literary gaydar
Jul. 10th, 2003 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wisdomeagleSo, I've noticed a weird tendency. I can tell when characters in books I'm reading are queer. I don't mean like in LotR (hint: they're all queer), I mean just in regular, non-fandom novels. Canonically queer minor characters. Author drops hints, I pick them up, and when 90 pages later ze tells us, I'm like, "Well, duh." It's not like I can do that with other subtle hints and such. Just queerness. And not always. Just sometimes, but enough so that I've noticed it. I can think of three times.
This book I'm reading at the moment, the two main characters, male, are SO slashy. But it's repeatedly stated, in canon, that they aren't shagging. If I wrote the book, they'd shag. A lot. Or maybe just once, if it were really angsty. Or, in other words, if I wrote the book, it would suck, because I would totally miss all the nuances of two straight guys who are in a life-long business partnership and, for all intents and purposes, in love with each other. Well, all intents and purposes except the interesting one.
So from all this we can conclude? Nothing whatsoever, except that I spend way too much time thinking about fictional characters having sex and way too little time actually having sex, myself.
This book I'm reading at the moment, the two main characters, male, are SO slashy. But it's repeatedly stated, in canon, that they aren't shagging. If I wrote the book, they'd shag. A lot. Or maybe just once, if it were really angsty. Or, in other words, if I wrote the book, it would suck, because I would totally miss all the nuances of two straight guys who are in a life-long business partnership and, for all intents and purposes, in love with each other. Well, all intents and purposes except the interesting one.
So from all this we can conclude? Nothing whatsoever, except that I spend way too much time thinking about fictional characters having sex and way too little time actually having sex, myself.