What does "slow burn" mean?

[schneefink]

In the last posted chapter of DD's MDZS WIP, the main characters (spoiler!) finally kiss! After more than 100k, but less than a month actually passed in the story. So we talked about the term "slow burn" and decided that similar to game speedrunning categories, there should be categories for "slow burn."

Poll #25610 Slow burn

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"Slow burn" means the relationship develops slowly from the point of view...

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of the characters
2 (3.6%)

of the reader
5 (9.1%)

both
12 (21.8%)

either/or
3 (5.5%)

mostly the characters, but not too fast for the reader either
3 (5.5%)

mostly the reader, but not too fast for the characters either
27 (49.1%)

idk it's just a gut feeling
3 (5.5%)

other (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[nonesensed]

Very true! What's a slow burn is very much up to the genre/fandom/format. I've seen fairly short fics (word count wise) tagged as slow burn since the relationships develops over several short scenes over a long period of in-story time, and while I don't think that's "wrong", I'd myself not use the tag unless the fic itself is a "long" one.

And yeah, the Good Omens fandom is All The Kinds Of Slow Burn XD It's like an ice cream bar full of different kinds of "watch these two people slooooowly get together" XD