Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
And Chapter Twenty-Six has dropped. Cal and Allie are once again alone and out of immediate danger... but that doesn't mean Cal can relax, because the downtime means he's running out of excuses to put off the conversation he's long dreaded... the truth about what happened the day of the meteor. Allie has already discovered that on that day, as the sacrifice his patron demanded to let Cal stop the meteor, otherworldly entities made her forget her entire history with him, but that doesn't mean there aren't still big secrets to be revealed... like that he's actually her brother.
Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
And we're at Chapter Twenty Five, another actiony chapter. Actiony? But Cal's handcuffed next to his sister and magically bound not to be able to cast any spells to escape while the leader of the Nobodies tries to convince him to switch sides. How's that going to be an actiony chapter?
Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
Chapter Twenty-Four is now out. Another case of 'a long gap between updates because the NEXT chapter has a lot of complex stuff going on.' A little behind-the-scenes fact, the "one installment ahead" policy actually helped me out in that regard. Because I was struggling with something and then realized that if I made one small change in the previous chapter (that is, this one I'm posting now), it would all be much easier to deal with. So I did, and no one would ever be the wiser if I didn't tell you.
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
Finally get to release Chapter Twenty-Three which was a hard one as it's mostly a big action scene, something I've never felt good at doing (and yeah, I go off on asides a lot during it to discuss fine points of magical theory in the world because I can't seem to help myself). Probably won't be the last, if I continue, but it's the biggest at least for as far as my current planned scenes go. So, I hope I pulled it off successfully.
It's that time of year again! The season of the Folgers Holiday Commercial! It's been over 15 years now since it came out (check out this article about the ten year anniversary and the impact it's had). It's an institution!
Unfortunately, Tumblr was a big grinch and deleted the old gifset version that had hundred of thousands of notes, labelling it 'adult material' even though nothing in it was adult, just some sweet siblings reuniting and having an, err, unusual amount of chemistry. But nothing inappropriate happens, so there was no reason to delete that classic post (I mean, granted, maybe some reblogs went more adult, but still, no reason to delete the root which deserved Tumblr Heritage Post status).
And for me, reblogging about the commercial, several times, was part of my Tumblr Christmas Tradition (along with *cough*writing at least one annual mashup fic to help populate the Folgers Commercial's tag on AO3*cough*). I had trouble finding another big post to reblog in its place, so I'm making my own. Except I don't really have the means to reproduce the gifset so until I find a better option I'm just going directly to the source to post the video.
It's a cherished holiday tradition and if Tumblr doesn't want to reverse its silly decision then I'll just make another one for people to reblog if they like sweet family reunions and the rich bold taste of Folgers coffee.
It's that time of year again! The season of the Folgers Holiday Commercial! It's been over 15 years now since it came out (check out this article about the ten year anniversary and the impact it's had). It's an institution!
Unfortunately, Tumblr was a big grinch and deleted the old gifset version that had hundred of thousands of notes, labelling it 'adult material' even though nothing in it was adult, just some sweet siblings reuniting and having an, err, unusual amount of chemistry. But nothing inappropriate happens, so there was no reason to delete that classic post (I mean, granted, maybe some reblogs went more adult, but still, no reason to delete the root which deserved Tumblr Heritage Post status).
And for me, reblogging about the commercial, several times, was part of my Tumblr Christmas Tradition (along with *cough*writing at least one annual mashup fic to help populate the Folgers Commercial's tag on AO3*cough*). I had trouble finding another big post to reblog in its place, so I'm making my own. Except I don't really have the means to reproduce the gifset so until I find a better option I'm just going directly to the source to post the video.
It's a cherished holiday tradition and if Tumblr doesn't want to reverse its silly decision then I'll just make another one for people to reblog if they like sweet family reunions and the rich bold taste of Folgers coffee.
It's that time of year again! The season of the Folgers Holiday Commercial! It's been over 15 years now since it came out (check out this article about the ten year anniversary and the impact it's had). It's an institution!
Unfortunately, Tumblr was a big grinch and deleted the old gifset version that had hundred of thousands of notes, labelling it 'adult material' even though nothing in it was adult, just some sweet siblings reuniting and having an, err, unusual amount of chemistry. But nothing inappropriate happens, so there was no reason to delete that classic post (I mean, granted, maybe some reblogs went more adult, but still, no reason to delete the root which deserved Tumblr Heritage Post status).
