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Janaina Medeiros
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oozey mess
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
macklin celebrini has autism
Not today Justin
Cosimo Galluzzi

Discoholic 🪩
todays bird

tannertan36
styofa doing anything
we're not kids anymore.
Claire Keane
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Fantasy Guide to Illegitimate Children
I often get asks about illegitimate children and what their lives would be like in a typical fantasy setting. In many cultures, to be born or to have a child out of the bounds of marriage, it is extremely taboo and can result in some social ostracism while in others, it isn't seen as a very big deal and illegitimate children could rise to places of power.
Double-Standards
All illegitimate children are born outside marriage but not all illegitimate children are made equally. Most of the time, illegitimate children born to the poor can experience worse treatment by their community. If they are born to an unwed mother or a mother who gave birth to them outside of marriage, their mother may be denied services in the community such as housing and employment and be shunned publicly. A royal or noblewoman would also face the same scrutiny and be shunned from all high society and may even be imprisoned or executed. They faced more dangerous circumstances if they were married, mainly because they have put the succession of their children into question which could be grounds to disinherit their other children which could lead to larger issues. However, the father of an illegitimate children would likely not face too much scrutiny. While frowned upon, especially if he has quite a few illegitimate children and/or doesn't support them. A nobleman or royal father could father children without too much scrutiny, again in moderation.
Child Support
Illegitimate Children were not equal to legitimate children in a good many Western Cultures. In most cultures of the west, illegitimate children were not entitled to anything their parents owned or could lay claim to and if on the off-chance they were to inherit, it is only when all illegitimate claimants are out of the picture. Illegitimate children of royals or nobles were not in line for titles, crowns and lands - in fact, they were only provided for when their father wanted to. When the father did, he could see that they were educated, treated almost the same as his legitimate children - a good many illegitimate royals could count themselves in for a Dukedom or Earldom, with a fine marriage in the future and a lot of wealth and position (especially if the mother is also aristocratic). A poorer father might offer the mother up-keep for herself and the child but again, this is his own choice and he may not offer support. However, in other cultures, an illegitimate child could receive the same if not better treatment than their legitimate siblings. In the Ottoman Empire, a Sultan was expected to father children with women of the harem, who he was not married to in order to sire the next generation of royal heirs. The daughters born of these unions were often married to high ranking advisors and court and granted education and luxury like that of royal princesses while sons were often granted fine educations and later in life, provinces to reign over. Under Ancient Hindu Laws, children could inherit from their mothers and depending on circumstances their fathers. In China and Japan, while children born to concubines with all the same honours as legitimate children they weren't ostracised and were often raised with many of the same luxuries and amenities.
Prospects
An illegitimate child may not be on the same equal footing as their legitimate counterparts but that doesn't mean they are blocked from every good thing about life. They could be educated, they could marry well, they could rise high in society but their birth status may still be used against them. They may be believed to carry some stigma, be seen as dishonest or more inclined to act a certain way - which is all bullshit but the village is going to judge regardless. Illegitimate children born into higher ranking families might gain high positions of power, receiving high military positions or advisory positions at court to support their siblings. They may even marry to improve their family's status, with illegitimate royals even marrying other royals or nobles.
Relationships
Illegitimate children may have close relationships with their parents but that depends on the relationship between their parents and whether they have any contact with them. Illegitimate children may be raised alongside their legitimate siblings in order to foster good relationships between the siblings. Illegitimate children might have good relations with their step-parents but this is up to the step-parent. Some step-parents refuse to have the illegitimate child. An aristocratic father might set up his illegitimate child on an estate with a household of their own. Depending on the circumstances of their birth, their extended families may accept them as relatives or reject them.
Legitimization
I often get hypothetical questions on what happens when a royal or noble illegitimate child gets legitimized. Legitimization is when the illegitimate child is made legitimate by decree. This is usually through four ways: the parents marry and the legitimization is retroactive (this isn't always accepted), the illegitimate child is legitimized by the crown, or by religious authority or the government passes a bill of legitimization. However, this doesn't mean the child has all the rights of a legitimate child. Some royal or noble children could inherit but usually only after their legitimate siblings, nieces and nephews. Sometimes they are entitled to use certain styles and titles, they may be allowed to call themselves Prince/Princess or the courtesy title of their parents. However, legitimization is usually only carried out when there is either a deficit of legit heirs or enough of a surplus that legitimizing an illegitimate child is almost no danger. Most royals and nobles don't opt to legitimize their offspring in order to ensure the succession is protected and the overall peace preserved.
Wings of Pages
All the words on those wings are either bits of my own poetry and writing, or complete utter gibberish because my hand got tired 😂
oh, to fly with you again
This is our Uber driver … are we cooked ? 😭🙏🔥
This is the funniest take on this joke I’ve seen so far 😂😂
There's wholesome ships and there's toxic ships, but I'd like to coin 'sodium chloride ships', where the individuals involved are both horrible and dangerous people, but somehow being together renders them surprisingly well-adjusted (if a little salty).
The opposite of this is a 'coke and mentos' dynamic, where the two people are generally chill and likeable but being around each other makes them both wild and chaotic.
Here's the breakdown:
Going to be obsessed with this
I also propose renaming 'crack ships' to 'acid ships' because they're a trip to read.
s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936
This is a really poignant illustration of the seductive nature of glorifying war but that is a LOOK and she is SERVING it
I've seen Death depicted as a card dealer or other sort of gambler, a guy in a suit, a farmer, a robed apparition, and any other number of things, but this? This has to be the best Death I've seen yet. An old seductress saying "hey kid, don't you wanna die in a trench for a government that doesn't give a fuck about you, just like your dear old dad?" This goes hard as fuck.
"I used to know your daddy." kicks like a mule.
of course you have blood all over you. and pronouns
easy website
^^^ me when I’m trying to calm down my horse named “Website”
weird horse
"Websight" is a Valid Warrior Cat Name!
they should make a pill that makes people in their 20s feel good about where their lives are going
Dandelions have a symbiotic relationship with little kids who make wishes
this is... not entirely false, actually
[ID: a tag reading, “#don’t eat citrus if you have any mental health problems #the vitamin C is so bad for you” end ID]
losing my fucking mind over how people will come on here and say just the easiest to disprove absolutely inane lies. for no reason at all
[ID: a comment by @boywizard reading, “counteracting my mental illness by getting scurvy” end ID]
early homo sapiens b like help i cant stop making bowls . help i cant stop domesticating plants and animals. help i cant stop developing language and architecture and religion
ok im obsessed w this tag
once in grade 6 I saw a 'pottery making club' in a ditch on the schoolyard- I assume at some point someone realized there was actually good quality clay in the ditch and when I walked up there were about a dozen 12 year olds sitting around the few girls who had brought their water bottles out to mix the clay, and a designated spot to put the finished bowls and tablets, and people going off and collecting sticks to make designs with and i really think that's the natural state of the human race
In elementary school I learned that you can make paint out of certain sedimentary rocks on the playground if you crushed them and mixed with water and at one point I had up to 25 kindergarten through third graders making cave paintings on the underside of the slides
The nature of man is such that every so often, someone recreates the neolithic era.
Yeah, every recess
That was nearly fifty years ago, and I have never seen indigo again.
A personal piece in between commissions. See: “Altered States” by Oliver Sacks.
May you be blessed with hardcore gay sex thatd give a conservative a deadly heart attack this pride
I’m asexual, can I be blessed with a buttload (approximately 126 gallons or 834 pounds) of garlic bread instead?
Ya know what? Absolutely.
Reblog to bless your followers with freaky sex and/or garlic bread.
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and/or garlic bread.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.