#<- topic from the song

[soundleer]

downplay - charlie is such a bop but at the same time it makes me feel funny for knowing the context behind the song considering it was made to mock a voyeuristic stalker like holy shit i didn't know my goat wrote such a dark song

[synchodai]

I get this impression that House of the Dragon doesn't get that "named" heirs aren't really the norm in Westeros. If it were that easy for someone to just give everything to their favorite child, Randall Tarly wouldn't have needed to force Sam to go to the Wall and Tywin could have simply chosen Cersei over Tyrion as heir of Casterly Rock.

If we look at the history Westeros borrows from, the concept of "naming" heirs wasn't really a thing in medieval England. Landed gentry didn't have direct say over the order of succession until the Statute of Wills in 1540. Before then, land and subsequent titles could only be inherited through agnatic primogeniture.

Agnatic primogeniture prioritized the living, eldest, trueborn son. Claims can only be passed on patrilineally. This means that a grandaughter can inherit a claim of her grandfather's titles through her father, but a grandson cannot be given the same through his mother. However, if his mother finally does have land and titles under her own name (not under her father's), only then does her son and other children enter the line of succession.

The reason it was like this was because it kept land and titles under one family. Daughters are less preferred because when they are married, they become part of their husband's family — meaning that any titles they receive will be inherited through a new line. This wouldn't be an ideal situation because it gives two families claims to the titles. The more claimants there are, the more unstable the hold the owner has.

In other words, agnatic primogeniture was practiced for stability. Because back in the day, titles weren't just property or land. They came with governorship over a people, so a stable and predictable transfer of titles was necessary to avoid civil conflicts and questions of legitimacy.

A landed lord or lady wasn't given the right to designate heirs for a few reasons:

Most of them were vassals who oversaw the land in the name of someone higher up. It technically isn't even theirs to give away (see: feudal land tenure).

The wishes of a human being are less predictable than having a determined line of succession based on birth order. What if he becomes incapable of declaring an heir either through illness or disability? What if he's captured and a bad actor forces him to name this person heir under threat of violence?

People died unexpectedly all time. This was before germ theory and modern medicine — child mortality was extremely high. With no refrigeration technology, a single poor harvest could mean dying from starvation. Bandits, cutthroats, and raiders were a constant threat. They could not afford to rely on a person choosing a different heir every time the old heir drops dead, because the landed lord/lady could die just as suddenly.

Even 21st century families stab each other in the back over who gets grandma's house — so imagine having an uncertain line of succession in the middle ages over a life-defining lordship and without a modern-day court system to mediate.

Going back to HotD, whenever Targaryens did go against the established line of succession, they could only have done it by consolidating the support of their vassals. Only royalty seemed to have the power to bend agnatic primogeniture, but even then they were beholden to it.

When Jaehaerys I ascended the throne over Aerea, it was mainly because there were those who saw Maegor the Cruel's act of disinheriting Jaehaerys as null and void. This restored Jaehaerys place in the line of succession above Aerea.

And when Rhaenys was passed over for Baelon, Jaehaerys had to convene his lords and offer compelling reasons as to why — her young age, her lack of an heir, her Velaryon last name, etc. It wasn't a given that just because she was a woman that she was ineligible. If he was doing it purely out of misogyny, he still had to legally justify his misogyny in order to strip away her rights.

Even after consolidating support, the book mentions Jaehaerys I and Viserys I's respective hold on the crown was still weakened. Even though their claims were backed by reasons cosigned by a powerful majority, they still had to ensure the security of their rule through other means. There were people who doubted their right to rule, and those people had to be placated with gifts (by Viserys) or intimidated into submission (by Jaehaerys).

So we come to Viserys I who never gave his vassals a reason why Rhaenyra should supercede his three sons other than, "I said so." Had he convened with his lords and maybe made the argument that a first marriage takes precendence over a second one, then maybe he could have set a new precedent and gathered support.

But no, he didn't. He relied on the power of his own words and the lords' personal oaths — oaths that he didn't exactly plan how he would enforce posthumously.

And the Realm did not choose to adopt a different succession law after Jaehaerys's designation of Baelon in 92 AC or the Council of Harrenhal choosing Viserys on 101 AC. If those two events did change anything, it was that now women were exempt from the line of succession for the crown and only the crown. It did not set the precedence that monarchs could freely choose heirs. It did not upend the whole system; it only made a tweak, as most lawful policy-changes do, by carving out at an exception. It was a committee, not a revolution.

Before and after the Dance, no other monarch, lord, or lady "declared" an heir that went against agnatic primogeniture, save for Dornish who have cognatic (equal-gender) primogeniture instead. Ramsay had to get rid of Roose Bolton's living trueborn son AND be legitimized by the crown in order to be recognized as heir (only a crowned monarch can legitimize baseborn children which is another world-building pillar a lot of people miss). Randall basically had to force Sam to abdicate because he wanted his younger brother to inherit instead. And of course, Tywin despite his intense hatred of Tyrion is forced to acknowledge him as his heir.

The rigidity of the line of succession is a major and constant source of conflict in the series, so it baffles me that people really thought that characters could just freely choose their heirs. That's why we have a civil war. It wasn't a misunderstanding. It's the expected consequences of someone carelessly going against a foundational tenent of the society they inhabit.

[jaarijani]

mä en syntyny vaan synnyttämään

"I wasn't born just to give birth" there is something particularly relatable about this lyric to me personally. I have been told that Bess has been open about being child free by choice and it means so much to me that she's using her voice and her platform to tell that fact to the world. There is such a massive stigma still about people, especially women, stating they don't want kids: "You'll change your mind" "Wait until you find the right person" people will go out of their way to tell you that you will fit their mold of what they think a woman should be.

