Special Episode 17: Tropefest: Enemies to Lovers

In the third episode of the “Tropefest” series, Elizabeth and Flourish tackle a fanfiction staple: “enemies to lovers.” They discuss whether the trope is inherent to particular ships or more situational, variations like “enemies to rivals” or “enemies to friends to lovers,” and the way shipping can be used to interrogate the moral universes of fictional worlds.

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Show Notes

[00:00:00] As always, our intro music is “Awel” by stefsax, used under a CC BY 3.0 license. This time we’re using it as the outro music as well.

[00:18:09] Our “whole regular episode about Reylo” is Episode 66, “The Humanizing Turn.”

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[00:29:45] Flourish was absolutely not hallucinating. Mads Mikkelsen speaks the immortal line, “Wow. You’ve taken good care of your body. Such a waste.”

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[00:43:29] The episode in which we talked about stakes was #122, “Wash Your Hands and Read Some Fic.”

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