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ExitAriel
@exitariel.bsky.social
RWRB, Hollanov, ExitAriel on AO3, 🔴☂️♣️♾️

The phrase "see attached bibliography" is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/ExitAriel/works
🚨🚨IT'S HOLLANDER WEARING A ROZANOV JERSEY 🚨🚨

And it's somehow even hotter than you think it's gonna be....
you'll be mine (and I'll be yours)
🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/77454956

🏒 Hollanov | 6.2K | E
🏒 shane wears ilya's jersey for a public bet
🏒 possessive (and down bad) Ilya
🏒 the jersey stays ON 😉

#heatedrivalry #hollanov
January 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
(Another) big reason why Heated Rivalry is important: Because "Culture is infrastructure."

Thanks for sharing this great, thoughtful piece Allie!
January 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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...
New Session | Archive of Our Own
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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...
53/54 ✅

The last two slots are for the fics I had the privilege to write. My first exchange challenge was so fun, it really pushed me as a writer.

For Build Me Up, Buttercup, that manifested in A LOT of research, the first time working with a beta reader (❤️ @exitariel.bsky.social) and a deadline!
It's reveal time!

💐Anywhere With You challenge 2025
💐A gift for emmynotoscar
💐5.2k words - Rated T
💐Gardener Alex meets flower connoisseur Henry
💐Strangers to lovers, misunderstanding, HEA

archiveofourown.org/works/72833436
December 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
'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 ...
got a wish list (i just want you)

⭐️ for @jafffacakes.bsky.social ❤️
⭐️ 3.5k | M
⭐️ firstprince domestic fluff + christmas

🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/76737346

#RWRBfic
December 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Getting to see your favorite writers get all excited about an idea in real time is seriously the best part of fandom....
it's common in sports for bets among fans/players of rival teams in media where the losing party has to wear a jersey of the winning team

anyway. ilya & shane making a public bet while they're still hiding their relationship that when Ottawa and Montreal play, the loser will wear the winning jersey
December 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Reposted by ExitAriel
Day 2 with the family and struggling with headaches. Ugh.
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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.
December 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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...
‘Heated Rivalry’ Scores Big With Hockey and Sex
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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
December 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Dr. A's first #hollanov fic! Sweet, spicy, smart, heartbreaking -- it's just everything you want:
built to fall apart (and fall back together)
🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/76351506

🏒 2.5k | E
🏒 baby's first (only?) hollanov fic
🏒 missing scene
🏒 emotional smut™️ + introspection

#heatedrivalry
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by ExitAriel
My post-canon canon. Love this fic. 💕
❄️ all that glitters (is not gold)
✍️ indomitablelove
📏 111K 📊 E
📋 post-canon, check the tags, considered an unofficial sequel by most in the fandom!!
🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/34254841
🏷️ #RWRB #RWRBMovie #FirstPrince #RWRBficrec #FirstPrincefic #RWRBfic
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
WAIT FUCK How could I forget?!
Gingerbread, but make it sexy, by my darling friend Miha:
archiveofourown.org/works/61318228
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
archiveofourown.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
*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....
December 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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 ...
❄️ Never Did Run Smooth
✍️ clottedcreamfudge
📏 67.4K 📊 E
📋 reality TV AU, best friends to lovers, fake/pretend relationship, pining
🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/35454019
🏷️ #RWRB #RWRBMovie #FirstPrince #RWRBficrec #FirstPrincefic #RWRBfic
December 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is ACD's brain.
.
.
.
.
.
This is ACD's brain on drugs:
the doctor had told him to settle down
[ archiveofourown.org/works/76107011 ]

🎓 for @looking4orion.rwrb.social 🩷
🎓 4.4k | E
🎓 doctoral student ACD
🎓 getting together | first kiss
🎓 partially based on the true story of my dissertation defense 😂
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
What a fucking banger of a TL fic!!!
Inspired by this CMQ annotation: “The funniest part about this scene is the absolute panic Henry must have felt when Alex grabbed his phone, knowing one wrong move and Alex would open up Henry’s 5000 anguished texts to Pez about the whole weekend.” (1/8)

#rwrbficlet
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Reposted by ExitAriel
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...
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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...
🎓 of cocktails and crushes 🏛️

💙 first @fandomtrumpshate.bsky.social fic!!
💙 for @exitariel.bsky.social 💕
💙 college reunion
💙 fake dating
💙 old haunts, reminiscing, lots of feelings
💙 rated E
💙 10,688 words

archiveofourown.org/works/75886056
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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...
Pas de Deux - Chapter 1 - OrchidScript - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Lib's photo-illustrated micro-fics are one of my favorite things to find on the TL. And this one's a beaut!
Ilya tattoos the number 14 on his wrist over the summer break. His teammates eventually see it and he says it’s how old he was when he got his first hat trick. It’s not. He was 12.

When Shane and Ilya finally meet up they’re so desperate for each other that Shane doesn’t +
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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....
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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.
December 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by ExitAriel
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
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM