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this is a collection of my favourite HR fics- specifically the ones that are like. I’m a better, smarter person from reading these. They’re not always the most fun, self indulgent reads, but they’re SO well written, smart and committed, I’d be genuinely shocked to hear that these authors AREN’T professionals.

please send these fics and their authors some love!! They’re genuinely so incredible, and so worth reading.

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Staring at the Sun (90785 words) by Nerve_Itch (@muffichka on tumblr) Chapters: 12/12 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types Rating: Explicit

- The first sound Ilya hears is a thin, discordant symphony of beeps and whirs. Something vibrating.  The next thing he hears is…wet. A sort of shaking, gargling sound, that feels like the ugliest crying he’s ever heard. And through it, Shane’s voice.  “I’m with him now, mom. He’s— he’s not fine. He’s not. I know—” Ilya wants to ask who's not fine, but he can’t feel his own body, his mouth, enough to ask. “Yeah,” Shane is saying, only slightly calmer. “I know. He wasn’t breathing—" Ilya knows there's a link, between the clinical musicality of medical settings, Shane’s audible, awful distress, and his own physical incapacity. It’s just, it’s so tenuous, and the air around him is so thick, so heavy. It would be easy, to sleep, a little.  - Footage of the last game between Ottawa and Montreal is everywhere; it’s breached containment from the sports world, and now it seems like everyone is baying for Montreal’s blood. Except, Ilya is oblivious. Not exactly blissfully so, but as the fight for accountability within the league rages on without him, Ilya just wants someone, anyone, to tell him what happened.

Protected Person (27498 words) by chinesebakery Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Mature - Shane finds out on Twitter. Not from a lawyer or a teammate or even one of the journalists who've been calling nonstop since the FanMail video went viral. He finds out at 6:47 am, still in bed, that Russia is coming for Ilya. Propaganda charges. Passport revocation. Return to the Russian Federation required. What follows is weeks of watching everything fall apart. Ilya's career. Their safety. The system that was supposed to protect them. Shane keeps playing while Ilya can't. The lawyers file paperwork and say to wait. Montreal demands silence. Shane faces a choice: keep his head down and trust the process, or burn down his career and force the world to pay attention. He chooses fire.

skin still wet, still on my skin (9882 words) by IsvsWorld (@isvsworld on tumblr) Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply - Lily looked deliberately over Jane’s shoulder at that, her delicate fingers running through her smooth, ash blonde hair. She had started bleaching it a few years earlier. “Sure,” she laughed, sharp and flinty, “When are we not fighting?” --- Jane and Lily as WAGs

something you can fix (26823 words) by some1_around (@some1around on tumblr) Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Mature Series: Part 1 of something you can fix - Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But the video didn’t end there. “Can I ask if you’ve ever been with another guy?” she had to ask. And he, tears visible in his eyes, had to nod. Just once. Just a single nod. Why did he have to nod? “Have you ever told anyone that before?” He shook his head. “Was it different? With a guy?” “Of course.” Of course. “Was it better?” “Yes.” +++ Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret.

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Carrion Comfort (161128 words) by eden22 (@stevesbootyshorts on tumblr) Chapters: 11/14 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Explicit - Flight 771 shouldn't have been any different than any of the hundreds of other flights that Shane has taken over the course of his career, aside from the fact that it was taking him towards his lifelong dream—towards the Olympics. It shouldn't have been any different. BEND OVER, STAY DOWN. BEND OVER, STAY DOWN. BEND OVER, STAY DOWN. It is.

