#fake dating real feelings

[plusultraetc]

idiots (affectionate)

[deadontheinsidesexyontheoutside]

Thinking of a beautiful au where Zuko joins the group earlier and in book 3 during the runaway episode, him and Katara "scam" people by pretending to be in a relationship and getting a couple's discount (let's just say it would go pretty well)😭❤💙

ZUTARA WEEK 2024 DAY 4:REVERENCE

All hail Zutara 🤤🥴🙌🏽 Uhhh I mean 😳😐...

Happy Zutara Week!!!!💙❤

I hope this brought a smile to some of your beautiful faces 💕 My Tumblr is currently dedicated to Palestine donations, and it'd be great if you could take a look or even tell a friend about them🫂. I appreciate you guys so much seriously. Zutara Forever and of course, FREE PALESTINE 🇪🇭🍉🌊🔥

[f1goat]

fake date + lando norris

In which Lando helps you piss of your ex boyfriend by acting like your fake new boyfriend.

one shot inspired by something i saw on wattpad a loooong time ago + a bit of a abusive ex & not proof read

masterlist - playlist

“You want to piss him of properly?” Lando asks you. 

You simply nod. Of course you want to piss of your ex. He cheated on you after all. A bit of revenge would make you feel a lot better. When you think about what he did to you, you’re quick to feel annoyed again. Maybe you weren’t together for a long time, but still. You don’t cheat on someone. 

“He hated me you know,” Lando says, “I don’t really know why.”

He’s referring to your ex again. What Lando says is the truth. Your ex hated Lando. He always thought Lando would steal you away from him. Right before the end of your relationship you even started to hope Lando would do so. Your ex didn’t like how close you and Lando are. He didn’t understand the meaning of friends since childhood. Now you think about it, it makes you even more mad. He always accused you of cheating on him with Lando, but the dick cheated on you himself. 

“He didn’t like our friendship,” you explain to Lando, “and he accused me of cheating on him with you all the time.” 

“Why didn’t you say so?” Lando asks you confused, “I could have helped you deny it.” 

“I didn’t want to bring you in my problems,” you reply. 

“Don’t ever do that again,” Lando sighs, “We’re friends y/n. I’ll always help you if I can.”

“Maybe you can help me figure out something to piss him off?” You ask Lando, getting back to your earlier subject. “I know for sure he’s at the same club tonight as we are,” you explain, “and I’m not in the mood for talking with him so I need to show him I’m off limits.” 

When you look at Lando you notice the devious way his eyes start to sparkle. You know for a fact that he’s coming up with a plan right now. 

“What if I pretend that we’re together?” Lando asks you, “That would make him mad.” 

You smile. “That’s a great plan!” You say happily. 

***

Lando is already acting like a true gentleman. When he picked you up for your gathering with your friends, he complimented your outfit multiple times. You’re a bit more dressed up then normally. Although you don’t want your ex back, you do want to show him what he’s missing right now. You’re wearing a tight dark blue dress that’s showing of your curves amazingly. You remember when you brought this dress and your ex was obsessed with it, only to tell you later that you couldn’t wear it because it was slutty. Now you look back at the whole relationship, you don’t even know why you dated him. Maybe it was just easy? Maybe you just wanted a boyfriend? And really maybe you needed a distraction to forget about your feelings for your best friend. Not that this fake dating thing is helping with forgetting about your feelings for Lando. 

Your motives for the relationship weren’t the best, but at least you didn’t cheat. You always gave the full hundred percent for the relationship. 

Before you can open the door of the luxurious McLaren that Lando used to pick you up with, Lando is rushing to your side of the car. Is he opening the door for you? He actually is. You feel butterflies flattering in your whole body. You know for a fact that your cheeks are turning red right now. 

Lando gives you his hand to help you get out of his sport car. 

“Thanks Lan,” you say.

“No problem babe,” Lando is quick to reply, “I’m just doing what a good boyfriend will do.” 

