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reindeerswillsavethisworld · 10 months

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I think Danny Phantom fandom is absolutely sleeping on the sheer dumb bulshittery Danny, Sam and Tucker generate on the regular and it’s a fucking shame. Like, the three of them have exactly one (1) single braincell between them, and the only one to use it at least semi-regularly is Jazz. You literally can’t leave them for five minutes without them stumbling into some new bullshit every single time. Granted, a lot of times bullshit finds them first instead of the other way around, but by god will they make the situation worse. They run into the situations with the same reckless abandon the cockchafers fly into any solid obstacle in their way, and you’d think that at least one of them will be the voice of reason, and you’d be dead wrong.

Danny? He thought pranking a murder happy millionaire with a vindictive streak the size of Grand Canyon was a great idea. And then, like a moron, he decided to use equally murder happy government agency with a huge prejudice against ghosts and a vendetta against him, personally. Absolutely nothing that could go wrong with that, obviously!

(spoiler alert, things did go very wrong very fast)

Tucker? A valid choice at the first glance, except he is always down to commit crimes for either his friends or just for funsies. Remember that time he ran an obviously illegal babysitting scam business? Or that time when he brainwashed and then dimensionally displaced the whole school into Ancient Egypt setting? Another notable instances of Tucker being a menace, in no particular order: organised o pro-meat protest in a few hours, tried to shoot a ghost with his phone as a projectile (and succeeded), sold Sam out to a ghost out of sheer pettiness, gave Skulker an alarm-induced ptsd, almost killed Danny that one time (don’t worry, Danny was fine) and in general committed to being bullshit-enabling gremlin.

Now Sam would seem the most grounded and reasonable out of three of them, but it is what SHE wants you to believe. She is just as, if not more, unhinged as the boys, she just hides it better. Remember that time she trashed the castle and antagonised a few dozen of armed guards, while having no back up, no weapons, no allies and while being in some shithole in the Ghost Zone? And then basically told a tyrannical asshole with op dragon powers “fuck you and your entire kingdom” in the face? And then rode another dragon who put said asshole through a wall? Good times.

They all seem like perfectly reasonable people at the first glance, and then Tucker and Danny would dare each other to lick that weird glowing green rock, and Sam would roll her eyes and groan about how stupid boys are, and then Tucker would dare her to lick that glowing rock too, and Danny will say, “Come on, Tuck, it’s okay if she’s too afraid to do it-”, and yes, Sam and her mother have many disagreements on a lot of things, but both her mother AND Granny did not raise a fucking bitch, move over, Tucker, or so help her the spirit of Pandora-

They all end up absolutely miserable in ecto-containment units sick as hell with ecto-flu and on all questions answer that no, they don’t know how this happened, maybe it was ghost attack last week, they did get blasted by that green goo, after all, but really, they have absolutely no idea, honest. Jazz suspects something, but she also has no proof and therefore can’t prove anything. In the end, it was one of the worst weeks in their life and they all ended up swearing to not do it ever again.

(they do end up doing it again two months later)

#phandom is SLEEPING on the sheer comedic potential of those three committing crimes together I swear to god!!!!#like I do understand that this fandom loves it’s angst and all #and sam danny & tucker in the same scene together will more often than not end up in stand up comedy instead of angst #but god #GOD DO I WISH THERE WAS MORE OF THOSE THREE BEING DUMBASSES TOGETHER #like imagine them doing idk a heist together or smth #the panic the destruction the potential for reality defying bullshit #the ABSOLUTELY committed eco-terrorism off screen I know I was there #Sam was there bcs of obvious reasons and ended up organising an uprising #tucker was there bcs he’s always ready to commit crimes and stick it to the government #danny was there as moral support only and ended up on wanted lists of at least 7 countries #sam manson #tucker foley #danny fenton #danny phantom

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zushikiss · 1 year

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💐 I loved you, No. I love you

a social media au | scaramouche x fem!reader

sypnosis ; after breaking up with your ever so perfect boyfriend of 7 years you don't know how to break the news to your parents since they simply adore the indigo haired man, so you simply don't. which is why you think it's absolutely unreasonable when your father's dying wish, is to see you get married to him, though coincidentally, your dearest ex boyfriend is also in need of a spouse in order to inherit his mother's company, i guess the only way to solve this is to tell your parent's the truth, or is it?

genre ; fake dating (?), you and scara get married for benefits lol, modern!au, actor!au

warnings ; everyone in this au are adults, scara teases you like a lot, fluff, and angst all in one, pictures i use do not depict reader's skin color, height, or body shape, they're used to show poses and is used as visual descriptions, also kinda ceo!scara, more to be added

notes ; woooo another smau, but i probably won't start this one till im finished with season 2 of my searching for you smau, also let's just say this is kinda maybe a new year's gift hehe

taglist status ; [closed]

presenting the cast for I loved you, no. I love you

⤷ live laugh love ayari | sugar daddies ft. venti

season 1 | don't catch feelings, again.

00 - prologue

01 - cancer? me too!

02 - the witch's conditions

03 - so, will you marry me?

04 - #married #notosingles #dick

05 - scaray/n shipper till i die

06 - sacrifices to be a millionaire

07 - dinner with the in laws

08 - denial is a river in egypt

09 - marriage for benefit my ass

10 - familliar feelings i've only ever felt with you

season 2 | so? is this still for benefits

11 - tba

12 - tba

13 - tba

14 - tba

15 - tba

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thedevilsoftruth · 6 months

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Reading Welcome to New Egypt completely changed my outlook on Moon Knight and how I perceive our Moon Knight boys. Especially Steven, because I had seen the show 4 times before I picked up the Lemire and Smallwood run and this picture had my jaw unhinging to the floor.

