Love Is Blind only proves that most people on it are after looks anyway (mostly men, tbh).

Like, they claim to have this connection and feel butterflies when talking, head over heels and all. When they see each other for the first time they usually hold some facade of being still amazed. But then they go on short vacation together and suddenly a switch is flipped if their partner is a tiny bit less conventionally attractive.

Bullshit like "I just have trouble showing feelings and affection" or "I don't feel that spark" and "My head tells me she's the one, but my heart doesn't feel it."

Then, on top of that, they meet all the other contestants and start drooling after other people 🙄

Season 1 or 2? 👀

Second season.

I mean, I agree that physical attraction is an important part of building a relationship, but it also builds with exposition if you give it a chance.

These men just immediately shut down and pull back when their partner isn't a supermodel they wanted.

And then check out or even flirt with the women they previously dumped in favor of the one they picked.

listen fandom I need “breeding season intern” to become a thing immediately

Me and hubby:

and the breeding season intern:

🥵🥵🥵

gonna get soooo pregnant

So what you're saying is Andy is infertile and you searched for a good specimen to get you pregnant and to keep afterwards 🤭

We could go that route.

Orrrrr

You and Andy are kinky and he is hot for the idea of another man fucking you bare. Cuckolding a bit.

Though they both fuck you, so who knows which one is really the father.

Also: both are sweetly mean to you, but Steve is also a bit mean to Andy which makes Andy so 🥴🥵

mwahahaha 😏🤭

a choose your own man type of short story

warnings: none; a bit of angst, but I don't leave it at heartbreak;

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Arranged marriages could be a doomed fate. A struggle of both sides that were forced into it, treating each other as the enemy instead of trying to build something on the cold stones of expectations.

For you, being promised to the future mafia Don wasn't the end of the world.

You didn't fight it, despite the announcement being made when you were barely fifteen and he was eighteen.

Partly because it was softly ingrained into the lining of your being, preparing you to become a gentle foundation on which a mafia made man could lean on.

Mostly, however, because you grew up with your future husband, got to know him, and there wasn't a reason to hate him.

Hm... My first thought was Steve 🤔 Ransom doesn't have a loving family like ever. Even in fiction 😂 he could be the friend... And in a twist he's thankful his family got taken out but bitter he had to suffer too 😂

Curtis would be so interesting as well! Hm... I think I'm going with Curtis as fiance and Ransom as friend/ right hand. Curtis is just so swoony 🥰

Curtis with toenails painted bold red 😂🤭

I love the image of Curtis who with his whole being oozes lethal danger but shows gentle, affectionate behaviour towards you.

Touch the darkness

dark mafia!Steve Rogers x female reader

warnings for this chapter: Dark!Steve. Forced marriage. Possessiveness. Crossing boundaries. Feelings and confessions. I'm not claiming it's a healthy relationship. Smut. Knife play. Breathplay. Vaginal sex. Anal sex. Dirty talk. Mention of breeding. D/s undertones.

word count: 6.4k

Author’s Note: This is the last official chapter of Touch The Darkness! I'm so proud of completing the series 🥹❤️ Also, saying it's the last official chapter doesn't mean I won't write for them in the future. This Steve is too tempting to just let him go. It's just the main backbone of the story that is finished.

Thank you all who stayed with this story and supported me through the whole writing process over the years! 💖 Your comments, asks, and interactions inspired me and kept me motivated to continue (as did Steve's gun pointed at me, lol)

Hope you enjoy! Mwah!

P.S: There's a surprise cameo at the end. And a second Author's Note regarding it 🤭

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Chapter 10. High tide

Curious, how certain things changed without noticing. Over the course of time and experiences that reshaped you as a person, though you chose to lie to yourself that you were still the same. Still loyal to the same convictions. 

It was only the moment when you gained what you wished for all those months that you realized it didn’t taste the way it was supposed to.

Freedom should feel ecstatic. Your chest should expand on a deep breath, with euphoric giggle following and your body filling with lightness. 

So why, as the train pulled you away from what you called doom, it was heaviness that settled deeper and deeper. Into your stomach, into your bones, into your heart.

Princess is so fucking smart! That getaway was fool proof... If it wasn't for Steve putting a fucking tracker in her 😤😂 but I'm glad he came for her 🥹 I was really sad too at the thought he might just move on. But he truly deeply cares for her 🥰 in his own way.

