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The thing is, Morgan muses as she zips up the adaptable sports bra over her mosquito bites that definitely don’t need the support, is that she still can’t shake the belief that a part of her died that day.
- Part 3 of The recognition so richly deserved
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,489
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #95495436
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Credit Where It's Due by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-10-15
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After Ilya and Shane are outed, Marleau books himself on to the same queer studies course that the Raiders management forced Ilya to attend when he was cancelled for being a homophobe.It turns out several other Raiders players thought Marleau had the right idea about that. Now around half of the Raiders roster are all sat together in the little classroom. It’s about as chaotic as you would expect. The professor Sandra is forced to add an increasing number of amendments to the ‘Course Rules and Guidelines’ that she never expected to be putting into writing.
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Amendment No. 5. - No, there are no additional course credits for “proving you’re an ally by complimenting your bros in the locker room showers."Amendment No. 6. - Downloading Grindr will also not get you any extra credits. [ Although if you wish to download Grindr for its intended purposes, I would obviously not want to discourage you in this. ]
Amendment No. 7. - Taking time during games to tell Admirals player Scott Hunter that you think his boyfriend is extremely hot is NOT actually effective allyship within the league. Yes, EVEN if Ilya Rozanov told you it would be.
- Part 3 of Queer Studies 101
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,048
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #94743086
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Steady Ground by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-09-11
The events of week five of Ilya attending his mandated Queer Studies course.
Ilya nearly gets caught texting his queer studies professor in the locker room, befriends Sandra’s girlfriend and learns some new and very relevant terminology.
Or, what happens when you’re in love with Rose Landry’s ex-boyfriend and someone explains to you the concept of compulsory heterosexuality.
- Part 2 of Queer Studies 101
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,693
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #92416111
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Babydoll by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-31
When Ilya promised his therapist that he would do something special for himself after Ottawa’s roadtrip, he didn’t tell her that something special would involve high-end lingerie. She might suggest he tell Shane.
Shane liked him masculine and strong, but Shane was stuck in Montreal for meetings. Ilya had plenty of time to indulge in his harmless little secret. His boyfriend would never know.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,342
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #91738456
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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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 65,417
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84692881
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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.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,501
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #90071081
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sliding carefully/seriously slipping out of control by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-09
Ilya figures out the key to escaping the time loop on the third consecutive Tuesday. It isn’t exactly hard.
The time loop chews him up and spits him out a hundred Tuesdays later.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,321
- Chapters:
- 4/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81973116
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“I think you should marry Svetlana.”
Shane has a different suggestion out of the dilemma of their situation – one that takes Ilya a little while to wrap his head around. And yet, it turns out that there’s things within his reach that he never knew he could dream of.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,211
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85147436
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You and I in Screaming Color by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-05-25
Ilya flirts with danger with the kind of desperation of a man drowning clawing his way to the surface in search of air. He knows it'll catch up with him eventually. He just never imagined it would lead to this: getting traded as if dumped in the trash, like his career achievements, his blood sweat and tears and everything else he's given Boston, mean nothing at all.
Or, when Ilya gets caught in a sex scandal with a man while trying to get over Hollander, he changes the trajectory of his life forever.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,144
- Chapters:
- 7/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82993141
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Ilya Rozanov's 12 Step Plan For Public Flirting by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-28
Ilya still loves a terrible decision. Nearly ten years of exposure to Shane just mean that now, the terrible decision comes with a plan. This time it comes with bullet pointed lists, research. Fresh ideas scribbled late at night and stuck, one over the other, onto the fridge door.
This crucial, terrible decision comes with deliberation and forethought and a twelve-step fucking plan.
A plan that starts with ‘attend every game he can between the women’s league’s rivals-turned-wives Clara and Katya’ and ends with ‘kiss Shane on the mouth at center ice.’
Because Icarus has nothing on Ilya fucking Rozanov. The internet is not ready. Yuna is going to have his head for this. Step one begins on Friday. He cannot fucking wait.
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Half Ilya Rozanov POV and half social media fic tracking the chaos, managed and otherwise, that is unleashed as Ilya enacts his plan.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,896
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83798931
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Oh, he’s not gonna like this, but he knows how to let Shane know that Hayden will be welcoming to Lily. He grabs his laptop off the coffee table and looks up transgender athletes. If he can subtly drop some facts here and there, stuff that’ll stick in Hollzy’s insane memory for anything sports-related, Shane will start opening up about Lily before he even realizes he’s doing it. Hayden will—what’s it called?—classically condition him. Fucking take that, Pavlov.
Hayden sees a picture he shouldn’t have seen, comes to some interesting but well-meaning conclusions, and maybe learns some stuff about himself along the way.
