time for a rant regarding literary sibling pairs

[ambermoon]

I remember as a teenager coming across Tanya Huff's Quarters books. I found them refreshing in several aspects (a non-heteronormative world, with complete equality of gender and sexual orientation! But that is a post for another time), but one I particularly liked was that the first three books start off making the reader think they're about

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[proudduckling]

I agree with you; I'm sure no one is surprised to hear that my point about societal views of same-sex relationships was not in any way an agreement with those views. The weird thing about the conflation of homosexuality and incest is that I've seen it done both as a way of demonizing homosexuality and of glorifying incest. Everyone knows gay marriage will lead to siblings getting married, but did you know that embracing incestuous relationships is totally awesome because it's part of ending homophobia????? Overenthusiastic fans who think that creepy slash shipping is a form of pro-gay activism will be the death of me.

[ambermoon]

I was totally not aware this was a thing! I feel . . . violated.

[proudduckling]

This is just part of why I'm taking a break from tumblr. Fetishizing in the name of acceptance makes my head hurt with how wrongheaded it is.

[ambermoon]

I'm still on good terms with Tumblr, but that's probably because there are very few I read regularly. I'm not ready to sink into the morass yet.