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Dirt Always Tells by dearheartdont
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Mar 2026
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Ilya, the second son of Pakhan Rozanov, is sent to Toronto to make a deal with assassin Shane Hollander.
The deal has been brokered by Shane's mother, and is an opportunity for Shane's family to renew ties with the Yakuza family Yuna once fled from.
"You're a piece of work," Hollander says, face inches from Ilya's. He has freckles, Ilya notes, absently.
Hollander does not move forward or away. His eyes flick down to Ilya's mouth and back up. His eyes are low-lidded. He smells good: clean sweat and aquatic aftershave.
"At least I know you're up to the task now," Ilya says. As if the fight and the flirting that led to it were ways to test out the merchandise. His heart is hammering.
Hollander says, "Yeah, that's what this was all about." Sarcasm suits him.
"Terrible thing to do to a good watch." Ilya closes his eyes and stretches his neck, so the wire bites against his Adam's apple when he swallows. "Now that I have seen this crime and people who mix their vodka with Coca-Cola, I am ready to die. Press down."
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ice for the ache by dearheartdont
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Feb 2026
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Ilya Rozanov’s life is shaped by three things: the loss of his mother, hockey and Shane Hollander.
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The Great Escape Debacle of 2025 by artemisadore, dearheartdont, DontOffendTheBees, ghostinthelibrary, m_erlin_s, Nigg, zilia
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Oct 2025
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When Charles and Edwin find themselves in a strange place with no recollection of how they got there and no immediate means of escape, each room they enter presents them with a completely new mystery. They have to find a way to escape while navigating what each room reveals about their friendship.
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opening doors and pulling some strings by dearheartdont
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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When Charles' master dies, he makes the rash decision to steal Sir Dagfinn's identity to compete for tournament prizes as a knight.
Charles' friends, Monty and Crystal, would be happy to just earn enough coin to fill their hungry bellies and return home to London. Thomas of Anglesey, a poet they meet on the road to Rouen, joins the gang as he needs new stories to tell.
Charles, however, has greater desires: to gain glory and prove that a peasant like himself can change his stars.
There are many obstacles for Charles to navigate: learning to joust, navigating courtly manners at banquets, and avoiding the suspicion and wickedly accurate lances of his fellow knight, Lady Esther.
It is the worst possible time to fall in love. But when he meets a handsome and quarrelsome Lord at a tournament in Rouen, Charles vows to gain his favour and his heart.
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A Medieval AU inspired by A Knight's Tale for Dead Bang Detectives 2025.
Art by birdsongisland (AO3)/ent-is-indecisive (tumblr)
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it changes when the sun goes down by dearheartdont for cutevamp
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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The prospective punter is fit, though. Cool green eyes below dark, thick brows. His swept-back hair loosened, so strands hang over his forehead. He looks like an old-fashioned film star with the monochrome of his dark hair against pale skin.
Charles' usual spiel—"Do like what you see? You can see more if you like…"—dries up in his throat, and instead he blurts out, "What's the word that means a politer word for something?"
The man's mouth opens, closes and opens again. "A euphemism?" The man's voice is posh, but pleasant.
Charles leans in closer to the window and smiles. "Thanks, mate. It was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't get it. You okay? I can help with directions if you're lost."
"I'm not lost," the man says. "I came here on purpose." His voice gets smaller. "For sex."
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1990s London. Winter.
Charles Rowland is a sex worker who needs to cover the rent.
Edwin is an attractive new punter with a Mercedes and a request.
(A PWP with shifting power dynamics, dom/sub undertones and a desperate Edwin on his knees in the moonlight).
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And there's another memory that gets stuck/Inside the walls of my skull, waiting for its turn to talk/And it may be a few years/But you can bet it's there, waiting still- Mitski, I Don’t Like My Mind
Snapshots of Charles Rowland and the world that shaped him.
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It's 2016. Shane Hollander is dating famous actress Rose Landry, and appears to be very happy about it. Not that Ilya would care. Ilya is very satisfied with the trajectory of his life. At least he's not Scott Hunter, who is holding clandestine homosexual hook-ups in his team's hotel room in Boston.
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27 Feb 2026
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The Swiss National League doesn’t care about the legendary Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. When the MLH can’t negotiate with the Hockey Players’ Union in time to prevent a hockey lockout at the start of the 2015 season, the Zürich Lions jump at the chance to sign both Shane and Ilya to short-term contracts. For four months in Switzerland, they share a team, a line, a house, and a bed.
Then the lockout ends in January, and it’s time to go back. Back to different countries, cities, lives. Beds.
Reentry is harder than expected.
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23 Feb 2026
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December 31st 2001
New Year’s Resolutions:
1. STOP SMOKING!
2. Get a better job so no longer have to dread social functions.
3. Enter into nice respectable relationship with nice respectable man; see above.
4. Develop interesting hobby as talking point in the event of failure on points 2 and 3 – anything to avoid being introduced as Edwin Payne who had a nervous breakdown after two terms at Cambridge, holds a pissant little job at a publishing house of no significance or renown and couldn’t catch a man with both hands and a bear trap. Will be 32 years old this year, for heaven’s sake. Feel strongly that now is the moment to take charge of my life. At the stroke of midnight tonight, the year 2002 shall begin, and I shall be a new and improved Edwin Payne.A Bridget Jones’s Diary AU.
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23 Feb 2026
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Call me babe again. I love the way your mouth looks when you do, soft and pink, your lips curled over the worst of your teeth. Your tongue cups the shape of it as though it was something precious, and cherished. Wrap your hands around my waist, let’s pretend I’m still the girl you saw across the room, underneath the harsh lights and through the mess of winning against-
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New York. It was New York.
or: Hayden gets back from the road.
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22 Feb 2026
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“Oh my god,” the intruder says, voice coming faster and higher-pitched. “Shane, what the fuck? Oh my god.”
“Eeleeyah, come to my cottage,” Ilya mocks, voice muffled by Shane’s skin. “Don’t go to Russia. Come to my house instead. Is so private. No one will know…we will be completely alone. Together.”
“Oh my god, is that Ilya Rozanov?” the intruder yelps like he's about to start hyperventilating. “Why is Ilya Rozanov half-naked in our kitchen, Shane?”
“Okay, I know how this looks,” Shane tells Ilya, “But I mean, technically, we are still alone. Together.”
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At the cottage, Shane and Ilya meet eighteen year old Shane Hollander. This is really only a surprise for one of them. Everyone handles it as well as can be expected.
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21 Feb 2026