I apparently assigns values partly by primacy, and my hindbrain gives primacy to what I know first.
It's not so much that the sex comes first in the story as that the guys haven't been brought up as brother. Add to that the actual phenomenomenon thingy of Genetic Sexual Attraction (linked through Seperis here (http://seperis.livejournal.com/295154.html)) and the story didn't hit my squicks. I mean, if they don't think of each other as siblings *first* and *foremost*, I can buy that they don't share my inherent "sex with my brother = enough ewwwwww that I may never have sex again" reaction.
Um, yeah, not my best work of ending-prediction ever.
Heh. I spent most of the story waiting for a romance-esque last minute "revelation" that they weren't genetically related (John was adopted after his mother left Rodney's father! Rodney was adopted because they thought they couldn't have children, and then they had Jeannie, and didn't want to tell Rodney in case he developed a hang-up about it! They were both adopted!) and ... nope. Never happened.
The fact that it works *despite* that is kind of amazing.
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It's not so much that the sex comes first in the story as that the guys haven't been brought up as brother. Add to that the actual
phenomenomenonthingy of Genetic Sexual Attraction (linked through Seperis here (http://seperis.livejournal.com/295154.html)) and the story didn't hit my squicks. I mean, if they don't think of each other as siblings *first* and *foremost*, I can buy that they don't share my inherent "sex with my brother = enough ewwwwww that I may never have sex again" reaction.Um, yeah, not my best work of ending-prediction ever.
Heh. I spent most of the story waiting for a romance-esque last minute "revelation" that they weren't genetically related (John was adopted after his mother left Rodney's father! Rodney was adopted because they thought they couldn't have children, and then they had Jeannie, and didn't want to tell Rodney in case he developed a hang-up about it! They were both adopted!) and ... nope. Never happened.
The fact that it works *despite* that is kind of amazing.