KatHowardApologist
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A Year In Montreal by KatHowardApologist
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
03 Jun 2026
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Once the glow of the cottage fades and the boys have to head back to the real world, they have to start the long difficult year being separated before Ilya signs with Ottawa. Or at least that was the plan, until Ilya opened his mouth and accidentally got himself traded to Montreal. But it’s fine, just one year for Ilya in Montreal and then their 10 year plan is back on track… Right?
Through their year on the same team, Ilya helps Shane come to terms with the fact that his team kinda sucks, Hayden gets chirped into oblivion but still realizes that maybe Ilya Rozanov isn’t nearly as bad of a guy as he thought, and Hollanov come to terms with a new question they didn’t expect to ask.
Now that they’ve gotten a taste of living together and being on the same team, how are they ever going to give it up?
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Five Times Shane Hollander Learned to Love His Long Hair by KatHowardApologist
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 May 2026
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Shane Hollander never really cared much about how he looked, so he’s basically been getting the same hair cut since he was 17. After a decade of the same style however, he discovers some very good reasons to have long hair.
Scenes take place between the end of the last Boston year through TLG years (only chapter five will be post-canon). Each chapter can be read as a separate one-shot. Some of the chapters will be very smutty, some will just be fluffy - check out author notes for individual ratings.
This is unabashed propaganda in my campaign to get long haired Shane in season two with a little bit of smut as a treat.
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After the Tuna Meltdown, his good friend Rose Landry introduces Shane to Chappell Roan. Shane is then recorded crashing out while singing Casual and Ilya reacts to watching the video.
The real-world timeline for this makes zero sense, but we are just going to all pretend that Chappell released this song like a decade early, okay? okay.
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Glitter at A Pride Parade by KatHowardApologist
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Mar 2026
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"Every surface, light pole, and body packed into the street blocks was an explosion of color.
And everyone was so happy. So full of joy.
Pride, Shane realized. He’d never really understood why it was called that before."
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When you've lived your entire adult life in the closet, you miss out on one of the best parts of being queer - the LGBTQIA+ community. At 30 years old, Shane has still not gotten a chance to experience Pride until now!
Or The Ottawa Centaurs are invited to walk in the Ottawa Pride Parade in August after Shane and Ilya get back from their honeymoon. Shane has to navigate being a newly minted queer icon, learn to love in the spotlight, and finally feels accepted in a community he didn't realize that he was missing.
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Do it for the bit by KatHowardApologist
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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Set in an alternate universe where Shane and Ilya were only outed to the Montreal Metros but are not out to anyone else. Shane still moves to Ottawa (because fuck Montreal) and joins the Centaurs, but they don't tell anyone about their relationship... Until now!
If you have read my fic Never Tell Me The Odds, this was a part of the original first draft for chapters 6 and 7 but I changed things as I felt the tone was a little too crack-filled to fit with the rest of that story. Other than the context above, you don't need to have read Never Tell Me The Odds to get this!
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Shane and llya are Idiots in Every Universe by KatHowardApologist
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
31 Mar 2026
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The Great Pretender by lady_st4rdus7
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Jun 2026
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Ilya Rozanov is in love, closeted, catastrophically lonely, and apparently incapable of referring to Shane Hollander in present tense.
The Centaurs come to a- given the circumstances- reasonable conclusion.
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Five times the Centaurs thought Ilya Rozanov was mourning his dead wife, and the one time they discovered his wife was actually Shane Hollander.
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On Their Own Terms by CertainlyUncertain, Pammcasso
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
04 Jun 2026
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Before Felix could remove his headphones, he heard it. Heavy, borderline panicked breaths. Felix realized that it must be Hollander. His mic was not turned off when he left the interview. Footsteps. And then a door opening and closing. They had filmed the interview that morning at the offices of the Irina Foundation. It sounded like maybe he had gone into his office.
“Hey, what is it? What is wrong?” Another voice. Unmistakable anywhere. Even if Felix hadn’t spent weeks now listening to it, he would still have recognized Ilya Rozanov’s voice.
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What if the filmmaker making the documentary about Hollander and Rozanov discovered the truth about their relationship. So he approaches Shane and Ilya about filming them over the course of the 2020/2021 season to create an honest documentary that tells the true story of their lives. Canon-divergent AU set during The Long Game.
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Finding Family by ShutUpGwen
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
19 May 2026
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04 Jun 2026
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when i've got you right where i want you by LiarsandThieves22
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 May 2026
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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--
Or: Shane's first season on the Ottawa Centaurs, as told through a number of increasingly unhinged texts
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The End of August by FivePips
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 May 2026
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Photos leak showing Shane Hollander being kissed by a mystery man. Ilya, Hayden, and J.J.'s paths converge when the three are searching for Shane. Shane is busy thinking about Russian literature, James Baldwin, and the ocean. When they all reunite, Shane has to face what's next.
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