Don't think Rachel and Ivy are going to be together? Fine. Don't throw in a gratuitous happy lesbian family at the airport and have Rachel mentally comparing their relationship to hers and Ivy's. Treat me like a grown up, and take the story where you will without apologizing for it. Don't throw out little bones to your lesbian/bi fanbase while stabbing their fannish hopes in the back. If you don't feel like going that way, don't go that way. Just don't string us along like Rachel sometimes strings along Ivy. Have a little bit of respect for us.
I'm lucky that I have a brain that can ignore all negative aspects in this story and only read the positive ones. I agree with you that throwing such little bones serves only to annoy if the story in the end is not going there. But I can't know the future so I'm reading with the assumption that Ivy and Rachel will be an item. ODW seemed like the romantic relationship was put to death, but now in WWBC it's on again. If there's going to be another ODW in the future that might be it for me, I might stop reading. But so far I still really enjoy reading about Ivy and Rachel. Only thing that has bugged me for a very long time is how unbalanced the relationship is. Rachel desperately needs a close friend and uses Ivy's attraction to her to keep her close. I might be wrong, but this is how it seems to me. Or perhaps that's what she's telling herself and is actually keeping Ivy close because she's gradually fighting through her own denial and fears.
Sorry about not having a coherent structure in this reply but it seems I can only write my thoughts through an unedited thought stream. I've been using english for some time now and it's still hard to write fluently when trying to express complex abstract thoughts.
I wish people analyzed the books more (and especially Ravy), because it's so fun to read when people have great opinions and points of view, and when they articulate so well. Something that is difficult for me. :P
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Date: 2009-03-18 11:16 am (UTC)I'm lucky that I have a brain that can ignore all negative aspects in this story and only read the positive ones. I agree with you that throwing such little bones serves only to annoy if the story in the end is not going there. But I can't know the future so I'm reading with the assumption that Ivy and Rachel will be an item. ODW seemed like the romantic relationship was put to death, but now in WWBC it's on again. If there's going to be another ODW in the future that might be it for me, I might stop reading. But so far I still really enjoy reading about Ivy and Rachel. Only thing that has bugged me for a very long time is how unbalanced the relationship is. Rachel desperately needs a close friend and uses Ivy's attraction to her to keep her close. I might be wrong, but this is how it seems to me. Or perhaps that's what she's telling herself and is actually keeping Ivy close because she's gradually fighting through her own denial and fears.
Sorry about not having a coherent structure in this reply but it seems I can only write my thoughts through an unedited thought stream. I've been using english for some time now and it's still hard to write fluently when trying to express complex abstract thoughts.
I wish people analyzed the books more (and especially Ravy), because it's so fun to read when people have great opinions and points of view, and when they articulate so well. Something that is difficult for me. :P