My daughter's husband, a count died, leaving no children so the title passed to the brother. However, she was pregnant at the time, and upon birth still did not receive the title. Shouldn't that newborn child now inherit as soon as it is born?

I die of the plague, son inherits, wife gives birth, son dies of the plague, game over.

Because the posthumous son is not of his father's dynasty, but if he's not of the dynasty he shouldn't inherit...seems like a bug to me? It's very annoying, he would have been a good son.

I (35F) was with my husband for almost 13 years, he passed away at 39 years old over a month ago. We have a 3 year old little girl who is beyond amazing. When our daughter was about 6 months he was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer and we got a grim prognosis. He’s fought hard and lived to a week before she turned 3 (she JUST turned 3 on 11/17).

Due to the cancer/chemo/radiation a few years ago he decided to freeze his sperm because we always knew we wanted to try for baby number 2. We kept holding off because our focus was on curing him and eventually getting back to our normal. When he was in the hospital, after suffering a stroke, the last week of his life, he reached out to me and said, “we should have a baby” and he said “we should have Hank the tank.”

My husbands name was Henry, and he always said he wanted his son to be named Hank. I used to joke and say I wanted a little chunky boy so I could nickname him Hank the Tank.. anyway, he did leave me as the owner of his sperm basically if something was to happen.. and something inside me feels like I should just do it on my own. I am still in some heavy grieving stages so I wouldn’t pursue this any time soon soon, but in the following year or so..

I have some fears, though:

1. Should I ask his family for permission or somehow get their approval/blessing first?
2. My insurance doesn’t cover fertility or in vitro treatments so I’m scared it’s too expensive
3. How do I explain to both kids in the future that I decided to do this, is it too weird or creepy?
4. Would the baby even be able to have his last name if he is conceived and born posthumously?

I normally wouldn’t be on the fence, I know 100% in my heart that I want another child.. my previous pregnancy was good, it wasn’t a walk in the park but I didn’t have a horror story pregnancy or birthing experience. I have a good support system currently, I have my mom, his parents, his brother, my brother and sister. The grandmas are both very hands on and I feel like I should do it sooner rather than later because of this, since I can count on their help. I have a secure, decent paying job. My housing is secure as well. Basically I can provide the basic foundation a child needs.

To be honest, my biggest hesitation is how to approach this with his family.. I don’t know if it will come off weird and creepy.

Sorry that this is more rants and long winded than it should be. Just want some unbiased opinions/advice to better help navigate my thoughts on t

There was an essay (referred to as OP from now on) posted to this sub recently that got quite a number of things wrong about Fodlan and its political situation (ironically, in a post that claimed to address misconceptions), and so I have risen from my reddit dormancy to correct the record. I will start with a discussion of the state of Fodlan and the crest system, move onto the role and power of the Church in all this, and end with a discussion of Edelgard and her partnership with the murder muppets.

All quotations are sourced from https://fedatamine.com/en-us/. The location of the quote (explore chapter, battle, or event name) will be provided for reference.

The Aristocrestocracy

The OP makes the argument that because Crests are not uniformly and consistently a requirement for a person or family to be noble, they are not intrinsically tied into the aristocratic power structure of Fodlan. This is laughable considering how much of the game focuses on Crests and their impacts on characters and power. Just because an exception exists does not mean that a consistent pattern is invalid. For instance, to argue that the Victorian era was not a restrictive time to be a British woman because the monarch of the time was female would be idiotic.

Starting off at the Kingdom, there are seven major families listed in the Register of Kingdom Nobles – Blaiddyd, Fraldarius, Gautier, Charon, Galatea, Rowe, and Kleiman. Of these, Blaiddyd, Fraldarius, Gautier, and Charon have always held significant power in the Kingdom, and all of them have crested bloodlines. Galatea defected from the Alliance with a Major Crest and a Relic and was instantly granted land and status in the Kingdom. Notably, they brought no land and were given some, showing the importance of a crested bloodline. The two major houses without crests essentially bought noble titles through the addition of land to the Kingdom (through deceit or outright murder) – Rowe with Arianrhod and Kleiman with Duscur.

