ArabellaStrange
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Testing These Hockey Husbands’ Music Knowledge! by ArabellaStrange
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Feb 2026
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Who will win this week's #MeetTheCens behind-the-scenes quiz? Video drops this Wednesday at 10am with a round of Name That Tune featuring Captain Ilya Rozanov (#81) and AC Shane Hollander (#24), so join us to find out which of our favourite former-rivals will be crowned hockey's music mastermind!
[or: A transcript and social media reactions fic that asks: what if Shane and Ilya did that 'Test Their Music Knowledge' web interview series? Spoiler alert: Shane doesn't win, but maybe it's the chirps and memories we made along the way]
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After the war is over, William Laurence and Temeraire go to live on the estate of Tenzing Tharkay. It is a brave new world.
30 days' worth of prompts -- ranging from drabbles to over-long fics in their own right -- all (mostly) in the same post-canon story I am projecting for them. Narrative is non-linear but canon-compliant, so spoilers for all 9 Temeraire novels.
(Ratings differ for each chapter so check the index in Chapter 1/Index. Any chapter-specific CWs/TWs will be listed in the chapter notes.)
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"I am pleasantly located in the deep sea, but love will row you out if her hands are strong, and don't wait till I land, for I'm going ashore on the other side." (Emily Dickinson, letter to Kate Anthon, late 1859?)
~~~ now complete ~~~
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Tharkay returns from a mysterious mission on the Continent. London is much as he left it, as are Temeraire and Laurence. Why does everything feel different?
[Originally posted as Day 28 of love will row you out]
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Orym is exhausted. Two conversations while he tries to keep watch, and hold himself together.
(Set immediately after the [speculative] events of c3e99/*Downfall*, with a take on how they all process where this leaves them.)
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For the View by ArabellaStrange
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
16 Sep 2020
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Through the ages, here are some of the thing humans have tended to get wrong:
• the nature of Heaven (because humans are paranoid)
• the nature of Hell (because humans are thick)
• the importance of loyalty (because humans are sentimental)
• the inevitability of progress (see above)
• what's right in front of themCrowley, of course, is a demon. He doesn't get things wrong. He's 99% sure of that.
(Or: Crowley spends the course of human history wondering about touch.)
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Ode to Broken Things by ArabellaStrange
Fandom Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
11 Apr 2017
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A series in (at least) three parts.
'With Mary, he’d done everything in the right order — if at breakneck speed: flirting, sex, seriousness, rude and awkward realism, proper caring. He and Sherlock, though, had spent so many years loving each other quietly, imagining fantasy versions of each other, in amongst the everyday of bad tempers and absent-minded scratching, that never were interrupted by mismatched desires or poor communication. Was it possible (he thought, in a slightly out-of-body way, scrawling out a prescription) they had missed the opportunity to be in love with each other?'
*Thanks to a tremendous gift from @Hamstermoon, the series now has COVER-ART!*
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You Said, We Said by OtherWaysHome
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
25 Feb 2026
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@HarveySmth76:
So, Dallas Kent's teammate just tweeted this:Rozanov isn’t any better, though. Like we all know it. Dude's banged like a thousand women. Bet if even just a few of them talked, you'd all be shutting up about Kent pretty quick.
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Dallas Kent’s teammate makes a bigoted assumption. A very loud, very incorrect assumption. Twitter eats him alive.
Because, yes, Rozanov has slept with a lot of women and they have a lot to say. About consent and check-ins and that accent.
#OkIWillTalk is trending, as is #SexGodOfTwitter. Toronto Survivor's Legal Fund is finally gaining some traction. And Ilya is definitely going to punch Kent. Again.
Told through twitter snapshots and extracts from the Ottawa Centaurs Group Chat.
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21 Jun 2026
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Hollanov; social media; Ilya Rozanov Says Sluts' Rights (admiring).
THIS is the one I was looking for and feared I'd lost!!! The women of the world flock to twitter/social media to give Ilya his due for being a fantastic lay and a consent king, after another player (teammate of abuser Dallas Kent) tries to suggest that Ilya is bad in bed (or, more accurately, that #AllMen are predators). Lo, how wrong he was. #OkIWillTalk
Delightful and goofy and bedrock Shane x Ilya, while Ilya is still grinning like the cat who ate the cream, and Shane is secretly glad that HE is the one who has Ilya begging for more.
