look at that smile, what a smile

Every rendog video is like BY THE WAY GUYS did you know my AWESOME neighbor FALSE did this super cool build? Wow. Me and FALSE were talking the other day did you subscribe to FALSESYMMETRY yet??? Don’t raid me raid FALSE!!! I swear to god this man spends more time promoting false’s channel than his own

Ren waving at False from the balcony oh….

romance is not dead

the draw of arranged marriage AUs to me is really the way the dubcon of it all binds them together. neither of them have a choice in being here, something else is foisting this upon them whether that’s their parents or the political situation around them or expectation or something else, but the point is that they don’t get that one choice. so they have to make a choice somewhere else, that now that they’re here, they’re going to make it work. they’re each other’s only allies, in this cage built around them. they may have been coerced into swearing to stand by each other through anything, but they did swear.

it’s not love at first, or second, or third sight. it’s not love in the wedding bed the first time, whether they grit their teeth through it or decide together to forgo that binding step and try to get around it as long as they can. it’s about sharing a bed with a stranger while you learn their nightmares and how they hog the covers. it’s about sharing a name before you even know each other’s hobbies. the appearances you have to keep up, and the connection you find in both being exhausted by them, laughing together because isn’t it ridiculous how you not only have to be married but you have to act like it’s perfect and lovely for everyone else watching. it’s love that creeps up quiet and slow, between shared secrets that make your wedding bands mean something for the first time, and trying to protect each other from the trap you’re both in. and it’s about having the mortifying thought of “oh my god, i have a crush on my wife.”

i love you falseren ao3 because falseren is so inherently unmarketable that most people who write them have a Vision. it may not be a vision you personally like, but the authors are passionate, devoted, and clearly love this pair. nobody gets into falseren for the clout. clout what clout 😭 we are in definitely hell 😭❤️

falseren ao3 has such a funny existence because most “rarepairs” in the hc fandom on ao3 have pages dominated by smut/the ship being the background ship. but for falseren, regular smut/background ship fics only appeared AFTER they gained some popularity lmfao. absolutely wacky hetflop

hotel california is unfortunately such an exploitable template. waiting for hotel rotterdam. hotel seattle. hotel london.

two become one is also infinitely exploitable and i can’t make that joke irl because it’s so obviously an (outdated and old fashioned) euphemism