c.

Life happens.

[mymoonandmyshane]

its really important to me that people understand that when ilya calls hayden “15th best metro” he is fully joking. while certainely not on shane and ilyas level, hayden is one of shanes wingers on the first line. you dont get put on the first line with shane fucking hollander by being bad at hockey. same goes for ilyas chirp about shanes backhand. i doubt theres a single skill in hockey shane is truly subpar at.

[heymacy]

HUDSON WILLIAMS + (a few) iconic moments (1/?) -> "I am [media trained], but I'm not very coachable, and I don't care."

+ bonus:

[foolhearteyes]

need someone who cares about hockey more than i do to write a fic where shane is forced to retire before he feels ready and svetlana has gotten frustrated with her MHL job because team management never listens to her (due to the misogyny) so she quits and talks shane into starting a hockey analysis podcast together and it's called something like "hockey with hot people" or "puckbunnies" or "soft hands" (shane does not like this but svetlana understands the importance of branding) and it's 98% Serious Hockey Talk BUT they do have a dedicated segment called "why does ilya rozanov owe me money" wherein guests tell their worst ilya stories and after hearing them out shane and svetlana decide how much money ilya owes the guest. ilya is never invited onto the podcast.

[barbie-verse]

Heated Rivalry Twitter AU Masterpost

Links to just the memes without the commentary! If you want the full thing plus behind the memes thoughts check out the tag

So I genuinely never expected these silly little tweets to grow into what they have (very happy that people are loving them!) but as a result... they're not very organised! But people have been asking me to put them in some sort of order so they can be read together and while putting them all onto AO3 or something would probably be best, I'm not planning to stop making more so having to edit that would be a lot (unfortunately I am a slave to capitalism!) But hopefully this works!

Since most of the posts are collections of tweets, there isn't an easy chronological order, so I've decided to sort them into 4 groups - Before The Cottage (including events from Heated Rivalry the show and the book), After The Cottage (the time period in between HR and the epilogue of TLG), After The Long Game (anything post canon), and Anything Else (the posts that span too many years to fit into the other categories - listed in order of posting)

Profiles circa 2017

Before The Cottage

Part 5 - 2011 - 2013 - Hollanov vs Scott Hunter

Part 4 - Jan 2014 - Ilya vs Hayden

Part 2 - March 2015 - Hayden exposes Shane

Part 3 - 2015 - 2017 - Ilya on twitter ft his secret account

Part 6 - Aug 2016 - Svetlana is so tired of her bsf

Part 9 - Mostly 2016/2017 - more of Ilya's secret stan account

Extra (From Part 11) - October 2016 - Jackie reaches out to Lily

Extra - July 2017 - jealous Lily makes a claim

After The Cottage

Part 14 - Mostly late 2017 - Lily vs hockey twt

Extra - March 2019 - Lily vs Shaydens

Part 16 - Jan 2021 - Ilya stans on twitter

Extra - Hollanov's new twitter profiles (I know I spelt Ottawa wrong it was like 3am and if you bring it up I'll cry)

Part 10 - July 2021 - Lily post Hollanov wedding

After The Long Game

Part 8 - 2021 - 2022 - Hollanov husbands <3

Part 12 - 2021 - 2022 - Hollanov husbands <33

Part 7 - 2022 - Hollanov husbands <333

Part 13 - Oct 2022 - flower girls shenanigans (Ilya and Rose)

Extra - Sept 2023 - Lily's a DUDE???

Anything Else

Part 1 - the dump that started it all

Part 11 - Ilya/Lily being a menace

Part 15 - Ilya/Lily and the Pikes

Will try to update semi-regularly but please be patient with me!

[formulaonedirection]

christ alive

[kingofthepitt]

doctor hierarchy in season one (The Pitt 2025-)

[softestaries]

big fan of how hudson williams hit hollywood like a canonball. he runs around like a little chaos gremlin pushing all the made up rules off the windowsill with his paw then stands by connor storrie like that makes him untouchable and it does.

[anxietyproblem]

[rylandsgrace]

#Joke asides, this is actually important

[thickness-protection-program]

So just so we're all clear ICE straight up murdered that woman in broad daylight and the government is calling HER the terrorist

[thickness-protection-program]

So just so we're all clear ICE straight up murdered Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight and the government is calling HER the terrorist

[thickness-protection-program]

So just so we're all clear ICE agent Jonathan Ross straight up murdered Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight and the government is calling HER the terrorist

[ivytwines]

He’s gay. He’s autistic. His special interest is hockey. He’s waisan. He’s a bottom. He speaks French. He wears reading glasses. He doesn’t listen to music. He has an eating disorder. His favorite drink is ginger ale. He’s a sub. He has beautiful freckles. He’s canonically the hottest man in the NHL. He tried really hard and he’s really sorry but he just can’t help it. I love him so much it’s gonna make me puke

[heymacy]

HEATED RIVALRY SEASON ONE + hall of fame text posts

[vamprozy]

shane hollander in the long game is kind of theee most relatable and sympathetic character to me tbh. like imagine spending your whole career doing brand deals to make more and more and more money and then you build an entire cottage with that money to make a sanctuary for you and the man you love, so that he can tell you he loves you in a safe place, and you give him a plan for the next 20 years of your lives as a gift to show how much you love him and then he stops wanting the plan and wants to change it things but doesn’t tell you so a resentment builds that you can’t stop and aren’t sure how it started because you’re autistic. imagine winning two stanley cups in a row for your team and being godfather to your teammate’s children and pushing yourself every day to be the best hockey player in the league to make yourself inscrutable in the eyes of literally anyone only to have your team turn on you and say they don’t trust you anymore and completely ostracize you over the one thing you kept secret out of fear of that exact ostracization so they’re basically realizing your worst fears. imagine bending over backwards your entire life to make sure that you’re the best at what you do because you sincerely believe that if you’re perfect enough then they can’t judge you for being gay or judge the man you love because how can you argue against perfection? only to realize that the sport you adore and have put your whole life force into could mean absolutely nothing to the people in charge of iy an instant if it meant their profits would drop or if it supported people like you. and on top of that the love of your life is depressed and you’re terrified for him and also confused because he’s angry even though all of this was for him even if it’s not what he wants anymore. and you’re trying desperately to fix everything for everyone only to be met with things that can’t be fixed and so you panic and everything starts slipping through your fingers and you’re not doing or saying the right things and you can’t stop it. and also you have a man bun.

[elucubrare]

one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

[toli-a]

What’s that quote? There are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.

[symphoniccowboy]

hollanov's separate issues w denial are soo funny . ilya's inner monologue is like i love DANGER & HOT SEX ! which is why i am obsessed with fucking shane hollander who only eats plain steamed fish & bitches me out for having even ONE cigarette & doesn't listen to music because he doesn't "get it" . meanwhile shane is staring grimly at a view overlooking a city skyline like he's batman going "This Horrible Fucked Up Thing Between Us ....... It Has To Stop ." & then the second he gets ilya alone he's like HIIIIIII stupid asshole 🥰 if u dont let me suck your dick right now im going to kill myself . awesome work guys seriously .

[tvuniverse]

HEATED RIVALRY -> 1x06 | The Cottage

[endlessly-ranting-antheia]

Ilya: I could marry Svetlana to get American citizenship

Shane: and I could commit a murder suicide right now. See how we’re both saying shit