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Built to Break is an highly requested alternate-universe story within The Quiet Fight series, where Shane—not Ilya—is the one facing cancer.
During their eleventh NHL seasons, a lingering injury reveals a devastating diagnosis, forcing an early coming out and the potential end of Shane’s career. As Shane fights, he is forced to find a new purpose, proving that even when the body breaks, a life—and a legacy—can still be rebuilt.
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- Part 1 of Built to Break
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 76,392
- Chapters:
- 29/29
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 347
- Kudos:
- 1,624
- Bookmarks:
- 613
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27 Apr 2026
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The Knife You Turn Inside Yourself by 4242424242424242424242424242424
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Mar 2026
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They're soulmates. They're out to the world, for better or worse. Ilya is safe and learning to heal. Everything should be good.
And yet.SEQUAL to Safer in Chains than to be Free
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- Part 2 of This is Love
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,679
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 246
- Kudos:
- 1,278
- Bookmarks:
- 208
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- 17,978
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22 Apr 2026
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When Ilya Rozanov goes down on the ice, the Boston Bears are already moving to defend their captain. No one expects Shane Hollander, captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, to be the one who throws the first punch.
Or: the Boston Bears figure out Ilya and Shane's relationship first-and decide that instead of letting their captain move to Ottawa, they'll just kidnap his boyfriend instead. Shane Hollander would make a better Bear anyway.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 198,104
- Chapters:
- 12/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,428
- Kudos:
- 6,161
- Bookmarks:
- 4,372
- Hits:
- 147,367
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17 Apr 2026
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for you (my lungs were pulled asunder) by xianvar for Elany
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
07 Apr 2026
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“Are you – sick? Or…” Hayden trails off, tilting his head in a small shrug. “Or do you have a case of the… y’know. Flowers?”
“What?!” Shane yelps, louder than he means to. “No way. And I’m not sick – it’s just allergies.”
“Allergies?” Hayden repeats incredulously. “Dude, it’s October. In Montreal.”
Having a physical manifestation of repressed feelings should make it easier to deal with them. Unfortunately, Shane still has to figure out what his body is trying to tell him – or if it’s just a seasonal affliction after all.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,317
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 197
- Kudos:
- 494
- Bookmarks:
- 77
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- 5,614
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10 Apr 2026
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voice in the back of my head by Butterfly
Fandom The Wheel of Time (TV), Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
03 Mar 2025
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When the TV series started airing, I was reminded of how unsatisfying I found Mat's romantic future in the book series, so I decided that I would write something where I snuck him into the Randland polycule. This series splits off from TV canon during S1E6: the Flame of Tar Valon, so everything that happens into the show prior to that is canon here, but from this point forward, I will be repurposing book canon to suit the needs of the story.
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- 508,738
- Works:
- 15
- Bookmarks:
- 123
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05 Apr 2026
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hanging by a moment by frozenmorningdew (goldenboygate)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Mar 2026
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Ilya starts calling Shane boring regularly after that, not cruelly but persistently, the way you press a bruise you know is there just to confirm it still hurts. Shane's cereal is boring, Shane's training schedule is boring, Shane's shoes lined up by the door are boring, and Shane responds with variations of "fuck off" and "you're an asshole" that become increasingly creative and occasionally surprising. They do not talk about anything that matters. They talk about groceries and whose turn it is to take out the trash and whether Ilya's music is too loud at midnight, which it is.
On the ice, Shane is someone else entirely. Ilya watches him from the upper stands every morning with vending machine coffee going cold in his hand and doesn't tell anyone.
Or: Shane asked Ilya once how you know when it's the right person. Ilya described Shane to him, and Shane didn't recognise himself.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 187,085
- Chapters:
- 44/44
- Comments:
- 3,551
- Kudos:
- 7,054
- Bookmarks:
- 3,242
- Hits:
- 290,281
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02 Apr 2026
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true blue by scarlettroses
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Mar 2026
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"He said it was just a stronger edible," Wyatt says. "Apparently it was supposed to be super natural, and relaxing and rejuvenating, not the weak Canadian shit, and—"
"You say a bad word, Hazy," Ilya interrupts, pointing a tiny finger at him.
"Right." Wyatt winces. "Sorry, kid."
Rejuvenating. Shane turns the word over in his mind a few times, while readjusting Ilya’s little body in his arms.
Jesus fucking Christ.
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or, with the help of some mysterious russian candy and a very loving husband, ilya rozanov heals his inner child.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,633
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 375
- Kudos:
- 2,394
- Bookmarks:
- 531
- Hits:
- 16,275
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30 Mar 2026
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The MILF Theory (And Why the Internet Got It Wrong) by pucksandpower
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Dec 2025
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The internet has decided that Ilya Rozanov is absolutely, definitely, 100% banging a Hollander.
