Context is for the WEAK

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Because I don't think we've had a context-is-for-the-weak post here yet:





Ceiling Robin is watching you masturbate!

Comments

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Let's just say there is a LOT of subtext in canon, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[schmevil.insanejournal.com]

*cries* Have I mentioned how scared I am of the inevitable wave of Silk Spectre 2/Comedian fic?

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

'I just realized...there's a damn good chance you're my father.'

'Yeah. Let's go again!'

'You bet!'

[schmevil.insanejournal.com]

Not enough crying. Genuine Sally/Eddie needs lots of dub-con NONOYESYES tears.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

I think I've seen too much STUPID squicky stuff, not just squicky.

('Let's do it!' 'But (I'm/you're) (your/my) (parent/kid/sibling)!' 'Yes?' 'Nothing, let's get naked.' 'It's about time!')

[schmevil.insanejournal.com]

Aaaand this would be why I stay the hell away from incest pairings. I mean, yes there are some squicks that just can't be watered down, but good writing goes along way.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

I actually seek it out sometimes, just because it can be so...bizarre.

(I exaggerate, somewhat in my description above...a lot of the stuff I've run across completely skips the 'but we're related!' part. >_>)

[schmevil.insanejournal.com]

Not gonna lie, I love badfic. I used to run a badfic sporking comm, even. I'm particularly fond of badly written dubcon and BDSM. Hilarity.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

That's what really gets me, sometimes...a lot of this stuff...it's actually not badly done (as far as porn goes)...aside from the 'jeeze, you're related, doesn't that bother you the slightest bit?'

[schmevil.insanejournal.com]

I those fics come about because some people write to satisfy a kink. They aren't necessarily interested in an audience that doesn't share that kink, and they most definitely aren't interested in interrogating their kink.

Hence the strangely unproblematic incest.

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

Sometimes I feel like it's *not* about a kink and that's the problem. Because I like incest pairings in fandoms where there's a lot of Gothic trappings in the pairing--or even if I don't like the pairing I can see how it comes out of the show.

What I find creepy are are incest fics about more healthy families--those are the ones I've read where it seemed like they didn't even remember where they were related and I got the feeling the author just wanted to pair those two characters and didn't have a thing for incest. If it's part of the kink it should...you know...read as a kink!

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

On the one hand, I can understand that...

On th'other...

I'm just not entirely sure what the POINT is, if the relation isn't being treated like a big deal.

Not having an incest kink, I can't really say how someone who does have one would respond, but...like sistermagpie said, it...kind of seems like...NOT catering to the kink, sometimes.

But if it were for one of my odd, potentially squick-worthy kinks, I'd find the lack of emphasis the aspects that define the kink, and might squick those that don't have it (or even those that do) to be...boring at best, an unfun cop-out at worst.