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How GRRM accidentally wrote Jaime as a repressed bisexual (or, why bi!Jaime supporters read it that way)

It’s nigh impossible to go too long in the Jaime and/or Jaime x Brienne fandom without hearing talk of people headcanoning Jaime Lannister as being a bisexual disaster, but from where did this talk derive? 

Interpretations of the text, of course! But what could be there, you say? How much so called evidence could there possibly be?

A lot. 

A whole lot. 

Now, I think we can all agree that any such textual evidence was unintentional on GRRM’s part; it’s more than quite likely that GRRM thinks he’s written Jaime to be a heterosexual man. That doesn’t change what he wrote, though, nor how his writing can be interpreted—or, in this case, has been interpreted.

Bi Jaime headcanons were all born from endless textual bits of evidence concerning Jaime. 

My fellow Jaime stans, let me introduce to you all the ways GRRM accidentally made Jam Lan far less heterosexual than he intended.

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