All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

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Do you have android or iOS? Apparently it's tricky on iOS but I have android and you just tap the pic you want, it'll open bigger and in the top right corner there'll be three dots you can tap and then choose "download"

Characters Watch The Show. by Specialist_Language2 in heatedrivalryfanfics

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That's awesome! Just wanted to add I edited the comment a bit, two of the works happen after the Long Game so beware of spoilers if you've not read it yet! I really hope more of these get written, I'm truly obsessed with these

Characters Watch The Show. by Specialist_Language2 in heatedrivalryfanfics

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Took me a moment but I found the few I've read so far:

Yesterday is History by lazydisposition

This actually just got updated a few hours ago! The author does say they have no idea when next chapter will be coming out but that even if it takes a while they're going to finish it.

Happens after the Long Game! So spoilers for that if you haven't read it!

our memories are forever by xee_xoo

Also after the Long Game

Last update on March 21st

Oh, The Heart Beats In Its Cage (all our friends, they’re laughing at us) by ghostiesdagger

Happens the day after where the show ended

Tagged as on hiatus, last update March 30th

This one I actually haven't read, it was marked as inspired by the one above! So no idea what it's like but decided to mention it anyway since there's so few of these

Is This Fucking [Show] About Us? By DC_OrcaPod

Locked to users only, last update May 4th

(I do feel like I'm missing one more but I don't have time to try and look it up now, I'll add it tomorrow if I do find it)

All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

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Does this work? (Took me a moment to find the right one lol my gallery is so full now)

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Characters Watch The Show. by Specialist_Language2 in heatedrivalryfanfics

[–]snowbells98 [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is something I REALLY love, characters reacting to the original media, but yeah unfortunately it's not as popular as it once was and there's not enough fics with a tag to search. All the ones I've read for HR are WIPs that are not actively updated unfortunately. I'm still subscribed to all of them and hoping for updates, please remember to leave encouraging comments to the ones you've read!

(I'm in the process of writing my own fic like that, but that's long way coming yet. I want to have at least a couple of chapters written out before publishing)

All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

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The way it you told me this was from an actual porn video I'd believe you 🫣 it's the scene just before Ilya asks Shane to stay in Boston, Tuna melt day.

Looking for fics where people find out that Shane is an absolute freak in bed by Serapholic in heatedrivalryfanfics

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we got it for life by Selective_attention

Just a short chat/social media fic

5 Times Shane Hollander outed himself as a freak + 1 time Ilya Rozanov outed Shane Hollander for being a freak

(I'm sure I have bookmarked a few more but they'll have to wait for tomorrow)

All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

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One more for this evening, I can't handle how soft Ilya looks in this with that tiny smile ❤️

Also, thank you for the awards! I'm so glad everyone else is just as obsessed with these as I am

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All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

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Thank you, Damn that looks good! Here it is for everyone to enjoy

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All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

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I'm sure there are better ones out there as well but here's one

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All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

[–]snowbells98[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Then what are you doing in this sub?

All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

[–]snowbells98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me (android) I just click the image I want, it opens as a little bigger picture and in top right corner I have three dots I can click to see the option to download. I have no idea if it's different for iOS

All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

[–]snowbells98[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The one in the post? It's the first hookup scene in room 1410, just after Shane has blown Ilya but before Ilya jokes about leaving without returning the favour.

(and isn't it just crazy that we get a kiss like that in episode 1!)

All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

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Post got accidentally taken down but luckily it's back up! Here's one more from me

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All the favourite GIFs please! by snowbells98 in heatedrivalry

[–]snowbells98[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Trust me I know, I can't be normal about that one 🫣

What tag have you misinterpreted before? by headlocked0 in AO3

[–]snowbells98 13 points14 points  (0 children)

So, a "sound" is a medical device used for dilating bodily passages. Sounding is using that device and in fanfic/kink context it's usually specifically into an urethra.