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black dog by delagauchetiere
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
18 Apr 2026
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Ilya is not going to steal Shane Hollander's dog. That would be illegal. And wrong. And someone would probably find out and make Ilya give him back.
So. Not stealing.
But there is nothing wrong with giving Chernysh all the pats and treats that he deserves, is there?
Nothing wrong with encouraging Chernysh to spend more and more time at Ilya's house until he doesn't even remember who Hollander is.
Because Hollander is stupid and boring and does not deserve a dog as good as Chernysh. No, he doesn't, does he? Because Chernysh is the best boy in the whole world, yes he is.
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Bookmarked by ArabellaStrange
08 Jun 2026
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Hollanov; AU (light magical realism).
Not to spoil the surprise, but: the one with Chernysh, the really lovely dog who comes over while a post-Russian Hockey League Ilya is crashing (out) in Svetlana's Boston house next door. Lo and behold, Shane Hollander is a pesky, intriguing neighbour with an affectionate, lovable dog. Ilya doesn't stand a chance.
Made me want to cry. Also several moments were *extremely* hot. Just so lovely. Gonna re-read.
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Ilya R has been added to the group chat. by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
30 Apr 2026
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Bood
what have you given her before?Ilya
A fucking, mostlyBood
CHEAP
CHEAP GIFT GIVERIlya enlists Bood & the Ottawa WAGs to help brainstorm ideas for his first proper Valentine’s Day with ‘Jane’.
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- Part 1 of O-Town’s Fillies Back Again
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Shane Hollander is a man who thrives on structure, routine, the solid ground of a ten-year plan. Ilya likes that about him, likes the embracing squeeze of having a life organized in tandem with Shane.
No one would call Ilya a man who thrives on structure. But it’s there, if not in his DNA then in the patterns of his brain. A call-and-response of: they do this, I do that.
When Ilya’s life is flayed open for the world to dissect, how will they push-and-pull their way back towards what was once a well-organized life?
“I thought we could go through the schedules and figure out what days we’ll be in the same cities this season, or when either of us have a couple of days off in a row. Maybe make a shared calendar, so we c—”
“A sex calendar? Your parents are arriving in thirty minutes, and you are proposing making a sex calendar?” Oh, this was delicious. He’d be able to eat out on this for years, if Shane was willing to give him that long.
“It’s not a sex calendar! It’s just … when we might be able to see each other,” he finished, already sounding defeated.
“And what are you planning on doing when we are seeing each other? Not fucking?”
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Bookmarked by ArabellaStrange
01 May 2026
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Hollanov: AU where Ilya is outed before Shane and before starting at Ottawa.
The inherent eroticism of a well-crafted Google shared burner-account calendar. Lovely stuff, re-read and to be re-read yet again. Namely — Maxim the schema therapist; Ilya so down-bad for Shane is alters his brain chemistry; Jane’s Mama on Ilya’s top contacts; supportive! Cliff, St-Simon, JJ, et al; all the wolves of his want… and the learning to name them aloud. For little Ilyushka’s sake.
a comfort read (as we trudge through the angst and find the love)
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Detail Orientated by boopboop
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Apr 2026
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Summer at the cottage is the first time Shane and Ilya have been able to spend any significant time together. Naturally, it comes with some revelations.
Or, Five Things Russians Do Not Do, A Detailed Observational Study By Shane Hollander.
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- Part 2 of Duty of Care
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04 May 2026
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Hollanov; post-cottage; Duty of Care series (but also CBR as stand-alone).
Listen sometimes takes come up on tumblr that say 'Oh Ilya would love to drool over butch Shane #ManlyCoded household competencies' and 'Certified City Boy Ilya Rozanov would lose his mind to watch Shane fix a broken tap' and 'calendars are Shane's love language' and guys? It's been covered so thoroughly, so beautifully, so hotly, so hilariously that we can simply sit in the QED of it all.
Or: hypervigilance, thy name is Shane Hollander; boringsexual Ilya Rozanov loses it over colour-coding.