#men o war

[ltwilliammowett]

Men o' War in heavy seas, by William J. Huggins, 1842

[damez1979]

Assassin's Creed: Rogue - Men O War

[theeminentlyimpractical]

[xolasdoesntknow]

Grunkle kings of New Jersey ⚠️🎱❓📝🌲

[rubixcuby]

Poor Leia 😮‍💨

[ladystoneboobs]

westerosi ruling ladies/acknowledged heiresses outside of dorne, listed by region:

the north

lady jonelle cerwyn, lady of castle cerwyn after the murder of her younger brother, lord cley cerwyn, by ramsay snow. (cley did not long outlive their father, lord medger cerwyn, who died of his wounds as a pow at harrenhal, after fighting in roose bolton's host when tywin lannister defeated them on the green fork.) we first hear of lady jonelle when robb stark calls his banners and lord cerwyn means to bring his old maid daughter with him, and the next we hear of her is when asha greyjoy gets her letter from ramsay, co-signed by a lady cerwyn and lady dustin, among the other northern lords in the bolton camp. cerwyn men-at-arms and the cerwyn maester are noted with roose at wf, and presumably if their lady did go south with her father, she must have returned north in roose bolton's party.

lady barbrey ryswell dustin, widow of the late lord willam dustin, apparently the last of his line since no surviving male dustins are ever mentioned. the widow of barrowton rules in his place for the remainder of her lifetime, and (unlike poor lady hornwood) rules with power uncontested, as barrowton's closest neighbors are the ryswells, also her closest kin, father and brothers. however, without any children from the late lord dustin, unclear what would happen after lady barbrey dies.

lady lyessa flint, head of the branch of house flint of widow's watch. lady flint's son, robin flint, led their forces in robb stark's army and died with the king at the red wedding, but was not the head of house. lady flint is listed such in the appendices, and was said to be pregnant in acok, meaning she likely had a living husband at the time, but he goes unnamed as only her consort.

lady alys karstark, heir to her eldest brother harrion karstark of karhold (whose location and current status is unclear after being captured by the lannisters a 2nd time), following the deaths of their brothers in the battle of the whispering wood, and the execution of their father by king robb as a murderer and traitor. at jon snow's instigation she has taken sigorn, magnar of thenn, as her consort.

lady wynafryd manderly, elder granddaughter of lord wyman manderly, by his son and heir ser wylis. should be the next heir to white harbor after her father, unless her parents should produce a son.

lady maege mormont of bear island, the only ruling lady listed here to also have a daughter as her heir. first this was dacey mormont, but after her murder at the red wedding, the new heir is second daughter alysanne aka aly the she-bear. but since aly told asha greyjoy she had a son as well as a daughter back home, that means there likely won't be a 3rd ruling lady in a row, as the mormonts may have a history of women warriors, but there's no sign they don't still practice male-preference primogeniture when there is a son to inherit. where the mormonts do step out of northern convention, however, is the ruling ladies fucking whoever they want without feeling the need for a husband and still naming their fatherless children mormonts, not snows, a practice rhaenyra targaryen would surely envy.

lady eddara tallhart, an heiress and then nominal ruler of torrhen's square, before the age of 10, after her elder brother benfred was killed by theon greyjoy's ironmen and then their father ser helman was killed when roose bolton sent him into an ambush at duskendale. listed as still a captive inside her family's seat, besieged by dagmer cleftjaw again, in the adwd appendix.

the riverlands

lady barbara bracken, eldest daughter of lord jonos bracken of stone hedge, who has multiple daughters by two of his three different wives, but no surviving sons.

lady amarei frey lannister, married to lancel lannister at castle darry as a granddaughter of a previous lord darry, then left to rule on her own after lancel abandoned her and repudiated their unconsummated marriage

lady eleanor mooton, eldest daughter of lord william mooton of maidenpool, listed as his heir in adwd appendix, at the time of her marriage to dickon tarly. (meaning presumably his sons mentioned in acok died during the war.)

lady carellen smallwood, (likely?) heir to acorn hall as the only known surviving child of lord and lady smallwood, whose only known son died years before.

lady liane vance, eldest daughter of lord karyl vance of house vance of wayfarer's rest, listed as his heir in the affc appendix

lady shella whent, last of the line of the whents of harrenhal, disposessed by tywin lannister, and allegedly dead by the time of affc, according to littlefinger. text is somewhat inconsistent on whether she or her husband inherited harrenhal, just as it's unknown what happened to all their children if they were the same whents hosting the tourney at harrenhal years before, nor even how they were related to minisa whent tully, the late lady of riverrun.

