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He’s still trying to find a way to say hey so you hitting me is one of the hottest things you’ve done, even though it was an accident without it being weird. It’s going to be weird. He doesn’t say it.

You can read it here

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80894531

Rating: teen and up

About: Jackie pieces together that, not only is Shane gay, but in a relationship with Ilya Rozanov. She spends years trying to get it through Hayden's very dense skull, until she finally pesters him enough to make him ask Shane, and surprise! She was right.

2988 words // tags: explicit sexual content, character study, blowjobs, handjobs, hollanov situationship era, hockey talk

It's filed away now, the lesson he'd learned that day, somewhere deep in his memory. In many ways, Shane is sure it's informed every aspect of his life since then. Don't shine too bright. Don't do too much. Don't pull focus. Stand out by blending in. They'll hate you if you show them who you really are. And Shane doesn't want to be hated. Shane wants to be revered. So he learns to rein himself in, to try with all his might to be unselfish. To pass the puck even if he doesn't want to. To dull his shine just enough to still be considered the best without losing the respect of the lesser players around him. It seems entirely unfair, then, that Ilya Rozanov has seemingly no qualms at all about being hated.

the things you love, the things you never want to lose teen, 9k, oneshot. yuna wonders about all the signs she missed, about all the times she didn't see through her son to the love he was hiding.

(we could be) something great mature, 9k, oneshot. ilya goes down on the ice. some shit is talked. shane hollander, surprisingly, throws down- with his own teammate. a really fun look at hollanov interactions in public, when they're still not even friends in the world's eyes

1221 unrated, 1k, oneshot. scott hunter knows what he heard. the rookies are doing drugs. (they really aren't, scott. get your gaydar checked)

if it wasn't for that meddling kid teen, 10k, ongoing (two chapters). hollanov are together, but ilya's still playing for boston. the bears get a new rookie who only speaks russian, so he's living under ilya's charge. he's very into scooby-doo. honestly i just like ilya having an assigned rookie to look after and lovingly bully very much.

caught you looking back explicit, 3k, oneshot. ilya rims shane for the first time in the cottage. that's the fic. it's good. read it.

diamonds are forever explicit, 2k, oneshot. ilya wants to fuck shane in heirloom jewlery. earrings are a good starting point. (between this and the fic where ilya mentions he wants to fuck shane in just a fur coat, it's feeling very slavic.)

worst proposal ever teen, 5k, ongoing. shane's locked picture folder gets hacked and posted online. hollanov is outed to the world in the worst way, but they're still getting through it.

and i could take another hit for you explicit, 34k, ongoing. magical realism. shane keeps teleporting to save ilya from bad hits. they're not especially good at handling it, or what that might mean for both their feelings.

tupelo honey explicit, 6k, oneshot. lactation kink. shane doesn't know why he's got milk coming out of his pecs. ilya is not complaining.

HOLLANDER'S DICK #1 FAN teen, 9k, oneshot. shane comes out to the world online first. it would be great if anyone would believe him when he says that, and no, he was not hacked, and no, he's not joking. they get married anyway.

baby steps teen, 4k, oneshot. ilya goes through some of the old videos of shane skating as a kid and has feelings. sadder than you'd think, but very good.

someplace to go teen, 2k, oneshot. ilya doesn't read much- hasn't since his mother died. shane gives him a piece of that back. this made me sob a little bit, honestly.

a new plan mature, 15k, ongoing. ilya gets injured badly on the ice. shane's odyssey to him in the hospital takes outing himself to hayden, a delayed plane, new york traffic, and some kind strangers. a very good look into the fleeting connections you make with people in a crisis, as well as some strong emotions.

hollander's bookclub gen, 2k, oneshot. shane's reads gain some attention online, especially when he starts reading russian classics and manga about two baseball rivals getting closer.

comfort weight explicit, 2k, oneshot. ilya wants shane to sit on his face. shane, a full grown man and a professional hockey player, is worried he'll crush his boyfriend. the power of love prevails, of course; ilya gets his wish.

puck bunny explicit, 4k, oneshot. ilya's present for his birthday is shane wearing a playboy bunny suit. (tail included, of course.)

the milf theory (and why the internet got it wrong) gen, 13k, oneshot. pictures of yuna and ilya get onto the internet. everyone is convinced that rozanov is fucking his rival's mother. shane would like to beg the world to end his suffering, please.

parcel post explicit, 6k, complete. ilya keeps sending shane sex toys. shane keeps using them. it's totally casual and normal and chill, except where it's really not.

My heart is so full and I’m so so so excited to meet the trans people that are going to come from this show.

I really hope I get to meet an Ilya or a Kip or a Shane or a Scott in the next coming years, like part of me loves them already.

I think I’m just so excited because at one point I was a odd girl CONSUMING gay fiction like it was water, and through that fiction I learned I was not an odd girl but a really fucking gay man. And that shit sucked for a long time, but I’m so much happier now and full of so much queer and trans joy that it makes me want to scream. There are some people now starting on that journey in a world where it’s so fucking scary to be trans and queer and I so desperately want them to know they are not alone, and they are so welcome and so wanted.

With the wild success of Heated Rivalry, I’ve found myself slowing down and really thinking about what this moment means. Not just for the LGBTQ community, but for straight women, straight men, everybody who presses play and feels something crack open. And yeah, it sent me straight back into my own story.

I came out in 1990. That date matters. It was the tail end of the AIDS epidemic, when queer stories on screen were almost always soaked in grief. We were dying. We were suffering. We were warnings. Happy endings did not exist for us. Love usually meant loss, and hope was rare, if not forbidden.

As the media shifted, we didn’t exactly get better treatment. We became the funny sidekick. The sassy best friend. Or worse, the gay guy tragically in love with the straight man he could never have. Desire without reward. Longing without resolution.

Then the new century cracked the door open. Queer as Folk kicked it in. Showtime gave us sex, sweat, joy, mess, beauty, stereotypes, and humanity all tangled together. For the first time, audiences saw us fully, not safely. Not politely. That mattered.

Soon after came Will & Grace, putting gay characters front and center in living rooms across America. Then films followed. Brokeback Mountain hit like a thunderclap. Two massive Hollywood stars. Closeted cowboys. A love stretched across years, quiet and devastating. It changed the conversation, whether people wanted to admit it or not.

In recent years, we’ve been fed well. Heartstopper. Red, White & Royal Blue. Love, Victor. Looking. Fellow Travelers. Stories with softness, complexity, romance, and teeth. Progress. Real progress.

And now, at the tail end of 2025, here comes Heated Rivalry. A damn phenomenon. A universe that grabbed all of us by the collar and said, feel this. What makes it special is not just that it’s hot. It starts physically, which is all straight people ever think we are. Then it blooms into something tender and real and earned. A love story that doesn’t apologize and actually rides off into the sunset. Literally.

That’s why this feels so satisfying. We earned this. We crawled through decades of tragedy and scraps to get here. And now we’re feral for more. Because what we’re really craving isn’t just representation. It’s longing. Yearning. Being chosen. Being loved back.

I wanted to share this especially for the younger generation. It was not always this way. Our stories used to end in hospital rooms and funerals. Not sunsets.

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