Lex
Administrator
@Clement: You're coming at it from a tumblr-ey fandom perspective though, I'm more talking about how media is generally perceived and how our brains are trained from a young age to view interactions. I understand your point, but I think it bears pointing out that "every interaction being perceived as romantic" isn't necessarily "true".
For example when I was younger I liked the Cloud/ Zack pairing from VII, but I understood that their interactions weren't written to be romantic and unless a person is completely delusional the vast majority of people would have the same perception. Shippers of the pairing generally understand that too, but promote the fantasy or convey different meanings behind their actual interactions in their writing or whatever to give it a more grounded basis, but that doesn't necessarily mean those shippers believed those interactions were romantic.
In the case of Korra and Asami, the nods to the romance are pretty overt in book 4 but people explained it away or overlooked it because of their own preconceptions and expectations. So I guess I don't really agree with your overall point, because this isn't exactly a situation where two people are having interactions that could be misinterpreted as more friendly than romantic unless viewed with an entirely straight lens.
For example when I was younger I liked the Cloud/ Zack pairing from VII, but I understood that their interactions weren't written to be romantic and unless a person is completely delusional the vast majority of people would have the same perception. Shippers of the pairing generally understand that too, but promote the fantasy or convey different meanings behind their actual interactions in their writing or whatever to give it a more grounded basis, but that doesn't necessarily mean those shippers believed those interactions were romantic.
In the case of Korra and Asami, the nods to the romance are pretty overt in book 4 but people explained it away or overlooked it because of their own preconceptions and expectations. So I guess I don't really agree with your overall point, because this isn't exactly a situation where two people are having interactions that could be misinterpreted as more friendly than romantic unless viewed with an entirely straight lens.
BEND THE RULES 
When I watched the finale, I felt that Korrasami had just been shown to us. Speaking only from my own point of view, a confirmation from the authors was not needed. The blog post that came later was just a bonus.
