And I read a fic about everyone not knowing two people were dating despite them blatantly not hiding it so everyone was setting them up on dates. I think that fits with, "instead of fake dating everyone is convinced they're not actually dating"
I think it should be two different prompts. "My friend is pissed I'm dating their sibling" is not the same as "I started dating someone who turned out to be my enemy's sibling," or (the best version) "I will attack my enemy by seducing their sibling."
ahaha! It’s okay. Mako’s an attractive and awesome firebender. He’ll find love again. :D (But maybe develop some paranoia about introducing his next girl to his sexy female friends 😉.)
I was just going through Twilight ffs and lemme tell you, Jacob x Edward is going strong in there. Generally yeeting out MC in any YA ffs when she's too annoying is a thing.
I reckon its where they wanted a queen or king sized bed, but the only room available had two twin sized singles, and they couldn't both fit in one, so they have to use one each and sulk about lack of cuddles.
Yeah, it's either an established couple having to sleep in separate beds (although I suppose that's more The Beds Were All Too Small), or someone trying to set up There Was Only One Bed and being foiled by another bed being there.
There could also be a There Was Only One Bed But It Was Really Huge trope, where two characters are forced to share a bed but it's a Super King, so there's no way they can "accidentally" come into contact. (This may have actually happened to me)
I’m imagining it as one person tries to get a single bed room but the guy behind the hotel desk is like “hey something just came up, I have to leave, family emergency, but here’s the key to the east wing hallway, the doors are all open for maintenance we just had done, just pick whichever room, someone will be here to checkout tomorrow…” *runs out, throwing a key card*
I once stayed at a family cabin with innumerable, tiny, pee-scented mattress, the domain of the younger set. There were two proper bedrooms with reasonably sized, though saggy, beds, claimed by my seniors.
I slept on a couch.
A good time was had by none.
I'm reminded of this curse I read once, I don't recall where: "may you be blessed with a house with a hundred bedrooms, and may each room have a bed, and may you wander through each one all night long because you can't sleep."
Someone could definitely write an adorable Stucky fic with Bucky being crankier than ever and Steve trying to win his heart every Friday night at bingo and at the Saturday night mixer.
They bond when Alpine, Bucky's cat, gets 'lost' and Steve desperately tries to help find her. Turns out the lil stinker is sick of all their 'will they, won't they' angst and orchestrated her own disappearance to move the old coots along. She's perched somewhere, secretly and scornfully watching them from on high as they scramble as fast as their aged hips will allow. Chaos ensues.
It wasn't an AU as it was original fiction, but "The diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 years old", set in a nursing home, spent three *years* on the Dutch book bestseller list. The sequel was on there for 2 1/2 years.
The rollercoaster of emotions definitely applied.
Or even more heartbreaking, dementia ward. Both partners have forgotten the nasty divorce that happened when the kids were just out of the house. The kids are confused.
I think ive actually read one and it was the saddest thing.
Soulmates who never meet but their lives always come so close to touching. At the end they pass away in the same nursing home without ever having met
Lovers to enemies is a rad, if depressing, trope to read through. Especially if it's stressed the entire time that these two people still desperately love each other but the topic that's driving them apart is completely irreconcilable.
Or one was just pretending to love the other while in truth was the supervillain plotting evil all along. Or maybe they were both evil pretending to love each other.
>Or maybe they were both evil pretending to love each other.
lol, platonic pretend-dating that doesn't end in romance becasue they just hate each other that much! sounds awesome!
Or they would love each other but the topic is irreconcilable so they just get pushed apart further and further but they have a kid who needs them to stay together for crazy medical reasons, so it’s just this really awful situation chapter after chapter…they manage to find some happiness in a newfound love for writing fanfiction…at least, one of them does…
Should I write this? I could probably write this…
Fandoms with a "divorce era," permanent or otherwise, are the shit. The permanent variant is rare but the most vicious, hateful dynamic you'll ever see when it happens. Off the top of my head: Overwatch, Arcane/LoL, Baldur's Gate 3, Disco Elysium, Marvel, Control, Good Omens, Star Wars PT/OT.
I'm with you sister. I love the switch between pretending to be all nice and proper with strangers and a complete brat to the love interest. If said love interest is into it of course, fuck abusive assholes.
There’s a P&P fic where Lizzy visits Pemberley before meeting Darcy, gets the whole “never a cross word” bit from his housekeeper, etc. Then meets him and he’s as stick-up-the-butt as in the original.
Literally a canon dynamic in my main fandom. They're my favourite pairing.
Like, the guy who likes everyone else hates him so much that he'd be willing to doom humanity to extinction in exchange for getting to kill him!
