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Tomato tamatoe by StaleJanuary
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
07 May 2026
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“ Are we becoming friends now?” Ilya asks. Shane looks turned out by the question, again looking around for someone.
“ Uh-” He stumbles, “ Yeah.”
“ Wow.” Ilya gasps; it's in a similar manner he remembers checking out Shane in the car, like he can’t believe the man in front of him is real. He and Shane continue walking, or Shane continues, and Ilya runs to keep up.
“ You know, “ Ilya starts, “ You might be the first attractive person I have not wanted to sleep with in my entire life.”
He hears a sharp and quiet intake of breath from Shane beside him, and then he breathes out a laugh, “ That's great, Ilya.” He says.
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A Hollanov When Harry Met Sally Retelling
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Katniss wipes away her emerging tears with the back of her hand, still holding the dandelion with an ironclad grip. “ It’s okay.” She partly mumbles through her tears.
“ Do you want to be boyfriend and girlfriend?” The boy says so quickly that it comes out as a jumbled mess.
“ What?” Katniss is stunned.
“ My brother says that if you want someone to be your girlfriend, you have to give her something nice.” The boy explains, but it just makes Katniss even more confused.
“ You don’t have to.” The boy says shyly, his hands planted like an anchor on the wood that separates the tarmac from the sand, “ I understand you’re sad.” He continues.
Katniss looks at the boy’s warm cheeks and the dandelion in between her fingertips and feels a comforting heat in her chest. One she hadn’t felt since her dad died.
“ Sure.” She answers then. “ I’ll be your girlfriend.”
The boy’s eyes brightened even more than they turned to an almost white, and Katniss remembered thinking that there wasn’t a thing prettier.
_A ghost from Katniss's past comes back to haunt her.
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Sleeping With The Television On by StaleJanuary
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater, Dreamer Trilogy - Maggie Stiefvater
25 Jan 2026
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“ Fuck you.” Ronan spits, and Parrish laughs; it rumbles the ground below them.
“ Do you believe in magic?” Ronan finds himself saying, and then he wakes up.
He wakes up to the sun shining through his window, not unlike the bright light from his dreams, and he turns over in his bed to catch the time from his alarm clock. It reads 10 am, and Ronan just then realizes that this meant that for the first time in months, he had slept through the whole night.
_Ronan Lynch and Adam Parrish discover that the only cure for their insomnia is each other.
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Goodnight, My Baby by StaleJanuary
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
29 Sep 2025
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“ Well.” Will looks up and springs Nico into action once again, “ Who died?”
Nico sits in his high wooden chair, gripping his coffee, and he blinks. He thinks back to the conversation he had with Hazel on the phone.
That is the question, isn’t it?
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“ So were losers.” Marlene sniffs.
“ Basically,” Sirius responds.
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He’s just about ready to doze off—his ritualistic pre-dinner, thirty-minute nap—when, suddenly, Ilya says, “Huh. Interesting.”
Shane cracks one eye open. “Hmm?”
“Oh, nothing, малыш,” he replies, though his brows are furrowed when he says it. Shane’s even more curious now.
“No, really, what is it?”
Ilya must lose some internal debate; a deep sigh leaves his body before, wordlessly, he turns his phone to Shane.
The bright light makes him squint, still not used to Ilya and his affinity for both using the light-mode feature and turning the brightness in his phone to a maximum. He forgoes scolding him when, after his eyes have adjusted, he reads: Metros acquires Fil-Canadian Rivera; second Asian player in franchise history after Hollander.
At first he thinks, oh, that’s my name. Shane hasn’t seen his name mentioned remotely near the words ‘Montreal Metros’ ever since he transferred to Ottawa three years ago. Then, and this is when it finally dawns on him, Shane thinks: second?
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- Part 5 of a collection of hollanovs
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31 May 2026
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“She likes to haunt my freezer,” Ilya says, as Shane shuffles out of his Reeboks and into a pair of Ilya’s house slippers.
It had seemed like a joke, when Ilya first brought it up. Their last morning at the cottage, dropped casually as they scrambled eggs together in the kitchen, a parting gag for the road. Oh, by the way, you know that dead mother I told you about? The one who killed herself and left me to find the body? Yes, okay, so, she is also a ghost and she haunts me. Well, my house, really. No, I am serious, Hollander! I am so serious, Russians do not joke, please! You do not believe me? You do not trust me? Fine. You will come over to my place some time and I will show you. She likes flowers, please bring daffodils.
Shane brought the daffodils.
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- Part 25 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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30 May 2026
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There are a great many things that Shane has no plans on telling his husband: that when he was twelve he broke a competitor’s hockey stick because he was mad his team didn’t win. That he sometimes thinks that his Mom would have liked to have another kid if Shane wasn’t much of a handful. That he had to pull over to cry in his car on the way back to his apartment that night in Montreal after seeing Ilya dance with another girl in the club.
And, that he can no longer sleep in their bed without Ilya.
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- Part 4 of a collection of hollanovs
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27 May 2026
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No Good Deed (Goes Unpunished) by khaleesiofalicante
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 May 2026
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“Hello,” Ilya repeats, still kind of stuck on those freckles.
“Hi?” the man says.
“Hi,” Ilya says—again.
Oh god, he's said hello three times now. He should literally say anything else. His name, probably. His phone number, preferably.
“Hi,” Ilya says again, because he can’t help it. “I am—”
“Are you Nick?” the man asks, and it comes out as a breathless sound.
OR: Shane gets stood up on a blind date, and Ilya comes to the rescue, and proceeds to make a series of questionable decisions.
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24 May 2026
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Shane Hollander is a man who thrives on structure, routine, the solid ground of a ten-year plan. Ilya likes that about him, likes the embracing squeeze of having a life organized in tandem with Shane.
No one would call Ilya a man who thrives on structure. But it’s there, if not in his DNA then in the patterns of his brain. A call-and-response of: they do this, I do that.
When Ilya’s life is flayed open for the world to dissect, how will they push-and-pull their way back towards what was once a well-organized life?
“I thought we could go through the schedules and figure out what days we’ll be in the same cities this season, or when either of us have a couple of days off in a row. Maybe make a shared calendar, so we c—”
“A sex calendar? Your parents are arriving in thirty minutes, and you are proposing making a sex calendar?” Oh, this was delicious. He’d be able to eat out on this for years, if Shane was willing to give him that long.
“It’s not a sex calendar! It’s just … when we might be able to see each other,” he finished, already sounding defeated.
“And what are you planning on doing when we are seeing each other? Not fucking?”
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24 May 2026