You're telling me....

That this mama's boy, soft meow meow baby, virgin, bitchless, british, respectful to everyone, little shit is a fucking s l u t?! And a millionaire?!!!!! I'm scared of Steven Grant now. I have Steven Grant phobia. AND HES NOT EVEN BRITISH!!!! Mcu Steven would bump into a pole and start apologizing profusely to it, but comic Steven would tell the pole that it's fucking fired becuase it bumped into him. I genuinely can't see mcu Steven the same way again. I know I'm in too deep, but it's crazy how they're nothing alike. Comic Steven Grant is an ugly ass hating ass hoe ballsack looking chin and president looking ass bitch-face, and I'm going to fight him. Mcu Steven... I have no words. Never liked him to begin with. I always knew there was something fishy about him, AND I WAS RIGHT.

Fucking millionaire, playboy, movie star, my god damn asscheeks. Steven Grant is a bitch and I blame him for my struggles in life and the reason I have therapy.

( This is a joke post, by the way. I don't genuinely have a real reason to hate mcu Steven and haven't read the whole Lemire and Smallwood run to actually determine if I like Steven or not. I've only read the first volume lol. )

#jk #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #marvel mcu #marvel comics #steven grant #marc spector #jake lockley #moon knight #moon knight comics #moon knight fanfic

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diabolus1exmachina · 1 year

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Maserati 5000 GT Frua

Each of the 34 examples of the Maserati 5000 GT is a storybook in its own right. The first of these exotic beasts was commissioned by the Shah of Persia (now Iran), who pined for a 450S (nine made, terminated when Maserati left racing). The road-going 3500 GT was too common to satisfy his highness but held promise if properly modified. The Shah paid Maserati to strengthen the chassis and suspension of a 3500 to accept a 4.9 liter V8 derived from the 450S. The body was built by Carrozzeria Touring, the car was painted dark blue, and the final result was shipped to the Shah. A second car was sent to South African millionaire Basil Read. Once the Shah purchased his car, other royals clamored for their own copies. Maserati increased the 5000’s engine displacement slightly, added fuel injection, and upgraded to a five-speed ZF transmission, sending several more cars to various coachbuilders (eight in all) at the behest of their celebrity buyers. These included Karim Aga Khan, Briggs Cunningham, and Gianni Agnelli. Here at Kidston is the first of three Frua-bodied Maserati 5000 GTs, a 1962 example. Initially painted gold, and swanned around to shows in Geneva, Paris, and Italy by the factory, it was finally repainted a deep metallic red in 1963, assigned a fresh chassis number, and sold as a new car.

Eventually, this example was given to King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during his exile in Egypt – a gift from his son. King Saud was exiled from his exile (to Athens this time), and the car was impounded by the Egyptian government for decades. Sold a few times around the year 2000, the car was refurbished during a four-year period and shown in its original gold livery. Its most recent owner, preferring the ruby shade of its former life, had it repainted yet again, enjoyed it for ten years.

#Maserati 5000 GT Frua #450S #3500 GT #Karim Aga Khan #Briggs Cunningham #Gianni Agnelli

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ghostlygardendelusion-blog · 4 months

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🎐Vedic Astrology Masterlist🎐

🍀 Vargottama Planet

🍀 Karakas In Vedic Astrology

🍀 Birth Tithi In Vedic Astrology

🍀 Foreign Spouse Placements

🍀 Moonstone Gemstone

🍀 Millionaire Yoga

🎐Vedic chart interpretations🎐

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16.

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1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.

🎐Other🎐

🍀 Egypt Zodiac Signs

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diocletianscabbagefarm · 7 months

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I was listening to some podcasts today and one of them pointed out some of the dynamics within Hamas (and the Palestinian Authority) that are interesting to consider in future years as the conflict drags on:

the last elections - except for internal elections by Hamas party members - in Gaza took place in 2006 where Hamas won a majority, after which they performed a coup against the second-largest party Fatah (or, according to Hamas, pre-emptively couped a planned coup by Fatah, but whatever the case there was a whole bunch of shooting and killing). That's 17 years ago, in an area where 50% of the population is under 18 and hadn't been born yet during the last election, and apparently their leadership is also kinda getting up there in age and folks are just kinda waiting for them to die off while they're pursuing the same policies they've been doing for the last few decades.

This dynamic is also very pronounced in the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, as President Mahmoud Abbas is 87 (and you thought Biden was old) and whose name in podcasts and articles is inevitably always followed or preceded by some phrasing of "who is politically incredibly weak" and hasn't had an election since 2005 because he'd immediately lose power.

Fun fact: Mahmoud Abbas' university thesis (later published as a book) is about the zionists and the nazis collaborating on the holocaust in order to encourage the remaining jews to embrace zionism, and that the Israelis kidnapped, tried and killed Eichmann to cover it up before he blabbed. He's also a multimillionaire somehow.

Fun fact 2: Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, is also a millionaire, due to a 20% tax on items imported into Gaza via tunnels from Egypt. Even in Gaza the only certain things in life are death and taxes.