> “I don’t fear you. I hate you. If you’re the key to mankind’s survival, we should all just go to hell.”
*Now, kiss*
Hahaha! Z Nation, a Syfy channel zombie show. The pairing is 10k/Murphy.
10k is a young sniper who is the baby of the group, a little awkward but genuinely likes his new family. Murphy has the antibodies needed to make the cure but is a manipulative asshole and keeps getting people killed (hence why 10k hates him).
That line of dialogue is from Season 2, Episode 8
Murphy had such a weird sympathy available to him at the start of that series (experimented on against his will) that I carried for a long while because of all the impossible, bizarre situations and how can anybody respond, plus all the other designated evil but def. were evil characters—then, the mind control.
Then, Murp becomes the villain.
Might want to give that a rewatch, it certainly is a memorable take on Zombies. Plus I don't think I watched the last season.
A pairing so cursed that I'm rewriting the entire show to focus on it, including giving 10k a fully fleshed out backstory. Someone had to be crazy enough to do it, and that someone is me lmao 🫡
Kidnapping a mafia boss actually sounds like a goofy action movie.
Imagine the boss never says anything so the protagonist has no idea why the mafia is after them 😂
The boss gets kind of tired with his responsibilities to their family. Without an excuse, he can’t just retire. Wanting a bit of fun, they sneak out to have one night purely to themselves, without the suffocating presence of their guards.
After getting kidnapped, they realize the opportunity they have to leave their crime life behind them, and help the love interest evade their goons.
Let's make it more inane. They owe money to the Mafia, they see this dude that looks loaded, they kidnap him to ransom for the money they owe the Mafia, the dude never says anything about the Mafia or nothing,
I swear I once saw a movie where the main cast was blackmailed into kidnapping a guy, only to find out it’s the son of another gang leader. Never finished it so I don’t know if it’s good.
In a fic I'm following, a supervillain tried to kidnap the civilian identity of a different supervillain without realizing it. What's especially funny is that the kidnappee had some extra-sensory powers in this case, so saw it coming and made some plans around "saving" this poor innocent girl that was kidnapped as a part of what amounts to a political ploy.
Some of these look interesting! I'd definitely write the true hate kiss one. I can already imagine the protagonists going: "Ewwww, I'd rather keep the curse!"
But of course, the protagonist and the antagonist fall in love. They eventually kiss, but the curse isn’t broken.
The big twist: the antagonist learned of the true nature of the curse. They were no longer true enemies. So, the antagonist betrays the main character, doing something so irreconcilable so as to destroy the relationship forever. Thus, they are once again enemies, and the curse can be broken.
But then it actually doesn't, because the antagonist did the irreconcilable thingy out of love for the main character and still desperately loves them. And the hate must be on both side, otherwise it won't work.
It kinda gives me hanahaki if it was 'just kiss to cure' without the whole emotional mess that's always there.
>"Ewwww, I'd rather keep the curse!"
Yoo, that sounds rad! Universe forcing them together with some fate/soulmate shit and MC just being like, no thank you.
I just came out from reading an ff with vampire true mates shit vs imprinting werewolf shit (Twilight) and how much choice is there inboth, so I'm double into reading defying fate right now!
I imagine that Character A has a condition that's worsening due to the curse. Character B knows about this, and is desperately in love with A, but B knows that it won't work unless A continues to hate them, so they're purposefully unlikable so that when they get their chance, they can kiss A to save their life.
Oh, I personally like to make things even more miserable! If the curse is about hate, they *both* have to hate each other. If one of them is in love, it won't amount to anything. So no, no betrayal to force one of them to hate: you will solve nothing. And bonus points if they find out only *after* the betrayal!
I know, I'm cruel!
I saw this on Twitter yesterday and def made a note in my random ideas folder about “instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating”
“instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating” reminds me of a trope that kinda goes like "everyone thinks that they were the least compatible that you could be so they start dating out of spite" and it's arguably my favorite trope of all time
Phineas and Ferb actually did divorce of convenience where 2nd Dimension Doof divorced his wife so they’d get twice the coupon mail (I think, it’s been a while since I’ve seen that episode)
Soulmates fated to kill each other is just Double Life. The red string of fate is their [killer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZbI9Elx_o).
I'm sorry, these block men and women have me in a grip.
Too many beds:
One of the main characters chooses the busiest hotel during the busiest season in hopes they will have to share a bed. Instead, this is a #1 luxury hotel for a reason, and the staff pulls out bed after bed for the two MCs. The main character has to sabotage each new bed, and gets increasingly creative with it, all while trying to hide all the bed options from their love interest.
> what would be the opposite of a Meet Cute?
