#ilya rozanov

[damianwaynedefenseattorney]

walk with me now…

shane hollander and ilya rozanov….

#shane hollander #ilya rozanov #heated rivalry #the long game #ice hockey #hockey #andrei svechnikov #michal mrazik #game changers series #rachel reid #hollanov

[rocketpunchhh]

Commission for the lovely @iammistressofmyfate

Shane and Ilya from the Game Changers series. ty so much for commissioning me, loved working on this!

bonus: me trying to figure them out

#ilya rozanov #shane hollander #hollanov #game changers series #heated rivalry #the long game #rachel reid #my art #commissions

[annieqattheperipheral]

thank you Rachel Reid 🥹😭

If you enjoy hockey romance novels and/or hrpf and u haven't read heated rivalry and the long game yet..!! pls. Stop depriving yourself of good great best things. Ilya Rozanov is the best character ever written. and Shane Hollander is precious.

also aaahhhh Luca!!!

#rachel reid #heated rivalry #the long game #hollanov #ilya rozanov #shane hollander #hockey romance #luca haas #Also p.s. if it matters-- it gets the dr lexi brown approval of 1 best hockey romance novel overall. So there! #lexi brown #hrpf #romance novels #queer romance #read the entire series #game changers

[thusofor]

got tumblr just for this book

#my art #heated rilvary #the long game #rachel reid #ilya x shane #shane hollander #ilya rozanov #hollanov #game changers #fanart

[pucktrek]

honestly the one of the things that makes me the most sad about this hockey romance / booktok drama is that now so many hockey fans have a negative impression of hockey romances and sports romances. There are so, so many wonderful, queer romances out there that are doing wonderful, nuanced, and intentional things within the sports romance genre, and I hate that now people are looking down on them.

Here's some reasons that I love sports romances:

It’s a celebrity romance, but more of a niche celebrity romance. This isn’t a Hollywood super star that everyone in the world knows their name, BUT they often do have a dedicated fan base and are still in the public eye. It brings up really interesting discussions of fame and power and how much of yourself you keep private. So you get a lot of the good celebrity romance tropes and settings (like secret relationship, having to do interviews, traveling to new cities) but on a more niche and interesting scale

And bouncing off of that, with queer sports romances you get a lot of really interesting discussions of coming out, how you present your queerness to the world, how much of yourself is “owed” to the people around you vs yourself, which is very interesting when explored through a sports culture lense and I really enjoy the discussions of queer identity, culture, and community that come out of it. And particularly if it a romance between two players, there's a lot of really interesting queer nuances to explore

There are so many different pairings that can happen, but most of them kind of boil down to player/player, player/sports professional, player/normie, and each of these dynamics are interesting to me every time, especially when exploring teammate dynamics! And exploring how fame affects each of these things!

Found family! Your team is your family! And everyone has silly nicknames and rituals with each other and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy

With every romance, you pretty much know that it’s gonna end with a Happily Ever After, which is why we love the genre. But sometimes that can take the “surprise” out of a romance and its structure. Within sports romances, you don’t know how the game is going to go! They could win! They could lose! That affects the characters either way! And there’s been several sports romances that had me on the edge of my seat cause I genuinely had no idea which way the championship game was gonna go! I like that extra plot element to keep things interesting 

I also like it when you can tell the author is a big fan of their sport, and even if EYE don’t know anything about the sport, they’re generally good at writing things in a makes sense and makes the action interesting and keeps me hooked. It’s also just nice to step into the world the author loves!

Genuinely I just think that queer sports romances are doing so many interesting things, and have such interesting niches and nuances to the stories they’re telling! And they should not be looked down upon by hockey fans OR romance fans who have witnessed this booktok drama go down and now don’t want to touch hockey romances with a ten foot pole.

Here are some of the queer sports romances I recommend for anyone who wants to get into the genre:

#pucktrek speaks #hockey #book recs #queer book recs #god bless i have not read any straight hockey romances and i refuse to #rachel reid #game changers series #shane hollander #ilya rozanov #meryl wilsner #cleat cute #women's soccer #baseball #kd casey #ari baran #book recommendations #wlw books #mlm books #i am a bookseller you legally have to trust me #sports romances #nhl #hockeyblr #bookblr

[austenwazright]

If ilya and shane were reals tumblr would eat that shit up, I can see all the blogs dedicated to the rivalry, all the huge posts about them, studying their interactions like I'm so sure that we'd be writing them fanfic since their rookie season and when they finally came out the rest of the world would shocked but we'd be like CALLED IT

#books #book recs #rachel reid #game changer #heated rivalry #the long game #shane x ilya #ilya rozanov #shane hollander #tumblr knows best

[sapphicnile]

Heated Rivalry was brave enough to ask the important question of, what if the cocky ladies man IS bisexual?

