Truly, there are people out skilled enough at ignoring any and all non-het subtext that they could compete with the collective population of Sunnydale in the Denial Olympics.
Funniest example I've yet encountered: My pet comics fandom, The Authority. As anyone who's been exposed to this fandom for two paragraphs knows, the comic is, in part, about the big gay superheroic love of Apollo and Midnighter. Years before my time in the fandom, the canon relationship was ... I guess you could call it "subtextual." I mean, sure, in their very first scene in canon, the two of them are hanging out in an abandoned building, naked, clothes strewn about and hair mussed, killing time while waiting for the bad guys to show up, but neither of them is wearing a large neon sign flashing "WE JUST HAD SEX AND IT WAS GREAT HOMOSEXUAL" with voice-over for the blind, so, yes, I suppose it's subtextual. As opposed to the adopted child and the wedding later in canon, at least.
I'm very sad that I was not in this fandom way back when, because evidently the snark between the slashers and omgnogayincomics!!!1! was epic. And hte slashers won. (And the writer, bastard demigod that he is, spent a couple of years gloating over the entertaining wank he had wrought before calmly addressing the issue on a message board with, I quote, "Yeah. So what?".)
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Date: 2006-04-15 07:35 pm (UTC)Funniest example I've yet encountered: My pet comics fandom, The Authority. As anyone who's been exposed to this fandom for two paragraphs knows, the comic is, in part, about the big gay superheroic love of Apollo and Midnighter. Years before my time in the fandom, the canon relationship was ... I guess you could call it "subtextual." I mean, sure, in their very first scene in canon, the two of them are hanging out in an abandoned building, naked, clothes strewn about and hair mussed, killing time while waiting for the bad guys to show up, but neither of them is wearing a large neon sign flashing "WE JUST HAD SEX AND IT WAS
GREATHOMOSEXUAL" with voice-over for the blind, so, yes, I suppose it's subtextual. As opposed to the adopted child and the wedding later in canon, at least.I'm very sad that I was not in this fandom way back when, because evidently the snark between the slashers and omgnogayincomics!!!1! was epic. And hte slashers won. (And the writer, bastard demigod that he is, spent a couple of years gloating over the entertaining wank he had wrought before calmly addressing the issue on a message board with, I quote, "Yeah. So what?".)