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Trope Talk: Fake Dating

  Hello and welcome to this post of Trope Talk. The trope I’ll be talking about today is fake dating. And yes, it’s okay to cheer now! I won’t lie, fake dating is probably my favourite trope of all time. The thing with tropes is that they tend to work the same every time, and fake dating is no exception. Let’s be real, the majority some media with fake dating is that two people start dating each other for some reason other than actually wanting to be in a relationship with each other, then as time goes by, the feelings turn real. That’s often where the conflict stems from, as the two will usually end up stop fake dating as what they wanted to achieve with the fake dating will have been achieved in some form or another, but in shocking twist that no one ever sees coming, one of the two will have real feelings. I feel like that is the most basic of basic concepts for fake dating. Is it the same every time? Yes. Do I eat it up every time? Yes . I don’t know what it is about fake dat...