I swear someone once told me that [character] would Not Do That because when he made a comment about a threesome with his wife's incredibly close best friend in canon he was JOKING. Like this is in any sense going to put me off.

"hey, I think this would be fun!"
"☹️"/"😡"/"well I just think we'd all be happier if we admitted deep in our hearts that we liked one of these ships, the better one obviously, more than the other, and had the courage to pick a side..."

no :)

Describing an age gap as Oedipal does remind me though of Sara Maitland’s short story ‘Loving Oedipus’, told from Jocasta’s point of view, which does NOT shy away from the subject matter (the first lines are “Of course I knew. They say a mother always knows.”)

never mind, fellow “but I LIKE it weird” enjoyers - we’ll always have fanfic.

and again I say: booooo.

Surely if ANYthing warranted a subordinate tag…

yeah!

YKINMKATO of course as ever but we need to bring back kink memes because those of us who thrive off that kind of hyperspecific weirdness are Suffering here.

Things I have actually tagged in my own fics:
- ‘non-consensual consent’
- ‘and i mean forest sex in a very literal way’
- ‘war prize’
- ‘accidental marriage’
- ‘flirting as military strategy’
- ‘sibling incest’
- ‘infidelity’ and various subcategories thereof, all the time always, love that one.

finally done! archiveofourown.org/works/653414...

(‘you’ here is Maedhros)

I can’t actually think of a better way to do that one because someone only using the parent tag could well mean either version, and yet somebody’s going to get quite a surprise with that tag one of these days

for clarity, it’s the second one of these I’m trying to tag for

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