'Hats. ...NOT YOU.'

[rionaleonhart]

I am now on series three of Waterloo Road! Good news for Tom: he is now the Tom I love, rather than the Tom I want to punch in the face. Bad news for Tom: he had to live through the last few episodes of the second series to get there.

Oh, fine, Tom, you'll hug Chlo. You'll give Izzie's daughter multiple long lovely hugs, but does your son get any fatherly embracing at all? No. No, he does not. For goodness' sake, give the boy a hug before his need for physical affection reaches a point at which he confuses it with sexual desire. It could happen, and you'll have only yourself to blame when it does. (Well, yourself and apiphile, who I'm sure will be somehow responsible.)

Seriously, he and Chlo share emotional hugs no fewer than five times in the first seven episodes of series three. This is simply not fair.

(I... wouldn't say no to Tom/Chlo, actually. Tom, stop making me 'ship you with inappropriate people. Waterloo Road presents me with a bit of a dilemma, because on the one hand I love it when Tom is fatherly (he refers to Chlo and Mika as 'my girls'! awww), and on the other I want him to shag everyone.)


reipan has been visiting! Earlier, she mentioned to my mother that she was going to Japan for a year.

Riona's Mum: Didn't you have a rather awful time the last time you were in Japan?
Rei: The last time, yes, but it should be better now because I'm over the age of consent.
Riona: You were over the age of consent last time.
Rei: ...no, I wasn't.
Riona: It's fourteen, isn't it? (post-research note: the national age of consent is in fact thirteen.)
Rei: ...for sex, yes, but the age of consent -
Riona: That's what the age of consent means.
Rei: ...
Riona: Did you mean the age of majority?
Rei: Shut up.
Riona: I did think you were being a bit overfamiliar with my mother.
Rei: Shut up.

Rei would like me to make it clear that she is a perfectly lovely houseguest and not generally in the habit of discussing her sexual practices with her friends' mothers.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

And it's not exactly like I can be all "How dare people write creepy and twisted things!" is it?

Hee, fair point.

If you're not reading it (which is a decision with which I can find no fault), I feel the need to assure you for the sake of my incest-writing reputation that it is at least portrayed as twisted, rather than 'SEX WITH YOUR BIOLOGICAL SON: OFFICIALLY A GREAT IDEA'. Of course, knowing my habit of breaking resolutions not to write things, happy functional incestfic probably isn't too far away.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

You should just never announce that you're not going to write things. You inevitably end up horrifying yourself.

I have the oddest incest-squick when it comes to fic. The more happy and functional they are, the more squicked I am. So if it's non-consensual incest, I'm not really squicked, because that safely falls into my "Bad and wrong!" mental box. If it's twisted consensual incest, I generally avoid it, although I can very rarely be sucked in (if it was for a show I cared about, the fact that you wrote it would probably be enough to get me to read it, but the combination of consensual incest and "I have no interest in this show!" is enough to get me to not read). Happy funtime incest fic makes my skin crawl.

[rionaleonhart]

That's more or less how my own incest squick works. Plus there's the fact that, when I read incest fic, it's generally not for the sex or for the relationship but specifically for the twistedness. There's so much opportunity for interesting mental anguish! Why squander that in favour of functionality?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The perceived hotness is not the draw for me, either. The one fictional incestuous pairing where I did go "Damn, they'd be hot together!" left me going "I really wish they weren't sisters!", because the incest aspect is squicky enough to kill the hotness for me.