For the record; 'a big public outing', doesn't have to be written like 'a big public outing'.
From the pov of someone who's queer? Right now, Clark and Bruce are living in a quasi-comfortable but closeted bubble. It's all don't ask, don't tell. People hint and tease but the two of them do nothing casually. The few times someone 'comes across them' or 'catches them' it's moments of passion/and or intense emotion - usually both. And it's someone willing to just roll their eyes.
You might not have set out to write something so realitistic to being gay within a small group of those who're already outcasts (whether or not that's remotely real life to actual wrestling - actually it makes me think of theater) - but that's how it's read to me.
But personal decisions DON'T have to have big dramatic, blah blah moments. I know that's something I've come to dislike a lot in many many fics. Because coming out is NEVER just ONE SINGLE dramatic moment. It's a constant set of moments with different people, over and over and over again - sometimes the same person more than once cause they won't believe.
So if it's less about other people's pov and more about them coming to an understanding with each other that perhaps happens to be public.... ala Nightwing and Flamebird which gets caught on vid in that other fic of yours (although that one is just a little sappy (appropriate to the fic but sappy). They don't have to give interviews or do a promo/announcement or anything that puts how someone lives their life into the realm of a production/show/concert/full page ad -- that is upsetting for how it otherises.
Hopefully you understand where I'm coming from here.
Straight couples don't have grand announcements - regardless of how hollywood wants getting engaged to seem like such. Lots of straight couples just move in together, or combine bank accounts, or take each other home for the holidays or even just quietly find a justice of the peace and don't tell anyone, ask for any gifts or even wear rings. The importance is for THEM, not making 'a statement' to the rest of the world.
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From the pov of someone who's queer? Right now, Clark and Bruce are living in a quasi-comfortable but closeted bubble. It's all don't ask, don't tell. People hint and tease but the two of them do nothing casually. The few times someone 'comes across them' or 'catches them' it's moments of passion/and or intense emotion - usually both. And it's someone willing to just roll their eyes.
You might not have set out to write something so realitistic to being gay within a small group of those who're already outcasts (whether or not that's remotely real life to actual wrestling - actually it makes me think of theater) - but that's how it's read to me.
But personal decisions DON'T have to have big dramatic, blah blah moments. I know that's something I've come to dislike a lot in many many fics. Because coming out is NEVER just ONE SINGLE dramatic moment. It's a constant set of moments with different people, over and over and over again - sometimes the same person more than once cause they won't believe.
So if it's less about other people's pov and more about them coming to an understanding with each other that perhaps happens to be public.... ala Nightwing and Flamebird which gets caught on vid in that other fic of yours (although that one is just a little sappy (appropriate to the fic but sappy). They don't have to give interviews or do a promo/announcement or anything that puts how someone lives their life into the realm of a production/show/concert/full page ad -- that is upsetting for how it otherises.
Hopefully you understand where I'm coming from here.
Straight couples don't have grand announcements - regardless of how hollywood wants getting engaged to seem like such. Lots of straight couples just move in together, or combine bank accounts, or take each other home for the holidays or even just quietly find a justice of the peace and don't tell anyone, ask for any gifts or even wear rings. The importance is for THEM, not making 'a statement' to the rest of the world.