They’ve got photo evidence. Multiple sightings. Instagram stories from the same café. The man stayed OVERNIGHT at the Hollander residence.
It’s the most legendary power move in NHL history: seduce your rival’s hot mom to assert dominance. There’s just one tiny problem with this theory. Ilya’s fucking a Hollander, all right. Just … not that one.
Or in which Ilya’s boyfriend's mother keeps adopting him, the internet keeps assuming the worst, and Shane Hollander is having the worst month of his entire life. At least until he does something that breaks hockey forever.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,813
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 1,137
- Kudos:
- 35,593
- Bookmarks:
- 7,842
- Hits:
- 269,302
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07 Mar 2026
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long game (class acts never fail) by hitlikehammers for cloudsurfing
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Feb 2026
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If you’d already decided love was more than enough, that being together was bigger than fear; if you’d already picked each other over everything else, already picked a season to make it known; if you’d exchanged rings and vows and you knew this was forever and—most significantly—no one’s idiot best friend accidentally outed you early with his stupid side-hustle video scheme: would you stick to the plan?
Or, would you play a slightly longer game to make your point; would you wait a couple extra months if it meant seizing the opportunity to go big, go bold, shove loving this much in the faces of the naysayers and the assholes and the bigots on an oh-so-convenient, quadrennially-available global stage?
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Or: No FanMail. No outing. No forced free agency. Just their terms. Just their choice. Just their love.
So hell yes: Shane and Ilya use the 2022 Winter Olympics as their hard launch. How’s that even a question?
Scott Hunter’s gonna be so pissed at being upstaged that bad.Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,674
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 473
- Kudos:
- 2,872
- Bookmarks:
- 618
- Hits:
- 41,841
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20 Feb 2026
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After the longest season of his career, Ilya retreats to the cottage with Shane, expecting rest, recovery, and a month of stolen peace. Instead, exhaustion lingers. Small things feel wrong. And the body that has always carried him through pain begins to falter in ways he can’t explain.
As concern grows and outside eyes begin to notice, the life Ilya and Shane have carefully built—careers, borders, futures—starts to feel fragile. When a medical crisis shatters their summer before answers arrive, love is no longer something they protect quietly. It becomes something they fight with.
A story about what happens when the body speaks before you’re ready to listen, and the people who refuse to let you face it alone.
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- Part 1 of The Quiet Fight
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,266
- Chapters:
- 30/30
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 544
- Kudos:
- 5,288
- Bookmarks:
- 1,812
- Hits:
- 148,437
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16 Feb 2026
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Neil’s second year at Palmetto State School of the Arts was going about as well as he expected: his likelihood of survival was barely above zero, he’d managed to secure himself an enemy as dangerous as Riko Moriyama, and despite three months of being paired together in a compulsory art project, he still hadn't been able to convince Andrew to collaborate with him properly. Neil’s life was on the line, but he was starting to realise that there were some things in life that he was ready to risk it all to keep.
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An art school / urban fantasy AU (Reupload)
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- Part 2 of Of Smoke & Bone
Bookmarked by Nettle_Magpie
14 Feb 2026
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Retirement, Apparently by cheryl123sing
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Feb 2026
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A year after retiring at thirty-nine, Shane Hollander throws himself into house flipping and accidentally becomes comforting reality television.
Ilya Rozanov makes fun of it.
Shane retaliates by mentioning, on camera, that his husband is a raging Drag Race Fanboy.
The internet notices.
Things progress from there.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,255
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Comments:
- 301
- Kudos:
- 1,601
- Bookmarks:
- 441
- Hits:
- 19,884
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14 Feb 2026
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Night Shift by The_green_fairy
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Mar 2026
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Shane Hollander is just trying to survive NYU biochemistry, hockey practice, and the graveyard shift at 7-Eleven. He's too exhausted to notice that his new regular customer is Russian mafia, or that Ilya's interest in him goes beyond terrible coffee and cookies.
When Ilya hands him a $10,000 designer scarf and matching gloves, Shane doesn't panic. He sells them for next month's rent. Any normal person would be terrified. Instead, Shane uses the leftover money to buy a Hello Kitty watch, pastel pink, childish, utterly incongruous with the danger circling him. He wears it to his next night shift without irony or apology.
Ilya notices immediately. He is fascinated.
(Currently under major editing.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 191,725
- Chapters:
- 32/32
- Comments:
- 3,529
- Kudos:
- 15,439
- Bookmarks:
- 5,245
- Hits:
- 587,294
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16 Jan 2026
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it's a long way from the crack to the break by Cxnstellatixns
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb
22 Dec 2025
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Many days ended with us turning to our beds in silence, our anger at one another like a pot about to boil over. But on the nights when I woke to find him shaking, his eyes open and staring, the pain contorting his body, he was that tiny child again, the silent little boy who’d been brought to me all those years ago. All I could think of was how badly I’d failed Chivalry’s son.
