#it’s enemies to lovers unfortunately

[okay-owl]

I’m starting to notice a trend with my ships

#it’s enemies to lovers unfortunately #kishigo #zutara #tokyo mew mew #avatar the last airbender #this scene has been burned into my mind since youth what do you expect from me #kisshu #ichigo momomiya #also I did this back in october and totally forgot to post it #reading a new zutara fic and remembered I made this lol

[stheresya]

enemies-to-lovers really hits for me when the characters have a type of chemistry you can only feel between a final girl and a slasher monster. it's about the tension, the obsession, the will they-won't they (murder each other).

#and that's why i think the best etl (unfortunately) end up being the ones where the author didn't intend for a happy ending #because the characters are allowed to go at each other full unhinged no pulling punches hand in unlovable hand #mine.txt #enemies to lovers

[guest-1-2-3]

Random atla trope I love—Katara and Zuko bonding over their shared ex, Jet. Bitching about him as a bonding activity

#katara: we agree that the wheat thing was stupid but unfortunately very attractive right #zuko: *nodding solemnly* #atla #zuko #katara #i read mostly zukka so this is more of a sibling-in-law friendship bonding trope in my mind ig #but! i can see it’s even stronger appeal in zutara #nothing like a mutual ex to trigger the lovers part of the enemies to lovers arc #jet atla #jet

[taikk0]

hi tumblr i'm back... thank you dashboard unfucker and fuck you twitter

#taikko art #my whole mood #tumblr ui #twitter #tumblr #twitter ai #tumblr user interface vs twitter artificial intelligence fist fight #ui x ai enemies to lovers yaoi when #i missed tumblr so much you guys #i cant believe i have to choose the lesser of two evils and unfortunately tumblr is so stubborn that i had to get a dashboard unfucker #the saving grace #oc #oc art #persona #artsona #original character #art #artwork

[wolf-2099]

hate it because every imagines/general post for like. evil f/os or evil relationships is either woobifying them or its made by a proshipper and is so fucking gross. wheres the posts for ppl like me who arent freaks but dont want our evil/fucked in the head f/os to be a fluff ball to us. i want my f/o to suck. he loves me but he shows it by hitting me with steel chairs and sometimes we both attempt to kill each other for the bit.

#dragon's ramblings #guy who likes enemies/rivals to lovers but like. i mean enemies/rivals in the evil way #we try to kill each other but unfortunately it becomes our flirting so now things are awkward but i still fuckin ghate you i swear i do i

[evenstar-ing]

chase upset that he's being objectified is hysterical. girl help I'm trying to make genuine connections with people but the batting of my baby blue eyes is distracting them

#chase has unfortunately grown on me #enemies to lovers separated by a tv screen <\3 #house md #dr chase #robert chase #6x15

[accio-sriracha]

Accidental Enemies to Lovers Trope??

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So I was reminiscing about old high-school drama with my brother and his partner today when I remembered something absolutley wild about my sophomore year.

I had just gotten dumped by my girlfriend at the time for a guy who I thought was kind of a jerk (totally NOT just jealousy talking) and I was absolutely fuming about it. I considered him my enemy from that day forward. He was happy to reciprocate, hating me almost as much.

I'm talking glaring contests, showing off (I was better at P.E. so this worked in my favor), muttering things and bumping shoulders in the hall, ALL the usual fuck-you's to the new boyfriend.

He and I shared a few classes together even though he was a year older. Y'know, gym, theater, things like that.

And one day, about a week after the break up/them getting together, some of the guys from my class are talking to me about him and one of them makes a low blow and dead names him.

(He's trans, I would eventually turn out to be but wasn't out at the time)

So I went off on him, it's not cool to make fun of someone like that no matter how much you hate them. (And I did, I truly hated the guy)

I made a point to correct them and use his name and pronouns, making sure they understood he needed the same respect any other trans person deserved.

And then (I bet you can guess where this is going) I turn around and...

It's him.

Alex. Bane of my existence. Literal thorn in my side. The man I wished would be eradicated off the face of the planet.

Staring at me.

He'd heard every word I'd said of course, especially the parts where I over the top demanded they respect him, I'm sure.

I don't remember the event completely, it's been a while, but he'd said something along the lines of:

"I thought you hated me."

And I'd replied with something along the lines of:

"I do."

And he replied with something alo- y'know what you get the picture.

"Then why are you suddenly being kind to me?"

"The kindness wasn't for you, asshole. Nobody deserves to be treated like that."