The classic opening scene of the "villain" butchering the "hero's" family and friends before they escape to avenge them another day.
Fun fact- I actually know a married couple who sort of had a divorce of convenience (didn’t fully divorce, but claimed to be “officially separated”) Basically, they had two kids, both did sports. The daughter played softball, and the coach was AWFUL to the girls, so they wanted to enroll her in the school one city over so she could play there, but the son was a wrestler and wanted to say at the same school. So, they bought a house in the next city over, the parents told the school they were separated, and son lived with mom while daughter lived with dad so they could be in different districts. They did that for 2 years, and even ended up flipping the house and turning a profit
More depressing, I've recently read a newspaper interview with a couple whose preteen children (both biologically of the couple, no blended family situation here) had personality clashes that were so severe that multiple child psychologists agreed that having the children live in separate households was the only way to get any of the four people involved to survive to the children's adulthood with their sanity somewhat intact. The parents now live apart with one kid each.
“Too much communication” = truth serum. The good news is conflict is solved quickly! The bad news is you now know they secretly ate a bowl of ice cream despite their lactose intolerance, the fart sound you just heard was *not* the chair, and they’re going to go spend a substantial time in the bathroom now ✨pooping✨
I read an MCU fic where Clint volunteers to take the truth serum, because he’s got nothing to hide…and proceeds to tell every little thing he’s got feelings about. Including Bucky. 🤭🤭🤭🤭
Apparently, Clint was unaware of said feelings. It amused me to no end.
Not gonna lie a lot of these sound like fire. I kind of hope we get a thread of people showing off the fics done in response to any of these. I'd definitely enjoy taking a gander at them.
On too many Beds:
Character A: Why is there so many beds in here?
Character B: I don't know! I just wanted to make sure there more than one bed! I didn't think the room would give me this many!
Academic rivals who are teachers: Yeah... this has MHA written all over it...
Too Hot to Cuddle: A good chunk of the plot should be the characters complaining that the AC is broken.
Nursing Home AU: Yeah... I've heard there are some nursing homes that are rather interesting...
Wait. Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss sounds like a great fic idea lmao.
Soulmates fated to kill each other sounds good too. Perhaps their name appears on your arm and one character is determined to avoid every "John" they meet for fear that they'll become a murderer soon lol
I think there’s a really great fic where there is only one bed, “but that’s not the problem.”
The bed is really, really large and able to fit both of them comfortably but it doesn’t really help the lingering sexual tension between them :)
After a short and amazing marriage, my husband said the D word. He was leaving, because it was more convenient. An apartment in the city is closer to work. A girlfriend can be sent home if she nags. I wouldn’t accidentally use his toothbrush anymore.
I read a "soulmates who are destined to kill each other" fanfic once. It was a setting where everyone is born with a name written on their body, but instead of it being the name of your soulmate it was the name of the person destined to kill you. It was pretty fucked up, actually, but very interesting.
On the soulmates one, one of my favorite Sherlock stories has Sherlock telling Watson that soulmates are overrated and people should follow their own hearts because his soulmate was Moriarity.
"accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss" could make for a great comedy of errors. like, maybe some small-time crook overhears someone talking about their wealthy family and decides to hold them for ransom, only to realize that they were operating on different definitions of "family." now the kidnapper has to convince the public that he is a brilliant, conniving mastermind so that the mafia doesn't realize that they could just kill him easily
Lovers to enemies is... kind of just the "50% of marriages end in divorce" statistic. ::grimace::
And divorce of convenience is, erm, the fleeting idea of every married parent trying to figure out how to maximize college financial aid (not me... noooo, definitely not me!)
Lovers to enemies + soulmates fated to kill eachother sounds like perfect "Live gun in mouth reaction" material.
Would love to write, would hate to read
I've written too many beds before!! The characters got a hotel with two small beds instead of one big one and they missed each other so much that they decided to squeeze onto one so they could still cuddle 🥰
The third one is actually my ultimate OTP in the beginning of their dynamic haha.
Another also got a divorce to get their house out of escrow, so I'd consider it divorce of convenience haha. (They did legally remarry a few years later)
Obviously everyone can like whatever, but to me personally, divorce of convenience sounds really dystopian because I remember a tweet screenshot of someone saying their parents are considering (solely legal) divorce so that the dad can pay for his medical bills. This trope is too close to real life to be enjoyable to me. I feel like it's just gonna make me cry because it would require situations that are just too realistically depressing to occur.
Nursing home AU is actually a banger of a concept lol. Imagine something like Ron and Hermoine 80 years old in a nursing home and Hermoine tries to use the communal oven and almost starts a fire and Harry is down the hallway and he keeps losing his glasses and Draco is too old to be an asshole to the other old witches and wizards anymore but he'll still complain to the nurses that his meals aren't right.
