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i do love me both tomarry and harrymort. however, i've come to the realization that, if i ever wrote anything, it'd probably be harrymort. mostly because tomarry requires work. you've gotta lay the groundwork with tomarry, to cultivate the plot elements with the risks of getting bogged down in other kinds of worldbuilding and ocs and sideplots, likely stuck at hogwarts as the setting. with harrymort? the obsession is already there and raring to go. the tomarry author is standing at the front door yelling for tom to come down already and get in the car. the harrymort author decides it's time to go and finds that voldemort has already taken the car keys and the car and is speeding off into a dark and/or smutty distance, likely with harry already tied up in the backseat.
Idk about "Tomarry requires work". I mean yes, but they both need a lot of work but in different ways. In tomarry, Harry is more likely to fall for Tom in reality because he is far more handsome and charming you, but you're right the author needs more of a reason to get Tom interested.
In Harrymort, Harry has to have a reason to fall for Voldemort. Sure 90% of it is forced but I have found some of the best ones are where Harry ends up falling in love and it be actual work. He is in denial the whole time and yes of course Voldemort is a psychopath and obsessed and everything but Harry ends up falling for him in his own way. Harry gets tied down in the backseat, but after he eventually finds a way to escape be is blushing because he realized that while they were speeding down the road Voldemort made sure to buckle his seatbelt.
