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Ilya Rozanov's Guide to Rehabilitating Irrelevant Franchises by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
12 Jul 2026
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“Hello Centaurs Nation,” the bright and bubbly voice of Ilya Rozanov spills out from the phone speaker, “I am Ilya Rozanov and I am very excited to join team for upcoming season!” He pauses, wielding his trademark wide, slightly lopsided grin like a media trained superweapon. “Today is only my second day on team, but day three of Centaurs Development Camp. As you know, Ottawa got second overall pick. Is very exciting, I have been watching all the Luca Haas clips. He will be something special, I know this.” There's a quiet jingle of car keys. He’d shot the video with his phone propped against the steering wheel of what appeared to be a Land Rover, and the video comes to a close as he turns over the ignition. “Anyway, I have places to be, so I will be seeing you all very soon. Bye-bye!” He offers a jaunty salute before his face smooths out and he focuses on finding the little button to end the recording.
(Alternatively: Ilya Rozanov signs with the Ottawa Centaurs on July 1, 2018. It is, to some degree, a reckoning.)
A Sequel/Companion Piece to Shane Hollander's Guide to Winning Free Agency
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- Part 2 of Hollanov's Guide to Major League Hockey
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All Eyes On You by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Jul 2026
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Summer, 2021. Shane Hollander is Major League Hockey's hottest free agent. MLH fans and organizations alike must grapple with their expectations: Hollander is not the young man the league discarded in 2017, for better or worse. There is more to his life than hockey, even if he says frustratingly little about his boyfriend, another player known only as Lily.
When the Ottawa Centaurs lace up for the 2021-2022 season with a stacked lineup, failure is not an option. What the world believes to be the newest iteration of a longstanding rivalry just might be hockey's greatest love story.
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- Part 3 of Everything they Say
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Shane Hollander's Guide to Winning Free Agency by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Jul 2026
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Shane Hollander is a UFA on July 1, 2019 at 12pm Eastern. An Unrestricted Free Agent, or UFA for short, is a player of a certain tenure whose contract has ended and can sign with any team of their choosing. If it were anyone else, a player walking to his UFA day would strike fear into the fans and managers hearts. They could lose a player for nothing.
On the morning of July 1, 2019, with Shane Hollander set to test free agency, the Montreal Metros and their fanbase aren't worried. It's well documented that Shane Hollander has always held out for the best deal, and being a free agent is his leverage. Everyone knows that he’ll sign another deal with the Metros.
But maybe everyone is wrong.
(Alternatively: the one where Shane Hollander finds out ahead of schedule that Ilya Rozanov is lonely.)
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- Part 1 of Hollanov's Guide to Major League Hockey
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Wake Up by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Apr 2026
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Spring, 2021. The Ottawa Centaurs are playoff-bound, Shane Hollander is suing the MLH for discrimination, and Ilya Rozanov wants the rookie that's sleeping with Hollander and stringing Luca Haas along off his f*cking hockey team. He's barely keeping it together as it is.
Meanwhile, the Boston Raiders are playing the long game: trading for Hayden Pike, making sure that if Hollander comes back to the league, they've got their bargaining chip in place. A month later, Pike would agree with them, as news outlets report Hollander's attachment to a player in the league with a familiar alias.
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- Part 2 of Everything they Say
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Big Bang by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Mar 2026
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It's the 2020-2021 season. Ottawa Centaurs forward Derek Briggs, an undrafted player from the Swedish Hockey League, is having a fantastic rookie season. He makes the team out of camp, claws his way up to the second line, lives through an almost plane crash, and has a crush on his fellow rookie that just might be reciprocated. The Centaurs might even make the playoffs.
Then, news breaks that Shane Hollander is suing the Metros and MLH for terminating his contract after he came out to them in 2017. Derek, who played with Shane in Sweden after he was forced out of Montreal, gets a lot more popular for all the wrong reasons. The media seems to think he's the secret hockey player Hollander's dating, Crowell is breathing down his neck, and all of a sudden, Centaurs captain Ilya Rozanov has it out for him.
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- Part 1 of Everything they Say
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It Takes a Village by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 Feb 2026
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An exploration of the first few months of Ilya and Shane’s “official” relationship, featuring Shane’s extremely supportive parents who do not do anything by half measures. Starts in September 2017.
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home for the summer by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Jan 2026
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Summer, 2019
Hayden doesn’t know if he’s seen his kind of happiness on his best friend’s face before, which is saying something considering they’ve won two cups together. He doesn’t let himself think about that for long because it pulls tight on something in his chest and he’s trying to be the kind of sloppy drunk that has lazy sex at three in the morning, not the kind that cries about social injustice and admits he might not hate Shane’s boyfriend as much as he says he does.
OR: Hayden Pike and the terrible ordeal of tolerating Ilya Rozanov.
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Heel Turn by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 Dec 2025
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“If we are burning jerseys,” Ilya begins, eyeing the massive blank space on Shane's side of the room where his Montreal sweaters used to live, “I would have gone to the store for marshmallows.”
“Burning polyester smells like shit,” Shane replies, scrunching his nose.