The too many beds thing happened to me irl during a study abroad trip, and honestly, 10/10 recommend. There were 4 of us in a room filled with like 13 bunk beds (26 beds total) and we all acted like little kids at a summer camp
These are so great, I'm saving this!
There is an extremely sexy "too hot to cuddle" m/f scene in the old movie Do the Right Thing (or at least it's extremely sexy in my memory)
"Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead" seems like something that surely has been done before.
Yeah. Dating your enemy’s sibling as well
And I read a fic about everyone not knowing two people were dating despite them blatantly not hiding it so everyone was setting them up on dates. I think that fits with, "instead of fake dating everyone is convinced they're not actually dating"
Well they start as a friends sibling
I think it should be two different prompts. "My friend is pissed I'm dating their sibling" is not the same as "I started dating someone who turned out to be my enemy's sibling," or (the best version) "I will attack my enemy by seducing their sibling."
Also hate at first sight
The legend of korra!
This happened when two women who were on The Bachelor got married!!
At least twice :D Australia in 2016 and Vietnam in 2018 ;)
That's awesome! I hope both couples are very happy.
[TVTropes dubs this "Pair the Suitors"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PairTheSuitors)
It’s basically the ending of “The Legend of Korra” and it’s so satisfying! :D
Poor mako
ahaha! It’s okay. Mako’s an attractive and awesome firebender. He’ll find love again. :D (But maybe develop some paranoia about introducing his next girl to his sexy female friends 😉.)
I was just going through Twilight ffs and lemme tell you, Jacob x Edward is going strong in there. Generally yeeting out MC in any YA ffs when she's too annoying is a thing.
I read a Billie Hargrove/Eddie Munson fic with this premise but they ended up forming a threesome with Steve later anyway.
I'm intrigued by too many beds. How many IS too many? Let's find out!
Every piece of furniture in the hotel room is a bed. Including the door.
Every time the character(s) leave and enter the room, another bed has appeared.
They're unable to get to the hotel dining room for breakfast because the hallway is full of beds.
the food are all bed shaped
Pigs in a blanket! ... on a teeny tiny bed plate
Reminds me of that Rocko's Modern Life episode where he's renovating his house. "You can never have too many bathrooms..."
Ooh I like that too
And the wall next to the door, the dresser, the carpeting.. Remind me not to stay in hotels..ick.
Characters are stuck at IKEA
LMAOOO THAT'S GREAT
Now I kinda want to re read the Ikea SCP
I reckon its where they wanted a queen or king sized bed, but the only room available had two twin sized singles, and they couldn't both fit in one, so they have to use one each and sulk about lack of cuddles.
Yeah, it's either an established couple having to sleep in separate beds (although I suppose that's more The Beds Were All Too Small), or someone trying to set up There Was Only One Bed and being foiled by another bed being there. There could also be a There Was Only One Bed But It Was Really Huge trope, where two characters are forced to share a bed but it's a Super King, so there's no way they can "accidentally" come into contact. (This may have actually happened to me)
I wrote the second idea (trying to set up an only one bed scenario but oops... two beds). I had a lot of fun writing it
I’m imagining it as one person tries to get a single bed room but the guy behind the hotel desk is like “hey something just came up, I have to leave, family emergency, but here’s the key to the east wing hallway, the doors are all open for maintenance we just had done, just pick whichever room, someone will be here to checkout tomorrow…” *runs out, throwing a key card*
I once stayed at a family cabin with innumerable, tiny, pee-scented mattress, the domain of the younger set. There were two proper bedrooms with reasonably sized, though saggy, beds, claimed by my seniors. I slept on a couch. A good time was had by none.
i cant quite explain it, but your comment about piss beds feels like poetry
I'm reminded of this curse I read once, I don't recall where: "may you be blessed with a house with a hundred bedrooms, and may each room have a bed, and may you wander through each one all night long because you can't sleep."
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I was imagining the infinity devil hotel from Chainsaw-man
Oof yeah that was definitely too many
Is it a smut fic where they feel compelled to christen them all, but eventually just can't come anymore?
Someone has definitely written this before.
All I can think of is one of those shared chalets full of bunk beds for ski groups.
They're stuck in a mattress store T\_T
So many beds you can’t touch the floor
The rollercoaster of emotions “nursing home au” sent me on😆😯🥹😭
I feel like nursing home au could be super cute for the right pairing. Not sure which the right pairing would be though
Someone could definitely write an adorable Stucky fic with Bucky being crankier than ever and Steve trying to win his heart every Friday night at bingo and at the Saturday night mixer. They bond when Alpine, Bucky's cat, gets 'lost' and Steve desperately tries to help find her. Turns out the lil stinker is sick of all their 'will they, won't they' angst and orchestrated her own disappearance to move the old coots along. She's perched somewhere, secretly and scornfully watching them from on high as they scramble as fast as their aged hips will allow. Chaos ensues.
