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Morsel • môrs(ə)l • [mor-sel]
noun
1.) A piece; a bite
2.) A small quantity
3.) Something delectable and pleasingThoughts on a marriage; or, things that might have happened.
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- English
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- 11,534
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- 7/7
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84215536
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Hyaline (see-through) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-24
Click.
“Is she with you?”- Part 2 of The recognition so richly deserved
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- English
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- 65,417
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84692881
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summer cicadas sing by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-14
Just over four years after a zombie virus destroys the world as he knows it, twenty-five year old Ilya Rozanov is so rattled by trauma and grief that even when he's found a community to call home, he keeps everyone at an arm’s length. That is, until Shane Hollander shows up looking like death itself.
A story about the end of the world, and how to pick up the pieces.
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- English
- Words:
- 33,040
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #90133906
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it's the monster hiding under your bed by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-09
Shane’s ex-girlfriends keep coming out as queer. He’s trying to be supportive, he really is, okay? Listen, he’s an ally! But it’s sort of becoming a problem. For pretty obvious reasons, because people are definitely starting to notice—Ilya most of all.
(AKA, I give Shane the most absurd queer community and convoluted coming-of-age journey of all time and it still somehow gradually makes things better in the long run.)
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- English
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- 18,501
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #90071081
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He’s high, she knows he is. But he’s smiling faintly, his eyes glassy, and he looks so painfully fond that Yuna doesn’t know what to do with herself.
He looks like he’s in love.
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- English
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- 6,243
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89052621
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a white blank page and a swelling rage by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-16
He shouldn't—he's not supposed to call her that. He's seventeen. He's an adult. Mama is for children, for people who are idiots and emotional, for the soft and tender. Alexei is not soft. He is not tender.
He cannot be.
He knew something was happening, had felt the hum of earth under his feet, the rustle of warning in the birdsong of the orenda of the world. Moscow sings, Mama has—had—always said. Open ears will hear the truth of the world if only one will listen.
Still. He had ignored it.
OR: Alexei Rozanov grows up in a home that becomes a grave.
- Part 31 of heated rivalry masterlist
- Part 8 of ghostly ghouls get game
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- English
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- 4,223
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88374196
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When Shane is born, Yuna buries her face into the soft tuft of black hair he was born with and tries her hardest not to cry.
I love you, she thinks, and worries, and knows. And it will not be enough.
OR: Yuna and magic don't exactly get along. Good thing she's not magical.
- Part 30 of heated rivalry masterlist
- Part 6 of ghostly ghouls get game
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,800
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88315001
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it ain't up to you to make it out by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-11
But magic—pejorative, treacherous magic—is woven into her blood, into her cells.
It sits in the hollows of her collarbones, coils in the soles of her feet. It lingers in the twitch of her fingers, unspoken and unneeded, for all that it drags people in.
OR: Rose isn't a witch. She's just... gifted.
- Part 29 of heated rivalry masterlist
- Part 7 of ghostly ghouls get game
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- English
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- 2,106
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88232126
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To Love and to Hold for Eternity by mochicheeseballs
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-14
Set after the Long Game (before the new book comes out), Shane Hollander, Ottawa Centaurs’ hockey superstar, and husband of Ilya Rozanov, Ottawa Centaurs’ captain, was feeling at a loss. He's been married to his mate, best friend and the love of his life for over five exquisite years now, and he’s surrounded with possibly the greatest and most supportive people– his parents, his team, and their fans. Their hockey team had won the Stanley Cup for three consecutive years, leading the Centaurs to record breaking games every season. On top of that, Shane Hollander, a gay omega of Asian descent, had proven to the world that one’s gender, sexuality, designation, and race were not a hindrance to reaching your dreams. Shane has everything he ever wanted within his reach. Despite this, he couldn’t stop himself from still desiring one thing to complete the puzzle in his heart. Join hockey husband and superstars Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov navigate the wondrous adventure towards parenthood. (Tears may have been shed but you didn't hear it from either of them.)
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- English
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- 21,243
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77497756
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if you're scared of wolves by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-12
In another life — or maybe the next one, or maybe the one before — Ilya Rozanov learns that some roads only lead to one place. No matter how you take them, the wolves are always waiting at the end.