The welcome home sex tho 🤌🏻😵‍💫🥵

That was so fucking good! The knife, the mind-blowing sex and the anal 🥵 princess is so lucky! And Steve holding her tight to him 🥰 so possessive it's swoony! And I think princess def will get rid of the implant soon 🤭

While all bodyguard options are good I'm hoping for Yelena 🤭 yes she'll report to Steve but she'll truly be princess friend and a fun one at that too 🥰

JOHNNY?! JOHNNY!!! Eva oh my fucking gosh! The way I squealed out loud! Oh I love him already, inject him into my veins! I love the contrast between the two. But at the heart they're the same 🤭🥰 I'm so excited for him! Steve ruined me, Johnny? He'll absolutely decimate me 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🥵🥵🥵

I believe in Steve's resourcefulness and that he'd find her even without the tracker, buuut the tracker was such a Steve move and too fun to pass the opportunity 😂

That case will definitely haunt her in the nearest future. Steve fucking her full doesn't help matters 😏

I'm so happy Johnny makes you so excited 😁 I'm not sure his and Steve's power are comparable, but I know he will be a menace and a ruin 😈 so maybe you're right about the decimation, mwahaha

It's official. TTD Steve is the ultimate ruin.

I don't even mean it in a horny way (though that too, obviously). Somehow, not knowing when, I created an unmovable object and unstoppable force in one - in the shape of dark mafia Steve.

The last chapter: 🥺

TTD Steve being the ultimate ruin: 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🥵🥵🥵

I would even dare to say that he makes your dreams come true 🥵

Watching brainrotting dumb drama that is Love Is Blind on Netflix, I'm not expecting "mature" people to participate in it (and obviously most of these people, both female and male, are in need of therapy and being whacked over the head with something heavy), however...

Italian men may have just taken the crown of the most fucked up, egotistical narcissists (sans one gem dude) 🙄😒

I still have to watch the Italy version but after the last season of the American one I needed a break 😅

Oh yeah, I get you. Americans can fry your brain in a non fun way, too 😂

I saw there's a German edition coming. And they're filming a Polish version!

exhausted and unimpressed whining about the health of a female body nearing 40 under the cut 😒

Sending you hugs and love 🩷🫂 I know it can be so frustrating 🥺

Thank you, Jaqui ❤️

It is frustrating, but I'm not letting it damp my holiday mood. It's not like I can do something about it now, anyway.

Another Sunday, another wicked idea 🙄🤭

Arranged marriage, but you're promised to each other as teens. Neither of you is happy about it. You start to push each others buttons, so we get some soft enemies to lovers.

Still, over the years he sabotages your every potential date and attempt at losing your virginity.

But while you fume he's a hypocritical asshole because he's seen with a different woman every few weeks, he actually never slept with any of them.

After you get your degree and the doom of the wedding clouds over you, you try a dramatic escape. You're quite happy with your three days of uninterrupted freedom.

Until at breakfast in a small coastal town where you're hiding someone sits at your table.

Your fiancé greets you with a slow smile.

He'd love the scheming 🤭

Ohh, he would!

He'd perfectly play the role of a playboy, while at the same being possessive over you.

And the smugness of him casually joining you for breakfast when you thought no one knew of your whereabouts 😎

As a kid, you and your best friend make a cute promise to marry each other when you're adults. It's sweet, not fully understood by either of you.

Unfortunately, his family moves to the big city and you lose contact.

Life goes on. You have your high-school sweetheart, then a few college romances. Two longer relationships after you move to the city that fall apart. Then at work you meet Nate and it grows into a steady engagement.

The year before the wedding is a bit chaotic, lots of strain and small conflicts between you two. Some of those regard Nate's penchant for gambling, but thankfully he gets his head back on and pays off the potentially dangerous men who loaned him money.

Pity it meant you had to cut some things from your dream wedding.

Honestly, you kind off just want to get over with this thing and enter the next stage of your life.

On the day of the wedding rehearsal, the preparations are suddenly interrupted as a bunch of dangerous looking men with guns fill the place.

Then another man walks in.

A silhouette that cuts through the space like a heavy blade that's stunning in its ornamental bladesmith craft.

He strides. Confidently and with lethal purpose.

There's something about him that feels vaguely familiar, but your brain can't put the pieces together as your heart pounds in fear.

Your first thought is "What the fuck did Nate do this time?!"

It scrambles as a pair of cold blue eyes settles on you, not on your fiancé. So familiar, as if they haunted you in your dreams.

But they couldn't be. No, if you had dreams about this man they'd be inappropriate. Dark, sticky, branding.