#politics #history #I mean it's sorta history? It's one of the only tags I've used a lot that feels decently suited

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famy-x · 2 months

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The Millionaire's Love غرام المليونير Directed by Atef Salem 1957 Egypt

#سامية جمال #افلام زمان #افلام قديمة #poster design #movie poster #vintage posters #film poster

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 1 year

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Lula faces backlash after flying to Cop27 on millionaire’s private jet

Brazil president-elect’s decision to fly on a jet owned by a health industry mogul criticised by both opponents and supporters

Brazil’s president-elect has faced a backlash at home after flying to the Cop27 environmental summit on a private jet owned by a millionaire businessman.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected on 30 October and has vowed to undo much of the environmental damage wrought by the outgoing far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.

Under Bolsonaro, Amazonian deforestation hit a 15-year high after he gutted protection agencies and encouraged loggers, prospectors and ranchers into the rainforest to take advantage of its abundant natural resources.

But Lula’s decision to fly to Egypt on a Gulfstream G600 owned by a health industry mogul was criticised by both opponents and supporters.

“If he is really travelling on [a] private jet it’s a careless mistake he should have avoided,” one former minister said. “There are things you can’t do as a president, even before being sworn in.”

Lula’s spokesman said he would not comment on the issue but his vice-president-elect said the plane’s owner, José Seripieri Junior, was accompanying Lula to Egypt rather than loaning him the aircraft.

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #luiz inacio lula da silva #cop27 #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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died-but-not-dead-propaganda · 10 months

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Moon Knight Propaganda

Marc Spector, better known as the vigilante Moon Knight, was once a mercenary left for dead in the desert while on a mission in Egypt, where he was revived by the Egyptian Moon god Khonshu after collapsing in front of an idol of the god. In exchange for being brought back to life, he was appointed as Khonshu's fist and high priest, Moon Knight, and enacts justice to protect those who travel at night. Marc also has dissociative identity disorder, some of his alters being (now former-)millionaire Steven Grant and cab driver Jake Lockley. Moon Knight has "died" on multiple occasions since then, but keeps being brought back by Khonshu or, more recently, Dr. Badr (The newly revealed other Fist of Khonshu, Hunter's Moon).

He has died THREE times. Each time he has come back. He LITERALLY QUOTES WILLIAM AFTONS “I always come back” IN THE NEW MACKAY RUN. This man is a dumpster fire and is such a closeted bisexual it’s insane. My man also looks like a wet paper bag and has shrimp posture. He is one in a krillion. Please ignore every comic run of him except Ellis’, Lemieres, or Mackay‘s. He is the definition of “had a rocky transition into the 2000’s” - maybe IGN should’ve said that to the MK runs instead of Sonic. All offense, and a little bit of salt. I am as salty as the ocean. Yeah. That’s it I think.

Moon Knight is my favourite Marvel superhero!! He dies for a short period of time in his backstory, which goes as follows: Marc Spector served as Marine and briefly as a CIA agent before becoming a mercenary. While on a mission in Egypt with fellow mercenary Raoul Bushman, he witnesses the other man murder an archeologist and his team, leaving the archeologist's daughter alive to watch. Enraged by the awful act, Marc picks a fight with Bushman and loses, being left for dead in desert all alone. He manages to drag himself into the tomb unearthed by the archeologists and collapses in front of a statue of the god Khonshu. He dies before the statue and is soon revived, fully healed, by Khonshu. Khonshu begins speaking to him and tells him that he is to become the god's Moon Knight, the Fist of Khonshu, and redeem himself from all of the violence of his past life by protecting all those who travel in the night. Marc agrees, and the rest is history!

The whole origin of how the sys became moon knight is that Marc spector was shot after going up against his superior on an unethical mercenary job in the desert. He crawled to the statue of the Egyptian god Khonshu and died at the foot of it but was resurrected as his Fist of Justice to carry out his protection for the travelers of the night. Dying and getting resurrected then happens multiple times over Moon Knight’s appearances, including in the Disney Plus show where they are in the Egyptian afterlife before making their way back to life via accepting themselves as a system and choosing to live. One of the most famous quotes from the comics is “I’ve died before. It was boring, so I stood up.”

#moon knight #marc spector #jake lockley #steven grant #Marvel Comics

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blade-liger-4ever · 2 years

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Comic Analysis: Toxic and Healthy Relationships, Part 1 - Moon Knight

Now, before I begin, there are a few things I need to clarify. Firstly, I have only seen/read a few scenes and comics featuring Moon Knight; that said, what I have gathered from both (as well as other sources) is enough, I believe, to make a decent review of Marc Spector’s relationship with his two most prominent love interests. And second, this is all my opinion. If you disagree with my points, that’s fine; you are not obliged to adopt my viewpoint. I’ve just had plenty of thoughts about the relationships between Marc and his girlfriends, and I have a need to get said thoughts off my chest.

With that said, let’s delve into the first part.

The Toxic Relationship with Marlene Alraune

To give a brief summary for those out of the loop, Marlene Alraune was the daughter of Prof. Peter Alraune, and accompanied him on his expedition in Egypt when Bushman attacked them, and who was killed when Marc instinctively warned Bushman of an attacker behind him (sound familiar?). Shortly afterwards, Marc scared off the furious Marlene before attempting and failing to kill his boss. Once he became Moon Knight, Marc returned to the States with Frenchie and Marlene to fight crime and make up for his past. Marc also subsequently created the false identities of millionaire Steven Grant and cabby driver Jake Lockley to aid in his ventures, normally having to switch between the two phony IDs and Moon Knight.