Burrich ruminates on his time with Fitz in the emo shack, how he attempted to care for Fitz the best he could, and the insurmountable obstacles that lay between them.Bookmarked by Nettle_Magpie
22 Dec 2025
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What We Owe Each Other (Patient Number 10) by Hennski
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
08 Mar 2026
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Ten years after graduation, Aaron works as an emergency doctor in Charleston while his twin Andrew has gone pro, living with his partner Neil in Columbia. Beyond occasional texts, they haven't managed to get any closer than they were in college.
A routine 24-hour Saturday shift becomes anything but when a John Doe with severe head trauma arrives. As Aaron fights to save him, too many details align, reminding him of a certain number 10 striker he once knew.OR
"Aaron." Andrew's sharp voice forced him to focus. "What are you doing here?"
Aaron turned to face his brother. Tried to find words.
Andrew's eyes narrowed at the lack of response. "Where's Neil?"The question hit like a physical blow. "What?"
"Neil." Andrew's hands clenched into fists. "He's in Charleston for some media thing with his team. You work in Charleston. You're still wearing your badge." His breathing started to shallow. "It's 6:30 in the morning. We don't do surprise visits, hell we don't even do any visits. Yet you felt the need to drive two hours to see me at dawn, right after your shift. So I'll ask one more time. Where is Neil?"
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20 Dec 2025
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Andrew Doe is six years old when he first meets a rather large kitten.
He wanted a friend.
He got a whole lot more.Bookmarked by Nettle_Magpie
13 Dec 2025
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The BugBeetle CanonVerse by buggybugs, TheGoliathBeetle
Fandom All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
08 Jan 2026
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A collaborative series set in the same timeline tracking the lives of the Foxes (mostly Aaron, Andrew, Neil, and Katelyn) post-TKM. Featuring drug relapses, medical school burnouts, Pro-Exy politics, difficult brothers, and the slow, ugly, necessary work of healing.
While the fics are in chronological order TIMELINE wise, you dont have to read them that way! You can bounce around!
- Words:
- 109,128
- Works:
- 8
- Bookmarks:
- 33
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10 Dec 2025
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In general, Neil Josten managed to keep his two lives in balance. To most, he was a nineteen year old art student with a part-time job in a mostly-normal coffee shop. On the other hand, he worked for his uncle, running errands in exchange for magical wishes. But when he’s paired with Andrew Minyard for a collaborative art project, Andrew starts to unearth secrets too dangerous to reveal. Neil knows a threat when he sees one, but when his two lives start to collide, Neil will learn that some things are worth fighting for.
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An art school / urban fantasy AU
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- Part 1 of Of Smoke & Bone
Bookmarked by Nettle_Magpie
10 Dec 2025
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“What do I get out of it?” Neil asked.
“Pardon?”
“I'm assuming I won't be playing,” he reiterated, “nearly as much as the rest of the team or not at all- and don’t try to tell me any different because I can tell from your lot,” Neil gestured to Ralph and the rest of them. “That you love to pick up lost causes. So, what do I get out of filling your line so you can throw balls to each other.”
"Oh~ I like this one." Andrew said. "Can we keep him, Coach?"
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Neil gets a head injury that changes his mental stability. He is put on antipsychotic that causes him to become numb. After the Foxes recruit Neil's teammate in Milport and he's at the right place at the right time, he signs as well.
First book: complete!
Second book: complete!- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 179,875
- Chapters:
- 35/?
- Comments:
- 1,045
- Kudos:
- 2,199
- Bookmarks:
- 472
- Hits:
- 65,022
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07 Dec 2025
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What Happened To Little Nathaniel? by athousandstoriesleftuntold
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
02 Jan 2026
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KF: An international trail of bodies. Millions of dollars. A sealed court case.
KF: This grisly tale is not for the fainthearted.
KF: Join me, Kathy Ferdinand, on my first foray into true crime podcasting. And what better case to start with than that of the Butcher of Baltimore?
___When Nathaniel Wesninski is the subject of a tell-all true crime podcast, the world latches onto the story.
Unbeknownst to everyone, Nathaniel is alive and well and living as Neil Josten. His main priority is protecting the fragile peace he's built for himself– Kevin and Jean both have a lot to lose, and Neil isn't about to be the reason their lives are ruined.
Meanwhile, Andrew Minyard is about to be alone for the first time in years: his brother's leaving for med school and Nicky's in Germany. He has no intention of starting a relationship– at least, until he meets Neil Josten at his old coach's birthday party.
It's immediately evident that both of them have secrets. And, when the clues start falling into place, each becomes more fascinated with solving the mystery of the other.
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- Part 1 of podcast 'verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 104,265
- Chapters:
- 15/?
- Comments:
- 826
- Kudos:
- 997
- Bookmarks:
- 293
- Hits:
- 28,543
Bookmarked by Nettle_Magpie
26 Sep 2025