kirstenGA

kirstenGA on AO3, I currently obsessively write Heated Rivalry fanfic

[kirstenga]

In honour of having finally finished 60 Nights in Vegas and 1 Night in Vegas I have collected a small sample of some of the comments that made me laugh the most.

[carnationhes]

#myThey

[ccrux00]

he ran after him btw. he noticed him leaving and followed him.

[cloudabserk]

he was bracing himself for bad news

[moetxt]

i tried making a contrapuntal poem for hollanov, which can be read 3 ways: shane’s side alone, ilya’s side alone, or both sides together. inspired by the long game.

[kirstenga]

I have finally posted chapter 4 of 1 Night in Vegas, which means it is officially complete! I did not edit it as much as I'd like, which is absolutely my own fault for posting this fic before I finished it.

Chapter 4

[heatedrivalryfanarts]

@ardeniart

[xialiuyi]

HEATED RIVALRY | 1.02 -> 1.05

[shaneswetbrowneyes]

i actually think that what's being missed in the 'why does everyone love heated rivalry' conversation is just that it's good

it's well made, well shot, well directed, the music is interesting, the costumes are both thoughtful and subtly period accurate, the sex scenes are intentional and, again, accurate to what hooking up when you're like 18 actually feels like...the actors are of course attractive but they look like real people. the characters are varied and well fleshed out, the acting is really, really strong

so many shows and films shoot and then slot in whatever music kind of fits or could be licenced in the budget after time, but you can tell that the scenes in hr were shot with that specific music in mind. and the same intentional approach runs through the whole thing

it feels...so nice to watch a show that cares about itself

[raincitygirl76]

Nobody knew in advance that this show would become a massive international phenomenon. It was a mid-budget Canadian show (which means low budget by US standards) adapted from a Harlequin romance novel. The deal with HBO for US distribution rights was only signed a few weeks before it began to air.

But everybody involved treated it as if it was serious art anyway. Not just some little Canadian streaming show that might well disappear after airing. Based on a book from a genre that is usually ridiculed by people who consider themselves serious film people. The cast, the crew, the writer/director, the music supervisor, everybody. They all did their best work for love of the game.

[writingdose]

being a writer is fun

[moonlightsonatah]

hang it in the louvre

pt 44/?

[kirstenga]

I’ve been posting chapters on a 2-day schedule for 1 Night in Vegas, but I’ve been a bit slack with this last chapter so it won’t be out tonight. Hopefully no one was counting on it! But it’s now school holidays so I won’t have to work for two weeks so it should be up soon!

[isolabellz]

hollanov honeymoon scenes

[wingsseni]

happy hollanov anniversary ♡

[gayhockeyshow]

Hey…. Hey… Characters covered in blood, okay? You remember characters covered in blood?? You used to love characters covered in blood

[kirstenga]

The penultimate chapter of 1 Night in Vegas has just been posted! This one's only two days, because it's two very heavy days, so hopefully it's not too traumatising to read! (Warning for suicide if that's not your thing)

Chapter 3

[anya-hollander-rozanova]

Ok but Cliff Marlow somehow managing to get into Ilya's phone after the Tunameltdown in the middle of the Hollandry crashout, and getting Montreal Jane's number.

The entire Boston roster piling behind Marly as he types, trying to decide what to say that could save them because their captain has been possessed by the spirit or a soviet military trainer with knife shoes and if they are forced to make double bagskates again they will either puke or die or both.

So Shane Hollander wakes up one day to a message from an unknown number like "Hello Miss Jane ma'am this is Clifford Marlow I don't know if you have heard of me I am sorry to be a bother I'm just wondering if you could give my good friend Ilya another chance, I promise that whatever he did he won't do again, we will help we will teach him to cook and clean and do laundry and he will cook you the best sandwiches ever if you only give him a chance only if you want of course if it's not too much of a bother Miss Jane please and thank you" and he goes through the seven stages of grief in like 4 seconds before it's even 7am. They manage to add the link to a very big spa gift card that they all chipped in to buy because at that point they're desperate.