Incestuous Heroines and Patriarchy

Let's talk about the trope of incest and gender.

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We belong together because we are the same

I once saw a tumblr post what went something like this: "in my gay incest ships, they’re super different (example: thor x loki) and in my het incest ships they’re super alike (example: cesare x lucrezia)." I wish I could find that post again, and begin this essay with quoting and crediting it, because this is—in effect—an expanded version of that idea.

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