I know this happens to me a lot, especially since I started talking about subtext to my brother, who provides an external perspective. It used to be that he shot me down all the time, and mostly he was right. I would hear his explanation shooting me down in my head when I started to think "they would be cute together." A few times I was vindicated. These days he can anticipate what I'll see, and sometimes he sees it too.
The most obvious example was in the comic Runaways where I knew that Karolina had a one-sided crush on Nico and that Nico was definitely straight and oblivious. Another one is in an execrable fantasy novel that I forgot the name of, which was written by a straight man and included one woman giving a much younger woman the "coming out slash mutant pride speech" before trying to suck her soul out sexily.
Oh, and even though I was forewarned about the pervasive bisexuality of the Kushiel books, I was still taken aback by the intensity of the heroine's relationship with her nemesis.
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I know this happens to me a lot, especially since I started talking about subtext to my brother, who provides an external perspective. It used to be that he shot me down all the time, and mostly he was right. I would hear his explanation shooting me down in my head when I started to think "they would be cute together." A few times I was vindicated. These days he can anticipate what I'll see, and sometimes he sees it too.
The most obvious example was in the comic Runaways where I knew that Karolina had a one-sided crush on Nico and that Nico was definitely straight and oblivious. Another one is in an execrable fantasy novel that I forgot the name of, which was written by a straight man and included one woman giving a much younger woman the "coming out slash mutant pride speech" before trying to suck her soul out sexily.
Oh, and even though I was forewarned about the pervasive bisexuality of the Kushiel books, I was still taken aback by the intensity of the heroine's relationship with her nemesis.