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Shane steals a look at him, then brings his eyes back to the road. Does it again. And then again. “So,“ Shane finally says. There’s the hint of a playful smile on the corner of his lips. “Boyfriend…” The word hangs between them, softly and within reach. Ilya tamps down a clipped reply of is not a big deal, Hollander. Because maybe it is.
Picking up where The Cottage left off, Shane and Ilya have a few more breakthroughs and a lot more feels. Read on AO3 here.
There's something deeply intimate about this moment. At the cottage, they're finally really just Shane and Ilya and not Hollander and Rozanov.
I love it so much too because it's kinda their first little lover's spat in the most hilarious way... like Shane's "Ilya" is to scold him and Ilya's "Shane" is to push back against it.
i hate when people make ellie williams a badass playgirl nonchalant masc like bruh that’s a loser lesbian who likes space and dinosaurs and singing and playing guitar. pls stop doing her like this.
late as always but happy pride! Pretty sure I fucked up Ilya's face, I'll fix it before I print this
America: we get this is about the gays but there shouldn’t be kissing until episode 5. it should be towards a feminine audience
Jacob + Canada: yeah so Hudson, Connor, yall good to go? we’re having Hudson do the back arch and the LV scene. oh and Connor, great idea with the chair dragging. so this is the first thing we’re going to film. yall good? (TELL YOUR FELLOW CANADIAN PERSON THANKS)
it shows that if you care about a show, if you care about the craft, the material, what an adaption is actually about, then you’ll make it your damn self. if production is trying to take away the essence of what the show is about, then it’s not for them. don’t forget that this was a low budget show and Canadians paid with their tax money. Jacob heard that US producers with “yeah but we don’t want the show to be too gay” and he ran the fuck out.
I honestly believe that’s why the show and the books are a massive success. if you actually care about what you write, produce, direct, then it’ll show. if you stop looking at media and entertainment as only means of money, then it’ll probably be viewed that way.
to me, as someone who has loved film since a child (black and white film obsessed) it’s really obvious when a book or show is written lazily and is only about the money. “why are people obsessed with heated rivalry?” because the actors and everyone behind the series actually cares about it. we aren’t solving the Pythagorean Theorem here. CAN YOU IMAGINE NO KISSING UNTIL THE END! tell me you don’t understand the series without telling me you don’t understand the series
Ilya: I like trouble.
The trouble:
A HIATUS NOT A GOODBYE
Hi, everyone. I know I’ve been avoiding direct messages and comments, and I’m sorry for disappearing without explaining where I was at. The truth is that I’ve been struggling to put all of this into words. I owe so much to the Heated Rivalry fandom. I have found an incredible amount of joy, love, and community here, and it has meant more to me than I can properly express. Seeing queer media finally receive this kind of mainstream attention has been genuinely wonderful.
However, the hate has become too much for me. I have had to completely filter my comments because of the way people have been speaking to me. Some of the direct messages I’ve received have included death threats. I write for free and for fun, and at some point, it stopped feeling like something I was allowed to enjoy. It became something I was afraid to share. Because of that, I am taking a hiatus from writing for Heated Rivalry. That is also why I took down Reaper. I don’t think it is fair to leave a WIP up indefinitely when I currently have no plans to finish it. It is fully outlined, and I am someone who deeply wants to complete the things I begin. With season two coming, I hope something sparks again, and I find my way back to it. Right now, though, it truly feels like a candle that has been blown out. I also know I mentioned I had written a 2nd part of Jane. I am sorry, but it will not be posted. Given the way I was treated—and the deeply inappropriate and uncomfortable comments made about gender exploration—I am no longer comfortable sharing anything connected to that story. I cannot subject myself (or any readers) to that again.
My writing is not gone. I have been writing anonymously in the Bloody Mary fandom for some time now, and I suspect some of you may have already found at least one of my pieces. If you are genuinely interested, you can message me privately for more information, though I may be slow to respond. This is not necessarily a permanent goodbye to Heated Rivalry. It is simply me being transparent about where I am right now and giving myself the space to enjoy writing again. To everyone who has read, commented with kindness, made art, shared my stories, or quietly followed along: thank you. None of this is directed at you, and I hope you know how deeply grateful I am for the love you have shown me.
Please be kind—to writers, to one another, and to yourselves.
—eggbasket
Why can't people* be normal? This is one of my fav authors and Reversal is in my top 5 fics (listen it's probably #1 but I can't rank my babies). (*I refuse to call these folks part of fandom. They are not).
The sun is low on the horizon and everything outside is silent. Blanketed pure white snow weighs down bare branches of trees, and the waves on the lake have been replaced with a still sheet of ice. No howling loons. Just him and Shane, and the sounds of their breath, in the morning sun. Ilya looks down at his chest and at Shane nuzzled against him in the crook of his shoulder. The room is cool, but Shane is warm against him under the plush of the extra covers, bare skin gracing bare skin, all the way down to their toes. He smiles deeper than he has since the summer.
-- OR: Shane and Ilya return to the cottage for Christmas (after a few hiccups along the way)... and have some feelings about the meaning of home. By popular demand: Chapter 2 of "I feel it all," complete with pond hockey, surprise Christmas gifts, and a lot of feelings about immigration, building a home away from home, and each other.
Read on AO3 here.
The sun is low on the horizon and everything outside is silent. Blanketed pure white snow weighs down bare branches of trees, and the waves on the lake have been replaced with a still sheet of ice. No howling loons. Just him and Shane, and the sounds of their breath, in the morning sun. Ilya looks down at his chest and at Shane nuzzled against him in the crook of his shoulder. The room is cool, but Shane is warm against him under the plush of the extra covers, bare skin gracing bare skin, all the way down to their toes. He smiles deeper than he has since the summer.
