desperate measures (the 2021-2022 season)

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  1. kiss me just once for luck (these are desperate measures) by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-01-31

    “I do not want to make you uncomfortable. With how I talk about us. To others. Like . . . reporters. Or how I treat you in front of others, like the guys on the team.”

    Something like understanding settled on Shane’s face now, and it immediately made Ilya’s heart stop racing. “You think I don’t like PDA.”

    “First time I held your hand in public I thought you were going to have a panic attack,” Ilya admitted.

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    Or: Shane's first season on the Ottawa Centaurs, as told through five times Ilya initiated PDA (and one time Shane did).

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  2. i've been pushing for this for so long by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-02-18

    ESPN: Shane Hollander To the Ottawa Centaurs after Tumultuous End to Montreal Metros Career

    @CentaursGirlie1995: obviously i feel very badly for shane but my beautiful failson of a team getting the two best players because of homophobia is perhaps the only good thing homophobia has ever done

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    Or: Shane's first season on the Ottawa Centaurs, as told by everyone else in the world.

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    AO3:
    #79608321

  3. when i've got you right where i want you by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-14

    Like a Record Baby (Will LaPointe): i keep thinking this is some sort of insane dream
    Like a Record Baby (Will LaPointe): but no. we got SHANE HOLLANDER.
    Like a Record Baby (Will LaPointe): because of HOMOPHOBIA!
    Sherlock Holmes (Carter Holmberg): rare homophobia win
    Shane Hollander: Well let’s not go that far.
    El Capitan (Ilya Rozanov): holmberg please refrain from being pro homophobia in the group chat or shane will report you to management

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    Or: Shane's first season on the Ottawa Centaurs, as told through a number of increasingly unhinged texts

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    13/13
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    2 versions
    AO3:
    #81693776