i’ve always said that the rh@elya stans who hide behind pseudo-feminism and pretend to care about elia are the absolute worst. i wouldn’t even care if this gross incest ship came from some random part of the fandom, because we all know asoiaf is full of weird ships. but it’s always specifically rh@elya stans who suddenly develop this deep obsession with elia’s love life.
over on X recently, the people who started this disgusting ship got completely called out. before all the backlash, they were seriously taking oberyn’s quotes out of context to argue that he was sleeping with his sister. but the second they got dragged for it, they immediately played the victim. they started calling everyone racist just because they claim to be poc, threw a tantrum about how 'the fandom doesn't know how to have fun,' and claimed it was just a harmless headcanon that had nothing to do with them being rh@elya stans. then they tried to deflect by claiming rhaegar and elia are incestuous too just because they’re distant cousins, which is hilarious.
we all know how this fandom operates, especially with their hyper-sexualized view of dorne. today it’s a 'harmless headcanon,' and tomorrow they’ll try to turn it into a serious theory. it’s the exact same script they used years ago when they claimed rhaenys was arthur’s daughter and aegon was aerys’s bastard. but now that they know how the fandom reacts to that, they’re approaching it from the incest angle instead.
it all boils down to their subconscious hatred for a character who did absolutely nothing wrong. their logic is so transparent: since their faves gave birth to a bastard, they desperately need elia to have bastards too. they want to reduce her to a caricature so their favorites' actions and elia's horrific death feel justified. if we started taking quotes out of context the way they do, we could easily claim kevan was sleeping with his niece cersei, or that loras and margaery had something going on. but nobody creates a disgusting ship out of nowhere and tries to pass it off as 'just for fun' unless they have an agenda to alter the narrative and demonize elia. it’s always the jobless rh@elya stans who genuinely believe the entire lore of this universe revolves solely around their favorites.
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