#palamedes sextus deserves his ardent love for dulcie to be recognized

[lachrimae-verae]

I saw your post about why people are so crazy about shipping campal and I just wanted to say thank you so much for saying that I’ve seen so many aggressively pro-shipping it posts I’m going to lose it

as someone who has grown up alongside her own second cousins (big Filipino families tend to be close, especially since some of us are in the US and not back home) the idea of shipping cam and pal is just so not right to me, and it annoys me so much when people say stuff like “it’s biphobic not to ship them” when I am literally bi?? I have no problems whatsoever with m/f ships in tlt just please choose ones that aren’t cousins and, more importantly, were not raised as cousins. You want to talk about dulcinea and palamedes? Incredible. Mercy and Augustine? Unrealistic in canon but I respect your clearly exquisite taste. Abigail and Magnus? I will be your best friend forever. But cam and pal??? What???

like I read shadowhunters even when the whole weird clary/jace siblings thing was happening and while it was weird it was also kinda tragic because they hadn’t known (and they weren’t actually siblings so all good) but to take characters who have been raised as family for their entire lives and say they are romantically, or (maybe even worse) sexually attracted to each other? Not for me thank you very much

Sorry for the little rant lol thanks for reading :) Hope you’re having a good day!

No, thank YOU for responding because I was starting to feel alone in this regard. I have very few direct cousins, but a whole host of second and third cousins and all the removed and whatever bits, and the idea of people looking at cousins and going, 'oh cool, they should have sex' is revolting. Clearly none of these people have close family, or if they do.....yikes.

Literally people were like "but the idea of unhealthy romantic relationships is the foundation of tlt!" and I think that maybe we read a different series than them because that is not at ALL what its about. But. Even if that's what you're looking for, Mercy and Augustine (and Jod) are RIGHT THERE! So are Wake, Pyrrha, and Gideon! Don't get me started on the people who literally said "well I don't see you condemming Ianthe and Coronabeth" as if that was some kinda of gatcha instead of derailing the argument to suit their purposes.

To your point about shadowhunters, I never read it, but I do know someone irl who was put up for closed adoption as a child and ended up dating a cousin unknowingly and it was incredibly traumatic when they found out. I literally can imagine how that must feel.

In any event, these people need to get out and interact with the world more, meet new people, or get a hobby, since they are on the internet in almost 2023 ardently defending incest. Again, lile they can ship whatever, but dont come at me saying "oh second cousins are legal anyway sweatie:)" or "well muir once defended incest so its ok ☺️" as if either of those statements are anywhere in the realm of logical or reasonable.