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there you are, my morning star by ingberry
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
18 Dec 2025
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In a move that shocks the hockey world, Shane Hollander ends up signing to the Centaurs at the same time as Ilya Rozanov. Not only do they have years of rivalry behind them, but they've also shared a night neither of them can forget.
Or, a soulmate AU where their soulmarks grow stronger as their bond grows.- Language:
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12 Feb 2026
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Every Boston Raider knows that although their captain has a girl in every port, he’s got a soft spot for the one in Montreal. Dr. Shane Hollander knows it’s better to have a semi-regular source of casual sex than try to make a relationship work during residency. Ilya Rozanov knows that the doctor he’s fucking in Montreal is unaware that he plays hockey, and in fact probably thinks he’s Bratva.
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- 12,466
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30 Jan 2026
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Ilya likes when Hollander is around, he really does. But this is different. This is him taking an unprecedented layover in the city Ilya’s staying in for a game. This is Shane Hollander pulling an expressly non-Shane Hollander move. And that’s the type of thing that fucks Ilya up if he lets himself think about it too hard. So he doesn’t think about it. He fucks Hollander and it’s great as usual and everything is fine.
And then both their flights get canceled due to a blizzard.
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27 Jan 2026
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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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17 Jan 2026
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"You're supposed to smoke over there." Someone said from behind Ilya.
Ilya almost dropped his cigarette. His English was shitty, but he had studied that sentence enough times over the years to understand it immediately. He didn't even think about his words much anymore, but it was impossible to avoid them.
He turned instinctively, and was face to face with Shane fucking Hollander.
Out of almost seven billion people, of course Ilya's soulmate had to be his fated rival. It was almost poetic. Still, Ilya had enough sense to realize just how bad this was.
or, Shane says Ilya's soulmate words. Ilya vows to never speak a word to him to keep him from finding out. They fall in love anyway.
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- Part 1 of get carried away
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- 44,257
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- 2/2
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24 Dec 2025
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The term, he’s told, is temporary retrograde amnesia. Ilya doesn’t need the direct translation to understand: he forgot things. Ten years of things.
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22 Dec 2025
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Fanning the Flames by cjr2
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
11 Dec 2025
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The Voyageurs ask Shane to join FanMail in order to foster a better connection with fans. Internet sleuths start to notice some interesting details in the background of Shane’s videos, and then the internet does...what the internet does.
Or Shane and Ilya are granted an opportunity to come out on their own terms. Sort of. And in they do it in a very Ilya way. (Surprisingly, it is Shane’s idea)
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21 Dec 2025
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and i spit out the seeds by linearity
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
30 Oct 2025
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A video of Shane sucking Ilya’s dick is leaked. Over the next twenty-four hours, Ilya goes on an odyssey.
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20 Dec 2025
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A Spark and Flash Paper by AnchoredArchangel
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
15 Feb 2024
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“When I was in college, my girlfriend and I used to play this game—”
Henry has been through extensive and rigorous etiquette training. Private tutors. The whole lot. He’s been thoroughly and expertly edified to remain impassive, attentive, unruffled, in even the most extreme of circumstances. But if this gorgeous man is about to tell him about some sort of perverted royal roleplay he engaged in with his college girlfriend, Henry’s going to revisit his decision about not jumping out of the bloody window.
Or: Henry attends a charity gala intent on changing the trajectory of his life. He certainly does, but not quite in the way he intended.
(Henry’s POV of No Consequences)
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- Part 6 of The Consequences (of our Actions)
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24 Feb 2025
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Stress Relief by bleedingballroomfloor for starry_pisces
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
27 Jan 2025
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When it gets like this — the too much of it all, the drowning in the deadlines, the anxiety about assignments, the panic over passing — Alex knows he can walk two doors down and have that stress immediately seeped from his body.
The best thing about it, however, is the fact that he can do the very same for Henry.
Or, Alex and Henry's casual arrangement has (unsurprisingly) shifted into something... more.
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15 Feb 2025
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Break Out by cricketnationrise for kiwiana
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Time to Shine - Rachel Reid
13 May 2025
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Expectation and preparation are not remotely the same thing.
That’s the thought that flashes through Henry’s mind when his phone rings, Coach Chen displayed on the screen.
Henry had been expecting the call ever since hearing that Westbrook was smashed into his own goal at the game against Milwaukee yesterday. But he was in no way prepared for hearing the words in the light of day.
“You’re getting called up.”
Or, a Time to Shine by Rachel Reid AU
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- 24/24
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12 Feb 2025
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Since I Memorized Your Face by chamel for stutteringpeach
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Dec 2024
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“Oxford, like twenty years ago—” Twenty-one, actually. “I was there for a term abroad. We had a class together.” Alex huffs a disbelieving laugh and pushes a hand back through his curls. “We, uh, well. There was that party after final exams…”
“I’m so sorry, I don’t recall that one” Henry lies, flashing an apologetic smile. “I don’t remember the details of most of those uni parties these days.”
(Twenty years ago, Henry met—and let go of—his soulmate. Now he's in his 40s, with a new job in a new city, and certainly not expecting said soulmate to come barreling into his life again. A small white lie seems like the simplest way to keep things from getting awkward, but real life has a way of getting complicated.)
12/23: New holiday epilogue added!
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28 Jan 2025
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This Is More of a Comment Than a Question by caterpills
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
29 Nov 2024
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Three weeks before Henry Fox's tour for his fourth, highly anticipated, awards-bait novel A Brief War in December begins, his publicist Janella breaks her foot on a bunny slope at Windham.
Alex can't be mad at her, even though he kind of is. Saying it out loud would be like kicking her when she was down, and she already went down a literal mountain in the worst way possible.
