Aberforth/goat is canon
Nov. 15th, 2005 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swatkatThe latest edition of my mother's favourite women's magazine has published - right between the cover story on earcare and another one discussing the virtues of different kinds of oil - a story featuring bestiality. It's quite horrifying (intentionally so), written from the POV of a woman who suspects her new husband of, um, having relations with his dog. No, really.
Knowing my mother - oh, I cannot *wait* to see her reaction once she sees it. *dies laughing*
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This also made me think of fandom - HP in particular, and also Buffy/Angel - and how it has conditioned me against so many things that I would've found squickworthy in the past. Bestiality? Not my thing, but sure, whatever floats your boat, man. Necro? Yeah, whatever. Incest? Yes, please.
Partly it's because of the nature of the source text. I mean, just think of HBP. Random pairing offs! Creepy child molesting werewolves! Remus and Tonks! Girl!Goyle!Mayela Ewell The very creepy Gaunts! The Blacks, oh, the Blacks! It's like JKR telling us, 'Yes, go on, do whatever you want!' There is magic. There is Polyjuice. There are animagi and metamorphagi. Can you really blame the fandom for being so pervy?
And in the Buffyverse? Everyone has subtext with everyone. There are vampires with daddy kinks and orgasmic bite scenes and crazy slayers who torture people after tying them up in a chair. *Of course* the fans are going to write about every kink imaginable.
With my fandom-coloured POV, it's often difficult to remember that everyone in RL *aren't* used to the things I am.
Knowing my mother - oh, I cannot *wait* to see her reaction once she sees it. *dies laughing*
*
This also made me think of fandom - HP in particular, and also Buffy/Angel - and how it has conditioned me against so many things that I would've found squickworthy in the past. Bestiality? Not my thing, but sure, whatever floats your boat, man. Necro? Yeah, whatever. Incest? Yes, please.
Partly it's because of the nature of the source text. I mean, just think of HBP. Random pairing offs! Creepy child molesting werewolves! Remus and Tonks! Girl!Goyle!
And in the Buffyverse? Everyone has subtext with everyone. There are vampires with daddy kinks and orgasmic bite scenes and crazy slayers who torture people after tying them up in a chair. *Of course* the fans are going to write about every kink imaginable.
With my fandom-coloured POV, it's often difficult to remember that everyone in RL *aren't* used to the things I am.
