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Headcanon/Theory/Concept/Etc Concerning Dragons in the World of Ice and Fire:
The ancient Valyrian blood magic system for taming dragons does increase the general affinity of those of Valyrian descent for dragons. In this case, the general affinity is non-specific. Because Valyria was a slave empire and most menial tasks were handled by members of the lower classes, a lot of dragon handling and care (feeding, cleaning the pits, assisting in training, etc) like what we see the servants of the Dragon Pits in canon doing, would have still been handled by slaves and servants in Valyria itself. If you don't want to be constantly replacing staff all the time, and losing experienced/skilled personnel to random fits of dragon temper, it's best if all if your people have some affinity for dragon handling regardless of rank. So whatever the Valyrian blood mages did, they did it to the whole populace.
But then, how to ensure that only your upper classes are actually taming and riding dragons? After all, you're a slave owning prick who doesn't want your staff stealing dragon eggs to raise in secret and use as part of some violent uprising against you. You'll want some kind of security measure to make that less feasible.
Enter the weird and (in the future) inscrutable "dragon affinity" system. The blood mages find a way to basically encode certain types of dragons so that they will strongly favor specific bloodlines. This system, in turn, is passed among the dragons themselves via their bloodlines. Which basically binds certain lineages of dragons to certain lineages of Valyrian houses. Like say you have Ancient Targaryens living in their Valyrian holdings, and they have Balerion's grandma in their dragon stables. They want to make sure that none of their slaves can steal any of her eggs and eventually become a dragon rider. There's no 100% foolproof method of doing that, since dragons are still somewhat inscrutable. But, you can drastically decrease the odds of success by making Targaryen blood significantly more appealing to Dragon Meemaw and her offspring. As a bonus, this also makes it less likely for the rival dragon riding houses to claim another house's dragons, too.
But there's a bit of a flaw in this system (which is probably the only solution that can be deployed by use of blood-related magics): noble houses tend to intermarry. Obviously, there are a distinct lack of political advantages to marrying commoners, so the Valyrian dragon riding houses would have preferred to marry among themselves and/or powerful foreign rulers. But this means that after a certain point, everyone is related. The magic doesn't care about surnames or paperwork, it cares about blood. So let's say you're Ancient Dragon Lord Targaryen and you marry one of your younger kids off to a different dragon rider house. Their kids are, genetically, still as Targaryen as your direct heir's kids.
So after a while you're still locking out the slaves and servants from being able to tame dragons, but you're not locking out your rival houses. You're losing that perk. Which may not seem all that important at first, but as we witnessed with the Dance, civil wars between dragon riders can get extremely messy, and a lot of it can often come down to posturing about who has the most and/or strongest dragons. So it probably wouldn't take long before various dragon riding houses were wanting to ensure that their dragons were restricted to their actual house, and that their rivals couldn't sneak in and reduce their dragon numbers by claiming dragons from their stock. (You'd think containing the dragons might solve that, but dragons are a bit hard to contain, really.)
Hence, the rise of inbreeding. You try and make sure your house's main lines especially have a higher percentage of "Targaryen" blood, and that none of your rivals have any of it either. The downsides of incest are perhaps mitigated by the same blood mages who have been influencing things from the beginning, perhaps magically tweaking your genetics to reduce the odds of complications, and researching more ways to refine this blood-based system of locking others out of ever accessing your power.
But I imagine that the system required maintaining. There are still going to be times when it's more advantageous to form alliances than to keep your dragons strictly controlled, after all, not to mention limits to how much inbreeding you can do even with magical intervention before shit's getting very Habsburg on you. Not to mention the dragons themselves can be tricky to control, and are less liable to understand the political motivations for not mixing their bloodlines with the perfectly attractive dragons several caves over, who belong to your rivals. Luckily, with Valyrian blood mages still around, you probably just need to pay through the nose to get someone to swing by every few generations and update the blood-based security codes. So to speak. Renew the magic binding your people to your dragons to account for all the drifting genetic nuances. So you don't necessarily need to be wedding siblings to one another every generation.
Except, after the Doom, all those blood mages are gone.
So on the one hand, the Targaryens no longer need to worry about rival dragon riders. Because they're (mostly) all dead. But on the other hand, there's no way to update the bloodline passwords on your dragons now. With each passing generation, you're going to lose some of your advantages for controlling them, unless you're inbreeding at a level that is going to severely limit your ability to make alliances and is going to, you know, completely fuck with your family dynamics for all foreseeable generations. Plus, since you're not a blood mage and this situation is kind of unprecedented, you probably don't really know how long the magic will be able to hold out against the variables of increased genetic diversity over the years. If you "thin" your bloodline too much, how long before you've got basically zero advantages in taming dragons compared to everyone else? Conversely, if the magic is really strong and remains true even through dozens of generations, does that mean you're granting the same advantages to every house you marry your extraneous kids out to over the years? Does a Baratheon have the exact same capacity to tame a dragon as a Targaryen?
