#of the wiki page of earth 11

[liebelesbe]

actual earth 11 vs. earth 11 of my dreams

#idk if the drawing on the left is a canon earth 11 drawing but it was the. idk what you would call it. profile picture? #of the wiki page of earth 11 #doddie redet #dc #earth 11 #earth-11 #id in alt text #batman #superman

[adultswim2021]

Robot Chicken #80: “Especially the Animal Keith Crofford” | September 20, 2009 - 11:30PM | S04E19

Hey gang, we’re going to untasty this Tuesday with this bad blog entry I wrote last night, then forgot about and didn’t publish. For those of you who love reading me struggle to type out complete sentences for zero clicks, check this out: 

After watching this episode, I decided to take a luxurious bath before writing about it, allowing me to let the juicy comedy morsels marinate in my valuable mind. After the bath, while I was waiting to stop being wet, I went to consult the wiki to remind me what sketches were on it (I used my bath time to think about sexual stuff instead). I ran into a sketch that I swore up and down wasn’t in the version of the episode I saw. It featured Ghost Rider being irresponsible on his motorcycle because of a song. I checked the episode again, confident that it was cut on HBOMax. Shockingly, it was there all along. It’s very common for a Robot Chicken sketch to wash over me and leave me feeling next-to-nothing, but I usually remember enough about it to adequately ID it while perusing the wiki. That’s really something, I guess. 

As for the rest of the episode, it was a fairly mixed bag. Most of it was pretty typical Robot Chicken shit. I’ll highlight two sketches in this paragraph that I kinda liked: The Superman sketch, whose premise was actually pretty fun. That’s the one where baby Superman is in his pod, being nice, and listening to his dad’s educational tape before reaching Earth. There’s good lines in it. I also sorta liked the horror plumber sketch, which hit some satisfying notes for me. Not too bad. 

The absolute best sketch in this, and it might actually be in the running for my favorite Robot Chicken sketch: The Cloverfield sketch. In it, the Cloverfield monster gets scolded for evoking 9/11, and is told that his attacks are “too soon”. He eventually feels bad and starts trying to rebuild the towers, topped with an American flag. He wins the crowd back, who cheer for him. The inexplicable reference to the Mean Joe Greene commercial from the 70s at the end really tickled me, with the monster throwing the huge jersey on top of the crowd. I laughed a genuine laugh!

The episode ends with it’s customary season-capping navel-gaze sketch. Featuring a parody of Louis Armstrong’s “It’s a Wonderful World”, it rivals Sealab’s “We’re Only Joking” for being disgustingly self-congratulatory. It’s only a little bit better written than that song, which is damning it with the faintest of praise. Seriously, click that link and rewatch that thing. Ignore the retards who are puffing it up in the comments for being refreshingly cancellable; it's one of the most strikingly poorly-written pieces of comedy to ever air on television.

The episode ends with Mike Lazzo (not real) doing a lot of unfunny dances, and announcing that the show is canceled. If only!

MAIL BAG

I got some Mail Bags.

We haven't chatted in a long while but do you remember the part in Home Movies where McGuirk slices up those doors with two katanas and then said, "spaghetti time"? Did you like that scene. Break it down.

Hello, I remember you well, and I cherish you. I remember this moment, because I remember it receiving backlash from the one message board I posted at, for having McGuirk be too wacky. I remember thinking it just felt like a forced way to connect his subplot to the skunk scouts subplot.

In my opinion, he should've had a big gun instead, and that's what causes everyone to run out in terror. He can explain to his friends (who are children) that he found out he could get a huge gun for all of his swords on a trade in. Then he suicides by cop in front of them and the rest of the season is about Brendon starting a cool gore website and using his video of McGuirk getting blasted, and they change the name of the show to HOME PAGE

Tasty Tuesday! No blogs today! I need to enjoy my tyuesday

If it's any consolation to you, I'm not having fun tonight, I'm mostly feeling extremely sleepy. Goodnight everyone (voice becomes supernaturally deep) what do you think I'll dream about

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #robot chicken

[greyjackwatcher]

Highlights and thoughts on ch364

1. Ujiko is confirmed as an AFO simp(the fact that the literal next page is a naked AFO does not help matters AT ALL)

2. AFO/Ujiko is finally confirmed canon

3. That comment to not let hatred dwell in your heart really comes in context with AFO currently possessing Shigaraki, the guy he groomed to be filled with hatred and especially given the previous chapters when he grew pissed off when he saw the resemblance of Bakugou with the Second User(yes the one that landed the hit was AFO and not Shigaraki, as AFO lived back in the Dawn of Quirks and had interactions with him, thus the glitchy flashback. Plus Shigaraki’s last contact with Bakugou when he wasn’t possessed, he wasn’t even angry at him at all, he just said he wasn’t interested in him anymore and moved on)(idk there may be some foreshadowing there with ShigarAFO)

4. AFO is in fact buff(i remember sb made a post about it somewhere)

5. I still am angry that he didn’t fight or remained naked at all. Coward.

6. Also it is still funny that he did steal the clothes of the other heroes and we finally see him being overdramatic. At least he is having fun.

7. Awesome dialogue between AFO and Hawks:

 Hawks:‘’Villains do bad things.’’

AFO:’‘Define bad things.’‘

8. Instance #4546306 in which society has called or referred Tomura as a monster🙄 and confusing AFO with Tomura🙄🙄.

9. I find it very funny that the US president actually thought of going pro AFO.

10. People that go out and say that Tomura would go all scorched earth against the USA are so weak. The one that wants to lord over everybody is AFO, not Tomura. Dude’s never cared about ruling over anybody, wanted his friends to live as they saw fit and when he fought S&S, his first thought when learning about her reality-bending quirk wasn’t about world domination or destroying the world but to see if it can bring his dead dog back to life. Man has his priorities straight. If anything, he would be a far better president than most we had in recent history. I would definitely support him.

Pictured below:

Developed countries scrambling to gain Tomura’s trust so that he won’t crush them:

What everyone expects Tomura to be and act towards them:

What will actually happen as Tomura allows every citizen all the freedoms they want, thus most citizens actually start to like him and want him to lead them, with Tomura not being interested in that at all:

Anyways #TomuraforPresident

11. I just want to say that i really liked Star’s soft face here.

12. I am kinda sus about the US being involved in the plot as of yet. Given their last attempt at solving the issues with Japan was to breach international orders, go for the lethal option (as if this hasn’t been happening against Tomura ever since the war arc and not working AT ALL) and have no issue at launching intercontinental missiles at Tomura, plus the general depiction of them in fiction as those that use excessive force to solve all problems... Yeah idk. I am probably just overthinking this and most likely will not happen. At best they are here to see how Japan will win against the villains by saving them and then they will try to implement that to their own countries. Also i just think that Star’s pilots have intercepted Izuku and are bringing him to the mainland and will meet with AFO and have a talk and/or fight.

13. Love how pretty both Mirko and Shigaraki(or rather ShigarAFO) look.

14. I kinda liked that Best Jeanist and Edgeshot were part of the art and crafts club at school, which did complement a lot with their Quirks.

15. Fun fact that i saw from someone in a comment section is that Bakugo’s and Edgeshot’s blood type are A and Best Jeanist’s is AB (I also checked it on MHA Wiki so it is correct).

#my post #bnha #bnha spoilers #bnha 364 #i will note that i made this in a joking manner at least a part of it #plus i may have made some mistakes in characterisatons of the characters there #but nothing big

[lorillee]

dw about not being here much though it's always cool to see your posts! any thoughts on the last few chapters (vegapunk??)?

yea 😔 ive been having Mental Illness Momence recently and sometimes you just want to drop off the face of the earth yknow LMAO

discussion of recent chapters below the cut

anyways. as im sure you can imagine i was crushed about carrot not showing up on the ship but like whatever. whatever its fine (<- complete lie ill be bitter about carrot for ever and ever). that ASIDE

WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we got. TWO NEW FEMALE MARINES. TASHIGI & STUSSY ARE BACK. BONNEY IS HERE. also i am in LOVE with lilith she is so cute

also ROBIN HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROBIN GETTING SOME RESPECT FINALLY

frankly given the sheer concentration of female characters + heart pirates genderbend. i am absolutely convinced that after wano oda just really wanted to draw some boobs (cuz the kimonos flattened out the womens' chests). thats my theory.

anwyays its FINALLY been confirmed that kuma is bonney's dad so i am excited to see where we go with this. realistically vegapunk is gonna get out of the consequences of his (their?) actions despite the fact that they have killed millions of people through their inventions and significantly aided the world government in their horrific policies and ruined so many lives and so on and so forth. but whatever

incredible jinbe outfit . this is what he was meant for, frankly

bepo

side note but i love how law infringes on several of the blackbeard pirates' devil fruit abilities because the op op no mi is worlds most overpowered fruit. actually im going to show everybody the wiki page on his fruit because its so so funny

he can even infringe on burgess' fruit because he can literlaly lift anything within his room. its incredible. godspeed law

speaking of, im very interested to see how his fight with blackbeard is going to go. because obviously blackbeard cant lose, and we cant show it on screen because we need to save all of blackbeards sweet epic movies for his fight with luffy, and blackbeard also needs to get law's poneglyph rubbings. but also oda cant kill law becuase. law is law. you cant just kill him. and this is one piece aka the series in which nobody dies ever at all. but also if blackbeard takes law's fruit and gives it to somebody then we can use the eternal youth surgery for something without killing law, but it also would appear to me that you have to kill somebody to take their fruit. so who knows!! i sure dont. trying to predict oda is a fool's errand and i have better things to do with my time.

also pudding AND aokiji becoming relevant again ?!?!?! HUGE win for tumblr user lorillee. i want to see them again so bad please please oda let me see them.

also this is an incredible trio. im also obsessed with the dynamics of this mini group (aka jinbe babysitting these three morons) . its incredible. 11/10 im so excited to see more of them

i am SO curious as to why the world government has decided to off their single competent employee. and also why they're returning seraphim kuma to egghead (possibly as a guard?). lucci wonders if this has anything to do with lulusia but im not sure if thats a red herring on oda's part. i havent the faintest clue

anyways i think thats the majority of my thoughts on the most recent developments?

