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    the cockroach of your heart by Anonymous

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

    19 Dec 2025

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    Ilya died, yes, but then the doctors saved him. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the ambulance, three electric shocks, two emergency surgeries, twenty-six units of blood. Ilya died, but then he came back.

    If only Shane could get his subconscious to understand that.

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    28 Mar 2026

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    corner of the world by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    31 Dec 2025

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    Ilya doesn’t even realize when Arthur slips from his thoughts. There’s no sharp turn, no clear moment where the article stops being about a little boy who loves reptiles and starts being about the man lying beside him in bed. It just… happens. The way his mind always seems to find Shane eventually, like water finding its lowest point.

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    a character study on shane’s undiagnosed autism

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    26 Feb 2026

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    Such a Pretty Crier by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    28 Dec 2025

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    Shane is still learning that he doesn't have to be perfect in his own relationship. Ilya is still learning the rules of Shane's bad days. So when Shane tries to push him away after a crushing loss, it leads to a tense argument. But ten years of rivalry are no match for Shane’s tears; the second he starts to cry, Ilya folds like a house of cards.

    Or: Shane tries to starve himself as punishment for losing, Ilya tries to feed him, and it turns into a very soft night of pampering because Ilya is legally incapable of staying angry at a crying Shane.

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    it's a long way down by

    Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)  

    27 Dec 2024

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    Dying, Heinrix finds, is not so terrible. When he’s torn apart like this, he has Kavya freely; for a few moments, before the pain and the betrayal, he loves and he is loved without consequence.

    Everything, of course, has a consequence. But in the beginning, it is worth it.

    Spoilers for Act 3.

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    and it feels like the start (of a movie i've seen before) by

    Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud  

    29 Mar 2023

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    Lockwood has never been able to stop wondering if he adapted parts of his parents that weren't so obvious to him every time he looks in the mirror. He's never had anyone left to tell him he walks with a stride just like his father's or his lilt while he speaks is just like his mother's.

    He's never been able to remember how his mother threw his head back in a laugh the same way he does or the way his father ran his hands through his hair in frustration, messing it up until it stood in spikes in the exact same way his son does. He doesn’t remember clearly enough to draw the comparison himself.

    He’s walked around with pieces of his parents he no longer recognizes for seventeen years, none the wiser of where they came from. So it takes a while for it to sink in, that the reason the things he does for Lucy feel like déjà vu, is because they're all the ways he's seen his father love his mother.

    or, 5 times Lockwood repeats acts of service for Lucy that he's seen his father do for his mother and the 1 time George finally gets peace from their pining (and some of Lockwood's vulnerability as well).

    For Locklyle Week Day 5: Love Languages

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    28 Nov 2023