I'm college aged *now* so I'm too young to remember the days when JKR had faith from her fans.
I agree, though...it's very frustrating, because theoretically I love will they-won't they, except that I've seen it enough times to know the answer 95% of the time: If it's interracial, they won't. If it's gay, they won't. If they're straight and white, they will, probably after he harasses her for three seasons. That's one of the few things I liked about Legend of Korra, and which it did better than its predecessor. We were all scared we were imagining things but nope! They followed through! Dislikable as the comics are, the first LoK opened up with a kiss between two women!
I was at a convention panel in May about queerbaiting and I asked "how do you tell the difference between slow-burn and queerbaiting?". The answer we agreed on? You don't. Queer couples don't get slowburn in canon, that's why we have fanfic. Ever since then I've been contemplating ways to open this theoretical show I have in my head with one of my characters already out so that people have some amount of trust for it. I really like subtext and slow-burn but I'm queer, so I can't have the reward at the end.
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I agree, though...it's very frustrating, because theoretically I love will they-won't they, except that I've seen it enough times to know the answer 95% of the time: If it's interracial, they won't. If it's gay, they won't. If they're straight and white, they will, probably after he harasses her for three seasons. That's one of the few things I liked about Legend of Korra, and which it did better than its predecessor. We were all scared we were imagining things but nope! They followed through! Dislikable as the comics are, the first LoK opened up with a kiss between two women!
I was at a convention panel in May about queerbaiting and I asked "how do you tell the difference between slow-burn and queerbaiting?". The answer we agreed on? You don't. Queer couples don't get slowburn in canon, that's why we have fanfic. Ever since then I've been contemplating ways to open this theoretical show I have in my head with one of my characters already out so that people have some amount of trust for it. I really like subtext and slow-burn but I'm queer, so I can't have the reward at the end.