the vale

chella, daughter of cheyk, clan chief of the black ears

lady anya waynwood, lady of ironoaks, an older lady with multiple sons and grandsons still ruling in her own name, a formidable power in the vale, perhaps second only to the main branch of house royce as chief bannermen of house arryn

the westerlands

cersei lannister, lady of casterly rock as well as queen regent, following her father, lord tywin lannister, being murdered by her younger brother tyrion, an attainted traitor and fugitive, with her twin brother, jaime, unable to inherit as a knight of the kingsguard

lady alysanne lefford, lady of the golden tooth after lord leo lefford drowned in the battle of the fords against edmure tully's army. (whether the previous lord was her father, brother, or even uncle or cousin is unknown, all we know of her is her entry in the affc/adwd appendices after lord lefford's death in asos)

the reach

lady alysanne bulwer, the lady of blackcrown as the only known child of the late lord jon bulwer, frequently referred to as lady bulwer. (lady fatherslastname not being a style otherwise used with a lord's unmarried daughters, lady housesurname usually referring to a lord's wife using her husband's name). there is an inconsistency with taena merryweather telling cersei that there was talk of megga tyrell being betrothed to lady bulwer's brother (which a nondornish heiress cannot have and is not listed in any appendix), but this is either a mistake by grrm or misunderstanding by taena unless she's referring to an unknown brother of alysanne bulwer's mother, the last lady bulwer. (i'm taking multiple mentions of her as lady bulwer in sansa's pov over any gossip from taena.)

lady arwyn oakheart, lady of old oak, a widow with multiple grown sons who commanded her own forces in renly baratheon's army, even if she did not mean to fight on the field.

the crownlands

lady ermesand hayford, the last of the hayford line, a babe ruling in name only, married to the squire tyrek lannister before she was weaned, a husband now missing since his disappearence during the riot in kl on the day of princess myrcella's departure

the ladies tanda, falyse and lollys stokeworth, three would-be rulers of castle stokeworth dispossessed by the schemes of queen cersei and ser bronn of the blackwater. lady tanda ruled for years with falyse as her heir and younger daughter lollys as the only heir to the barren falyse, until such time as lollys was wed to bronn and lady tanda took a griveous fall from a horse. bronn started calling himself lord stokeworth when tanda and falyse were still alive, chasing off falyse after her husband attempted to kill him at cersei's behest. falyse died painfully in qyburn's dungeons, while tanda was left to die at castle stokeworth, making lollys even more a ruler in name only than baby lady hayford, as her husband is inside the castle with men loyal only to him, not to any stokeworth lady.

the stormlands

lady brienne of tarth, heir to lord selwyn tarth the evenstar as his only surviving child

lady mary mertyns, listed as lady of the mistwood in the adwd appendix

you'll notice the iron islands is the only (nondornish) region missing here. ofc they did have a possible heiress to pyke and all the isles but then asha greyjoy was soundly rejected as such at the kingsmoot after balon's death. the lack of other present-tl ruling ladies/acknowledged heirs afab may be down to this being the smallest region, aside from the crownlands. however, there are no historical ruling ladies in their section of the world book either, iirc.

AND there is another case of a possible heiress, again meaning asha, wrt harlaw. her uncle lord rodrik harlaw tried to dissaude her from the kingsmoot by offering to name her heir to his castle, while allowing a cousin to inherit all his other titles and power over the whole island of harlaw. but shouldn't asha have already been in line for all the harlaw lands and titles, above all the harlaw cousins? her aunt gwynesse's complaint of being the true heir as rodrik's elder sister may not work outside of dorne, but even on the nondornish mainland, a lord's sister (and therefore their children, ie asha) still come before a lord's uncles and cousins. isn't that the whole point of alys karstark's plight, that her older cousin had to marry her to try to claim her birthright? so the harlaw line of succession should go rodrik>gwynesse>alannys>asha before any cousins come into it.

that this would not be the case and that asha is only presented with the option of being lady of ten towers by doing homage to a cousin as her overlord for the whole island of harlaw suggests imo that the islands are particularly resistant to a woman as head of house, with all male kin following her in place of a patriarch. women may serve as castle stewards and the right sort may prove themselves as captains (not common, but not too rare either) but ruling on land, ruling over male kin, and fellow captains is a different matter. perhaps not too surprising from a people whose religon sees rape of foreign women as a key and holy part of their way of life. an ironwoman may not disapprove of her men doing so, but cannot fully participate without the cock to forcibly spread seed across the world. how can a captain who cannot fully perform manhood as the drowned god proscribes for his captains be rock king over any island, let alone all of them? in this light, balon's choice of asha as heir is even more radical, though likely it came not from a view of equality between the sexes but from a feeling that his own daughter was the very much singular special exception, more a son than greendlandized theon.