That’s when you remind that everything is fake. Fuck. This is going to be a difficult night, but you’ll enjoy every tiny bit of it. Together the both of you walk inside the club. It doesn’t take too long before you find your friends. Lando is walking right behind you when you’re walking towards them, his hand is on your back. 

“I’m so glad you still came!” One of your friends tells you excited, “I thought you would ditch because of your ex.” 

“Yeah, I doubted for a bit.. but I can’t stop having fun because of that dick,” you reply with a small grin. 

“And maybe we made a small plan to annoy him a bit,” Lando adds, after that he’s quick to fill in your friends of the plan you guys made. Your girl friends love the idea, but you notice that Max is sending Lando some weird looks. It doesn’t take long for Lando and Max to disappear for drinks. 

“What are you doing mate?” Max asks Lando confused, “Do you think fake dating her is making your crush go away?” 

“I know, I know,” Lando sighs, “but I wanted to help her.”

“You’re an idiot,” Max says.

“Maybe she will see me as date potential if I treat her right the whole night?” Lando asks hopefully. 

“Maybe she thinks you have no feelings for her because you can easily fake date her,” Max replies. 

“Maybe she will like me after tonight?” Lando continues.

“This is the worst plan you’ve ever made and I know quite a few other terrible plans of yours,” Max says a bit annoyed, “I don’t know why you just confess to her.” 

“Maybe because her ex just cheated on her and she just got out of a bad relationship?” Lando says even annoyed as his friend, “Besides I think it was a lot worse then we already thought. I don’t want to push her into something new if she’s not ready and I don’t want to fuck up our friendship.” 

Max sighs and shakes his head. “Such an idiot,” he mutters again. 

In the mean time you’re talking with one of your best friends about the plan you and Lando came up with. Without you knowing you’re having a similar conversation to Max and Lando. 

When Lando slides his arm around your waist and hands you a drink, you can’t help to notice that you’re starting to blush again. How would it feel if he was your real boyfriend you wonder. You bet it would be amazing. 

“I think I just saw him,” one of your friends says suddenly. You turn around a bit to the direction your friend is looking. She’s right. You spot your ex boyfriend. 

“Let the show begin,” Lando says with a small smile. He pulls you a bit closer to himself, causing your body to crash into his. It feels warm and comfortable. 

When you finished your drink, Lando is quick to take you to the dance floor with him. You enjoy yourself on the dance floor with Lando. His hands are touching you everywhere. At one point they reach so low that Lando is almost touching your ass. You hope he actually does. Fuck this is bad. At one point a slower song starts, Lando is quick to pull you against himself once again. Together you slowly dance. 

“I fucking knew it!” 

There’s your ex. He grabs your arm and pulls you away from Lando. Lando is quick to react, slapping the hand of your ex boyfriend away and getting you back to himself. You notice the way he’s balding his fists already. When you look at Lando you see his angry glaze. Is this still an act? You didn’t knew Lando could act this well. He actually seems really angry right now. 

“Don’t touch her,” Lando says angrily. 

“Or what mate?” Your ex replies even angrily, “I should hit her for lying to me all this time!” 

“Lying?” Lando asks. You notice his fake dumb tone. 

“She was cheating on me with you!” Your ex exclaims. 

“I was not!” You reply madly. 

“We just got together last week,” Lando states, “and I have to thank you for that mate. If you didn’t cheated on her, it would take me a lot longer to finally convince her.” 

“Oh shut up,” you ex replies, “she’s a cheating whore.” 

“Don’t call her that again,” Lando groans. 

“Oh you’re going to tell me she’s not? You think she’s some sort of amazing person?” Your ex asks mockingly.

“Yeah, actually I am. I’ve been in love with her for the longest time, you know. Do you even realize what it did to me to see how you’re treated her? Do you know how often she came crying to me because of you?” Lando starts to speech towards your ex, “She’s the best thing that ever happened to me and you tried taking that away. Do you know how hard it was for me to see her all sad instead of being her happy self?” 

