#they wear matching rings and pretend that theyre married

[wacuoms]

a warm summer day

[buoyantsaturn]

Maybe like a high school reunion thing where they don’t want to go in single, so one of them accidentally says that they’re married/together so they just pretend all night long. And then somehow they get drunk, and one of them finds a ring (either plastic or candy or whatever) and proposes sometime. So they wake up to posts congratulating them on their marriage/engagement even though it’s totally not official but it is super awkward because now they have to deal with their long-time crushes

this is SUCH a good suggestion thank you so much

nico and will have been very close friends since high school so when reunion time comes around of course they choose to go together because it’ll suck no matter what but at least being there together will make it better

when they get there they get recognized pretty quick and a bunch of people are like “oooh you two came here together?” and theyre both like. yeah. we did walk into this building at the same time

they meet the fiances and spouses of so many of their former classmates that after like. half an hour they both realize that, oh, those people meant together-together and so nico pulls will aside and points this out and will’s like “yeah its kinda funny, isnt it? anyway it would be weird if we went back and told everybody that we’re not actually together, so what if we just play along?” and then he finds like a roll of masking tape or something sitting on a table nearby and like. rolls a piece of tape into a ring and hands it to nico and goes “nico, will you be my fake fiance for the evening?”

they are Very touchy-feely for the rest of the night and they both get tipsy enough that they willingly go out for drinks with some of the more bearable former friends of theirs where they get Super drunk

at some point, somebody asks nico how he and will got together, and instead of answering he admits that he’s been in love with will since he was like 15

a little while later finds will on one knee in the middle of the bar confessing his love and asking him to marry him right here right now and like,,, nico’s not going to say no, not after their mutual confessions and also the fact that they agreed that this was all fake beforehand

they don’t remember Most of that when they wake up together in the same bed the next morning - and like, thats not the weird part bc they usually crash together when theyre both wasted but theyve NEVER woken up wearing matching rings and both of them have like. 15 missed calls from friends and family and when they check the internet to figure out how the word got out they both see. just. a TON of facebook posts that theyre both tagged in that are congratulating them on getting married

they cant even Look at each other when they stumble across a picture of the two of them kissing, and eventually nico’s like “do you want to forget this ever happened??” and will says “no, uhh, the opposite, actually” and ends up reconfessing his love all over again

again thank you so much for this suggestion!!

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[booabug]

ml cringe challenge roundup pt3

links: pt1, pt2, (here), pt4

Open challenge: reblog this post and make me cringe with ways established relationship Adrien & Marinette would be utter lovey-dovey trash raccoons.

@mari-monsta thought u could hide quality content in tags did u......

TAGS » #they ARE like that #they are the couple that is always touching even if super casually #if they dont see each other for more then one day then they get rly sad and moody #whenever they see each other after being separated they run into each others arms #alya and nino find this especially funny #they pack each other snacks and foods bc they know theyre both scatter brained and forget to eat #(again nino and alya find this hilarious bc they pack food for each other and not themselves???) #adrien has this freaky ability of knowing when marinette is running late and about when shes about to walk into the room #he goes 'marinettes here' then she coems through the door #it freaks everyone out #they start laughing at thing the other said/jokes they want to tell the other when they are apart #this is a fun game

omfg I find the food packing thing so funny and cute, also Adrien’s baedar because I imagine him sitting bolt upright and whipping his head towards the door, staring intently like a pointer dog when he goes, “Marinette’s here.” The jokes thing is 3cute5me and relatable cause I do that with my friends and our inside jokes :3c you’re right this is fun and it lets me outsource fluff >:3c

@lunashadow6955 (post)

They’d wear matching outfits,

Adrien would model any outfit Marinette was making and totally wear it all day to show off to everyone how proud he is of his girlfriend,

Adrien would totally give Marinette those overly huge stuffed teddy bears with a note saying “When you miss me, hug this and think it’s me.”

They would constantly hold hands, or something, because God forbid they aren’t touching or anything like that,

They would do that cliche thing where they drink a milkshake with two straws and stare into each other’s eyes, Marinette would then get whip cream on her lip and Adrien would totally kiss it off,

As LB and CN they would totally do the classic Spiderman kiss.

THIS IS GOOD STUFF and the teddy bear note omg... imagine Marinette sending him pics later of the teddy bear in Chat Noir clothes, saying it’s still not the same... but much better now.

