nicole

i say this as someone who notorious has never really been into AUs, but it really does surprise me how many fics there are of like... hollanov university AU. hollanov office workers au. hollanov Just Some Guys AU. like i understand wanting to play dolls with characters you like, but for these two in particular the hockey and the rivalry and the generational talent is so integral to the characters that it's like. i don't know who those men are in those fics but they're not shane and ilya

just learned that apparently a london fog is a canadian drink. y'all telling me you don't have london fogs??

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ig has decided to flood me with clips from the summer i turned pretty (which i don't know anything about) which has me wondering were there people who were actually team jeremiah? bc it seems pretty obvious from the clips that there was a Wrong dude and a Right dude

hollanov getting outed via outbreak of some sickness (could be covid or some fictional less intense but still traced virus or food-poisoning) where the news is like "...all of the members of the boston raiders and their immediate family. and also for some reason shane hollander in montreal" and shane's just like sweating bullets getting questioned by health canada about his recent travel and whereabouts and who he came in contact with

ilya and david's doing-puzzles-together friendship is so boring. like yes literally boring but also conceptually boring. you know what would be fun? ilya and yuna having way too close of a mother-in-law/son-in-law relationship. yuna and ilya literally becoming each other's best friends. yuna and ilya airing all of their respective relationships' dirty laundry to each other. they're meeting up once a week somewhere for coffee or drinks. they have a separate chat where they're having private asides about what's going on in the family group chat. and crucially, shane and david are somehow both clueless about this