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- Supernatural (TV 2005) (74)
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- DCU (48)
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Where Nobody Gives A Damn by there_must_be_a_lock for HelgaPitakisLeftEyebrow
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Mar 2026
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Ilya’s expression goes so open and earnest that it’s hard to look at him, and he says softly, “Even if you were worst dancer in the world, I would want to dance with you. Because you are you, and we get to dance now.”
“Oh,” Shane blurts out, eyes hot.
“But if you are worried, I can dance bad too!” Ilya takes a step back and does a weird funky-chicken-meets-running-man move, utterly unselfconscious, while Shane buries his face in his hands and groans. Then he steps close again, curling his hands around Shane’s hips, with a wheedling smile and fluttering lashes. “We make perfect pair, yes?”
“Jesus, you’re such a fucking asshole,” Shane says, impossibly fond. “Yeah, okay.”
[Or: the Hollander-Rozanovs do Ibiza, Ilya fails at incognito mode, and Shane gets a dance lesson.]
Series
- Part 5 of Hollanov standalones
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swear i have control (just like a universe expanding) by there_must_be_a_lock for the_abster (heart_in_paradise9393)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
20 Mar 2026
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They do not talk about what they’re doing. To acknowledge the ground beneath their feet would be to crash and burn immediately, or so Ilya assumed. Like stupid coyote cartoon running off a cliff; it’s fine, until he looks down.
But tonight Shane sits on the edge of his bed and sets his jaw and asks, “It’s not just me, right?”
Shane, apparently, just noticed gravity.
[Or: a missing scene from Episode 5, in which Ilya is Totally Fine, obviously, and they have sex about it.]
Series
- Part 1 of bluebird
- Part 3 of Hollanov standalones
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Assumptions by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Mar 2026
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Countless times people made assumptions about Shane and Ilya's sex life + a few times they learned the truth.
[Or: timestamps, social media tangents, and other bits of fluff related to "5 Times Shane and Ilya Matched Each Other's Freak."]
Series
- Part 3 of Compatible
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Roar Their Light by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Feb 2026
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“Monet was her favorite,” he says. “Monet, and… what is it called, when they do not worry about details? Is about the emotion you walk away with. Imperfect.”
“Impressionism,” Yuna says, with a strangely gentle look in her eyes.
“Yes. That.”
[Or: Ilya, Irina, art, and memories.]
Series
- Part 4 of Compatible
- Part 4 of Hollanov standalones
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Wordless by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Feb 2026
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A thick arm snakes around his middle, wrapping him up. Shane twists around to squint at him in the darkness. He can’t see much, but it’s enough.
“You’re here,” he slurs.
[Or: an expanded version of Chapter 3 of "5 Times Shane and Ilya Matched Each Other's Freak," now from Shane's perspective.]
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- Part 2 of Compatible
Recent series
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Hollanov standalones by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
21 Mar 2026
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All my Hollanov fics that can be read on their own, regardless of whether they're also part of another series.
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- 5
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Missing scenes from the show, as told through Ilya's relationship with vulnerability and tenderness and caretaking and control.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?- "Bluebird," by Charles Bukowski
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- 12
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Compatible by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
14 Mar 2026
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- 21,842
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- 281
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Outlaws-centric Punk AU by meep0_0meep, there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Marvel, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
06 Nov 2025
- Words:
- 15,517
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- 5
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- 15
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All The Devils by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Deathstroke the Terminator (Comics), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Nov 2025
- Words:
- 50,233
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- 5
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- 123
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Duty of Care by boopboop
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
09 Feb 2026
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Ilya Rozanov, get loved.
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- Part 1 of Duty of Care
- Language:
- English
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- 145,224
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- 25/25
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Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
15 Mar 2026
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Apogee by OpalApparition
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Mar 2026
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Shane Hollander is the youngest Commander in ISS history; straight-backed, closeted, and so tightly on his own leash that seven months in orbit with Ilya Rozanov have not produced a single crack in his composure.
Ilya Rozanov is the Russian cosmonaut who should have had his job, won’t stop bouncing a tennis ball off the walls, and is still looking for a fissure. Thankfully, a solar storm finds it for him.
or: Near-death, zero gravity, and the wrong man’s hands in exactly the right places.
A Cosmonaut!Ilya x Astronaut!Shane AU 🚀
- Language:
- English
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- 50,348
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
09 Mar 2026
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They’d wanted to escape the cage, but they’d been in that cage for a decade and they’d made a home of it. Out in the big wide world, they got homesick.
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- Part 8 of perfect from now on
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,910
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- 1/1
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27 Feb 2026
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One for the Road by PastyPirate
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Jan 2026
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“You can’t go two weeks without fucking me anyways,” Shane heard himself saying, and instantly felt like he’d chosen the wrong dialogue option. He should’ve said something like I’d like to see all the ways you can figure it out or maybe not sharing a room has never stopped us before.
Ilya let out a laugh, “Please, you beg for me all the time.”
“I’m not the one who can’t go more than a day without jerking off —” shut up Hollander, SHUT UP “I can totally go two weeks without fucking.”
The Centaurs do a rotational room program for their first road trip of the season. Which would be fine if Ilya and Shane could be professionals.
Shane starts a fight and gets a Dick Trick, Ilya is a mastermind, Bood becomes an Queer Icon, Troy has no idea what's going on, Hayes is having the time of his life, and no one wants to talk about the showers thing anymore.
Now with Prequel, but stands alone.
Series
- Part 2 of On The Road Again
- Language:
- English
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- 28,447
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- 5/5
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Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
27 Feb 2026
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The Metros really were lousy at hockey. Shane Hollander was the only talent they had, which was why they threw the C on his chest before they even made it to the All Star break. The Raiders hadn’t given Ilya even an A yet. Coach had taken him aside and told him they weren’t going to think about a leadership role on the team until he’d finished his rookie year. He had enough to deal with, Coach said, which was nicer than saying Ilya was still nineteen, and his English sucked shit, and they weren’t quite done being worried about “character issues.”
Ilya Rozanov’s rookie year reimagined by someone with serious hockey-watcher brainrot.
Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
24 Feb 2026