Family Values
This post is all about family values. Sounds grandiose, doesn't it? But since I am not a politician out campagning, this post is actually about how interesting I find the non-romantic, famly relationships in TV shows which deal with them at length or show them as important
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I found that especially in sibling fandoms a good Gen story can sometimes be at least as emotionally satisfying than any incest story, if not more. Sigh, which reminds me that I wanted to post this long ramby meta about how in incest heavy fandoms Gen probably fills the same emotional need as romance (as opposed to porn, basically any non NC17 shippy fic), because in the end it too is about love and relationships.
Maybe one factor of those sibling shows is that the relationship is obvious, it is there, it is canon. People don't have to argue whether character A and B really love each other of if they are just friends, enemies, people with UST. The *love* is canon. In slash people often have to add the sexual desire component to make the characters take the step from whatever they are in canon to something closer. Family relationships are already canonically close and so you don't have to add a sexual component.
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Yup. Mind you, I would say incest fics aren't satisfying exactly, because, well, society generally thinks of incest as a bad thing for a REASON. And you get into issues of exploitation and other such tricky concepts, and it's a little difficult to focus on "this is hot" when you're worrying about the mental health of characters who really need to start looking outside their family circle for sexual partners.
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