#also THANK YOU FOR ASKING 💖💖💖 #ask #anon #one piece

[skelal]

i need everybody to know that im in deep. i feel like i was put on this earth to enjoy human creativity and specifically my boyfriends writing. i am his #1 fan. his silly rabbit. he does not call me that. there are at least 45 named characters across both of his books and every time i wake up in the morning my brain spins the wheel of which one to be the biggest fan of. for the third day in a row its itsitsoph ciif. cuntress. i have unironically started to ship him with jack. i have a 144 page faux wiki set up in google docs. im working on 11 individual writing projects all set within the same universe. i think they need to categorize me a symptom of something

#skelerants

[sweet-omen]

The Mirror Earth Issue

This is a general overview of the main conflict of the VALORANT universe - the fact that there’s another, nearly identical Earth that has appeared and has access to our “original” Earth, causing uh. A couple problems to say the least. For now and always, any part of this lore that is currently *speculation* will be marked as such, and should not be taken as explicitly canon. Sources will be provided. Let’s get into it 😎

Lore Table of Contents   --    Disclaimer / Background (please read)

For a currently-unknown reason, there is a slightly-alternate-timeline Earth that exists (1) and, through the use of teleportation (2)(3), is able to reach the original Earth.

(1:  Visual depiction of the two earths in the Duality cinematic)

(2: Episode 3 home screen depicting the mirrors’ teleporters to the original earth)

(3: Mirror Phoenix teleporting back to the mirror world after the events of the Duality cinematic)

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This, in game, explains why there are exact copies of the agents on both the attacking and defending sides. Except for Pearl, which exists on the mirror Earth, the attackers on each map are from Mirror Earth; the defenders are from Original Earth. On Pearl, these roles are reversed.

There is not yet an explanation of why the timelines split. According to the narrative developers, *there was an event that sparked this*(4), though the details are yet unknown.

(4: Riot Narrative Dev AMA)

The timeline mural in the map Pearl may have answers to this, but we do not yet have enough context to confidently pin the splitting of earths on a known event (5).

(5: In-game screenshot of half of the mural in the Multiverse Museum on Pearl, leading up to the splitting of two Earths. From 5.05)

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As the two Earths interacted more, they eventually delineated themselves as Alpha and Omega Earth. Alpha is the “original” Earth, while Omega is the mirror Earth. This can be surmised for many reasons, but the easiest is the appearance of Kingdom logos on the corresponding signs in the map Fracture. Alpha has the solid Kingdom Corporation logo, while Omega has the more segmented Kingdom Industries logo. Kingdom Corporation only exists on the original world, while Kingdom Industries only exists in the mirror world (6)(7).

From here on I will be referring to the two Earths as “Alpha” and “Omega.”

(6: an in-game screenshot from the map Fracture as of Episode 4 Act 3)

(7: an in-game screenshot from the map Fracture as of Episode 4 Act 3)

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Unfortunately, unlike Alpha, Omega is on the brink of total climate collapse (8), plunging some cities like Lisbon, Portugal completely underwater under rising tides (9).

(8: Narration self-describing Omega from the Pearl Official Map Reveal)

(9: View of Pearl, aka Omega Lisbon, Portugal, under the ocean from the Pearl Official Map Reveal)

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Not only at the brink of climate collapse, apparently other parts of Omega are dealing with a not-so-stable reality. Besides the obvious “trans-dimensional dust” destabilized reality both visible and referenced in Pearl (10)(11), Kingdom Industries is apparently trying to lead “reality restoration projects,”(12)(13) and there is apparently a “storm of realities” happening in Omega India (14)

(10: visual depiction of the reality destabilization making bricks float at the cathedral in the Pearl map, from the Pearl Official Map Reveal)

(11: announcements that play from the cathedral in Pearl, from the wiki page)

(12, 13: more announcements from the cathedral in Pearl, from the wiki page)

(14: reference to a “storm of realities” in the Pearl garden announcements, from the wiki page)

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The central conflict that drives the gameplay, mostly, is that Omega is trying to steal resources from Alpha. Namely, an ore called radianite. This radianite not only provides a power source to over 3/4 of the Alpha world, but also is the catalyst for their intense technological advancements (15: Duality cinematic). Alpha has a lot of reason, therefore, to want to protect their radianite.

In order for Omega to obtain Alpha’s radianite in the first place, Omega Killjoy developed a tool called the “spike,” (16) which creates a small, centralized teleport that only affects radianite. It draws up radianite from the area and teleports it back to Omega (17), with the unfortunate side effect of a pretty sizeable explosion (18). The prototype version of this tool had a much more devastating explosion, causing Alpha Venice, Italy’s *reality to destabilize*. This directly correlates to a large section of the city suddenly lifting into the air (19). This floating section of Venice is the in-game map of Ascent, as well as the practice range (20)(21).

(16: a view of Alpha Killjoy assessing a spike in the Duality cinematic)

(17: Viper assessing Killjoy’s data and realizing the spike is absorbing radianite from the Duality cinematic)

(18: in-game screenshot of a spike explosion radius, as of 5.04)

(19: the part of Venice *where the spike was detonated* in the Duelists cinematic)

(20: an in-game screenshot of the Ascent map loading screen as of 5.04)

(21: an in-game screenshot of the Range as of 5.04)

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While originally believed to be attacking and stealing radianite for greed, or perhaps, worse, a weapon to attack Alpha with (22), Omega is, in reality, stealing Alpha’s radianite to keep its people alive. On a recon mission to Omega, Alpha Killjoy reveals that the radianite being stolen from them is being put directly into the life support system allowing the citizens of Pearl to survive under the ocean (23).

(22: Brimstone on comms suggesting Omega may be weaponizing radianite from the Shattered cinematic)

(23: Killjoy realizing that the radianite is powering Lisbon’s life support system from the Shattered cinematic)

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*There was once an attempt to solve these issues amicably*, in the Everett-Linde research facility somewhat outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Alpha Earth. Among other research projects, the scientists at the facility from both Alpha and Omega were working together to develop a Large Radian Collider (LRC) *which would, presumably, solve Omega’s desperate energy problem* (24). However, on the last day of the project, *during the opening ceremony*, the reactor was sabotaged (25). The ensuing reactor explosion killed countless scientists (26), *completely halted the progress of helping Omega, and more than likely soured relations between Alpha and Omega even further*. This facility, now abandoned, is the in-game map of Fracture.

(24: image of the undamaged LRC from the Fracture map teaser)

(25: the same reactor being shot at from both sides, sabotaged, in the Fracture map teaser)

(26: A voicemail Killjoy leaves for Brimstone, originally available in-game in 3.12 but since removed. Screenshot from the Lore Wiki)

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As the lore stands now, Alpha is now gaining traction in this war having brought the battle to Omega’s turf, but they are now faced with the moral dilemma of denying a whole city (and maybe world) of its life support.

#valorant #valorant lore #lore #mirror earth #sorry this ends suddenly #the lore also ends suddenly lol #but hey that's the jist #i hope this helps somebody

[deancasforcutie]

SPN Mad Libs

Click Random Page on Supernatural Wiki and try this!

I always wondered, ever since I took that burden, that curse, I wondered what it could be? What my true Random Page #1 could even look like. I never found an answer because the one thing I want... it's Random Page #2. But I think I know... I think I know now. Random Page #3 isn't in the having, it's in just being. It's in just saying it. I know. I know how you see yourself, Dean. You see yourself the same way our enemies see you. You're destructive, and you're angry, and you're broken. You're Random Page #4. And you think that Random Page #5 and Random Page #6, that's... that's what drives you, that's who you are. It's not. And everyone who knows you sees it. Everything you have ever done, the good and the bad, you have done for Random Page #7. You raised your little brother for Random Page #8. You fought for Random Page #9 for Random Page #10. That is who you are. You're the most caring man on Earth. You are the most selfless, loving human being I will ever know. You know, ever since we met, ever since I pulled you out of Random Page #11... Knowing you has changed me. Because you cared, I cared. I cared about you. I cared about Random Page #12, I cared about Random Page #13... but I cared about Random Page #14 because of you. You changed me, Dean.

Why does this sound like Random Page #15?

Because it is.

I love Random Page #16.

#tag yours or comment idc! #destiel #supernatural #spn #spn crack #mine

[nsfwhiphop]

Incoming Text for Rihanna:

Hey, Riri!

Here is something you deserve to know:

I googled your net worth it's at $1.4billion.

If you reached out to me, I would give you information that would boost your net worth to $10billion but the problem is, you are convinced you don't need me, you think you can do this without my help.

The title of your song: "You needed me." - Well, right back at ya!

I believe in your talent and work ethic, you are a hard worker, obviously you can do it, but it will take you longer to reach your goal of $10billion, exactly 15 years later and I can help you achieve this in the next 5 years, it's your choice, so what you gon do?

I'm good, I don't mind to watch you struggle for 15 years to achieve something that can be done in 5 years, it's all about erudition, I know stuff you don't, I know where the money is and you don't.

I have a unique technique to make money that a lot of people in America don't know about because they want to make all their money in one place and refuse to cross borders.

Come again, you say?

What did I just say about crossing borders? You didn't understand?

Let me explain, well, you see, the United States and Europe are not the only places where you can become a billionaire, this is the mistake all these Forbes list billionaires make, they all want to make money in America and Europe and they forget that there a lot of places on earth to create wealth, immense wealth, lots and lots of dough, let's just say, planet earth is full of opportunities and I know where those opportunities are, end of the explanation.

You want that information, you know where to find me.

Also, here is my advice for you:

You have to hire Erykah Badu as your receptionist, I trust Erykah and I know she will be a perfect receptionist. Erykah will handle all your private conversations with me.

Erykah will move in that house and she will be your roommate with ASAP Rocky, it's the perfect hideout spot, you will be protected by the local police, no one will bother you.

I encourage you to buy a condo or a Villa for Erykah in Alsace, France and she will handle all your interactions with me.

I encourage you to buy a house in Wantzenau, it's a small town located 12 km northeast of Strasbourg.

You can call the local police and ask them to protect you and your new home, they will offer you the best security in that small town, here is the website of the local Police, click on the link:

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Here is a good quality home for you and the cost is 1.299.000euros in Wantzenau, Alsace, France. click on this link: https://www.abondance-immo.com/vente/67-bas-rhin/1-la-wantzenau/1-maison/t7/740-la-wantzenau-golf-maison-d-architecte-de-356m2-sur-11-87a-prestige/

Here is the wiki page of Wantzenau, click on the link:

Here is another website with Homes for sale in Wantzenau, click on the link below: https://www.seloger.com/immobilier/achat/immo-la-wantzenau-67/bien-maison/?

