Victory is sweet and it tastes kind of like this miniature Twix from my coworker's candy jar.

You guys, you guys, ALL MY DUE SOUTH STORIES ARE ON AO3 AND FRESHLY FORMATTED ON MY WEBSITE.

Did I just spend four hours wrangling Hawks & Hands, with its a) stupid, stupid length and lack of actual chapter divisions and b) fucking footnotes omg who thought that was a good idea?

Well, yes. But the point is: now Hawks and Hands is posted on AO3 with its sequel and prequels all nicely linked as related works because I am neurotic about what should and should not be made part of a series, and also now I have a Twix bar. So everyone wins.


(If anyone happens to feel the urge to reread H&H anytime in the nearish future, and you run across, say, a paragraph that got eaten by its footnote, leaving an awkward gap in the text, or ... any other formatting disasters like that, would you please let me know? Just because I already deleted six failed attempts to get it onto that archive doesn't mean I'm necessarily done fighting with it.)

(Also, as it turns out for five years the story has been up on my site with no link to post a comment anywhere, which ... possibly explains the relative rarity of comments on it. Oops.)


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I feel like this post is either a statement of the blindingly obvious or bound to offend everyone.

Maybe both!

Every so often I expound my Theory of How/Why (Sibling) Incest Pairings Are the New Slash to someone. It's something I more or less worked out while writing Missing Persons, particularly the stage of writing MP during which I, uh, stopped shipping Don and Charlie and started wishing they would date other people because that would be so much healthier for them.

/o\

So I have always had a somewhat sheepish and awkward relationship to my theory, and at this point I feel vaguely like incest ships are either totally routine or slightly passe, and so the theory is of no interest to anyone. Plus, I don't think I've ever explained the theory to anyone who did not seem to find it self-evident, so I began to assume that it was, in fact, self-evident for everyone.

But it occurs to me that a) that is probably the echo chamber of my particular end of fandom in action and b) regardless of its currency I have never written my theory down, and explaining it from scratch every time it comes up somewhere on the internets is sort of inefficient.

So, here. I will write it down. Probably at some length. With a long digression on what old slash things incest ships are the new version of. Please feel entirely free not to click.

( My Theory of How/Why (Sibling) Incest Pairings Are the New Slash. )

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