And for me, reblogging about the commercial, several times, was part of my Tumblr Christmas Tradition (along with *cough*writing at least one annual mashup fic to help populate the Folgers Commercial's tag on AO3*cough*). I had trouble finding another big post to reblog in its place, so I'm making my own. Except I don't really have the means to reproduce the gifset so until I find a better option I'm just going directly to the source to post the video.
It's a cherished holiday tradition and if Tumblr doesn't want to reverse its silly decision then I'll just make another one for people to reblog if they like sweet family reunions and the rich bold taste of Folgers coffee.
Yearly Folgerscest Fic: "A Christmas Miracle In Hell"
For the last... several years (like, my mind boggles to think about it) I've kept up a tradition of doing a Folgerscest fic in December. This year I wasn't feeling especially inspired and it was towards the end of November that I even settled on an idea that I was going to do. I don't know why but I landed on a pretty niche pair: I decided to do Thalita/Renato from the video game Dead by Daylight, which I wrote one fic about before. This fic sort of draws on that previous fic, and the idea that there are infinite versions of the characters out there in the Entity's realms, and, in Thalita and Renato's case, that they're often looking for each other. This time around I also did it a bit more as a remix: the lines from the commercial all show up, as do most of the basic story beats, but often in different orders or contexts. But it's still, at its heart, a Christmas tale about two siblings reuniting and wanting to bone but not sure if they can say that openly. And, tradition maintained!
So, enjoy (or ignore, if it's not your thing), "A Christmas Miracle In Hell"
In other news, boooooooooooo to Tumblr for removing the classic Gifset of the Folgers Commercial post with the "It's That Time Of year Again..." opening under the spurious claim of it being adult content. The one with hundreds of thousands of notes that I always reblogged multiple times as part of a Christmas tradition. Way to be huge Grinches, Tumblr. Why do you hate fun and Christmas traditions? Does anyone have another popular post along those lines I might replace it with?
Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
Bit of a long gap, but Chapter 22 is up. Why did it take so long? Because I'm still trying to keep one chapter ahead and Chapter 23 was complicated and took a lot. I'm hoping the next one won't be so bad and you'll get to see it soon.
Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
Welcome back to my continuing series Tropes of Cest, where I delve a little more deeply into one of my favorite tropes in shipping and stories involving incest!
Yes, I only did one of these, years ago, but now there's 2, and that makes it officially a series. Anyway, as always, if there's some aspect or ship I've left out that fits this trope, I'd be incredibly pleased to have you point it out in a comment or reblog. I mostly think about my favorite ships and there are tons that I'll therefore leave out just because they don't come to me.
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, for all tropes I’m dealing with only consensual pairings (although including ones where they may not realize going into it that they’re related, or where the outcomes might be tragic - the desire is real and that’s what’s most important). Pairings are also not necessarily sexual, particularly where younger characters are involved, but may just be romantic or pining. The key distinction is I’m usually not dealing with these tropes where outright abuse is the reason the incest (or incestuous feelings that may fall short of action) happens. I’m mostly interested in exploring the tropes in cases where where both parties have feelings and want the situation or pine for more. Yes, there will be abusive examples of these tropes out there (and unfortunately in RL situations which are similar to them), and they might once in a while come up, but this isn’t what this trope analyses series is interested in. For that matter, even if sometimes–in a real world situation–it might be wise to treat the situation as abusive, despite everyone involved willingly engaging in it, we’re still not considering it necessarily abusive for fictional cases described here. For these, we may adopt the headcanon that these are exceptions who are uniquely mature or self-possessed and nobody is actually being harmed (by the relationship itself, at least). Also see my general disclaimer on such problematic ships.
The first trope I’ll be exploring is… Basically Parents Already!
They're family. But they're not the ONLY family. Because there are other people that need caring for, and this couple are the responsible ones of the group. Or the only ones available, temporarily or permanently and have to take up the role. Of course they're just family, they're not a couple-couple… or are they? They seem like they might as well be. They share the responsibility, they discuss what's best for the kids. And even if they're not actually Mom and Dad, the kids might call them that, as a way to tease them about how they set rules and watch out for them. Maybe they've never even kissed each other, won't admit that's what they want from each other… or maybe they're secretly carrying on an affair (maybe it's even not-so-secretly, from the kids)… but whatever the case, everyone can see one thing… they're Basically Parents Already.