[itsgoldleaf]

they’re together on tatooine. obi-wan’s old commander and cody’s old jedi.

they’re greyer, grumpier, middle aged on an outer rim rock together. the thread of their last argument is so easy to find and pick up from where it lay in the dust for so many lost years. they carry it between them and speak words into each other’s ears close and trembling and it’s too good to be true and the galaxy is kind at last because it lets it be true

(moonshine on the roof of the house, backs to the walled edge, the bruised sky purpling into night overhead)

waiting and not worrying on market days alone in the house. keeping occupied with sand that will not stay swept and the household minutiae, dishes, folding the same two shirts. not glancing at the window or the time. an approaching silhouette surrounded by dunes, and the way the stomach settles at the sight

(one day there’s two silhouettes. kote tells ben to stop bringing home strays and later ben catches kote tucking the tooka into its bed. it’s cold at night, ben. i’m not a monster any more)

the old patterns are easy and the old patterns are hard and they sit with rotgut (or tea, which in kote’s opinion is rotgut) that makes them wheeze while the pockmarked sky sings to them a story of a galaxy they once knew and maybe loved and definitely lost. arms slung around shoulders because it is cold, and they don’t need to say it because it’s been years now

they know what they mean to each other

they’ve been a long time coming

[the-daily-male]

SIDE 2C

Portuguese Man O' War

King Laurent VI of Vere

[carbone14]

Le capitaine Edwin O. Fisher du 377th Fighter Squadron, 362nd Fighter Group, sur son P-47D Thunderbolt Shirley Jane III – France – Eté 1944

©Imperial War Museums – FRE 7212

Entre le 5 juillet et le 9 août 1944, le capitaine Fisher a été crédité de 7 victoires aériennes. Après la seconde guerre mondiale Il resta dans l'armée de l'air américaine et perdit la vie dans un accident de vol à bord d'un AT-6F Texan près de Norristown en Pennsylvanie le 28 mars 1947.

[ltwilliammowett]

Men o' war in a light breeze, by Louis Dodd (1943-2006)

[gravity-falls-fanatic89]

This is one of those songs that resonated with me as a kid, and I'd play it when I was younger leaving shitty jobs for good. It was a feeling of freedom and walking out of the insanity. I remember reading it being about a man leaving an asylum, but I could be wrong.

But it's a fantastic song of feeling free from insanity regardless.

This is definitely something Stan and Ford would play on the seas and know, since it was released in 1977.

I was feeling part of the scenery

I walked right out of the machinery

My heart going

Boom boom boom

I said:

"You can keep my things, they're going to take me home."

[marryat92]

I have included Frederick Marryat, the most famous of naval novelists, not merely because he spent the first few years of his life afloat under Cochrane's command in the Impérieuse; but because the year 1829 saw the publication of his first novel, Frank Mildmay, and he was probably the best recruiting agent the Royal Navy ever had. His career, of which little seems to be known to the general public, was also full of incident.

— Captain Taprell Dorling, in the preface to his book Men o' War (1929), which contains short biographies of John Jervis (Earl of St. Vincent), Lord Thomas Cochrane, Frederick Marryat, John Fisher, and Lord Charles Beresford. The author's favourite Royal Navy men, in other words.

[thylionheart]

I’ve mentioned before, I’m making a folklore book for my baby nibling and of course we want a multi-regional book of folklore so I am desperately trying and failing to find a Mesopotamian myth where sex isn’t too important a plot point

[psykopaths]

Can I take a photo of you in your underwear please ?

If you keep it in your handbag

[rewritingcanon]

my therapist fr just asked me if in asexual. gagged and gooped, sitting across from her on that dumbass couch like a fool.

[clove-pinks]

Sir Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, 10th Baronet Nicolson, depicted as a Royal Navy midshipman by John Hayter and William Sharp.

In an 1807 audience with George III, the British naval hero and Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent, complained that too many noble and socially elite midshipman were hurting the service:

I have always thought that a sprinkling of nobility was very desirable in the Navy, as it gives some sort of consequence to the service; but at present the Navy is so overrun by the younger branches of nobility, and the sons of Members of Parliament, and they swallow up all the patronage, and so choke the channels to promotion, that the son of an old Officer, however meritorious both their services may have been, has little or no chance of getting on.

Quoted by Samantha A. Cavell in Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831.

St. Vincent himself came from relatively humble beginnings, and Captain Taprell Dorling described his hardships as a midshipman in his book Men o' War:

We are told by some of St. Vincent's biographers that twenty pounds was all that his father could afford for his son's outfit and pocket money, and that, for the next five or six years, he was forced to live in a state of penury... he is said to have exchanged from ship to ship to obtain his pay tickets, which he cashed at 40 per cent. discount; to have sold his bedding and slept upon the bare deck; sometimes to have made and mended his own clothes; invariably to have done his own washing; never to have eaten fresh meat, and to have bartered what he could save of his scanty sea service rations for fruit and vegetables.

It's understandable that the Admiral St. Vincent might not have been too fond of highly privileged young gentlemen.