You may notice I didn’t add his life as Marc Spector to the list above, and that’s because Marc, quite possibly out of shame/necessity, gave up his life as Marc Spector. That’s not to say he was dead inside (at least, I hope not); in fact, he was quite the wise-butt in the early days of his run. But Marc didn’t leave any time for himself outside of those three lives, instead focusing on making up for lost time. Anyone with a brain would be driven crazy by this daily juggling show that Marc performed, and it’s a testament to his mental strength that he was still able to know right from wrong.

Now some of you might be wondering: how does Marlene fit into this? The answer is, she was his girlfriend - who did her darnedest to mold Marc into the millionaire playboy she desired.

Allow me to show you some panels with the two from their debut. Frenchie’s here, too, and trust me when I say his minor role in the panels are important for the points I’m making.

The giveaway to Marlene’s true intentions are in how she interacts with him. As you can see, she consistently refers to him as Steven Grant - the millionaire - despite the fact that they’re generally alone when they talk to each other. By contrast, Marc’s best friend calls him by his birthname. Over comms. When leaving the scene. And even when he’s taking on a different identity. Calling him Marc would naturally keep our beloved Silver Crusader (did I seriously just coin that??) from losing his sanity and remind him that he shouldn’t cut himself off from his past, no matter how painful it is.

Marlene, on the other hand, is always, always trying to keep him from accepting his past, and embrace an identity he clearly has disdain for. She repeatedly hounds him to be Steven Grant, and only barely tolerates cabby Jake Lockley by the end of the second issue. That’s right, that final shot is from the second comic with Moon Knight, and not once does she refer to him as Marc Spector in either comic.

Another key detail is how self-absorbed she is. Marlene has an absolute fit when he has to continue his vigilante work, saying he has stood her up for the sixth time in a week. While it’s understandable that one would grow frustrated with not being able to spend time with their lover, it is not excusable to use that as a means of guilting/making an ultimatum with the person in question in order to get them to pay attention to you. By throwing this in Marc’s face, Marlene is essentially telling him to forget the killers and robbers in the world so Marc can be with her all the time.

The immediate flaw with her logic lies in the fact that Marc is a superhero. Not being present every second of every day is literally a part of the job, and the fact that they’ve been together for some years, and she still throws a temper tantrum over this shows just how vain and superficial she is. Marlene Alraune only ever saw Marc Spector as a handsome man who seemed to have a change of heart, but as soon as he came back to the States and created a millionaire persona, she dropped all interest and pursued the money, the prestige, and the high life that identity offered. And if that meant Marc had to lose his sanity and the bridge to his past, then so be it.

The Healthy Relationship with Layla El-Faouly

Forgetting for a moment that Layla is a composite character, when we’re introduced to her, Layla is married to Marc Spector. That immediately puts her light years ahead of Marlene, because it shows that she’s honest in her relationship with Marc. Is she petty when she meets with Marc again in Cairo? Yes. Is she still frustrated with him until the finale? Yes. However, every couple on Earth has moments like that in their marriage, especially when you throw in a divorce (which was solely done to protect Layla).

And in spite of those shortcomings - as well as the unnecessary drama and similarities to Marlene - Layla continues to reach out to Marc. She knows his struggles with communication and vulnerability, but despite that, not only does she continue to choose Marc, but she continues to be patient and receptive with him. Layla doesn’t care for his money, his looks, or his abilities - she cares for Marc as a human being, even above her own safety.

Don’t believe me? Just look at the fight scene at Mogart’s. Marc has the power to literally become a living pincushion without suffering permanent damage, and the woman still rushes over to shoot at his attackers. And again, when Marc has “died”, she grieves him and hunts down Harrow to get revenge, repeatedly referring to Moon Knight as Marc.

Not the agreeable, well-meaning Steven, but the noble-unto-death Marc, who is the man she loves. The man who gives her strength, respect, safety, and a love no one else could possibly offer. Their entire relationship is healthy, with the only trouble in it coming from Marc’s inability to communicate. glares viciously at Wendy Spector

Layla never tells Marc to stop being a hero, to leave the unfortunate Travelers of the Night to whatever grim fate awaits them. She accepts his duties, accepts his flaws, accepts him for who he is, not what she can make/gain from him.

Where Marlene is a bratty socialite who abandons Marc at the slightest hint of emotional instability, Layla is a loyal wife who stays by her man through the hardest moments of his career. Marlene seeks riches and connections from Marc, while Layla only asks to share her life with him. That is the key difference between these two women and their relationship with Marc, and why Layla El-Faouly is arguably the greatest thing to come out of the Moon Knight series.

Before I sign off, you may recall that this is my first relationship analysis post. I have another in mind, although I don’t know when I’ll be able to get to it. If you wish to know what comes next, I will only say that the couples are from DC Comics. Until then, I wish you all safe journeys.

#marc spector #moon knight #layla spector #layla el faouly #marc spector x layla el faouly #marc x layla #steven grant #jean-paul duchamp #frenchie #marlene alraune #khonshu

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luxshine · 2 years

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Moon Knight Primer, Part 4

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (1985), Marvel Fanfare #38, West Coast Avengers (1986) #21-41

Prologue

Part I

Part II

Part III

Small annoying biographical sidebar. West Coast Avengers was the first time I encountered Moon Knight and the guys. And while you will see how that was not the best time to meet the System? I still have some warmth feelings about that run despite it being a very, very bad time for everyone involved.

