Why I Like Incest Fic

[kitsune13]

It's been a while since I did anything other than talk/bitch about my mundane life crap, so I thought it was HIGH TIME that I made a grand post telling you why Things I Like, and the Reasons Why I Like Them, are awesome beyond belief

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[balefully]

NNnnnngh. I AM GOING TO RUSH OUT AND READ SOME DELISH SAM/DEAN NOW. I agree with so much of what you've said!

Additionally, I think I also have a kind of...monogamy kink, I guess you could say. A desperate, romantic, we-are-each-other's-everything-and-always-will-be kind of codependency REALLY gets me going in fiction (even if I know how dreadfully unhealthy it would be in the real world). And incest absolutely makes that the best it can possibly be. They're best friends, they're each other's closest family, and then when they finally get over the taboo to cross that final line, they're also romantically involved. They're like. Every single type of strong, bonding love. The sex was inevitable because they are just that close and love each other just that much. In a "normal" romantic relationship, it would never achieve that degree of actually having EVERY SINGLE PART of the other person, as they didn't grow up together or don't have the same family, or fell in love before they really became friends or what-have-you. And all that stuff is built right in to a sibling relationship that becomes romantic/sexual.

[kitsune13]

DUDE, YES. And see, it took me a long time to decide I wanted a monogamous relationship, and I don't think, in RL, that it's the be-all end-all PINNACLE of relationship styles, that everyone must strive for. But in fic, I have SUCH a weakness for SOULMATES OMG! Because, yes, exactly what you said. Plus, I think, for me, I'm reconciling my discomfort with RL-monogamy by assigning it to SAM AND DEAN'S GREAT TRANSGRESSIVE T00BY LURVE, which, in some weird way, makes it okay? I can only deal with monogamy in fic if it's PERVERSE, apparently; I think it goes along with, I see real life nice normal monogamy every day -- hell, I live it -- so in fic, I want it to be both a GRAND PASSION and DEEPLY WRONG. That's the way to make an exciting story! Domesticity, unless it's like, a reverse domesticity where they haven't had sex yet, but the proximity and the lure of you, too, can have a "normal" life, is part of what lures them into bed.

[balefully]

OH MY GOSH YES.

I think it's precisely because I don't think it's realistic, obtainable, or even really desirable in the real world that soulmateism (IT IS A WORD IF I SAY IT IS!) makes me go googly-eyed and melty in fic. There have to be supernatural (AHAHAHA!) circumstances that bring it about and keep it there (i.e. not just "normal boy meets normal girl, boy thinks girl is pretty and sweet, boy loves girl greatly and t00bily forever"), and then I will totally buy into the whole GRAND PASSION thing, which is tempered and made interesting by the DEEPLY WRONG so it isn't just like. Any random blah romance novel.

All of which is to say: AMEN, SISTER!