Watch this: Rihanna & ASAP be like: The Neighborhood Trailer

La Wantzenau is a very small town and you will feel at home here, it's peaceful, it's quiet, you can convince the ASAP mob to buy homes in this small town, they will feel at peace and at home here. ASAP Rocky will feel at home in this small town.

This is the perfect small town for you in France, you will have the local police protecting your home 24/7, it's perfect for you and your husband ASAP Rocky. Love you, Rihanna! Have fun, big hug for you!

#Youtube

[alyjojo]

Past Life 🗿 Karmic Spread August 2023 - Taurus

Gender I’m Picking Up On (in the past life): Male

Who You Were: Judgement

What You Did: 3 Cups & 4 Wands rev

How It Ended: 4 Swords & The Fool rev

What Karma Was Brought With You: Justice & 3 Pentacles rev

Who You Brought With You: King of Pentacles & 4 Pentacles

Additional energy: 9 Pentacles

Past Life Oracle: Wars and Battles, Greco-Roman, Imprisonment or Slavery

Dreaming Way: Child & Key

Charm:

Bloom 🌸 on King of Pentacles rev

Apple 🍎 on King of Swords

Key 🔑 on Child

Romantic Music 🎼 on 3 Pentacles rev

Whew, I’ve been waiting for this one! Cap was similar, the way you earth signs have me researching things I know nothing about. You two put me to work 😛 I eat it up. If I have an inkling, a hint, a clear impression, something that stands out, I jump right down that rabbit hole trying to find more, and your reading gave me enough to run with. Information and the Wiki link is posted at the end, I’ll refrain from repeating too much of what you’ll read on that page.

How I found you, Europe, freedom/rights for prisoners of war, highly intellectual, and “Child is the Key”, which is here for you twice. You were first a child prodigy, exceptionally brilliant and earning your place at the adult scholar table at 11 (whaaat?), publishing your first book at 16, and later a prisoner that escaped in a trunk of books, then used that experience to make an impactful change on how prisoners are treated, and a master of many different things throughout your life. A scholar, writer, jurist & teacher above all, you were extremely clever in strategy & application of your knowledge & personal philosophies, especially towards politics, and human “rights” or the lack of. You had a way with others and often worked with others that agreed with you and shared your influence, in order to achieve a greater end.

How you died was of injuries following an accident, shown as a shipwreck via Wiki, and you were already dealing with illness before this occurred, it was just the nail in the coffin.

In this life, you do extremely well for yourself financially, and probably come from a higher class or “important” family. There is a divorce here, likely your parents. Both parents are from past lives with you, clarifying showed The Empress too, but only your father was in this one being described. He is where you get many of your traits from, both positive and negative. Positively, he is a brilliant and responsible businessman with old fashioned and conservative morals & beliefs that one would regard as “regal” or even “snobbish” on some level, the negatives are that he is so far disconnected from the reality of life, love, family, struggle, spirituality outside of a box (or a book), he’s downright greedy. Greedy with finances, emotions, his time, he tends to look down on others as if they would need a purpose for even speaking to him, or they are wasting his time. He is likely another earth sign, your mother shows up as one too possibly.

Where the song or music fits in, only you will know, it’s attached to sadness and loss of this bond, the family unit. Could’ve been their wedding song and it’s one of your favorites or there’s a particular song you played a lot while going through this separation. Someone may be a musician. It could be separate entirely. Because 4 Swords shows up in both lives, it could be a scar or injury you’ve always had that’s made it difficult to play music, or you had to quit music and it is a deep wound. If physical, it’s in the same place you were injured before death. You could simply have tried dipping your toe into the music scene and couldn’t get the cooperation, band mates & fans necessary to take it further. If so, it was karmic. You had many helpers and fellow scholars in the last life, this life feels more solo & family directed.

Your mother is the catalyst for the divorce, she is completely financially stable and secure on her own, and encourages you not to get married, due to finances and things not working out. There is a coldness between the parents that stem from your father and bleed into your mother…I think she intended on forever, but was married to a checkbook with a heart of stone - that’s what I’m getting from her. She wants romance & emotional expression.

Where you come in, is you seem to have your father’s sense of emotions, morals, values, financial sense & love of business. He is successful and so are you, you could work together, this could be a family business. But your lesson is to flip this King of Pentacles rev with Daisy, recognize the flaws of your father within yourself with a high focus on putting work & money over family and love. It’s shadow work. Think back to childhood and the things you wish you could’ve done with your father, or times when he “dismissed” you and you felt small. Then apply this to yourself. The flower shows growth is possible after it is faced, and you may even be a catalyst for change or realizations in your father too, just by being an example. Your whole karmic purpose here is generational healing, which I see a lot with Taurus energy. 2 Wands shows you have a choice, nothing is set in stone, you can be exactly like your father, or consciously choose to be kinder, more generous, softer, loving, while still holding on to the values & gifts you both share. I do get a family for you, children, whether they’re here yet or not idk, and the difficult dynamic between you & Dad can end if you want it to, or your own children may carry on the tradition and act in the same ways, mirror the same experiences. This is where your control really lies 🙏 Or maybe when you realize it. Again, you’re playing a more “humane” role in a situation that has been too harsh, rigid, and conservative, as you did in the past, just in a different way.

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(The first formal call for the humane treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) came in 1625 from the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotius in The Laws of War and Peace, for which Grotius has been called the "father of international law".)

#taurus tarot reading #past life #karma #karmic #past life reading #august 2023 #Taurus #tarot

[projektimpworld]

[HS2/AI] Marvel ~ Jane Foster

Marvel series for Honey Select 2 (ハニーセレクト2 リビド) / Ai Shoujo 少女 Name : Jane Foster Origin : Marvel Costume : Default Birthday : June 9th, Height : 170cm Character Build : Projekt IMP Build version : 1.0 Mod by : Chw, mlekoduszek, sjjpl Profile : https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jane_Foster_(Earth-616)

Dr. Jane Foster is a physician[11] who empowers herself as the mighty goddess of thunder Thor when wielding Mjolnir[12] or as the deathly Valkyrie when wearing the Undrjarn the All-Weapon.[1] Foster has become entangled with the adventures of the Norse god of thunder Thor on Earth for working in the past as a nurse for his human alter-ego Donald Blake.[13] Deeply infatuated with the divine hero, for years her life was influenced on many levels by his actions.[14][15] ---------- Card & Mod Pack ---------- ► Download : https://projektimp.gumroad.com/l/cepyr ► Store : https://projektimp.gumroad.com/ ►Install Note : Extract Zip to your game installation folder : X:\Game\Illusion\Honey Select 2\(HERE) ► Overlays Note : Load overlays manually IF needed, face, body or clothes overlays can be found at X:\Game\Illusion\Honey Select 2\UserData\Overlays\IMP\(HERE) ► Gumroad download instruction : Put any amount inside "$ box" before check out. Ex : $.0 and click I Want This/Buy This. Fill the email section, fill discount code if you are a patron member, click "Get", click "View Content", Click "Download" to download your card file. ► Guide and tutorial to download and install : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ubmg-NUPaU If you encounter any problems or have any question, feel free to reach out our email support Contact Support : [email protected] ---------- Social Media ---------- ► Pixiv : https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/74997946 ► Twitter : https://twitter.com/Projekt_IMP ► FB Page : https://www.facebook.com/projektimp ► Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjektImpWorld ► Deviant Art : https://www.deviantart.com/syncvloid ► Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/ProjektIMPworld Also Available at IG, Pinterest, Tumblr and Pawoo. Best regards, Projekt IMP 世界 Disclaimer : All character model available at Projekt IMP store are built by Projekt IMP. Projekt IMP 世界 character card store is ONLY selling base character model, not the mod. Please keep your KK manager updated. Mod creator will always mentioned at description box. Please do support Mod creator listed in the description for their awesome works. All character created in this channel is a work of  fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters,  businesses, places, events and incidents in this creation are either the  product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is  purely coincidental.

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[thegeminisage]

one of many reasons castiel spent the first year of knowing dean trying not to strangle him: dean's weird little winchester-only dialect

i’m fucking obsessed with this right now, so buckle in for a meta. a cool fun (horrible) thing about dean's dialogue is that a good 90% of what comes out of his mouth is:

a pop culture reference ("you're just gonna take some divine bong hit, and shazam, you're roma downey?")

references to real life phenomenon ("i don't wanna wake up missing a kidney in a bathtub full of ice" "try new mexico, i hear he’s on a tortilla")

these also often take the form of nicknames, and dean has a tendency to give people nicknames in general or call them something besides their given name, whether it’s affectionate or rude ("easy there, van damme" "so i’m girl interrupted" furthermore castiel = cas, ezekiel = zeke, etc, see also frequent use of "chucklehead" "asshat" and on the nicer/endearments end "buddy" "pal" "sunshine" etc)

an idiom ("a snowball's chance" "if it smells like a duck...")

slang ("drinking the koolaid" "jonesing for some hooch" not to mention the literal endless amount of words dean uses to refer to killing - gank, waste, juice, ice, etc)

a metaphor ("power up your batteries" "fly me back to my page on the calendar")

a euphemism ("cloud seeding" "i'd have given you an hour alone with her first")

sarcasm (his habit of replying "peachy" or "super" when asked how he is)

wordplay (see: the entire "vampirate" and "werepire" debacles)

completely nonsensical (guessing what happened to a magical artifact: "it was dug up by tomb raiders? it was seized by the king of the dead by warlords?")

said at lightning speed - if you pay attention, dean actually talks a LOT, usually a mile a minute (this makes me feel a way when you recall him being nonverbal for a year at age 4 but that’s another post)

slang IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE (casual usage of “guano,” etc)

a lie, a deflection, a joke, etc

or worse, something dean’s NOT saying, deliberately, because he’s one of the most repressed people on earth

the end result of all this being:

dean winchester is utterly infuckingcomprehensible. 

think about this. there's an ENTIRE SECTION on EVERY SINGLE EPISODE PAGE of the spn wiki devoted to JUST explaining dean's pop culture references, because the average viewer won't have seen everything he's talking about either. they have a whole page for this called “hunter’s lingo,” but honestly, it’s not all hunters, just sam and dean’s fucking batshit communication style. even i don't understand dean half the time. SAM gets it, sam speaks it back to dean a lot in the early seasons, but that's because sam and dean are 1. practically two halves of the same person 2. FREAKS. every time we get an episode that involves outsider POV is devoted to them going "what the fuck is WRONG with them?"