Is Lando still faking things? His words feel way too real. You feel a few tears coming up. This is too sweet. 

“And now I finally have her back,” Lando continues, “and she’s finally mine. So thank you mate for fucking up the best thing you ever had, so I can treat her properly now. What she deserves.” 

“You don’t get it man,” your ex replies after a bit, “She’s a fucking whore. Just wait till you see it and you will treat her even worse. I was a fucking sweetheart to her.” 

Lando doesn’t react verbally this time. You watch in shock when Lando bals his fist again and throws a punch straight on the face of your ex. Your ex is quick to react. Before you know it you’re standing in the middle of a fight. 

What the fuck is going on?

This was not what you meant with pissing him off properly. 

It doesn’t take long for security to break up the fight. Lando is quickly thrown outside of the club, no one cares about his name or the story. Lando started it, so he needs to leave apparently. You’re quick to follow him outside, but before you can turn your back your ex says one more thing.

“Don’t come back crying to me when you realize I was the better option.”

“Oh fuck off!” You scream annoyed, “I love him you idiot. I never loved you like I love him.”

After saying those words, you’re quick to hurry outside to Lando. When you see him you’re in shock. You notice a small blood stain on his collar. Then you see his nose, which is also bleeding. 

“Fuck Lando,” you mutter, “this went way too far. I’m so sorry.”

“Don’t be,” Lando says, “I’d do it again in no time.”

“You’re crazy,” you tell him, “you didn’t have to defend me like that.”

You sit down next to Lando on the sidewalk. Lando is quick to put his arm around your shoulders.

“I’m so sorry you went through that,” Lando tells you, “I should have noticed earlier that he was toxic.” 

“Don’t say that,” you sigh, “you just got beaten up for me.” 

“It felt great punching him,” Lando says with a small smile. You let out a soft chuckle. 

“You’re the best friend I could have ever wished for,” you confess to Lando, “I don’t know what I would do without you.”

“That feeling is mutual babe.”

You notice the nickname again. You’re not in the same room as your ex anymore, so why is Lando still pretending? 

Before you can say anything about it, Lando tells you it’s time to go home. When you look at him again you see the bruises his face are already covered with. You wonder how it will look tomorrow. Thank god it isn’t race week, the questions about this will be awful. 

You and Lando are quiet in the car. Both of you are thinking about everything that happened tonight. When Lando puts his hand on your thigh while riding, you almost jump up. This is new. He never does things like this. 

When you’re in the parking garage underneath Lando his apartment, Lando is quick to rush towards your door again. He opens it for you and helps you step out once again. 

What’s happening?

Lando doesn’t let go of your hand while walking towards the elevator and walkings towards his apartment after that. He drops it to find his keys inside of his wallet. 

“Are you still pretending that you’re my boyfriend Lan?” You ask jokingly. 

Lando looks at you. You notice his nervous look. Or are you imagining things? 

“What if I was never pretending?” Lando asks you then. 

“What do you mean?” You ask surprised.

“Maybe I want to be your real boyfriend and saw this as a dumb chance to show you what I’d have to offer you,” Lando confesses so quiet that you almost don’t hear him. 

“Maybe?” You ask him.

“Maybe I’ve been in love for you for a long time,” Lando continues.

You can’t stop smiling. 

“Maybe you have convinced me,” you tell him slowly.

Lando looks at you with a big smile.

“And maybe I’m also in love with you,” you confess.

It doesn’t take Lando longer then a second to press his lips on yours. You feel his soft lips on yours. This is a feeling you could get used to.  And you guess, you have every opportunity to get used to this. 

“I love you,” Lando tells you when he pulls back. 

“I love you too Lan,” you confess, “I only dated him to find a distraction from my crush on you.” 

Lando chuckles. “Please don’t ever do that again.”

