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and we all fall down by lowkey_existential_despair
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
22 Sep 2026
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The truth was, yeah, Shane married Ilya, but he’d married hockey first. He married hockey the second he signed his rookie contract with the Metros, and his courtship began long, long before. And his marriage to hockey wasn’t like his marriage to Ilya. Hockey wouldn’t ever love him back. Ilya wasn’t going to chew Shane up and spit him out at some nebulous point after he turned thirty and before he turned forty, his joints busted and his mouth full of dentures and his brain fucked to hell and back. And that marriage—his first marriage—had always come before his second, illicit shotgun wedding.
It wasn’t ideal, maybe, but that was just how things were. Hell, it was probably the same for Ilya, too. The fuck was Shane supposed to do about it? Nothing, nothing, nothing. He liked his life just the way it was. He didn’t want to do anything different. He still doesn’t. And that’s the worst, most shameful part of it all: at the end of the day, some part of Shane will always wish he could wind back time like adjusting a watch; erase that Instagram post before it ever hit the internet and go back to the life they’d had before; the life that was slowly killing them both.
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- Part 3 of two weddings and a scandal
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02 Sep 2026
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Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander have a lot to learn, or!
Five words towards bilingual fluency, followed by a few towards self-fluency.
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- Part 2 of language acquisition
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25 Aug 2026
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04 Aug 2026
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A chapter-by-chapter companion to Season 1 of Heated Rivalry, covering every Russian-language scene in the show. What was said, what it means, what the subtitles got right, and what they quietly dropped.
Written by a native Russian speaker living in the US who got here sideways, through a t.A.T.u. song.Series
- Part 1 of Heated Rivalry: The Russian Within
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10 Jul 2026
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“You are here to get your revenge on me?” Rozanov asks, a little garbled with his accent and his busted lip. There’s dried blood on his chin.
“No,” Scott says, pulls over a chair and sits down a respectable six feet from the bed. “I don’t believe in that. I just wanted to talk to you.”
Scott takes Ilya Rozanov to the winner’s room.
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- Part 1 of winner's room
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05 Jul 2026