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) 2016-06-04 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.