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So last night I was talking with paradise_city about incest fic. And well, it led me to a question, and I'd really like to hear what my flist has to say about it.

Fandom has a lot of different kinds of relationships portrayed, and a lot of them are outside of things that we've seen or thought we might enjoy (reading or in RL) before we came to fandom. Some of them are/were outside our moral code. Some things that we used to think we wrong, we may now think of as right, or vise versa. Some things we never thought we'd like, we now love or vise versa.

Are there things you've run across in fandom that have changed your personal moral code I mean mostly in regards to relationships, but you can include other aspects as well. Also, if you like something in fandom/fanfic, does that mean you'd accept it in RL? Or do you draw a line between fiction and reality?

I mean, there are a lot of people in fandom who read incest fic, if you came across an incestuous couple in RL, would you be ok with it? What about things other than incest? I know my first change way back in my early days of fandom was to finally see that an open relationship could work, if both partners wanted it. Or later, that threesomes, or moresomes could work. I grew up in a very traditional household, where mostly, it's expected for a girl to meet a guy, fall in love and get married, so seeing all of the other kinds of relationships out there really changed my view on these things, and moved some things off my moral codes list of "wrong".

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Even with the technology, mpreg is just too weird for me. Maybe it has a lot to do with my disinterest with babies in general. I don't see the point of going so far as to make a man pregnant just to work a baby into the story. It just seems like needless reaching to me, and it makes me very :| The ONLY mpreg I've been able to handle was on Alien Nation, but then George is an alien so it isn't quite the same thing. Now, there was a person who attempted to write a Brian/Justin mpreg AU by making Justin a Newcomer, but it was painfully obvious that she'd never watched Alien Nation because she didn't get a single detail right.

My love for bug!John knows no bounds. There was a fic someone wrote, I think it was either sardonicsmiley or lavvyan, where John kept getting switched out every day with a John from another universe, and the first switch-out was bug!John, and oh my word that bit of the story just kept breaking my heart and putting it back just to break it again. I wish she'd write a full story in that verse. It would be awesome.

And I read Leah's centaur fic. Where is this other centaur fic of which you speak?? *makes grabby hands*

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Even with the technology, mpreg is just too weird for me.
Ha, have you ever read Fuzzy Duck Smell, it's sort of mocking mpregs. Rodney has ass eggs, which turn out to hatch into ducks. Just normal ducks. They go and live on the mainland (the ducks, not John and Rodney).

There was a fic someone wrote
I think I may have that fic open in one of to to-read tabs....

And I read Leah's centaur fic. Where is this other centaur fic of which you speak?? *makes grabby hands*
Leah, based her fic off of James Walkswithwind's series. The whole series is super long, and spans many fandoms, but you don't have to read it to read the SGA parts.

She based her fic off of James' Many Faces fics (parts 1 and 2) but didn't know the centaur bit (and many of the other AU bits) were based off another fic; The Centaur Series (which ends up being McShep, but also has Sheppard/Zelenka and Sheppard/Beckett)
1: There's No Place Like a Mythological City To Call Home
2: Centaur Lullabye
3: Tetrameter
4: The Clock Struck One
5: Untitled Snippet
6: Thundering of Heartbeats
7: (Not So) Ordinary Gaits

Beyond that, I'd actually rec *all* of James' fic. She's one of the first author's I read in the fandom, and was one of the author's that was my transition from McBeck to McShep, she has a mix of both. And her Alone In Your Mind series would make my top 5 list no problem. It's one of those threesome fics that just *works*.

Now, I'm totally going to have to reread the centaur fics. :P