And I Grew Up Into Something Good
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I'll be Your Father Figure by Signsofsam
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
21 Dec 2025
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David Hollander loves Instagram.
Ilya showed it to him one night while he was having dinner with them, specifically posts from the Foundation and the camps, and it somehow led to David setting up his own account. For the most part, it’s dinner and Yuna and sometimes Shane, but there are also pieces of Ilya there: a completed puzzle, chicken parmesan, ice cream. David can’t post Ilya, obviously, but he wants Ilya to look at his account and know that he’s there, too.
When the video comes out, and the boys are thrown into a chaos they don’t deserve, some selfish part of David is relieved because now the entire world can know how much David–how much all the Hollanders–love Ilya Rozanov.
Or: Five posts David Hollander makes about Ilya, and one time Ilya returns the favor.
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- Part 1 of And I Grew Up Into Something Good
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Graffiti My Whole Damn Life (Honey) by Signsofsam
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Jan 2026
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Shane doesn’t like social media. For one, he’s so used to shoving his private life so deep in the closet that it can’t see the light of day, but also, he’s a naturally private person, and the thought of letting people see any part of what keeps him stable and going–it scares him. So mostly, his social media accounts are run by his mom and his social media team, mostly ads and sponsorships and sharing Metros posts and information from the Irina Foundation.
Every once in a blue moon, it’s something truly him, the cottage or him and Hayden and JJ, a yoga mat (a tuna melt, a coke, a loon at the cottage).
And then, just like that (and one ill-timed Fanmail video), his carefully curated private world implodes, and while picking up the pieces, he decides he’s done.
He has this amazing life, this amazing boyfriend (fiancé!), and he wants the world to know at least a piece of it because he and Ilya deserve to finally be openly in love.
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- Part 2 of And I Grew Up Into Something Good
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Somebody Who Could Swallow Love by Signsofsam
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Jan 2026
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Ilya’s Instagram feed has always been a love letter to Shane, since they became them, moments in time that will always lead to a memory for him. It’s the best Ilya can do, considering their circumstances, but it’s the one way he can tell the world (in secret, stolen moments, random things that only mean something to exactly two people) that he’s head-over-heels in love with Shane Hollander.
The FanMail video comes out in March, and it’s like Ilya realizes he can be in love out loud, even during the soft moments.
The world is not ready.
AKA: Five times Ilya posts the small moments, and one time he loves out loud.
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- Part 3 of And I Grew Up Into Something Good
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Leave It With Me by Signsofsam
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Feb 2026
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In a surprising twist in what she assumes everyone thinks about Yuna Hollander, she does not care for Instagram. She understands its usefulness, and she does have one, but it’s all simply posts about Shane’s latest accolades, his brand deals and advertisements, a few sprinkled posts about the Metros, and posts from the Irina Foundations–so perfectly bland and impersonal.
That is, of course, until the FanMail leak takes a wrecking ball to her boys’ lives (fuck you very much, Brad). After that, she decides she’s not going to let the rest of the world dictate the love that Ilya and Shane share. She’s not going to let them get beaten down by the assholes out there who see anything but two people in love.
AKA: Five times Yuna shows the world Ilya's her son, too, and one time he calls her mom.
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- Part 4 of And I Grew Up Into Something Good
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You Want a Fight (You Found It) by Signsofsam
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Jun 2026
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It’s a good thing our mother is dead. If she were alive, she’d be so ashamed of what her son has become.
Of course Alexei had to open his big mouth and give a statement to some shitty gossip site, and of course the entirety of the internet is posting it now, because Shane and Ilya took the internet and pop culture by storm a few Marches ago, and keeping them in headline stories keeps people engaged. If it were a random comment, Ilya knew it wouldn’t sting as much as it does, and he would just let it go, but it’s Alexei, and it’s Alexei talking about their mom. Their mom, who Ilya puts on such a pedestal, a woman Ilya and Shane dedicated their charity to, a woman that Ilya strives to do the best for every day.
It doesn’t just sting, it’s a shot that’s blasted through his heart.
AKA: Alexei opens his big mouth, and the Hollanov Defense Squad responds.
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- Part 5 of And I Grew Up Into Something Good