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Happy Pride Month!!

BTW, in case y'all don't know, this is a LBGT+ inclusive blog, so fuck off if you are transphobe/homophobe/biphobe.

And also fuck off if you are racist. We own Pride to Miss Major and Marsha P. Johnson, two black trans women, and there's no space for racists in Pride nor in this blog.

year 4 of posting this! HAVE FUN

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Anyhow, for those who like movies and wish I would talk more about incest in movies, I have a good news: my dear friend has started a project called @moviecest so they can do just that. Highly recommend that you follow if you want to check out some incest content in moves and television!

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not my usual topic, but today is a dark day for humanity. the US election always has had global repercussions and this time will be no different. I worry for what will happen next.

And for my American followers, I'm sending love from Brazil. I'm sorry. Hang on tight.

Also, I don't think I have any Republican followers, but if I do, fuck off. This blog is not for you. We are pro-LGBT (especially pro-trans!), pro-black, pro-feminism, pro human rights.

I'll refrain from talking further about politics as that's not the topic of this blog, but I needed to make this statement, silence is a form complicity.

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DNI are so funny. I'm having a morality post because for the Zucest post, I used a twitter thread which compiled Zuko and Azula's best moments as a starting point. But the user who made the thread has "pro shippers dni" on their profile. So I suppose I can't credit them? I'm still going to, I used their work, after all. I'm part from academia. If we as much as glance at someone else's work, we cite it.

Imagine if scientists used DNI and then you can't read a paper because the author doesn't agree with your fandom behaviour? This is so fucking silly.

"New celular markers for early cancer diagnosis. DNI: basic dni criteria; if you think Science is better than Nature; if you drink coffee instead of tea; if you think a 32 dating a 29 years old is okay (someone on their thirties has no business dating someone on their twenties! what do they even have in common?"

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Incest and cannibalism

duality of man

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May I ask why incest? I don’t mean this rudely. I also find incestuous relationships compelling when done right in literature but I’ve never been brave enough express that. And you have a whole blog dedicated to it! You don’t have to answer if uncomfortable with the ask. I am simply curious.

Why not incest?

It's the ultimate forbidden love trope. From Gilbert Adair's The Dreamers:

"A Romeo and Juliet star crossed not because they belonged to two families but to a single one?"

I have a friend who loves to read alien romances, another who likes yaoi, my mom watches Christmas movies all year long. Everyone has a type of story that it's their preference, and tbh, I wouldn't even say mine is incest. It's one of the topics I like to read about, but not the only one. (If I had to chose between no more incest novels or no more sapphic novels, sorry incest, but I'm taking the sapphics).

I always liked to consume my media through written works, and I noticed that while other incest bloggers (namely @incensuous, @shipcestuous and @asexuelfs) had huge compilations of incest media, there was a lack of books mentioned. When there were books cited, there lacked information on the story. And so I sat out to find and catalogue and summarize incest novels. So that's why the blog. (Also, shout out to @thecloserkin, who was already doing something similar before I came along).

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Guys. I did it. My shipcest community got aproved! It took three attempts, but it's here now . I will finish the set up and discover how to invite y'all onto it. It's not for books or for my followers, i want it to be a general shipcest community.

Edit: i am running it through my main @ivesblosson

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That Incest in the Medieval Imagination book is sending me on a lot of side quests. Now even the Sethians are getting involved....

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Just so you all know, if I see your URL in my notifs often enough that I recognize it, I consider you my bestie. We might have never talked, but you're getting invited to my wedding. I remember you folks!

Oh, and those who don't want to interact publicly, remember you can always join the private shipcest community. Just reply or DM to be let in ❤️

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I've been very sick all week long (viral laryngitis) and the good thing was that I got the week off work, cus they don't want sick workers in a hospital.

And while I should have used the time to catch up on my studies, I actually got super invested in a We Have Always Existed, a podcast that talks about transgender people in the ancient Mediterranean, both in the history and mythology. I'm sharing it here cus I know I got a lot of followers who are queer history nerds like myself.

(oh, and there's even a little mention of incest, as Sophie, the host, brings up the claims that Nero and Caligula were incestuous with their mother and sister, respectively)

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* goes to library to study physic *

* ends up reading up on incest *

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Your favorite incest fictional couples?

I find it hard to pick favourites because it varies a lot depending on what my current obsession it. But I think this is a good list of whom has been in my mind lately (in no particular order):

Cathy and Chris from Flowers in the Attic

Andy and Leyley from The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

Isabelle and Theo from The Dreamers

Katara and Sokka from Avatar: the Last Airbender (non-canon)

Cesare and Lucretia from The Borgias (and other Borgia related media, but I love them specially in the tv series)

Sam and Dean from Supernatural (non-canon)

Lleu and Medraut from The Winter Prince (non-canon... or is it?)

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The universe keeps sending me signs telling me to do the zucest post...

The only think holding me back is that I don't have the time to rewatch Avatar

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I didn't find a shipcest specific ask game, so let's go with a general proship one

Proship ask meme? Proship ask meme.

1.) What is your favorite problematic theme/trope that appears in a lot of your ships?

2.) Are there any problematic tropes that squick you out?

3.) First problematic ship since you joined the proship community?

4.) First ever problematic ship? (you didn't have to know it was problematic then)

5.) Ship you don't think it all that problematic, but the rest of your fandom hates?

6.) Cutest, most vanilla ship you are into.

7.) Ship the antis in your fandom like, but you think is hella problematic?

8.) Ship that is (presented as) cute in canon/fanon, but you think is problematic anyway.

9.) Problematic crackship?

10.) Are there any problematic ships that are your NOTPs?

11.) Darkest fandom you are into?

12.) Least dark fandom that you are into!

13.) Rec a dead dove fic!

14.) Song that reminds you of one of your pairings!

15.) Silliest reason you've been told not to ship a ship.

feel free to send in asks to me (the OP) if you'd like! ^^

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OMG I just got to 200 followers! (actually, it's 202, but it was this last notification of new follower that made me go look the follower count and realize I had passed 200).

Thank you so much for each and everyone of you. I think I should do something to celebrate, but IDK what you guys would want. Send in ideas through the ask box, so you can be anonymous if you prefer.

I just... I just love y'all. Thank you for reading my long rants about books!

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If you had to chose between the next incest tropes: Father-Daughter (or vice versa) separated from birth and who when reunited both adults turned into lovers (if they are conscious or not of their blood bond I leave into personal tastes), or doomed siblings... To love each other 😏

Oh though question! I was going to jump straight in doomed siblings, cause I tend to prefer sibling invest over parental incest, but then I remembered Infandous that is exactly that father-daughter unwitting incest plot and I adore that book. And there are so many other good books about parent-child that were separated and then reunite, it's such a good trope.

So yeah, I'm taking parent-child separated at birth.