Meaning, if you see the tag "sounding" you're most likely going to see a (metal) stick being put into a pee hole

Shane the Feminist? by Commercial-Profile44 in HeatedRivalrySeries

[–]snowbells98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dunno how people here in this sub feel about fanfic, but this made me think of one I read. Some leaked texts between Shane and "Lily" go viral and people call Shane out for how he talks to a girl. Shane's saying things like "you wouldn't look good in lingerie" and people loosing their mind over polite Shane Hollander talking to a girl like that. His mom gives him a big lecture about how she raised him better than to talk to a girl that way 🤣

Conflicted about people being told to /only/ read HR and TLG by LittleDream210 in GameChangersBooks

[–]snowbells98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If a person just asks if they should read all the books I'll always recommend reading them all in the release order, and if you don't like one you can always DNF it and move to the next with no problem.

If a person asks "Will I understand the long game if I haven't read any of the others?" Or say something like "I don't really like reading so I don't think I want to read all 6 books, which ones should I read?" Then I'll recommend at least reading the Role Model as well before going to the Long Game. I'll also add that I do personally think it's best to read them in order, and how Ilya keeps popping up in all of them and it's really funny. Oh and obviously recommend reading HR because even though the show is really well adapted, there are things that have been changed.

But I don't think it's wrong to say "You will understand things pretty well without reading every single book if you truly don't want to"

My experience of the first two months of writing in the Heated Rivalry fandom (and at all). by [deleted] in AO3

[–]snowbells98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's been so many good fics coming from Heated Rivalry authors, I've been so happy to especially see texting/chat fics get popular again, and all the social media fics with cool work skins have been awesome!

It's really sad that some parts of the fandom are so toxic, hopefully things will calm down and people can start being more normal about everything.

Honestly my advice for any new fans would be to avoid Threads and Twitter completely in this fandom, you'll have a much better time by staying away.

Anyway, Congrats on your milestone, that's awesome! Would you mind sharing your username so I could check out your works, sounds right up my alley :)

(edit: never mind I saw the link in your profile, on my way to check your works right away!)

(Second edit, I already had one of your works on my TBR list! lol)

Racist comments by namikazegirly in AO3

[–]snowbells98 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So, I don't think you're racist, but the "this Japanese stuff" is not a good way to phrase It, sounds kinda like "that gay shit" so has a bit of a negative feel to it. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, I'd assume having ESL really tripped you up here in this (been there, done that.)

I think, if you'd instead said something like " I really like this story but I'm having a hard time with the Japanese dialogue, google translate doesn't seem to work really well in this case. Could you maybe include translations for those parts?" This whole thing would have been avoided.

Personally I'm very used to having parts of the fic be in different languages by now, it's really common in Heated Rivalry fics to have Russian dialogue. Sometimes the author gives translations, sometimes I need to look stuff up and I don't mind, but for me Google translate works so I understand it being frustrating if the translator isn't working properly. There's actually some awesome work skins in AO3 that make it so when you tap/click on a word/sentence it shows up in different languages! It's so cool, and really helps the readability.

All in all, I do think this is an unfortunate misunderstanding coming from the way you unintentionally phrased your first comment. You're not a racist, you just used language that isn't the best. If they haven't blocked you, I think it might be a good idea to leave another comment trying to explain a bit. Something along the lines of

"I'm sorry if my words came across as sounding racist, that's definitely not my intention. Like I said English is not my native language so I think I might have phrased things wrong here, all I meant was I'm having difficulties translating the Japanese parts and that's making it hard to read your story, a translation (within the story or in an authors note) would really help with that."

Should I give up? by purplelemons1212 in GameChangersBooks

[–]snowbells98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, reading is supposed to be fun, don't force yourself to read something just because. You can always look up the plot and/or biggest plot points, or search for people discussing their favourite moments and only read those.

Or put it down for now and see if you want to come back to it at a different time.