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Getting stuck in Kaedwen in winter had never been on Jaskier's plan. It's cold, they don't appreciate his music and nobody likes their national beverage anyway. The only redeeming thing Kaedwen has is Kaer Morhen, so Jaskier does what any reasonable bard would do in this situation: he decides to charm his way into Kaer Morhen to hibernate with Geralt and the other witchers. If nothing it will be an experience no human has ever had, fuel for songs and poems for years to come, while finally teaching him a thing or two about witchers he's just dying to know.
Curiosity tended to kill the cat, but Jasker had always seen himself as more of a bird anyway.
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03 Aug 2026
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"Sveta," he says, before she can greet him. "I think I'm about to do something very stupid."
"You're always doing something stupid," she laughs, her voice tinny over the speakerphone. "What is it this time?"
"I am in a staring contest with a bottle of pills," Ilya says. "And I think the pills might win."
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Or: An alternate take on Ilya's mental health after moving to Ottawa, featuring the reality of long distance relationships, Ilya learning to captain a new team, and a series of game tapes made by Ilya's dead father.
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- Part 10 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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30 Mar 2026
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Spoilers for The Long Game. Post-Canon.
The start of Ottawa's season feels like a promise. Ilya finally has all the people he loves in one place, a team that can keep up with him, the whole world knows he and Shane love each other, and they have the sweetest, most perfect dog. So why is he so nervous about their first game against Montreal?
AKA Protective Ilya Rozanov momentarily forgets his husband is still the hockey prodigy he fell in love with at first freckle in Saskatchewan.
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- Part 2 of The Hartzyverse
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29 Mar 2026
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desperate measures (the 2021-2022 season) by LiarsandThieves22
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
14 Jun 2026
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19 Mar 2026
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how do you feel? by exogenesissymph
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Dec 2025
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No one is going to win a Pulitzer interviewing him, and Shane is okay with that. He spends most interviews rephrasing the same five sentiments--I’m happy we won or We need to work harder after that loss.
They are a good team; the win was hard fought or They are a good team; there is a lot for us to take away.
And finally: I love playing on this team, for our fans.
Then Ilya Rozanov bursts into his life, and answering questions becomes a little more complicated.
or: Shane Hollander, interviewee, throughout the years.
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13 Mar 2026
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The Rooms Left Unopened (The Man I Need) by Snakeswithsocks
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Jan 2026
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Shane and Ilya already know each other’s bodies, habits, and scars. Yet, there are still things to be discovered in marriage. Music becomes the place where Shane still hides, and where Ilya realizes there are rooms in his husband's mind he hasn’t unlocked, not because Shane kept them secret, but because no one ever asked to listen.
or; Shane Hollander's music choices and Ilya's discovery of Shane's autism and their shared experiences post-cannon.
Here is the Spotify Playlist for anyone interested!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2t9O9XqtauF0q0XeB0yVoC?si=xfXmI9OnTXyuoQDRhJDD9A&pi=obZKC4olTduKH- Language:
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26 Feb 2026
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“I was thinking about the honeymoon phase thing.”
“Yes?” Ilya said.
“I think it’s different for us. I don’t want us to be all blissful and then only start fighting when we’re back to barely seeing each other. I think it’s good if we figure things out now, when we have the time. Whatever needs figuring out. So we have a solid foundation going into the season. Sort of like training camp.”
“So this means you will keep getting mad at me for things,” Ilya said.
Shane smiled, rolled his eyes. “Yeah, exactly,” he said.
“Good, I find it very hot,” Ilya said, and kissed him.An insecure over-thinker and a self-destructive thrill-seeker walk into a relationship.
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- Part 7 of perfect from now on
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17 Feb 2026
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Barstool Sports Canada reports that Montreal Metros captain Shane Hollander has started learning Russian from new teammate and Russian rookie Sergei Dovonchezky.
Ilya has some thoughts. None of them are particularly kind.
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- Part 7 of my heated rivalry fics
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05 Feb 2026
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never was much of a romantic by blossominribcage
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Jan 2026
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Ilya was just making a suggestion. A selfless one, really. If Shane wanted to sleep with other people, he didn’t think it was fair to try to stop him.
