Oh, goodness, yes. Incest has always been a huge squick. I turned green when I first found out about Kanan, which was long before I got to that point in the manga. By the time Jien and his mom was revealed, though, I'd gotten so damned used to it that it hardly even phased me. ^_^; And I've got a special corner of my perverted heart reserved for twincest, too. nekonexus has his marvelous fic where Hakkai and Nii are reincarnated as twins? With a very special bond? *nodnod* That's good stuff, it is.
Bestiality still gives me the heebies, though. Particularly when the animal doesn't necessarily possess any higher intelligence. That's what sets the dragon!sex apart from simple bestiality for me, and why I draw the distinction between them. Dragons are mythical creatures to begin with, and generally portrayed with intelligence and mental capacity equalling or surpassing human. Hakuryuu in particular is so much more than just a pet, in my eyes, that I think that's what grabs me so deeply about it. I view him as fully sentient and self-aware but simply limited by an animal form. Which means he and Hakkai (and/or Gojyo! XD) just have to be creative in working around it, in realizing the potential between them in the first place. If I were to run across were-sex while in animal form, or mystical/magical-type animals with 'human' intelligence in a sexual context, I'm quite sure I'd also be very enticed by that. But if it's just a matter of somebody getting it on with their circus lions, or their pet dog/cat/what have you, the squick is still somehow very much there.
But. Yes. Minekura is an insidiously subversive woman, to take the dark and the taboo and twist it into the ordinary and even the appealing. Saiyuki corrupts and perverts in the most gleeful sort of ways. I love it. ^_^
I'm making a new Hakuryuu set
That reminds me - d'you happen to know which ep of Gunlock (or is it Reload?) the screencap in your 'Feed me, slave' icon is from?
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Bestiality still gives me the heebies, though. Particularly when the animal doesn't necessarily possess any higher intelligence. That's what sets the dragon!sex apart from simple bestiality for me, and why I draw the distinction between them. Dragons are mythical creatures to begin with, and generally portrayed with intelligence and mental capacity equalling or surpassing human. Hakuryuu in particular is so much more than just a pet, in my eyes, that I think that's what grabs me so deeply about it. I view him as fully sentient and self-aware but simply limited by an animal form. Which means he and Hakkai (and/or Gojyo! XD) just have to be creative in working around it, in realizing the potential between them in the first place. If I were to run across were-sex while in animal form, or mystical/magical-type animals with 'human' intelligence in a sexual context, I'm quite sure I'd also be very enticed by that. But if it's just a matter of somebody getting it on with their circus lions, or their pet dog/cat/what have you, the squick is still somehow very much there.
But. Yes. Minekura is an insidiously subversive woman, to take the dark and the taboo and twist it into the ordinary and even the appealing. Saiyuki corrupts and perverts in the most gleeful sort of ways. I love it. ^_^
I'm making a new Hakuryuu set
That reminds me - d'you happen to know which ep of Gunlock (or is it Reload?) the screencap in your 'Feed me, slave' icon is from?