2 Works by cantcombustor
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who we are for them, who we are for us by cantcombustor
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Aug 2026
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"There’s so many people that I need to be and so many people that I can’t be, and in all of it I don’t even know who I am sometimes. Everyone talks about me like they know me… like they own me, but they don’t even know what my real daemon form is, because I don’t fucking know either! I’ve got to pose for pictures with a fake daemon and a caked on fake face and smile like I want it all, when all I really want is-”
Shane is cut off by a kiss. A messy, frustrated, painful kiss of a man in tears and a man holding his own inside.
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The story of Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov fighting for love while caught up in a metaphysical mystery plaguing the league. Humans have animal soul-daemons, and sinister plots haunt the narrative. Shane, Ilya, and their animal companions struggle to balance young love with the threats emerging around them. Can they unravel the ghosts of Ilya's past while flying under the watchful eyes of the Magisterium?
Romance, hockey, fluff, smut, with a sprinkling of metaphysical mystery and espionage, now with original art.
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Speechless by cantcombustor
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 Aug 2026
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Shane blinks back, and wonders what his face might be doing. He wonders if somewhere written among his freckles is the number of times that Shane’s intrusive thoughts have imagined the man before him in lewd scenarios. He wonders if his mouth --already disconnected from his conscious mind-- secretly whispers confessions of his fantasies in a devastating betrayal of the self.
Shane swallows. The two blue eyes are so fucking close that they could each be a mile wide. They could be barrels of a gun or the tips of arrows. They’re trained on Shane and call on his animalistic reactions of fight or flight.
Or fawn.
Shane Hollander was diagnosed with autism as a child. With delayed speech, sensory difficulties, and a brain that refused to conform, Shane grew up always finding ways to cope using hockey, systems, and routine. After temporarily losing his speech in a very public meltdown at the world juniors, Shane is forced to carve a path as the first publicly autistic player in the NHL, accommodations and all.
Chronic surprise Ilya Rozanov is determined to prove to Shane that he isn't a problem to be solved, while both men must learn to accept that they're worthy of love at all.