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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
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- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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21 Feb 2026
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Zuko isn’t sent to capture the Avatar after his Agni Kai. Instead, his banishment is permanent. No exceptions. No opportunity to regain his honor. He’s unceremoniously dumped in the Earth Kingdom and left with nothing but a debilitating scar and an uncle who still claims he cares.
An assassination attempt quickly proves that his father isn’t satisfied with just exiling him. He and Iroh decide to hide out in the remote town of Gaoling, one of the few places overlooked by the Fire Nation due to its strategic unimportance.
Zuko’s pretty sure the Spirits hate him. Well, that’s fine. He hates them too.
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In which Zuko gets a job in a tea shop, accidentally acquires some stolen swords, realizes his father was actually pretty horrible and meets a blind girl who’s too stubborn for her own good, not necessarily in that order.
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- Part 1 of the way of tea
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Bookmarked by umbrellatastic
11 Feb 2025
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After everything, Gil doesn't know how to deal with his father.
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11 Feb 2026
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11 Feb 2026
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The Wisdom of Choharo has crashed. There were no survivors.
Somehow, the first thought that entered Ciris’s mind was to despair the loss of his exquisitely colorful wardrobe for the dull solemnity of mourning black—and after that, he realized with horror, the cold austerity of imperial white.
It was a stupid thought; there was much more he had lost than the right to dress flamboyantly, but it was one thing he felt he could truly grasp amongst the mess of incomprehensible implications.
Ciris Drazhar does not attend Prince Orchenis's wedding with his father and brothers. This is a very good thing for him, and a very bad thing for the rest of the court.
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- Part 1 of Unending Sky
Bookmarked by umbrellatastic
19 Jan 2026