Citations:slow burn

English citations of slow burn, slow-burn, and slowburn

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Noun: "(fiction, fandom slang) a romantic story (especially a work of fan fiction) in which the central relationship develops slowly"

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• 2011, Anne Helen Petersen, "That Teenage Feeling: Twilight, fantasy, and feminist readers", Feminist Media Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, page 62:

  Several readers were wary of what they and other critics have termed the “abstinence porn” that permeates the series. For these readers, what began as the “slow burn” within the mise-en-scène of desire eventually revealed itself to be the ideological structuring of an author with an obvious agenda: […]

• 2018, Francesca DiPiazza, Fandom: Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers, page 30:

  Another familiar trope, the slow burn, teases the reader as characters secretly pine for one another . . . for a long time.

• 2019, "Robinwritesallthethings", "porn with plot", Lemon, page 62:

  Slow burns are torture. Why wait? I want my characters getting down and dirty ASAP, and there's nothing wrong with that.

• 2019, "Author-Mimi-Francis", "10 tropes for romantic writing", Lemon, page 22:

  Friends to lovers, fake dating, slow burn, and bed sharing are only a few of the tropes you can use in your flufftastic writing.

• 2021, Ella Hitchcock, "Why is that a tag?!: User-generated tag structure in online fan fiction archives", thesis submitted to the University of Alberta, page 18:

  The most basic of these is findability; users label their work with tags like Coffee Shop AU or Slow Burn, categorizing their work with labels that can be used by other users to find their work.

• 2021, Aditi Dubey, "Considering Fanfic", Rabbit Hole (Australian National University), Issue One, page 33:

  On some nights, I want a good long, juicy 70k word slowburn, mutual pining, angst (with a happy ending, of course, I'm not a monster).

• 2021, Trinity Sloan, "Fan Fiction: Popular, yet misunderstood", Three Penny Press (Bellaire High School, Bellaire, TX), Volume 63, Issue 1, November 2021, page 29:

  Slow burns are fics where romantic relationships develop gradually over the course of many chapters.

general fiction usages

• 2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

  The second episode of tonight’s two part finale is the culmination of a storyline first introduced way back in the first season (episode ten, “Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind”). That aired over seven years ago. Even shows that pay very close attention to serialization rarely manage that kind of slow burn.