3 Works by birbsborbs
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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.