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1. Reward Is Always Measured Backwards by Fangirl_Shrieks

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

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander & Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Yuna Hollander
   • David Hollander
   • Pre-Canon
   • Book 2: Heated Rivalry (Game Changers)
   • Canon Compliant
   • World Juniors | World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
   • Hockey
   • Hazing
   • Racism
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Homophobia
   • Internalized Misogyny
   • Coaching Abuse
   • Underage Drinking
   • Implied/Referenced Underage Sex
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Shane Hollander Has Control Issues
   • Shane Hollander Has OCD
   • Shane Hollander Is Asian Canadian and the Hockey World Is Going to Make Sure He Knows It
   • Yuna Hollander Did Not Raise a Quitter
   • she also did not raise someone who knows how to want things safely. that's the whole problem
   • eleven pages of notes on a boy he has never met
   • the wanting had to become research before he could look at it
   • author knows puck
   • but tried very hard to make it accessible :)
   • POV Shane Hollander
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   The rules of the sex interview were not explained because the rules were the point. What the room needed to see was the specific heterosexual performance that proved you were the right kind of boy—the kind who had done the expected things and would keep doing them and had nothing to hide.

   Shane had the girl ready. He’d built her in the shower a week ago, just in case.

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   Or: Shane learns, in order, how to skate, how to perform, how to survive a room, and how to want something he will not name for years. Featuring minor hockey, the OHL, one fabricated girl named Jess, and eleven pages of notes on one Ilya Rozanov, who he has never met. Yet.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Boys Will Be Boys

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