Maybe that's why, in December 2008, Ilya wakes up with the distinct, inexplicable sense, that he has already lived this life before.
Some things, it turns out, are inevitable. The question is whether he is.
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- English
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- 92,100
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- 11/11
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80956281
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It is December, and Scott has been out for long enough to pretend to be used to it, and things are not perfect but they’re fucking good, and Ilya Rozanov is at his apartment for dinner—has been for over an hour—and he’s still waiting so stupidly hopefully to introduce a boyfriend who very, very clearly isn’t coming.
(Or: studies on coming out, learning patience, one-sided conversations, and other absurdist waiting games.)
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- English
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- 13,255
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84635891
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right where we never thought to look by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-05-01
All of a sudden, she sees it, all of it, laid out in front of her. Every darkened corner was hiding brushed hands, stolen looks across crowded rooms, the infectious energy at every rivalry game, every question from reporters and peers alike designed to make one of them break, to insult, degrade, hate.
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Yuna's perspective learning about Shane and Ilya's relationship.- Part 10 of a little more romeo, a little more juliet
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #83703566
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In which Kip asks Shane if any other hockey players have ever hooked up, and various secrets come to light.
(Featuring Shane Hollander being a menace, husbands flirting in public, queer found family, and a non-linear narrative.)
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #83797491
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They meet when they're just teenagers. They start fucking not too much longer after that. They also don't really allow themselves to get to know each other until much, much later.
(In which your soulmate will one day say something that proves they understand you. Shane and Ilya don't exactly make a habit of talking.)
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- English
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- 3/3
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- 1
- AO3:
- #83139076
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Ilya sees ghosts, Shane's fine with it. It doesn't come up that often.
- Part 10 of perfect from now on
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- English
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- 30,704
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80851116
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it's just pain (memories ring like tinnitus) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-14
Most days it felt like Alexei didn’t want a younger brother at all—like he would have been happier if Ilya had never been born, or if he’d gotten a brother that was less clingy, less soft.
But Alexei could’ve pushed him down the stairs and broken every bone in his body, and Ilya would’ve probably begged him to do it again, if it meant he’d spend more time with him.
or: Ilya's father doesn't die during the 2016/2017 season. His brother does.
- Part 2 of my moon my man
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- English
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- 5,105
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #80851381
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In which Shane makes the headlines, Ilya has a history of terrible bedside manners, and the line between murder and manslaughter is the razor thin edge of intent.
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- English
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- 1
- AO3:
- #79294341
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In 2017, the Admirals win the Stanley Cup for the first time in twenty-eight years. Scott Hunter kisses a man at centre ice.
In 2017, Shane Hollander shatters apart in her father’s arms after twenty-six years of trying to be normal. Yuna Hollander finds herself with a daughter.
- Part 2 of mortal girl
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,291
- Chapters:
- 1/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78977481
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but look at the trees, and look at my face by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-08
He is grateful, so grateful to be on this team. They are loving and wonderful, and they don't mind that his mother calls after nearly every game, or that his father sends what feels like bushels of chocolate and treats to the office, always addressed to Luca Haas and his friends, as if he is somehow a star and not just a rookie.
“Is it always like this?” he asks once, his tongue unstuck from his teeth, his eyes shining as he glances up at Roz, soaking in the celebratory mood after a hard-fought win.
“No,” Rozanov says, smiling at him. His stomach flips and churns, dazzled by the glittering weight of his attention. “This is special, Haasy. A team powered by love and good hockey.”
OR: Luca Haas and love, in the years leading up to the Ottawa Centaurs Stanley Cup run.
- Part 17 of heated rivalry masterlist
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- English
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- 6,623
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79140336
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“Be careful,” Shane frets, one hand hovering over Ilya’s shoulder. “It’s icy, and I don’t want to be a widower.” “Oh, we’d have to be much higher than this for the fall to kill me,” Ilya says, gaze still fixed on the cool black skyline. “At least seven stories.” It’s not until much later, as the waitress is clearing the dishes from dinner, that Yuna finds herself wondering why Ilya knows exactly how high a fall needs to be in order to kill him. Or: Yuna learns about Ilya's past bit by bit over the years.
- Part 2 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,948
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #78111111