i'm a pixel here, myself

From amberlynne:

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. Your f- and f-of-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

1. Sam Winchester
2. Dean Winchester
3. Tim Drake
4. Kon-El
5. Victor Mancha (from Runaways)
6. Gertrude Yorkes (from Runaways; also, am I the only one who's realized that if she marries Chase she'd be Gertrude Stein?)
7. Molly Hayes (from Runaways)
8. Bobby Drake
9. Jean-Paul Beaubier
10. Piotr Rasputin (Ultimate-verse)
11. Billy Kaplan (Asgardian/Wiccan)
12. Teddy Altman (Hulkling)

a. You hear the collective moan from the Supernatural folks? It's followed by a little cheer from me: no new episode tonight. Which means I won't feel bad about missing the show tonight due to rehearsal. Plus, I still have back eps to finish.

b. I saw a post quoted on metafandom about incest fic and how people are kind of thinking it's like the new slash -- a somewhat overlooked side branch of the genre, with its twisted little audience, etc. etc. etc. And there was a kind of "is incest the new slash because slash has become so mainstream?" question, which interested me because I do read incest fic, but not because of the taboo. My predilection for twinfic (though, strangely, not the Weasleys) could possibly stem from liking narcissism fic, which would explain why I like polyjuice fic so much, but the Sam/Dean love isn't really based on any previous pairing attraction. I think I approach incest fic on a case-by-case basis by pairing, rather than approaching it as a category. Which, interestingly, is how I approach *all* fanfic -- and this made me wonder whether or not the incest taboo carries over to fanfic with the strength it once had.

Part of the "incest is the new slash" argument hinges on the fact that slash, once taboo, is now commonplace. The folks who were reading slash for the taboo-ness of it, therefore, are forced to move onto something more taboo, and since they were already reading fanfic, centered on incest fic. But what I've been realizing as I've read (and written) Supernatural fic is that the incest taboo isn't really coming around to smack me in the face the way I expected it to. This can mean one of three things:

1) I am a sick, twisted, perverted individual with no morals and am probably not fit to be seen with any of you.
2) Supernatural is an exception because goddamn, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki are hot.
3) Incest, at least in fiction, is no longer the taboo it once was.

I'd be interested to hear how others in this fandom deal with the incest angle. That is, does it come up at all in your head? Do you rationalize it away or deal with it head-on? What goes through your mind as you watch the show?

Edit: I'm thinking specifically of Supernatural as I write this, which meant I hadn't considered het incest or parent/child (or other relative/child) incest, both of which I have since discovered squick the hell out of me. Clearly I have some more thinking of my own to do. I'd still love to hear your takes on this!