Precisely. I usually try to stay away from The Reylo Wars, but whenever I come across this it always makes me laugh. I just had to post this somewhere.
I mean the point of the Lannisters is that they're bad guys and their incestous relationship caused a lot of issues, so is not like that incestous relationship is romanticized. It's like comparing apples and oranges. I mean if incest is your kink, that's your thing (I shipped Wincest, so), but the Lannisters or the Targarians should be the last example I would use to excuse incest as a kink.
The Lannisters and the Targaryens are far from the only practitioners of incest in ASoIaF, though. First cousin incest is commonplace in Westeros. And some incestuous relationships are even portrayed as loving and healthy--Jaehaerys and Alysanne, Tywin and Joanna, Jaehaerys II and Shaera. I don't think ASoIaF condemns incest so much as it condemns arranged marriages. If highborn men and women were allowed to marry for love, several wars would never have happened.
But enough of my mostly-irrelevant ASoIaF nerding. More relevant is that the fandom ships indiscriminately. The Stark kids in particular are shipped with one another constantly. Point is, coming from a fandom where incest shipping is downright banal, the moral panic over Reylo is strange and amusing to me.
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(Anonymous) 2016-06-03 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)Probably something like "other fandoms have incest ships with nowhere near the level of moralising that Reylo inspires for possibly being incestuous"
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(Anonymous) 2016-06-03 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)Precisely. I usually try to stay away from The Reylo Wars, but whenever I come across this it always makes me laugh. I just had to post this somewhere.
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(Anonymous) 2016-06-04 04:29 am (UTC)(link)The Lannisters and the Targaryens are far from the only practitioners of incest in ASoIaF, though. First cousin incest is commonplace in Westeros. And some incestuous relationships are even portrayed as loving and healthy--Jaehaerys and Alysanne, Tywin and Joanna, Jaehaerys II and Shaera. I don't think ASoIaF condemns incest so much as it condemns arranged marriages. If highborn men and women were allowed to marry for love, several wars would never have happened.
But enough of my mostly-irrelevant ASoIaF nerding. More relevant is that the fandom ships indiscriminately. The Stark kids in particular are shipped with one another constantly. Point is, coming from a fandom where incest shipping is downright banal, the moral panic over Reylo is strange and amusing to me.
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(Anonymous) 2016-06-06 02:40 am (UTC)(link)Plus you guys deserve it for that Jar Jar self-insert joke alone.
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