But Bess doesn't fit that mold. She wants to do what she wants to do at her pace, she wants to have fun and fuck and be happy and there's no place in her life for someone who doesn't want that as well, she doesn't want children tying her down she just wants to make music and enjoy her life on her terms.

Jere sings about how he would like to have kids eventually, but the world is pressuring him to have them and that's not what he wants. He wants to do his own thing too, he wants to enjoy life while he still can without the expectations our society has of him.

And as someone who is child free by choice as well it means the world to me that he would so openly support this side of Bess, this song is so very special to me <3

[transmigrationisunderrated]

Okay, hear me out.

Rhythm game about Luo Binghe's rise to fame and power within the music industry against the Lords of Music.

The most antagonistic was, of course, Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe's former tutor, before he cast him out of the school and onto the cruel streets of the city, Abyss.

The songs in the game are supposedly written by Luo Binghe and Shen Yuan loves them! Except for all the songs written for the romance mechanic. Which is. the primary mechanic. and leads to a bunch of unskippable cutscenes of Luo Binghe and the girl he just rhythm gamed into his bed.

But the rest of the songs are good and (what is supposed to be) the main storyline is so good- if it weren't for all the stupid copy-paste romances! Shen Yuan knows rock stars are supposed to have groupies or whatever, but this is ridiculous!

When the game ends, stupidly, with the most shitty song of them, about how great it is to be powerful and have tons of girls, Shen Yuan dies of sheer anger because no one taught him to deal with his emotions in a normal and healthy way.

Aaaaand now he's Shen Qingqiu. Oh, well... maybe he'll get to hear those songs from the singer/song writer himself? The voice in the game was a shitty tuned vocaloid...

[guess-i-do-art]

Sonic 4 leak

Personally I think it would be really funny if Shadow just appeared outta nowhere during Sonic 4. Like everyone thinks he’s dead but then he just *poof* shows up

[genericpuff]

i unsubscribed from spotify like 3 months ago and ngl i'm not missing it in the slightest lmao

[cupophrogs]

Hey DD. How have you been. You’ve been quiet.

“Thankfully, most of the vending machines are intact and full, so we won’t be starving while Cherub’s leg heals. Thing has caught him trying to sneak out far too many times.”

[lesbian-rook]

could you draw ragatha comforting an abstracting pomni? like ragatha calms her down enough to make the abstraction go away! thanks :3

🎶When darkness is all you see This is our Sweet Blasphemy🎵

[sinlizards]

I dunno if you’re the kind of person to rotate The Character while listening to music, but “kill all your friends” by my chemical romance is like. THE bstars song for me. i hear it and a Gyu-hyuk amv starts playing in my head

oh brother u know im the exact kinda guy to rotate the character to music ! this is rlly good tho, i dont listen to much mcr myself but i can for sure see the vision on this one and i might have 2 add it to the gyu playlist......

my personal fave songs to imagine gyu to have been There Must Be More Than Blood by car seat headrest which was what inspired this sketch. Girl your complicated relationship with your dad fascinates me

another major fave for him is actually one i got from a kr mutual who said that the lead dev of the game had a blog post thats since been deleted assigning songs to bstars characters. alas i only got the gyu & doyoon ones from them but both of them are insane 2 me

Gyu:

Do-yoon:

kinda crazy how both songs fit them both lyrically but also as like. songs they would actually perform cuz obv do-yoon as a bassist but also gyu as a more classic vocalist with a calm voice

also because it wouldn't be a lizard music post w out an ee song i do love a little Schoolin' by ee for gyu-hyuk

[e-adlirez]

Almost seven years of having this book,,,

... Only to learn in the year of our Lord 2024 that this is a Taylor Swift reference

Vanilla you clout-chasing binch /lh /affectionate

[ihatebrainstorm]

been thinking about Botborne Crossover Au again (Transformers x Bloodborne) for the past few days and like- ik I already set Prowl as Maria but like it would've been pretty funny if Prowl were Darkbeast Paarl

Solely for the reason that I think it'd be funny if Prowl's name was butchered into "Poowl"

atm Paarl is set as Ravage,, bc lore reasons and bc I think drawing Ravage as a giant lightning infused darkbeast would be sick as hell

[roocomehome]

I DON'T WANNA TALK (to you)

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[lovetogether]

We already had strong ideas on taking existing fictional characters and twisting them to a psychosexually personal level for art but we think getting into tv shows amplified that feeling ten fold.

[mossy-paws]

some doodles! (PHIGHTING!)

A collection of recent subspace and Medkit doodles! The final thing is actually a remake of a really silly meme I made like. God how long back in August of 2023? Geez I’ve been in the fandom for awhile,,, it’s crazy how my art has evolved since then for real!

also… these, no, no I am not giving ANY sort of explanation for them

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Still blows my mind the disparity between the Eng and the JP localization of Sonic Frontiers

So in the og English Tails expresses that he needs to part ways from Sonic so he can grow into a hero on his own, right? That he can't grow by being with him?

But like. The director of the game, who worked with Ian Flynn, worked on the JP localization and it's like. You're telling me that when they localized that scene for the Japanese audience

That it was about Tails learning that there are things only he can do? That instead of concluding that he needs to part ways from Sonic and become a hero, he just comes to realizes the ways in which he and Sonic fill each other's gaps? He learns that he already is on equal footing with Sonic. The two of them are just heroes who save people in different ways?

[wrenhavenriver]

nurs//ing sc/hool is great except for the part where you feel like an annoying idiot all the time