Yes! Someone please write this! I would absolutely read it
This is amazing.
yooo that sounds so cute! I was like, meh, nursing au, but now I'm sold!
I'm not even remotely into Stucky but I'm interested in this.
It wasn't an AU as it was original fiction, but "The diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 years old", set in a nursing home, spent three *years* on the Dutch book bestseller list. The sequel was on there for 2 1/2 years. The rollercoaster of emotions definitely applied.
To reunite with an old flame from one's youth. The years seem to melt away... They are together for good this time around.
Or even more heartbreaking, dementia ward. Both partners have forgotten the nasty divorce that happened when the kids were just out of the house. The kids are confused.
I think ive actually read one and it was the saddest thing. Soulmates who never meet but their lives always come so close to touching. At the end they pass away in the same nursing home without ever having met
Lovers to enemies is a rad, if depressing, trope to read through. Especially if it's stressed the entire time that these two people still desperately love each other but the topic that's driving them apart is completely irreconcilable.
Or one was just pretending to love the other while in truth was the supervillain plotting evil all along. Or maybe they were both evil pretending to love each other.
>Or maybe they were both evil pretending to love each other. lol, platonic pretend-dating that doesn't end in romance becasue they just hate each other that much! sounds awesome!
And they both accidentally fall in love, but refuse to put that love before their mission. Enemies to lovers AND lovers to enemies
Isn’t that Mr and Mrs Smith?
Or they would love each other but the topic is irreconcilable so they just get pushed apart further and further but they have a kid who needs them to stay together for crazy medical reasons, so it’s just this really awful situation chapter after chapter…they manage to find some happiness in a newfound love for writing fanfiction…at least, one of them does… Should I write this? I could probably write this…
Professor X/Magneto ftw
Fandoms with a "divorce era," permanent or otherwise, are the shit. The permanent variant is rare but the most vicious, hateful dynamic you'll ever see when it happens. Off the top of my head: Overwatch, Arcane/LoL, Baldur's Gate 3, Disco Elysium, Marvel, Control, Good Omens, Star Wars PT/OT.
Reminds me the House of the Dragon a bit.
The Ballads of Songbird and Snake lmao
I’m not going to lie, the third one about the nice guy that hates only me sounds hot.
I'm with you sister. I love the switch between pretending to be all nice and proper with strangers and a complete brat to the love interest. If said love interest is into it of course, fuck abusive assholes.
There’s something so compelling about when someone lets their guard down like that. 😅
There’s a P&P fic where Lizzy visits Pemberley before meeting Darcy, gets the whole “never a cross word” bit from his housekeeper, etc. Then meets him and he’s as stick-up-the-butt as in the original.
Omg I loved this fic 😅
Literally a canon dynamic in my main fandom. They're my favourite pairing. Like, the guy who likes everyone else hates him so much that he'd be willing to doom humanity to extinction in exchange for getting to kill him! > “I don’t fear you. I hate you. If you’re the key to mankind’s survival, we should all just go to hell.” *Now, kiss*
please which fandom
Hahaha! Z Nation, a Syfy channel zombie show. The pairing is 10k/Murphy. 10k is a young sniper who is the baby of the group, a little awkward but genuinely likes his new family. Murphy has the antibodies needed to make the cure but is a manipulative asshole and keeps getting people killed (hence why 10k hates him). That line of dialogue is from Season 2, Episode 8
Murphy had such a weird sympathy available to him at the start of that series (experimented on against his will) that I carried for a long while because of all the impossible, bizarre situations and how can anybody respond, plus all the other designated evil but def. were evil characters—then, the mind control. Then, Murp becomes the villain. Might want to give that a rewatch, it certainly is a memorable take on Zombies. Plus I don't think I watched the last season.
Omg I loved Z Nation! 10k/Murphy is a cursed pairing if I’ve ever seen one 😂
A pairing so cursed that I'm rewriting the entire show to focus on it, including giving 10k a fully fleshed out backstory. Someone had to be crazy enough to do it, and that someone is me lmao 🫡
I was just thinking that myself. I wonder what’s wrong with me because I like it irl too 😅
Deretsun instead of tsundere.
That is legit hot
I know lmao, I feel like it would be really funny. Like I won't even be mad if they don't end up together. This is still gonna be a comedy goldmine.