Yet it seems you're the one to blame for the threat of bloodshed as the man says your name. He says it like he knows you - and he does, even if you don't yet realize it's the boy you promised your hand to first.

He says your name like he has all the rights to you.

And he will make his ownership of you true.

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Who is he?

You know it HAS TO BE this entrance from him 🤭 goodbye nate! You'll find someone else and reader will get her dream wedding 🤭

The legs-spreading entrance 🥴

Oh 👀👀👀 I love that concept!

🥰 thank you

I hope to make it fluffy filth 😆

✨ Writing plans for 2026 ✨

Oh I love all of them, despite TTD being over so soon 🥺 but there's always hope for drabbles about them 🤭

More mafia men you say 👀

Not only hope, but high probability when it comes to TTD Steve 😏

And yes, always more mafia men, oops 🤭

The mob boss's right hand slash best friend decides to give him an unparalleled Christmas gift - you 😏

Oh 👀 the spark that caught his interest a few weeks ago speaks to me. Maybe you bumped into him on accident in one of his clubs and immediately apologized, even offered to buy him a new drink because some of it spilled, clearly not knowing who he is 🤔

Or he wanted to collect some protection money from a business and there you were, just minding your own business. Maybe reading in the corner of a cafe? Or looking around the plant store with such adoration?

It surprises him that you don't try to seduce him after bumping into him, because yes that has happened before. You haven't tried to plant a bug on him either. You're genuine in your apologies. Sweet, too.

It's a change in his usually jaded, dark interactions.

He wants to keep your sweet caring heart intact, but also break you a little. In delicious ways.

Calisthenics

Ruby Garden universe

It's just a composition of very short flashes of each pairing and some form of workout 🙃

warnings: none; this is pure fluff, with some teasing

Bringing this back because I just exhausted myself 😵‍💫

Also, since Dom Ransom has joined the club, I imagine his workout to be in the form of some tennis game followed by a glass of wine, or a round of swimming followed by sauna. If you're playing tennis, he insists on you wearing a very short skirt 😏

Oh Ransom and tennis or swimming and then having a luxury treat is just perfect 🤭

Right? I'd be into it fir the treats alone 😆

Fated mates, but absolutely reluctant.

It's not that they don't want you because they dislike something about you. They simply dislike the idea of having a fated mate. They're busy, they have their own duties and plans, and they don't do commitment.

But here you are. Their fated mate. Throwing a wrench in their routine.

They can't deny it. They feel the urge to care for you, protect you, provide, but they're sour about it 😆

And you aren't a happy camper, either.

Fated mates are a rarity, so you never even imagined being one to be bound to them. Sure, when you were in your teenage years it held some romantic appeal, but as a grown woman you're annoyed with this sudden bond to a trio that flips your world upside down.

Especially a trio who are admired and desired by so many. Who hold significant power. Being their mate means you don't go unnoticed. You're watched, envied, hated and bothered. And smothered in overprotection.

So all four of you are in this silly, happy misery. Because feelings do grow, you can't escape that. But damn you're annoyed that you love and are loved in return by them 😂

I totally agree with Ransom, Curtis and Steve! Ransom would probably be the most sour. I can see him working from home and you do too. While Curtis and Steve can just flee to work or whatever he's stuck with you at home. You're invading his space 😤 and you look so judgy when he does anything but work on his damn book. It's not his fault he can't concentrate with you there 🙄😒

You notice Ransom is distracted anyway, so you don't feel bad bothering him 😈

"What are you writing? What's gonna happen? Who is the killer? How much did you write today? Do you have a deadline? Can I read it? Is it sexy, or do you write about hot caverns and pulsing swords?"

He's either gonna strangle you, call Steve to warn that he's gonna strangle you, or... 😏

Spending a rainy Sunday morning writing the last chapter of TTD Steve.

Oh princess 🥺🥺🥺 go back to Steve! He'll treat you well even if he ruins you with unthinkable things 🥺

But she wanted her freedom for so long 🥺It should feel happy that she gets it, right?

Oh Ari would savour a brat the most 😍🤭 I love the nickname viper for her! Hopefully she played nice for now so she can ease into a world with the mob boss 😅🤭😵‍💫🥵

I agree! Lloyd would have just picked you up and taken you 😂

I think Viper will be obedient at first. Struggling with that submission but also craving to follow and see what happens. But with time, as she settles into her new life beside the mob boss, she will test him for some of those punishments 😈