[bayetea]

I think it's really annoying that leo has completely falsified memories of jason too and this is barely acknowledged in the books

[aardvaark]

i was thinking about how i wished leverage had a birthday episode for some of the characters cause that would be sweet, but then i realised something and basically…. okay here’s my thoughts in quotes form, just for fun

hardison: so when’s your birthday? i could plan something for us and the team to do and-

parker: i dont know

hardison: you don’t know… your own birthday?

parker: no, how would i know? pshh, cmon, you’re telling me you remember EXACTLY when you were born? watch this - hey, eliot, do you know your exact birth date?

eliot, innocently passing by, who was canonically anonymously dropped off at a hospital as an infant: no, how would i know?

parker: that’s what i said!

hardison: excuse me?? what is going on right now

sophie, walking into the apartment: whats wrong?

hardison: parker and eliot- well, okay, when’s your birthday? i just have to prove something.

sophie: …….july 12th

hardison: why did you pause? wait, is that your birthday or sophie devereaux’s birthday?

sophie: ………… (guilty silence)

parker: see, no one knows their real birthday! haha you’re so weird sometimes, hardison

hardison:

hardison: what the fuck guys

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

To elaborate more on the Pesterquest stuff -

Alternia is a hell world. It's shitty to live in, even if you're a highblood, unless you fit a very specific mold of person AND are lucky enough to be born of a high caste. Every troll character we care about is, in some way, fucked over by their relationship to their society; Eridan and Vriska get it the worst, having been forced to participate in the murdering side of things since they were young, but every lowblood is screwed and every highblood is made worse even just by their passive participation. Kanaya becomes less sympathetic because she seems completely at peace with the society she grew up in, and Feferi wants to enforce casteism, even if it's of a different flavor. Gamzee and Equius both hold genuinely casteist beliefs and attitudes, which slip out and alienate them from the people they care about.

Putting a friendship simulator into the middle of all this is... a choice, I guess. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for wanting that or liking that, but it's going to be inherently at odds with what Alternia is and is meant to represent, and thus, fundamentally at odds with many of the characters' arcs and even basic personality traits, so heavily are they influenced by the shit society they grew up in.

For a non-Eridan example, Karkat loathes himself in massive part because his society loathes him. He's kill-on-sight and lives in daily terror of death. He wears a symbol at all because not having one marks him as even more of a freak, even though he knows that that symbol is connected to the empire's biggest rebel, whose footsteps he is expected to follow. The reason he's so obsessed with being leader-y and earning his teammates' reapect, or the respect of anybody, is because he's so deeply insecure about whether or not he even deserves to exist.

If you soften Alternia to the point you can write a lighthearted friendship simulator in it, then that characterization... goes away. Karkat is no longer motivated by deep, overwhelming insecurities, which drive him to idolize the society that deems him unworthy, mistakenly believing that if he can find validation in that society, he'll feel less bad about himself. Instead, Karkat is just kind of an asshole!

It's the same way with Eridan. He and Karkat are equal and opposite in this way - while Karkat is marked for death by his society, Eridan belongs to the extremely privileged caste of sea dweller royalty - even moreso than Feferi, as Feferi is slated to be murdered by the Condesce as soon as she comes of age (and her ridiculous optimism is likely something she cultivated in outright defiance of this fate). But it turns out that being a sea dweller sucks shit, too, if you aren't the extremely niche type of person that society deems "correct."

Eridan is not actually casteist and genuinely likes his land dweller friends - and this is unacceptible. Not only that, but smaller "unacceptible" offenses are wrapped up in big ones - despite not liking murder and feeling guilty about it, murder is objectively the correct thing for Eridan to be doing, constantly, to the point of it being "all [he's] ever done practically," because if he doesn't fulfil the duty of his bloodline to be murdering lusii (and by extension, their charges, who are culled when their lusii die), EVERYBODY dies. The constant push-pull of trauma, societal expectations and obligations, the fate of the species, and the fact that he is inherently not the "right" kind of person for his society, are pretty much his entire character. He's basically a walking ball of anxiety and emotional turmoil.