And I'm sure I looked as pissed off as I felt (I was pretty bad at containing things back then)

I really was angry, he wasn't supposed to see it. It wasn't for him! I had very much wished I had never met him! The kindness was for trans PEOPLE, not HIM, a singular trans PERSON.

But he got all weird and mumbled a thank you anyways.

And from that moment, he stopped glaring at me.

I still glared at him of course.

But he never glared back.

Something about the fact that my anger had only risen after that event amused him, I never found out why.

He always had that look on his face, the superior (arrogant, stupid, cocky, abrasive, I could go on for a while) look on his face that said "You'll understand when you're older"

I hated that look.

But his smug smirk turned into fond smiles.

And I was SURE he was messing with me.

And now... well now I'm a writer.

And dear god...

I think I may have had a mild to moderate crush on the bastard who stole my girlfriend.

And I think he knew.

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And now I shall be incorporating this exact trope in at least two works because as much as I hate to admit it

(Really REALLY hate to admit it)

It's actually kinda cute.

#enemies to lovers #fanfiction #writer #ao3 #wattpad #writing prompts #tropes #based on a true story #unfortunately #my brother is set to never let me live this down

[shut-up-cartman]

I've never liked when people complain about 'new fans' in Fandoms and how they're 'ruining the fandom' or whatever, but I will say the weirdest thing to come out the 2023 South Park fandom is treating kyman shippers like they're delusional and disgusting. Sure there's been controversy with the ship (obviously), but it's not even a pro-ship and it's been around for years???

Kyman has always been one of my most hated ships but I've never bothered the shippers because there's nothing actually wrong with them shipping it. They're not related, there's not a pedophilic age gap, and believe it or not there actually isn't an unbalanced power dynamic. Sure its not exactly wholesome and I can get why people think it doesn't make sense, but for crying out loud it's shipping it doesn't have to! And if Kyman shippers are saying they see stuff in canon then maybe TO THEM there is, and if there isn't anything in canon that you see then that's fine but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy the show and characters how they want.

I don't know if this makes a lot of sense, I'm not good at writing paragraphs but I just needed to say this cause I've been in this fandom for a few years now and I'm ngl it seems like purity culture is getting worse. Like, you're in the South Park fandom, you of all people do not get to preach about someone else being weird or cringe for shipping. You're in the weird and cringe shipping fandom.

Lord help me it's 2023 and I'm actually fighting kyman vs sp fandom on the side of kyman 😭

#south park #doesn't mean I'm gonna stop hating kyman cause it just gives me an ick and it's very fun to make fun off #but people need to lay off the shippers man. I get there have been some VERY cursed fanfics out there but that is just a curse of being in- #-a fandom unfortunately #the majority of kyman shippers just like the enemies to lovers trope its not that deep #kyman

[partiallypearl]

GRACE AND HEATH IN THE NEXT STEP SEASON 9 EPISODE 5: Bad Attitude

"If I spend my energy trying to get back at Grace, then I'm no better than her."

#heath the next step #heath tns #heathcliff the next step #heathcliff tns #grace the next step #grace tns #the next step #thenextstepedit #tnsedit #heath x grace #yeah... unfortunately these hets got me #gifs #gif #*mine #enemies to lovers slay

[mansplainmanipulatemalewife]

hiiii I noticed you had idiot doom spiral listed as "die" on your disco elysium character fuckability scale? one queasion ,fuck you?

If you insist <3

#asks #anon #disco elysium #void/anon 20k slow burn enemies to lovers #but yes i am an unrepentant doom spiral hater sorry ✌️ #unfortunately I am in business school and he reminds me of all my classmates most insufferable qualities

[evankinard]

the thing about the love interests is that ultimately (like tim has said before re: LS) when you're writing a show about first responders it's hard to include anyone who ISN'T a first responder in a really substantial way because it's just. not the nature of the show. the only (adult) regular to not be a FR in six seasons was michael and even then the personal plots that were "his" (coming out, getting cancer, etc) were mostly about how they impacted athena and bobby and the grant-nash family dynamic as a whole (and I would argue that the writers have even been struggling to incorporate dispatch into the action over the past couple seasons too). so if we want love interests that have the potential to be multi-faceted with their own significant storylines then they need to be FRs as well. and that's why luck 🍀 can should must and will win thank you for coming to my ted talk

you're so fucking right and this is literally the exact reason why I wrote luck truthers (population: britt) were the only ones right all along I just didn't explain my train of thought

#its either buddie #or any other single first responders on the cast with buck or eddie #luck is the clear best option #bosh is the worst but ill allow it #eddiesh could be really interesting enemies to lovers wise #albert can't go to buck but with eddbert we'd still get the buckley-han-diaz family so thats a win #bavi. another clear winner we'd have that greys anatomy mentor/mentee thing going on #eddiesue....sue has a husband but ill let that simmer #linda is too good for either one of them unfortunately. their loss!

