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They don’t actually have a problem with communicating, contrary to popular opinion.
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this inconstancy is such by artifice for veilofimagination
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
07 Sep 2026
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"Impossible—we'd lose our careers," Shane argues, "Mom, I've worked so hard—I don't want to be that gay hockey player. I just want to be a hockey player."
— courage [it couldn’t come at a worse time] by veilofimagination, chapter 1.
Just a hockey player, your ass.
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The piano was always going to go to Ilya, in the end.
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pronoms possessifs by artifice
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
06 Mar 2026
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alternatively: “that’s his baby,” or maybe, “romanza, andante con moto.” Shane tries to write a love letter to his husband. He succeeds, more or less.
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"Ilya Rozanov, The Art of Fiction No. 381" - The Paris Review No. 390, Summer 2060 by artifice
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
05 Feb 2026
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Ilya Rozanov on the Art of Fiction: “I write because I need to write, I read because I need to read, I eat because I need to eat, and so on. I imagine it’s the same for everyone who feels compelled to put words on a page."
twenty or so years after "the texture of memory," ilya sits down for a chat with michaela kerrigan about life, writing, and love.
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- Part 2 of texture of memory
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My little-worlded self! the shadows pass
In this thy sister-world, as in a glass,
Of all processions that revolve in thee:
Not only of cyclic Man
Thou here discern'st the plan,
Not only of cyclic Man, but of the cyclic Me.
Not solely of Mortality's great years
The reflex just appears,
But thine own bosom's year, still circling round
In ample and in ampler gyre
Toward the far completion, wherewith crowned,
Love unconsumed shall chant in his own furnace-fire.excerpt, “from the night of forebeing” - francis thompson
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Sentiment Analysis by 409_conflict, ritualist
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
25 Sep 2026
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January, 2011, one week out from All-Stars: to the surprise of everyone except the Hollanders, the Rozanovs, a journalist, two editors, and in-house counsel, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov announce they’re gay and bisexual in an exclusive for Men’s Health.
Five + one reactions to the shocking news.
Shane Hollander: I was in denial for a long time. I already stand out a lot as one of the only Asian guys in any given league. Having another thing that made me different was kind of a nightmare. But it turns out you can’t lie to yourself forever. I’m gay. (shrugs) Ten bucks says Rozanov’ll find a way to make this into a competition too.
Ilya Rozanov: I knew I was bisexual from a very young age, maybe twelve or so. So, you see, even though you interviewed him first, I was still faster than Hollander. But in Russia, culture has changed a lot even just in my lifetime. [The city of] Moscow banned public expressions by gays and lesbians when I was fifteen. I knew to be quiet.
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- Part 2 of baby shane’s big night out
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27 Sep 2026
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The problem with Happily Ever After is, well, the After.
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11 Sep 2026
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least valuable player by neostar
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
01 Jul 2026
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Shane Hollander when asked about speculations of his boyfriend Ilya Rozanov ‘tanking’ on purpose to reunite with him in Providence : “...What? He gets an earful from me every time they send him down. He has lousy puck control and weak defense and needs to work on his shooting accuracy and you think I want it to stay that way? No I don't want my boyfriend to be a joke of a player, I'd like him to put decent enough numbers that he doesn't get moved up and down the NHL and the AHL like an idiot. Now leave me alone.”
or: Ilya Rozanov is a mediocre fourth liner of the Boston Bears. When he gets outed, the internet theorizes he plays poorly on purpose. His boyfriend isn't amused.
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09 Sep 2026
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Shane loves him. This is all he can really think about, now, with Ilya’s knuckles caressing his skin and his eyes raking all over his features; he loves him, and he knows Ilya loves him, too, and he cannot believe he ever doubted that either of them knows this about the other, cannot fathom needing any kind of arbitrary showcase of this love to know that it’s real. He loves Ilya, and if he wants to show him off or keep him locked in this apartment forever and only let him feed from the palm of his hand, then he can do as he sees fit, as long as he keeps loving Shane like this, as much as Shane loves him.
“It was you,” Shane whispers. “They were talking about you.”
Ilya’s knuckles pause, and Shane squeezes his wrist, a non-verbal whine. “What about me?”
“Doesn’t matter what. Anything, anything about you,” Shane’s head is shaking, and Ilya starts soothing again, burying his fingers into his hair and keeping his palm there, covering his ear, and Shane clings onto his wrist. “Could’ve been fucking anything, but… They had something to say about you, and I couldn’t– I snapped.”
or, shane worries he's not showing ilya off as much as he should, and it becomes another problem
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- Part 2 of ring my bell cinematic universe
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09 Sep 2026
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the ocean at the end by veilofimagination for artifice
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
07 Sep 2026
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Arthur thinks he's been missing for a long, long time.
Or: Sometimes a cup is not just a cup. There's names etched on a cup.
(a the texture of memory remix).
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07 Sep 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
The name loves him, even if he—this he—can’t quite glue all of those fragments back together. Like when he points the camera down the beach and the resulting photo isn’t focused as it should be: there’s no singular point anchoring his perspective.