Coming out is hard to do
Feb. 21st, 2008 03:05 pm... and
sahiya gives us a perfect little jewel of a story about it in "A Covert Affair" - not, as one might think, about Temeraire and Lawrence, but instead about Bujold's Byerly Vorrutyer and Ivan Vorpatril.
Guess which one's still in the closet?
Guess whose relative offers him violence should he hurt his beloved?
And guess which relative he chooses to do his first Coming Out to?
Guy-safe, but wholly accurate in terms of the complex of feeling one goes through that first time. Go read.
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Guess which one's still in the closet?
Guess whose relative offers him violence should he hurt his beloved?
And guess which relative he chooses to do his first Coming Out to?
Guy-safe, but wholly accurate in terms of the complex of feeling one goes through that first time. Go read.