If this isn’t enough to show the overwhelming dominance of Crests over Kingdom politics, we have two families where the secondborn crested son was made heir over the firstborn crestless son, explicitly because of his crest – the Blaiddyds and the Gautiers.

>Dimitri (Crests: The Good and the Bad): It’s far from uncommon for someone to lose their ability to lead their house because they don’t bear a crest. Just like Miklan. It happened to my uncle as well. The

I came across this here passage while browsing through Dayi Daoxin's Terebess page, and found it interesting considering we've such a history of people asking how Daoism relates to Zen on this sub. In doing my research on it however, I soon fell down a rabbit hole and found it did more than just this and went straight to the heart of a lot of controversial questions on this sub, including:

• What is Zen's relationship to Daoism?
• Is Zen Buddhist?
• What is "zazen"?
• What is the Zen lineage? Can we trust its biographical and genealogical accounts?
• What does early Zen have to say about Zen as a whole and can we trust the sources?

This is a long post.

Without any further ado, here is the passage that started this all:

>The great master said –
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>Zhuangzi taught:
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>Heaven and earth are one finger.All things are one horse.
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>But the Dharmapada sūtra says:
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>‘One' does not just mean the number one;The intention is the refutation of all numbers.Only students of shallow intellectMean the number one when they say ‘one'.
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>Thus Zhuangzi seems to be stuck at the idea of ‘one'.
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>Laozi said:
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>So subtle! So profound!Its essence is within.
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>Here, even though there are no categories outside, the mind is still preserved within. The Avataṃsaka sūtra says:
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>Do not be attached to dualistic entities,As there is neither singularity nor duality.
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>And the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa sūtra corroborates this by saying:
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>Mind does not exist internally or externally,Nor anywhere in between.
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>When we understand this, we can see that Laozi is stuck at the idea of the existence of an essential awareness.

As we can see, Daoxin is allegedly disputing the idea of the "one/many" metaphysics that features chiefly in the proto-Daoist texts of Laozi and Zhuangzi, hinting at some nameless, swirling flow of constant flux and change hidden behind the appearances we see in the world, as well as the idea of a primordial awareness which subtly lurks behind the scenes, by his reading here.

Instead, he quotes Mahayana Buddhist scripture and suggests that the truth of the teachings is beyond the teaching of these two texts.

But... this is where the rabbit hole begins...

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Hi again. Three weeks ago I posted about a project I'm working on. For those who haven't seen it yet:

>So, I am embarking on an interesting project. I intend to experience the best art and media humanity has to offer before I die. Namely this is all the highly notable and interesting books, plays, art, music, films, TV shows, and video games. I guess you could call it a bucket list. I've been indexing it chronologically and downloading it to an external hard drive.

I then solicited suggestions for highly notable/significant ancient and medieval literature that I was missing from an early draft of what the list would cover. I got over 100 responses; it was clear I was missing a lot. So, I pretty much started from scratch, doing multiple sweeps of any pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporated many of the suggestions I received, ranging from missing individual works to missing authors and cultures.

I should also note that in order to prevent this list from becoming unwieldly, I am limiting myself to 10,000 entries total, forcing myself to take a more deliberate and top-down approach. So far, I have 261 entries for the time span 4000 BC to 1400 AD: 12 Ancient-era, 121 Classical-era, and 128 Medieval-era works. 251 are literature, 10 are music. In other words, 2.61% of the list is Medieval era works or earlier, which seems quite reasonable to me and leaves plenty of room for more modern works spanning across more mediums.

I thought I would share what I have so far before I begin work on more modern stuff. Note that bolded entries are in the top 1,000 works, the cream of the crop, the most notable of all. If you're following along with me and don't want it to take a decade or longer to get through the whole completed list, just sticking to the bolded entries will give you a good taste too.

Ancient Era (4000 BC - 1001 BC)

Introduction

This will be a much-requested post in which I summarize, in chronological order, my Grand Unified Theories. I will provide citations to my long-form posts where you can find more details and evidence, if it strikes you. Even summarized it’s still pretty long, so I’m sorry for that in advance (TL;DR ended up being kind of ironic by the time I was finished).