[raayllum]

like one of my favourite story / dynamic tropes ever is “hero feels indebted to a villain for something positive they cannot possibly repay that happens while they are enemies, even though they still despise one another and are completely ideologically opposed” so that rayla claudia scene at the end really checked off my boxes

#raydia #s4 #4x09 #Immaculate #i think one of the main reasons so many enemies to lover ships or whatever fall flat to be is bc #too much of it predicates on the villain liking/loving/being interested in the hero #with actual very little thought or action given to how the hero feels about all the fucked up things the villain does to them #so i'm always more intrigued & interested in hero/villain ships or brotps #where the villain has the more negative feelings towards the hero (not out of love but out of genuine dislike/etc) #and the hero has genuine reason to feel positively towards the villain #aka things i realized about myself while over analyzing frozen (2013) a decade ago unfortunately #tag ramble #s4 spoilers #text post #mine #tropes

[entropii]

Esra + Havoc sketches I simply will not spend more time on

#the 'simultaneously enemies and lovers' hellhounds rattling around my skull #unfortunately i don't remember how to draw either of them :^( #amberglow #my art #oc #ersatz #havoc

[melancholyofautvmn]

absolutely think you should have at least one rotten ship to root for. as a treat.

#i unfortunately have too many #where they're both bastard evil men who deserve to die or they try to kill each other or something #lovers to enemies <3 #cherik #satosugu #my friend tells me it's rotten at least #he complained about it a lot #loustat #nandermo #grindeldore #lonelyeyes

[lesbiansanemi]

*through gritted teeth* ppl can ship whatever they want and it’s fine it doesn’t affect you ppl can ship whatever they want and it’s fine it doesn’t affect you ppl can ship whatever they want and it’s fine it doesn’t affect you people can—

#I need to stop seeing douma/akaza stuff like. now. #I’ve tried okay I’ve tried to even mildly like it and nope #I can’t do it. I cannot do it whatsoever #I JUST DONT GET IT I DONT GET IT I DONT GET ITTTTTTTR #I know it’s my thing where I viscerally dislike ships that are based on two characters #who are on the same side but STILL fucking hate each other #because literally no matter what it just feels so weird and forced to me #like they are on the same side. they have similar morals already. if they were gonna like each other AT ALL… they would #but yeah no I’m hffjdjdksk I can’t do that one anymore #and it used to be such a rare pair so it was really easy to avoid and now I’m seeing A LOT more of it and it’s getting more difficult #and I dunno part of it is the idea of shipping douma with ANYONE #like I can’t stand him being shipped with shinobu kanae or kotoha either #his canon interactions with them have just tainted it sooooo much for me #and like yeah rocks at glass houses I’m aware I’m the enemies to lovers weirdo who ships characters who keep trying to kill each other #but mannnnnn something about the idea of shipping a guy who terrified a woman so wholly she threw her baby off a cliff because that was a #better alternative to him getting his hands on her child? yeeeeaaaaahhhhh… it’s not gonna be for me folks #it is NOT a kind of power dynamic I am gonna enjoy when it’s that particular angle #the context of their relationship cannot be that removed to me #it’s just one of my person nope. can’t fucking do it don’t fucking like it kinda makes my skin crawl things #which in a way is unfortunate #cuz I actually do enjoy douma as a character a lot and I can enjoy certain explorations of him #where he actually DOES learn to be in tune with his emotions again and learn to care for someone #but I rarely see it done well #and when I see ANY of that so called ‘development’ linked to any of these ships #it’s usually just akaza or Kotoha or shinobu getting over their hatred/fear of him in way too fast and highly unrealistic ways #while douma does very little to actually develop himself he just kinda is Automatically better because someone loved him back #(in a way that’s usually out of character for everyone involved lol) #esp when any of these ships are showcased in a REALLY cutesy way like again it’s just not for me #I don’t think I can ever really jive with it #oh well. I should just block some more tags I just needed to complain a bit first lol

[aggressiveguitarnoises]

was looking forward to summer and then remembered that cockroaches exist

#my number 1 enemies #live in a country we're theyre extremely common during heat unfortunately. #when im older i am researching countries that have no cockroaches and getting myself a partner that will kill them JUST IN CASE we find one. #rumaiq rambles #cockroaches #sorry cockroach lovers they just. paralyse me to death