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There's something really appealing about the idea that two people who aren't allowed to be together want each other so much that they're willing to break the rules and taboos of society and say "fuck you, I can love who I want."
Growing up queer, that's how I felt. It wasn't okay to be queer, it wasn't legal to marry someone of the same sex. But then when I was a teenager, gay marriage was legalized, protections for the LGBTQ+ community were put in place, and while I was grateful and relieved for it, it almost felt like I never had the opportunity to find someone I loved so much I would break taboo for, because by the time I had my first girlfriend, it wasn't taboo anymore.
But what is still taboo, and will likely always be taboo, the absolute pinnacle of bad-dirty-wrong, the ultimate "fuck you, I can love who I want," is incest.
In shipping siblings or a parent and child, I get to vicariously reach the culmination of every desire I had as a kid to love someone so much that I would go against society for them. That's not to say that I can't love someone that much now, but that I can't have that outward experience of a love that strong. So what do I do? I grab two pretty, fictional people who happen to be related, and I push that intensity onto them.
And I make my baby queer dreams come true.