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- Part 4 of ilya and shane’s silly adventures
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03 Feb 2026
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Plentiful, but Ultimately Finite (rewrite available in notes) by broccolicheddarchicken
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Feb 2025
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Canada had given him his life as he knew it, but it had never felt one hundred percent comfortable, either. He missed Russia sometimes, but it didn’t have the thing that mattered most. Ilya had exactly one home, and it was this: his face pressed into a smooth chest, his head tucked under a strong jaw, with freckled arms wrapped around him and delicate fingers combing through his hair. Anywhere else was a temporary excursion.
A treatise on second (and third) languages, homesickness, acceptance, Shane's struggle learning Russian, and the things people do when they care.
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27 Jan 2026
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Such a Pretty Crier by Bruja_oscura
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Dec 2025
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Shane is still learning that he doesn't have to be perfect in his own relationship. Ilya is still learning the rules of Shane's bad days. So when Shane tries to push him away after a crushing loss, it leads to a tense argument. But ten years of rivalry are no match for Shane’s tears; the second he starts to cry, Ilya folds like a house of cards.
Or: Shane tries to starve himself as punishment for losing, Ilya tries to feed him, and it turns into a very soft night of pampering because Ilya is legally incapable of staying angry at a crying Shane.
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18 Jan 2026
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“I am not your bride, Jeonha.”
“Are you not?” Yoongi tilts his head to the side. "Within these walls no one will even address you by the name you have been raised to respond to. If anything, the only thing you are for certain is my bride, nothing less, nothing more.”
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On the night of his sister's wedding to the most ruthless King Silla has ever known, Jungkook takes her place in the marital chamber with a single objective - to kill a King and disappear forever. But things rarely go according to plan.
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06 Apr 2025
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long you live and high you fly by pinkgrapefloyd
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series
25 Nov 2024
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“Jim had often thought about how lucky they were that his feigned death had been enough to snap Spock out of his pon farr. He’d never even considered the fact that no Vulcan would ever believe that.”
Assuming he and Spock are dating, Amanda and Sarek invite an unsuspecting Kirk to family dinner.
Philon Award Winner 2025 (Novella)
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17 Feb 2025
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Expatriate by thehoyden
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
01 Oct 2021
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Being sent to the Rito in the dead of winter is a punishment. Link is ostensibly relieving the longtime Hylian military attaché, so this could be construed a promotion—but for the timing.
Another birthday has come and gone, and still he has not presented. And even though everyone expects him to be appointed the Princess’s knight, one thing is for sure—the King will never select anyone but an alpha. And he certainly won’t trust his only child with someone who hasn’t even presented yet. Maybe it would be different if Link had the sword that seals the darkness, but he doesn’t.
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06 Jan 2025
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The bad news is that one of Lassiter's highest profile arrests has just escaped from prison. The worse news is that his best hope of tracking him down is a sleep-deprived Shawn Spencer.
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- Part 1 of The Dah-Ling Series
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07 Dec 2023
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Ten Degrees Below Zero by kianspo
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
05 Jul 2021
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After a serious incident aboard a starship, Commander Spock is demoted and transferred to a remote base where he must now serve with other "undesirables." He adjusts to his new rank and duties, and, while the future does look bleak, he is not ready to give up on himself or Starfleet yet. There is work to be done and hope to be found, especially as he begins to get to know his new colleagues, particularly one intriguing engineering officer James Kirk...
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26 Nov 2023
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As the president’s son, nothing can taint Namjoon’s spotless, filial public image – except, perhaps, being a closeted gay man secretly dating a drag queen.
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01 Sep 2023
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Modern/No Upside Down AU. Steve hires professional DM Eddie Munson to entertain the kids he babysits every week. Together, they enter uncharted territory.
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11 May 2023
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Every date Steve has gone to lately has been horrible. It’s impossible that there’s something wrong with the entire female population of Hawkins, so surely there must be something wrong with him.
“Why don’t you take me on a date then?”
“Wh— what?”
“Take me on a date, pretend, of course, and then I’ll tell you if there’s something wrong with you or not.”
Or: Eddie proposes a crazy idea to see if there's something wrong with him, Steve finds the fact that it works is even crazier.
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06 May 2023
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The war was over.
Or at least that’s what the papers said.
They’d been saying it, for months, as if people needed reminding.
Maybe they did.
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In which Harry and Draco both run away from their pasts and conveniently choose to hide in the same tiny American town.
It's super.
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Bookmarked by brainpain
13 Feb 2023