if you are from western australia or actually even anywhere else in australia and you’re a heated rivalry fan I desperately need you to know that there’s someone over on ao3 writing a fucking hollanov mining au. a mining au. it’s set at a gold mine in red dirt country in western australia. there’s hi-vis. there are dongas. hollanov are engineers. scott is their boss. rose is hr and shane shields her from the thousands of single male fifo workers starved for female attention. kip is the project manager. he does an acknowledgement of country before a meeting. kip does an acknowledgement of country before a progress meeting. I am losing my mind. shane is worried about ilya getting bitten by a brown snake when he goes for a jog. I don’t think you’re getting this. shane gives some other workers a lift in his work ute. they call him mate. ilya is hired after shane and they have a history that no one else knows about. they’re glaring at each other across conference rooms and arguing over surveys and power blasting and going for sexually charged competitive runs at 5am. am I crying or laughing. I don’t know. this is the most specific au I’ve ever seen. I’m so scared. I’m having the best time ever. I’m losing my fucking mind.
