Discussion Friday

[geraineon]

Time for Discussion Friday again!

This time, inspired by my very rapid descent into a Chinese otome game that tried to be culturally sensitive by translating "哥哥" (older brother*) into "childhood friend" in English, what are your thoughts and feelings about incest/pseudo-incest in fiction?

If you enjoy it, why do you enjoy it?

If you find it uncomfortable, is it for all incest/pseudo-incest related tropes, or are there situations where you are more likely to be okay with them and situations where it's a squick?

(Feel free to share any other related thoughts. I trust you all to be respectful to each other's preferences in fiction!)

*brother, very loosely, because it is not always someone related.

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

This is a Japanese example, but I can think of an anime series whose initial English sub accidentally created an incestous relationship as part of a character’s backstory; Zelgadis from Slayers, uncertain of his exact relationship to his master Rezo, speculates that the latter was his grandfather or great-grandfather—and somewhere that “or” became an “and!”

[larryhammer]

Lol

[full_metal_ox]

As if poor Zelgadis’ genome hadn’t been bollixed up enough by Great/Grandpa’s magical bioengineering.

[geraineon]

oh no! XDDD