ive realized that all i need in a ship is for both parties to be genuinely interesting people. i hate it when the ship feels like “character x their love interest” like i need to be invested in both these characters beyond just seeing one of them as the love interest
booktok convincing people something can only be “enemies to lovers” if they LITERALLY try to kill each other when that is specific to a certain genre of fantasy that is popular there. not something that is a requirement for a trope used as an umbrella term across genres