This short essay reflects on the various reactions provoked by the earlier publication by this journal of the article entitled ‘The Love for International Organizations’. It sheds a different light on some part of the argument developed therein while also providing new insights on what a turn to affects and emotions can contribute to the study of the law of international organizations. It simultaneously challenges the idea that international organizations are actual things-in-the-world and invites international lawyers to approach them in a different way.