Documenting the Queer Aca-fan PhD Journey

I'm planning to write my dissertation on Heated Rivalry. I'm collecting a feed of the IRT Fandom feed presence on Tumblr. Simultaneously, I'm documenting the journey from non-binary desperation-hired ASM at Gamestop in Baton Rouge, LA to (hopefully!) student in Canada escaping rising anti-trans legislation in my home country. Welcome. Current writing stage: pre-writing PhD tracker: Still pitching to programs

[the-cottage-academia]

I mean, I had to.

[thisfeebleheart]

[thisfeebleheart]

Hollanov + ao3 tags

[the-cottage-academia]

Get you a partner who no only feeds your addiction, but also participates in it. 😍

[ilyarozancv]

you can make me a tuna melt

[kamceyri]

If you enjoy my work, you can support me by buying a coffee. ☕️✨️ https://buymeacoffee.com/kamceyrij

[the-cottage-academia]

"The highway in my brain right now still has 7 lanes, but all the traffic has left. One lane. One stream of thought. Alone in the void. I don't like it. I miss the noise."

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I bathed them by myself today. Cozy n clean.

The way the world is right now is just so heavy that you have to just live in the moment. In this moment, I felt happy knowing I took extra good care to comfort them through bathing. We can do hard things. 🫶

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Who wore it better?

Alex definitely wore Ilya's walmart dupe better. Haha. Not sure about the green outfit. I cannot wait for the tiktok shop HR crop tops to get here. I cannot wait to take photos in them together. 😍

[feltforever]

i think one of the reasons that heated rivalry has been so successful is because everyone involved with it is so fucking proud of what they created. like there’s zero embarrassment or shame about how sexual it is or how queer it is and it’s just such a breath of fresh air

[rylandsgrace]

#Welcome back, Sharpay

High School Musical 2 (2007) dir. Kenny Ortega // Madwoman - Laufey (2026)

[userilyarozanov]

Heated Rivalry (2025-) dir. Jacob Tierney insp. x.x.

[ilya-rozanova]

Shane | Heated Rivalry

(in/sp)

[ilya-rozanova]

Ilya | Heated Rivalry

(in/sp)

[ilyarozancv]

yeah, it was, uh... it was better.

[jesterlesbian]

In the final moment, Williams turns to Storrie and does a version of Ilya's "attack-y" face, as Tierney describes it. He left that sweet exchange in to show how Shane is capable of breaking his guarded facade. "I think Shane does have a playful side that is stifled... Under every scene in season 1, there's not much room for super goofy play," Williams says. "There's a tentative nature to episode 6. Although it's calm, it's still like, 'Can this work, when we're left alone to our own devices?'"

"It does feel like a puppy learning to play," Tierney adds.

[laurenbknewyouweretrouble]

One day post TLG, Harris has the Cens doing a video for social media, it’s a competition for who can keep a straight face while the others try to make them break with a smile or a laugh.

Towards the end, only Ilya remains. No one can break him, so they go get Shane. He’s got a little smile while they explain and he starts thinking of what to say. Of what he can say for a video going on the internet.

He hesitates, because he knows what he wants to tell Ilya, but keep it their secret. No one else needs to know what this was about, but he’s saved this tidbit, waiting to play it at the right time. Ilya’s steeling himself. He loves Shane and usually would smile with him just in the room, trying do be earnest about anything, but he won’t let his husband break him for this. Finally Shane makes direct eye contact with Ilya -

‘The first time, after the commercial,’

Ilya tenses, eyes light up but he’s keeping his face neutral. He isn’t sure what he thought Shane would say but it wasn’t this.

‘ while I was waiting for you -‘

‘I put on a suit and tie.’

Ilya has never been so happy to lose at something

[youbeautifultropicalfishy]

THE edit by @sosaneitsinsane

[daasbuffy-blog]

Can I just say that in S2 I would like to see some examples of Ilya using '"lazy English".

Lazy English is a term I have come across when non-native English speakers relax how precise they speak when they are feeling safe and comfortable at home after a long day of constant translating in their heads and being absolutely perfect with their English.

I want Ilya's English to be absolutely perfect around others but the moment when he is alone with Shane; he's dropping articles, he is using Russian sentence structure etc.

I think it is a perfect way to show how comfortable Ilya is with Shane and perhaps that his insecurity with English is lessening.