enter castiel. technically speaking, the show implies that angels are omnilingual. castiel should understand every language known to man, but knowing the meaning of words doesn't help him understand the following:

pop culture references

references to real life phenomenon

nicknames

idioms

slang

metaphors

euphemisms

sarcasm

wordplay

you get the idea.

listen to me. look me in the eyes. castiel cannot understand a single fucking word that comes out of dean's mouth. my guy laid a hand on dean winchester in hell and immediately fell in love with him and has no fucking idea what he's talking about ever. because not only is dean winchester's way of speaking CLINICALLY insane, and sometimes incomprehensible even to other human beings who are not sam, castiel is an angel, and someone prone to taking things even more literally than other angels do

go back and watch and watch seasons 4-5 especially. the reason cas does so much squinting and head tilting is because every time dean opens his mouth castiel has to open up his mental "dean winchester dictionary" and translate entire paragraphs on the fly, because again, dean never shuts up!

what makes this extra hilarious to me is this gem:

this line is from 5.13. at this point cas has known dean for AN ENTIRE YEAR AND A HALF. what you see here is my guy SNAPPING. cas made an EFFORT in this scene. he asked who glenn close was. he's telling dean that he can't understand him. he is doing his level best to have a normal conversation with this guy he has a crush on and for the life of him he cannot do it (equal but opposite energy to cas blowing up the gas station and motel room in 4.01, tbh)

yes, cas can understand dean's tone. he can use context clues, and he usually gets the general idea. and when cas DOES understand dean's jokes, he laughs at them. the first time we ever see him smile is during their 4.07 heart-to-heart when dean says "it was a witch, not the tet offensive." since cas has knowledge of human history, he knows what the tet offensive is; he got the joke, and he laughed.

but as far as actual dialogue goes, he consistently struggles to keep up. even after metatron gives castiel the pop culture knowledge in season 9, cas struggles to put it to put it to proper use (dean: "you wanna just walk right into the death star?" cas: "what does a fictional battle station have to do with this?"). whenever he asks dean to clarify it's always when he’s most annoyed, like most of the time he knows it would be futile but he's too annoyed to care. (dean: "i don't know who's on first, what's on second!" cas: "what IS second???") i’m pretty sure he spends seasons 4-6 wanting to shake dean by the shoulders and ask him why he is LIKE THIS. 

it takes cas - who, again, is omnilingual - YEARS to begin to acclimate to dean’s speech and start speaking that language back to him. it's season 8 before we start really hearing him use slang, season 9 before he begins to understand wordplay, season 10 before he starts using pop culture references (to other angels, who immediately fail to understand him, which disappoints him immensely), and season 11 before he really gets into metaphors. i don't remember what season he started using "yeah" instead of "yes" but i do know it took a really damn long time. 

and honestly, i don't think cas truly got the hang of it until at least season 11-12. that's something like 7 or 8 YEARS. it’s more than half the time they’ve known each other at the point of the series finale. 

so what's true romance, fellas? it's falling completely and totally in love with the most inexplicable person you will ever meet in your whole 4.5 billion year life, even though you have yet to understand a single thing he's ever said to you. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[spn masterpost]

#destiel #dean winchester #castiel #deancas #supernatural #liz's meta #liz makes stuff #liz's spn stuff #i have a whole other thing about how cas will code switch when he's around angels vs humans but this post is already way too long #seriously debated waiting and posting this in the morning because i want people to reblog it but fuck it! 2am meta. #season 5 cas: completely in love: i have no idea what the fuck you're saying to me. i love you. i'm going to kill you. why are you like thi

[cryptocism]

ok yall in order to make this au ive now read all thirty-something appearances Thad has made in comics just so i can figure out how to make it as canon compliant as possible. theres a google doc of notes, and im in too deep to stop now.

some highlights:

-Thad refers to Bart as his brother no less than four times, which is hilarious because after their first encounter Bart's attitude towards Thad basically amounts to "ugh, this guy? again?" Thad trying very hard to establish himself as a brother/twin aka equal rather than a derivative copy/clone while Bart could not give less of a shit is never not going to be a combination of very funny and very sad.

-CRAYDL has a Technical Mode for when Thad just wants information, a Silent Running mode for when Thad wants quiet, and a Conversation Mode for talking informally. CRAYDL doesn't have to follow these modes tho and often interrupts their own information spiel to give needless commentary I love them

-Iris wrote a book about the flashes and mentions Thad in it, when Thad meets her he quotes the part about himself and?? how weird would it be to read a book about yourself being this evil villainous figure in someones life before youve even actually done anything

-Thad brings CRAYDL Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones CDs from the past just because CRAYDL likes their music

-technoplasm is actually the coolest weirdest technology that ever gets introduced and its literally never mentioned after Impulse 1995 this is a travesty

-Thad CAN actually phase through objects i was tricked by his prime earth wiki page that says he cant? which is weird bc even in his singular rebirth appearance its never mentioned what his powers actually are at that point

-Thad's evil plans always fail spectacularly, but he constantly reframes it like "pretending to fail" was his plan all along and its amazing. Idk if it was supposed to be part of his character or the writers trying to make him more intimidating, but it results in Thad looking like the worlds sorest loser to the point where he's so in denial about it that he convinces himself he's actually won. It's perfect.

-Thad's first canon appearance after disappearing into the speed force is in Flash #217 standing in the background at captain boomerangs funeral like? out of all the places to be???

-the Very Extreme tonal shift from Thad's appearances in Impulse versus Thad's appearances in Teen Titans 2003 is never more apparent than when Bart straight up breaks Thad's legs in order to keep him from running for a few minutes in issue #46

-Thad's teleportation hoop gets retconned into being called a teleportal which is the cowards way out. t-hoop or nothing.

-one of Thad's evil schemes involves strapping a bomb to Barts girlfriend and making it so that if Bart deactivates the bomb a plasma canon will automatically go off and vaporize him. to solve this problem Bart just? deactivates the bomb, sets off the canon, and then just runs around the circumference of the earth to make the canon blow itself up. ok??????

-Thad is inexplicably in a relationship with Sungirl for like two issues (#43-45) of teen titans and this is never mentioned or brought up again

-at some point after Thad is frozen and put in the Flash museum by Wally, the Flash museum gets set on fire in Flash #241 and Wally has to be like "Oh wait I left a boy in there" and takes the time to contemplate just killing Thad before finally carting his frozen body outta there like Wally?? Are you good buddy?

-final crisis rogues revenge is also very funny because it steps on the gas so hard trying to make you hate Thad so very much. which is fair he sucks so bad in it, but weirdly enough his body count was actually at 0 pre rogues revenge. he racks it up to 11 by the end with 10 security guards and one literal infant.

-actually rogues revenge is weird to read right after flash:FMA because its made pretty clear in FMA that the rogues really do want to kill flash. they werent tricked or coerced or anything, Thad went "I can make it so you can kill the Flash" and all the Rogues said "sign me up". there was no subterfuge in the "killing flash" thing. they all simultaneously shoot bart with ice and fire and lightning, and sure it was in a panicked "i dont wanna go back to prison" thing but WOW does rogues revenge want to make you think Thad did everything including pulling the trigger.

-in Teen Titans #98-100 a new Inertia shows up, clearly different from the last one, and with no knowledge of what the previous Thad did to Bart, and after Bart beats him unconscious they straight up Never Mention him again. the main fight is about Superboy Prime, so the rest of the issue is taken up with that. So I'm sat there like: is he. is he just lying there? did he escape? where did he go? does nobody have any interest in why he was there is the first place?

-the questions continue when New Thad is dissing the costume "they" gave him. like what? who is "they"?? is it Superboy Prime?? who are you and where did you come from sir???

#too many thads au #he is hilariously inconsistent across appearances its going to be great grafting it onto this au #anyway im thinking of explaining the new thad from tt98-100 as a very young version of Six hopping around the timeline

[thequiver]

Eddie Fyers is a character from the Green Arrow comics originally created by writer Mike Grell. Fyers is a hit man and serves as both an enemy and a friend to Oliver Queen’s Green Arrow. Fyers has been said to be the “proper execution of the Shado plot” and can be counted as Connor Hawke’s “other dad.” Fyers is a (likely unintentionally) queer-coded character from the 1980s, who despite being a minor character has a compelling arc and his effect on Oliver Queen, and later Connor Hawke, is apparent in the text. Prior to DC’s Rebirth, he was last seen at the wedding of Green Arrow and Black Canary in 2007. Finally, though the DC Fandom Wiki lists his height as 5’9”, he is typically drawn somewhere between 5’3” and 5’5”- thus making him either a “manlet” or a “short king” depending on who you ask.

A Complete and Chronological List of Eddie Fyers’ New Earth Appearances are as follows: 

Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #3

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #3-4

Action Comics, Vol 1 #614-16

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #10 (Nov 1988)

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #14 (Nov 1988)

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #34-38

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #53-54

Black Canary, Vol 2 #6 (June 1993)

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #76-80

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #91-94

Showcase ‘95, #4

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #96

Showcase ‘95, #5

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #97-103

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #105

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #107-110

Green Lantern, Vol 3 #76

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #111

Green Lantern, Vol 3 #77

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #112

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #115-117

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #119-120

Robin, Vol 2 #55

Detective Comics, Vol 1 #723

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #134-135

Nightwing, Vol 2 #23 (Aug 1998)

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #136-137

Adventure Comics 80-Page Giant #1

Green Arrow, Vol 2 #1000000

Robin, Vol 2 #78-79

Green Arrow, Vol 3 #8

Birds of Prey, Vol 1 #43-44

Batgirl, Vol 1 #30-31

Birds of Prey, Vol 1 #45

Batgirl, Vol 1 #32

Green Arrow, Vol 3 #16

Richard Dragon, Vol 1 #9

Richard Dragon, Vol 1 #11-12

Connor Hawke: Dragon’s Blood, #1-6

Green Arrow and Black Canary Wedding Special #1

A Complete and Chronological List of Eddie Fyers’ Prime Earth Appearances are as follows:

Green Arrow, Vol 6 #10-11

Green Arrow, Vol 6 #21-23

Green Arrow, Vol 6 #37

#reading lists #reading guides #reading guide #reading list #eddie fyers #green arrow #dc comics

[sigynappreciation]

Sigyn Meta: Who is Sigyn?

A Norse Goddess who is known for being the wife of the Trickster, Loki, and holding the bowl to protect him from the snake’s venom. 

But besides that, Who is Sigyn? What does she mean to others? 

Journey with me as we explore who she is -- not only in the mythologies, but in other forms like the Marvel Comics, Worship and through fans.

