im not shocked that the cannonical incest in re didn’t drive off antis because there are a bunch of them in the game of thrones and house of the dragon fandoms which are basically ‘fantasy incest the tv show’. and like why? the dead dove is baked into the canon its incest and age gaps and violence all the way down. you’d think they’d be driven off by that but apparently not
I think what’s happening is that they tell themselves that the show isn’t “glorifying” or “romanticizing” it, whether or not that’s true; meanwhile they believe any fanfiction of the same topics is automatically supporting those themes irl.
I feel like you can see some of this happening with HotD, where antis ARE turning on it more, because its pretty hard to argue that the incest isn’t being romanticized to hell and back.
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