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#1 sydcarmy believer, frantic d20 poster, sitcom enthusiast turned heated rivalry obsessive she/they | 21 | asian american

[strawberryscare]

take your time (what's the rush?) (6165 words) by triplevirgo Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Bear (TV 2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sydney Adamu/Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto Characters: Sydney Adamu, Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto Summary: She frowned. “Remember the deal, Carm? We talked about this.” This could mean a million things, Sydney acknowledged. It could mean the weekly standing lunches and dinners they’d agreed to, trying out the different spots in the city they thought might bring inspiration. It could mean him picking up all of Nat’s calls, so long as she picked up all of her dad’s. It could mean, even, Syd making him an iced Americano with her fancy espresso machine every time he drove her to work. But as Carmy’s eyes went half-lidded, she knew she wasn’t misunderstood. Her words rang a bell to the most important agreement they’d decided on, months ago. One that had kept them more than afloat.  The meaner you are out there, the meaner I’ll be to you here.   Or: Sydney keeps Carmy in check.

HEAR YE HEAR YE!!! i have finally completed and posted my first ever fic :) please mind the tags (quite nsfw so be warned. as in if you know me irl pls do not read this it’s utterly depraved)

i appreciate constructive feedback and hope my contribution to sydcarmy nation feeds many in the drought for fics where they're freaking it crazy style

[birdandvine]

Good Morning, I Am Not Going to Commit Suicide Today, by Kimmy Walters

[leneybeany]

Does anyone have any fic recs of when Shane and Ilya are in their fuck buddy stage, like I love me those fics but I can’t find anyyyyyyy

[silverssorrysoul]

i think all of these could qualify as fuckbuddy stage hollanov

“all my perversions” by probablylily (@probablily)

A sex tape of Ilya with a girl leaks. Shane reacts normally.

“core update” by citrusses (@citrusses)

The change is gradual, and no one could fault Shane for missing it; the damning videos that creep in are, in many ways, exactly the same as all the others.

“is it a video” by garagepaperback (@garagepaperback )

Shane wants to see exactly how they fit together.

“yes, i come back” by naokime (@hemipenia)

His body is good for two things: hockey and sex—even then, the latter comes with an asterisk. He’s good at being available for sex, he supposes, and that is a thought he cannot afford to entertain.

“wait” by waxing__crescent (@always-waxing-crescent)

Jane: No problem again, sorry. I’ll see you in a few months.

“first-time caller” by totheverge (@to-theverge)

Shane can't stop thinking about being bad at sexting and figures out that maybe, just maybe, he's better at phone sex. The only way to figure it out is to try.

“u might want to get tested” by toomuchplor

Set in the liminal situationship timeline between episodes 3 and 4.

and “Too Nice” by toomuchplor

An interlude early in S1E4.

“Buzzer Beater” by mcshrug

Shane finds getting himself off boring. At least, he used to. Before Ilya Rozanov got involved.

“coach, I'm threading needles” by Anonymous

Ilya fucks a girl in a Hollander jersey. Word gets back to Shane.

if i think of any others, i’ll try to add them

btw there’s a 2014-2016 Montage in Episode: s01e04 Rose (Heated Rivalry) tag on AO3

[nintendo-wheee]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

never played stardew valley so before looking at the tags I was willing to accept this was a real life political scandal

[vancouver-lord-goldeneyes]

[cosmonaut775]

Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

[flamie87]

and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently

[flamie87]

So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent

Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times

[evengirlierballs]

Can we kill CEOs about it?

[daysleftofsecondterm]

kill ceos about it the next 1,062 days

[2020knives]

ummm was OP on strawberries when they posted this? lol

[dughole]

there should be an oscar just for saying something this beautiful and true in a movie

[dughole]

normally i get annoyed when people tag this with their blorbos & while i don't really care about heated rivalry i literally cannot argue with this. like i've seen the show he does like that.

[lunebrew]

sighs wistfully and forlornly and woefully and

[strawberryscare]

the “how could we let this happen” “we are both very stupid and irresponsible” while fucking scene was for the shane pregnancy truthers btw

[iwasnotaslasher]

No, you see, that's because Shane's heat triggered Ilya's rut, they went feral, and Ilya claimed him. Now their 10 years perfect plan is ruined bc it's not like they can hide a claiming bite. 💁🏼

[thisfeebleheart]

just Ilya's little smile when he sees Shane making burgers for them

[clytemnestraaa]

i do appreciate that my heatriv dash is really evenly spaced between horniness and trauma so i scroll and it goes “shane wants to play ring toss on ilya’s dick” / “do you think shane had any friends growing up i think nobody came to his birthday parties and he was scared of balloons” / “i knoooow shane cries every time he finally gets it in his mouth lmao” / “what does a center forward do again?” / “so how do we feel about gaping” / “wait WAS ilya gonna jump off that roof?” and i’m just watching it all bounce back and forth like that challengers gif of tashi watching the match

[poughkeepsiesjr]

the best thing about hollanov is that shane loves giving his control over to ilya and ilya loves taking over the controls for shane but mostly only in a boyfriend holding onto his partner's purse so their hands can be free to walk around the store way

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness”

[lavenderprose]

Okay maybe I'm too American (I have been accused of this repeatedly now) but the drive between Montreal and Boston is five hours. Probably six on a bad day. In the grand scheme of long distance relationships, especially for people who are used to traveling, that's small potatoes. Meet in the middle and that's a cool two and a half hours. You cannot convince me they never did this. You're telling me Mr. Real Estate Youtube Rabbit Hole never stayed up until one in the morning looking at cabins in Vermont? You're telling me Ilya didn't play around on Google Maps until he found a Park 'N Go off I89 with sufficiently dim lighting and text the address to Shane, no context given aside from maybe Come murder me? You're telling me that Shane Hollander never shared his location with Ilya, got in his car and prayed that customs wasn't busy. Ilya waited two years to fuck Shane, begged him for it the whole time, and you expect me to believe that a halfway bootycall never even OCCURED to him? That's a COMMUTE. That's a DINNER DATE. Ilya drove his prettiest and fastest car to Buttfuck Vermont to give the town its name and then he ate Cracker Barrel pancakes in the passenger's seat of Shane's dumb Land Rover while Shane watched. Round two before they went home. All before the sun came up. It HAPPENED.

[mitrakats]

read! more! yaoi!

(i’ll have these photocards at eccc if any of u happen to frequent there)

[shillanov]

choose your fighter: shane hollander's blissed out, starry-eyed state in the stairwell after losing his virginity to his dangerously budding crush who took tender care of him the whole time vs. ilya rozanov’s fuckdrunk look on his face as he finally makes love to the man who has held his heart in his hands for the past 8 years