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Just Guys Being Dudes by FightMeImSmall
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Apr 2026
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Ilya and Shane get outed via instagram live… as friends. The world reacts as their friendship becomes the most talked about thing in the hockey world.
Being openly friends affords them more freedoms to be together, but all the more easy to lose it all.
AKA
Shane has a touch of Hudson Williams to him
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- 70,468
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- 14/?
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- 1,961
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03 Apr 2026
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i've been pushing for this for so long by LiarsandThieves22
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Feb 2026
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ESPN: Shane Hollander To the Ottawa Centaurs after Tumultuous End to Montreal Metros Career
@CentaursGirlie1995: obviously i feel very badly for shane but my beautiful failson of a team getting the two best players because of homophobia is perhaps the only good thing homophobia has ever done
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Or: Shane's first season on the Ottawa Centaurs, as told by everyone else in the world.
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- English
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- 34,654
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- 4/4
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- 1,218
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- 14,140
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26 Mar 2026
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good on my own accord by impetuous
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
14 May 2026
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No serious hockey fan or sports commentator worth their salt would have considered record-breaking Boston superstar Ilya Rozanov to be Shane Hollander’s rival exactly, but sleeping with a man who had a specific offense-related vendetta against him and a wrist shot like a jet engine to back it up was probably ill-advised just the same.
Or, Shane is a goalie. Ilya can’t score.
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- Part 1 of #42 Shane Hollander
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- English
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- 148,926
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- 18/18
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- 7,260
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15 Mar 2026
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Yuna's Boys by midnighttypewriter
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 May 2026
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14 Mar 2026
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After a serious and devastating attack, the Uchiha are in desperate need of a sealmaster. Unfortunately for them, the best candidate happens to be from the Senju clan. Fortunately for them, he doesn't seem all that inclined to act like an enemy.
Which is lucky because, as it turns out, there are plenty of other adversaries making moves in Fire Country - both the clans will need to make new friends to survive.
Madara would have been content if his new husband tolerated him and helped his clan stay safe. He doesn't quite know what to do with the fact that his husband doesn't stop there.
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- 87,847
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- 21/21
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- 1
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- 1,165
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27 Feb 2026
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win conditions by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
12 May 2026
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22 Feb 2026
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Home Ice Advantage by taywrites11
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
27 Feb 2026
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15 Feb 2026
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Tristan Hughes- charming family man, highly successful contract lawyer and consummate serial killer- opened his eyes as Haruno Sakura, a child in a world where professional assassins were treated as heroes and she smiled.
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- Part 1 of Red Splatter on Pink
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- English
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- 154,077
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- 36/38
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- 854
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05 Feb 2026
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The Interview by ticketyboo00
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
30 Mar 2026
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Several years into Rozanov’s career, ESPN hires a reporter fluent in Russian.
Suddenly able to answer questions fluently and with a wide vocabulary, Rozanov’s interviews go viral. Hockey fans around the world get a new look at what they thought about Boston’s #81. This changes not only his public persona, but his whole life.
Inspired by the look on NBA star Nikola Jokić’s face when he was asked a question in his native Serbian and my own struggles learning a new language.
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- 11/?
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- 1,760
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02 Feb 2026
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Public Bookmark 2516
Mystery Work
Part of underconstruction_ma
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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20 Jan 2026
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He’s already in the room, shutting the door behind himself as quietly as he can before he realises that not only is there someone other than Shane in the room, but there are three someones other than Shane.
And, as if he hasn’t already fucked up spectacularly, the someones happen to be the Hollanders and Hayden fucking Pike.
// or; Ilya visits Shane in the hospital and meets his parents. He's traumatized and grieving, everything hurts, and Shane takes after his mother.
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- English
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- 12,398
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18 Jan 2026
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When Shane reluctantly agreed to kick off his MLH career with a photoshoot, he imagined, somewhat vaguely, a hockey uniform and some dramatic lighting on the rink. Shoot a few pucks. Pose intensely. That kind of thing.
The marketing agency, apparently, had other ideas.
A plane flight gone wrong, a desperate crash landing, and suddenly hockey’s two brightest young stars find themselves stranded in the heart of the Canadian wilderness. With no way home and no rescue coming, they only have one hope for survival -- each other.
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- English
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- 26/28
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- 1,256
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17 Jan 2026
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toska by cursedbythenarrative
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Apr 2026
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Later, he’ll blame it all on a momentary lapse of judgement.
He’ll blame it on the loneliness maybe—on the fact that, despite never having been physically closer to Shane this consistently in his entire life—that despite regularly getting dinner with Shane’s parents—that despite finally having found what he’d spend his entire life searching for he’s also, somehow, never felt more alone.
He’ll blame it on Cliff not texting him back since he’d signed with Ottawa. He’ll blame it on Sveta, face pulled into a perpetual frown during every facetime call.
Or maybe he’ll blame it on Anya—sweet, beautiful Anya—who’d been just a little too cute not to share.
or: Ilya accidentally rehabilitates his image one puppy tiktok at a time
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- 41,790
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- 11/13
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- 4
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- 1,222
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- 3,088
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- 56,909
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17 Jan 2026
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Seven Easy Steps to Mastering Magical Warfare by charlottemontpelier
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Nov 2025
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In hindsight, it was silly of Remus to think that the Order was the only group fighting against Voldemort’s regime.
But he didn’t particularly care that Artemis Lee, forgotten Hogwarts yearmate, called the Order “fucking stupid.”
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- English
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- 56,235
- Chapters:
- 5/8
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- 16
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- 191
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- 1,634
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17 Jan 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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- English
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- 12,465
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- 1/1
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- 2,324
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16 Jan 2026
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something you can build by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jan 2026
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Six months ago, Shane’s intimate conversation and break-up with Rose Landry was recorded and leaked. In those six months, his life had completely upended and everything had changed, for better or for worse. Except for Ilya. He still has Ilya, and he’s beginning to understand that he always will.
It’s 2018. Shane Hollander has to figure out his new life, in a new city, on a new team, while being out to the world but not by his own choice. Ilya, along for the ride, also has to learn what it means to be connected to a place, to a person, and to his own inner truth.
(Sequel to “something you can fix,” set post-Heated Rivalry, pre-The Long Game)
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- Part 2 of something you can fix
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- English
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- 96,881
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- 13/13
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- 4
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- 8,312
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10 Jan 2026
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At the end of the 3rd Shinobi War, Konoha is bankrupted.
When he's offered an alliance that may save his clan and village, Shikaku Nara would be a very poor shinobi if he refused, even if he's not really keen on a political marriage.
At least his wife seems smart enough...AO3 exclusive scenes in chapter 3.
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- 11/11
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- 284
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04 Jan 2026
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The whole Umbridge thing makes her want to scream, just a wee bit. It’s seventh year, NEWTs are fast approaching, and she’s not kept a low profile for her entire Hogwarts tenure just to fail her exams horrifically.
A semi/si-oc who wants nothing to do with the plot, like, ever.
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- Part 19 of lulu's self insert fics
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- English
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- 58,776
- Chapters:
- 6/?
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- 24
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- 1,090
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31 Dec 2025
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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
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- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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- English
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- 30,455
- Chapters:
- 4/4
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- 2
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- 2,274
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- 49,720
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30 Dec 2025
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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
- Language:
- English
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- 26,824
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 1,787
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- 46,233
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- 621,550
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29 Dec 2025