an Enabling Gremlin

For one, I'd get my dental layout scanned and then use the 3d model of my teeth to commission a giant pair of pincers where the cutters are replaced with a life-sized metal recreation of my teeth. I would use these to press bite marks on all sorts of things that a human being physically could not bite into, and emotionally would not want to.

Daena will have an interesting insight into how her descendants prospered after her death.

Of Gaemon IV's younger brothers, only Princes Valerion, Daemon and Maegor receive their own fiefs in the Conquest of Volantis. They get, respectively Selhorys, Volenye and Volanapos.

They are the eldest of his little brothers and they married the younger sisters of Princess Daena (daughter of Prince Rhaenor) as a way to unite the claims there. So it goes that they should be the ones to get the best rewards. His remaining three younger brothers and six younger sisters all married into Cadet Houses, in matrilineal marriages in the case of boys. It's possible some of the princesses married Volantenes in preparation for the Conquest too.

Now, as for Gaemon IV's children and the siblings of Gael II, the ones who receive fiefs and lands along the Rhoyne Basin, the Andalos Hills and the Grass Sea are:

Prince Valerion and Princess Saera, the children of Aelinor, each receive a city to themselves and their descendants. Valerion gets Norvos; Saera has Pentos.

Prince Aemon and Prince Rhaellion, children of Daena the Younger also gets their own cities. Aemon receives Qohor, Rhaellion gets Vaekys.

Prince Jaehaerys and Prince Daeron are the sons of Jaehaera. Jaehaerys gets Essaria, which wasn't destroyed by the Dothraki and Daeron gets Embrys.

Rhaenys' sons, Princes Valarr and Aethan get, respectively, the rebuilt city of Ny Sar and the new city of Aranea built from the ground up by the Empire on the eastern end of Rhoyne Basin (the unnamed river that flows into Rhoyne above Selhorys)

Kiera's twins, Prince Laenor and Princess Laena receive for themselves the rebuilt Ar Noy. Their younger brother Prince Aenar gets the rebuilt Ghoyan Drone.

Plus a whole lot of lesser cities and towns gets built all over the place or rebuilt from ruins left there like Sarhoy and Chroyane, to better integrate the new lands into the Empire, with migrants from Westeros and even from further East in Essos settling there.

But I figure that the two senior kids - barring those that married back into the main line - of each wife would be the neat solution to how to apportion the lands without alienating everyone and their pet dragon. There might be more Cadet Houses made out of lower branches of other Cadet Houses or Imperial House. Or else, the Princes and Princesses that get the lands make some very strategic marriages there.

Oh, and some of the younger kids and cousins without new lands instead get appointed as Archons of Imperial Cities, to oversee them in the name of the Emperor/Empress. Plus the vassals have new cadets made from their younger sons too, or else the local families gets coopted there.

Anyway, the number of cadets of House Targaryen more than fucking doubled from what it was before.

You know what else is impressive?

I don't think I will be doing all the many, many castles of Westeros, probably only the more important ones. Already put in the Imperial Capital, Imperial Cities and Ducal Seats btw.

The final count is 23 Ducal Branches of House Targaryen.

What a mess.

There's gonna be a new chapter sometimes this week or early in the next.

I will be renaming those three cities then.

Daena will have an interesting insight into how her descendants prospered after her death.

Of Gaemon IV's younger brothers, only Princes Valerion, Daemon and Maegor receive their own fiefs in the Conquest of Volantis. They get, respectively Selhorys, Volenye and Volanapos.

They are the eldest of his little brothers and they married the younger sisters of Princess Daena (daughter of Prince Rhaenor) as a way to unite the claims there. So it goes that they should be the ones to get the best rewards. His remaining three younger brothers and six younger sisters all married into Cadet Houses, in matrilineal marriages in the case of boys. It's possible some of the princesses married Volantenes in preparation for the Conquest too.

Now, as for Gaemon IV's children and the siblings of Gael II, the ones who receive fiefs and lands along the Rhoyne Basin, the Andalos Hills and the Grass Sea are:

Prince Valerion and Princess Saera, the children of Aelinor, each receive a city to themselves and their descendants. Valerion gets Norvos; Saera has Pentos.

Prince Aemon and Prince Rhaellion, children of Daena the Younger also gets their own cities. Aemon receives Qohor, Rhaellion gets Vaekys.

Prince Jaehaerys and Prince Daeron are the sons of Jaehaera. Jaehaerys gets Essaria, which wasn't destroyed by the Dothraki and Daeron gets Embrys.

Rhaenys' sons, Princes Valarr and Aethan get, respectively, the rebuilt city of Ny Sar and the new city of Aranea built from the ground up by the Empire on the eastern end of Rhoyne Basin (the unnamed river that flows into Rhoyne above Selhorys)

Kiera's twins, Prince Laenor and Princess Laena receive for themselves the rebuilt Ar Noy. Their younger brother Prince Aenar gets the rebuilt Ghoyan Drone.

Plus a whole lot of lesser cities and towns gets built all over the place or rebuilt from ruins left there like Sarhoy and Chroyane, to better integrate the new lands into the Empire, with migrants from Westeros and even from further East in Essos settling there.

But I figure that the two senior kids - barring those that married back into the main line - of each wife would be the neat solution to how to apportion the lands without alienating everyone and their pet dragon. There might be more Cadet Houses made out of lower branches of other Cadet Houses or Imperial House. Or else, the Princes and Princesses that get the lands make some very strategic marriages there.

Oh, and some of the younger kids and cousins without new lands instead get appointed as Archons of Imperial Cities, to oversee them in the name of the Emperor/Empress. Plus the vassals have new cadets made from their younger sons too, or else the local families gets coopted there.

Anyway, the number of cadets of House Targaryen more than fucking doubled from what it was before.

You know what else is impressive?

I don't think I will be doing all the many, many castles of Westeros, probably only the more important ones. Already put in the Imperial Capital, Imperial Cities and Ducal Seats btw.

The final count is 23 Ducal Branches of House Targaryen.

What a mess.

There's gonna be a new chapter sometimes this week or early in the next.

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.

grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet

he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.

even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).

(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)

famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”

for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.

and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.

ALSO IMPORTANT:

daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman 

he invaded egypt

the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”

then napoleon showed up

napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus

the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”

this did not make napoleon happy

in fact it made him jealous

…and like this…

…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…

:-D

I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…

And for those of you who would like to try audio versions, this is what is on LibriVox, the free, volunteer run audiobook version of Project Gutenberg:

Cosmic Horror: what if we are naught but an ant in the eyes of much more powerful beings, a spec of dust against the enormity of the unfeeling world?

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.