#mine #my fave bi man with a women preference #heated rivalry #rachel reid #the long game #ilya rozanov #shane hollander #hollanov #cant believe my boys are now popular enough to have a ship name

[iammistressofmyfate]

Rating: Explicit

Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov

Tags: Married Life, Parenthood, Retirement, Grief/Mourning, Adoption, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Rimming, Surgery, Mentions of Death, Cock Warming, Surprises, Friendship, life transitions, Family Bonding, Family Fluff, Hockey, Webcam/Video Chat Sex, Accidental Voyeurism, Massage, Anniversary, Hockey Rituals, Tattoos, Anxiety, Stress, POV Alternating, Ilya & Shane being Girl Dads

Summary: After six years of marriage, Shane and Ilya enter the next chapter of their life together... parenthood.

Excerpt:

December  

“So, this is how you use the monitor,” Shane said, showing his parents how to use the baby monitor. Ilya stood in their entryway, pulling their coats out of the closet, smiling to himself. 

“Shane,” Yuna said, sounding exasperated. “We got it. We know how to work the monitors. You showed us how they work the first time we came over.”

“Oh, right.”

“Go and have fun. We’ve got it.”

[Chapter 18]

[Chapter 19]

[Chapter 20]

[Chapter 21]

#ilya rozanov #shane hollander #game changers #game changers series #rachel reid #heated rivalry #the long game

[sixsharks]

Rachel Reid’s Heated Rivalry makes me so fucking soft I can’t! I’m rereading it, and fuck! It’s. So. Good!! Like got me into hockey good!! If you have not read it, go now and then come talk to me about it!!

#rachel reid #heated rivalry #ilya rozanov #shane hollander #this is my comfort book I have come back to it so many time since I’ve read it already

[quotesthatiliked]

“Would you show me off?” Shane asked quietly. He could feel the heat of Ilya’s gaze even without looking. “I would never stop showing you off,” Ilya said. “If I could.”

-Rachel Reid,The Long Game(Heated Rivalry book 2)

#ilya rozanov #shane hollander #rachel reid #hollanov #game changers #the long game #heated rivalry #hockey romance #ilya and shane #Ahhhhhhhhh i was rereading and i am at *that*scene now and im bawling #quotes #.mine🍀 #bookblr #book quotes #books & libraries

[bog-witch-4-mayor]

I'm yelling into the void and trying to manifest my deepest fantasies into existence the deepest fantasies in question: The game changers book series being chosen by one of the indie book subscription companies that will publish hardcover copies with beautiful art, end papers, painted edges, I want it all!

#game changers #rachel reid #heated rivalry #shane hollander #ilya rozanov

[maryjanecrunch]

Moving some of my fave pieces onto here hehe also bc I haven’t been drawing jack recently, Shane/Ilya or otherwise, and I feel bad lol 💀

#heated rivalry #ilya rozanov #shane hollander #my art #citw

[consumer-of-books]

Shane: if we have children do you think they'll play hockey

Ilya: yes one will great like me, the other will be mediocre but that is okay, they are like you

#ilya rozanov #shane hollander #incorrect game changers #incorrect heated rivalry #incorrect the long game #heated rivalry #game changers #the long game

[story-addict]

So I finished all the Game Changers books…what am I supposed to do now.

I already miss Ilya Rozanov.

#ilya rozanov #shane hollander #troy barrett #scott hunter #kip grady #ryan price #fabian salah #eric bennet #kyle swift #harris drover #rachel reid #game changers #heated rivalry #game changer #the long game #tough guy #role model #common goal

[sapphicnile]

Me, someone who’s read Heated Rivalry 6 times: holy shit what if the reason Shane took so long to realise he was gay was because then he’d have to admit he has feelings for Ilya????

#mine #no joke I realised this the other day #hollanov #heated rivalry #Shane Hollander #Ilya rozanov #Rachel Reid #game changers #the long game #Ilya x shane

[iammistressofmyfate]

And again, just to put this somewhere.

Hockey Tumblr going bananas about Hollanov.

Gifs of Shane and Ilya hugging with their linemates after a goal or an assist, and maybe they lingered too long. People commenting about how in love they are

Every time Ilya taps the top of Shane's helmet, tags are: "must tap tiny husband", "tiny husband tap"

Every kiss before Shane steps off the ice before Ilya: "kisses for the captain", "everyone kiss your captain!"

Shane or Ilya being mic'd up and the two of them speaking Russian to each other. Also yelling at each other on the ice if one of them does something dumb.

*Ilya is off to the penalty box* Shane: [expletive] idiot. What is he doing? Shane, yelling: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! Ilya: *giant annoyed shrug*

And don't even get me started on the social media they do for the Centaurs. Ask Me Anything segments, Most Likely To..., Russian Corner with Ilya Rozanov, A Day In the Life Of.

They bring the dog to the rink and she loves it.

#ilya rozanov #shane hollander #hollanov #game changers series #heated rivalry #the long game #rachel reid #queer hockey books