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    Everything he loved and everything he hated was here, and Ilya’s mother wanted him to go somewhere neither of them had ever been. America had never seemed so far away or so strange. His mother had never seemed as distant as she was now.

    Ilya Rozanov, in the in-between moments. An exploration of what it means to be an immigrant, making space for a new identity even as you hold onto who you first were, through a collection of moments: in Russia, in North America, and the spaces in between.

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    01 Apr 2026

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    Shane Hollander is a university student trying his best. He is managing three jobs, two majors, and one sexuality crisis that threatens to upend his hockey career before it even starts. When his best friend, Rose, begs him to come with her to an exclusive BDSM club to let loose and experiment, Shane cannot believe it when he caves to her demands and agrees. Oh and it just so happens that unbeknownst to Shane the club is owned by a Russian mob boss. But really, what could go wrong?

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    01 Apr 2026

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    Welcome to my AU kicking off in the 80s, inspired by photos of Connor with longer hair that sent me on a trip down memory lane featuring some of my girlhood crushes. I could just so easily see a long-hair Ilya grinning at a scruffy Shane in a battered Foreigner shirt, and here we are. We first meet them in 1983, when they have been playing hockey together at the University of Minnesota for a bit. We will follow them until 2003.

    This story will now update weekly on Thursdays

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    22 Feb 2026

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    Ilya is plummeting to his death when he closes his eyes, heart full of regret.

    When he opens them in what feels like just a second later, he is standing outside a rink in Regina, Saskatchewan. There’s a banner on the building across the street:

    World Junior Hockey Championship 2009.

    What?

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    06 Feb 2026

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    “Shane Hollander,” Rozanov says in his deep, thick accent.

    “Rozanov,” Hollander nods. His voice cracks embarrassingly so he keeps talking, hoping the other man won’t notice. “Just came up here to get some air. I didn’t see a sign saying not to so I think we’re allowed. It’s chilly, eh? But a beautiful view,” he rambles.

    “Ah yes,” Rozanov says flatly. “London, Ontario. Famous view.”

    Shane can’t tell whether he’s being sarcastic. He probably is. He’s kind of an asshole, Shane thinks to himself, not for the first time. But an asshole who makes Shane’s stomach do weird things. Things that he wants to experience again so that he can properly label them. For science.

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    What if last year's Hockey Canada sexual assault trial happened in the Heated Rivalry universe, not with the 2018 gold medal team but with Shane Hollander's 2009 team? A nearly decade-long situationship with consent king Ilya Rozanov makes the Hollander who walks into the courtroom in 2017 a very different man from the boy who ran out of the hotel room all those years ago.

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    17 Jan 2026