Painfully Sweet
Stories that make the heart hurt in the best kind of way.
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feel you vanish like sugar into tea. by Joooceee
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
02 Nov 2025
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“He looks so happy,” Jackie said, joining him at the railing. She rested her head against his shoulder, wrapped an arm around his waist. “It’s really nice to see.”
“Yeah, it really is,” Hayden said. He sighed heavily. “Fuck. I’m gonna have to start liking Ilya Rozanov, aren’t I?”
Jackie giggled, rubbing his back in a placating manner. “I’m afraid so, babe.”
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5 times Hayden started understanding Shane and Ilya's relationship, and the 1 time he finally told Shane he did.
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Respectfully, I would sit on his face by GlitterCity
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Jun 2022
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“You know you don’t have to do this,” Harris said as they walked from the car to the arena, Chiron prancing along in front of them.
“I’m doing it,” Troy said.
“Okay. But you don’t have to.”
“Harris. I’ll survive reading whatever weird, dirty tweets you found,” Troy argued. “You think I’ve never seen thirst tweets?”
In which the Centaurs read thirst tweets and it goes about how you'd expect.
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K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk by branwyn
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
17 Oct 2021
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Jim wrote a romance novel just to prove he could. Then someone leaked it on the public Starfleet server, and suddenly his embarrassingly smutty and sentimental Human/Vulcan love story is all over campus. Luckily for Jim, no one knows that he’s the author. Unluckily for Jim, someone forwarded the novel to the staff of the Vulcan embassy. Now, every Vulcan in San Francisco is reassessing the logical merits of taking Human bondmates.
Spock reads a Human/Vulcan romance novel because he can hardly avoid it. Suddenly, he is consumed by the need to locate the author, ascertain their wellbeing, and instruct them in the way of Vulcan mating bonds. Luckily for Spock, it doesn't take long to identify the author as Jim Kirk. Unluckily for Spock, Jim is unconscious and surrounded by interested Vulcans who also read the book.
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David discovers that Patrick has had a YouTube channel for years, in which he gives helpful life advice on a variety of topics. Watching his way through the channel, he discovers that the subscribers are big fans of Patrick's...well, everything...and endlessly fascinated by his mentions of The Mysterious David, who he first calls his business partner, then his boyfriend, and now his husband. Now that David's found out about "How, Patrick?" and its 400,000 subscribers, will Patrick's fans finally get to meet their favorite host's never-seen husband?
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- Part 1 of How, Patrick
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Months after the Avengers' dispute in Germany, the team returns to the US and moves back into the tower. As always, everyone pretends that nothing happened. Tony is just fine with this. He's used to pretending, and he'll be damned if he lets any of them see him flinch.
Tony's the bad guy, after all. He's used to it. He's fine with it. He's good at it.
Only now, there's something far worse loitering around the tower - The Winter Soldier. No one notices the guy at first, but when they do, Tony figures that he should have the soldier's back.
Birds of a feather should flock together, and the bad guys should start a book club.
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Friendship In Retrospect by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
14 Jan 2026
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Cliff Marleau gets assigned to keep the new Russian rookie out of trouble. Fifteen years later, he gives a speech at Ilya's wedding.
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- Part 1 of A Formal Study of the Heart
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To be clear, Ilya is grateful the rookies aren’t growing up the way he did in the NHL. Ilya took the hazing to the chin – humiliation rituals, beat downs, grueling practices to prove he could “hang” with the big guns on the team.
That being said, there’s still some part of Ilya that balks at the request by the gaggle of rookies to watch The Iron Giant, a veritable children’s movie at the team’s latest movie night.
OR: Five times Shane and Ilya were the support system for the Centaur rookies they dreamed of having when they were younger.
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A very patient man by Hatchigo
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Jan 2026
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David Hollander gets stuck in an elevator with Ilya Rozanov.
It turns out rivals are different off the ice and sometimes parents notice more than their children think. -
How to Meet Cute by boopboop
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types
18 Mar 2018
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Hi.
That’s it. That’s Steve’s word. You’re supposed to meet upwards of eighty thousand people in the course of a lifetime, and that’s all Steve gets.
Hi.
There’s nothing else. No time, no date, just the first thing said to him by his soulmate seared in neat black letters across the middle of his wrist.
You know how many people say ‘hi’ as a way of introducing themselves to someone they’ve never met?
A lot. A lot of a lot.
It's a problem.
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- Part 1 of Well this isn't awkward
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I'll be Jane by gurlsrool
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jan 2026
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It’s not going viral because Jane’s true identity was exposed—or even because Ilya was blatantly sexting in public. That part’s as expected as Shane doing yoga or any human being on earth breathing.
No, the texts are going viral because no one can believe how bad this “Jane” is at sexting.
The women of the world are outraged. The men of the world are baffled. No one can understand why Ilya Rozanov, whose abs have their own fan club, is wasting his time on ‘a piece of cardboard that wished to be turned into a real girl’ (this particular joke has 300k likes and counting).
Or: After a social media trend mocks Shane's sexting skills, he tries to improve them. It goes about as poorly as you'd expect.