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YamiVizziniX Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#67476: Mar 3rd 2015 at 8:58:48 AM

I remember thinking, way back after Tenzin and Lin's past relationship was revealed, that the Avatar world might not necessarily have the taboo against cousins dating that we do... just that there was no chance Nick would ever even hint at that, so it amounted to the same thing.tongue

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#67477: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:09:44 AM

Well, there's some speculation that Wei or Wing (whichever one stroked Bolin's cheek) may be gay.

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#67478: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:29:55 AM

I think it's television that's heteronormative, not necessarily the world of LOK. tongue

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#67479: Mar 3rd 2015 at 11:11:47 AM

A pat on the cheek after being rescued doesn't really equal a caress.

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#67480: Mar 3rd 2015 at 11:43:35 AM

I'm not saying it necessarily has to be indicative of anything. But some viewers can and have taken it that way, and Korrasami has taught me not to be too instantly dismissive of anything that could be considered gay subtext.

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#67481: Mar 3rd 2015 at 12:01:16 PM

In all honesty, when it comes to supposed same-sex subtext Korrasami is something of a proverbial broken clock.

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#67482: Mar 3rd 2015 at 12:04:42 PM

In that it's only right twice a day?

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#67483: Mar 3rd 2015 at 12:13:32 PM

So to speak. I've seen detailed analysis of two characters of the same gender being totally into each other because they shook hands or looked each other in the eye a ton of times, but this time they were right.

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#67484: Mar 3rd 2015 at 12:16:34 PM

Well, most of that comes from the fact that there are so few actual queer characters in media. We're kinda lowered to grasping at straws to get the representation we crave.

But yeah, Korrasami is one of the very few times fans weren't just grasping at straws.

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#67485: Mar 3rd 2015 at 1:10:16 PM

You're right, there's a ton of totally unfounded sexual interpretation out there. Like Zuko/Katara, Azula/Suki and Zuko/Azula. I'm just not going to instantly claim there can't be anything to the interpretation of Wei/Wing as gay, seeing as how we know almost nothing about him anyway.

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#67486: Mar 3rd 2015 at 1:10:28 PM

It feels a lot less like subtext if you watch it all again already knowing the outcome.

Oh really when?
Keybreak Since: Apr, 2010
#67487: Mar 3rd 2015 at 2:55:30 PM

Ha, I posted an article in the LGBT thread that showed a lot of old photographs of men hugging and holding hands and sitting in each other's laps, because men were able to do that without having to be boyfriends.

The Legend of Korra takes places right at the time when they have cameras, so maybe guys were also allowed to be touchy without being lovers.

As for Bolin and the Bei-fong twin, that was just "Good job Bolin. Who's a good boy?" :p

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#67489: Mar 3rd 2015 at 4:25:53 PM

Took me a minute but fucking christ that fingernails post has me in stitches.

Oh really when?
Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#67490: Mar 3rd 2015 at 4:27:54 PM

Duude.

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#67491: Mar 3rd 2015 at 4:41:40 PM

[up][up] And Ty Lee would have been too if Azula hadn't trimmed.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#67492: Mar 3rd 2015 at 4:44:15 PM

Bocaj wins.

Also ow.

edited 3rd Mar '15 4:44:32 PM by unnoun

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#67493: Mar 3rd 2015 at 5:15:30 PM

You're telling me. I don't even have the relevant anatomy and I winced.

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#67494: Mar 3rd 2015 at 5:17:04 PM

That's my second time reading the fingernails thing, and I just got it (I mean I got the innuendo part the first time, but I just noticed the trimming after "fingernails" were specifically mentioned.) It's canon!

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#67495: Mar 3rd 2015 at 6:25:53 PM

OOOOOOOOOOOOH! I got it once I saw the caption in your link.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#67497: Mar 3rd 2015 at 6:43:46 PM

Long fingernails on sensitive things is not normally pleasant.

Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#67498: Mar 3rd 2015 at 6:45:57 PM

[up][up] Azula cut her nails for fingering purposes and let them grow back once Ty Lee left

edited 3rd Mar '15 6:46:07 PM by Ninety

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#67499: Mar 3rd 2015 at 6:45:59 PM

But then why would she trim them after Ty Lee's betrayal...?

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#67500: Mar 3rd 2015 at 6:50:53 PM

She didn't.

They were longer in the last one.

They were still short on the day of Ty Lee's betrayal because it kinda of came to everyone's surprise.

Including Ty Lee's. Especially Ty Lee's.


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