- English
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- 3,296
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- 1/1
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- 21
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- 1,502
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- 30,363
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21 Feb 2026
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Sex with Tommy is always great; the best sex he's had in his life. Sometimes, though, Buck feels like he's having an otherworldly experience, overwhelmed in the best way possible, floating in another dimension, everything else disappearing around their joined bodies.
It's how he feels right now, straddling Tommy's face, his cock buried in his boyfriend's throat while he's also mouthing at Tommy's cock, saliva dripping all over it as he teases him.
He'd like to tease Tommy for a long, long time but Tommy's swallowing around the head of his cock and he doesn't want to make him wait so he goes down on him like a starving man, burying his nose into his pubes, inhaling him as he hollows his cheeks out and sucks.
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written for day two of bucktommycocktoberfest (prompt: dildos).- Language:
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02 Feb 2026
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Buck moves in on a Saturday. It’s a small house, but that’s okay. With each successive move Buck had gotten rid of more and more belongings. He doesn’t have much left at this point.
Eddie helps him move boxes and furniture from storage to his truck and from his truck into his new house. With a lunch break, the entire process only takes three hours. It’s all a bit anticlimactic. Eddie offers to help him unpack, since they have so much time, but the idea settles too heavy in Buck’s stomach. Moving boxes is one thing. Moving in is something else entirely.
This is the first place that Buck has ever lived in that he picked out for himself. He’s feeling a little precious about that. He doesn’t want someone else to decide which drawer his utensils should be in. He’s had enough of other people telling him where to put things.
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Buck buys a fixer-upper, grieves Bobby, and works through his loneliness. Tommy helps.- Language:
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- 8/8
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12 Jan 2026
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Evan dances with… someone, then another someone, then gets passed a shot from a stranger that he feigns taking before dumping it on the ground because he wants to be drunk, not dead.
Then a hand touches his elbow, far gentler than anyone touched him all night, and Evan turns to see the person standing behind him and–
Person is an understatement.
The man looks like a Greek god. The ones cut from marble and decorated in bronze and–
And if he thought Blue was attractive, they’ve got nothing on this man. Not with his pretty tousled hair and strong nose and cheekbones Evan suddenly wants to do a shot off of.
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11 Jan 2026
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a collection of smutty fics with bottom tommy. some may be connected, some may not. enjoy my contribution to bottom tommy 💪
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09 Dec 2025