Dear brain, shut up

[ratherastory]

So the plot bunnies are attacking again, in full force. Except this time, apparently, they're telling me that my new plot requires wincest.

Which, um.

Yeah.

...

I dunno.

I gleefully read pretty much anything in this fandom. Slash, wincest, RPS, you name it. As long as it's well-written, I will enjoy anything fandom has to throw at me. Sometimes even when it's not all that well-written but hits my kinks anyway. *cough* Anyway.

Writing it? That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish. I've managed sex a handful of times, all of it R-rated and less, and of that handful of times 90% of it was het. The teeny-tiny bit of slash I've managed was Dean/Cas.

To say that I am freaking out at what my brain is trying to get me to do would be putting it mildly. Yet another line fandom is nudging me across, it seems.

Gah.

I'mma go be conflicted over here in this corner, mmkay?

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[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I crossed that particular 'never' line once a few months back, but haven't felt the need to go back just yet.

I have read books in which there was very explicitly not-mild incest (George R.R. Martin, I'm looking at you!), so it doesn't bother me as a fictional trope as much as it probably should.

Anyway, the only reason I'm thinking about it at all is because it adds a certain depth to the story that I think it wouldn't otherwise have. I don't even know how much sex there would be -that's not really the point of the story.

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

so it doesn't bother me as a fictional trope as much as it probably should. I think it bothered me quite a bit at first, but when I think about the claustrophobic way S/D grew up and how that isolation has gotten even more progressive it doesn't seem like the stretch it once did. And, there are quite a number of incest stories, but I think we don't always think of them that way because rarely is sex quite so explicit as it is in fandom - it often stays at the UST stage. (Fowers in the Attic comes to mind as one that crosses that line)

Which George R.R. Martin? I love fantasy/sci fic but I haven't read him?

that's not really the point of the story. Unless something is strictly a romance I don't think it is and even the best romances have a whole other layer of friendship intimacy, etc. if they are done well. :)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

George R. R. Martin: primarily high fantasy. I cannot recommend him enough, although he's pretty slow to publish these days due to failing health.

His best-known work is "A Song of Ice and Fire," which is supposed to be a 7 or 8-book series. He just published book 4 a few years ago, and all his fans are now waiting on tenterhooks for him to finish the next one!

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

He just published book 4 a few years ago, and all his fans are now waiting on tenterhooks for him to finish the next one!

I've been there. :( Robert Jordan is a favorite and when he died, it was heart breaking to know another author would be finishing whatever got written. :(

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I never read Jordan, having been warned away by friends who warned me that his stories were unlikely to be finished (even before he died) and that the later novels weren't all that good.

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

I'd say the first four are still worth it. Some incredible world building and beautiful characterizations. I have the last two books, but other things have kept me from cracking them open. :)