If I do a good job at this, hopefully I won’t have to clarify anything. If you’re unfamiliar with my theories and reading this, I ask that you check the cited chapters for more details before offering criticism of the timeline! I’m specifically omitting evidence in order to keep this one brief and easy to follow!

Please note: for brevity’s sake, I will often use a specific date for an event that has a range (i.e. something happened between 2000 B.C. and 1000 B.C. might be labeled 1500 B.C.). Don’t take the exact numbers as gospel! The order in which the events occur and their approximate place on the timeline is what’s important.

It is also important to note that this will not be an exhaustive timeline. I will mostly only include contextualizing events and things that are a part of my theories.

This will include historical events in both the East and the West, but the labels and terminology for the timeline will be in Westerosi terms.

The Dawn Age (40,000 B.C. - 10,000 B.C)

40,000 B.C. - The world is young. Giants, Lions, Unicorns, the Children of the Forest are all commonplace at this time. The world’s First Tree, Ygg, is already ancient beyond memory. The cycle of the seasons is regular and lasts one year, as this was the time before the seasons were broken. Two moons float in the sky, and mankind is yet a young and savage race. [6][7]

22,000 B.C. - Garth Greenhand, an incredibly powerful sorcerer, is born in the Far East. Over the course of centuries, he unites the tribes of the Jade Sea along with his younger brother, another powerful sorcerer. [7][8]

In the Far East, Garth is remembered as the God on Earth, because he was worshiped as a Green God, demanding human sacrifice in exchange for making the land bloom. He taught mankind to farm, and the first cities in the world began to spring up along the coast of the Jade Sea. [7]

18,000 B.C. - Garth and his brother, having united the Eastern peopl

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Polygamy is a subject that is not only taboo in Westeros, but also extremely vital to our storyline due to the potential of it with things like "the dragon has three heads" and Jon's true parentage. In this post. I wanted to explore the subject a bit, especially with regards to the above two things as well as the Doctrine of Exceptionalism.

Targaryen Polygamy & the Effect it has on the Story

Note: Obviously there are other instances of polygamy (Khals with numerous wives, Lucamore the Lusty, Ironborn with rock/salt wives (a bit different) and legendary characters), this post is primarily about the Targaryens.

Background

As I mentioned above, polygamy exists in Westeros in legend/myth with characters like Florys the Fox. But the Faith of the Seven does not permit it:

>In their marriage customs, as in their gods, the ironborn differ from mainland Westeros. Wherever the Faith prevails in the Seven Kingdoms, a man joins himself for life to a single wife, and a maid to but one husband. On the Iron Islands, however, a man may have only one "rock wife" (unless she should die, whereupon he may take another), but any number of "salt wives." -TWOIAF, The Iron Islands

We also have some of George's thoughts on the matter:

>[Would polygamous marriages be accepted in Westeros today, especially if Targaryens were involved?]
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>GRRM: If you have some huge fire-breathing dragons, you can get people to accept a lot of things that they might otherwise have problems with. -SSM: Polygamy in Westeros: 15 April 2008

and:

>[Questions concerning Targaryen polygamy.]
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>GRRM: Maegor the Cruel has multiple wives, from lines outside his own, so there was and is precedent. However, the extent to which the Targaryen kings could defy convention, the Faith, and the opinions of the other lords decreased markedly after they no longer had dragons. If you have a dragon, you can have as many wives as you want, and people are less likely to object. -SSM: Asshai.com Forum Chat: 27 July 2008

History

The first Targaryen with multiple wives in Westeros was Aenar, who arrived with the Targs fled Valyria:

>The Targaryens were of pure Valyrian blood, dragonlords of ancient lineage. Twelve years before the Doom of Valyria (114 BC), **Aenar Targaryen sold his holdings in the Freehold and the Lands of the Long Summer an

Introduction

Hello! This is the final chapter in a six part series that will detail the western half of a broader, Grand Unified Theory of the Dawn. I believe it convincingly explains the legends surrounding the Dawn Age, the Age of Heroes, and the Long Night in Westeros. We will be touching on Garth, the Grey King, the Fisher Queens, the Drowned God, the Night’s King, the First King, Durran Godsgrief, and many others.

