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• language acquisition by SNAKEHABITATTURNAROUND

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  19 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Hayden Pike
  • Yuna Hollander
  • Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov
  • POV Shane Hollander
  • Established Relationship
  • Mild Sexual Content
  • Post-Episode: s01e06 The Cottage (Heated Rivalry)
  • Canon Divergence: The Long Game
  • their love language is language
  • russian is hard don't try this at home
  • Perfectionist Shane Hollander
  • immigrant identity thoughts
  • Shane Hollander Speaks Russian
  • Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander

  Summary

  Ilya was nineteen when he moved to the US. Nineteen years of Russia. Over half a decade of Russian summers after that to re-up. His brain, Shane knew, operated in Russian.

  Series

  • Part 1 of language acquisition

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  7,213

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  128

  Kudos:

  910

  Bookmarks:

  219

  Hits:

  4,827

• vocab lessons by SNAKEHABITATTURNAROUND

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  25 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander
  • Svetlana Vetrova
  • Cliff Marlow | Cliff Marleau
  • POV Ilya Rozanov
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Canon Compliant
  • Spoilers for Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers)
  • Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander
  • English is hard
  • 5 Times
  • dubcon but it's Them so
  • slur adjacent use? maybe straight up slur use
  • internalised homophobia and Culture At Large are the mitigating factors of course
  • Character Study
  • Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov
  • Light BDSM
  • Light Angst
  • timeline is HR through TLG and beyond
  • Russian also is hard
  • POV Shane Hollander
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • Recreational Drug Use
  • Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov Being Idiots
  • Summer Vacation
  • identity reconciliation
  • they just chat to each other
  • whoops they're sickeningly codependent

  Summary

  Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander have a lot to learn, or!

  Five words towards bilingual fluency, followed by a few towards self-fluency.

  Series

  • Part 2 of language acquisition

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  24,581

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Comments:

  104

  Kudos:

  219

  Bookmarks:

  35

  Hits:

  2,677