Hello From Moscow, Goodbye from Montreal (115220 words) by Skyhon (@skyhonxhollanov on tumblr) Chapters: 13/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Explicit Series: Part 1 of Hello/Goodbye, Dear/Sincerely Universe - “You have a ride back home, right? Please tell me you aren’t going to drive. You’ll crash one of your stupid sports cars and get a concussion. Or die.” “Awe, so sweet to me, worrying. But no, I am in Moscow. I have no good cars here, only shitty Marussia B2. Stupid purchase. You know, the B2 is just B1 but with fancier clothes? Look better than B1, though. B1 look like low-money 80’s future movie.” He makes an annoyed sound. “No. I do not have word. научная фантастика. What is movie type that has flying cars?” “Jesus,” Shane says, running a hand through his hair. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard you talk so much.” “You like my voice, da? So is no problem, for you.” “Fuck you. Do you mean sci-fi?” Rozanov makes a triumphant sound. “Yes, that! Sci-fi. B1 look like that meme of a cat’s face covered in cream. Ugly car. So, at least I have better choice. I can look at it and not wish to drive it off cliff and into garbage land.” “…You’re thinking of a landfill.” Or, Ilya keeps calling Shane at odd hours to talk about nothing and everything. Shane, for some reason he can’t quite rationalize, keeps answering. And texting. And then things get a bit out of hand.

smoke on skin (23742 words) by ivylines Chapters: 3/12 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid - It’s a beautiful, perfect night, yet Rose’s chest tightens like she’s going to suffocate from fresh air. “Rose Landry.” Rozanov’s voice is deep and quiet, rumbling across the pavement like one of his infamous sports cars, accent curling around the “r’s” in her name like a snake. He tilts his head to her, a facsimile of a nod. Rose nods back—what else is she supposed to do in this situation? “Ilya Rozanov.” Rozanov’s lips twitch. “Ah, you know me, yes?” “Hard not to,” Rose responds. “Your reputation precedes you. And you seem to know me.” “Hard to miss the billboards. You look very…blue and naked in them.” Rose Landry meets Ilya Rozanov for the first time outside Bell Centre after a Montreal-Boston game while trying to surprise Shane. He is not at all what she expects, and it changes everything.

snapping birch (71911 words) by thepolysyndetonaddictsupportgroup (@polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup on tumblr) Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Mature - Shandry's Third @shaneybaby uhhh so im on r/shanehollander rn and some guy is claiming to have cloned shane’s dad’s phone and uploaded it to the internet?? has anyone else clicked on this link will it give me a virus if i do 7:03 P.M. | 12 Jan 2018 | 135.1k retweets | 232.1k likes Shandry's Third @shaneybaby okay I googled his dad and he’s a 52 year old forensic accountant who thinks fashion peaked with ralph lauren polo shirts. am I enough of a hollander simp to risk my laptop just to look through the phone of his dad who acts like sandals and bermuda shorts are a risqué choice. yes. 7:04 P.M. | 12 Jan 2018 | 137.1k retweets | 235.9k likes Shandry's Third @shaneybaby oh my god his password for everything is ShaneHollander24. pov you love your son so much that it compromises your bank account 7:04 P.M. | 12 Jan 2018 | 143.7k retweets | 250.7k likes Shandry's Third @shaneybaby HOLY FUCK 7:19 P.M. | 12 Jan 2018 | 337.1k retweets | 413.3k likes

Like yea they’re lovingly looking into each others’ eyes and whimpering but OUTSIDE the room it sounds like

HUDSON WILLIAMS APPRECIATION WEEK | Day 4: Favorite Photoshoot

it’s been several months and shane isn’t even thinking anymore about getting panini-pressed between his husband and his husband’s bro-y best friend. it was buzzy and fun and ilya teasing him about it while they fucked afterwards was kinda hot but he’s done with all that now.

that’s the plan, at least, until he finds himself in a club. finds himself a little drunker than he intended. finds himself on the dance floor, ilya guiding him with long, sexy movements that keep them pressed together so nicely, chest to chest. it’s less dancing, to be honest, and more swaying. taking stock of each other’s bodies and following the ebb and flow of them. and shane is drunk and happy and a little turned on by his smoking hot husband so that’s why he reacts the way he does when it happens. when they’re suddenly not alone.

His name is Steve, newish in town and recently single. He catches Eddie noticing the tan line from a ring that’s no longer on his finger and adds, “I was married. I’m… not anymore.” (Eddie guesses it must have been a rough divorce.)

Steve is bisexual, he also mentions hastily with a faint blush that tells Eddie the attraction might actually mutual.