I should probably stop here and clarify my boundaries of the trope. It's a gray area, I suppose, but in my opinion Basically Parents Already is always about the couple being effectively the parents to a child. If one actually is a parent to them, that's okay, because the trope's about them parenting together like a couple even though they're not a couple. However, at least IMHO, it doesn't apply to pairings where two related people having children together and raise them (unless, maybe it's a complete bizarre accident, like artificial insemination mixup… but if there's already incest leading to the pregnancy, they're just parents, not BPA). The key to this trope is that this is either a substitute for an actual public relationship (they may only be secretly together, but everyone knows they're raising the kids together) or to highlight to them and everyone else how good they'd be if they were actually parents together. So one person can be a parent and the other helps out (or both can be parents to different children and raise them together) but if they're both literally the parents and in a relationship then it's just a relationship that has kids, not BPA.
Pairings it applies to: Really, it can apply to any variety of cesty pairing (and even non-cesty ones). For example, I can see, if one of the parents dies or leaves suddenly, a responsible teen child working with the remaining parent to raise the much younger kids, and growing closer and evolving into a relationship much like spouses, except for the romantic aspect… until one day they let it slip (usually the younger party to make it less groomy) - or growing jealous when the parent starts dating somebody else, feeling 'cheated on.' More distant relationships require a little more backstory to make it work… why, for example, a niece is helping her uncle raise a kid, or vice versa, but are certainly easily doable.
But for me, this trope always works best with siblings. Two older siblings who have one or more younger siblings and either their parents are completely absent for some reason, or merely--when the parents are busy doing something else--the older siblings have to play Mom and Dad for the younger ones. Orphan sibling groups of three or more, can conveniently make a ready-made family unit and sometimes the eldest even have excuses to masquerade as a married couple to keep everybody together. Situations where parents are theoretically around but all the siblings have adventures that are secret from them work best, IMHO, because there's already the sense of sneaking around and getting away with things anyway, and if things get romantic, the younger siblings are already experienced in lying to the parents to cover up their magical adventures… even once the magical adventures include the incestuous romance of their siblings. It also works spectacularly well when the kids are literally the children of one sibling, but the other parent is out of the picture now, and they've gotten their sibling to "help out" raising their kids. There's something both so wholesome and so romantic about one sibling basically rearranging their whole life to help their other sibling raise their child (which still counts as BPA under my definitions).
RL?: I have no specific examples , but I'm sure it has happened at some point (in a non-abusive way, as I only deal with those types in this section unless otherwise noted… I'm sure there are loads of abusive cases of this as well but those are criminals, not ships).
Fun ways to play with the trope:
If the parenting happens from birth, you can get some adorable confusion when the kid genuinely thinks of both of the pair as their parents, and actively tries to get them to be more romantic because, with most everybody else they know who has a man and woman raising them together, the man and woman smooch. And leaving aside the kids, you can of course have settings where everyone knows the situation, but… imagine them moving for some reason, to a new place, where other people constantly mistake them for a couple and they keep having to awkwardly explain that, no, they're NOT together while secretly wishing they could be and thinking about how if they just moved again and admitted it to themselves they probably COULD be, just (chef's kiss).
It also should be noted, either parent actually being related to the kid at all, biologically or legally, is completely optional. Many of these tropes can work just as well with post-apocalyptic or disaster type stories where a child or younger kid is found and they decided to protect the kid, and drift into a parental relationship that highlights how well the siblings (or aunt/nephew or whatever) work as a couple. In fact, if you're of a mind to, this is one of those Incest Tropes that you could activate on literally almost any cesty ship you like, without even worrying about having to give one of them a love interest that results in pregnancy, or even necessarily altering the dynamics of the rest of the family. You can activate it temporarily, in a babysitting situation. Or dogsitting situation, nothing says the kids have to be human. Or real, for that matter. Are they in high school and unlikely to adopt a random child? Give them the classic 'We have to carry around a fake baby and treat it as though we're really parents' plot. Either assigned together, or one of the partners flakes out and they work together. Heck, you don't really even need much of a age gap between parents and kids, you could have many of these tropes in play with, say, a slightly younger friend… as long as the couple in question acts a bit like a parent, that's really all you need. Really, you can even pull an ultimate reversal and have kids being BPA for an actual parent, who's a mess for some reason or another. An unhealthy situation in reality, sure, but for fic is can work beautifully.
