I kinda doubt there's any toxic dudebros on Tumblr of all places but I have seen some hate on Markcest here a little too so let's go.
Cutting off for the long post but it's fine to not like Markcest or think it's strange. It's not fine to act morally superior to others or call it incest as I will explain below.
Howdy hey, it seems like the fandom rn is pretty split down the middle huh?
One of the hot topics of debate is Markcest. To make this perfectly clear for those who may not know what it is, it's Mark x his variants, or his variants x eachother.
Some people take issue with this, which is fine, we all have personal preferences. I know I myself don't like Bakudeku, for example.
However, some people try to claim it's incest with two main claims.
1: They have identical DNA, so irl they would be identical twins.
2: They have the same sets of parents.
Let's tackle the first one. So, fun fact, identical twins don't...have to necessairly have 100% of the same DNA. They can, but it's not for all identical twins.
(Source: livescience)
Plus, even given that they have identical DNA, I believe it's fair to assume that all the Mark variants lived exactly the same life until a moment happened that caused them to diverge and be unique in that way. Idk though that's just an assumption on my part though.
Identical twins, of course, are not going to be necessairly raised the same exact way and it seems odd to assume they would be. Idk this just feels like a dumb argument to me.
Also, the real equivalent to Markcest irl would be kissing a mirror. I do wanna preface that by saying that selfcest ships in general can be *made* to be problematic if the creator decides to. For example, 1 person could write a fic where they exist at the same time from time travel shenanigans or portals. Another could write it as though they were brothers or twins. That doesn't reflect on everybody who ships it.
Now onto 2.
Yes, they each have their own Debbie and their own Nolan (as far as we know). However, much like the Mark variants themselves, it's different versions of their parents.
The most clear example of this is when Sinster says he killed his dad. Of course, if Mainstream and Sinster were actually identical twins, than their shared biological dad would be dead. But, they're not, because Mainstream Mark's dad is of course still alive. Same goes for Debbie.
If we combine these two arguments together, they make even less sense because if you're biologically identical twins, I would assume you would have to share the same set of parents. If your twin kills their dad, you um. Don't have a dad either. And that's not how it works for the variants, as shown through Sinster.
Sorry for the long post, it's just really dumb to me.
Remember, don't harass anybody over Markcest or anybody attacking Markcest. It's um not that deep bro, lol.
(Also I mostly made this post because ik it's not that much of a problem on here but mostly to post to my Twitter and because I see so much hate for it on Tiktok.)
