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Lovers, or, English is a damn funny language by Basingstoke
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
12 Feb 2026
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Ilya asked Shane’s father while Shane and his mother were talking outside: “Is boyfriends correct? Lovers is incorrect, but I am not sure what is correct.”
“Well,” Mr. Hollander said. “‘Lovers’ is usually used for, hm, a mistress or an affair. Something kind of sordid. Though--you would say Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers,” he said. He paused his knife on the chopping board. “Somehow that’s right and using it for real people isn’t right. English is a damn funny language, Ilya."
“Yes,” Ilya said from the bottom of his heart.
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like a prayer for which no words exist by hdnprplflwrs
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Feb 2026
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One thing that Ilya notices early on in their relationship, once their meetings aren’t hidden behind floors and floors of hotel rooms and the only things that matter are the two people in them and have since expanded into Shane’s apartment in Montreal and Ilya’s house in Ottowa, is: Shane cuts fruit in that very particular way of his, and the way he does it is really hot.
five times shane cuts fruit for ilya, and one time ilya understands why.
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11 Feb 2026
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they say that the world was built for two by broccolicheddarchicken
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Feb 2026
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A series of canon-compliant Hollanov oneshots that (mostly) take place post The Long Game. Mostly lighthearted, with a variety of different stories from both Shane and Ilya's POV. They all take place in the same universe; however they all are written to work as standalones. Read them in any order you like. They are ordered in chronological order. Posted order is as follows:
1. Plentiful, but Ultimately Finite
2. Absolutely Not
3. A Full Night's Rest
4. Newlywed Games
5. The Other Side of the Road
6. One Unending Fight
7. Shots
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Plentiful, but Ultimately Finite by broccolicheddarchicken
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Feb 2025
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Canada had given him his life as he knew it, but it had never felt one hundred percent comfortable, either. He missed Russia sometimes, but it didn’t have the thing that mattered most. Ilya had exactly one home, and it was this: his face pressed into a smooth chest, his head tucked under a strong jaw, with freckled arms wrapped around him and delicate fingers combing through his hair. Anywhere else was a temporary excursion.
A treatise on second (and third) languages, homesickness, acceptance, Shane's struggle learning Russian, and the things people do when they care.
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10 Feb 2026
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Breaking the Cycle by TheOceanIsMyInkwell for anababy milady (73bana), AkirasStories
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Dec 2025
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When Shane was freshly sixteen, Yuna came home to find him freaking out by himself at the kitchen island.
He was perched on one of the bar stools with his entire torso slumped across the counter and his arms extended in front of him, hands balled into fists on the granite. His head was buried between his shoulders and he didn’t sound like he was breathing.
Yuna didn’t say anything for a solid thirty seconds. Alarms blaring in her head, she silently tossed her purse to the side and beelined for her son with her hands out to comfort him.
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Or: Five times Yuna suspected Shane was gay, and the one time she finally found the right words to say.
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- Part 27 of Author's Favorites
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10 Feb 2026