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I've just put my name in for the DVD commentary challenge. It's a change from the other commentary meme; someone else does the commentary. Off to find one to do myself...some of you sign up so I can do yours.

I don't think I'm going to watch Bonekickers tonight; I don't think I can bear to watch the destruction of all artefacts in the team's vicinity.

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So the foregoing ramble boils down to: I see every sign that the pair of them were well-loved and reasonably happy kids, with not much more than the usual amount of teenage angst, if in a rather unusual situation, and I certainly don't see any signs that they're messed up enough to sleep with each other.

What I really don't understand - though it clearly floats some people's boats, and good luck to them - is fic where adult siblings suddenly start ripping each others' clothes off at moments of tension. It just seems so psychologically unlikely, and makes me think 'You know, I understand being squicked by RPF - I'm squicked by RPF - but how is writing fic full of the Random Surprise Incest supposed to be any better?'

Yeah, word. I suppose the psychologically likely versions would be more likely to a) have LJ come down on them for child pr0n and b) squick the audience or the author, but if my 30-year-old brother started kissing me my reaction would not be to respond in kind, and that's putting it mildly.

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[ankaret.livejournal.com]

The other thing that boggles the heck out of me with regard to incest is people who think that sex between anyone who's related at all is squicky - there's an example here (http://hokorii.livejournal.com/584882.html?style=mine) from someone who's very annoyed about a picture in which Bonnie Wright is inexplicably blurry compared to Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, and there was a storyline on 30 Rock in which the heroine was unfeasibly grossed out by discovering she was dating a man who was something like her fifth cousin.

I mean, I would have an ugh no what on earth do you think you're doing are you drunk? reaction if propositioned by a first cousin, and more distant cousins are a bit iffy if you've been seeing them at family weddings since forever, but seriously, the world's population has been rising, not falling, over the last few millenia. Do they think that they bucked the odds and managed to have all unique ancestors, all the time, since we started diverging from the bonobos, or what?

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My response to that poster would be , "Schaedenfreude, got to love it", so I am refraining. How did she miss the whole thread of all the purebloods being related that's been going on for the last three books?

First cousins squick me a little, especially if they've known each other since childhood, but second cousins outwards is fair game. At that level of consanguinity, the chances of matching harmful recessives isn't much above the general population anyway, IIRC.

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It makes me wonder what on earth happens when they read Persuasion or worse, Mansfield Park. Do they just assume that Jane Austen was an enormous pervert?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand my brain has just looped back to the previous conversation about brothers and I am now wondering whether there's someone out there writing Tom Bertram / Edward Bertram in which they fall improbably into each others arms during a thunderstorm.

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Do they just assume that Jane Austen was an enormous pervert?

That had occurred to me as well.

I am now wondering whether there's someone out there writing Tom Bertram / Edward Bertram in which they fall improbably into each others arms during a thunderstorm.

Once again I shall refer you to Rule #34: if it exists, someone on the internet has written pr0n for it.