Clarke and Lexa's slow-burn romance—and the fan fiction that Vi devoured about it —led to her joining Tumblr and starting to write her own fanfic.

Since most respondents who prefer slow-burn fics are on the asexual spectrum, this is not surprising, as they are less likely to desire sexual experiences with others in general.

Slow burn fics, for instance, can go as far as having seventy thousand words before the character pairing even interacts.

In the ninth inning of a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Johnny Temple, Cincinnati Redleg second baseman, let a hot grounder sizzle through his legs, looked up to see the Scoreboard flash "error" and began a slow burn.

Revson breathed deeply. "I shall try to conceal my slow burn, what the Victorians would call my mounting exasperation. I thought we had parted friends."

The comedy comes from the patient slow burn of the parents as they try to ignore the explosive belligerence of the boys.

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

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

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).

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