(And for everyone involved, I mean it. West Coast Avengers single handedly destroyed not just Moon Knight’s relationship with Khonshu, but also Hawkeye and Mockingbird’s marriage AND Wanda and Vision’s marriage! In fact, West Coast Avengers is directly tied to the current status quo of Scarlet Witch as an unstable “crazy” woman and her children being not quite real. So basically, if you liked Wandavision and Multiverse of Madness? This is the comic run you want to read)

And when I say “Destroy”? I am not kidding. In a very funny turn of events, the Fist of Khonshu sets up a new status quo for Moon Knight and the guys that lasts exactly until the end of Moon Knight’s time with the Avengers. Which is a real pity as the mini introduced a lot of very interesting ideas, and the WCA run just… didn’t seem what to do with them. And then, the WCA run ALSO introduced interesting ideas that never went anywhere because they were in the middle of a very complex storyline and by the time that was over? Marc and co. were long gone and thus, it was not even worth it to bring them up again and, as far as I’ve read? No one brought them up ever again. Well, until the TV series resurrected Harrow, so now I have hope.

Oh? Did I forget to mention? Four parts deep into this we FINALLY get to Harrow’s introduction in the comics! And he has absolutely nothing to do with the TV series Harrow, but this one? This one REALLY has a doctorate!

But I am getting ahead of myself again, so let’s start with what Fist of Khonshu changed from what we know of Moon Knight and the system, the new enemies the guys would fight, and why it is not very remembered as a mini.

Because it’s a new series, we of course have to go back to the origin of how Marc was revived by Khonshu to be his fist. Only that this time, we see that someone else was there besides Marlene and the diggers: Araamses, immortal priest of Anubis, and mayor pain in the ass for a whole issue.

The status quo as the series begins is that, after Rabbi Spector’s second death? Marlene finally got her wish, sort of, and Marc put down the mantle of Moon Knight… and also stopped letting Steven and Jake front. This is pretty much the lowest point for this mini, that we never hear from any of the Alters except for Marc, who is now enjoying Steven’s fortune and making a name for himself as Marc Spector, millionaire art gallery owner. I have NO idea if this is because Alan Zelenetz, the main writer, really thought that integration therapy was good and worked and thus Marc didn’t need the others anymore, or because he didn’t want to bother with the Moon System at all.

Unfortunately for Marlene, but thankfully for us? This doesn’t last long. Among the things she convinced Marc to do was to sell Khonshu’s statue, and the second the thing is out of Grant… sorry, Spector’s mansion? Marc starts having visions of Khonshu calling him to Egypt, telling him that Moon Knight has to rise again against evil. Obviously, Marc wants to investigate, but Marlene, supportive as always, puts down an ultimatum: either he stays with her and forgets all that nonsense, or she won’t be there when he comes back.

And boy, they didn’t see it this way in the 80’s? But that was a huge red flag of a toxic, abusive relationship.

Thankfully, Marc doesn’t fall for that trick (Ok, the fact that a guy tries to kill him and upon failing, kills himself yelling “Death to Khonshu” helps a LOT to make him decide that yep, that is worth investigating), and even calls it her “spoiled kid act”. And yes, he will regret leaving, and spend pretty much the rest of the mini and part of WCA moping that he lost the love of his life? But Marlene is gone as the Girlfriend for now, and good riddance to her. She will appear again in the mini, breaking Marc’s heart over and over, but at the very least, she is no longer telling him he’s crazy every time he steps in his own home.

In Egypt he finds another secret tomb filled with Khonshu statues, and meets three blind priests who declare themselves to be the immortal servants of Khonshu and that they have contacted him because he choose to be Khonshu’s fist (as opposed as being chosen, they say that Marc putting on Khonshu’s robe on his shoulders upon revival is what made him accept become Khonshu’s fist) and he let the statue, his original compass to know when to act, fall into the hands of evil. So now THEY will tell him where to go and fight. Like a very annoying Bat signal because it comes with visions AND sound!

Fortunately, it also comes with its advantages: this time, the guys have proof that there is divine intervention in their lives, as not only he gets a pouch full of mystical weapons (An Ankh that glows when there’s mortal danger near, a boomerang covered with protective charms, wristbands with scarab darts, and so on) but also, the body strength will now increase proportionally to the phase and brilliance of the moon. So, new moon or cloudy day? The guys have normal strength. Full Moon? He can give Captain America a run for his money. This was probably one of the most popular additions of the era, and while it is no longer true for the comics (Long story that, we will go through it in time), it’s one many people still think about when thinking of Moon Knight’s abilities.

Marc starts thinking he must be insane by accepting, but he accepts anyway even if later decides that just because he took the weapons and the new costume doesn’t mean he is going to be Moon Knight again (Ah, the poor innocent guy). He fights Aaramses, is saved by a deus ex machina sandstorm that kills the other man, and gets the Khonshu statue back.

Back in New York we find that THIS time Marlene made good on her promise and left, but Marc can’t really spend much time looking for her because when she does? The Priests alert him to danger in Yucatan, and that’s where we meet Dr. Arthur Harrow.

