It was a horrible squick 😭 I think I was a little traumatized by "Rome" (if anyone remembers that show, lol), cus the incest in it came from freaking nowhere and very late so it frankly shocked me. I had never seen incest on a screen before, I might not even have read it cus I think Game of Thrones was my first incestous read, much later, and that was fine since the sibling relationship felt kind of secondary and wasn't very established when the incest was revealed, but Rome... Jesus. Even now, I feel reluctance about rewatching that show even though it only was one scene, hahah.

Tangent, sorry, but it really was bad 😆 GoT was a lot easier to watch, but I think I will always struggle a little with live action incest cus that still triggers the ick. Written, though? Love it! The brain is a strange and funny little thing.

Thank you so much, oh my, god 😭🥹🩷🩷 I really enjoy writing them so I'm glad people enjoy them, too!

Ooh, well, incest was one of my worst squicks at the time LMFAOO so I preferred them being unrelated, but since so many thread fics on Twitter depicted them as brothers, I eventually gave that a go anyway.

It's not like I immediately liked it, but I wasn't as grossed out as I thought I'd be so I kept reading until I did, hahah. Then I discovered Choita, and a little after that the uncle and nephew relationship was revealed.

I was a little disappointed that they weren't twins at first, as many others were since the early translation of the leaks said they were brothers before people realized that Jin was the brother, lol, but as soon as I considered the possibilities, uncle/nephew became an obsession 🙈 I think I had the idea for The Things He'll Do for Family that same day, and the rest is history, I guess 😆

Not silly! I don't think you're alone with wondering, either ☺️

Notifications aren't flooded on Twitter, all the likes becomes one notif that updates with the tweet the person liked last☺️

On Bluesky every single like is a notif which is annoying, but I found a feed that only shows qrts and mentions so that's no longer a problem ☺️

I appreciate every single like and love to see that people are enjoying the story. It's kinda fun, seeing someone read through a thread in my notifs and maybe leave a reaction here and there. I get if it's tedious to like every single one so I don't expect it and won't ask for it, but especially with the longer stories it's at least nice to see the bits people liked the most and knowing that they are still reading and enjoying it ☺️

I agree completely. I would even say that people who do that aren't proship, since it isn't about liking incest or other problematic ships, but about being against harassment over fiction.

People can read as much incest as they like, but if they go after other people over ship preferences, they are antis. Antis who like incest, but still antis. Just as people can be proship and only read/write/draw super wholesome things, you can like noncon, huge age gaps, and torture fics and be an anti.

There's a difference between saying "I like/prefer this ship/dynamic because of these reasons..." or "I don't like this because X reason", and saying "Everyone who ships/doesn't ship this/ships them this way are [insert insult]".

The first two examples might irritate people and can come off as rude/bad fandom etiquette if made in the wrong place at the wrong time, but they say nothing about people of the opposite opinion.

The third example is prescribing people personal traits/qualities over fiction, which is (say it with me) - ✨anti behavior✨

Jokey tone aside, people who call themselves proship don't always understand that they are acting in opposition to it. I do hope they will stop once the shoe drops, though! It's never too late to learn and grow as a person, and if they are part of the proship community, they should at least resonate with its purpose.

Disclaimer, I guess; I'm talking about openly announcing opinions on other shippers or pushing personal opinions on them after they have already voiced their stance. I'm not talking about goofing off with friends/in a group chat where everyone is as baffled by some shipping/fandom phenomena. Have fun and let those emotions and opinions out - letting off steam is good, and no one should be expected to act perfectly all the time - but if you're about to call a whole group of people idiots, or liars, or accuse them of being immoral on the timeline because they like a different top/bottom dynamic than you, perhaps consider if that aligns with the philosophy you claim to stand behind before you hit post.

Another disclaimer, heh; None of this is aimed at Anon - you seem to get it, I just went off on a tangent 😆💗