#JusticeforSigyn

Sigyn’s Origins (Mythology):

Sadly, not many stories that have Sigyn in them have survived till today. She is only attested in the following works: Poetic Edda & Prose Edda. 

In the poem, Lokasenna, the most famous of poem’s with the couple, it talks of how Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son, Nari, and how his son, Vari, has been turned into a wolf. The Goddess Skadi fastens a venomous snake over Loki’s face, from which venom drips. Sigyn, stated as Loki’s wife, stays by his side and holds a basin under and catches the venom so it won’t drip onto her husband, but when the basin grows full, she pulls it away to empty it, during which time venom drops onto Loki, causing him to wither so violently that earthquakes occur that shake the entire earth.

In the poem, Gylfaginning, Sigyn is introduced in Chapter 31 as being married to Loki and that they have a son by the name of “Narfi or Nari”. She is then mentioned again in Chapter 50 where events are described differently than in Lokasenna; Vali, described as a son of Loki only, is changed into a wolf by the gods and rips apart his brother, “Narfi or Nari.” The guts of Nari are then used to tie Loki to three stones, after which the guts turn to iron, and Skadi places a snake above Loki. Sigyn of course catches the venom in a bowl. This process is repeated until he breaks free, setting Ragnarok into motion.

In the poem, Skáldskaparmál, Sigyn is introduced as a goddess, an Æsir, where the gods are holding a feast for their visitors and in kennings for Loki: “husband of Sigyn�� and “cargo [Loki] of incantation-fetter’s [Sigyn’s] arms.” 

Sigyn’s name means “Victorious-Girlfriend” in Old Norse. 

Sigyn may appear on the Gosforth Cross and has been the subject of an amount of theory and cultural references.

She appears in the 9th century skaldic poem Haustlöng from pagan times, written by the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. Due to this early connection with Loki, Sigyn has been theorized as being a goddess dating back to an older form of Germanic paganism.

Sigyn in Worship/Honor: 

I’ll be speaking on this through my personal experience of working with Sigyn while also sharing some tid bits of basic info from others on this subject. I’m someone who works with Sigyn primarily, but sometimes gets help from Loki. 

A Lokean is someone who honors Loki as their primary deity ( or at least one of their primary deities.) Most are polytheists that respect a variety of worldviews and a wide variety of gods. FOR MORE ON THIS SUBJECT, VISIT THIS BLOG: https://lokeanwelcomingcommittee.tumblr.com

For those who work with Loki, you will also find yourself working with Sigyn. And sometimes you don’t even need to work with Loki first in order to work with Sigyn (like me!)

Sigyn is usually a calming and motherly presence. Loki is protective over her, but they usually work in unison together to help. 

SMALL DEVOTIONAL ACTS TO SIGYN: 

Holding the Bowl: It is a reflective act of Sigyn holding the bowl to protect Loki from the snake’s venom. This is usually the major one. 

Helping to support mothers (especially single mothers)

Support single parents

Supporting Women’s Rights

Keep fighting through the hardships 

Wear earthy tones

Commitment in everything you do.

Help others, but remember that self-care is important too

More devotional acts

KENNINGS/HEITI FOR SIGYN:

Wife of Loki

Incantation-Fetter

Lady of Staying Power

Lady of Unyielding Gentleness

Lady of the Unconquerable Heart

Mother of Narvi and Vali

North Star

Victory Woman

Lady of Loyalty

Loki’s Treasure

Devoted Mother

Lady of Endurance

Goddess of Constancy

Goddess of the Heart

Goddess of Neglected Children

Goddess of Comfort

Healer to All

Mother to All

Beloved of Monsters

SIGYN’S VIRTUES:

Strength

Loyalty

Grace

Humility

Gentleness

Charity

Constancy

Love

Endurance

Patience

Simplicity

Mindfulness

Compassion

I’ll cover more on this subject soon in a separate post, but this is the basic. 

Sigyn in the Marvel Comics:

Sadly, Sigyn is not portrayed the best in the Marvel Comics of Thor, resulting in her being missing from the comics since 1996 and practically killed off (only being referenced to in flashbacks.) 

Loki comes across her and desires to have her. However, she is already engaged to an Asgardian named Theoric, who Loki has killed and ends up taking on the disguise of in order to take Sigyn for his own. On their wedding day once the vows are said and done, Sigyn accepts her duty as his wife, granting her the title Goddess of Fidelity by Odin. 

She doesn’t have much of an agency or personality besides being Loki’s faithful wife in this. 

Fans wish for her to make a comeback in the Comics and MCU with better characterization. Hence, much Fanfiction, Cosplay, Roleplay and Fanart has been made of others own interpretation’s of Sigyn and #JusticeforSigyn is shared around in hopes of this. 

LIST OF SIGYN COMIC APPEARANCES:

Thor Vol 1 #275 (First appearance, 1978)

Thor Vol 1 #276

Thor Vol 1 #277

Thor Vol 1 #278

Thor Vol 1 #301

Thor Vol 1 #302

Thor Vol 1 #303

Thor Vol 1 #307

Thor Annual Vol 1 (9)

Thor Vol 1 #313

Thor Vol 1 #321

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 1 (1)

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 2 (1)

Gamer’s Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 1 (1)

Thor Annual Vol 1 (14)

Thor Annual Vol 1 (19)

Thor Vol 1 #479

Thor Vol 1 #483

Thor Vol 1 #484 (1995)

Thor: The Legend Vol 1 (1) (1996, last appearance)

Avengers: Loki Unleashed #1 (2019, first & only modern day appearance since 90s. FLASHBACK ONLY)

LIST OF SIGYN MENTIONS IN COMICS:

Thor Annual Vol 1 #10 (1982)

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 1 #11 (1983)

Thor: Asgard’s Avenger Vol 1 #1 (2011)

Mighty Thor Vol 1 #12.1 (2012)

Loki Vol 3 #1 (2019 - referenced)

Sigyn and her impact with Fans:

Sigyn is still not that well known among others, but there is a small community of us fans who honor her through all forms she is displayed and her relationship with Loki. This is the reason this blog and @dailylogyn​ were created: to help unite fans and spread the word of Sigyn and her relationship with Loki through appreciation and education.

Fans also show their appreciation for Sigyn through Art forms like Fanfiction, Cosplay, Fanart & More! The cool thing is that she can be interpreted however you wish, but her love for Loki and her compassion is always her strong points. 

There is a tag #JusticeforSigyn in order to help give her the proper attention she deserves. MORE HERE. 

FANARTISTS:

I’m not going to post any of their art here in order to make others visit their blogs and give them the appropriate credit they deserve. 

Let’s support content creators! <3

@nanigram​/Nanihoo: This artist makes wonderful fanart of her own interpretation of Sigyn and her relationship with Loki (plus their children.) You can usually find most of it on Deviantart. 

@sigynart​: This artist makes lovely art of Tom Hiddelston’s Loki, but has recently come out with their own interpretation of Sigyn and has even started to draw Loki & Sigyn together. 

@dank-art​: This artist makes a lot of interesting twists to Sigyn and Loki either if it’s a modern look, an alternate universe or a certain aesthetic of the couple. They have a lot of amazing concept designs concerning Sigyn and Loki! 

COSPLAYERS:

@bubbleteycosplay​: She is known as the German Sigyn! This cosplayer has done a wide varieties of different versions/outfits of Sigyn. Besides here, you can usually find her on Instagram, Deviantart and other websites. She also helps inform others on Sigyn and her relationship with Loki.

In fact, HERE IS A LIST she has created pertaining to other Sigyn Cosplayers. I’ll list the others below though with links to their pages:

Vontrug (Instagram)

lady_laufeyson (Instagram)

Mizerious (Instagram)

Maryintothewoods (Instagram)

danni_darling (Instagram) 

I myself am planning to join these wonderful cosplayers too as I work to create my own Sigyn cosplay as well. :) They are all such an inspiration! 

CONCLUSION:

I could go on and on about the subject of Sigyn. She’s an amazing, caring and loving goddess who teaches us many helpful traits we need throughout life. Despite still not being that well known, she is greatly loved by this community -- and none other than Loki. 

Hopefully someday she will make a comeback in the Marvel world and get the proper characterization and love she deserves. Till then, us fans will continue to share the love, joy and appreciation we have for Sigyn and her relationship with Loki, welcoming anyone as Sigyn does with open arms and loving hearts. 

SOURCES:

Holding the Bowl: https://lokeanwelcomingcommittee.tumblr.com/post/102422224083/a-bowling-tutorial

Lokean Welcoming Community: https://lokeanwelcomingcommittee.tumblr.com

Small Devotional Acts to Sigyn: https://bramblevitch.wordpress.com/2020/06/23/small-devotional-acts-to-sigyn/

Sigyn on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigyn

Lokean Welcoming Community’s topics on Sigyn: https://lokeanwelcomingcommittee.tumblr.com/tagged/sigyn

Sigyn on Marvel Database: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sigyn_(Earth-616)

Sigyn’s Shrine: Who is Sigyn?: http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/sigyn/sigyn/who-is-sigyn.html

Sigyn - Norse Mythology for Smart People: https://norse-mythology.org/sigyn/

#sigyn #justiceforsigyn #norse mythology #marvel #logyn #loki and sigyn #sigynappreciation #sigyn meta #norse pagan #marvel comics #loki x sigyn

[sineala]

Tony Stark and Arthuriana

Coming to you by special request, a very long post about 616 Tony's interest in Arthuriana, with a focus on all of Tony's run-ins with Morgan le Fay!

I feel like I should disclaim the extent of my knowledge here, which is that I still haven't managed to read anywhere near every issue of Iron Man -- at least, not yet, anyway -- so I'm just going by the things I know I've read, and Morgan le Fay's Marvel wiki entry is frustratingly under-cited, so it's very possible I've missed something relevant, but I'm pretty sure I've got the big stuff down. My other disclaimer here is that I'm not as big an Arthurian nerd as Tony is, which is to say that most of my familiarity comes from modern retellings -- T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave, Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset -- and not so much the usual classic sources on the Matter of Britain, though I've read bits and pieces of them.

