Proof was my first Francis. I was living in Japan and mainlining the local vintage of yaoi (and it was the 90s when yaoi had gone professionally published, so it was more 'drowning in'). And I got to the end of Proof when protag had saved the other guy from a hideous death and the guys kind of looked at each other and got in their cars and drove away in best British fashion. And I was all What? That's it? This is when you go off and screw, people!
Yeah, Francis was a big disappointment on the gay front. But subtext is what slash is for, after all.
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Proof was my first Francis. I was living in Japan and mainlining the local vintage of yaoi (and it was the 90s when yaoi had gone professionally published, so it was more 'drowning in'). And I got to the end of Proof when protag had saved the other guy from a hideous death and the guys kind of looked at each other and got in their cars and drove away in best British fashion. And I was all What? That's it? This is when you go off and screw, people!
Yeah, Francis was a big disappointment on the gay front. But subtext is what slash is for, after all.