#The prime minister love actually

[myveryownfanfiction]

18+ MINORS AND THOSE WITHOUT AGE IN BIO DNI

tags: @illiana-mystery, @cassieuncaged

warnings: swearing

I frowned as the empty arcade was over run by men in black suits. My boss and I shared a look as they seemed to be investigating every nook and cranny in the place.

“what is going on?” I whispered as the men moved to take up certain points in the room. My boss shrugged and shook his head at me.

“Who the fuck knows?” He muttered as he went back into his office. “Just be on your best behavior and don’t get us shut down.” I rolled my eyes at him as he slammed his door shut. The sound of children made my head snap back to the front door. Two kids came running in, holding onto the hands of a younger man in a suit.

“slow down you two.” The man laughed as he was dragged into the building. “Daisy! Bernie! Slow down!” The kids let go of his hands and took off into the arcade. I watched as he fixed his hair and looked around before coming over to the desk I was standing behind. “Hello. Sorry about them.” I waved my hand and smiled brightly at the man.

“I’m used to it. We get a lot of kids coming in. Families.” I shrugged. “Your kids aren’t the most rambunctious I’ve ever seen.” The man smiled at me and rubbed the back of his neck.

“they’re my niece and nephew. Parents are…” he frowned for a second while looking over at the kids playing a racing game. “Well let’s just say this is the least I can do to help out right now.” I nodded, knowing the story far too well. “I wanted to thank you as well. For being so accommodating.” I nodded, keeping my smile in place even though I was beyond confused. “And you have no idea what I’m talking about.” The man laughed again.

“I assume you mean the men in suits. But beyond that…” I trailed off. The man smiled at me sympathetically. “Oh my god. I’m such a fuck up. You’re the prime minister.” I breathed out as I took a proper look at him.

“yes. Hello.” He waved and blushed as I covered my mouth.

“oh fuck.” I whispered. “I’m so sorry sir.” He waved his hand and smiled at me.

“Im just David today.” He shrugged. “No nation to run. Just watch over the kids and hopefully have a little fun myself.” I nodded as he extended his hand.

“I’m (Y/N).” I forced out. “Whatever you three need. Just let me know.” David nodded before he was being called by who I could only assume was daisy. He let go of my hand with a smile and ran off to join his niece and nephew. Turning around, I gently banged my head on the wall.

“quit that (Y/N).” My boss said, poking his head out with a smirk on his face.

“you bastard.” I laughed out. “You knew exactly what was happening.” He nodded with a smile.

“been cleared for weeks now.” He confirmed. “Good luck.” He winked before ducking back into the office. Every so often one of the kids would run over to get some more change. David would watch them and smile as they came back, shoving the change into his hands. He’d laugh and I’d feel my heart skip a beat.

“daisy! Don’t…wait!” David yelled as daisy ran back over to me with a bunch of tickets clutched in her hands.

“it’s hard to hold onto these.” I nodded as she pushed them onto the counter.

“I bet they are. You have quite a lot.” I said as I leaned over it slightly to see her better.

“Can you count them please?” She asked. I nodded again.

“sure. You want to grab the rest of them and I’ll start on these?” Daisy nodded before taking off again. “Keep them separate from your brother’s!” I called after her and she looked back at me before shoving a handful back at her brother. I rolled my eyes and had to stifle my laugh while feeding the tickets into the machine as David came over with the rest of them.

“I’m sorry about her.” He muttered as he handed them over. “She’s…a bit much sometimes.” I smiled at him.

“Normally kids just throw them at me and get impatient while I count them.” I shrugged. “At least she asked.” David frowned as he watched me feed the tickets into the machine.

“how did you know she’d take the tickets from bernie?” He asked.

“happens all the time.” I admitted. “Usually it’s the older one taking from the younger one. Or it’s the parents giving them away.”

“sounds like hell.” David muttered.

“it can be. Especially since I can’t say anything to either one. Once I say something everyone starts looking at each other and all the kids start thinking they lost tickets. Usually ends in tears and free prizes.” I pressed a couple buttons on the machine to get a print out. “No one else is here so I figured it would be safe.”

“perfectly safe.” David chuckled. “Just making the two more competitive than they already are.” I laughed and handed over the print out. “Thanks for this. And for…yeah.” David waved around the arcade behind him and smiled.

“Of course.” I smiled back at him. Daisy ran back over to tug on David’s hand. David followed her back over to her brother and I leaned on the counter to watch them. Daisy and Bernie had started another game and David glanced back over at me. He said something to them before rushing back over to me.