In the last chapter, we talked about the Azor Ahai monomyth, and why I believe the Night’s King falls within it. This time I’ll be talking about the Last Hero, the Battle for the Dawn, and the forging of the world that we know today.

Once again, I have to highly recommend reading through at least the last three chapters of my eastern series, as I will frequently be referencing the ideas I laid out there. This is even more necessary than in last chapter.

Credit to David Lightbringer (formerly Lucifer Means Lightbringer) for some of the stuff I’ll be discussing in this chapter; I’ll be borrowing from some of his theories about the original Kingsguard and Night’s Watch, as well as the Prince who was Promised.

White Swords and Black Brothers

Last time we talked about the parallel symbolism between the Others and the Weirwood trees, the Moon, Night’s Queen, and the Children of the Forest. We’re going to be picking right up where we left off, in that regard, because there’s yet more symbolism to untangle. Let’s start by going a little more in-depth into their “white shadow” moniker.

>Will saw movement from the corner of his eye. Pale shapes gliding through the wood. He turned his head, glimpsed a white shadow in the darkness. - A Game of Thrones - Prologue

>"We have white shadows in the woods and unquiet dead stalking our halls, and a boy sits the Iron Throne," he said in

Dia Dhuit! I've tried to do some reading/groundwork on Irish Citizenship but I am not sure of a few things...

1. My grandmother was born in Ireland. She came to the US and married my grandfather. They had my dad. My grandmother passed away when my dad was around 15 and is buried in Boston, Mass.

2. My dad passed away in 2016. He had looked into getting his citizenship but never actually did before he unforseeably ran out of time :(

3. Can I still get citizenship through my grandparent if my dad never finished his? I have been reading citizensinformation.ie and there is a section about hiw your parent became an Irish citizen (Foreign Births register, Post-Nuptial Declaration, Naturalisation, or Adoption) but as far as I know none of these apply. Would I have to posthumously get my dad's citize ship somehow to do mine?

4. Do I have to get a lawyer/solicitor involved? I know I am looking at at least a two year wait. I don't have an issue with that.

Thanks for any help!

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

I've never played SoV, what the hell is a Rudolf

Having recently completed the romhack Order of the Crimson Arm, I’m left with some pretty mixed feelings about the writing. That said, there are definitely things to be praised about it – like the story’s attempts to emulate a feeling of being a small squad in a bigger army, or the uniqueness of its premise of bandits as lategame enemies – but its most promising story element, in my opinion, is the character arc of Rudolfo. For me, he was easily one of the most memorable characters (along with Adin) and I found his scenes in the early and midgame to have a lot of promise. Unfortunately, this potential is not fully realized, in part thanks to the barebones writing in OCA’s lategame.

This post has spoilers for Order of the Crimson Arm. Obviously.

#Earlygame Rudolfo

Rudolfo is a noble of Ostreich, the good guy country of the game. Though he was originally born in Zentirim (the bad guy country) he moved to Ostreich at some point in his life, where his family was appointed as nobility. At the beginning of the story, Wayland, one of the Lords, is working in Rudolfo’s service as a mercenary along with his shitty Jagen mentor Vlad.

Rudolfo first appears after the Order of the Crimson Arm joins up with Lady Clara. As the protagonists are integrating themselves into the larger Ostreich army, they meet General Valborge, Clara’s second in command and the “Mountain of Ostreich”. Rudolfo, along with his fellow Ostreich nobles Borgriff and Foskey, serves under Valborge as a subcommander.

Rudolfo and Borgriff accompany the player’s army in their smaller-scale battles. During much of this time, Rudolfo and Borgriff are given an almost Cain-and-Abel style characterization, with Borgriff being excitable, honorable and knightly while Rudolfo balances him out with levelheaded pragmatism. They even kinda have red and green color palettes.

