I know I'm getting off-topic but the thing that bothered me about the Korrasami coming-out plot, besides that not all stories with gay couples need to be about coming out and in a fictional setting you have a perfect opportunity to not even worry about that, is that having the Water Tribe be accepting and the Fire Nation homophobic just seemed lazy. I don't even need the Fire Nation to be accepting (although I still do fondly remember some Firefly fic where the cosmopolitan Alliance was much more tolerant of LGBT people than the backwater Rebellion, because it was really interesting fic-as-meta) but I don't like Good People Are Good In All Ways, Bad People are Bad In All Ways. Why would they even be worried about coming out in such a context?
Seeing them as cutely unable to spit it out is a good interpretation of what we got, and probably the best silk's purse you can get out of that sow's ear of censorship.
Yeah, I think I'm inclined to look for the Watsonian explanation - not as an excuse, but ultimately what we did get, for Doylist reasons, is two characters who don't talk about their feelings, and I want to make that work in-story too.
considering they're supposed to be exes, you wouldn't think they'd be shy, though I could see them being terrified to open that particular can of worms
Exactly! "We're finally able to be civil to each other and I don't want to ruin that by talking about our past relationship, even if the intensity of the feelings is totally not gone" is a more plausible "don't want to spoil our friendship" than any new relationship could be.
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Re: BUBBLINE YOU GUYS
Date: 2018-09-05 07:14 pm (UTC)I know I'm getting off-topic but the thing that bothered me about the Korrasami coming-out plot, besides that not all stories with gay couples need to be about coming out and in a fictional setting you have a perfect opportunity to not even worry about that, is that having the Water Tribe be accepting and the Fire Nation homophobic just seemed lazy. I don't even need the Fire Nation to be accepting (although I still do fondly remember some Firefly fic where the cosmopolitan Alliance was much more tolerant of LGBT people than the backwater Rebellion, because it was really interesting fic-as-meta) but I don't like Good People Are Good In All Ways, Bad People are Bad In All Ways. Why would they even be worried about coming out in such a context?
Seeing them as cutely unable to spit it out is a good interpretation of what we got, and probably the best silk's purse you can get out of that sow's ear of censorship.
Yeah, I think I'm inclined to look for the Watsonian explanation - not as an excuse, but ultimately what we did get, for Doylist reasons, is two characters who don't talk about their feelings, and I want to make that work in-story too.
considering they're supposed to be exes, you wouldn't think they'd be shy, though I could see them being terrified to open that particular can of worms
Exactly! "We're finally able to be civil to each other and I don't want to ruin that by talking about our past relationship, even if the intensity of the feelings is totally not gone" is a more plausible "don't want to spoil our friendship" than any new relationship could be.