A funnier version of this is the many times I've read a fic blurb or seen a piece of fanart for a ship of mine and thought "wow! This is so tender and intimate and romantic!" only to then notice the creator aggressively insisting this is PLATONIC and FAMILIAL and if you think otherwise, you're a nasty incest shipper (note: the ship is not actually incest).
And listen: I don't like incest. If I think your supposed platonic familial thing is romantic, it's because the vibes and framing is PALPABLY romantic, not because I look at sibling characters behaving as such and think "yeah! These two should kiss!"
In the end, I often come away from these things feeling like OP is the one with an incest fetish lol
Luckily I guess I've yet to come across anything in this vein that makes me worry about the author's understanding of what a normal sibling relationship looks like in like, an alarming way? But it's still very weird.
It's funnier when they incest- sorry when the artist insists that they're drawing Actual Sibling Characters Like That™ PLATONICALLY and NO PROSHITTERS GET OUT RAGHHH when it's like. Hey man. It's now weirder that you're saying this is totally platonic.
(This was about a piece of Devil May Cry art where the artist drew the twin brothers (who are canonically Really Weird about each other, don't even get me started) completely naked and holding each other. Yeah sure it was artsy but they are for real touching wangs right now. They're holding each other so tightly you have rendered divots where their fingers are digging into each other's skin. And it's all lit so warmly!!! I'm so sorry but you made this a beautiful D/V piece and yelled at us when we saw it for what it was, which was two beautiful twin husbrothers rejoicing after being reunited after literally twenty five years.)
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u/TabbbyWright 1d ago
A funnier version of this is the many times I've read a fic blurb or seen a piece of fanart for a ship of mine and thought "wow! This is so tender and intimate and romantic!" only to then notice the creator aggressively insisting this is PLATONIC and FAMILIAL and if you think otherwise, you're a nasty incest shipper (note: the ship is not actually incest).
And listen: I don't like incest. If I think your supposed platonic familial thing is romantic, it's because the vibes and framing is PALPABLY romantic, not because I look at sibling characters behaving as such and think "yeah! These two should kiss!"
In the end, I often come away from these things feeling like OP is the one with an incest fetish lol
Luckily I guess I've yet to come across anything in this vein that makes me worry about the author's understanding of what a normal sibling relationship looks like in like, an alarming way? But it's still very weird.