For much of the earlygame, Rudolfo, along with with Borgriff and Valborge, acts as a significant representative of Clara’s allied army. At first, Rudolfo is less than thrilled to be working with the player’s army – seeing the captain, Algimas, as less than exemplary of proper behavior – but per Borgriff’s insistence he sets his gripes aside.

Rudolfo’s most notable earlygame scene is in chapter 10, when the group cuts through the D’ahk Woods (yep.) During the battle, Borgriff and Wayland ru

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

I (35F) was with my husband for almost 13 years, he passed away at 39 years old over a month ago. We have a 3 year old little girl who is beyond amazing. When our daughter was about 6 months he was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer and we got a grim prognosis. He’s fought hard and lived to a week before she turned 3 (she JUST turned 3 on 11/17).

Due to the cancer/chemo/radiation a few years ago he decided to freeze his sperm because we always knew we wanted to try for baby number 2. We kept holding off because our focus was on curing him and eventually getting back to our normal. When he was in the hospital, after suffering a stroke, the last week of his life, he reached out to me and said, “we should have a baby” and he said “we should have Hank the tank.”

My husbands name was Henry, and he always said he wanted his son to be named Hank. I used to joke and say I wanted a little chunky boy so I could nickname him Hank the Tank.. anyway, he did leave me as the owner of his sperm basically if something was to happen.. and something inside me feels like I should just do it on my own. I am still in some heavy grieving stages so I wouldn’t pursue this any time soon soon, but in the following year or so..

I have some fears, though:

1. Should I ask his family for permission or somehow get their approval/blessing first?
2. My insurance doesn’t cover fertility or in vitro treatments so I’m scared it’s too expensive
3. How do I explain to both kids in the future that I decided to do this, is it too weird or creepy?
4. Would the baby even be able to have his last name if he is conceived and born posthumously?

I normally wouldn’t be on the fence, I know 100% in my heart that I want another child.. my previous pregnancy was good, it wasn’t a walk in the park but I didn’t have a horror story pregnancy or birthing experience. I have a good support system currently, I have my mom, his parents, his brother, my brother and sister. The grandmas are both very hands on and I feel like I should do it sooner rather than later because of this, since I can count on their help. I have a secure, decent paying job. My housing is secure as well. Basically I can provide the basic foundation a child needs.

To be honest, my biggest hesitation is how to approach this with his family.. I don’t know if it will come off weird and creepy.

Sorry that this is more rants and long winded than it should be. Just want some unbiased opinions/advice to better help navigate my thoughts on

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Introduction

Hello! This is the fifth chapter in a six part series that will detail the western half of a broader, Grand Unified Theory of the Dawn. I believe it convincingly explains the legends surrounding the Dawn Age, the Age of Heroes, and the Long Night in Westeros. We will be touching on Garth, the Grey King, the Fisher Queens, the Drowned God, the Night’s King, the First King, Durran Godsgrief, and many others.

In the last chapter, we talked about why I believe there were two Andal invasions: one around the time of the Long Night, and one about 2000 years ago. This time I’ll be talking about a warrior from the far east who knew no fear, and we'll be plotting his course across the world.

Before reading this chapter, I highly recommend reading through at least the last three chapters of my eastern series, as I will be referencing the ideas I laid out there.

Credit to David Lightbringer (formerly Lucifer Means Lightbringer) for some of the stuff I’ll be discussing at the very end of the chapter, as I’ll be borrowing from his theories about the Night’s King and Corpse Queen.

Phonetic Games

I’m sure many of you reading these theories noticed a pattern in my interpretation of ancient legends. I’ll often lay out seemingly unrelated stories, and then show the ways in which they support one another. Many of my theories boil down to some version of “these two legends are actually referring to the same thing”. I then try to use those conclusions to paint a cohesive picture of the world, answering as many questions as I can along the way.

Today we’ll be exploring a sort of phonetic game that I believe George likes to play with ancient characters and legends. He already established that this is fair game in the World of Ice and Fire’s section on Hugor:

>There are some maesters who have noted tha

When I got home, they were still there.