Dear fannish universe,
Unless you are writing about a completely alien culture, parent-child incest is not some beautiful, tender expression of familial affection. It's just not. I know writing plain old slash just doesn't feel as naughty as it used to. However, you can have that thrilling transgressiveness or you can have your schmoop. You don't get both. Not if you don't want your reader sticking her head in the toilet bowl. Or wondering: "Has this author ever even met...another human being? Like, ever?"
There are other kinks you could try, if you've just got to be transgressive. Consider the possibilities of bestiality! It's a whole new world! And I doubt anyone will be very offended if you have Lionel murmur tender endearments while choirs of angels sing in the middle of a passionate-yet-tender-yet-erotic goat-fucking.
Posted by Sarah T. at November 18, 2003 05:42 AM | TrackBackCould it have been that the author was attempting to convey that *Lionel* thought parent/child incest was a tender thing, while really being deluded? Because one often gets the impression that Lionel thinks he is acting in Lex's best interest, while he is clearly doing no such thing. So maybe someone was going for that idea of Lionel being out of touch with reality, in that way where he thinks that doing whatever the hell he feels like is what is best for Lex, even if he's wrong.
Posted by: zvi at November 18, 2003 01:07 PMHey, I *wrote* a story like that, more or less. Trust me when I say that the stories I'm referring to do *not* take that approach.
Posted by: Sarah T. at November 18, 2003 02:18 PMtest
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