Yes, you guys know that name. Unfortunately, THIS Dr. Arthur Harrow is not nearly as fun as Ethan Hawke’s Harrow, as he is a novel prize candidate who is following on the steps of Awschwitz’s scientists to create soldiers that can’t feel pain (Of course, the Nobel committee doesn’t know that part, they just know he’s doing advances in pain medicine). So yeah, run of the mill nazi villain for Moon Knight, who appears in this issue and we never, EVER see again.

Only really interesting thing is that, while the narration only refers to the guys as “Marc Spector”, whenever he is in the Moon Knight’s armor he thinks of Marc in the third person so… Who fronts? Who knows?

On the Marlene front? The writers FINALLY remembered that in her early appearances Marlene was called Fontaine and not Alarune, so they work to fix that particular plot hole by letting us now that Eric Fontaine? Is her ex-husband! And she’s going back to him because she has no money left and man, the writers REALLY wanted to make her look as if she only cared about money in her significant others! She still has to call Marc because Morpheus is back again, and this time with mind control powers so she really has no choice, as Morpheus is attacking her patients because she’s studying social work which is honestly the worst possible major for her. (Also, as much as Marc hates Fontaine, he can’t really hate him when he finds out he’s on a wheelchair and that’s once again the last we hear from Fontaine in the mini)

Interestingly enough? While the Priests also send Marc (Who now thinks of himself as “Marc Spector, REFORMED mercenary and multi-millionaire”) visions about Morpheus, they scold him for thinking more about saving Marlene from the monster than about saving the innocent. While I think the Priests are a bit heavy handed? On this part, I am totally with them. But that is a thing that continues during the mini: Marc wants to quit being Moon Knight and only puts on the suit when the Priests insist… and then his own friends get affected by the case that he just rejected from the police (He has his own commissioner Gordon in the form of NY Detective Flint) so he realizes that he should’ve been more empathic and not just wait for the Priests to call him. Even if he really, really wants to quit (I have to check other comics, but I think this was also the time when Spiderman was quitting, and Captain America was quitting and Iron Man was close to quit and what was with the eighties and all superheroes wanting to hung the cape?)

Issues 5 and 6 have him fighting first two immortal priests that are sacrificing children to remain immortal and then a voodoo priestess who deals with heroine. Both issues end in a very low note and then the mini ends without a peep from Steven or Jake. As I said? Not a very good mini except for the “Moon Knight’s strength increases with the moon bit”.

And then… then we have the West Coast Avengers. (There’s Marvel Fanfare #38, but that one is even MORE run of the mill than Fist of Khonshu’s issues #5 and 6 with a “Boyband is actually made of old men who stole their fans’ youth with an incan idol” plot). And boy, West Coast Avengers makes a MESS out of things, as I said in the introduction because the very first thing it does? Is completely destroy the possibility that Khonshu is just in Marc’s mind by letting us hear the God’s voice as he talks not to any of the System… but to Clint Barton, aka. Hawkeye.

See, at the time the West Coast Avengers were divided in different time eras, and Clint, Wonderman and Tygra were stuck in ancient Egypt. There, Clint half-dies, and Khonshu, true to form, appears in his mind and offers him the same deal he offered Marc. Only Clint is not as easy to manipulate. He accepts helping Khonshu against Rama-tut, the enemy to fight, BUT only if Khonshu agrees to send his team back to their right time. Since Khonshu doesn’t have that power, the god instead sends a message to Marc to go to California and help the Avengers in the present to figure out that the others are stuck in the past and get a time machine to get them out. After this, Khonshu returns Clint to life (Or to full strength, it’s not clear) and Clint gets to meet the priests of the cult of Khonshu who refer to him as “Beloved of Khonshu”, a term that has NEVER been used to refer to the Moon System.

And then Clint goes and creates the weapons that Marc is using in the future. Yeah, that’s right. Hawkeye made Moon Knight’s mystical arsenal because Khonshu asked him to, and Clint thought “Well, I can’t ask everyone to become a master archer so let’s diversify!”.

We get the Origin re-told, by the way, only that this time Marlene is nowhere to be seen, it’s the Priests themselves who bring Marc to the feet of the Statue, no one knows if he was dead or alive at the time, and we’re specifically told that the Alters came to be AFTER his resurrection, so that he had to quit being Moon Knight for his mental health to find himself again until the Priests called him back into service. This will be the first time the Origin is changed from its original form, but not the last.

Also, for all the “Everyone in the Marvel Universe thinks/knows Moon Knight is insane” meme? Here we have Marc being very careful not to let the Avengers know about his “schizophrenia” -his words, not mine- , even if really, Marc is sort of fronting all the time -sort of. This will get ugly soon- and Reed Richards, of all people, theorizing that Moon Knight’s powers come from an Egypcian god. So… no one thinks Khonshu is a figment of the System’s imagination! Yet.

And here comes the ugly part: Unlike in Fist of Khonshu, we do get to hear the other Alters, as they appear around Moon Knight from time to time. Except… at first we’re told that Marc IS fronting while being Moon Knight, and he only has three personalities (This comes handy when fighting a mind control ray… apparently, the ray can only control ONE person per zap, so since Moon Knight is only zapped twice, Steven and Jake get controlled, but Marc can still fight). Marc also seems convinced that Khonshu wants him to join the Avengers, so he has to say goodbye to Frenchie who is 100% supportive both of Moon Knight’s plurality and his career as an avenger. Frenchie is ten thousand times better than Marlene and that will again come up later as to why.