Editing after post to add: One more thing I forgot. At least in my writing, I tend to have something called the 'Secret Shipper.' That is, there's a character in the story who either suspects what's going on between the couple and roots for them, or doesn't and just ships them regardless of them being related. It's not always made explicit in the story (since my stories are usually from the POV of one of the couple the Secret Shipper usually knows that if they point out the vibes they're picking up, it might scare them away from making any moves), but I usually think about it while writing and choose at least one character in the story for the role. BPA basically bakes The Secret Shipper into the crust, because The Kid of the BPA couple is a natural Secret Shipper. They want the parents to be together, for real.
Canon-examples (non-exhaustive): By 'canon' we mean both they co-parent (to some degree or another) in canon, but also that they've got at least incestuous feelings in canon. Unfortunately, this is one of the categories where I don't have a lot of good examples. Probably more bad examples - examples of inbred families are often used for cheap horror, and even if they're not great representation and they violate the usual terms of BPA not involving their own children, sometimes they STILL qualify because abduction is involved. So, one random example to highlight this issue is The People Under the Stairs, where the villainous landlords are brother and sister and have kids. They're parents. Of course they're abusive AF parents, and if they were directly inbreeding it wouldn't count, but in this case some (if not all) of the kids are abductees, making it a dark example of the trope.
In terms of more positive examples? Flowers in the Attic is the obvious choice, with Chris and Cathy taking care of their siblings in the attic and after the escape. There may be other examples in V.C. Andrews various universes but I'm not super familiar with them. I'm sure there are more out there, but none of my favorite canon ships really tick this box, so I'm having trouble finding good ones. If you really wanted to stretch it, you could go to Star Wars, Luke and Leia (who canonly kissed and were at least interested in each other) and parenting (at various points) Rey, and/or R2, although sadly, rarely together.
For cousincest examples of this trope you have The Chrysalids the novel by John Wyndham, where David and his cousin Rosalind have to go on the run along with David's little sister, who has the same telepathic talent but much stronger and needs guidance. Similarly, How I Live Now does have cousincest and, at times, them acting as parents to younger children (but sadly as I understand it they don't spend a lot of time TOGETHER watching out for the kids).
Near-canon examples (even less exhaustive): I'll use this category to talk about characters who raise or watch a kid in canon, but, while not canon, also have something particularly shippy or eyebrow-raising about them that would probably make them look shippy even to outsiders. The Folgers test, if you will: If you show'd their interaction to a non-incest shipper and they'd wonder if they were implying incest, then we can put it in this category (assuming of course they also take care of a kid at some point).
Obviously, we need to start with the Baudelaires from A Series of Unfortunate Events. Throughout the series they watch out for their sister Sunny and by the end they have another kid and their relatonship is almost explicitly compared to their parents. I can't call it canon, but it's about as close as it can get to being a canon example and still be a mainstream series you could recommend to anybody without them necessarily thinking you're into cesty stories.
Matthew and Marilla from various adaptations of Anne of Green Gables - usually the story is they're siblings who've lived together and alone all their lives (eyebrow raise) and decide to get an orphan to raise together.
Possibly Max/Phoebe Thunderman from The Thundermans and spinoff. I've never watched it but I'm aware they are vibes and in the sequel series they're literally raising their little sister ? IDK how you do that and not have people wonder if that was intended. Kids shows on Disney or Nickelodean often seem to gloriously have the "siblings who accidentally have big dating chemisty" vibe, and from what I understand Thundermans is a big example of that, so that puts them here… but if not, that definitely puts them in the category below.
From what I understand in later seasons of Supernatural the brothers (and Castiel) take care of a kid named Jack. You might argue Sam and Dean are more uncles than parents, but hey, if they perform the role at some point that Castiel's not around, it counts.