OR: The one where Ilya is attracted to Shane an absolutely normal amount, the Centaurs go 1-1 in their first two games against the Metros, and Shane reckons with Montreal as a concept.
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Wants and Needs by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Dec 2025
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During Ilya's first season in Ottawa, Shane asks his dad to pick Ilya up from the hospital after a mild injury.
Or: Ilya doesn't realize that the Hollanders are a package deal. David, in his way, tries to remedy that.
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life is what happens to you (while you're busy making other plans) by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Dec 2025
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David doesn’t have any recollection of leaving Shane’s place. He sort of comes back to himself halfway down the gravel road, settling back into his body, into reality, and has to pull over at the turnaround where the gravel meets pavement so he can breathe. It’s only ten minutes back to their cottage, eight when Yuna drives and she will immediately know that something is wrong so he has to get himself together and pray she’s distracted enough not to notice that something is wrong.
No, he thinks, slamming his palms on the steering wheel, not wrong. That isn’t the right word. It’s just not his story to tell.
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Scenes From Other Peoples’ Tragedies by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types
08 Aug 2025
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If the Humans had not wanted the situation made public, they should have plastered images of a different Imperial all over the galaxy when claiming that they had finally achieved victory.
Or: The New Republic publicly celebrates the defeat of Grand Admiral Thrawn. The Chiss Ascendancy takes that personally.
Alternatively: The failings of a fledgling government’s bureaucracy, Chiss fighting (un)fairly, and the battle of Lomar and Pyrondi.
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Scent Memory by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars - All Media Types
05 Aug 2025
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“You smell different to everyone you encounter. You might smell like lightning blossoms and petrichor to me but to someone else you could smell like a meiloorun.”
“Is that what I smell like to you?”
“If I say yes, will you drop the subject?”
Or, a canon adjacent retelling of Thrawn (2017) where Humans have secondary genders. These are the tales of the alien and the backwater
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Way Down We Go by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars - All Media Types
26 Jul 2025
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Why Thrawn was brought back to the Ascendancy rutsick and near feral was a mystery. He was a beta. He had been for the entire time Ar'alani had known him, the entire time he'd served the Defense Fleet.
Or: The one where Thrawn subconsciously decides that Eli is his omega and leaves everyone else to pick up the pieces.
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From Ashes by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars - All Media Types
20 Jun 2025
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In the past, Eli Vanto rebuilds.
In the present, Mitth'raw'nuruodo goes to war.
In the spaces between, they pick up where they left off.
(Some things change. Others do not.)
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- Part 2 of From Ashes
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Reunions | i hate it when i'm by myself (i don't wanna be) by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
16 Feb 2025
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“Hello, Thrawn,” Eli bids him, a smile shaping his lips, the heat he feels in his chest echoed in the curve of his mouth, the way his eyes resist the urge to gloss over with some amalgamation of emotion that demands to manifest in the precursor to tears.
He sees the subtle shift as Thrawn lowers his guard. He takes one step, another half dozen, and they clasp forearms, their fingers squeezing tightly. Eli leans in, his left arm comes up and around to brace Thrawn's back in the briefest, most professional version of an embrace he can offer: a compromise between Human sentimentality and Chiss stoicism.
Or, a story about finding something you hadn't realized you'd lost in the first place.
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Unmaking by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Ahsoka (TV)
31 Aug 2024
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In some ways, this is a neat and tidy end. In others, it is a messy and horrible beginning.
In the fragile aftermath of the Ascendancy's brutal Civil War, Senior Captain Mitth'eli'vanto is ordered to bring light to the rumors of Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo's return as the so-called "Heir to the Empire." Forced to weigh the mandate of his Patriarch against those of his Admiral, Theliva must determine if his former mentor is worth saving or must be neutralized.
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"The mind is a separate beast from the heart," Zavala said. "Rationality and logic mean nothing in the wake of an emotional onslaught. Sentimentality: grief, anger, shame, regret, it is… a natural reaction." He clenched his fist. "Moving forward can seem like it's impossible."
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Tang Bark and Sleep Sounds by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Ahsoka (TV), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
02 May 2024
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In which Thrawn learns to live with his aide and translator. It is more complicated than he had expected, for reasons he never could have imagined.
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Unspoken Rules and Operating Procedures by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars - All Media Types
05 Apr 2024
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Hammerly benevolently pulls Faro’s tray away so that her short hair doesn’t get into her veg-mash.
“The good news is that the mess is mostly empty, and he doesn’t speak loudly enough for words to carry,” Hammerly offers.
“The fact that you say good news,” Faro mutters to the tabletop, “Suggests that there is also bad news.”
“Well, yes. Thrawn wasn’t angry—I’ve never seen him angry, honestly. The problem is that he used what we’ll call his ‘linguistically stumped’ tone when saying the words caf runner, which means he’s probably going to ask Vanto for the deeper ‘translation,’” She provides helpfully. “The bigger problem is that Vanto will almost definitely ask for context and Thrawn will repeat our entire conversation verbatim.”
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Karyn Faro adjusts to the arrival of Commodore Thrawn and Lieutenant Commander Vanto.
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People and Places We Used To Belong To by DistantStorm
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
15 Mar 2024
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Eli returns to Lysatra for the last time.