So your choices are basically to let it go, to try and retain control over the dragons via culture and influence and knowledge instead of blood purity and incest, or, double down and prioritize power and control above all else and retain whatever you can from the old blood magics by committing to an unhinged level of inbreeding. And then just tell everyone else that it's totally normal for Valyrians and you're an exception to all the usual rules against marrying your siblings, it's a cultural thing, and totally sell that because 1) it's kind of true and 2) anybody with the authority to call you out on exaggerating has just met a mysterious-yet-fiery end via the Doom.
Basically, you consign your descendants to generations of dysfunction and insularity that is guaranteed to alienate them from any of the nearby cultures they might assimilate into, in exchange for increased (but not total!) control over all hypothetical future dragons. Then you destroy a lot of information about dragons so that it can never be stolen, so that no one else can ever learn that taming dragons without your blood is still entirely possible, just harder and more dangerous. (Then you spend the Century of Blood embroiled in a civil war where you kill off most of your dragons, but uh that part wasn't planned, probably.)
Anyway that's why I think the Targaryens are Like That, and why the dragons of the Dance get tamed in the way that they do. Seasmoke likes Addam because he's kin to Laenor, even without the Targaryen blood, there's enough Velaryon blood in the current Targaryens to make him familiar regardless. Sheepstealer and Nettles (should that happen at all like it did in Fire and Blood) just bonded the normal way, without the blood magic advantage. Generations later, Targaryen blood still yields an edge in interacting with Dany's dragons, but it's just that -- an advantage, not a requirement.
#hotd#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#house of the dragon#this is just pure speculation but it's what makes the most sense to me#like yeah there's something to that ancient blood magic#but it's less like an inborn superiority and more like having a fingerprint lock on your fighter jet#if you can bypass the lock it doesn't really matter#long post
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Yet another Urbz x Sims photoset. ✨
Did you know the Urbz turned 20 this year? Feel free to share your favourite memories and thoughts of it. I'd love to hear them!
#sims 3#ts3#the sims 3#urbz#the urbz#the urbz sims in the city#urbz sims in the city#gasoline row#kicktail park#diamond heights#skyline beach#neon east#venus moonflower#sharky splitz#sophie couture#babbette couture#south side bridge#luke laruffle#jimmy two shoes#louie bricks#isis ice#jet rockit#string bean#kevinvoncrastenburg
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Replica of the Poltalloch Bronze Age Jet Necklace (2200 to 2000 BCE), Kilmartin Museum, Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland
#ice age#bronze age#stone age#iron age#prehistoric#neolithic#prehistory#mesolithic#paleolithic#archaeology#jet#jet necklace#grave goods#kilmartin glen#Argyll#Scotland#jewellery#necklace#symbols#status#craftwork
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Sportsnet : And that's a wrap on the 2024 NHL season. 🏒
#i fucking love this sport 😭 once again sportsnet delivering with an amazing recap of this postseason#stanley cup playoffs#scp2024#playoffs 2024#nhl#florida panthers#edmonton oilers#dallas stars#new york rangers#boston bruins#carolina hurricanes#colorado avalanche#vancouver canucks#tampa bay lightning#toronto maple leafs#washington capitals#new york islanders#vegas golden knights#nashville predators#winnipeg jets#los angeles kings#there... all 16 of them... what a ride#ice stuff
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THE URBZ: SIMS IN THE CITY | ENDING
#the sims#sims#the urbz#urbz#the urbz sims in the city#gif#gif set#darius#will i am#will.i.am#scary mary#crispin black#jet rockit#skid mark#isis ice#louie bricks#my edits#crispin coming in with the evangelion “congratulations” applaud#2000s
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Jet lag is literally just “hey what if you were sleep deprived and stressed and nauseous all at once. Also you owe me $500” and there’s no winning
#hi. it’s me. I’m jet lag#the only thing I’ve had to eat today is an iced coffee five hours ago 🥲#text post
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Rooster, while falling down: Fuck fuck fuck, I have a big problem!
Phoenix through radio: No shit. Didn't Maverick teach you what to do in this situation?
Rooster: "Vibe!" Apparently.
Phoenix: ......OK then, say hello to your Dad.
Rooster: Wait wait wait! I vaguely remember Iceman once told me how to handle this......
Phoenix: Well?
Rooster: I also clearly remember I didn't listen.