Oh, yes. The Ugly. See, from that point on, Moon Knight’s personality starts to change and be weird. On one hand, he speaks to Khonshu in his head a LOT. On the other, he suddenly has knowledge that none of the Alters had, such as a deep, deep understanding of Astrology when in his own book we know that none of the Alters had time or belief in the supernatural, even doubting Khonshu’s existence from time to time. He also begins a relationship with Tygra, despite having earlier in his comic thought about how being Moon Knight was not conductive to romance.

When this happens, Steven and Jake start arguing with Marc about Marc wanting to be the only one in the body AGAIN. And they start wondering if the fact that Khonshu is now speaking to them is only a sign of madness… despite their powers being quite obviously real and moon-based. He is also in probation as an Avenger because Clint really doesn’t like it when people die and Marc… doesn’t have that particular hang-up. YET.

And then Khonshu comes up to speak up to Marc and tells him he WANTS Moon Knight to be an Avenger because the god is VERY interested in Clint Barton and the Avenger experience. Which is problem #1 of Moon Knight’s time in the Avengers. They broke the cardinal rule of “We don’t show if Khonshu is real or not” in order to make the god obsess… over a completely different character. Oh, and then we get told that nope, Khonshu doesn’t approve of Marc being with Tygra because she is “sun-oriented” despite claiming to love the moon and this is the first time Khonshu openly talks about his preferences about Moon Knight’s romantic life. While still insisting that he totally wants to understand Hawkeye and I do wonder about the West Coast Avenger’s writers obsession with Hawkeye back then.

Still, after Moon Knight saves Mockingbird from Phantom Rider -although they both lie to Hawkeye regarding exactly from whom he saved her- he officially becomes the #24 Avenger (Which, given that now the rooster of Avengers and ex-Avengers is about 150? Kinda impressive) but then, during a fight where Marc is left unconscious… Khonshu leaves the body. It is revealed then that he has been possessing the system, making them join the Avengers and then slowly taking over because since he was SO impressed by Hawkeye’s spirit, he wanted to be in the Avengers “personally”. And none of the Alters know about this. And he is more active than ever, as every time the team faces someone who can mind control them? Khonshu takes over to remain immune.

And yet, with Khonshu apparently over the moon for Hawkeye (yes, sorry, I just had to say that), when Hawkeye and Mockingbird divorce and separate? Moon Knight takes Mockingbird side and stays with her rather than remain with the Avengers. And yet, Khonsu is STILL fronting as we get thoughts like “Assuming the form of Marc Spector is becoming a hindrance” -as he can’t use his full godly powers like that- “My human Host, Marc Spector”, and stuff like that.

Finally, as the whole drama with Phantom Rider ends, Damion Hellstorm, Spawn of Satan, exorcises Khonshu from Moon Knight’s body and, after a very, very long fight with Seth’s armies (Because of a different crossover that was going on at the time), Khonshu declares that his little experiment with experiencing the human life was over, he had to go and fight Seth since they’re from the same pantheon, and thus, Marc will be left alone in his body (With the Alters, which Khonshu at some point calls “their madness” because Khonshu is an ass) but will still be the fist of Khonshu on earth and as such Marc is still under his service even if “their time of oneness is over”. Marc is not impressed. During the fight with the Seth armies, every bit of Moon Knight’s mystic arsenal is destroyed, so he is left only with his augmented strength during the moon cycle.

Once Khonshu leaves and the fight is over, Marc -who is probably fronting- breaks things up with Tygra and leaves the avengers, stating that “I have met my maker, and I’m not sure I like what I saw” which marks the FIRST time Moon Knight and Khonshu are in real conflict, but not the last.

He also participated in the West Coast Avengers 2 and 3, but really, he was only there as a warm body to fight villains.

So there you have it, the series that brought the biggest change to Moon Knight status quo in the eighties, and yet… didn’t do anything interesting with the Alters. Seriously, I’d have KILLED to see Jake interacting with Clint, Steven with Tony Stark -as Iron Man was on the team for a bit at the same time as Moon Knight, and Marc with Mockingbird. To see the team confused as to who was fronting when with the guys desperately trying to keep their plurality a secret. To NOT have Khonshu just become a Hawkeye fangirl and take over the guys’s autonomy just because he wanted to play Avenger near his new shiny non plural friend (That really left a bad taste in my mouth), but in the end, it was just a means to undo what they had done in the mini and get back to the original status quo, with just the new change of us knowing that Khonshu IS real, even if he is no longer around.

What did they do with that? Well, tune in for Part 5 when we get to see what happened in Marc Spector: Moon Knight (Oh, and The Punisher Annual 2), And that one is going to be short, and it’s going to be PAINFUL, so I am warning you right now.

#Moon Knight #Moon Knight Comics #Moon Knight Primer #This is where they start doing the Moon System dirty #Steven Grant #Marc Spector #Jake Lockley #And yet Marc is still the killer #Khonshu #Khonshu is a Hawkeye fangirl #No #Seriously #he can't go one appearance without going on about how wonderful Hawkeye soul is #Stupid pigeon being unfaithful to his avatar

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Events 3.26 (after 1900)

1913 – First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople. 1915 – The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association. 1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. 1922 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland. 1931 – Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland. 1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam. 1934 – The United Kingdom driving test is introduced. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war. 1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. 1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons. 1955 – Pan Am Flight 845/26 ditches in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon, killing four. 1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3. 1958 – The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. 1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City. 1970 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy. 1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins. 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. 1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C. 1979 – An Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 10. 1981 – Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party. 1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C. 1991 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market. 1991 – Singapore Airlines Flight 117 is hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and diverted to Changi Airport. 1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 1998 – During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives. 2005 – Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China. 2010 – The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea. 2017 – Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.

