u/Sea-Negotiation8309 — reddlx

Starting from the end of the series, how would you fix Lip's life?

Imagine that Shameless is approved for another season and you're given the power to write Lip's storyline for the entire season. How would you try to fix his life, starting from the situation he's in at the end of season 11?

So, at the end of season 11, Lip sold the family home, he's unemployed, and he has to take care of Freddy, Liam, and Tamy's possible second baby.

Under these circumstances, you're tasked with fixing Lip's life. You have the freedom to invent anything, within the logic of the show.

How would you do it?

u/Sea-Negotiation8309 — 2 hours ago

▲ 73 r/TheCitadel

Westerland with a near-permanent army

Basically, while reading the story of Alfred the Great, I discovered that the military reforms he implemented to defeat the Vikings allowed him to maintain a near-permanent army of up to 27,000 men at all times, all in medieval times and without spending a fortune to maintain it.

For those unfamiliar with Alfred the Great's reforms that enabled him to do this, they can be summarized in two points:

He introduced a rotation system for the militia, dividing the men available for war into two groups. While one group was on active duty guarding borders or garrisoning fortresses, the other group worked the land, rotating between the two groups. This ensured that half of the kingdom's male population could be mobilized without disrupting agricultural production.
He created the burhs, a network of fortified towns strategically distributed throughout the territory. Each burh served as a point of defense and refuge for the civilian population. They were located so that no inhabitant was more than a day's journey (20 miles or 32 kilometers) from a burh. If the Vikings attacked any point, the population could retreat to the nearest fortress while a military response was mobilized. The rotation system was used to fill the burhs. For militias, and to determine how many men each Burhs needed, a formula was used: one man was assigned for every 1.2 meters of wall. If a wall had a perimeter of 360 meters, it would be assigned 300 defenders.

It was calculated that thanks to these two reforms, the kingdom of Wessex could mobilize approximately 27,000 men at any given time.

So, if we were to apply the same reforms to Westerland, how much would the dynamics with the other kingdoms change?

Because in Westerland, this is because it is assumed that Westerland is the land most similar to England, and its proximity to the Ironborn would justify a more militarized presence against Ironborn attacks.

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u/Sea-Negotiation8309 — 3 days ago

▲ 9 r/OnePiece

Big Mom took all her unmarried daughters to Elbaf with the intention of seeing if Loki would fall in love with one of them.

As many know, it's assumed that at some point Loki met Lola and fell in love with her, even proposing marriage. But how exactly would he have met her? As a child, Loki was so powerful he sank giants' ships, so as an adult, the only ship that could have taken him off Elbaph would have been Harald's. However, it's also unlikely that Harald, given Loki's personality, would have given him his ship to travel freely. Therefore, my theory for how Loki and Lola met is that Big Mom sent all her unmarried daughters to see if any of them could win Loki's heart.

It's assumed that only Big Mom is forbidden from going to Elbaph, but it's unclear if her children are also prohibited. Therefore, Lilin could have sent one of her children (probably Perospero) along with all her unmarried daughters to try and form a marriage alliance.

Basically, Lilin sent all her daughters to Elbaph hoping that one of them would fall in love. Loki, hoping to repair relations with the giants, but unfortunately, he fell in love with Lola, the only one who seemed unwilling to accept an arranged marriage.

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u/Sea-Negotiation8309 — 21 days ago

▲ 3 r/TeenWolf

Are all the hunters part of a monster hunter syndicate like in the movie "Day Shift"

We know that multiple monster-hunting clans exist in the Teen Wolf universe, but we don't really know how they sustain themselves or how they finance themselves or make money from hunting supernatural creatures.

We do know that the Argent family were arms dealers and the Calaveras are probably drug traffickers, but it doesn't really explain how they have so many people under their command or where exactly they recruit them. Furthermore, there's a significant population of independent assassins, like those shown in season 4, who know the supernatural world well enough to fully commit to obtaining the Deadpool bounties.

I mean, the guys only got the Deadpool bounty because Lydia spent several episodes unconsciously writing the code, but given how rare banshees are, it's unlikely there are enough of them to transmit the code to all the assassins and mercenaries. So, the list must have been leaked somehow so that assassins like Mudo or Chemist found out and believed in the veracity of the bounties.

So all this makes me think there's some kind of monster hunter syndicate, like in the movie "Day Shift," in which all the clans and independent assassins are involved, and it was that same syndicate that created the hunter code.

u/Sea-Negotiation8309 — 23 days ago

▲ 48 r/AbsoluteUniverse

Spoiler for Absolute Batman #20: Is Absolute Batman this universe's version of Talon (William Cobb)?

With the revelation in the latest issue of Absolute Batman that Bruce's entire life was a "joke" by the Absolute Joker to create an individual who would destroy the Court of Owls—which, unlike in the main universe, appears to be an organization opposed to the Absolute Joker, and that Martha Wayne was the Court of Owls' best Talon—I couldn't help but think that in the Absolute universe, Absolute Batman could be the Talon version (William Cobb).

This is because William Cobb could have been split between Martha and Bruce.

William Cobb was the most outstanding and formidable of the Talon assassins used by the Court of Owls, a position now held by Martha Wayne, but which, according to the story, seems to be part of Bruce's Absolute universe. Born into the working class of Gotham, William's father died when he was a child, and he was raised by his mother, who, in adulthood, began working as an extremely skilled assassin in hand-to-hand combat and knife throwing.

u/Sea-Negotiation8309 — 26 days ago

▲ 10 r/asoiaf

This is something I wondered about while reading the description of Sothoryos. I know Sothoryos is basically the African continent of the ASOIAF world, but reading how they describe the place and the animals that inhabit it, I couldn't help but think of dinosaurs and Stone Age cavemen.

The inhabitants of Sothoryos are described as having thick skin, large, muscular bones, long arms, sloping foreheads, huge square teeth, heavy jaws, and thick, black hair. Their wide, flat noses suggest snouts. Aside from the fact that they seem to have tiger-like skin and that the Ghiscari consider them slow-witted but strong warriors, this description only makes me think of the stereotypical caveman.

Add to that the fact that the forests south of Yeen are apparently home to apes that dwarf the largest giants, capable of killing elephants; tattooed lizards that hunt their prey and tear them apart with long, curved claws on their hind legs; fifteen-meter-long snakes; spotted spiders; and fearsome wyverns.

Call me crazy, but they sound more like dinosaurs than animals.

So if Westeros and Essos are stuck in the Middle Ages, there's a chance Sothoryos is stuck in the Stone Age.

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u/Sea-Negotiation8309 — 1 month ago