#from married (fake) to married (real)...

[anesidoraa]

NEW TIMESKIP SULEMIO STANDEES!! they look so happy 🥹

those diamond portraits are their first appearances, their "i'm the bride/groom" moments, and finally them married in the timeskip :')) their poses too look like when they were waving at each other in the epilogue.

[aardvaark]

im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.

[supercalime]

Honest question, why do yall care? I mean, if it’s real, good for them but like, this feels so gross. I’ve seen how fans treat them like characters, they deserve all the privacy they can get, relationship or not

[simgerale]

me after attempting to get back into sims and realizing i had a lot more to do than play the game

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Fake Relationship (For Cover) vs. Real Relationship (Dating/Married)

[deus-ex-mona]

i never moved on from this tbh

[vice-president-galade]

I wish we got to see more interaction between Ciara and Lucian. They're foils to each other -- the two "unmarried" (cough cough) members of the administration, both tirelessly dedicated to their work and willing to go beyond their immediate roles. He does support her education reforms -- it's one of the few times he gives an opinion based on his own beliefs, not what's politically expedient. But they are complete opposites in their approach to policy -- Ciara is the uncompromising idealistic firebrand and of course Lucian is Mr. Art of the Possible.

Lucian has a handful of (mildly) misogynistic moments, but Ciara at least calls him out on one of them:

And when they start arguing about teaching evolution, it's the only time I can remember that he raises his voice (aside from when you refuse to investigate Livia, when he gets "unhinged").

He goes back and forth a bit with some of the other cabinet members, but not to this extent. And then the meeting ends on this amazingly bitchy moment:

In my headcanon second term, Lucian, Ciara and Nia are Anton's inner circle, and Nia and Anton are constantly having to referee between the two of them. (Buuuut ultimately they have a lot of love and respect for each other because it's my headcanon and I can make it hopelessly idealized if I want)

[specialagentartemis]

for the fanfiction ask game: fake/pretend relationships? that either do or dont transmute away from fakeness, if thats not unfairly doubling up on tropes

Hah, yeah, this is two fundamental tropes for me

[F] Fake Dating Becomes Real Dating. They are faking a relationship/dating/marriage/etc. for Reasons and then fall in love for real. I find this INCREDIBLY boring, and so contrived as to just be irritating. Overall I find premises that contrive a reason for characters to get together romantically that is not "they have been spending time together, or going through an Ordeal together, and realize they want to" to just be boring tbh. It feels like a shortcut and rarely feels like it's based on the characters' personalities or relationship at all.

[B] Fake Dating Does Not Become Real Dating. If the fake relationship does NOT have them fall in love for real, my interest suddenly gets a lot higher. When played for comedy, this can be hilarious - two people who are absolutely not into each other have to awkwardly pretend to be - or drama, it can be intriguing - the Fake Dating ends up straining the actual friendship. I also like when characters who LEGITIMATELY do not like each other have to pretend to be shmoopily in love while going "I am going to murder you when this mission is over" and not in a teehee actually they like each other way. I think it can be funny or dramatic, playing at the surface performance scripts of Being In Love while truly not actually liking or wanting it At All. (Wow, I wonder why I would find that appealing as a narrative :P )

[monarchteen]

➵ fanning as texts

[cowdragons]

starting a collection of images where i take photos with some of my favorite dinosaur models (shyly) (they're so tall <\\<;) (😳)

[skeletonmaster69]

actually thinking about the mom accidently faking her death incident again like its not funny but its really funny. who the fuck does that

[paraffinliquidum]

Girl who has only seen Nige Haji, watching her second tv series: Getting a lot of 'Nige Haji' vibes from this…

[attila-werther]

oh you were in LOVE love with him. the 'some people show up in your life just to wake you up,' and then this song choice with the flashback

devastating! brother, you need to buy a house, like. yesterday.

[amerie-wadia]

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[provenaence]

tag drop part one .

[a-story-teller]

Had another dream story idea and it's BAD out here y'all. My subconscious said "you don't go for sad old white men yaoi? Well here's one and you have to care about it so much. Good luck"