They chat for a few hours, comparing their early lives growing up in small towns (Steve in Indiana, Eddie in Colorado) and their current jobs (Steve works in an office doing something the only explains as “really, really dull,” Eddie in a local community center organizing afterschool activities for local kids and DMing for a couple different youth DnD groups) and music tastes (neither of them are huge fans of what’s playing in the bar). After a while, Steve admits that he’s in a rut.

“You looking to change that, sweetheart?” Eddie asks, and part of him wants to jump up and down and punch the air at how smooth that came out holy shit. Because Steve smiles shyly back (it’s like the fucking sun coming out a from behind a cloud) and says that yeah, he’d like that.

Fast forward to next morning. Eddie wakes up drooling on a perfectly hairy chest and a pounding in his head that doesn’t actually hurt, it’s just loud. Knocking, he realizes eventually, and reluctantly hauls himself out of bed. Whoever it is at this unholy hour of… uh, 10am, can just deal with the fact that he’s answering the door in his boxers, covered in hickies and scratch marks, and with bedhead so wild it makes him look several inches taller than he actually is.

Only to be informed by the woman at his door that she knows Steve is here because she tracked his phone to this location. “Oh! Not like that,” she adds hastily when Eddie’s eyes go wide. “No, I’m not, like, a jealous girlfriend or anything, that’d be weird, he’s like my sister. I mean—well, it’s hard to explain. But, anyway, look, I know he’s been having a rough time since his wife died, and I’m glad he found someone to, um, keep company with, he’s way too fucking picky if you ask me—It’s just, I really can’t afford the time off to keep babysitting right now, so if he could be, like, alive by the time school gets out, that’d be good…?”

And oh god, Eddie is trying to absorb all that. Steve is a widower? Jesus H. Christ, at some point last night Eddie had moaned that whoever his ex was obviously hadn’t known what a good, perfect, wonderous thing they were giving up. Steve is picky, but picked him? Oh, that’s giving him butterflies. Steve has a kid? Well, Eddie is good with kids…

Suddenly there’s a groan behind him and Steve shuffles up to wrap an arm around Eddie’s torso in a loose but affectionate hug. “Thanks a lot, Robin,” Steve complains, his voice still rough from sleep, “I hadn’t told him about the twins yet.”

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Shane Hollander routinely uses sunscreen(for safety against skin cancer) and washes his face with a sensitive skin friendly soap in the shower. He uses the same bar for his entire body.

Beyond that his smooth skin is entirely coincidental. Ilya is very jealous of this. Ilya wears hair products, styles himself meticulously and has tried multiple skincare routines. None of which are giving him the supple skin he desires.

The first time Ilya goes to Shane's real apartment and not the sex condo he is outraged by the number of unused samples of skincare products, mostly because these brands are choosing to work with Shane when he knows for a fact that Shane does nothing to properly take care of his skin.

Shane's bathroom sink is barren.

Shane *enters Ilya's bathroom*: why do you have so much clutter in here

Ilya *outraged*: is not clutter Hollander we did not all climb out of womb and become world's prettiest man by accident

Shane *having no filter*: why do you bother with it if it doesn't work?

“No one is here now,” Ilya observes, theatrically turning his head left and right and spreading his arms wide. Droplets of water trickle temptingly down the line of his forearms, tracing a stark vein running along his bicep. “Just us.”

“Just us,” Shane echoes, quiet and almost disbelieving.

These days together have melted into one long, sundrenched dream. At any given moment, he half-expects he’ll jolt awake.

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Hudson to the actions and careers of white male actors. You are bypassing the very real issue of race and bias that Hudson has to contend with in Hollywood. Please understand you are inadvertently dismissing a challenge he faces that is unique to him as an Asian man around his masculinity especially. Also, he is not anywhere near as white-presenting as Keanu Reeves, and that afforded Keanu a lot more access as a leading man and action star. He was and is an anomaly because of that.

Pass judgement on Hudson for whatever, but please recognize that race/ethnicity and stereotypes are real for him and do impact the choices he has to make. It sucks but it is true.

And he tells her. And Rose throws up all over his hallway floor.

No I have absolutely zero interest in Off Campus