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"Ilya Rozanov, The Art of Fiction No. 381" - The Paris Review No. 390, Summer 2060 by artifice
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Feb 2026
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Ilya Rozanov on the Art of Fiction: “I write because I need to write, I read because I need to read, I eat because I need to eat, and so on. I imagine it’s the same for everyone who feels compelled to put words on a page."
twenty or so years after "the texture of memory," ilya sits down for a chat with michaela kerrigan about life, writing, and love.
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- Part 2 of texture of memory
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the texture of memory by artifice
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Jan 2026
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Shane has been missing for a long, long time.
Or: Ilya goes on a road trip. Somewhere along the way, he finds himself again.
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- Part 1 of texture of memory
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le jeu des accroires by artifice
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Formula 1 RPF
10 Jan 2026
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The 2011 Canadian Grand Prix is notable for various reasons, including (but not limited to): Jenson Button’s last lap overtake, a red flag lasting well over two hours, and NHL Rookie of the Year Shane Hollander’s presence in the Red Bull Racing garage.
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rhapsody on a theme of butterflies, op. 43: var i-vii by artifice
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
08 Jan 2025
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Viktor finds a music box in a factory scrapyard near the fringes of the Undercity, and life is (almost) perfect.
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If it wasn’t a faux pas to hook up with the man designing their cars, Jayce would have had him in his bed ages ago.
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texture of memory by artifice
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
05 Feb 2026
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My little-worlded self! the shadows pass
In this thy sister-world, as in a glass,
Of all processions that revolve in thee:
Not only of cyclic Man
Thou here discern'st the plan,
Not only of cyclic Man, but of the cyclic Me.
Not solely of Mortality's great years
The reflex just appears,
But thine own bosom's year, still circling round
In ample and in ampler gyre
Toward the far completion, wherewith crowned,
Love unconsumed shall chant in his own furnace-fire.excerpt, “from the night of forebeing” - francis thompson
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you, as my weakest point. by hcneymooners (romqntics)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Feb 2026
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Ilya was looking away from the garden, away from their daughter, and at him. It was his full, unmediated attention that Shane had spent years learning to receive without deflecting, which he had never mastered and probably never would. It was a great deal of attention. It had always been.
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"She is like you," Ilya said, into his hair. "In here." Shane felt, rather than saw, the gesture—Ilya pressing a hand briefly to his own chest. "The way you were."
"I wasn't—"
"Да, детка.You were." Shane huffed out a breath, and Ilya squeezed the side of his stomach with amused affection. “When I was trying to find you, you were just like this. “When you were deciding if you were allowed to let me. You were exactly this: present and also somewhere very far away, so careful with everything, and impossible to reach unless you wanted to be." A pause. "It took time. You needed time, a lot of it, and I had to trust that. And eventually, I found you.”
His voice lowered, guttural. "And I will always find you."
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ilya, shane, & their middle daughter—as seen by each other.
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Bookmarked by artifice
26 Feb 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
She wished this could be her life forever: piled in the car together, driving somewhere. Very dangerous, very fast with top down. Best way not to think.
it's funny--both my parents had two siblings as well, and i think they'd imagined me as an only child to save me the grief of the same upbringing. endlessly grateful for the younger sibling i got in the end, which comes with its own hang-ups, yes, but none the likes of the middle child. i think i'm a little closer to understanding now.
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( i am done ) trying for beauty. by hcneymooners (romqntics)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Jan 2026
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Ilya glances at Shane, at the way the dying light is catching in his hair, refracting. At that spiderlily mouth, slightly open and curling coyly, two teeth peeked through the dark gap like an American Girl doll. At that shoulder, bare and pale and close enough to touch if Ilya just leaned forward, if he just reached out and took another liberty.
To touch another person is to say: I know you will die, and I am doing this anyway.
His mother used to say something like this. About painting.
Every portrait is an act of faith, Ilyushenka. Faith and futility both.
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contrary to personal preference, ilya gets a roommate.
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Bookmarked by artifice
22 Feb 2026
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I can't do this, he thinks.
You can, Сыночек, his mother's voice sounds in his head like a mass's bell. You must. This is how you survive me.
He picks up the charcoal. The first stroke is a mile wide, dark like the world ending.
much like the subject within, the author also paints their story with care and vivid colour. this is lovely.
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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 fucking Ottawa, they’ll just kidnap a his boyfriend instead. Shane Hollander would make a better Bear anyway.
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20 Feb 2026
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a winner at heart by pressuretoparty
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Feb 2026
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Ilya laughs. He finds that once he starts, he can't stop. He laughs at the fact that he's in France with Shane Hollander. He laughs at the fact he's Shane Hollander's boyfriend. He laughs at the fact that he gave up Moscow for a better life, only to end up in fucking Ottawa.
Ilya's dick stops working one month before he's supposed to leave for the South of France.
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- Part 2 of winners-verse
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18 Feb 2026
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Human Resources by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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Ilya’s mouth twitched upwards. He looked delighted. “You are the guy who keeps haunting my sex life, yes?”
Haunting? Shane wasn’t haunting anything. That was very offensive, since Cupids could not haunt by definition.
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Shane Hollander is a Cupid trying to mantain his flawless two-hundred-year-long track record. Ilya Rozanov just won't stop sleeping around.
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Bookmarked by artifice
17 Feb 2026
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lovingly filing this next to the frerard cupid fic. see you both next year <3