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But Elmo, after cheerfully surrendering his old toys, sees that the children who swapped toys with him are playing with his toys “wrong”! They’re imagining entirely different make believe scenarios! They’re pretending the football is a dinosaur egg instead of a rocket ship! Aaahhhhh!!!! And this is so distressing to poor Elmo that he does the unthinkable: He does swapsies-backsies and takes all his toys back!

This being Sesame Street, he learns that you can’t control how other people play pretend, but you can join in if you want to! And if you don’t want to, that’s ok, you can just play pretend your own way by yourself or with someone else who wants to play that way too. You can still be friends with people who play pretend differently than you (and aren’t being mean/harmful/etc, do not bad-faith-read this 🤨).

buying all available volumes

taking screenshots

rereading scenes immediately after reading them

opening documents entitled "just a few observations"

developing strong opinions about fictional educational policy

This is not an emergency. But it may be a situation.

01. One bed ➳ Two beds

Characters finding themselves crowded with two beds, but they're looking for absurd excuses to share one bed.

02. Enemies to lovers ➳ Lovers to enemies

How a couple goes from starstruck lovers to enemies at each other's throats.

03. Fake dating ➳ Fake break up

Characters fake their breakup in public due to their circumstances, and now they're back to secretly dating while the public thinks they are split up.

04. Their partner getting kidnapped by evildoers ➳ Their partner kidnapping evildoers

Their partner is stressing out the main character by recklessly kidnapping evildoers to teach them a lesson. They are panicking between covering their traces and applauding (and ogling at) their partner for being so badass.

05. Breaking up to protect their partner ➳ Dating to protect their partner

They start dating for protection due to their circumstances and eventually fall in love with each other.

06. Getting paired up for spinning bottle ➳ Not getting paired for spinning bottle

Both of them are trying hard to land their turn on each other, but their luck is awful. (They play all night while everyone else is passed out drunk, leaving only two of them still up).

07. Seven minutes in heaven ➳ Seven minutes in hell

The friend group splits up this lovey-dovey couple. In this opposite game, they are not allowed to see each other for the specified time period (and they are clearly dying to be all over each other again).

08. Intact memories to amnesia ➳ Amnesia to intact memories

The story starts off with a character having amnesia, and readers find out their background as the character regains their memories throughout the story.

09. Parents disapproving their relationship ➳ Parents are playing matchmakers, but they disapprove of each other

Both of their parents play cupid to get them together, but the characters hate each other's guts (and warm up to each other eventually).

10. Comforting their partner from a nightmare ➳ Sharing a funny dream they had with their partner

The character wakes up from the most absurd fever dream. They wake up their partner to tell them this hilarious dream.

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