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Chiaroscuro by Hopeless80sromantic, KitSaidOui

Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
20 May 2026
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Ilya Rozanov just survived a near plane crash and is now engaged to Shane Hollander; he's really feeling the love. He's just sad that other people aren't. He's a man on a mission, trying to bring romance, or at least some sexy times, to his old friend Cliff Marlow and to the Centaur's new rookie, Luca Haas. Will his meddling get them what they need? Or will he create something rather unexpected from it?

Luca Haas is gay, in theory, but not very much in practice. Some hand stuff, some oral stuff... he just finds it hard to find someone he trusts to go all the way. He's got a bit of a problem, too, mooning over older men who are constantly inaccessible to him.

Will a one-off encounter at a club lead to something more in the future? Or will it just be awkward encounters forever after?

Chiaroscuro - the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in art, usually affecting the whole composition

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The Distance Between Us by BeezusRed, Hopeless80sromantic

Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
19 May 2026
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Reduced update frequency due to circumstances beyond my control.

London, 1994. Thirty-four year old David Nelson works at the brand new Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs. Twenty-year old student Olly Spring serves drinks at a Docklands pub. They don't know each other – but they're about to. When they're alone, sparks fly from more than their Marlboro Lites. It's messy, it's hot, and strictly confidential. Meanwhile, their siblings are hardly doing a better job in their own love lives…

Clear the Limehouse Fog and follow each twist of the Thames: The Distance Between Us is an angsty 90s Absurdism AU.
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Surrealism by Hopeless80sromantic, Oatsiexx for henry_amargosa

Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
01 May 2026
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An unexpected guest attends Nick and Charlie's wedding. Fucking ensues.

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50

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It's scary, but you are brave by Hopeless80sromantic

Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
08 Mar 2026
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Inspired by an image of Irina as bright and full of life, I imagined her final thoughts.

First person present tense. Suicide is implied but not seen.

Suicide is never the answer.
From the UK call 116 123 for The Samaritans,
Suicide Advice Lines by Country

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- Part 2 of Heared Rivalry Shorts
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In between kisses by Hopeless80sromantic

Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Mar 2026
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Towards the end of their holiday, Shane asks Ilya when their arrangement became something more. Ilya's answer surprises him.

A brief moment of deeply fluffy domesticity and communication.

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- Part 1 of Heared Rivalry Shorts
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fresh bruises we learned patterns to by downtheroadandupthehill

Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 May 2026
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The first time they’d done this, in Ilya’s bed, Shane had been mystified at Rozanov’s insistence that he not enter the nest without Shane’s permission. Now, Shane feels something akin to smugness flexing its claws in his chest. A primal satisfaction at the rightness that he is the one with the power - at present, if not for much longer - alpha just outside the nest and at his mercy.
Like Shane will only yield for someone who has earned it. He can draw out Ilya’s suffering just a little longer, make him earn it.
Shane rakes his gaze over the delicious chest and bicep muscles bunching above the edge of the nest. “Waiting for something, Rozanov?”
“Are you going to let me into your nest, omega?” His pronunciation of the endearment is more Russian than English, accent thickening around the syllables.
“Depends. You gonna give me your knot?”
“Hm, does not sound like begging yet to me.”
Some months after Shane recovers from rejection sickness in Ilya's bed, they share their heat/rut together at the cottage, both clinging to the delusion it's still casual.

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- Part 2 of mutual instincts
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22 Jun 2026
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enemies with benefits by icelyvelvet

Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Jun 2026
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Shane is an omega. Ilya is an alpha. Their compatibility is… inconveniently high, but that’s hardly their problem. When Shane’s heat hits, Ilya helps. When Ilya’s rut comes around, well. It only seems fair to return the favor.

It’s practical. It’s efficient. It works.

It doesn’t mean anything. Really.

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- Part 2 of ice cold, real slow
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22 Jun 2026

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doesn’t mean that i was never afraid by yhronez

Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
16 Jul 2026
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Rose volunteers for a nonprofit that rescues sex-trafficked omegas, and Shane thinks it's a great cause. He even attends their fundraising galas.

Then, one night, Rose calls to ask for a favor: She wants Shane to let a recently-rescued male omega live with him. In his apartment.

His name is Ilya, Rose explains, and the thing is, despite omega hormone levels, he acts and smells just like an alpha. He can't keep staying in an omega group home because he's scaring the other omegas and endangering the staff.

But he could live with Shane, Rose insists. "You're a big strong alpha hockey player, so he can't intimidate you physically. But also he needs to feel safe, which he can with you, because you're not like other alphas." She pauses. "You know?"

By which she means Shane has never had a full rut, his scent glands barely work, he can't form a knot, and he has no interest in sticking his dick in anyone. Which, whatever. It's fine.

But if being a failure as an alpha means he can help this omega, Ilya, who's apparently as much of a biological anomaly as Shane is…

Shane says yes.

And maybe it's a stupid decision. But he knows that it's also the right one.

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22 Jun 2026
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tucked beneath my muscle memory was you by downtheroadandupthehill

Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Dec 2025
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Still, he’s felt like absolute shit for weeks, and the idea of sitting in his hotel room, where he would probably masturbate, cry, and have another night of fitful sleep, did not make him feel any better. Getting to be skin to skin with Ilya Rozanov did. And surely Rozanov wouldn’t be demanding Shane make a nest in his damn bed if he didn’t fully intend on actually kissing him in it and keeping him there until morning, right?

Maybe that would be enough to pick Shane up out of this drop, keep it from happening again.
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After not sending the "we didn't kiss" text, Shane's omega hormones go into distress mode. Despite trying to hide his symptoms and play through the misery, when Ilya Rozanov finds out what's going on, the alpha Shane's body wants most is determined to fix it.

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- Part 1 of mutual instincts
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22 Jun 2026
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the fuckboy passport by lipstickliterature

Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
16 May 2026
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Ilya posts a casual video of himself covered in a necklace of hickeys given to him by his beautiful, freaky boyfriend. In an unfortunate turn of events, girls all over the world join forces to share the details and video evidence of their own sexual exploits with Russia’s pass-around party boy. Shane is not at all consumed by jealousy and absolutely does not fall into a spiral of competitive obsession over these events.

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Or, 5 times Shane tries to be as good as every girl that Ilya’s ever been with, + 1 time Ilya shows him that he has always been better.

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- Part 2 of the great hockey bachelors of north america
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19 Jun 2026