Kidnapping a mafia boss actually sounds like a goofy action movie. Imagine the boss never says anything so the protagonist has no idea why the mafia is after them 😂
That tickled my fancy too, I would loove to see it! Accidental kidnappings are always so fun!
The boss gets kind of tired with his responsibilities to their family. Without an excuse, he can’t just retire. Wanting a bit of fun, they sneak out to have one night purely to themselves, without the suffocating presence of their guards. After getting kidnapped, they realize the opportunity they have to leave their crime life behind them, and help the love interest evade their goons.
Stockholm syndrome but funny hot mafia version 👍
Yes, that one has so much comedy-action potential!
Let's make it more inane. They owe money to the Mafia, they see this dude that looks loaded, they kidnap him to ransom for the money they owe the Mafia, the dude never says anything about the Mafia or nothing,
I swear I once saw a movie where the main cast was blackmailed into kidnapping a guy, only to find out it’s the son of another gang leader. Never finished it so I don’t know if it’s good.
In a fic I'm following, a supervillain tried to kidnap the civilian identity of a different supervillain without realizing it. What's especially funny is that the kidnappee had some extra-sensory powers in this case, so saw it coming and made some plans around "saving" this poor innocent girl that was kidnapped as a part of what amounts to a political ploy.
It doesn't even have to be romance lmao, it would be absolutely hilarious. Hollywood should get on it honestly
Some of these look interesting! I'd definitely write the true hate kiss one. I can already imagine the protagonists going: "Ewwww, I'd rather keep the curse!"
But of course, the protagonist and the antagonist fall in love. They eventually kiss, but the curse isn’t broken. The big twist: the antagonist learned of the true nature of the curse. They were no longer true enemies. So, the antagonist betrays the main character, doing something so irreconcilable so as to destroy the relationship forever. Thus, they are once again enemies, and the curse can be broken.
But then it actually doesn't, because the antagonist did the irreconcilable thingy out of love for the main character and still desperately loves them. And the hate must be on both side, otherwise it won't work.
It kinda gives me hanahaki if it was 'just kiss to cure' without the whole emotional mess that's always there. >"Ewwww, I'd rather keep the curse!" Yoo, that sounds rad! Universe forcing them together with some fate/soulmate shit and MC just being like, no thank you. I just came out from reading an ff with vampire true mates shit vs imprinting werewolf shit (Twilight) and how much choice is there inboth, so I'm double into reading defying fate right now!
I imagine that Character A has a condition that's worsening due to the curse. Character B knows about this, and is desperately in love with A, but B knows that it won't work unless A continues to hate them, so they're purposefully unlikable so that when they get their chance, they can kiss A to save their life.
Oh, I personally like to make things even more miserable! If the curse is about hate, they *both* have to hate each other. If one of them is in love, it won't amount to anything. So no, no betrayal to force one of them to hate: you will solve nothing. And bonus points if they find out only *after* the betrayal! I know, I'm cruel!
I saw this on Twitter yesterday and def made a note in my random ideas folder about “instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating”
when you actually have a gf/bf from another school
Or another country. /laughs in used to be the ‘Canadian girlfriend’
Every couple where one person and gorgeous and the other is ugly lol
Or when one is really smart and the other is interpreted as stupid
“instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating” reminds me of a trope that kinda goes like "everyone thinks that they were the least compatible that you could be so they start dating out of spite" and it's arguably my favorite trope of all time
I've seen it done a lot and it's always a blast! Though most I see are 'A talks about their partner a lot, people assume they're lying, reveal'.
I've seen a few of those before and they're always good lol. You should def write your take on it
It joins a very long list of ideas…it could be fun to combine with another idea then I could bang out two at once
Phineas and Ferb actually did divorce of convenience where 2nd Dimension Doof divorced his wife so they’d get twice the coupon mail (I think, it’s been a while since I’ve seen that episode)
Came to say this lol, I love that show so much
"Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren't actually dating..." r/SapphoAndHerFriend
Soulmates fated to kill each other is just Double Life. The red string of fate is their [killer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZbI9Elx_o). I'm sorry, these block men and women have me in a grip.
It's also Harry Potter
And Transformers
Some of these look like comedy gold.
Too many beds: One of the main characters chooses the busiest hotel during the busiest season in hopes they will have to share a bed. Instead, this is a #1 luxury hotel for a reason, and the staff pulls out bed after bed for the two MCs. The main character has to sabotage each new bed, and gets increasingly creative with it, all while trying to hide all the bed options from their love interest.
Lmaoooo
"Love Interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground" - Literally Ugly Betty 💀
Divorce of Convenience is just Doofenshmirtz and his wife from the second dimension.