Now crammed in Rafael Luna's corner office, Janella is shooting Alex extremely apologetic looks while slumped on her crutches, wearing a bright orange cast. The conversation about who is going to be joining Henry Fox on his multi-city trek across the U.S. is also going downhill. Alex is feeling the same sort of free fall while standing still.
Because out of all the publicists available in their tiny underfunded department, the only one left to escort their company's best-selling author is regrettably him.
The problem is, well, Alex absolutely hates Henry Fox.
Or: Alex is the publicist for Mountchristen Publishers, and is stuck on a two-week tour with their best-selling, but frustrating, author Henry Fox.
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UPDATE: complete and now with art!
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11 Nov 2024
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No Consequences by AnchoredArchangel
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
26 Dec 2023
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"I sort of came out as bisexual to both Nora and myself when we were watching that fucking snoozefest of a Royal Wedding years ago, and I told her with no hesitation that you were on my list.”
Suddenly, Henry looks very present in this previously one-sided conversation, eyes boring into him even if he sounds a little choked as he clarifies, “I was on—”
“My No Consequences Sex List,” Alex confirms brazenly. “Yeah."
Or: During an inadvisable spot of dating years back, Alex and Nora made a game out of making extensive lists of celebrities they could hook up with without it being cheating. One breakup and several years later, Alex meets someone on his list for the very first time at a charity gala and decides it's appropriate to tell him all about it.
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- Part 1 of The Consequences (of our Actions)
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04 Aug 2024
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One of the world’s largest retailers is opening a store on his street. A bookstore. He looks down at the article in his hand again and catches sight of a phrase: “We hope that people will see this as more than a bookstore, and hope to foster a sense of community.” As if Henry Fox-Mountchristen has any concept of what community means.
Alex very narrowly does not break something.
(When global mega-retailer Mountchristen opens a new location—led by the infuriatingly attractive and insufferable Henry Fox-Mountchristen—near his LGBTQ-focused bookshop in Soho, Alex's comfortable life is turned upsided down. Luckily, he has one of his best friends to turn to: a guy he met online and knows only as H. Meanwhile, Henry is battling against his family to make a positive difference in the world and falling further in love with a man he's never met. But... what if they changed that?
Yes, it's a You've Got Mail AU.)
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25 Mar 2024
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Alex Claremont-Diaz has done it again. The Texas-born singer-songwriter released his fourth studio album second skin Thursday at midnight. Full of Claremont-Diaz’s signature lyricism, critics are praising the album for the cohesive image it paints. second skin is the result of a young writer at the top of his game, and every lyric depicts for the listener a picture of a sun-drenched secret romance. Fans are clamoring to be the first to uncover the mystery girl at the center of it all, although Claremont-Diaz remains tight-lipped on the subject…
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Or: Alex Claremont-Diaz is a singer-songwriter rising up in the music industry. Henry Fox is the shining star of an acting empire.
This is a love story.- Language:
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- 6/6
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08 Feb 2024
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“This is so unfair,” Alex says, still eyeing Henry.
“What?” June asks.
“That Henry Fox is talented, successful, and also mind-numbingly good-looking?” says Nora.
Alex nods. “Exactly. Like my perfect nemesis. He’s coming for my brand.”
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Alex has read Henry Fox's debut approximately three times in the past three months. The novel, featuring a wary protagonist coming to terms with his sexuality, is garnering Fox critical acclaim. And maybe Alex is a little jealous — his own novel generated a surprising amount of success last year after going viral online, but it just wasn't cut out for the type of buzz Fox was receiving. So Alex jumps at the chance to meet Henry at a book signing, despite knowing very little about the man himself.
What starts as a bad first impression quickly leads to fast friendship, many Instagram DMs, and a whole lot of mutual pining.
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01 Feb 2024
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The Christmas Guest by cmere for SpiltScribbles
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
27 Dec 2020
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Alex is looking forward to a relaxing winter break catching up with his sister after her semester abroad, but June's gone and ruined everything by inviting her insufferable international student friend to stay with their family for a real American Christmas experience. Henry is irritatingly gorgeous with a completely obnoxious superiority complex, and Alex is prepared to hate every single second he's forced to spend in his presence. As Alex starts to get into the Christmas spirit, however, he finds that maybe there's more to Henry than meets the eye - and maybe, just maybe, this will actually be the best Christmas ever.
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- 11/11
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01 Sep 2023
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After Henry stole the Atkins case from Alex, there’s no way Alex can ever forgive him. Ever. Henry is enemy no. 1, persona non grata. There’s absolutely no way that Henry and his quiet smiles, with his almost offensive politeness and his stupid accent and his stupid perfect hair can make up for this.
Or can he?
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The prequel to to the victor, the spoils aka the firstprince lawyer AU with a twist; featuring insurmountable rivalry, questionable decision making and more than a little tension.Series
- Part 2 of don't estop me now
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- English
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- 65,123
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- 11/11
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31 Aug 2023
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“Gran sat me down the day I finished my A levels and made it abundantly clear I was not to let anyone know about any deviant desires I might be beginning to harbor that might reflect poorly upon the crown, and there were appropriate channels to maintain appearances if necessary.”
Shaan approaches Henry with a deal from the Queen: agree to an arranged marriage with a woman to flaunt in public, and he can enjoy the services of a male escort in private. Alex comes storming into Henry’s life with sparkling brown eyes, a mischievous smirk, and a challenge, and Henry struggles to maintain control of his emotions as boundaries begin to blur.
Alex doesn’t actually care about him; it’s just a job. Right?
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17 Aug 2023