the year of the autistic wasian

Ottawa has a fuckass nightlife but whenever they're in a city with good clubs Ilya goes out and drinks and dances and at the end of the night (the agreed upon negotiated time) Shane shows up and Ilya "picks him up" then they go back to the hotel for nasty hook up sex.

Don’t get me wrong Ilya DOES love the domestic boyfriends life with Shane and I think they’d be monogamous because they’re just mutually fucking obsessed! But I don’t think Ilya was living some hollow depressed half life before things got serious with Shane. What I love about Hollanov as a ship is they’re two complete people with fulfilling lives! Yes they YEARN horribly for each other but not because they hate their lives apart. They just way prefer when they’re together.

I think Ilya genuinely loves clubbing and drinking and partying and yeah he loved sleeping around too. Let’s not buy into the puritanical idea that having casual sex with multiple people is a sad sorry string of mistakes that you can wash yourself clean of with True Love. Sex is fun and Ilya is great at it and hey good for him! But even after committing to a monogamous sexual and romantic relationship, yes I agree Ilya would still be a sleazy lil club rat at heart. And I ADORE the idea of Shane not simply tolerating this, but fondly engaging with it and making it fun and sexy for them both. Just like Ilya revels in hanging out with Shane while he obsessively rewatches hockey matches and plays hockey games and recites hockey facts between sips of ginger ale.