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[kingcunny]

PLACEHOLDER PINNED POST

until i have the mental bandwidth to make a proper one

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im sick and i have no concept of the passage of time. it might take me awhile to respond

[kingcunny]

in the coldest most clinical way possible. a sexually mature fertile woman is worth more than a baby. in medieval times. that baby is not guaranteed to survive, fairly common to loose an infant actually. why do you think we see aegons second birthday and not his first? but as long as your wife survives you can always try again. this is a behavior you can see reflected in animals even. female rabbits will sometimes abandon their litter if a predator is around. she can always have another litter, those babies wont survive without a mama.

so. back to hotd. assuming westeros has a similar technological and medical knowledge that we had at roughly this time period. SO they should at least be able to attempt to save aemmas life via destruction of her baby (even if she dies later to infection, ect)…

i think presenting viserys with the choice to either attempt the first c-section on a living human, certainly killing aemma but potentially saving his baby. or going with the known method that may save aemma but will certainly kill his baby. his baby that he believes is the messiah. the baby aemma told him was the last one… would be a much sicker and evil and therefore impactful choice.

[kingcunny]

my asoft oc who mulan’d her way into the citadel until they found out she was a girl and kicked her out and now she does back alley abortions

[kingcunny]

modern dcotors: i cant remove the septic fetus from you ill go to prison and loose my medical license :(

roman doctors: this abortion is a crime against your husband and his estate, by helping you i would be an accomplice. okay so what youre gonna wanna do is-

[kingcunny]

read a comment on the hotd reddit couple years back where someone claimed that in aemmas situation irl ye olde doctors wouldve used tongs to crush and remove the baby, killing it but hopefully saving aemmas life. every once and while i remember it and go on a little rabbithole looking for a source. i havent found anything abt that Exact thing happening but i have read about procedures similar. including descriptions of d&cs being preformed in the 2nd century. thats crazy!!! not often successfully (infection. perforation.), but still! they had the knowledge and the tools to do it!

but what i find just as interesting is these old physicians attitudes on abortion. pliny the elder (23-79 ce) condemning abortion and the people who help with them. and then going on to painstakingly catalog every abortifacient and contraceptive, superstition, folklore, ect. that he could find. and he opposed abortion on a legal ground not necessarily a moral one, that abortion was a crime against the babys father cause if its male it couldve inherited. from what ive read this seems to be the common roman thought. (i also find non christian views on abortion soo interesting. here its a crime not a sin!)

or that the hippocratic oath* contains a line about not preforming abortions when hippocrates himself prescribed abortions and also cataloged abortion methods.

*- not written by hippocrates himself. i also read an argument that this line could be referring to that in this time doctors and midwives where separate professions and midwives handled pregnancy/childbirth/abortion. not necessarily doctors.

these bits of a very interesting article i read on medieval views of contraception and abortion which kinda shocked me. i expected it to be much harsher. (link)

which does bring me back around to that reddit comment about aemma. op made a long and well written post about it (i should try and find it again…) and i remember one of the things they said is while germ does very good research on some parts of his story… other parts he just abandons. pregnancy and childbirth being one of them. no suprise here, theres endless posts about how when germ needs a woman to leave the story he goes for ole reliable. kill her in childbirth. while, yes, pregnancy and childbirth is very risky (even today), i do think it happens a little more than statistically probable in asoiaf.

which leads me to a tangentially nebulously related question*, how much of a hold does the faith of the seven have over the citadel/the maesters? and i dont mean in like, a ~maester conspiracy~ way.

*-(these questions may be because im only halfway through the asoft books and i havent touched them in over a year. be nice if im being stupid.)

i mean more in a, ‘medical/scientific research blocked by the church. stem cells and birth control is a sin’ way. ive talked about this before, regarding baelon. after his death hes given an autopsy, just like that. no fanfare or argument. irl the church (in whichever form) outlawed autopsies and it took a very long time for us to start doing them again. especially on someone You Know and not just a random executed criminal youre dissecting for research. similarly with moon tea/tansy. while theres a certain low level hushhush shame, it doesnt seem to have the wider ‘youre killing a baby’ shame attached to it like irl abortion does*.

*- i did go and wikiwarrior double check this and yes, further reading wouldve answered some of my questions but also not really because this was said by the leader of a fringe radical sect of the seven. you wouldnt take what a mormon says about christianity to be fact.

so does the faith not care about these things? does our stand in for the catholic church not try and execute total body and mind control over its flock? or do they just have no sway over these kind of medical decisions/the maesters? if they didnt youd think wed see less concerningly young mothers. lesser/no moral stigma around abortion (unless westeros is rome and its a crime against the father, which i could see), abortions preformed for medical reasons and an understanding, even back then, that you cant get a tween pregnant and expect it to go well. but we have aemma pregnant at 13-14(? 15 at oldest), maesters saying they know its dangerous but not doing anything about it. why. at this point viserys is the son of a second son. why does he have to get his wife pregnant as soon as physically possible.

[kingcunny]

house of leaves a false story about darkness written by a blind man.

[kingcunny]

how did the risu puppet even get ebisu in that position. what was going on in there.

[kingcunny]

now why have i seen mutiple posts on twitter scolding people for drawing ebisu sexually cause shes 13. im sorry. i know how this sounds. but this ebisu?

if you wanna call someone a pedophile for how they draw ebisu you may wanna start with q hayashida herself. that first pic- now why did she draw ebisus thighs like that knowning damn well ebisu does Not have All That. theres at least two moments in the manga where the joke is we think ebisu is about to get molested. ebisu is constantly running around naked, trying to be sexy, lamenting her lack of breasts. if you showed q hayashida fanart of ebisu being crushed between noi and nikaidos big boobies i think shed cheer.

[kingcunny]

#watdatmean

[kingcunny]

got tagged in a phishing post with a couple other random people and replied to it saying its spam and not to click on anything on that blog hoping the other randoms tagged would see it. stepped away. came back to take a screenshot for #internetsafetyPSA and i cant find it anywhere. i think they insta blocked me lol

anyway no offical support account is gonna have double dashes (—) in their username lol. nor are they going to tag you in a random post if theres a problem with your account. youd get an email.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card

[kingcunny]

i do this thing thats. honestly annoying to me. where when i really like a show i dont want it to end so i put off watching the finale, like that somehow makes the show last longer. but then too much time will pass and ill loose interest in it and just. never watch the finale. theres a good handful of shows i love but havent finished because of this.

[kingcunny]

that night he caged her, bruised and broke her

he struggled closer, then he stole her

violet wrists and then her ankles, silent pain

then he slowly saw their nightmares were his dreams

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

the most Child Emperor urge i have is to shout "BOOORRIINGGG!!!" when i have to witness something i dont like for too long

[salmonhere]

the woe

[kingcunny]

going to the problematic medias enjoyer meetup and getting curb stomped when i bring up south park

[kingcunny]

its actually crazy to me how well that “copy of a copy” scene from fight club also fits narcolepsy. the exact opposite condition from the one being described. sleep disorders 🤝 severing your connection to reality