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not so boring after all by localwordsmith
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Jan 2026
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Ilya has the first proper conversation with David Hollander and comes to find that boringness is apparently not genetic.
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After Angel leaves the hotel, the task of caring for Fat Nuggets kinda just falls to him. And sometimes, in caring for others, we learn to care for ourselves.
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be still my beating heart by localwordsmith for thejoth, redpangur
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Dec 2025
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“I’m coming to the cottage.”
“Yeah?”
“Yes.”
“Okay.”
(or: the phone call from episode 5/end of chapter 22 we didn't get to hear)
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There’s a familiar burn at the back of his throat, the need for another drink, always another drink, and Husk might just follow the call. It’ll make it easier to sleep if everything is fuzzy and blurry. If all his thoughts are muddled and nebulous. They won’t be able to all circle around Angel like fucking vultures.
“Hey! What the fuck are you doing in my—oh.”
Husk whips his head around and has to blink a couple of times to make sure he’s not actually that fucking drunk. He drops the glass onto the plush carpet beneath his feet. “Angel?”
(or Angel comes back right away)
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@MLHTracker by summerblood for arenasoundsystem (cutflowersounds)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Dec 2025
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MLH Tracker @MLHTracker
rozanov81 (Ilya Rozanov) started following 3 and unfollowed 0:✅ montrealmetros (The Montreal Metros)
✅ shanehollanderofficial (Shane Hollander)
✅ metrosworst (Worst Metros Plays)
⏎ 55 ⟳ 39 ♡ 732rozanov defender @gremlinroz
... alright who told ilya about the mlh tracker
⏎ 0 ⟳ 10 ♡ 63lea @rozanovsss
getting ready for the game on thursday i see... masterful trolling
⏎ 5 ⟳ 1 ♡ 37The history of Hollanov, primarily as seen through the MLH Tracker on Twitter.
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28 Jan 2026
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The outside world could be melting and deforming into something monstrous, for all Ilya cares. Shane looks at him with the same sincerity he brings to everything else he does, and Ilya is one of those things now. A permanent fixture. An object of care.
“If I was your vase,” he asks, unable to help himself. “Would you take good care of me?”
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27 Jan 2026
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"would u still love me if i was a vase" fic
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“Holy shit, dude,” Hayden whispers, too loudly, as he pulls Shane away. “No way you were just talking to Ilya Rozanov.”
“Uh, yeah. We just met. Wait, did he lie to me?” Shane asks, looking back over his shoulder where Ilya is now standing next to a short but very muscular woman with long black hair. “What does he play?”
Hayden stops, so Shane does too.
“You don’t know who that was?”
Shane makes a face that says ‘no shit’, and waits for an answer.
“Dude. You are so innocent. Ilya Rozanov, ‘Russia’s Greatest Love Machine’?” Hayden says, like it’s obvious.
Shane looks at him blankly, and then Hayden laughs. Not like, a chuckle. He full on cackles, bending over like he can’t even contain it. “Man, he’s like prolific.”
“At what?” Shane snaps, because he’s getting really sick of not being in on the joke.
“He’s a porn star, man.”
“A-” Shane says, swallowing thickly. “What?”
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Ilya is a porn star, Shane is a hockey player, and their paths cross.
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Duty of Care by boopboop
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
29 Jan 2026
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If there’s ever been any doubt in his mind just how much Shane loves this man, it vanishes with the glossy blankness of Ilya’s expression. Blood from a stone indeed.
“My father was very fair,” Ilya says immediately, and it’s got the rigid, almost mechanical emphasis of something practiced a thousand times. “If I was bad, I pay price. No problem.”
“I think maybe we have a different definition of the word fair.”
“Yes,” Ilya admits. “Probably. Shane thinks so.”
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something you can fix by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Dec 2025
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Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But the video didn’t end there.
“Can I ask if you’ve ever been with another guy?” she had to ask.
And he, tears visible in his eyes, had to nod.
Just once. Just a single nod.
Why did he have to nod?
“Have you ever told anyone that before?” He shook his head. “Was it different? With a guy?”
“Of course.”
Of course.
“Was it better?”
“Yes.”
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Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret.
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- Part 1 of something you can fix