[at the edge of your seat: horror vs. disgust in fics]

Possible sign I've Officially Been Around Fandom Too Long: "what do you -mean- siblingcest is squicky?" (*facepalm*)

Though I actually find some of it squickier than the rest. I think it's more okay when it starts when the siblings are children and they're just naturally & mutually deeply fucked up (together), and less okay if it starts when they're in late adolescence or adults for some reason, 'cause that sort of means the power-balance is oddly tilted. Possibly this is why the brothercest on 'Supernatural' doesn't quite work for me.

But yeah, it sort of bothers me how few things bother me to the point where I don't even think about them anymore. I think I've become complacent.
    Like, there's actually a book, 'Geek Love', what with the mutilated freak-show family, which is just horrific and insane-sounding to the point where I -know- I'd be disturbed for days if I read it, so I don't. Or there's stuff I actually find sexually deviant like 'Razor Wire Pubic Hair'. I guess I have a mutilation squick, but it's just... adding S&M and cross-gender modification stuff in there makes it a more potent cocktail somehow.

Anyway, what I mean to say is, I'm not shocked or disgusted and disturbed by ideas anymore, if I ever was-- the way to disturb me would have to be through the use and the actual darkness in the permutation of those ideas.
    ( ...mer? )