#male heir

[vox-anglosphere]

A dramatic pictorial of King Henry VIII's six wives set to period music

[tenth-sentence]

Entail became increasingly popular on the 1600s, reducing the inheritance of widows and daughters, and making their work for the family to the benefit only of the oldest male heir.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[oristian]

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LUCIEN VANSERRA — HEIR TO THE DAY COURT

I originally intended to wait and post this for @lucienweekofficial but I wanted to share this stunning artwork with everyone early! I cannot wait to see Lucien and Helion and their interactions in the next books and I have high hopes that Lucien will be appointed to some title—either High Lord, or Prince—within the Day Court. The vision was Helion crowning his son and Lucy brought this idea to life wonderfully.

ART CREDIT @lucychanart

COMMISSION BY @oristian / @/ktbookishclub

characters belong to Sarah J Maas 🦊☀️

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[noirscript]

Yandere!heir is so hot 😆 How would he go about having kids if reader was hesitant?

note: implied AFAB!reader; implied noncon; probably implied drugging as well (because is xav); mentioned possibility of infertility; a really brief one

Xavier would never understand why you always avoid the topic of children. In his eyes, you already mastered the art of dodging the topic over the course of several weeks.

What do you mean you can't handle a child?

Obviously, you can! Didn't you see him in the corner watching you play with those kids when you visited the orphanage with him? He was there when you took care of those children!

Oh, and what do you mean you can't have his child?

Come on. You're just making excuses to keep him from having his dream family with you! You'll get the best care from the best medical facility in the world. You won’t even have to worry about paying anything. He'll handle it and all you need to do is stay by his side and nurture your little family with him.

And if you really can't?

There's a lot of options available out there. He could even try some other methods that would make his dream possible! Which may or may not include getting you second or more opinion from other experts in infertility just so he can push his agenda of having kids with you.

Still a no?

Too bad. Xavier will never take a 'no' for an answer. Just wait and see. One day, you'll finally take notice the changes in your body.

Always keep in mind: Xavier always gets whatever he wants. Whether you like it or not.

[cuntmand]

lord debling was not the right man for penelope, but do you who he is the right man for? ME 👆🙋‍♀️ a husband who is rich and will provide for me, and he’s never around, so i get to do whatever i want on his giant estate while he’s off exploring the world??? sign me the FUCK UP 🥰

[mrsbridgerton]

imagine your husband being a LORD (not only rich but RICH) and is gone for like half the year - penelope girl why’d you fumble him

[not-rab]

what if after you endure a large amount of cruciatus curses, your hair starts to lose its colour

that’s why even though pandora and evan are identical twins, pandora’s hair is dirty blonde, whereas evan’s is a platinum blond

[notfeelingthyaster]

the thing is: jaehaerys didn't deny daenerys/rhaenys claims (the great council was a scam, he was endorsing viserys) to the throne for the "good of the realm" or only because he thought women can't rule/he didn't want corlys velaryon behind the power. he did it because if a women came upon the throne before her male brother/uncle, he would bring scrutiny over his usurpation of the far better claimant aerea.

[orbitsuns]

baby eris!

[dragonworshippersblog]

Why do those who say that Rhaenyra should not be queen because of the illegitimacy of her children, which would go against the law, consider aegon as another option? Aren't rape and homocide crimes too (and definitely greater than rhaenyra's) ? Following this logic, the right to the throne of all Viserys' children should be invalidated, why does the problem of the law for the greens only arise in rhaenyra's situation?

[visenyaism]

because one must assume the boltons DID fight in the dance of the dragons because the only alternative is cregan stark taking all of the armies of the north down south but leaving the army of house stark’s single biggest historical threat unsupervised and unchallenged. only conclusion to come to is that in typical bolton fashion they just did not leave any witnesses around to contribute to the historical record

[ladystoneboobs]

no of fence to jon snow fans who for some reason care about his exact age, but these discussions just annoy me no end. not only bc there's no way any weirwood flashbacks bran has to rhaegar/lyanna will come with time/datestamps, but also bc there's always comments like this:

SEVERAL turns of the moon (ie, months)?! have these people never seen a human baby before or just have no concept of their ages? even if we take into account travel time from the toj to wf, meaning jon was not a newborn too fresh out the oven when catelyn and robb arrived, there's still a difference between a newborn and a 3mo and an even bigger difference between those infants and an older baby 5-7mo. there's very good reasons these lines were cut. whatever birthdates can be worked out internally for jon and robb from when they're first mentioned as 15 and 16 don't matter in the end, bc grrm doesn't care about a consistent timeline and the actual text of catelyn's pov and ned's convo with robert about cheating on her should outweigh any guesstimates about jon's official nameday wrt robb's. catelyn may not have cared for jon, but she would sure as hell have noticed his nameday if it came before robb's and made him ned's firstborn. if jon's birthday canonically came before robb's then either ned's cover story would not involve adultery (not impossible for him to sire a bastard before his wedding), or he'd just give jon a new nameday along with his new name to fit the adultery lie. it makes no sense for him to lie about one and not the other, undermining the big lie with a little public clue of his story not adding up. whatever else she was as a stepmother, cat wasn't stupid and a bastard who was actually the eldest son being raised alongside her trueborn heir could be an even bigger insult than whether he was born of adultery or not.

BUT, the unknowability of jon's true birthday is not the only reason this annoys me, it's bc this is all based on the assumption that jon must be older since rhaegar/lyanna ran off together before ned married cat, as if both boys must have been conceived asap as robb canonically was when his parents consummated their marriage. and that's not how human reproduction works! even if you don't understand how fast babies grow in the first year, you should know that people who get pregnant do so through ovulation cycles and a lucky sperm finding an egg and all that, not just immediately getting knocked up as soon as one has p-in-v sex for the first time. not unless you only know mean girls sex ed where if you have sex you will get pregnant and die. (even tho lyanna did die, there's plenty of canon examples where pregnancy did not lead straight to death. also examples of people who did not get pregnant right away and even some who are/were sexually active and childless without always having moon tea on hand.) we can't know how long lyanna was having sex before that sperm+egg match happened or even how long she was with rhaegar before losing her technical virginity. if they were married, doesn't it make sense to think they didn't consummate their relationship until the wedding night either? that's the only leverage there is to ensure a status as wife rather than just mistress.

and while i just said grrm doesn't care about exact timelines and a lot is still foggy surrounding the rebellion and esp rhaegar, there is one timemarker wrt robert's rebellion he voluntarily threw in, time and time again: that stannis was besieged at storm's end for almost a whole year. that siege, which mind you, did not match the duration of the entire war. it only started after robert won his battles at gulltown and summerhall, returned to storm's end, and then went out and lost the battle of ashford, leaving his homeland open to the reachermen. the same siege which only ended when ned made a detour there after the sack of king's landing, before going to the toj. even if lyanna may not have given birth that exact day ned found her, she could only be waiting in that bloody bed for weeks at the most, not months. so if rhaegar knocked her up the very same night he carried her off and jon was still a newborn when ned found her after the siege of storm's end had ended, wouldn't that mean lyanna was pregnant for well over a year? that's not how human pregnancy works either! so, maybe that's proof that jon and robb, whichever order they were actually born in, were actually very close in age as babies, much closer than if they were both conceived asap.

and really, jon's actual birthdate does not matter imho, when he was raised not just as the bastard to robb's trueborn heir, but with robb also known by catelyn and the world as ned's firstborn (which he was, in any case, as jon was ned's nephew by birth). what difference could a birthdate before robb's make (even were there some means of discovery) after ned, cat, and robb are all dead? if one is looking only at his birth parents then he's only a firstborn child on lyanna's side, but definitely a second son on rhaegar's side. maybe he was always meant to be a second son with a not much older half-brother! even if the aegon fka young griff is not in fact rhaegar's son, he'll still be known as aegon vi targaryen, meaning jon will never be known as any father's elder son. if i may reference mean girls again, it's not going to happen.

[dollypopup]

i choose to live in denial about the fact that there are so many desires for 'Babies Ever After' in Polin immediately following the conclusion of season 3 because like. . .this woman is nineteen!!! at the start of it all she should be at the club having a panic attack! and at the end, she should be getting railed up and down the European coast by her hot husband who has miraculously good pull-out game!

we are not the same!!!

[bronzebraids-art]

Obviously heavily inspired by the special cover for the first Thrawn Ascendancy book, but Empire and shirtless version, here you go Thrawn fans

Please consider reblogging art, on Tumblr likes doesn't really help 😅

[catherine-sketches]

I know he isn’t…

But Sunfyre looks so much like he could be Syrax baby.

A Syrax and Caraxes baby actually. Golden noodle boy, but not as noodly. More stout. Like mom.

[justmyrabell]

So... is Aemond Aegon's heir now?