Slow-burn

This restructuring is a slow-burn disaster for the funding of the Russian war machine.

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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.

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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.

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

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