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Yep yep yep.
I remember when the #weirdchesters tag was floating around. (At the time I was on hiatus, so I was just perusing and observing.) It was a relief. That tag was approaching something defined within the fandom. You guys have finished drawing the boundary lines for us.
Thank you. 💐
Regarding your post about gencest/weirdcest, I just reblogged a post with those tags yesterday because I got confused and just could not tell the difference between them anymore. Your post probably wasn't about my tags (I promise I'm that that self absorbed that I think every post is about me I was just thinking about it when I saw your post) but please don't feel awkward about correcting someone if you see them using something incorrectly, I'd appreciate someone taking the time out of their day to correct me! <3
Eheh... I just don't wanna sound gatekeepy 😅 But thank you, I guess I should reach out to more people and let them know. Phyn has a pretty solid definition of things here but I'll give my two cents too while I'm here.
Gencest is where they're emotionally intense about each other and still platonic. They can be weird/obsessive but it's not always relevant and rarely goes beyond the emotional connection. (You can also shortcut to calling them qpr/life partners, even if that won't always apply in earlier seasons where they haven't quite realised it yet)
But if "physical affection =/= sexual intent" and "dedicated love =/= romance" and "kink =/= sex" then technically ANYTHING can be platonic...
(Indeed, the Platonic Sex tag on Ao3 has over 700 works. Sadly I never got around to my platonic sex fic for Sam and Dean 🙁)
So I wanted a term to refer to "Sam and Dean are platonic, but they end up doing kinky/sensual/sexual things with each other despite not being attracted to each other at all"
But I didn't want to use Gencest because no one is going into the Gencest tag looking for kink/smut and it would absolutely be annoying to people (I would personally hate it too). And I didn't want to use Wincest because I would be (and in fact, was) annoying people by constantly saying my ideas weren't Wincest*.
Then @prince-of-elsinore started the #weirdchesters tag, and from this post inspired "Weirdcest", which I kept as a tag and used to post non-sexual kink between Sam and Dean. and then it accidentally became an actual thing oh god
So I guess, in my eyes, Weirdcest is where they're platonic, they're not attracted/horny about each other, but they do cross lines into kink or sex, for whatever reasons.
* = At the end of the day some might look to my Weirdcest stuff and say it's just Wincest with the attraction part missing, and that's fine really, I've grown (read: calmed down... so much...) since 2021 and I don't mind what people call their own content or my own. The people who understand my "they're not attracted to each other" intent will get it, and everyone else can enjoy the oddly-restrained-horny content.
But if people are gonna use the Weirdcest tag I do hope it doesn't end up becoming redundant with Gencest/Wincest... There is overlap but I didn't use Gencest/Wincest on purpose 😅