Or, according to Mx_Cryptid on Ch. 4, "Hayden allied too close to the sun and cracked [his] own egg. Poor baby."
- Part 1 of The recognition so richly deserved
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,563
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81747611
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Gay or European by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-21
Rozanov is due to arrive today. Cliff isn’t freaking out. Not even a little bit. He just has no idea what to expect from him.
Or:
Five people who fail to clock Ilya Rozanov and one who immediately figures him out. AKA "being a little transparent as a hockey player is fine, because it doesn't occur to other hockey players that you might be queer".
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,547
- Chapters:
- 2/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83054751
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Shall We Talk About Home? by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-09
“My boyfriend thinks I’m an idiot,” Ilya says. "Well, not really but a bit, maybe.”
“Your boyfriend?” Sandra, the queer studies professor sits down, hard.
“Yes, he thinks it is not smart to say faggot in the locker room when you are locked in the closet and Russia has the keys.”
Ilya had been talking about himself when he’d said it. Making a joke. Sailing a little close to the wind, sick of listening to the background hum of homophobic bullshit. But someone had been filming. The video went viral. The Raiders panicked under the terrible PR. Now he was here.
Sent to Queer Studies 101 to appease twitter. Because he’d been cancelled. For being a homophobe. If was fucking ridiculous.
He turns to the professor. “So, can you help me take on Putin and NHL at same time or I need more advanced class for this?”
Plus Chapter 2 – Social media chapter. Once they've been outed, Ilya gets to demand an apology from twitter.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,579
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82767631
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On the poster, Ilya’s own face looked back at him through a Snapchat dog filter, the image clearly taken to show off his flexed torso. Ilya didn’t recognize the selfie. He could’ve sent it to any number of girls. Someone had put jail bars over the image and below it, in bold letters, was simple text:
ILYA ROZANOV:
THIS MAN IS A DOG!
TEXT IRIS TO JOIN THE SUPPORT GROUP~ or ~
Following the tuna melt diaster, Ilya goes out to a bar in Boston and sees a poster for an Ilya Rozanov support group. Posing as Lily, he joins a group chat of his past consquests and discovers that he's not nearly as hard to figure out as he thinks he is.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,372
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81165926
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One night at the Kingfisher, Shane gets roped into a game of Never Have I Ever with the hockey HABs, and learns a few things about community, opening up to people, and just how kinky he and Ilya get.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,845
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81481241
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Roz is out of his gear much faster than he usually is and he’s unlocking his phone with an urgency as if something were on fire. “Bro, you good?” Cliff asks while he’s still in the process of getting out of his own gear. Ilya looks up from his phone with a somewhat wild look in his eyes. “I cannot reach Jane.” Ilya says and there’s nearly no volume to it at all. It's more of a whisper than anything else. Cliff Marlow notices some things and connects some dots.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,648
- Chapters:
- 7/8
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78701706
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but they bring their boys up different by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-18
Ilya knows what he is. He has always known what he is. The word for it in Russian tastes like something you'd scrape off a boot. The word in English is bisexual, which is a nicer word, which he has heard, which he does not use. He uses other words. He uses the word his brother taught him. He uses it on himself before anyone else can. He grows up. He gets good at hockey. He moves to America. He... falls in love. (Or, five times people fail to notice Ilya being queer, and one time they have no choice.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,457
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79764046
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Shane Hollander goes Casual (so cool and unbothered) by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-02-09
Shane Hollander is tired of wanting someone he cannot have, and he’s dying as he waits for someone who will not stay. Someone who doesn’t want to stay, not when there are so many others waiting for him. Fun of another variety, Shane left a treat amongst many.
It’s humiliating. It’s distracting. And it feels like shit.
He wishes he could erase his feelings, move on as easily. In an effort to gain back control over the ‘situation’ that has become his romantic attraction to a notorious player, Shane attempts at imitating Ilya Rozanov’s methods until he perfects them and becomes as good as keeping it light and casual as his rival.
Or Shane tries to Hoe Phase himself into a self discovery journey to choke and kill his feelings for Ilya Rozanov. Ilya is not the only who suffers from it, but he sure feels like he’s being choked and killed.
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Story ends after chapter 6 but I keep writing bonus because the hyper fixation doesn’t end.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,658
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77581216
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Ilya and Shane discuss their different attitudes towards being visibly queer.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,122
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79124626
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-Kip Grady Started a Group Chat-
Kip starts a group chat for the husbands and boyfriends of the queer players in the league, and they get along like a house on fire.
Takes place over the course of The Long Game and Role Model.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,552
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78775956