December Daily: fake dating

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runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"

Yes! It's one of my favorites!

I like it as simple as "they can't ID us by our faces if we're kissing" and as elaborate as "the board of directors won't consider me mature enough to run the animal shelter unless I have a live-in partner."

I like the "Oh, no, I fell in love. Now I have to break it off" moment. And I like the "Oh, no, I fell in love. I'll just have to fake it twice as hard so that even while we're being photographed kissing in front of the Valentine's Day florist display, my partner won't ever suspect that I have Feelings."

I occasionally see a flip side, too, which I like a lot, where two characters who are long-time lovers or possibly even married have to pretend to be strangers or pals. Something I haven't seen with that trope, but would enjoy, is a scenario where they were dating/married but on the verge of splitting up, and having to pretend they're not together revitalizes the relationship.





Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.

This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...

As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.


21. minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"
22. hypertwink - "21. Now that you've come back, is there a fandom that you want to dip your toe into? (Follow up: Are you apprehensive/excited about it?)"
23. slvrbld47 -- "MCU, Tony lives through Endgame: Miraculously. As a Consequence, versions of Tony Stark are flung through the Multiverse, ending up in every Fandom. Including Your Favorites. Tony Stark is the new little black dress. I would love to see Tony Stark a werewolf in TeenWolf..."
24. runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"
25. wychwood -- Favourite Due South secondary character?
26. ride4ever - "for any dS or C6D pairing that you ship, how that ship is doing in 2020."
27. reginagiraffe - "Hermione/Harry/Ron from Bed and Board in 2020"
28. laurenthemself -- "What grammatical (or punctuation, spelling) hill would you die on?"
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