re recent discourse: there are 42,034 hollanov fics on ao3. 312 of them are tagged 'mean dom ilya'. 58 are tagged 'total power exchange'. this is the largest number of fics tagged 'total power exchange' in any fandom on ao3.

shane and ilya are too busy testing the limits of the human refractory period to read your opinions but sadly this is not always the case for real life people in relationships that mirror how theirs is depicted

Back in June, I asked folks to tell me about their most self-indulgent Hollanov AUs: those fics that live in your heart or that you're dying to read, even if they make no sense for Shane and Ilya.

The response was more than I could have imagined. Shane and Ilya (and Jane and Liliya!) became about astronauts and actors, journalists and musicians, retired hockey players, fantasy creatures, heroic knights, and party to an organized crime syndicate. They were in the 60s in Moscow and Canada, in Regency England, in a 15th-century monastery. They met as kids, or in high school, or as up-and-coming political opponents. It was a day spent celebrating everything we love about Hollanov without the constraints of pesky logistics or concerns about realism.

And now, we're doing it again!

On the AU-gth (8th) of August, we'll be celebrating another Self-indulgent Hollanov AU Day. To participate, just hop over to my ask box and write to your heart's content. You can share your ideas now, or wait until the big day! Please note that your ask is for Self-indulgent AU Day, so I won't share it early.

When it's the AU-gth, I'll post everyone's fic ideas in a day-long spree! Everything will be tagged #HollanovAUgth if you want to follow along, or go ahead and scroll through now to see what folks wrote last time!

Let's have some fun during the hiatus, shall we?

Back in June, I asked folks to tell me about their most self-indulgent Hollanov AUs: those fics that live in your heart or that you're dying to read, even if they make no sense for Shane and Ilya.

The response was more than I could have imagined. Shane and Ilya (and Jane and Liliya!) became about astronauts and actors, journalists and musicians, retired hockey players, fantasy creatures, heroic knights, and party to an organized crime syndicate. They were in the 60s in Moscow and Canada, in Regency England, in a 15th-century monastery. They met as kids, or in high school, or as up-and-coming political opponents. It was a day spent celebrating everything we love about Hollanov without the constraints of pesky logistics or concerns about realism.

And now, we're doing it again!

On the AU-gth (8th) of August, we'll be celebrating another Self-indulgent Hollanov AU Day. To participate, just hop over to my ask box and write to your heart's content. You can share your ideas now, or wait until the big day! Please note that your ask is for Self-indulgent AU Day, so I won't share it early.

When it's the AU-gth, I'll post everyone's fic ideas in a day-long spree! Everything will be tagged #HollanovAUgth if you want to follow along, or go ahead and scroll through now to see what folks wrote last time!

Let's have some fun during the hiatus, shall we?

"Wilson's Theory." A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy. 1870.

"This theory supposes that the sun is composed of a solid dark globe surrounded by three atmosphere."