Let's Talk About Squicks, Baby

[thisgirl_is]

Disclaimer: Click links at your own risk - it will be pretty clear what the subject matter is going to be.Squicks are such personal things, and sometimes so very random. I mean, there's the usual fairly common ones: non-con, scat, watersports, chan, bestiality, you get the picture. But then there are those little quirks of preference everyone has.

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[graylor]

Aside from the usual--rape, scat, non-vampire-necro, and chan--my only deal-breaker is mpreg. I don't care who wrote it, I won't read it. (I have *written* mpreg, however, but, let us say, sunshine and sparklies it ain't.) My mpreg-squicking is a visceral matter of distaste--I feel the same way about fish and sea-food, for no logical reason.

lol I am so with you on the "baby" thing. Once in a fic, maybe. Used ironically, yes. Used with a straight face, repeatedly, without massive emotional upheavals in progress? Absolutely not.

[thisgirl_is]

I always knew mpreg would never be my thing, ranging from too ridiculous for words to actually repulsive. As someone said over on IJ, Particularly when people start describing vestigial uterus-like organs that open off the rectum. Oh. My. God. No. It isn't something I ever seek out, but I will read if it seems interesting.

Some squicks defy logic. You neither have nor need a reason to hate the thing, you just do. (Baked beans gross me out completely. Hate them.)

Baby, sweetheart, darling, no no NO. The best use of pet names I have ever read was in
Fear and Loathing at the Phoenix, in which they tended to refer to each other as Scarhead and Malfuck. Brilliant story.

PS This was the first ever comment on this LJ. I am ridiculously excited. :o)