#Cyclone: I'm gonna kill you not because you just crashed a multi-million jet but because you dared to ignore Ic...Admiral Kazansky#top gun:maverick#pete maverick mitchell#tom iceman kazansky#bradley rooster bradshaw#icemav
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#homoerotichockeyfights#homoerotic hockey#homoerotic#hockeyfights#hockey#nhl hockey#nhl#ice hockey#minnesota wild#winnipeg jets#jacob middleton#logan stanley
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#dark aesthetic#fashion#aesthetic#luxury#travel#holiday#summer#vogue#style#ootd#ocean#palms#palm tree#palm trees#tropical#tropical house#tropical vibes#brunch#leonie hanne#model#matcha#iced matcha#matcha latte#earthy#millionaire#millionarelifestyle#jet setter#chanel#chanel bag#luxury fashion
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Id imagine aegon uses sunfyre like the weserosi equivilent of a sports car
#driving round kings landing#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#house of the dragon#hotd#aegon ii targaryen#sunfyre#aegon the second#he drives that thing around like taylor swift does her private jet#riding his dragon to the brothel and the child fighting pits and the yee old starbucks#meanwhile aemond drives a literal fucking tank
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#gray fullbuster#juvia lockser#cana alberona#alzack connell#bisca connell#levy mcgarden#jet#fairy tail#gruvia#fairy tail gruvia#gray x juvia#anime#グレジュビ#anime couple#fairy tail 100 years quest#ice x water#fairytail juvia#fairy tail gray
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Prehistoric Jet Necklace From A Burial, Mount Stuart, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
#ice age#stone age#bronze age#copper age#iron age#neolithic#mesolithic#calcholithic#paleolithic#prehistoric#prehistory#grave goods#jet necklace#ritual#ancient living#ancient craft#ancient cultures#archaeology
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#Bryan Rust#Pittsburgh Penguins#vs the Jets#October 20 - 2024#toward the end of the first period#he was limping as he skated across the ice to the locker room#I hope he's OK#(don't suck it up and play through it dude)
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#sensory#stim#stimboard#stimblr#stimmy#pinkie cooper and the jet set pets#pepper parson#dollblr#dolls#fashion dolls#anthro#dog#chocolate#cake#cupcake#icing#crystals#rocks#latte#latte art#cappucino#blue#brown#white#tan#glitter#shimmer#food
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cant put my finger on it, but Taylor Swift feels like walking racial microaggression
#it's not even the fact that she let herself become a white supremacist idol without telling them to fuck off#and when asked why she didn't she said she was from Nashville where the Dixie Chicks were a cautionary tale#meanwhile she had no qualms calling out sexism in the industry#but white supremacy was too far apparently#but leaving aside all of that‚ she's so fucking aggressively mediocre#and her 'girl gang' is just rich thin white women#let's not forget that racist Wildest Dreams video shall we?#she's talented and worked hard yeah but her parents are rich and connected as hell#also Swifties are some of the most obnoxious fucking people in music fandom#who get mad when WoC queer women and leftists can't stand her#the whole private jet thing was just icing on the cake tbh#Casey McQuiston had one throwaway line in RWRB where the MoC and Jewish girl dissed her#and half the white queers took that personally#Jesus fuck#let people hate rich thin white women#I mean heck I like Ed Sheeran's music but I don't take it personal when other people don't#then again I don't get idolising celebrities#just because I love someone's music doesn't mean I give much of a shit about them as people#these are objectively complete randos no matter what you think you know about them#anti Taylor swift#people with T-Swift hate blogs also dni#this post is about casual white privilege not whatever weird obsessive shit you got going on#white women#racism#white privilege#knee of huss
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jetkokka (atla) post-war au (Jet lives and all three of them are dating because Ba Sing Se literally exists)
Sokka is appointed Ambassador of the South Water Tribe because his father's gone back to be Chief and Sokka just wanted an excuse to stay at the Fire Nation and in the Fire Palace so he could be closer to Zuko (who is obviously the Fire Lord)
Toph also jumps onto this and demands Zuko make up a role for her too so she can stay at the Fire Palace too, so she's appointed Ambassador of the Earth Kingdom
Now Jet (who obviously lives because I'm fucking delusional) questions Zuko and asks him what's his official cool title coz he doesn't just wanna be "The Fire Lord's Companion" so Zuko says he's his personal guard, but Jet challenges this and says that he doesn't need a personal guard when he's got Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors
Sokka (who's lounging on Zuko's bed) hears this and gets the image of Jet in Kyoshi Warrior uniform and immediately tells the other two, which results in a night of Sokka wrestling Jet into the uniform after sitting on top of him already to apply the makeup. Zuko just sits by and watches, joyfully enjoying the show.
#basically all this to say#Jet in Kyoshi Warrior uniform is a need#and anyways in my head Jet survives the little boulder ice situation#and makes his way to the Fire Nation on his own#with the intention of tracking down the Gaang and getting revenge#but along the way he bumps into Piandao#who adruptly decides to unofficially adopt him#and get him to come to terms with his anger in a much more healthier way#and then Jet is tracking down the Gaang#to offer support after leaening how to wield swords from Piandao#(this all takes place after Somka learns from Piandao)#after seeing how Piandao lets Sokka hug him goodbye#i am sure asf that he loves and cares for these kids a lot#atla#avatar: the last airbender#jet#zuko#sokka#jetkokka#toph#the gaang#piandao
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