(This is because I wanted to read versions of them that were as close to the original as possible but so far have not ended up finishing any of them because, well, that's hard. So I've never read the Mabinogion because I do not know Welsh. I've got the Norton Critical Edition of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, which is probably the best student edition if you're looking for something without modernized spellings, as I was. I've also got -- well, okay, it's my wife's but I'm borrowing it -- a relatively recent Boydell & Brewer edition (ed. Reeve, tr. Wright) of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), which is, you guessed it, in Latin with a facing English translation. I haven't gotten very far in it because, in case you didn't know this about Latin texts, the beginning is pretty much always the hardest, so I gave up and read some Plautus adaptations instead. Anyway, if for some reason you too want to read Geoffrey of Monmouth in the original Latin I'd recommend that one, but I can't recommend any particular English translations because I've never read one by itself. I bet you didn't think you'd be getting Latin prose recommendations in this post. I mean, maybe you did; it is me, after all.)

Okay. Right. King Arthur. Here we go.

We've got:

Flashbacks to Tony's childhood in late Iron Man volume 1

A brief discussion of Morgan's origin story and Avengers #187

Iron Man vol 1 #149-150: Doomquest

What If vol 1 #33: What if Iron Man was trapped in the time of King Arthur?

Iron Man vol 1 #249-250: Recurring Knightmare

Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #1-4

Avengers vol 3 #1-4: The Morgan Conquest

Civil War: The Confession

Mighty Avengers vol 1 #9-11: Time Is On No One's Side

In terms of universe-internal chronology, we know from Iron Man #287, from 1992, that Tony has been a fan of King Arthur since childhood. This is an issue of a fandom-favorite arc which features Tony having a lot of childhood flashbacks, including the famous "Stark men are made of iron" line (in #286) that for some reason MCU fandom decided it loved; I mean, seriously, I've seen that quoted in way more MCU fic than 616 fic. But slightly later, in #287, we get an entire page devoted to Tony's love of King Arthur.

The narration reads: "Over the next few years, I learned as my father intended. Discipline of body. Strength of character. But in what free time I was allowed, I worked my way through the school's library. At thirteen, I discovered Mallory [sic], who showed me a whole new world. A world of dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Of chivalry and honor. And the fantastic deeds -- of armored heroes."

The art shows Tony as a child sitting under a tree, reading a book labeled Mort D'Arthur by Mallory [sic] -- no, don't ask me why nobody at Marvel checked how to spell either the name of the book or its author -- and daydreaming of King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone, knights, et cetera. Just in case you somehow missed the extremely blatant hint that we are meant to understand that Tony's knight obsession heavily influenced him becoming Iron Man as an adult, we see one of his armors mixed in with all the drawings of knights. So, yes, canonically Tony is Iron Man at least partly because he's a giant King Arthur nerd, which I think is so very sweet. I love him. He's such a dork!

(This issue is currently in print in the Iron Man Epic Collection War Machine, should you need your own copy.)

This isn't actually the only reference to Tony as a King Arthur fanboy in this era of canon, either; a little later, in IM #298, we see that one of Tony's passwords is actually "Mallory." (Yeah, no, they still couldn't spell. But it's cute.)

But in terms of actual publication order, this is definitely not the first time we have seen in canon that Tony is into Arthuriana, as I'm sure you all know. I would assume, in fact, that giving Tony a childhood interest in Arthuriana is because Doomquest is one of the most beloved Iron Man story arcs of all time, and that all started at least a decade before IM #287 here was published.

The villain of Doomquest -- the one who isn't Doctor Doom, at least -- is Morgan le Fay. Yes, that Morgan le Fay. Yes, Arthur's evil half-sister Morgan le Fay. Yes, all of this King Arthur stuff is canonically real history on Earth-616. Morgan's first appearance in Marvel, per the wiki, was in Black Knight #1 (1955), which I have not read, and judging by the summary I feel like this is probably just supposed to be a straight-up comic retelling of Arthurian legends for kids; I don't think Marvel really had the whole Marvel Universe in mind as a concept in 1955, so I'm not sure this was meant to connect to anything else. I feel like this is another one of those instances of Marvel discovering that they can write comics about characters in the public domain for free -- like, I'm pretty sure that's how we also ended up with, like, Norse, Greek, and Roman mythology wedged into 616.

As far as I can tell from the wiki, the first time Morgan tangled with the Avengers (or indeed the larger 616 universe) in any way actually predated Doomquest -- it was in an early arc in Spider-Woman (#2-6) and then Avengers #187, which came out in 1979, actually right when Demon in a Bottle was happening over in Iron Man comics. If you read #187, Iron Man is not in it because he's off the team due to his drinking problem and also his accidentally murdering the Carnelian ambassador problem. So Wonder Man's filling in instead. This issue is part of Michelinie's rather sporadic Avengers run, which makes sense, I guess, considering where we see Morgan next.

Anyway, Avengers #187 is the classic issue where Wanda is possessed by Chthon, but what you may not remember from Chthon's backstory (I sure didn't!) is that he was summoned by Morgan le Fay because she was the first person who tried to wield the Darkhold to summon him. As you can imagine, this did not work out especially well for her and her followers and they had to seal Chthon away in Wundagore Mountain, which was where Wanda found him. (The Spider-Woman stuff is only slightly earlier and also appears to be about Morgan and the Darkhold; the Darkhold is not one of the areas of 616 canon I am especially conversant with, alas. It's on my to-read list.)

Doomquest, as you probably know, was a classic Iron Man two-parter in Layton & Michelinie's first Iron Man run that set up Tony and Doom as rivals; Doomquest itself was IM #149-150, in 1981, and then in their second IM run they came back and did a sequel in 1989, Recurring Knightmare (IM #249-250), and then the much later four-part sequel to that was the 2008 miniseries Iron Man: Legacy of Doom, which was also by Layton & Michelinie but generally does not seem to be as popular as the first two parts. They've all been reprinted, if you're looking for copies; I have a Doomquest hardcover that collects the first four issues and then a separate Legacy of Doom hardcover. Currently in the Iron Man Epic Collection line there's a volume called Doom, which confusingly only collects the 249-250 part of the storyline (as well as surrounding issues), because for some reason the first Layton & Michelinie run isn't in Epics yet but the second one is. So the beginning of Doomquest isn't currently in print, as far as I can tell. I'm sure you can find it anyway.

So what's Doomquest about? Okay, so you remember how Doctor Doom's mother's soul is stuck in hell for all eternity? Well, Doom's obviously interested in getting her back, and the strategy he has embarked on is to try to team up with other powerful magicians who can help him out, and he thinks Morgan le Fay would be a good choice, for, uh, his quest. Doom's quest. A Doomquest, if you will. (If you've ever read Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph & Torment, you're familiar with the part where he later ends up waylaying Strange for this and they go to hell together. And if you haven't read Triumph & Torment, you really should, because it's amazing.)

So Doom is off to his time machine to go team up with Morgan le Fay and Tony thinks Doom is up to something -- Doom has been stealing components for his time machine from a lot of people, including Tony -- and he follows him and it turns out one of Doom's lackeys has a grudge and wants to trap Doom in the past forever, and Tony gets caught up in it. Now they're both in Camelot. Surprise! #149 is actually all setup; they don't get to Camelot until #150.

IM #150 begins with Doom and Tony thrown back into the past; there's a fandom-famous splash page of them locked in combat, only to realize that they have found themselves in Camelot.

They are then discovered by knights; Doom would very much like to attack them, but Tony, who naturally would be happy to LARP Camelot forever, persuades him to play nice. Also Doom thinks Iron Man is only Tony's bodyguard so he keeps referring to him as "lackey," much to Tony's annoyance. Somehow everyone thinks they're sorcerers. Can't imagine why. The knights take them to meet King Arthur himself, and Tony has clearly had his introduction all ready to go, as he introduces himself in a timeline-appropriate manner, says he's here to apprehend Doom, and demonstrates his "magic" by levitating Arthur's throne. Doom's response is essentially "I'm the king of Latveria," which is, y'know, also valid. So they're guests at Camelot for the night while Arthur figures out what to do with them.

We then have a page devoted to Tony alone in his room, musing sadly about how alien he feels, how he doesn't know if he'll ever get home, how he could never fit in here without his beloved technology. Then a Sexy Lady shows up to keep him company for the night, and he decides maybe it's not all bad. Thanks, Marvel. I guess they can't all be winners.

Doom is using his evening much more productively; he compels one of the servants to tell him where Morgan's castle is, because he's still interested in having that team-up. Then he jets off. Literally. He has a jetpack.

The next morning Arthur's like "one of you is still here and one of you has punched a hole through the castle wall and flown off to join Morgan so I guess I know which of you is more trustworthy." He then explains to Tony who Morgan is, because Tony professes ignorance, because clearly we had not yet retconned in Tony's love of Arthuriana. Tony offers to go fight Doom and Morgan with Arthur; meanwhile, Morgan and Doom have teamed up and Morgan has offered to help get Doom's mother out of hell if he commands her undead armies against Arthur because for Reasons she can't command them herself anymore. So that's a thing that happens.

So, yes, it's Tony and Arthur versus Doom and Morgan. Fight fight fight!

Tony tries Doom first but then decides to hunt Morgan down, and in the ensuing fight we get what I think is Tony's first ever "I hate magic," a complaint that we all know he still makes even to this day.

Anyway, Tony freezes a dragon with Freon (mmm, technology) and Morgan gets upset and disappears, so the battle comes to an end, and of course Doom is extremely mad at Tony because he blames Tony for Morgan not sticking around to save Doom's mom, because I guess Doom trusted her to keep her word? Weird. (Like I said, for the next chapter of Doom saving his mother, go read Triumph & Torment.)

Doom says if he and Tony work together, the components in both of their armors can send them both home. So Tony has to trust Doom. Which he does, because he really has no other choice. They build a time machine and Tony makes Doom agree to a 24-hour truce when they get back, so they can both get home. So it all works out okay, and they end up in the present, and Doom tells him, ominously, that they will meet again. Okay, then. That concludes the original Doomquest. It's fun! You can see why fandom likes it.

So that's all well and good, but you might have noticed that Tony's ability to get home hinged on Doom actually being trustworthy. And Doom was. But what if Doom hadn't been? What if he'd just stranded Tony in Camelot forever As you may have surmised from the form of that question, that is in fact a question Marvel asked themselves, because, yes, there's a What If about this! What If v1 #33 is "What if Iron Man was trapped in the time of King Arthur?"

The divergence point from canon, as you can probably guess, is the very end of Doomquest. Instead of Doom bringing Tony home, he deceives him and leaves him in Camelot. And since Tony cannibalized a lot of the tech from his armor to make the time machine, he doesn't have a way to go home.

