🚨🚨IT'S HOLLANDER WEARING A ROZANOV JERSEY 🚨🚨 And it's somehow even hotter than you think it's gonna be....

(Another) big reason why Heated Rivalry is important: Because "Culture is infrastructure." Thanks for sharing this great, thoughtful piece Allie!

I feel bad for ppl who don't read WIPs -- they'll never know the absolutely *giddy* joy of seeing a new chap pop up out of the blue after months of wondering what happened next! Which is to say: @clrmntdzfx.bsky.social just made this the best New Year's ever... archiveofourown.org/works/602745...

If you happened to miss this absolute delight in the deluge of excellent AWY fics, read it now. "Wannabe sunflowers" and "hostile pineapples" make a beautiful (and hilarious) backdrop to Alex falling for Henry in a blooming Texas garden...

'Tis still the damn season, so come and get your warm, cuddly romantic Christmas vibes right here, friends! Plus a little flirty FirstPrince banter. As a treat You know Dr A never misses ...

Getting to see your favorite writers get all excited about an idea in real time is seriously the best part of fandom....

Day 2 with the family and struggling with headaches. Ugh.

God, I have such big feelings about HR Ep 6.... Not least because I've *been* the kid whose nightmare -- a nightmare I had no plan for responding to, because planning would have involved sustained *thinking* about it happening -- was my parents finding out the truth.

Took them long enough but the NYT discovered Heated Rivalry! This link is supposed to cross the paywall, let me know if it doesn't: . www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/a...

Phases of watching the #HR finale: * gasping, sobbing, weeping through first watch * screaming unhinged responses at friends * re-watching * brief nap * mainlining edits created in the first 6 hours * copying links to fic, interview and edits like a squirrel hoarding nuts * watching again

Dr. A's first #hollanov fic! Sweet, spicy, smart, heartbreaking -- it's just everything you want:

My post-canon canon. Love this fic. 💕

WAIT FUCK How could I forget?! Gingerbread, but make it sexy, by my darling friend Miha: archiveofourown.org/works/61318228

Right. So -- just in case we all get the wrapping done in time to do some reading tonight -- fave holiday fics? Share your recs! I love this one by StutteringPeach: Henry takes his boyfriend home for the holidays. And finds Alex in his bedroom. archiveofourown.org/works/61196641

*Sigh!* I have so much Christmas-work to do. I have so much work-work to do. And all I *wanna* do is curl up under a blanket and read fic....

Lena you are KILLING IT with these all-time-classic recs! This is maybe my second-favorite CCF fic ever? (After Sporting Chance. Obvs.) The *layers* in this one -- SO funny, SO emotional AND there's an entire secondary romance going on in the social media commentary at the end of each chapter ...

This is ACD's brain. . . . . . This is ACD's brain on drugs:

What a fucking banger of a TL fic!!!

Pas de Deux | OrchidScript In which Ilya is a ballet dancer, Shane is a PT, and I make them kiss like Ken dolls at the cottage that is not a cottage. I have no more elegant a description. Enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/757832...

IT'S HERE! 🎉🎉🎉 When I won a @porcelainmortal.rwrb.social fic in the @fandomtrumpshate.bsky.social auction I knew it would be amazing. But I had no idea how strange and wonderful and incredibly moving it would be to "see" Alex and Henry falling in love in all my old haunts, through Allie's story...

So many great HR fics are coming out every day, but pls do NOT miss this one from one of my most favorite FP writers: Pas de Deux In which injured ballet dancer Ilya meets mysterious physical therapist Shane. By the inimitable OrchidScript! archiveofourown.org/works/757832...

Lib's photo-illustrated micro-fics are one of my favorite things to find on the TL. And this one's a beaut!

So "All the Things She Said" finally stopped playing on a loop in my head. And now I can't stop hearing the fucking ginger ale song....

Thinking about how Ilya sees Miles and *spins* around to look for Shane -- he connected those dots so fast. (In my head, he's been mainlining the Rose/Shane celeb gossip coverage, recognizes Miles from it.) Then Shane sees Marlowe and is immediately scanning the room for Ilya.

