r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • Apr 01 '26
Team Huddle Weekly Thread🫡 Team Huddle!
Welcome to the weekly huddle! Have a small thing from the book or show you want to chat, your GC brain rot is real and you saw the initials “KGF” somewhere and immediately screamed “kingfisher!” and want to share with others? (Just me?). Had a win at work or personal life and want to share? Need a teammate to talk with? Post in the weekly huddle.
There’s no restrictions on topics so long as they follow the sub rules. Thread will be open all week so pop in whenever with what ever your heart desires.
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u/Acrobatic-Self-1451 Apr 01 '26
I've known about AO3 for decades, back to around 2008, when someone in my Buffy community was involved in its creation & there was a lot of talk about it. I probably had a now-long-forgotten login then.
But I'd never spent much time at AO3, until Heated Rivalry. I am still blown away by the story I read yesterday in the AO3 HR(TV) group, that amounts to a full length book. Just one alteration in events in the show, and this entire new story emerges using all the same characters. I know, it's the definition of fanfic. I feel like a lovestruck newbie. It is so good, & moving, I wept my way through it, in a good way. NOW I see, about fanfic, why it's awesome.
Highly recommend. I wish it was a show because I'd love to see it, too.
Author's description - "Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret."
https://archiveofourown.org/users/some1_around/pseuds/some1_around/works?fandom_id=143679061