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This gentleness we learn (from what we can't heal) by birbsborbs
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
10 Jun 2026
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“You are worrying too much,” Ilya said.
“Easy for you to say,” Shane muttered, unable to hold it back. “Your mom hasn’t been texting all week with stressful details about this damn camp.”
“No,” Ilya said. “She has not.”
Another vibration from his phone, 'Mom' appearing on the screen, and then—Your mom hasn’t been texting all week.
“Ilya,” Shane breathed. He pushed his laptop away and stood from the chair, approaching Ilya cautiously. “Ilya, I shouldn’t have said that.”
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A reparative rewrite of the canon scene in The Long Game, in which Ilya and Shane navigate a hard conversation because grief sometimes feels like a trap door they can’t help but fall into. They lean on each other to get through. Title borrowed from Bronwen Wallace’s beautiful and devastating poem, "What It Comes to Mean”
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I miss you (more than I remember you) by birbsborbs
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Mar 2026
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Did Ilya want to talk about her more? What would he even say? What could he even say, when he didn’t remember the sound of her voice? If not for faded pictures in a yellowed envelope, brought to life in dreams, he thought he might not even remember her face. Sometimes all he remembered was the feel of her arms when she pushed him out of the room and faced his father alone. Sometimes all he remembered was her hand hanging off a bed.
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Shane comes across a video that reminds him of Ilya. When they talk about Irina, Ilya needs a safe place to land. Title borrowed from Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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Things have been better for Chrissy since she started seeing Eddie--he's a bright spot in her days, and being with him is easy in a way nothing else is. But even when things are easier, there's that creeping feeling that follows her sometimes, makes her body heavy. She just doesn't always know how to talk about it.
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Saline & Titanium by sugarfreegingerale (pacificrainydays)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Mar 2026
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After crashing out over whether he is sufficiently queer, Shane makes the drunken and impulsive decision to get his nipples pierced. Who could have thought two such tiny pieces of metal could cause so much spiralling?
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- Part 1 of bad at being gay
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“Go?” Rozanov repeats, and Shane thinks he manages to nod, thinks he manages to spin some kind of excuse that he knows Rozanov doesn’t really buy, but he needs to go. He needs to get out of here. He needs to find somewhere quiet and calm where he can ride out this panic and painful tightness until he can catch his breath again. He needs-
He needs to go.
“I’m sorry,” he says, turning heel and resisting the urge to just book it right for the front door only because he’d rather not have to explain to Hayden why he returned from a hookup with Boston Lily in men’s clothes that he certainly didn’t leave in.
It’s not until he makes it halfway up the stairs to Rozanov’s bedroom that it occurs to him in a cold rush that it isn’t just anxiety that makes it this hard to breathe.
“No,” he tells himself firmly, white knuckling the bannister and trying to take a deep breath just to prove that he can.
It wheezes.
(how the tuna meltdown is averted through the power of food allergies and anaphylaxis)
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Hollanov Social Media by Amazinggrace0
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
03 Jan 2026
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Modern Lockets by princepixel
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
12 May 2026
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“Sweetheart, your pretty little head is so silly. For every photocard I make of ugly hockey men, I make two of my gorgeous, radiant, pulchritudinous boyfriend. Sometimes three.”
A smile breaks through the heated haze of Shane’s expression. “You’ve been using the thesaurus Dad got you for Christmas?”
“I will beat Yuna Hollander at Scrabble one day,” Ilya declares against Shane’s hip bone.
In the year between the Cottage and the Centaurs, Ilya misses Shane more than ever. Svetlana’s teenage cousin offers a coping method: Kpop-style Shane Hollander photocards to stare at all day long. It's a shame carrying around pictures of fellow hockey players is just not socially acceptable.
…At least, not yet.
(AKA: Ilya's mission to desensitize the hockey world to his Hollander fanboyisms, and the NHL players that suffer for it.) -
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Ilya finds out that Shane is an Abercrombie & Fitch model...
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If the bowels of an old science library basement was kind of like The Cottage…?