I have posted a new HR fic! A lot of introspection, sadboi Shane and some self-love... archiveofourown.org/works/75730706 #hr #heatedrivalry #hrfic #heatedrivalryfic

Loving all the Hollanov fics but pls tell me somebody's gonna step in and tell the story of the Rose-Shane-Miles hook-up that was clearly on the table in the club scene?

*Sigh!* The tuna melts were everything I wanted. That ending, though....

This is *fantastic*!

"This kid (Shane) wants to be the valedictorian of losing his virginity." LOLOLOL....fair!! Great read, thanks Libby!

Welcome to Creator “Candy” grams - a way to send a bit of love to the creators you love Read the attached Rules and FAQ and join us for the fun! find the google form here! docs.google.com/forms/d/1WsH... #RWRB #HeatedRivalry #GameChangersSeries #fandomlove #sharethelove

What a cute idea!

Jesus Christ, Miha. 🫠😭🌊

This. photo. I am unwell.....

Rewatching Ep 3 and omg Kip telling Elena "I've never been happier" while looking like he's about to cry.....😭😭😭

Where do I acquire the Heated Rivalry soundtrack, please? I need the "sea lion" song on repeat.....

You've got about half an hour to kill before Heated Rivalry S1E3 drops. You could take a disco nap. Or? Get that Hollanov fix early by checking out the HR fics posted by some of my favorite people! @kjbee27.rwrb.social asks: What if Shane DID send that text? archiveofourown.org/works/75098856

All songs/artists I was introduced to by @pagemelt.bsky.social @richhellle.bsky.social @jafffacakes.bsky.social and ClottedCreamFudge. Thanks for the bangin' soundtrack, fandom friends!

Fuck you, Spotify 🙄

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Apparently Spielberg asked Tom Stoppard to write the screenplay for Jaws, but Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. "I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?" "No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."

I'm so sad. One of the best fan fiction writers the world has ever known -- the great Sir Tom Stoppard, who rose to fame thanks to his "Hamlet" fic "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" -- has passed away. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

"Your cab is definitely here." "Wow. Genetic." And a dozen iterations of "You're such an asshole." So many great lines that don't at all mean what the words in them literally mean.... #hr

Connor Storrie is a cute guy but ISTG he becomes something like 317% sexier the *instant* he turns on that accent. He makes me feel like Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda" when John Cleese starts speaking Russian and suddenly she's writhing on the floor.....

Speaking of things that make me happy: Last chapter of Jaffa's Office Hollanov fic is up and it's a thing of beauty Check out the updated art for it too.....

Desperately hoping one of the fan artists I adore -- @artofobsession.bsky.social? @lieselsart.bsky.social? @maddiee96art.bsky.social ? -- becomes as obsessed as I am with the Vegas lights reflecting on Ilya's face as he watches Shane and sips vodka bc jfc. I need it. I need it, like, poster-sized.

If anybody needs me I'll be over in the corner staring at a screenshot of the Vegas bathroom scene forehead-touch for the next 3 to 5 business days..... #heatedrivalry #obsessed

Jaffa/Hollanov, Day 3 Featuring tuna melts, literary references and /wildly unprofessional/ treatment of office furniture....

I "met" Lien for the first time through AWY -- and learned a ridiculous amount about native Texan flowers in her adorable fic, Build Me Up Buttercup. I will never see a black-eyed susan again without thinking: "Wannabe sunflowers!"

I think literally everyone I know has read this already? Because how can you say "no" to Merman!Alex?! 😆 But gosh, if you haven't -- dive in, the water's amazing.....

Miha -- fellow FP/Hollanov obsessive, RUC's one-woman geek squad, one of my very favorite people -- just /gets/ the overwhelmed-with-love/absolutely-fucking-drained dichotomy of baby's first year. Parts of her AWY story made me melt. Parts of it triggered my parenting PTSD. All of it's lovely.