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They are lounging together on Ilya’s couch and basking in the post-sex glow, Ilya eating matcha ice cream while Shane has some sliced apples and melons, when Ilya throws the question out of the blue.
“Remember when I asked how many times you can come in an hour?”
Shane rolls his eyes. “Yes, you sexted me right before an important game, how could I ever forget.”
“Soooo,” Ilya licks the spoon and swirls it around, nudging and tickling Shane’s socked feet with his own bare ones. “I’ve been thinking, we should test it out. See who can do better. For science.”
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| Lily: Ok, here’s the rules
| Lily: You can choose how you will come, but you cannot do the same thing twice. Other than that, everything else is under my control
| Lily: The same rules go for me next time, I make the choices on how I come, then you can take charge if you want to
| Lily: Sounds good?Or: Shane and Ilya compete on who can come more in an hour. Neither of them seems to be able to follow the rules.
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- Part 1 of Bedroom Hymns
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Rozanov frowns. The air around them stills for a few seconds, and embarrassment starts to creep in as Shane thinks he has made a mistake—
But then Rozanov reaches out for him, and the world splits open.
Fire ignites in his palm, flaring through every nerve in his hand, cutting through skin and sinew and bones. His chest is so full it might burst, and his lungs forget how to work. The heat shoots up his arm like lightning, down his spine and across his ribs, continuing down, down, down. He feels it—feels his seed erupt into something sharp and blinding, roots threading under his skin and stem unfurling onto his flesh.
Shane immediately jerks back his hand, as if he was electrocuted. Air crashes into him all at once, as the burning fades into a tingling throb. He stands there stunned, his mind in tatters and unable to comprehend all the sensations happening to him.
His right ankle, his soulmark... And it just reacts to Ilya Rozanov.
Or: In a world where soulmarks are living seeds that grow with touch, Shane's flowers bloom when he is with Ilya. Yet, he cannot find the traces of any mark on Ilya's body.
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Into your lover's arms (Where nothing will do you harm) by rubygoby
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
08 Jun 2026
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If only—if only Shane can slide back to bed, to fall asleep beside Ilya and wake up beside him, to just pretend that the outside world does not exist. Shane would like to learn the shapes of Ilya’s routines, the things that make him laugh when he is tired, the expression he wears first thing in the morning before he remembers to hide himself from the world, yet safe in the knowledge that he doesn’t need to hide it from Shane.
Somehow, without meaning to, his mind has leapt much further than that, to tomorrow, and every tomorrow after tomorrow, all the same with Ilya in his arms. Shane realizes, with a careless certainty like a dream, that he can do this forever.
And oh, isn’t that a terrifying thought? To look at another person and discover that your mind and your heart have begun to create pieces of the future around them without your permission?
Or: Shane confronts the truth that he has spent years running from, following the aftermath of his disastrous night with Rose. In the stillness of Tampa, he shows Ilya just exactly how much he means it.
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- Part 3 of Woe like velvet, tears like jewels
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Seen. That small, clinical word beneath his text feels heavier than it should. Rozanov has read his message, has processed that information, so by this time he must have made a conscious decision to not reply to Shane. He doesn’t know why this is bothering him so much. He has no right to be upset, he is not entitled to Rozanov’s time nor constant attention. They are not… together, he isn’t even sure if they count as close—as friends.
And yet, he keeps staring at his phone, feeling the familiar and prickling discomfort under his skin. Why isn’t Rozanov replying?
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He hasn’t prepared for any of this—for the tenderness that follows the storm, only for the storm to sweep away everything again. He doesn’t know how to deal with Rozanov’s confusing words and contradicting actions, with both fire and ice, both closeness and distance, all at the same time.
Every time Shane feels like he manages to understand Rozanov a little, the pattern shifts, and he is once again left with splintered pieces that don’t make sense.
Or: All the messages Shane sent to Ilya during the six long months between Sochi and Vegas, and the ones he did not send.
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- Part 2 of Woe like velvet, tears like jewels
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The first time they hooked up, Rozanov had kissed him before Shane got on his knees. They kissed when Scott Hunter was in the room next-door. And they kissed slowly and sweetly, on his apartment stairway, after Rozanov had taken his world apart and put him back together again. Hell, even in that bathroom, where he felt as if the Russian was trampling on his bared soul, Rozanov had kissed him.