-- OR: Shane and Ilya return to the cottage for Christmas (after a few hiccups along the way)... and have some feelings about the meaning of home. By popular demand: Chapter 2 of "I feel it all," complete with pond hockey, surprise Christmas gifts, and a lot of feelings about immigration, building a home away from home, and each other.
Read on AO3 here.
here.
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Me when I hear any song: oh my god this is such a Shane and Ilya song
Literally me. Especially the entire MUNA album.
One thing I’ve never really agreed with is the idea that Rachel hates Shane and loves Ilya.
I think part of the reason I don’t buy that argument is because Rachel isn’t a traditionally trained writer in the way I’m used to. Most of the authors I read have MFAs in creative writing or came through more traditional publishing routes.
Rachel is very much a fandom writer. Like, this is a woman who was going to her 9–5, picking her kids up from school, helping with dinner and homework, and then writing for a couple hours before bed on ao3. She learned by doing. She learned on the job.
And honestly, I’ve always thought that was kind of cool.
Every writer goes through that development process. Usually it happens in private before they’re published. With Rachel, we get to actually see it happen across the Game Changers books. I think she gets better with every book.
So when people compare Shane’s POV in Heated Rivalry to Ilya’s POV in The Long Game, I think they’re missing a really obvious explanation.
I don’t think Rachel hates Shane. I think she made a perfectly normal creative choice and decided to write a Shane-focused book and then later write an Ilya-focused book.
(Personally, I wish more romance authors would do that. A lot of dual POV romances are so determined to split everything 50/50 that I honestly feel like it’s hurting the story rather than helping it. Not every character needs the exact same amount of narrative focus at every moment.)
Shane’s book just happens to be the second book in the series. Ilya’s book happens to be the sixth.
By the time she gets to The Long Game, she’s naturally a stronger writer. She’s more confident and she has more experience. She’s also taking the books more seriously as more eyes get on them as well. (I think people often forget these books were originally only e-books. The idea that a thousand let alone a million people would be reading these on paper and buying them from bookstores was not a thought in her mind lol)
I don’t really understand why people treat that as evidence that she loves one character more than the other. To me it just looks like an author improving at her craft.
Im not angry about that at all. I’d be way more concerned if she wrote six books and sounded exactly the same the whole time
I think Scott's being aged up in the tv series makes his story that more poignant and interesting. From a hockey perspective it changes his story entirely and I'll explain to you why.
In the books Scott is only 3 years older than Ilya and Shane are. So when Ilya makes those jokes about Scott being old, washed and a dinosaur etc. it's all relatively in good fun because the age difference isn't that big.
However in the show François Arnaud the actor who plays Scott is 40, and so i'd say this Scott would be in his mid to late 30s, maybe even 40. From a hockey perspective that changes his story entirely.
Hockey is a young man's game. Most players retire when they are in their mid to late 30s and then they have had a long career. Plenty of players retire much earlier.
Winning a Stanley Cup is even more of a young mans game. The average age of Stanley Cup winning core is 28 but a lot of these players are quite a bit younger (average age of a Cup winning Captain is 29).
Secondly (and we don't know this for sure because it isn't mentioned anywhere in the books) but we can asume with Scott being such an established player in both the books and the series that he was a high draft pick, maybe even a number 1 draft pick. Why does this matter you may ask? Well, because this brings even more pressure to win.
If you're the star player of your team and a number one draft pick you're expected to win a Cup. The current 1st over-all pick who has gone the longest without winning a Stanley Cup was Taylor Hall of the Carolina Hurricanes (he won the Cup this sunday after playing 16 seasons, at 34)
So imagine if you will you're Scott Hunter and you're in your mid to late 30s and you're in the last stages of your career and you've never won a Cup? Combine that with the fact that you're not only a first overal draft pick, but also the captain and star player of a franchise that hasn't won a cup since 1994. The pressure to win one would be relentless. Constant questions in the media about how you're biological clock is ticking and time is running out etc.
And Scott winning at that age is fucking impresive. Winning a Cup is hard, it's brutal both mentally and physically. And that's for players in their prime, Scott in his late 30s would be well passed his. (This means that Ilya's chirps would hit a lot closer to home for Scott in the show as compared to the books)
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. Captain Jordan Staal won the Cup on sunday with the Canes and he was 37 (but he made history with being the oldest player ever to win the Conn Smythe trophy). Brad Marchand won two back to back Cups with Florida in '24 and '25 (not as s captain) when he was 37.
But the crucial differende between these two men and Scott, is that both of them already won a cup Staal with the Penguins in '09 and Marchand in 2011 with the Bruins) They already proved themselves capable of winning a Cup. Scott at that age has not.
So when he finnally does win the Stanley Cup it hits that much harder and makes it that more impressive and special. It also makes his story so much more heartbreaking because he hid who was from the world for so much longer.
Not only all of this (which is excellent, OP!), but the pressure to stay hidden in the closet is so much more extreme. He has 1-3 years left max. He needs to win a Cup. It's now or never. And he can't fathom making a spectacle of himself by coming out. He's asking Kip to wait for the last dregs of his career to be over. It makes sense to him. AND THEN, when he does win the Cup, it's not just the "I've made my lifelong dream happen" of it all that makes him bring Kip down on the ice. It's seeing all the other players with their significant others and families - the thing he has given up for his ENTIRE CAREER that does it. The age up in the show is so much more poignant.
you gonna come for me, Rozanov?