So, again, if you soften Alternia to the point where you can write a story about Eridan wanting to see Shrek in a public theater (something he would not actually be able to peacefully do in canon Alternia - at least not without taking off his cape, hiding his fins, and going anonblood - as sea dwellers are considered ridiculously hostile to the point even Gamzee's nervous about being on the beach for too long), Eridan ends up being just kind of an asshole!

Pesterquest!Eridan is, and I cannot stress this enough, fundamentally not the same guy as canon Eridan. They have practically nothing in common, from the fact that PQ!Eridan is willing to do something for leisure, to the fact that he isn't widely feared and the movie theater doesn't empty out in a panic when he turns up, even down to the fact that he likes femme fashion (canon Eridan goes to Lengths to lean into masc fashion) and Shrek (canon Eridan is a hipster). Hell, even the fact that PQ!Eridan SMILES is a massive deviation from canon!Eridan, who has never once been depicted smiling, and probably hasn't for many sweeps.

Also that he has that much beef with Sollux when, canonically, the two had a lukewarm mutual dislike and didn't even bother interacting until Feferi was added to the mix and Eridan became mad that Sollux was dating her. He wasn't even casteist about him until then, and after, even Sollux and Feferi don't think he's casteist, they just think he's ashenflirting so he can get into a quad with Feferi. Like come on, if you're going to feature another troll in Eridan's route, 1) make it be Karkat, and 2) have Eridan cheat on you the whole time with Karkat like he does to Feferi.

Eridan is just overall a wild choice in a friendship sim - I can't even blame them for just writing an OC and putting an Eridan skin on top - because societally, Eridan isn't even supposed to have non-sea dweller friends. The sea dweller/land dweller race war is something the Condesce deliberately put into place in order to keep land dwelling nobility in line, and Equius cites it as one of the reasons he never got along with Eridan. Like, the very fact that Eridan talks to two land dwellers on friendly terms (Kanaya and Karkat) is a MASSIVE deviation from what he's "supposed" to be like, and a huge hint that he's not as casteist as he'd like to appear. You are genuinely hundreds, if not thousands, of times likelier to end an encounter with Eridan either orphaned or dead than as his friend. He's an unstable maniac, and there's a reason so many members of his team don't like him even though he's legitimately not casteist and they mostly seem aware of it (nobody really complains about or even notices Eridan's casteism by the time they're on the meteor - his contradictions are really obvious, and it's likely that they've more or less realized that he's full of shit).

Again, I don't begrudge anybody for wanting or liking PQ. Who cares, really. I'm just saying that as a canon discussion blog, there's not really any place for PQ because it's so far removed from canon that, like, there's not really anything meaningful to discuss about it. The setting and characters in PQ are fundamentally divested from canon, and not even in an AU way. And it's totally fine if that's what you like, but, yeah, like.

Was Eridan written well (where "well" = accurate to canon): no. Maybe he's fine as an OC with an Eridan Minecraft skin slapped on, but that's not my beautiful son, that's not my baby boy.

What did they get wrong about Eridan (where "wrong" = inaccurate to canon): all.

What route would I have written for Eridan: he shoots you with a gun and you die. And then maybe cheats on you with Karkat

[hogletthe2nd]

i HAVENT seen it yet, but the fact that there’s someone out there who probably thinks Skye is straight is sending me into a coffin.