And y'know, I know it's stretching it, but I'm going to put Peter/Susan here from the Chronicles of Narnia. Just because the whole 'they became Kings and Queens of Narnia' before they reverted to their original ages after coming back through the wardrobe. It raises so many eyebrows in my book and I have to believe tons of kids were like me and wondered, "wait so did they marry each other?" Sometimes questions like this are how kids BECOME incest shippers, but they weren't there to start with, so that's a pass of the Folgers test. :)
Canon characters it would easily suit, for shipping puposes (really pretty hard to exhaust, especially if you're determined to look for them): Here my standards are 'have notably raised or watched a kid together in canon and just generally good ships.' As such there's going to be too many to name, but I'll give a few and hopefully people who read this will be inspired to add more in notes.
My top pairing for this trope, and indeed perhaps the one that made me think of doing it, is Alex and Julie from the Marvel comic Power Pack. They're the eldest two and generally designated as the 'responsible ones' with two younger siblings (one a troublemaker, the other the youngest and prone to getting in trouble for that) and since their parents are completely unaware of their status as a superhero team, when they're on the job, Alex and Julie are the de-facto parents of the other two. It's even made explicit in some scenes of them giving each other knowing looks about having to go wrangle the younger kids all excited about something, and in at least one case the two of them having a just-the-two-of-them 'parent talk' about how to punish their brother Jack for some irresponsible behavior (they can't just go to Mom about it because it involves their secret identities). They also fit together in other ways being both book-lovers and there are shippy moments where it looks like Julie's deliberately sabotaging Alex's love life. I could almost call it near-canon just because, if you REALLY look for it there are some especially eyebrow-raising stuff involving the older comics that I don't think was intended.
Tyler/Kinsey Locke from Locke and Key. They both watch out for Bode together, and also with their mom's alcoholism sometimes they have to make decisions, together, involving her, and there's a sense they did it in the past. And at least in my eyes they're super shippy, so, yeah, they're naturally a choice.
Avatar: The Last Airbender's whole starting premise is two siblings, Katara and Sokka, travelling with a younger boy who is the Avatar, and there are certainly times where they play the parents to him (or Toph, who joins later). Though Sokka's a bit too goofy to be a dad type. In fact, Sokka and Katara literally play Aang's parents when they're undercover in the Fire Nation! And Katara's disguise includes that she's pregnant, to make her look older. Or maybe she just wanted to pretend her husband/brother recently knocked her up.
Canon characters you could mangle into the trope but probably in an AU (there's no exhausting these possible): As I said, virtually every ship could be mangled into this trope pretty easily, so it almost makes no sense to try listing them. Go on. Pick your favorite canon characters who are related. Now imagine some excuse to take care of kids together. Congrats, you're done! I suppose, when I think of it, the hardest characters to fit in this trope are ones who ACTUALLY have kids together… because again, they're not BPA, they're just parents. But even then, you can just set a story before that or make an AU where they don't have kids.
Still, I'll give a few examples of characters who might belong in the category above but stretch the definition of 'parents' or who I think would make particularly good examples:
Mabel and Dipper could ARGUABLY be said to co-parent Waddles (though she's mostly Mabel's). Also, I see some cool potential in mid-teens Dipper/Mabel returning to Gravity Falls and perhaps taking some kid under their wing like Wendy did for them. They could fit into this trope beautifully. (And of course, Grunkles fit it much better). Wayne and Katy from Letterkenny also arguably have this kind of dynamic… with their dogs. Some of the lowkey shippy moments from them are discussing some issue involving one of their dogs like they're the parents.
Luke and Mimi from Psycho Goreman can fit into the trope with the main character, since although the title character is an immortal alien warlord, the movie DOES run very much like they're sharing custody of him, thus, BPA. It's weak, but I'll take it.
I could see some grown-up version of Wednesday Addams and Puggsley (or Fester, or whatever ship is your poison) adopting some baby hellbeast and then deciding to have an incest baby specifically under the reason being "well we can't let him be an only child, one abomination deserves another" (I don't think incest kids are an abomination, I just think with Wednesday it would be funny to be put like that).
Similarly, my favorite ship from the movie Boy Kills World, I could absolutely see Boy adopting some 'revolution orphan(s)' and deciding to do right by him/her/them like the people who raised him didn't, and his sister at first begrudgingly playing along but then totally getting into it and being mom-vibed.