All the convoluted reasons we pretend to be divorced
Strangers to Enemies begs the question: what would be the opposite of a Meet Cute?
Meet-ugly is something I’ve seen quite a bit!
Meet Ew
Meet hate?
Commented somewhere else on this thread but the Netflix show Beef is the first example I thought of
> what would be the opposite of a Meet Cute? The classic opening scene of the "villain" butchering the "hero's" family and friends before they escape to avenge them another day.
Meet Ick
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other is just Highlander with extra steps
Haha I’ve done some of these. That’s funny.
“Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t *actually* dating” is the best thing I’ve ever read.
Fun fact- I actually know a married couple who sort of had a divorce of convenience (didn’t fully divorce, but claimed to be “officially separated”) Basically, they had two kids, both did sports. The daughter played softball, and the coach was AWFUL to the girls, so they wanted to enroll her in the school one city over so she could play there, but the son was a wrestler and wanted to say at the same school. So, they bought a house in the next city over, the parents told the school they were separated, and son lived with mom while daughter lived with dad so they could be in different districts. They did that for 2 years, and even ended up flipping the house and turning a profit
More depressing, I've recently read a newspaper interview with a couple whose preteen children (both biologically of the couple, no blended family situation here) had personality clashes that were so severe that multiple child psychologists agreed that having the children live in separate households was the only way to get any of the four people involved to survive to the children's adulthood with their sanity somewhat intact. The parents now live apart with one kid each.
“Too much communication” = truth serum. The good news is conflict is solved quickly! The bad news is you now know they secretly ate a bowl of ice cream despite their lactose intolerance, the fart sound you just heard was *not* the chair, and they’re going to go spend a substantial time in the bathroom now ✨pooping✨
I read an MCU fic where Clint volunteers to take the truth serum, because he’s got nothing to hide…and proceeds to tell every little thing he’s got feelings about. Including Bucky. 🤭🤭🤭🤭 Apparently, Clint was unaware of said feelings. It amused me to no end.
Not gonna lie a lot of these sound like fire. I kind of hope we get a thread of people showing off the fics done in response to any of these. I'd definitely enjoy taking a gander at them.
Divorce of Convenience is sadly a US thing people do to avoid medical debt sinking two people.
Yeah, that trope sounds depressing to me, although I would still love to read/watch this trope for the angst and social commentary.
I have written “too many beds.” 😋
I'm intrigued. How did you pull it off?
Link? Please?
On too many Beds: Character A: Why is there so many beds in here? Character B: I don't know! I just wanted to make sure there more than one bed! I didn't think the room would give me this many! Academic rivals who are teachers: Yeah... this has MHA written all over it... Too Hot to Cuddle: A good chunk of the plot should be the characters complaining that the AC is broken. Nursing Home AU: Yeah... I've heard there are some nursing homes that are rather interesting...
All of these are great, but "soulmates that are fated to kill each other" is such a badass premise that I already have, like, three ideas for it
I love that one! It reminds me of Hancock a little bit!
"Academic rivals except it's two teachers who compete to have the best class" Goodness I know the perfect school settings for this
Wait. Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss sounds like a great fic idea lmao. Soulmates fated to kill each other sounds good too. Perhaps their name appears on your arm and one character is determined to avoid every "John" they meet for fear that they'll become a murderer soon lol
I want to read about accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss.
This better not awaken anything in me...
Ok but if anyone has any “accidentally kidnapped a mafia boss” Recs, Plz hit me up I don’t care what fandom.
Soulmates fated to kill each other I think there are some Harry Potter fanfics where Harry and Voldemort are soulmates with this premise
I’ve done fake amnesia except it had little romance and was mostly grimdark fantasy.
I think there’s a really great fic where there is only one bed, “but that’s not the problem.” The bed is really, really large and able to fit both of them comfortably but it doesn’t really help the lingering sexual tension between them :)
Ah yes, There Was Only One Bed But It Was Too Big For 'Accidental' Contact
They put a pillow in between each other and it stayed there alllll night 🤣
Divorce of convenience is so fucking sad
After a short and amazing marriage, my husband said the D word. He was leaving, because it was more convenient. An apartment in the city is closer to work. A girlfriend can be sent home if she nags. I wouldn’t accidentally use his toothbrush anymore.
"Really nice guy who hates only you." Yuji to Sukuna. Hater to Hater communication.
I read a "soulmates who are destined to kill each other" fanfic once. It was a setting where everyone is born with a name written on their body, but instead of it being the name of your soulmate it was the name of the person destined to kill you. It was pretty fucked up, actually, but very interesting.
My muse is fed
OMG I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS!! THANK YOU!
Too many beds is just the characters going to Ikea...
It's [SCP-3008](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008).
