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relationshipping is running (nominations clean-up ongoing, with sign-ups opening soon!) and I'm running a round of incestbingo alongside it to encourage people to make treats. If you're interested, you can request or make a card over here.
Here's the card I got and will be working on:
( My Incest Bingo card )
Some random thoughts: One thing that's interesting is that this year I got "Spite Incest" on my card. This is a square where my intent was that you can fill it by taking a ship that antis in fandom claim is an incest pairing (through some very tortured reasoning) and therefore NO ONE is allowed to ship it, and responding by being like "OK fine, I guess it's incest now *writes shipfic for it anyway*"
Well, conveniently, I also recently came across this r/AO3 thread, which I can basically use to mine examples of this kind of pairing in fandom.
One thing that was interesting to me is how many of the commenters on the post were clearly taking the "anti" perspective of the character on the left and answering which non-related characters have "incest vibes" to them and so they found them unshippable -- I guess at least some of them mentioned stopping short of telling people they're not allowed to ship it, but not everyone did...
The other interesting thing was the couple of people mentioning that people do this for Zutara, and the discussion that this seems to be done by people who ship Kataang + Zukka. I haven't been in A:TLA fandom for many years (and of course when I was, this behavior was not present; also, Zukka was a basically-unheard-of rarepair). This led me to a bit of speculation and some random musings on the anti phenomenon:
( Thoughts here )
relationshipping is running (nominations clean-up ongoing, with sign-ups opening soon!) and I'm running a round of incestbingo alongside it to encourage people to make treats. If you're interested, you can request or make a card over here.Here's the card I got and will be working on:
( My Incest Bingo card )
Some random thoughts: One thing that's interesting is that this year I got "Spite Incest" on my card. This is a square where my intent was that you can fill it by taking a ship that antis in fandom claim is an incest pairing (through some very tortured reasoning) and therefore NO ONE is allowed to ship it, and responding by being like "OK fine, I guess it's incest now *writes shipfic for it anyway*"
Well, conveniently, I also recently came across this r/AO3 thread, which I can basically use to mine examples of this kind of pairing in fandom.
One thing that was interesting to me is how many of the commenters on the post were clearly taking the "anti" perspective of the character on the left and answering which non-related characters have "incest vibes" to them and so they found them unshippable -- I guess at least some of them mentioned stopping short of telling people they're not allowed to ship it, but not everyone did...
The other interesting thing was the couple of people mentioning that people do this for Zutara, and the discussion that this seems to be done by people who ship Kataang + Zukka. I haven't been in A:TLA fandom for many years (and of course when I was, this behavior was not present; also, Zukka was a basically-unheard-of rarepair). This led me to a bit of speculation and some random musings on the anti phenomenon:
( Thoughts here )