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Moving out of the dorm and into the condo was an exciting next step in my adventure. Little did I know that my world was going to be turned upside down and nothing would ever be the same. The little row of condos just three miles from campus was called millionaire row by many. These condos are pricy but rich parents will buy them for their kids while they are at college and then sell it upon graduation. Hank had learned about them from his friend /classmate Aiden who lived next door with two other guys.

Aiden is my kryptonite and upon meeting him the first time I knew I was in trouble. He is tall, handsome with dark, thick, semi curly hair, deep brown eyes, a distinguished nose, and full lips. His smile made my knees buckle and when I first heard him say my name I felt my heart swell. Aiden was a local guy, only child, single mother. His mother is white, super sweet lady. His dad was from Egypt and what he did for a living was always in question. They divorced after just three years. After the divorce he moved back to Egypt and has not returned to the States since. Dad never gave Aiden much attention but anytime he asked for anything, money would be sent. He asked for a car on his 16th birthday, he got a new BMW two seater convertible. When he told his dad where he was going to college, without even asking dad got the condo. Aiden got all of his good looks from his dad. I had no idea how attractive Middle Eastern men could be.

Our next door neighbors were three track and field guys. Marcus did the shot put and he was from Brazil. He was studying agriculture so he could return him to help with the family ranch. He is a fairly stocky guy but he was always kind to everybody he met and his smile was priceless. Darnell is a black guy hurdler and from LA. Darnell was majoring in sports medicine and wanted to be a coach once he graduated. Then the ring leader was Aiden, he is a sprinter and a hell of a poker player. Aiden majored in international finance in an attempt to make his dad proud.

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Did you know?

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Monkey Testicle Transplants: The Secret to Eternal Youth

The age old obsession with immortality has led humans down some peculiar paths in the past. But there may be none odder than the work of Dr. Serge Voronoff; the man who dedicated his life’s work pioneering an elixir that can halt or even reverse human aging by transplanting monkey testicles into people. Sounds crazy right? Well not according to the thousands around the world who decided to undergo this strange procedure.

At the age of 18, Voronoff left his home country Russia to study medicine in France. While there, he studied under Alexis Carrel, a skilled and respected surgeon. This would spark the beginning of Voronoff’s fascination with the prospect of animal-to-human transplants.

He was convinced that the secret to eternal youth lay hidden in our sex hormones, and he wasn’t alone: in 1889, Charles-Édouard Brown-Sequard, one of the fathers of modern endocrinology, injected himself with an extract of finely ground dog and guinea pig testicles.

Séquard's experiments soon proved inefficient. But Voronoff had already transplanted chimpanzee thyroids on people suffering from thyroidal anomalies. And a transplant of a chimpanzee's bone on a wounded soldier in 1915 suggested to him the idea of transplanting a monkey's testicle in a man. According to him, glandular transplants would allow the production of the hormone for an extended time period, unlike Sequard’s opotherapy which required repeated injections with inconclusive results.

In 1896, Voronoff moved to Egypt, There, he took an interest in eunuchs who, castrated when they were children, revealed certain deficiencies. According to a 2007 paper on Voronoff’s life and work, “[h]e noted their obesity, lack of body hair, and broad pelvises, as well as their flaccid muscles, lethargic movements, memory problems, and lowered intelligence.” All of this deficiency he blamed on their lack of testicles—a loss he assumed stripped the eunuchs of magical glandular excretions.

In his 1920 book, Life; a Study of the Means of Restoring Vital Energy and Prolonging Life, Voronoff says, “The sex gland stimulates cerebral activity as well as muscular energy and amorous passion. It pours into the stream of the blood a species of vital fluid which restores the energy of all the cells, and spreads happiness.”

Naturally, his patients weren’t enthusiastic about switching their testicles with those of a monkey, so Voronoff developed a treatment where he’d insert thin slices of baboons’ and chimpanzees’ testicles into the scrotum of men. The graft, only a few millimetres in size, would quickly merge with the human tissue. He promised his treatment had miraculous benefits: increased memory, reduced fatigue, enhanced eyesight and libido – plus, of course, a longer and more youthful life. The operation, Voronoff boldly suggested, might even help to cure schizophrenia.

Voronoff’s treatment became a hit. Millionaires across the world signed up for the surgery, and by the early 1930s thousands of people had been under the knife, including 500 in France alone.

Women too soon demanded their own version of the treatment for prolonged youth, pushing Voronoff to develop a monkey ovary transplant. The surgeon also implanted a human ovary into a monkey and then tried to inseminate it with human sperm!

But the surgeon’s sparkling success came to an end when it became clear that his transplants didn’t deliver the promises he had advertised; initial improvements were read off as placebo effect. The nail in the coffin came in 1935 when testosterone was discovered and its purposes explored, branding Veronoff’s treatments as downright bogus.

Despite how ridiculous it all sounds from our modern day perspective, Serge Veronoff’s work surrounding mammals’ sexual glands are regarded as important contributions to modern endocrinology, biology and hormone replacement therapy. His monkey transplants, however, join our ranks of bizarre medical experiments the scientific community would rather forget.

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