#thorry

oh NO I wrote the whole damn thing (a LONG THING), and then microsoft edge (which I have been using FOR TUMBLR because tumblr was fucking up on firefox) ate the whole damn thing.

oh no. So this is not going to be as good as the original post, but here goes.

Basically, my question is: Why were they enemies to start with?

Because in this political climate, I have become suspect as hell about the notion of benign enmities. Politics is not a horse race, it’s not a sportsball game, where winners and losers shake hands and then go out for drinks together afterwards -- it’s people who are bending their every political advantage to strip rights from queer/poor/non-white/child-bearing Americans, and let me tell you, idgaf how hot those people are! if that’s the kind of person they are, then gremble’s anaconda GENUINELY WANTS NONE. Moreoever, I loathe the implication that these utterly repugnant moral views are some ~harmless quirk~ to be brushed aside because ~opposites attract~ doncha know. 

So what does enemies-to-lovers mean? Which of the blorbos is changing/compromising their principles for this, and should they be?

And I say this as someone who has written enemies-to-lovers fic before (hail, Enemy Mine!) -- but unless you’re doing a whole-ass, Avatar-style redemption arc, in which someone comes to understand that their entire worldview is toxic and flawed, then I think the key point is that the blorbos have to both want the same thing, it’s just that they’re willing to go to very different lengths for it. 

(You’re writing to your congressperson, I’m taking a passenger jet plane hostage -- we are not the same, except that we’re both in it for mutant rights.)

So yeah.