So why was it different this time? What did he do wrong?
Shane aches with how much he wants—needs the other man. There is a hollow numbness in his chest every time he thinks about those golden curls and ocean eyes, and he hates himself for wishing he could have more.
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Wanting Hollander is dangerous, because Ilya is wanting more than he’s allowed to have. But Ilya keeps wanting more and more, because he is vain, selfish, undisciplined. He wants to have Hollander in his arms, sweet, warm, and gorgeous.
And he will always regret it later, in the quiet moments that come in the aftermath, in the small and lingering ache that follows him once they are apart.
Or: Shane spirals and avoids Ilya post-Vegas. Ilya chases after him, and they talk.
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- Part 1 of Woe like velvet, tears like jewels
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A collection of my Hollanov smuts. Some works might be related but all works can be read as standalone.
Series title from Bedroom Hymns by Florence and the Machine.
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A collection of missing scenes and unspoken thoughts, as Shane and Ilya stumble through denial, acceptance, heartbreak, loss, and love.
Mostly canon-compliant and set in show-verse, with some "What If" scenarios.
Some current WIPs I plan for this series (for now):
- What if Shane rejected Ilya in Vegas?
- How Ilya deals with making Shane upset, over and over again.
- Ilya and Shane reflects on their relationship after meeting Shane's parents.- Words:
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Shane and Ilya's love, as seen through the eyes of the people who love them.
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Shane Hollander woke up early on the morning of the MLH Awards. He went for a run. He had lunch with Hayden Pike. He kissed Ilya Rozanov in a bathroom. He fucked Ilya Rozanov in his hotel room.
Shane Hollander woke up early on the morning of the MLH Awards.
Again. And again. And again.
(Shane relives the 2014 MLH Awards over and over again. Alternative title: Shane Hollander learns to ask for what he wants.)
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- Part 1 of Night(s) in Vegas
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- English
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- 46,125
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- 27/27
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Bookmarked by rubygoby
25 Jun 2026
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Vegas my beloved ❤️ Great concept and great chapter every single time I EAT IT UPPP
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You are ULDER RAVENGARD.
Your son is completely besotted with his fiancé, but you can’t figure out the appeal. He’s spoiled, and petty, and seems chiefly concerned with draining the Ravengard coffers. You are, frankly, at your wits’ fucking end.
Surely the only solution is to declare an INSANE SECRET WAR on him before he can ruin the MIDWINTER'S EVE BALL. This cannot possibly backfire.
[A choose-your-own-adventure Astarion son-in-law simulator. Happy Holidays! Or possibly the opposite of that.]
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- English
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- 25,638
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- 42/42
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Bookmarked by rubygoby
17 Feb 2024
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I love this so so much you have no idea, my Shaylas <3 Possibly one of the greatest fics I've ever read in my life 🥹
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Stupid Canadian Love Day by arminaa
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
15 Feb 2026
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It seemed to Ilya like they invented a silly little holiday for every week of the year. Holiday for disguising children and sending them to bully neighbors for sweets. Holiday for pranks. Holiday to buy cheap shit at stores the day after after another holiday of eating dry bird. Holidays that seem mostly about getting black-out drunk.
There are too fucking many.
Ilya assumes Shane doesn't care about Valentine's Day. Rookie mistake.
Bookmarked by rubygoby
19 Apr 2026
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missing scenes from TLG 📖 by blankjournals
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
06 Feb 2026
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Scenes from TLG I felt deserved to be explored more. Fics can be read seperate from each other.
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- 408
Bookmarked by rubygoby
14 Mar 2026
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my heated rivalry anon fics by Anonymous
Fandom Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
03 Jul 2026
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unconnected hollanov/heated rivalry fics all by the same author (it's me, i'm the author) // blanket permission for translations (posted on ao3/linked), podfics (posted on ao3/linked), art of any kind inspired by the fics in this collection! i would love to know about them though
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Bookmarked by rubygoby
14 Mar 2026