This is not a story where Tony comes up with a way to go home after all. He really doesn't get to go home. But instead of drowning his sorrows in mead -- because, remember, Demon in a Bottle has already happened and Tony is sober now -- he decides he might as well just play the hand he's dealt. So with what's left of his armor, he defeats some enemies that Morgan rounds up to send against Camelot. And for his services, he's knighted. He is now Sir Anthony.

Tony acknowledges that he is both living the dream and would also like very, very much to go home.

He does end up having some fun in Camelot; it's not all miserable. But he obviously doesn't want to be there.

So if you're at all familiar with King Arthur, you know how this goes, right? Arthur fights Mordred and Mordred kills him. And that does happen in this version. Except Tony is right there, and with his dying words, Arthur asks Tony to rule Camelot... and Tony agrees.

So, yes, Tony Stark becomes king of the Britons after Arthur's death and he never goes home again. The end. Man, I love What Ifs.

Heading back to main 616 continuity, there is still more of this arc to go. The original Doomquest was only two issues, yes, but it was popular enough that Layton & Michelinie did a sequel a hundred issues later, in their second run of Iron Man, and that's Iron Man #249-250, Recurring Knightmare. (In the intervening issues were Denny O'Neil's IM run, specifically the second drinking arc (#160-200), and then Layton & Michelinie came back and most famously gave us Armor Wars (#225-232). I would have to say that Armor Wars is definitely the standout fandom-favorite arc of their second IM run; for their first one, I think a lot of people would have a hard time choosing between Doomquest and Demon.) But anyway, yes. Recurring Knightmare.

Recurring Knightmare is... well, the best way I can describe it is "a trip." It is definitely a sequel to Doomquest, and it is also definitely not a sequel you  would ever have expected to see for Doomquest.

Much like #149, #249 is pretty much just setup. Fun setup, but the big action is in the next issue. We open with Doom in Latveria, on his throne, pondering which of his servants he should have disintegrated. Anyway, he's just hanging out there when a mysterious object appears. In California, Tony is suited up and entertaining the crowd at a mall opening when the same object also appears! He takes it to his lab. Please note that this is after the Kathy Dare incident, so Tony is still recovering and is walking with a cane. Doom sees on the news that Iron Man has found the same object, which cannot be carbon-dated, and he shows up at Tony's house. He criticizes Tony's taste in art.

Anyway, Doom basically orders Tony to work with him. Tony refuses, and then Doom sends some robots to attempt to steal Tony's version of the object because he thinks if he has them both he will be powerful. Doom manages to steal it, and when he puts the pieces together, both he and Tony disappear.

So where do they go, you might ask? Camelot?

Not exactly. The future! There is a great callback to the Doomquest splash page.

It turns out they are in London in 2093. Merlin brought them there. Tony still hates magic. And in the future, King Arthur is still there, except he is now a child, because he has been reborn. But he does remember Tony from Doomquest, at which point Tony kneels. Doom, of course, is not impressed. He asks why they have been brought to the future.

The answer is that things are going wrong in the future. If you do not personally remember United States politics in the 1980s, I need you to google the words "Strategic Defense Initiative" right now. I'll wait.

Back with me? Okay, so this is a future where Reagan's Star Wars program actually happened the way he wanted it to, and the satellites are still hanging around the Earth in the future and messing everything up, and Arthur and Merlin need Tony and Doom's help to stop them. Doom once again flies away with his jetpack, of course.

Tony is game to help, but he's not in an armor that can stay in space for long. This is when Merlin takes him and Arthur to the mall and Tony manages to get everything to upgrade his armor at Radio Shack. You see what I meant about this issue being weird.

Tony is out in space trying to disarm the SDI platform, which is where he runs into his future descendant, Andros Stark, who is in armor you will probably recognize from Iron Man 2020. He is referred to as "the resurrected spawn of Iron Man 2020" so I assume he's actually directly related to Arno rather than a direct descendant of Tony; Wiki confirms that Arno is his grandfather. This is all from way before Arno was contemporaneous with Tony in canon. Anyway, he's fighting Tony.

Oh, by the way, Future Doom exists. Future Doom would like to rule this future Earth and for some reason Andros would like to help him. Meanwhile, Present Doom finds out from Merlin that he can't leave except by magic and he can't leave without Tony, so he is reluctantly on Tony's side.

They need help from the Lady of the Lake, except the lake has been paved over and is now a parking lot. Merlin makes the lake come back and then of course they get Excalibur. Arthur is a kid, so he can't wield a longsword; Doom assumes he's going to take it because he is basically a king, and he's pretty grumpy when the sword picks Tony. Tony then uses Excalibur to destroy the space lasers, and I bet that is a sentence you never thought you would read. It's pretty cool. Tony concludes that magic has its good points. Tony stops Andros and Doom stops, uh, himself, and the world is saved and they get to go home. Also, Doom finds out Tony is Iron Man, but when Merlin sends them back he conveniently erases their memories, so neither of them remember anything about this and Tony's secret is still safe. And that's the sequel to Doomquest.

And if you think that's weird, wait until you see Legacy of Doom.

Iron Man: Legacy of Doom is a four-issue miniseries from 2008, also by Layton and Michelinie. Even though it's from 2008, it's set during a much more classic time in Iron Man, continuing on from where we left off in this Doomquest saga. We start with a framing story in 2008. Tony, who has Extremis now, is busy scrapping some of his older armors and reviewing his logs when he suddenly remembers that there was a whole thing with Doom that happened that he seems to have forgotten about until right now. So the whole thing is narrated by Tony in flashback.

Tony's in space fixing a satellite when a hologram of Doom shows up and summons him to Latveria. It's not really clear why Doom needs Tony's help in particular here, but Doom tells Tony that he's discovered that Mephisto would like to bring about the end of the world, which Doom finds, and I quote, "presumptive." So Doom has his Time Cube, and with it he takes Tony to hell.

(Yes, I promise this is relevant to Doomquest. There will be some Arthuriana shortly.)

Doom brings Tony to Mephisto, and it turns out it's a setup! Doom trades Tony for an item he wants from Mephisto, leaves, and Tony's going to be trapped in hell forever! Oh no! (I mean, he's not. But it's quite a cliffhanger.)

At the beginning of issue #2, we find out what the Arthurian connection is, which is that we learned that after the events of Doomquest, Morgan had been granted sanctuary by Mephisto in exchange for a shard of Excalibur that she had somehow stolen. Doom still wants Morgan's help with some magic -- he doesn't mention what it is here, but he says he needs someone of Pendragon blood, and that'd be her -- so he traded Tony to Mephisto in exchange for, I'm guessing, Morgan and the Excalibur shard.

I have probably mentioned this elsewhere, but Legacy of Doom #2 is one of my favorite issues of Iron Man ever, solely because of the next scene. We return to Tony in hell. Howard Stark is also in hell, and he is now a demon, and Tony has to fight him. Mephisto brings popcorn and watches. This is the one time in canon when Tony actually confronts his father, and okay, yes, it's a fistfight in hell and Howard is a demon, but that's comics for you. Howard spends several pages insulting Tony -- specifically insulting his masculinity, but that's a whole other essay -- until he finally insults Maria too, and that's when Tony fights back, because his mother taught him to be good. Honestly if you're a Tony fan I'd recommend this issue just for that scene.

Anyway, we go back to the Doom and Morgan plot, and Morgan casts the spell Doom wanted, which was fusing the Excalibur shard with Doom's armor. Then Doom sends her back to Camelot rather than hell, because he's still mad that she never helped him get his mom out of hell like she said she would.

Tony freezes Howard with Freon -- yes, the same trick he pulled on the dragon back in Doomquest -- and tells him, "You're no father of mine." It is immensely satisfying.

(I had been going to mention that I thought it was a shame that neither canon nor fandom seems to have really engaged with this confrontation, and I know canon never believes in narrative closure but fandom sure does -- and then, anyway, it occurred to me that since the framing story of Tony remembering this is set when Tony has Extremis, there's a very good chance that he no longer remembers remembering it. Goddammit, Marvel.)

(If I got to retcon one canon thing about Tony, I think "the entirety of World's Most Wanted" is up there. I mean, okay, a lot of things are up there, but WMW is definitely on the shortlist.)

Okay. Tony has now engineered his way out of hell, and he's back with Doom in Latveria. Doom has Excalibur. Doom would very much like to fight him. While wielding Excalibur. You get the sense that this is going to be bad. Another cliffhanger!

Legacy of Doom #3 opens with Tony destroying Doom's lab to buy time and running away from Doom and Excalibur. I should probably mention that Doom still doesn't know Tony is Iron Man (anymore), so he thinks he is dealing only with Iron Man, Tony Stark's lackey. Meanwhile, some scientists at SI think there's something weird going on with space. Meanwhile meanwhile, Tony is in a forest taking a breather when a mysterious old man walks up to him.

It's Merlin! Surprise! Merlin wants Tony's help to stop Doom from doing whatever he's doing with Excalibur. The sword makes you invincible and the scabbard makes you invulnerable, so Merlin sends Tony to Scotland on a fetch quest for the scabbard. Doom has now magically sent the sword in search of the scabbard, so the sword flies away to meet it and Doom follows. Turns out the thing that's wrong with space is a thing that's going to hit Earth at the exact place Tony and Doom are. What a coincidence! So Tony and Doom get trapped in a stone circle and fight some stone warriors and then Tony ends up with the scabbard. And by "ends up with," I mean it fuses to his armor. Next issue!

Legacy of Doom #4 is when things really, really get weird. A giant demon made of eyes (???) appears, and this demon is apparently what Doom had been preparing to fight (because it's mad that Doom stole one of its spellbooks), and now he can't, because the sword and the scabbard aren't together. Thanks, Shellhead.

That's when Merlin shows up and says all is not lost. They can defeat the demon... if they put the sword into the scabbard.

"But I'm the scabbard now!" Tony says, uncomprehending.

"Yes," Merlin says. "You are."

Then Tony gets it.

So, yes, Doom has to, um, penetrate Tony. With Excalibur. I love comics. I love comics so much.

So that's a thing that happens.

And then Tony flies off and, I guess, resolves to never, ever think about any of this again.

We head back to the framing story, in which Tony, now having remembered all of this, flies to Britain, buys the land the lake is on, and paves it over, presumably so it will be there for Merlin to bring back in Iron Man #250. The end.

Whew.

Okay, yeah, I know I didn't have to summarize the whole thing, but Legacy of Doom here really is one of my favorite Iron Man miniseries. And I just want to share the love. Please read it. It's great.

But the Arthuriana fun doesn't end there! In fact, now we get an Arthurian-themed arc that actually isn't in Iron Man comics. It's in Avengers! Iron Man is involved, though.

