#I will say that aelin and fenrys are my forever crack ship tho

[feyrescourt]

I can admit as someone who was a Dorian and Aelin shipper up until the middle of QoS (I know I was delusional) that it’s ok to admit when your ship is dead in the water. I was WILLFULLY ignoring Rowan because I thought when Aelin returned to Erilea she and Dorian would be end game. Lol. I used the smallest passages as proof and made myself believe it was real. I literally have the texts I sent to my friend who introduced me to the series, going off on my tangents.

(I’d like to mention that ToG was the first sjm series I read and I went in completely blind lol)

I say this to point out the similarities that I recognize between my past doraelin-shipper-self and gwynriels today. I personally found Rowan unlikeable/boring in HoF and so I would tell myself that there’s no way he was going to be Aelin’s end game. And I just personally liked Dorian the most in the series.

I feel like people need to be open to admitting that their biases against Elain is the reason that they don’t ship elriel instead of doing mental gymnastics for undeveloped, non-existent ships.

It would be one thing if gwynriel was just a gag ship that no one really took seriously but when you start to act as though it’s reality, that’s where I have to stop you lol.