“sorry. I just…” he sighed and smiled at me brightly. “Would you like to go out to dinner with me tonight?” I stared at him in shock. “You don’t have to obviously. I’m not going to have the guys in suits come over or anything if you say no. I just think…”

“yes.” I cut him off. David smiled at me gratefully. “We’re closing when you leave so whenever you want. Won’t take me long to change.”

“great. Brilliant.” He stuttered out. “I’ll have the kids dropped off by 4. I can pick you up by 5, if that’s alright?” I nodded.

“sounds perfect.” I agreed. David smiled and nodded before heading back over to the kids.

[searching4sarahtonin]

Shit Actually

ok, so I know this might ruffle a few feathers, but the 2003 film Love Actually fascinates me. It's a terrible script, I mean god-aful, but all ten British actors of the early 2000s act the shit out of it. They're delivering these stellar performances with absolute garbage lines and barely 2-dimensional characters. It has at least ten different stories, none of which have any plot whatsoever, and somehow all the characters are connected in a bizarre Six-Degrees-of-Separation that makes absolutely no sense and stretches the non-plots to their breaking points just to depict. It has a completely pointless song feature, unrelated to the story about a musician trying to score a hit with an atrocious cover that he himself eviscerates. It has a child dodging post 9-11 airport security like Simone Biles. It has a porn shoot. It has a Hugh Grant dance sequence. Bill Nighy is naked. Just describing this clusterfuck of a film makes me sound psychotic. And somehow, somehow, UNRELATED to ALL OF THE ABOVE, it's a Christmas movie?! I think I'm having an aneurysm.

[favouritestar12]

watching love actually and i thoroughly believe that hugh grant should be the actual british prime minister because what is happening over there

[todayisafridaynight]

still obsessed with how whenever you look up nakai you just get adachi front and center instead of arakawa or like. anyone he's actually played

[akechi-stole-my-heart]

baby toshiro........

[see-y0u-space-c0wb0y]

hot take: any type of 'anthology romcom' is really REALLY bad because they always have one good story that they don't focus on in favor of literally anything else and i never understand it

[mishkakagehishka]

What's the beef with the Hungarians. genuine I like knowing foreign gossip

I cannot answer this without my historian mutuals' insight /j

It's the usual, though, i don't think it was that bad (???) but then again i'm not continental, so my beef is focused on italians. But there was also forced hungarisation here. I mentioned bân Jelačić specifically because he was staunchly against hungarisation or rather for the usage of the croatian language in croatia and development of our arts, and also because a joke I always repeat is "we have to turn (the statue of) ban Jelačić to face Hungary [threat]" whenever they start stirring some shit (like? Wasn't it last year when O.rban started making some sus statements about "Hungarians abroad" and how our sea should belong to them, as inspired by his daddy P.utin)

Basically it's a mix of austrohungarian politics that shouldn't matter today, but also the fact that i have heard shit like "coastal Hungarians" and. Whatever the hell O.rban was about tbh that just makes me go🤨 sometimes. Hungarians my beloveds, tho. Like with the French, I'm p sure they helped us more than they ruined us, I just hate them for the bit. You always gotta hate your neighbours a lil bit.

Tldr: it's not that deep, but i still hope the Hungarian who called me Albanian on here (bc I was talking about how people who call themselves expats just don't wanna equate themselves to "dirty immigrants" even tho they are immigrants, like, okay, i see what immigrants he had a problem with) stubs his toe once a week

[jinnies-lamps]

love actually isn’t that good why people hyped it I don’t know.

[killjoy-prince]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[chronomally]

Xu Kou really doesn't deserve any of this

[myveryownfanfiction]

18+ MINORS AND THOSE WITHOUT AGE IN BIO DNI

tags: @illiana-mystery, @iobsessoverfictionalmen

warnings: swearing, mention of sex

AN: Happy 64th Birthday Hugh Grant!

I knocked on the door to David’s office. I held a stack of papers in my hand and bit my lip, knowing he wouldn’t be too happy about them.

“David?” I peeked my head in. He picked his head up off the desk and I had to fight the smile growing on my face. “I have some more papers for you to sign.”

“More?” He frowned. I nodded as I walked over. Setting them on the desk, I squeezed his shoulder. “On my birthday? You couldn’t have had any of this pushed to tomorrow?”

