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does this feel easy? (cause it's all you'll get from me) by orphictemps
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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A graduation party - a clingy drunk Mike Wheeler, a happy drunk Max Mayfield, a sober Dustin Henderson and a hopelessly in love drunk Will Byers.
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“I had this crush. This childhood crush, but it wasn’t a crush. It was never a crush. I loved him, Mom. And I still love him and it’s so… painful. I said that I never wanted to fall in love because it hurts. It hurts so much, to know that he’s there and I can’t-” Will’s voice falters once again.
“Darling-” Joyce’s voice breaks, and she clears her throat and begins again. “Will, you throw yourself into every single part of life and it makes me so happy. The love that you have, it’s not going anywhere. You don’t have to be ashamed of it, that's all I can ask for. Even through the hurt and the pain that comes from loving someone, I just want you to remember to not forget why you love them, and why you fell in love in the first place.”
Will’s face is still damp and tears still threaten to fall and yet, his mom’s words wash over him like the first drop of rain after a long summer’s day.
“Was it the swingset?”
Will’s breath catches. Of course she knows.
A fix-it fic of Will's coming out scene, with a secret eavesdropper.
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Will and Robin finally talk, and secrets and lies are brought to light.
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“But…” Ilya stalls out. He conjures his sun’s face: the soft curve of skin where the corner of his eye becomes the sweep of his cheekbone, the stubble that clings to the soft end of his chin, the strong and even line of his eyebrows. “Solnyshko,” Ilya says. “It means sun, yes, but… it’s like a pet name. Sunshine. Honey. I’m calling you my sun.”
This is mortifying in English. Christ, he should never have started this conversation. He should have shaken Shane off when he had the chance. Even as Ilya thinks this, he knows he could not have done it. He cannot deny Shanyshko anything. That has always been the problem between them. What a terrifying, awesome, horrible problem to have. Ilya would like to have this problem for the rest of his life.
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or, Ilya and Shane talk about their love, their lives.Series
- Part 2 of sailing, sailing
Bookmarked by orphictemps
20 Feb 2026
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Two-Four-Eight-One-Oh-Eight (Ilya Hollander. Shane Rozanov.) by callmeautumn
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
06 Feb 2026
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“Maybe—maybe Lily is sleeping,” she says. Bargaining, she realizes numbly. She’s bargaining for more time. And for whatever is unfolding here to stop unfolding and in fact fold itself back up. Her thumb shifts away from the call button. “And you should be sleeping too, mister.”
“He’s not sleeping.” Shane flares his nostrils—another gesture Yuna hasn’t seen in so many years. “He’s waiting for me to call a third time. Mom. Please. He’s—he’ll be so worried.”
Yuna shifts her thumb and lets it drop. Is Yuna a bad mother if she hopes "Lily" doesn’t pick up?
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or: Shane needs to call someone the night he's laid out by Marlow, and Yuna reflects on her quietly, obsessively devoted son.
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- Part 1 of sailing, sailing
Bookmarked by orphictemps
20 Feb 2026
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you dream in a language that i can’t understand by bankrobber
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
11 Jan 2026
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Shane starts learning Russian in secret after their rookie season, and doesn’t tell anyone.
It means he can understand Ilya’s Russian when they speak on the phone while Ilya is in Moscow for his father’s funeral.
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20 Feb 2026
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corner of the world by berrycluv
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 Dec 2025
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Ilya doesn’t even realize when Arthur slips from his thoughts. There’s no sharp turn, no clear moment where the article stops being about a little boy who loves reptiles and starts being about the man lying beside him in bed. It just… happens. The way his mind always seems to find Shane eventually, like water finding its lowest point.
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a character study on shane’s undiagnosed autism
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20 Feb 2026
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this is not enough (i am not enough) by blankjournals
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Jan 2026
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Shane's breath catches on a sob, and he muffles the sound with his hand. Everything feels like too much. He’s naked, and he can feel entirely too much on his body, inside his body, and he hates how it's starting to feel gross. His head is pounding, and he can't even focus on placating his mind when his lungs are also screaming in his throat for breath.
Ilya hears, and his hands reach out to hold Shane, tension lying in every part of his body. “Shane—”
“Don't touch me,” Shane snaps, more desperation than yelling as he rips his arm out of Ilyas's grasp. His tears have nowhere to go now, and they finally spill over, hot and humiliating, down his cheeks.
Ilya freezes in place, hand hovering mid-air. A myriad of emotions flicker across his face: confusion, hurt, fear. Ilya takes an unconscious step back like someone shoved him. His body curls in on itself, trying to make himself appear smaller.
He looks... terrified. Like, Shane just called him a monster, and he believes it.
OR: inspired by the fight in the long game when ilya had told shane he could have sex with other men because he did not believe in cheating.
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- Part 2 of missing scenes from TLG 📖
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20 Feb 2026