i’m not like an incest shipper (although like yeah me and 10k other people shipped wincest in 2013) but the more i see people absolutely losing their minds over the concept of fictional incest the more i laugh like come the fuck on now like this trope is quite literally hundreds of years old and we’re acting like it was invented by fanfiction writers. “richard siken condones incest” “ethel cain condones incest” you mean the artists who write about the rotten and the wretched and the unhealthy and the abusive enjoy digging into fictional relationships that are just that. have you lost your goddamned minds. do you ever read anything except for steven universe fanfiction. like could you handle a 12th grade english lit module on the god of small things.
this person is over the age of 20 and has the literary analysis skills of a literal seventh grader
i hate that richard siken is mostly known for out of context snippets about hashtag gay longing when so much of his poetry is about abusive or unhealthy relationships tinged with obsessive possessiveness like obviously he is intrigued by toxic unhealthy possessive relationships and ethel cain writes more or less exclusively about abusive relationships & horrible family dynamics like fucking christ of all people you’re shocked about these people like do we need a second bryan fuller situation forreal 😭😭😭
anyway incest in medieval literature was so popular that scholars distinguish between “horizontal incest” (siblings) and “vertical incest” (parent-child)
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