(There is also apparently a Morgan arc in Avengers #240. I actually haven't read it. It seems to be yet another Spider-Woman arc. I get the impression that this isn't really Arthuriana other than having Morgan in it fighting Jess, though, so it doesn't seem quite as relevant. Morgan also apparently has some appearances in FF, Journey into Mystery, and Marvel Team-Up, but those seem like more of just basic villainy. Also, probably not involving Tony.)

Kurt Busiek's 1998 Avengers run, volume 3, is in large part the kind of Avengers run that is a nostalgic love letter to older comics. Heroes are heroes and villains are villains and good triumphs over evil. The Avengers all live in the mansion and are BFFs. I love it. It does assume that you are already a fan of the Avengers, because it starts out by summoning pretty much everyone who has ever been an Avenger and is available to the mansion, and that is... a lot of people. Thirty-nine, by my count. Also, when the entire team is magically whisked away, we are treated to the following narration, as Steve disappears: "And Captain America's last thought, as the world goes white around him, and he with it -- is that Iron Man would hate this."

The narration doesn't tell you why Iron Man would hate this, or how Captain America would know that Iron Man hates this. This is not explained later on. But if you have read comics -- or if you have read the above summary of Doomquest -- you know that Tony is absolutely, one hundred percent, thinking, "I hate magic." And Steve knows it.

The reference is not relevant to the plot; if you don't get it, you'll be fine. But that's what I mean when I say this is a nostalgia run. There are definitely Easter eggs for people who have read a bunch of comics. Busiek does this a whole lot in his work -- there's a reason you can buy an annotated edition of Marvels -- and, yeah, it happens here too. Just know that there will be references you're not getting, if you're new to comics.

Anyway. So Busiek's run actually starts out with an Arthurian arc, #1-4, "The Morgan Conquest." The name is a dead giveaway. Yes, Morgan le Fay is back. Again. For once, Doom is not involved.

The Avengers are all back from their sojourn on Counter-Earth after fighting Onslaught -- don't worry about it -- and mysterious things are happening. There are a lot of monster attacks. So pretty much everyone who has ever been an Avenger is summoned to the mansion, at which point we learn from Thor about some mystical artifacts that are being stolen. (They are the Norn Stones and also the Twilight Sword. That sounds like something from a Zelda game, doesn't it?) The Avengers go to try to stop this, end up in Tintagel, and then they run into Mordred. He wants to capture Wanda, presumably for Magic Reasons. Morgan le Fay casts a spell on all of them, reshaping reality. Yes, all of them. Surprise!

So now all the Avengers are living in a medieval castle and/or town; Morgan is their queen, and thanks to the power of mind-control they are all basically living in Ye Olden Times. The Avengers are all some variety of knight, except for Wanda, who is chained up in the dungeon so Morgan can steal her magic and use it to fuel all this reality-warping.

Wanda calls for help, and that snaps Steve (Yeoman America!) out of the mind control (or altered reality or whatever you want to call it) pretty fast, because Steve's always been very good at resisting mind control, and then Steve promptly goes and snaps Clint out of it, because I guess Steve is also good at inspiring people to snap out of mind control. "Oh, man!" Clint says. "Not another alternate reality! Not again!" (I assume he's referring to Counter-Earth? Maybe?)

So Steve and Clint go around reassembling the Avengers and orienting them as to reality. They get Jan and Monica easily, but then Steve insists on trying to get Tony because, I guess, he likes Tony and would really like to hang around Tony, who is half-naked and asleep in his bedroom, and certainly I am reading nothing whatsoever into this. Clint tells Steve it's not going to work. Tony has historically been fairly susceptible to mind control; it was only pretty recently at this point that he'd been doing Kang's bidding in The Crossing. But the more serious impediment is that this is Tony Stark and he would obviously like to LARP being a knight forever and ever. Tony, therefore, does not believe Steve, and throws him and Clint out of his bedroom and into the barracks.

"Iron Man's a good guy, normally," Clint says. "But he's waaay too into his whole nobleman/lord of the manor trip. That spell musta hit him right where he lives!"

Clint speaks the truth, clearly.

Anyway, they go around and manage to make pretty much every Avenger in the room other than Tony snap out, and attempt to rebel against Morgan while Tony is stil fighting them because he is Still A Knight. There's a lot of punching, because some of the Avengers still aren't free; they weren't ones Steve found.

The day is saved when Wanda manages to channel Wonder Man and break free. This gives the Avengers a fighting chance against Morgan and the Avengers are all lending Wanda their power when Tony finally snaps out of it and is on the side of good. 

Then they take Morgan down, go home, and attempt to figure out which of these thirty-nine people should be on the active Avengers team. Hooray.

But that's not the end of Morgan le Fay showing up to screw around with Tony's life! There's more to come! Not much, but there is one that I know of, and at least one more memorable reference. 

(I haven't read all her appearances or anything, but one of them definitely involves Tony; I can't swear that he doesn't appear in any of the other books Morgan shows up in, but it'd be a cameo for him, because I only know of one more arc that she's in in a book that Tony stars in.)

In a few more years, we have now entered the part of Marvel Comics history where Brian Michael Bendis writes all the Avengers books at the same time for, like, seven years running. It was sure A Time. There were a lot of word bubbles.

And the thing about Bendis is, Bendis looooooves Doomquest. If you're familiar with the very end of his tenure at Marvel where he made Doom be Iron Man after Tony got knocked into a coma in Civil War II, you have probably figured out already that he likes Doom. But he also likes Doomquest, specifically.

I mean, if nothing else, the giant splash page in The Confession where Maleev redrew the climactic Doomquest fight while Bendis had Tony talk about how deeply meaningful to his understanding of the world this all was -- and how it allowed him to predict Civil War -- was probably a big clue, right?

As far as I am aware, Morgan le Fay makes exactly one more appearance in Tony's life. And that's in Mighty Avengers vol 1 #9-11. Only one of those issues is named, so I'm going to assume the arc is named after it: Time Is On No One's Side.

You remember Mighty Avengers, right? The deal with the Avengers books at the time was that after Bendis exploded the mansion and made the team disband in Avengers Disassembled, the main Avengers book was no longer called just Avengers. Instead, the main Avengers book was New Avengers, and that was the only Avengers book. Then Civil War happened, Steve got killed, and New Avengers became the book about what was left of the SHRA resistance (i.e., Steve's side) after the war. So about halfway through New Avengers, Mighty Avengers starts up, and Mighty Avengers is about an extremely fucked-up and grief-stricken Tony Stark trying to run the official government-sanctioned Avengers team, with Carol's help. This is the comic with the arc where Tony turned into naked girl Ultron. You remember.

So, anyway, there's this Mighty Avengers arc where Doom is Up To Something (there are symbiotes and a satellite involved) and somehow Tony and the Avengers end up in Latveria, punching Doom. Also, by the way, Doom is visiting Morgan in the past because he likes her. The Avengers attacking his castle made him have to come back to the present, so he's kind of cranky. And he fights Tony, and in the course of the fight, his time platform explodes and sends Doom and Tony and also the Sentry to... the past.

This is one of those times where you should definitely look up the comics if possible because the way the past is visually indicated here is that it's colored with halftone dots the way you would expect old comics to be colored, although they have modern shading and color palettes. It's very charmingly retro.

So the three of them are stuck in New York in the past, and naturally they would like to leave. There's one person in this time who has a time machine and it is, of course, Reed Richards. Doom and Tony have a lot of banter in this arc; I think it's entertaining.

Sentry has to be the one to break them all into the Baxter Building because of that power he has where no one will remember him. So they do that, travel forward in time, and end up in Latveria in the present again except Doom is gone and also things are currently exploding where they are.

Doom, of course, has made a side trip to visit Morgan again and he asks her to help him build an army, because I guess this is what their relationship is like. So the rest of the Avengers are captured by what look to me like Mindless Ones and are in a cave in magic bondage, because comics. Jess comments that at least they aren't naked, because she too is remembering that memorable New Avengers trip to the Savage Land. Doom threatens Carol in some creepy sexist ways and eventually it turns out that Tony and the Sentry are fine and everyone kicks Doom's ass. Business as usual.

And the last page of the arc is Morgan alone, wondering where Doom is. So technically Morgan and Tony don't come face to face here, but I think she counts as being at least partially responsible for ruining Tony's day here. And then Secret Invasion happens and Tony has a very, very bad day.

There are a few more Morgan appearances after this, but, as I said, I don't think any of them involve Tony. She shows up in Dark Avengers, apparently, which was one of the post-Civil War Avengers titles I didn't read, and I know that recently, on the X-Men side of things, she's been in Tini Howard's Excalibur one, which I have only read a little of. No Tony there. Just a lot of Morgan and Betsy Braddock and Brian Braddock and the Otherworld.

If you are interested in Morgan's other appearances, you might like this Marvel listicle that is Morgan le Fay's six most malicious acts. I pulled some of the Darkhold backstory from their discussion, but it's not really focused on Morgan and Tony.

So there you have it! That's everything I know about Tony's love for King Arthur and every run-in I know about that he's had with Morgan le Fay! One of two terrible people in Tony's life named Morgan! Actually, I don't think we've seen Morgan Stark in a while. I wonder if he's alive. There should be a Morgan & Morgan team-up. I should probably stop typing and post this.

The tl;dr point is that you should all read Doomquest and its sequels, especially Legacy of Doom. They're great!

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Above: An undated note by George Harrison in which he agrees to put money towards funding Vole magazine, after presumably being asked for help from Terry Jones in a letter, Below: Various issues of the magazine

NOTE: Vole was a lighthearted environmental magazine founded by journalist and anarchist Richard Boston with funding from Terry Jones. Contributors included people like Richard Mabey, Richard Adams, Tony Benn, John Arlott, and Paul Foot (the journalist). It ran from 1977-1981.

"During 1980, Harrison became a member of Greenpeace and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament); [9] he also protested against the use of nuclear energy with Friends of the Earth, in London, [10][11] and helped finance Vole, a green magazine launched by Monty Python member Terry Jones." - Wiki page for Save the World

"According to a publicity handout at the time, VOLE was in favour of ‘canals, railways, shove ha’penny, old buildings, mushrooms, civil rights, cycling, recycling, allotments, blue-tits, wagtails, oak trees, voles, conservation, alternative technology, small businesses, village schools, yards, feet and inches, rights of way, local history, human welfare, Basil Brush and darts’." - Caught by the River

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