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petraHave you ever wondered what it would be like if Armistead Maupin wrote Heated Rivalry fanfiction?
Here's my current nomination:
The chips are set to fall (178500 words) by icopythefax
Chapters: 42/42
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter & Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter (Game Changers), Shane Hollander, Various Unnamed Queer Hockey-Playing OC, Minor Original Characters - Character, Roger Crowell, Baldwin
Additional Tags: Bets & Wagers, POV Ilya Rozanov, Not Canon Compliant, Chaos Puppy Ilya Rozanov, Coming Out, Ilya Rozanov is a Menace, Ilya Rozanov Has Good Gaydar, Everyone is Gay, Crack, Ilya & Scott friendship, Homophobia, Canon-Typical Violence, Crack Treated Seriously, MobWife!Shane, Everyone Wants Shane Hollander, Shanecurious, Morally Gray Ilya Rozanov, The T for Teen is the maturity level of the dick jokes in here, Acronyms as a love language, Spoilers for all Game Changers books, Happily Ever After, Optional Solve-along Logic Problem, Podfic Available
Series: Part 1 of Continuing History of Ilya’s Players Series
Summary:
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Soap-operatic as all hell, high-stakes, Teen + rated, because the Hot Hot Sex is all very well but sometimes we just need Endless Dick Jokes instead.
This perfectly encapsulates the culture of a group of people whose real life counterparts tweet shit like, "do you bunch mox" at their coworkers.
I read this in approximately 36 hours. I was dealing with the kind of medical procedure that includes the directions, "First, take twice the normal amount of laxative A. Then, mix 1 bottle of laxative B and two large bottles of Gatorade. Chug half of it. Then, set your alarm for 2:45 AM, when it will be time to chug the other half."
With this story to look forward to at 2:46 AM, it wasn't such a shitty day after all.
Here's my current nomination:
The chips are set to fall (178500 words) by icopythefax
Chapters: 42/42
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter & Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter (Game Changers), Shane Hollander, Various Unnamed Queer Hockey-Playing OC, Minor Original Characters - Character, Roger Crowell, Baldwin
Additional Tags: Bets & Wagers, POV Ilya Rozanov, Not Canon Compliant, Chaos Puppy Ilya Rozanov, Coming Out, Ilya Rozanov is a Menace, Ilya Rozanov Has Good Gaydar, Everyone is Gay, Crack, Ilya & Scott friendship, Homophobia, Canon-Typical Violence, Crack Treated Seriously, MobWife!Shane, Everyone Wants Shane Hollander, Shanecurious, Morally Gray Ilya Rozanov, The T for Teen is the maturity level of the dick jokes in here, Acronyms as a love language, Spoilers for all Game Changers books, Happily Ever After, Optional Solve-along Logic Problem, Podfic Available
Series: Part 1 of Continuing History of Ilya’s Players Series
Summary:
At the 2017 All Star Weekend, Ilya takes fate into his own hands to produce at least one out MLH player by the end of the season. Thus begins his part-time side hustle as community organizer, mastermind, and Commander-in-Chief of the Gay Hockey Army.
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Soap-operatic as all hell, high-stakes, Teen + rated, because the Hot Hot Sex is all very well but sometimes we just need Endless Dick Jokes instead.
This perfectly encapsulates the culture of a group of people whose real life counterparts tweet shit like, "do you bunch mox" at their coworkers.
I read this in approximately 36 hours. I was dealing with the kind of medical procedure that includes the directions, "First, take twice the normal amount of laxative A. Then, mix 1 bottle of laxative B and two large bottles of Gatorade. Chug half of it. Then, set your alarm for 2:45 AM, when it will be time to chug the other half."
With this story to look forward to at 2:46 AM, it wasn't such a shitty day after all.
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Date: 2026-08-08 10:51 pm (UTC)That is a brilliant sale pitch! :-)
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Date: 2026-08-09 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-08-08 11:10 pm (UTC)Kind of like The Tennis Club but with less fucking.
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Date: 2026-08-09 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-08-09 12:07 am (UTC)Also, good look on the (presumed) colonoscopy results!
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Date: 2026-08-09 12:31 am (UTC)Thank you! Immediate results were "We didn't see much, but we did tissue biopsies. We'll know more in a week or two." So at least there's nothing immediately scary.
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Date: 2026-08-09 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-08-09 01:27 am (UTC)And then I take a deep breath and move on.
It helps that I am not deeply enmeshed in any fandom's culture at the moment, least of all HR, whose abbreviation continues to crack me up.
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Date: 2026-08-09 05:04 am (UTC)I am also finding this -- I'm willing to give far more WIPs a go, and then I'm rereading because I don't remember which one, and having such a fun time.
I did read this one as a WIP, and appreciated that there are enough callbacks, and the story was sufficiently memorable, that I didn't have to go back (I'm also finding that with The Tennis Club)
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Date: 2026-08-09 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-08-09 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-08-09 06:32 pm (UTC)