But did you re-read the text before or after the author said that that wasn't what she'd intended? If she hadn't said that, would you have re-examined the text with an eye to her intended interpretation? Did her saying it wasn't what she'd meant influence your view at all? I'm saying, if you read something different through the interpretation of your own lenses, influenced by whatever ideas and experiences and preferences you commonly use when you read, that doesn't make your interpretation wrong, just different from what was intended.
I haven't directly addressed any of the quotes because I'm not sure in what way you want them addressed. You're sharing quotes that show physical attraction between them as straight men--yes, that's there, of course it is, and I've never said it wasn't. You've also shared a few quotes that reveal an emotional connection between them. And? Nothing in any of those quotes is influencing me to think that the bond between the characters isn't integral to the decision to have sex, especially in this situation. Are you saying that, because the writer doesn't go on at length about the wonderful, magical bond between them, there's no bond there? I'm not advocating for a wonderful, magical bond that's OTP specific between John and Rodney, I'm talking about the importance of a bond existing between two people, any two people, and especially two self-identified straight men, before they could engage in sex under these very freaky circumstances. It's implicit in the decisions made, in the action portrayed, and even in some of the quotes you share. Are you arguing that the author must not have intended for there to be any sort of connection between them because there's so much in the story that's phyisically explicit? Well, it's a story about sex, so there's going to be. Are you arguing author intent? That she deliberately wrote a story of sex-without-prior-connection so that it would be cooler in an anti-trope way? I don't think so, and I get that as much from reading the text as you do. Not because I'm an OTP John and Rodney girl, but because I'm a logical human responses in stories girl, and because I see that connection in the story. So, I'm not sure where you want me to go from that, re: quotes from the story.
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I haven't directly addressed any of the quotes because I'm not sure in what way you want them addressed. You're sharing quotes that show physical attraction between them as straight men--yes, that's there, of course it is, and I've never said it wasn't. You've also shared a few quotes that reveal an emotional connection between them. And? Nothing in any of those quotes is influencing me to think that the bond between the characters isn't integral to the decision to have sex, especially in this situation. Are you saying that, because the writer doesn't go on at length about the wonderful, magical bond between them, there's no bond there? I'm not advocating for a wonderful, magical bond that's OTP specific between John and Rodney, I'm talking about the importance of a bond existing between two people, any two people, and especially two self-identified straight men, before they could engage in sex under these very freaky circumstances. It's implicit in the decisions made, in the action portrayed, and even in some of the quotes you share. Are you arguing that the author must not have intended for there to be any sort of connection between them because there's so much in the story that's phyisically explicit? Well, it's a story about sex, so there's going to be. Are you arguing author intent? That she deliberately wrote a story of sex-without-prior-connection so that it would be cooler in an anti-trope way? I don't think so, and I get that as much from reading the text as you do. Not because I'm an OTP John and Rodney girl, but because I'm a logical human responses in stories girl, and because I see that connection in the story. So, I'm not sure where you want me to go from that, re: quotes from the story.