In Fear the Walking Dead, for a time I really shipped Alicia and Nick, who were the main characters along with their mother, stepfather, and stepbrother (the family gradually got pared down a lot and by the end only one of them was still around and new main characters took over). Nick died due to a character who was a young girl who seemed to be an Orphan that they took in but was really working for a more predatory group (I think the actor just wanted to leave the show as well). I like to think of an AU where she turned on her former group, realizing Alicia and Nick were better for her, and they became her parents, drawing closer in the process.
And I'll just mention it because the idea came to me and wouldn't leave: Crimson Peak AU where instead of marrying and murdering people for their money (or maybe after lucking out with particularly rich victims early on), the Sharpes fortunes were doing well enough they decide to adopt an orphan to help them maintain the proprietary machinery to mine the clay. They ask for a boy, but due to a misunderstanding they get a precocious red-haired girl, who they come to love and who becomes… Anne of Crimson Peak!
Okay, it's probably silly. But, you know, the timeline ALMOST lines up (I mean, CP takes place in early 1900s while AoGG is 1880s so obviously there'd be some fudging, but still). Free story idea, if anyone wants it.
One Story Prompt: I've already given a bunch in the above categories, but let's go with one more. Two siblings do their best to survive in the post-apocalypse. Maybe it's a plague that wiped out most people. Maybe it's zombies. Maybe it's aliens. Regardless, most of the population is now gone, and every life matters. The siblings discover and protect a young child, deciding that they can't get back what they've already lost, they can't change the world but they can at least focus on helping someone who needs them. They move from settlement to settlement, focusing on survival and staying together at all costs. One day, they reach a new place of safety, or that looks safe, a community. But they don't trust outsiders either, or want to let them in… except, of course, kids. And when their adopted child innocently says "these are my parents," they're let in as a group, and don't think it's the time to immediately correct their benefactors. Especially when they hear that the community wouldn't have accepted them if they weren't already married. After all, they have the same last name, so they must be married, right? But that's a good thing, because in this community everyone's already coupled up, and they're especially worried about single people who might destabilize relationships and lead to conflict. So now they're stuck in the role of a married couple… but they don't mind, either. Until the pressure starts. every life counts, right? So why not have another child together?
To sum up: If two people are clearly basically parents already and doing a good job, it's okay for them to stay in that role. And falling in love, having sex, then raising kids together is such a common and wholesome human experience, what does it matter if they do it a little out of order? And nothing says they won't get the usual order next time around. After all, imagine going through life without a sibling?
Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
Flowers from Gnarled Roots is my ongoing urban fantasy slow burn incest story, based on an idea that came to me of a dream of all spells having a cost, and a mage who paid the cost of a vital spell by magically erasing his relationship with his sister - where she still existed, but in the eyes of her, and the rest of the world, she didn't have any prior connection to him. He then sets out to find her new identity only he discovers a) she's kinda into him, and b) she's in danger from some kind of magical threat.
I decided I'd start a new post for it rather than just keep reposting the old one with new chapter updates.
I sent an email to Support, like I'm supposed to. That was over a week ago. No response yet. I never received any email telling me about a terms of service violation. I don't know what happened. I do use a VPN, which some people have wondered might be a trigger. Was it the VPN? Was I reported by an Anti? Was it just bad luck? I don't know.
They terminated my account but left my sub-blogs (like @shipcestuous-two) up. I DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO MY SUB-BLOGS. If you've sent messages there, I can't view them or reply to them, and I can't make new posts or anything like that.
There are some horror stories on this subreddit:
People who never got their blogs back, people who got their blogs back after six months, etc.
I should have made this post earlier. But today was the day I lost most of my hope that it would be restored any time soon.
If anyone knows of any other way to communicate with Tumblr aside from the official support channel, please let me know. Some of the methods recommended in that subreddit seem to be outdated, unfortunately, like tweeting TumblrSupport.
I will check this blog periodically but will not be resuming posting activities and such here, at least I don't plan to for now. It's just to stay in communication. I'm so fed up with Tumblr right now, as you can imagine.
Happy shipping!
And Happy June 27th! I was going to make a Boy/June27 post today. This will have to be it.