@mindfulmagics (post)

@bluerose430 probably try to get engaged like, immediately lol. Just by announcing that they’re going to get married and Adrien appears with a ring and they’re like 15 and he just asked her out like a day earlier.

this is what reminded me of the propoji thing and made me post it lol. lmao I love the idea of adrien having absolutely no chill.

@miraculousmumma (post)

Writing each other notes during class and slipping them into each other’s pockets.

Being each other’s lock screen and wallpaper on their phones.  Constant selfies of Adrien kissing Marinette’s cheek.

Marinette leaving Adrien mushy voicemail messages when he’s working.

Let’s face it, he would arrange a flashmob for her birthday.

Cute nicknames.

Sharing food, feeding one another, one dessert, two spoons.

all true and cute and aaaaa the voicemail one gets me right in the kokoro... I can imagine a lot of them having “you can do it!” type stuff and Adrien spending his breaks listening to them on repeat and maybe crying a little

@whatsdisshiz (post)

During lessons like electives where they’re allowed their devices to listen to music they call each other and listen to each other’s voice instead

i cant even add on/make jokes/pretend this doesnt make me wanna cry cause my heart is bursting. post over im too much love this

[jaded-of-mara]

fucking hubris i guess

so its no secret that like. one of my more popular fics out there is a soulmate timer au. originally it was an abandoned wip i posted to test an ifttt recipe (it didnt work), and then when it started getting popular i got really resentful cause like. i put -50 effort into it. anyway.

i have stopped caring about the source material. i have stopped caring about the fic itself.

i havent stopped caring about the worldbuilding i put into it, tho

and it never got added to the fic and it probably wont ever be added to the fic bc i dont wanna get peoples hopes up like that. but. here it is i guess:

it starts in an american cold war research lab, because its it’s 1953 and the marginal tax rate is 92% so science has government funding out the wazoo

theres a scientist, lets call him jon, if you give a shit about continuity you can pretend hes any jon you want. hes working with clocks and what he is describing as “soul energy.” he wants to determine when the user will die, to gain an edge on the reds

he’s the first to test the device out. he sticks his finger in the little port. he has five minutes left.

he does not die. instead, a lovely young lab assistant walks into the room for the first time. because this is the 50s, there is no HR telling him he shouldnt ask her to dinner. the thing is, theyre both really compatible. theyre married within a year. the device is patented in two.

soul energy does not give a shit about the differences between platonic and romantic and familial and professional love. jon’s formula, though he doesnt know it, takes a few things into account. different markers in common will increase a compatibility “score.” a shared language does more than you would expect. the average person will meet 80,000 people in their lifetime. that narrows down the timer count from 7 billion to something more likely.

different companies race to develop their own permutations of this device. skin contact is always required. some are kitschy heart-shaped pendants. one is an incredibly tacky bakelite hair clip. the most enduring version is implanted in the skin of the inner wrist, pissing off parents and grossing out little brothers everywhere.

there is no limit to how many timers you can put on your body. theres a dude in the guinness book of world records with 157. several are in his armpits, because he’s running out of room. he will meet all of them, and all of them will be just enough like him to have some absolute baller times.

as soulmates begin to be more normalized, so are other things. laws against homosexuality and interracial marriage are quietly repealed. hospital visitation rights are granted. some churches refuse to marry anyone who isnt marrying their match. other places refuse service to anyone openly wearing a timer.

then the 80s hit. woof. before, timers were a sign of teenage rebellion, the freedom of young adulthood. now those teens are parents of their own. timers are ingrained in the culture. it becomes popular to get timers for younger and younger children. mattel has their own lines of pink and blue timers. platonic timers start being marketed, even though there is no fundamental difference in the soul energy. compatibility is compatibility, no matter what. 

fast forward to the now times. people dont think its very cash money to permanently force destiny on young children. different types of timers start becoming more popular. you walk down the street and see a guy with gauges that are like tiny little egg timers. ding! some are like mood rings that turn redder the sooner you meet them. 

the technology is cool. it is also a mark of privilege. people get shit for getting their timers at claires. the rest of the world thinks america is full of fucking weirdos for believing in destiny so hard (theyre kind of right).

in a world of constant alienation, the idea of soulmates is appealing. it’s a promise of love without any mortifying ordeals. it is saying that there is someone for everyone, that no one has to be alone for no good reason. you will meet someone, and you will be known.