[typicallyriarkle]

How could it be anyone but you?

chapter ten of my captive prince fake dating x regency au is up...after about a million, billion years

this is truly the most angst-ridden thing I've ever written, please enjoy xx

[charlieconwayy]

fryleela meme ♥ [1/8 episodes] → season one, episode 10 "a flight to remember"

[clownantihero]

i just think shiganatsu as a ship has the potential to be SO funny in regard to how much it will piss off people they know. tomura is like "babygirl i can make your dad SO upset-"

[littlespoonevan]

the thing about romcoms is just- it's never meant to be 'is it believable?' but instead 'do you believe it?' do you believe these two characters are actually falling in love with each other??? do you believe their chemistry??? do you believe whatever obstacle is thrown in their way is legitimately something that might keep them apart for a time and not something that could be solved with one conversation?? do you believe that they believe they need to fake date for this very specific reason??? do you believe the reason why they're 'enemies' at the start, no matter how silly a misunderstanding it may be??? do you believe the grand romantic gesture fits the characters and is actually how one character would show their love to the other?? like!!!! it's about empathy and authenticity and feeling what the characters feel so strongly that even if it's a trope or a cliché it doesn't matter because you believe it

[plusultraetc]

ask game!! fake dating real feelings. sounds like some good quality fluff!!!

AH OKAY SO this one is a relatively new WIP and it's a little out of my wheelhouse ngl, but I Love Them and so I am writing it anyway lol. It's also incredibly canon divergent. Like, we've left canon in the rearview, we're borderline making stuff up at this point.

Early 20s erasermic, Aizawa ends up meeting eight year old Shinsou through a case, and in an effort to keep the Commission from squirreling him and his brainwashing quirk away somewhere, decides to foster a child. The problem is, Aizawa lives out of a suitcase in a barren apartment, which means:

Cue Aizawa and Mic committing like. Way too much to their pretend relationship while somehow remaining oblivious to each other's feelings. Aizawa's like "wow, Yamada is really good at pretending to be in love with me. And pretending to be in love with him is really easy. I will at no point consider this any more closely."

(Have some Aizawa hiding in the bathroom while the Commission's '''social worker''' visits Mic's apartment bc if there's one thing this fic is it's fun to write :D)

[its-been-rose]

Ugh this is for the au where Marie and Jason get together after George’s death

There’s a knock at Jason’s front door kinda late at night in like Octoberish or Novemberish, months after Marie had told him that even though they were grieving the same person she blamed him and never wanted to speak to him again.

He tells his parents he’ll get the door and he opens it and it’s Marie shivering in the cold with a suitcase next to her

And Jason is like “whoa, Marie, why are you here? What’s going on? Are you okay?” And she shakes her head and says “I got kicked out. C-can I stay with you?”

And he’s like “kicked out?! Because you were upset at what happened to George?!” And she just looks at the ground in embarrassment and brings her shaking hands to her stomach and goes “no… something my folks actually cared about.”

And his eyes go big and he’s like “holy shit Marie” and she scoffs like “yeah, I’m in deep shit, you dont need to rub it in.”

And he’s like “but you… came to me for help?? I thought you never wanted to talk to me again.” And she’s like “believe me, if I had other options, I’d take them. So… can I come in or not?” And he’s like “of course, oh my god, of course, Marie”

And his parents are like “Jason who is at the door?” And he’s like “uh mom, dad, you know Marie, George’s girl, right? She… she’s gonna be staying with us for a little bit, okay?” And they stand up and walk over like “what?! Why?!” And he just looks back at them like “because she NEEDS to. I’ll explain the rest later. Just get to bed and we’ll talk about this tomorrow.”

[faaun]

lmao looking at her insta highlights was a mistake

[bonobochick]

General Hospital ep airing December 29, 2022

Trina & Spencer’s New Year’s Eve “date” day one. ❤️‍🔥

[considerad]

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 you know that post about creating community if that's what you crave?

I made an enormous pile of choc chip cookies and I batched it out for our upstairs and downstairs neighbours, my ma and my great-uncle across town, and my granddad's old pal and his family, and I just got done delivering them and I feel like 🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽

so alight and alive with it all!!!! I love people! I love them!!! I am so full of fruit and phone numbers I probably won't ever call!

Life can be so unbearably sweet ❤️