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    keep rolling under the stars by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

    29 Jun 2026

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    June 2010. Ilya Rozanov is delayed after the CCM shoot. By the time he gets to the locker room, Shane Hollander is out of the showers and Ilya’s entire plan is ruined.
    Only not quite fully ruined. Hollander invites him to dinner with his parents as a thank you for arranging the shoot and Ilya, in a burst of insanity, agrees. He hits it off with Yuna and David. They all exchange numbers. He and Hollander become friends.
    At no point does Ilya stop wanting more from him.

    June 2016. Ilya Rozanov is a superstar. A Cup winner. An MVP. Women want him, men want to be him. He’s fucking miserable.
    He’s in love with his best friend. He can’t deny it anymore. Only now Shane is dating a movie star and happier than Ilya’s ever seen him. Ilya can’t ruin that for him, can’t ruin their friendship by asking for what he knows Shane can’t give. No matter how much it kills him.

    A charity event in San Francisco. A catastrophic computer failure. A fateful decision to drive, not fly. Two days in a car, just the two of them. Alone. Together.
    Ilya’s sick with excitement and with dread, because how can he keep his secrets with Shane so close for so long?

    What he doesn’t know is that Shane has secrets too.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    From oblivious to oblivion, love it.

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    (I Will Try) To Fix You by

    Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types  

    27 Jun 2026

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    Ilya was standing in the tunnel to his right; he was quiet now, eyes glued to one place. Shane looked over, watching as Marleau wrapped his arms around Rozanov from behind. Watched the way Ilya’s body slowly lowered to the ground as a guttural cry tore out of his mouth.

    OR

    You're really going to have to trust me on this one.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    A kind of torture. I’d love a fic based on the life where Ilya kissed him at the CCM shoot. Really interesting idea.

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    All Eyes On You by

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

    29 Jun 2026

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    Summer, 2021. Shane Hollander is Major League Hockey's hottest free agent. MLH fans and organizations alike must grapple with their expectations: Hollander is not the young man the league discarded in 2017, for better or worse. There is more to his life than hockey, even if he says frustratingly little about his boyfriend, another player known only as Lily.

    When the Ottawa Centaurs lace up for the 2021-2022 season with a stacked lineup, failure is not an option. What the world believes to be the newest iteration of a longstanding rivalry just might be hockey's greatest love story.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Series continues to get better and better, somewhat like it’s protagonists. More please.

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    Wake Up by

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

    11 Apr 2026

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    Spring, 2021. The Ottawa Centaurs are playoff-bound, Shane Hollander is suing the MLH for discrimination, and Ilya Rozanov wants the rookie that's sleeping with Hollander and stringing Luca Haas along off his f*cking hockey team. He's barely keeping it together as it is.

    Meanwhile, the Boston Raiders are playing the long game: trading for Hayden Pike, making sure that if Hollander comes back to the league, they've got their bargaining chip in place. A month later, Pike would agree with them, as news outlets report Hollander's attachment to a player in the league with a familiar alias.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    😊

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    Big Bang by

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

    13 Mar 2026

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    It's the 2020-2021 season. Ottawa Centaurs forward Derek Briggs, an undrafted player from the Swedish Hockey League, is having a fantastic rookie season. He makes the team out of camp, claws his way up to the second line, lives through an almost plane crash, and has a crush on his fellow rookie that just might be reciprocated. The Centaurs might even make the playoffs.

    Then, news breaks that Shane Hollander is suing the Metros and MLH for terminating his contract after he came out to them in 2017. Derek, who played with Shane in Sweden after he was forced out of Montreal, gets a lot more popular for all the wrong reasons. The media seems to think he's the secret hockey player Hollander's dating, Crowell is breathing down his neck, and all of a sudden, Centaurs captain Ilya Rozanov has it out for him.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Bittersweet and great. Bolshe!