My Thoughts on Incest in Fandom

[elle_white]

 Incest is a traumatic and terrible thing in real life,and a lot of people seem to sadly ignore.

It  also takes away from healthy, well done platonic relationships. I think in society sometimes romantic and sexual relationships are held up as being the most important thing. That can be a very unhealthy message for people of all sexualities. I think it's important to show the importance of platonic relationships too. And as an asexual, it's important for me to see close non-sexual familial and (genuine, non queer baiting) friendship based relationships in the media that are depicted as valuable by the narrative. And fandom will often take a healthy familial relationship and turn into something sexual, something that is traumatic and devastating for many people in real life. I just don't want to see that. 

I have many, many romantic ships that I love that fangirl over. I'm a pretty big shipper. But I also value loving, non-sexual relationships in media. I personally don't care for incest in fandom. 

Comments

[yukinoomoni]

Additionally, I feel the need to add that you can have family members be emotional, loving, and all that without adding sex to it. It's rare to see family dramas that lack incest in fanfic for some reason (especially in ATLA bleeeeeeeeh), and I stand by what I said above. There are plenty of things to write about in the family without adding a needless sex-plot in the midst.