whimsywheeelah
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mike is starting to feel crushed by the weight of responsibility, stress, and just life in general. the small, rough-and-tumble cowtown of hawkins, texas is threatening to suffocate mike entirely. that is, until he finds a breath of fresh air in the form of a long-lost friend
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the party stays at lover's lake for a week to kick off the summer before their senior year. the only problem is that mike has a crush on will, max knows, and well, they're at lover's lake...
“C’mon Wheeler!” Mike stumbled as a stronger, significantly less butterfly-inducing touch nearly bowled him over as Max all but strangled his arm in an effort to yank him up the driveway. “We haven’t got all day!”
“We’re here for quite literally the entire week, Mayfield.”
“Not if you keep standing there like a yearning loser,” Max whispered, a teasing glint in her eye.
“Remind me why I ever told you anything,” Mike groaned, dragging a hand down his face and casting a wary glance down at the short redhead. She tsk’d, shaking her head as she pulled them through the doorway.
“Because, Wheeler, you’re hopeless.”
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The Long Way Home by kooksie
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Jan 2026
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Shane can’t stand his college roommate and teammate, Ilya Rozanov. Can’t stand his arrogance and his messiness and his constant sleeping around.
But then the entire team, Shane included, welcomes their families to campus for Parents Weekend.
And Shane also can’t stand that Ilya is alone.
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when i run out of road (you bring me home) by noedovenest
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Mar 2026
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“I don’t want to go back to school,” he whispered. “I don’t want summer to end.”
I don’t want to lose you.
“We will make it work.” The assurance of his steady tone, the cool resolve in it, was a warm balm to Shane’s anxiety.
“Yeah.” He looked back out over the neighborhood, swallowing the lump in his throat that felt Ilya-sized. It’d come back thicker when they were forced apart next week, a final goodbye as they began the seventh grade. Pushing the thought as far back in his mind as it would go, he forced a small smile. “But let’s stay up here for a bit longer, anyway.”OR: Shane and Ilya met when they were eleven, and figured it out eight years later.
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24 May 2026
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childhood best friends to lovers always gets me good 10000/10
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the more you look, the more you find (all around you all the time) by scarlettroses
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
14 Mar 2026
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"Oh." Hollander has gone a little red, beneath his freckles. "I am from… French Canada? Québec? Do you know? Very… very small town there, no English, only French. I try to learn, but— is a bit hard."
Ilya feels mildly stupid. He knew, obviously, that they speak French in Canada, but he didn’t know it was, like— some people’s only language. He’d sort of assumed everyone was fluent in both.
"Huh. Cool."
"Your English is very good," Hollander offers.
Ilya laughs.
"I mean, yeah— I grew up in Minneapolis."
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aka. the one where the language barrier is reversed. it changes everything.
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20 May 2026
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Young and Hopelessly Smitten by jukoist
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
15 Dec 2025
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“Ilya Rozanov,” Shane repeats slowly, letting himself taste the words. He grins. “Wow. You’re, like, a really good player. How come you’re in Canada for summer camp? Is that weird to ask? Sorry if that’s weird. I just meant-”
Shane is cut off by a hand on his mouth. He flushes.
“Too fast,” Ilya says. “My English… not good.”
“Sorry,” Shane mumbles into Ilya’s hand. Ilya grins and shakes his head, curls dancing, as he pulls his hand away.
“Is okay. Slow words. Okay?”
This year marks thirteen year Shane Hollander's third summer at Coach Marakov's elite hockey training camp. In attendance for the first time: Ilya Rozanov, visiting from Russia. Shane isn't the most sociable, and Ilya's English isn't the greatest, yet the unlikely duo soon become the best of friends.
It's just one summer, but it makes a world of difference.
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12 May 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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Bookmarked by whimsywheeelah
02 May 2026
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the was genuinely one of the best fics i have ever read