Can’t we make this real?

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• Do I Wanna Know? by postmaster_pearlo

  Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  03 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • EthosLab/Joel | SmallishBeans
  • EthosLab (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Joel | SmallishBeans
  • Jimmy | Solidarity
  • Charles | Grian
  • John Booko | BdoubleO100
  • TangoTek (Video Blogging RPF)
  • impulseSV (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Katy | FalseSymmetry
  • Steffen Mössner | Docm77
  • Lizzie | LDShadowLady (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • lowk not gonna put more relationships other than the main ship bc I don’t wanna catfish anyone
  • Fake/Pretend Relationship
  • Alternate Universe - High School
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • Slow Burn
  • or maybe not..
  • Fluff
  • Angst
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Boys In Love
  • Boys Kissing
  • Gay
  • Everyone Is Gay
  • Joel | SmallishBeans-centric
  • POV Joel | SmallishBeans
  • Unrequited Love
  • Or Is It?
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Oops that’s a spoiler but it was pretty predictable anyways
  • Jealousy
  • No beta we die like joel
  • totally not foreshadowing some (probably anti-climactic) angst
  • Tutoring
  • Tutor x tutoree trope
  • Is that the word for it?
  • Banter
  • OOC
  • Out of Character
  • Like so OOC
  • sorry I wish it was in character but I suck at portraying them but I did my best

  Summary

  Nothing can go wrong, and Joel genuinely can’t think of a reason for how it can.

  —
  OR; Joel and Etho fake date to make Bdubs jealous. This process may or may not include falling for each other…

  Series

  • Part 6 of Tales of the Relation-ship
  • Part 1 of Can’t we make this real?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,384

  Chapters:

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