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Pose practices with the kitty husbands, mostly from vintage fashion zines online! 🎩👞

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[rainbabbles]

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[thisisengland]

Anstey, Hertfordshire.

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poor Nat (whoever and wherever he/she is)

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[emvidal]

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[rupertmatthews]

Next stop: Anstey Parish Council to speak with Cllr Glynn McAllister and Cllr Sue Billington about how my office and the parish can best work together to help prevent crime in #Anstey (at Anstey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnCyMsXr0pT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[travelbinge]

By Jack_Anstey

Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England

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[boanerges20]

Bruce Anstey

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[80smovies]

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[horizon-verizon]

What is this bullshit that the fact that Rhaenyra has children born out of wedlock and yet heirs, will upset the stability of the kingdom? 🙄 As if there hadn't already been "bastards" in power in history or even named as heirs? 😂

Rhaenyra is already doubted to be an effective leader due to her gender. It's not only that, many lords and their male relatives do not wish to be directed by a woman, used to male authority and patriarchal privilege. So there is the fear that some will resist and actually rebel to remove her.

Rhaenyra, just by being a woman, already "threatens the stability of the realm".

We think of how Henry VIII felt about his daughters Mary I and Elizabeth I, how hard he wanted a male heir, and how many wives he got rid of and abused--he wanted to make sure that his lineage and dynasty would survive, and to do that was to ensure he got legitimate males. (He had a few male illegitimate children, but you know.)

Thus the other fear is that some lord(s) will take Aemond, Aegon, Helaena, and Daeron and any children they may have to use against Rhaenyra. So Rhaenyra would be forced to order their executions or kill them in battle.

I understand the initial fear and concern, but I can't really excuse how far it went with what Show!Alicent knew of Show!Rhaenyra, with they were supposed to know of each other because of *close friendship*, the fact that Rhaenyra could have also claimed that those lords were trying to make her commit kinslaying (Jane Grey was Mary I's very distant relative while Aemond and the rest are closer kin to Rhaenyra), and the fact these people had dragons.

Book!Rhaenyra was not afraid to use her dragon either, as we read about Vaemond and the Driftmark Claim (she got Daemon to decapitate him and fed the remains to Syrax).

I also reject judging women for the same action a man can take without similar consequence, reaction, or punishment.

Back to bastards. Because Rhaenyra is already a "liability", her introducing bastards into the mix would complicate things since some lords already do not want a female ruler. Bastards are unfavorable because they are believed to be inherently untrustworthy and evil (Faith of the Seven). 

By having bastards, she acts "unwomanly" and against the standards set for her gender--how can she be a good ruler?! 

As if Jaehaerys I didn't get enough of the lords and peasants to accept Targaryen sibling-sibling incest through manipulation and propaganda, or that there was a time in their pre-Alysanne history that a lord could rape one of his peasant's/vassal's newlywed wife [right of the first night], which does go against what the Faith official doctrine teaches about gender-equal fidelity.

Some have counterargued that the V boys aren't bastards at all because they were born accepted by Viserys, Corlys, and Laenor. Others bring up what you do and counterargue that bastards have always occupied higher positions of power or were allowed to according to their parents and relatives or else's needs and desires for power and resources.

In real life:

before the 1200s in France, England and Spain, it was being born to the right parents–whether they were married according to the Church’s doctrines and rules–that made a child seem more worthy of inheriting their parents’ lands, properties, and titles.

several early medieval kings – Charlemagne as an example– had concubines, mistresses, etc. who mothered children that were very much apart of these kings’ lineages.

there was also a real concern behind this was that kings can marry and annul/divorce a lot easier or how their parents’ resources could provide for the child’s future vassalages.

it wasn’t until more and more medieval lawyers used Church doctrines of marriage to draw up reasons for some illegitimate children to not inherit some lands and rights, such as the Anstey case of the 1160s (if you doubt this wiki page, look through its references listed below).

“There is very little evidence to suggest that an interest in keeping illegitimate children from inheriting noble or royal title outweighed political or practical considerations in the same way that the policing of illegal marriages sometimes did.” (The Wire)

The fact that these medieval lawyers can even use another precept to exclude “illegitimate” children for succession for other lords and ladies when before, illegitimate kids can and often inherited their parents’ right and properties (William the Conqueror) speaks to how immaterial and unreal legitimacy itself is. 

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silly kitty family! coming to a post near you (˵•̀ᴗ - ˵ )

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[rainbabbles]

made a horrible discovery

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[luvmesumus]

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[nixieofthenorth]

These two little cuties were spotted by @joeyjoenes in Anstey Hill Recreation Park, which is located 16km north east of Adelaide in South Australia.

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[spectaculardistractions]

More direct still is Arthur Elton's and Edgar Anstey's Housing Problems (1935). Its sponsors, the Gas Board, wanting to sell more gas fires and stoves, had a vested interest in raising the slums and building better houses. The film-makers' documentary technique, inspired perhaps by Mass Observation, anticipates much that is best in cinéma vérité and touch the personal suffering and family intimacies of the proletariat.

Raymond Durgnat, A Mirror for England

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[ancestorsalive]

(via Hope Bourne: A Wild Woman of Exmoor – Cherry's Cache)

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