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1. Footnotes on Loneliness by laceymabel

   Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Inspired by Heated Rivalry (TV)
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Mutual Pining
   • Shane Hollander works for the New Yorker
   • Ilya Rozanov reads the New Yorker
   • Public figure/ Private relationship
   • Language Barrier
   • They're both idiots for eachother
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Smut
   • Eventual Smut
   • Alternate Universe
   • Shane Hollander Was Never a Professional Hockey Player
   • Slow Burn

   Summary

   In hopes to improve his English, Ilya Rozanov subscribes to the New Yorker.

   He does not expect himself to fall in love with a column, especially the author.

   Shane Hollander only knows how to write from his heart by cataloguing loneliness as his own, about the performance of public life and about wanting something that he cannot safely name.

   Ilya learns new words from him.

   Yearning. Vulnerability. Home.

   And he is practicing to say them out loud.

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

   8/?

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