“I’m sorry.” I said softly as his head hit the desk again. I gently rubbed his back as he groaned. “Don’t forget the party tonight.” I whispered before leaving down to kiss his cheek. David grunted in acknowledgment as I left the office. The time dragged slowly. David had emerged from his office to bring me back the paperwork and pressed a kiss to my cheek. As the last of the staffers left, I knocked on his door again. “Time to go.”

“Oh bloody hell yes.” David said, breathing a sigh of relief. “Fucking boring day.” I nodded in agreement as he took my hand.

“so anything specific you want to do tonight?” I asked as we turned out the lights and started to head out. David smiled as me as he tugged me closer before wrapping his arm around my waist to keep me close.

“I have an idea.” He teased, kissing me firmly. I laughed into the kiss and put my hands on his chest. I gently pushed him and David pulled back. “What? Not a good idea?”

“maybe after the party.” I said, smiling at him softly. David smiled back as he squeezed my waist. “Down boy.” We broke apart and headed down to the car that was waiting for us.

“Hello Nigel.” David greeted the driver. Nigel nodded as he held the door open for us. We climbed in and Nigel got in before driving off. “So this party…how long do we have to stay?” I laid my head on his shoulder and David kissed my head.

“I’ll let you know when we can go.” I assured him. “Probably after cake and presents.” David sighed as he leaned his head against mine.

“that seems entirely too long.” He breathed out. I laughed before tilting my head to look up at him. “Damn party. I don’t understand why I have to even show up at this damn event.”

“because your the prime minister.” I teased him. David sighed and let his head fall back against the seat.

“fuck this job.” He laughed. “I liked it better when it was just the two of us in that little apartment down in Manchester.” I hummed as I wrapped an arm around him.

“that was nice. But you campaigned. This is your fault really.” I smiled softly at him as he started laughing again.

“you’re right. You’re completely right.” He chuckled. I smiled at him before I leaned up to kiss him. David hummed against my lips as we pulled up in front of the house. “Let’s get this over with. And then we can run away to our room as soon as possible.”

“agreed.” I said as I took David’s hand and followed him into the house.

[lovedlovingly]

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[boneless-mika]

Anyway I was trying to find out why the threat level increased in Sweden (how I found out about the angering Iran, Iraq, and Yemen) and the first result was from “rädda barnen” (translation: save the children) who provide easy to understand disaster information to kids and they said it’s normal to be worried to the children. However I think perhaps I am even more worried than the children… not about terrorism but about the fact the leader of Iran stated “[Sweden] has gone into battle-array for war on the Muslim world.” which uhh is not looking great for our very long no war streak

[daily-movie-quotes]

Day 123

December 1

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

-The Prime Minister

(played by High Grant)

-Love Actually

[maxwellendowed]

Day 9: Favorite Rom Com

Yeah okay you know what, I had a PLAN to do yesterday's challenge and I EVEN figured out which one to do, so shut up.

Yeah I know this movie has been memed to hell, but it still stands up. Don't @ me lol It's so good!

I first watched it in High School with an old friend, and honestly it's one we probably shouldn't have watched by ourselves but it's fiiiine.

Mostly for their scenes, but they are just so awkward and dorky it's FINE. IT REALLY IS GOOD.

Now I can't say all the reasons I love this movie, but there's a lot. I'm pretty sure the reason we started watching it was for:

Which I get, yeah totally. But we know the real reason we gotta watch this one now.

Okay anyway, Yeah if you haven't seen this movie, it's so good. Watch it during Christmas, watch it during Summer watch it whenever lol <3

@lovesickmermaid MEH 💜

[grunge-mermaid]

so this just came up on my pinterest feed:

the average individual income in my nearest major city is $64,500 and average household income is $126,700. (according to Career Beacon, whoever they are)

assuming Career Beacon means that is the average gross salary, at 2.5x that's $161,250 and $316,750 respectively.

if they mean that is the average net household income, that bumps it up to $87,500 and approximately $200,000. So according to the pinterest advice, your budget for a house should be $218,750 or $500,000.

average house price in that same city? close to $700k

In my old neighbourhood in that city, condo PARKING SPACES were regularly listed for $40k-$75k. you can't even get a reasonable studio condo anywhere in the city proper for $316,000. in the outskirts, like out past the suburbs...maybe. but then you're paying through the nose for transportation.

you can get a nice (and I do actually mean nice, I'm not being sarcastic or snarky at all I swear) trailer home in the middle of fucking nowhere in a 55+ community for $150-$300k. good luck accessing transit though.