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Do we think no one clocks Ilya's bisexuality because he sucks up all the gaydar around him like a sponge and redirects it as his own power?
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I need a fic of Ilya Rozanov trying to get better at English by reading hockey RPF of him and Shane Hollander together. He gets far too invested in the "shilya" tag to the point where it bleeds into real life and then Shane gets the truth out of him.
one of my favorite things about heated rivalry book is Shane’s pov. as soon as he’s touching ilyas dick, he’s like “fuck, this was really gay” yeah because you getting half hard while having a eye fucking contest with Ilya wasn’t gay at all or all the times you fantasised of giving him blow jobs. Shane Hollander, never change
For those obsessed with Heated Rivalry who have already read the books, Rachel Reid, the author, has 4 extra short stories about Shane and Ilya on her website, along with some cool fan art:
Read here
And don’t forget Countdown. Holy hell.
This is a scene that got cut from The Long Game because I couldn’t elegantly fit it into the story. It was hard to cut because I think it’
Please never change Hudson 😭 🙏
My Dinner with Hayden: A Heated Rivalry Short Story from Rachel Reid's Blog
My Dinner with Hayden: A Heated Rivalry Short Story from Rachel Reid's Blog
My favourite thing about reading all the Game Changers books like years after I read Heated Rivarly and then later The Long Game is watching every single main hockey player character go on the journey of Ilya Rozanov.
It starts with, I hate that dude he is the fucking worst. Then to, OK he sucks but he may be a decent guy, then follows, OK he is kinda funny and surprisingly perceptive, even if he is annoying as hell. Then finally, god damn it, I think I kind of like the dude.
Each of them have this happen to them.
And the funniest thing is Shane 'must excel at everything and be the best' Hollander goes,
'You know what? I am going to take this next level and be the best at it. I am not gonna learn to just like the guy. I am gonna fall head over heels in love with him, marry him, and spend the rest of our lives together because anything less is a failure.' And he doesn't even know his doing it.
And dang it, Shane succeds at that, too. He really is the most dedicated guy.
In the midst of my Heated Rivalry reread I'm really struck by the sequence just before the Olympics when Ilya goes to the building Shane bought for the first time, because its such a shift for Ilya.
For the first time they're meeting outside of impersonal, purely logistical hotel rules, and he's excited by the idea of entering Shane's home--of getting deeper entry into Shane's life, of a more personal setting, of an escalation of the intimacy and Shane's implied trust.
Ilya reacts so strongly to Shane's characteristic Big Gesture here in buying a whole building for them to hook up in--showing that Ilya can already read those gestures, but juxtaposed with Ilya's train of prior thought around the possibility of Shane calling it off, it reframes the moment as Ilya reacting with passion to this tangible evidence that Shane cares. Shane has prioritized around him, he's planned around him and for him, he's thought about him outside of their time together. It's evidence of Shane's commitment.
And with that evidence, Ilya shifts into softie mode:
He's dropping his own walls in response to Shane's actions and perceived investment and allowing himself to make soft, sweet gestures. He's newly uninhibited in bed (and of course immediately runs away from Shane pointing that out even obliquely lol, they're not ready for that). He's not putting on his cool, collected, arrogant persona anymore, he's stealing good-bye kisses and grinning like an idiot well after he leaves.
We talk a lot about the NHL Awards and the Tuna Melt but this is such a moment and monumental shift for Ilya in the relationship (one that Shane answers at the Olympics, in my opinion, but that's a separate post), and I love it. Shane signals some level of commitment and Ilya is here.
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I don't know how someone can read Heated Rivalry and The Long Game and not love Shane Hollander. He loves Ilya with his whole being. He shows him he deserves a home and everything that comes with it - stability and family and love. He challenges him. He makes him a better person. He might make mistakes, but he learns from them and takes immediate action to rectify them. He chose Ilya over everything. He isn't perfect but neither is Ilya. They're imperfectly perfect together and its what makes them wonderful and interesting to read about.
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Let’s talk about the ‘would you choose me over hockey? fight’ and how believing it suggests Shane loves Ilya less is ignoring all the things wrong in that pretty Canadian boy’s head.
If you only consider what Ilya has to lose in cutting ties with hockey, it seems pretty obvious that he is risking more.
If Ilya loses his job he is suddenly faced with the threat of deportation. He may have enough clout and wealth to circumvent some of the issues with remaining in a country he is not a citizen of but he also loses, as his therapist points out, his already very meager support network, as his team is essentially the only family he has following the death of his father and his estrangement from his brother.
This to me is often the root of many people’s issues with Shane’s actions.
And don’t get me wrong, Shane is definitely blind to the sacrifices Ilya has already made for him and is, in a lot of ways acting selfish.
But let us consider a few factors in Shane’s motivations.
He is an only child. Not only could this explain the inherent selfishness in is outlook but when coupled with his anxiety it gives a better picture of why Shane considers his possible loses to be more severe than they are from the outside.
As an only child who suffers with anxiety and previously was considered gifted I feel confident in saying the following:
For Shane, his lack of confidence in himself, has led him to tie his self worth to his talent in hockey.
Cutting ties with hockey is equivalent to forfeiting the part of himself he considers to have value. The pressure he puts on himself, the weight of his team and his country feed into his anxiety.
Ilya has largely escaped this sort of thinking due to a combination of his own self confidence, and somewhat ironically, the jaded outlook afforded to him by his depression issues.
I’m not saying Shane is right. Or that his actions are correct. Hell even Shane eventually gets with the program and sees these issues for himself.
I just think it’s important to consider why he reacts the way he does before jumping to a ‘well he has less to lose and is still more reluctant to give it up so he must not love Ilya as much.’
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Chapter Twenty Five, Heated Rivalry (2019) by Rachel Reid
“I love you.”
“Holy shit.”
Is the new
“I love you.”
“I know.”