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For a suspended, surreal second, the Spanish clay is July-grass green. The spray of crushed brick underfoot is a wisp of white lifted off the grass—titanium dioxide, a groundskeeper told Jannik once, painted on with a transfer wheel every morning. It’s Wimbledon, and Carlos is falling.
Jannik hears a muted thump.
He watches the ball connect with Carlos’s outstretched racket. Soft hands, a deft change of grip, and every ounce of pace melts from the ball. It bounces off Carlos’s strings, sails just over the net, and lands mere inches inside the opponent’s court. An impossible shot.
Championship point.
Jannik hears the clatter of Carlos’s racket dropping to the ground. But it must only be in his head, because the crowd is rising, roaring, all around him.
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- Part 2 of Bone, Muscles, and Even the Soul
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Jannik doesn't open his eyes. The tip of his nose disappears under the edge of the sheet as he settles again, his breath going long and steady, each slow exhale catching for a second in the back of his throat.
Carlos can't look away from him.
Jannik has freckles on his eyelids. Carlos hadn't known that, before.
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Jannik hits a clean shot, a lashing forehand that lands the ball deep in the ad court, grazing the line and lifting a wisp of white off the grass. The kick of the topspin dizzies the ball into the air. Carlos, out of position, jumps and lunges toward it, throwing all of his weight forward.
Jannik can tell he’s going to miss. He’s already turning to his team, one fist raised, when the ball whizzes past Carlos’s outstretched racket.
He doesn’t see Carlos land. He doesn’t see him collapse into the dirt.
He hears a crack, like a heavy tree branch, snapping in a windstorm.
He only looks back when Carlos starts screaming.
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- Part 1 of Bone, Muscles, and Even the Soul
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Eddie should’ve closed the window.
They’d opened it the night before, letting cool air sweep through the house while they slept. Now, late morning heat saturated the room. Sweat gathered at the nape of Eddie’s neck, wetting the ends of her hair. Dripping tendrils curled around her ears, clinging to her skin.
Her hand was soaked, too—fingers and palm and around to the back of it.
A thought occurred to her. Lifting her hand, Eddie pressed the pads of her index and middle fingers to her thumb. She rubbed them together and felt the raised ridges catch.
Like sitting in bathwater too long, her fingertips were pruned from Buck’s cunt.
The absurdity of the comparison made Eddie smile.
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Caress Your Soul by moodlighting
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
14 Jun 2025
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People didn’t…touch Henry.
He was a rule of etiquette, not to be breached. He was a mother of pearl caviar spoon, held aloft between two discerning fingers, a fussy little utensil with a set of rules so as not to impart any undesirable flavor upon the roe.
But Alex had never liked caviar, and he cared fuck all that Henry was a prince.
Or, four times Alex touched Henry.
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Early Mornings by Anonymous
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Sep 2026
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In which Shane owns a bakery and Ilya eats so much bread that he triggers a gay awakening.
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- Part 1 of Shane is a baker
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24 Sep 2026
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Into the Blue by librarytiger
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
29 Aug 2026
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With the first overall selection of the 2010 NHL draft, the New York Admirals are proud to select Shane Hollander.
“Ah, New York! New York is nice, yes?”
“Uh, yeah, I guess. I haven’t really spent much time there. Yet, I guess.”
“I am also moving to New York.”
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On the night of the NHL draft, Shane Hollander goes to the gym. Ilya Rozanov may not be a hockey player, but somehow he is there, in Shane’s orbit, in New York, under his skin.
Or, how more proximity can turn a fuck buddy into a best friend, but falling in love is always hard.
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- Part 1 of in new york, you can try things
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08 Sep 2026
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A Lesson in Puck Handling by heroically
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Aug 2026
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Shane Hollander had almost made it to morning skate on time.
Then something ran out in front of his car.
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Or, the one where Shane finds an injured kitten and takes it to the closest vet, Dr. Ilya Rozanov.
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13 Aug 2026
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These Persons Here Present by Talavin
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 Aug 2026
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Ilya's father wakes him at four in the morning to tell him that he never had dementia, and that Ilya must leave Russia, right now, permanently. Forty-something hours later Ilya is standing in a township office in rural Ontario, marrying Shane Hollander for citizenship. Everything after that — the lawyer, the joint account, the wills, the drive up to the cottage — was never part of the plan.
Alternatively: In the summer of 2016, Ilya must flee Russia, never to return. Shane makes a brilliant plan: marry Ilya to get him Canadian citizenship. It’s only after the wedding that they realize citizenship law doesn’t really work that way.
Alternatively x 2: My inversion of the “married for citizenship” trope.
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11 Aug 2026
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Clunch by Eigengrau (aussiebee) for Maggybear
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
09 Aug 2026
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My take on this Tumblr dot com post:
Tuna melt au where Shane starts freaking out and so to distract him Ilya is like "I got the marble imported from Turkey, custom cut by a local contractor here in Boston" and Shane wants to have a freak out but he's always wondered about the quality of marble from Turkey, he got his counters from Italy and China but he saw options from Turkey and Brazil and wondered. He really should go, but now he's wondering if Ilya will answer his other questions like who was the architect that built this house and where did ilya find that tile that's in his guest bathroom. Basically Ilya using Shane's real estate fetish to keep him from running out during the tuna meltdown.
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09 Aug 2026