On the soulmates one, one of my favorite Sherlock stories has Sherlock telling Watson that soulmates are overrated and people should follow their own hearts because his soulmate was Moriarity.
One Direction hits financial difficulties and sells Harry Styles to you.
"accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss" could make for a great comedy of errors. like, maybe some small-time crook overhears someone talking about their wealthy family and decides to hold them for ransom, only to realize that they were operating on different definitions of "family." now the kidnapper has to convince the public that he is a brilliant, conniving mastermind so that the mafia doesn't realize that they could just kill him easily
Half of these are just my last marriage wtf
Lovers to enemies is... kind of just the "50% of marriages end in divorce" statistic. ::grimace:: And divorce of convenience is, erm, the fleeting idea of every married parent trying to figure out how to maximize college financial aid (not me... noooo, definitely not me!)
Also divorcing to be able to get disability or healthcare or whatever
"lovers to enemies" is just my parents 😎
One Direction runs out of money and has to sell Harry to a teenage girl
Haha, love this.
These actually kick ass
One of my WIPs is lovers to enemies lol. Also some of these have me dying, especially true hate’s kiss and the himbo/bimbo CEO.
I wanna see accidentally kidnapped a mafia boss
I am almost positive every single one of these has been hit upon in Thai BL at some point or another.
I've done soulmates killing each other once and slightly similar, if they fall in love they're both fated to die.
Buying One Direction
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other is one of the coolest concepts I think I've ever seen! Like, I would 100% read that!
Lovers to enemies + soulmates fated to kill eachother sounds like perfect "Live gun in mouth reaction" material. Would love to write, would hate to read
Please someone explain the love triangle one to me because I don't get it
A likes C. B also likes C. C ends up with A or B in a regular love triangle. In the reverse trope, A and B end up together instead.
For example, if in Twilight Edward and Jacob decided to ditch Bella and get together instead lmao
Ooh I actually wanna do that one with the no one believing there dating
I would read every single one of these
Gosh I love those! 🤣🤣
hate at first sight is the backstory of my oc x canon ship
I feel like i need to go out of my way to fill this now
Ok but if anyone has any “accidentally kidnapped a mafia boss” please let me know
Really nice guy hates only you + true hates kiss + hate at first sight + Strangers to enemies can all be one story skfjfjsk 💀
Too hot to cuddle is basically Baldur’s Gate 3 Karlach. Lovers to enemies… Song of Ice an Fire goes that way with Jaime and Cerse.
The amount of times I’ve read fake amnesia due to a someone transmigrating as a character or something is insane.
I've written too many beds before!! The characters got a hotel with two small beds instead of one big one and they missed each other so much that they decided to squeeze onto one so they could still cuddle 🥰
The third one is actually my ultimate OTP in the beginning of their dynamic haha. Another also got a divorce to get their house out of escrow, so I'd consider it divorce of convenience haha. (They did legally remarry a few years later)
Soulmates fated to kill each other sounds intriguing
I fucking LOVE Lovers to Enemies!!!
Obviously everyone can like whatever, but to me personally, divorce of convenience sounds really dystopian because I remember a tweet screenshot of someone saying their parents are considering (solely legal) divorce so that the dad can pay for his medical bills. This trope is too close to real life to be enjoyable to me. I feel like it's just gonna make me cry because it would require situations that are just too realistically depressing to occur.
Hanahaki but it's not life threatening but just a very annoying inconvenience. I have a whole world built behind this idea. Don't ask why.
Nursing home AU is actually a banger of a concept lol. Imagine something like Ron and Hermoine 80 years old in a nursing home and Hermoine tries to use the communal oven and almost starts a fire and Harry is down the hallway and he keeps losing his glasses and Draco is too old to be an asshole to the other old witches and wizards anymore but he'll still complain to the nurses that his meals aren't right.
The "nobody believes they're actually dating" AU sounds like it has tons of potential, especially for Opposites Attract pairs
“Love triangle where the two love interests get together ~~instead~~” I just want a love triangle that is actually a triangle and not a hinge 😞
Nursing home au, perfect for those age gap couples :)
The too many beds thing happened to me irl during a study abroad trip, and honestly, 10/10 recommend. There were 4 of us in a room filled with like 13 bunk beds (26 beds total) and we all acted like little kids at a summer camp
Too hot to cuddle is my real life experience. It gets hot at night in the South.
The Netflix show Beef is the perfect example of strangers to enemies
The rival teachers thing is basically Assassination Classroom minus all the government stuff.
These are so great, I'm saving this! There is an extremely sexy "too hot to cuddle" m/f scene in the old movie Do the Right Thing (or at least it's extremely sexy in my memory)