#straight from 2008 to 1989

[gayloringinplainsight]

"Rights are being stripped from basically everyone who isn't a straight white cisgender male," she tells Vogue, when asked about why she chose to, all of a sudden, stand up for LGBTQ+ rights. "I didn't realize until recently that I could advocate for a community that I'm not a part of."

Source: https://www.out.com/news/2019/8/08/taylor-swift-says-shes-straight-despite-all-bisexual-rumors#toggle-gdpr

I was waiting for this to come through my inbox lol. (There was more then one ask about this but I'm only responding to the first.)

There's lots to unpack here but the first and foremost thing is: She doesn't actually say here, "I'm straight." It was a perfect opportunity. It was the ideal conversation. She punted. Why?

Why did she instead give this vague, circuitous, carefully couched answer?

She calls out communities encompassing sexuality, race, and gender, followed by saying, "a community that I'm not a part of." There are lots of communities that she could have been referring to, but she crafted the sentence in such a way that makes it unclear which one. She could have been talking about the trans community. She could have been talking about the poc community. She could have been talking about the ace community. She could have been talking about the gay male community. There are lots of possibilities. In this carefully worded sentence, she deliberately avoided naming the specific community she's talking about.

Another thing to consider is that many, many closeted people don't consider themselves part of the queer community. They don't feel like they belong because they're not out and proud. And even once people come out, it often still takes time before they feel like they're part of the queer community. That was certainly my personal experience. Cara Delevingne said something similar in her Hulu show when discussing her own coming out.

Let's move on. The link anon provided isn't the source. It's an article quoting the source. The actual source is the 2019 Vogue cover article. And the full article is important because there are lots of interesting things that give context to this quote.

First, there's a great deal of conversation about gay stuff and lgbtq+ rights. And the writer makes a point of saying about this subject matter that Taylor seems to enjoy that part of the conversation "as much as she’d enjoy a root canal." Wouldn't a straight ally be eager to discuss this? They would. And a closeted queer person would be uncomfortable and panicking at the thought of having to talk so blatantly about this subject. The writer also makes a point of saying that once the conversation changes to music, Taylor lights up and her demeanor and speech patterns relax dramatically.

The other important context that the Vogue article discusses is Taylor's very long history of supporting lgbtq+ rights. Everything from the Mean mv of a gay boy being bullied to the "boys and boys and girls and girls" line in WTNY to donations to lgbtq+ organizations to giving out queer awards to queer people to dedicating Dress to Loie Fuller, an openly gay artist. There are plenty of other examples of Taylor advocating for the queer community that aren't mentioned. All the way back in 2008 she participated in the LOGO queer anti-bullying PSA. In 2009 she was in Seventeen magazine taking a stand against the slaying of a teenager for being gay.

Why is this important? Because it proves that Taylor is lying in the quote in question. "I didn't realize until recently that I could advocate…" girl yes you did. You've been advocating for years and years at this point. She's lying. She's lying. She's covering herself up. She's hiding in the closet and hoping desperately that no one notices.

And this isn't the first time she's done this either. During the 1989 press tour she gave an interview where she was asked about the "And you can want who you want / Boys and boys and girls and girls" line. As the interviewer is starting to speak about this, a look of pure panic immediately takes over Taylor's face:

And then she starts stumbling around trying to give a coherent answer. At one point she stutters out, "And also I wrote this song, um, I wrote this song, kind of, kind of following, the, uh, when gay marriage became legal in New York." This interview was in October 2014. Gay marriage had been legal in New York since June 2011. Sooo three years later is "kind of following." Right. Sure, Taylor. Nice closeting. You really nailed it.

Okay let's review. She doesn't actually say she's straight even though this was a perfect opportunity to do so. She doesn't name the actual community she's talking about, giving herself cover if she ever comes out. She's closeted and probably doesn't think she's part of the queer community anyways. She full-on lies about not knowing she can advocate for others. And the writer states Taylor seems deeply uncomfortable talking about lgbtq+ things even though the context of the article was that blondie wanted to make it clear how much of an ally she is.

None of this remotely adds up to hetero. And none of this comes even close to Taylor saying that she's straight.

#gaylor #gaylor swift #Taylor swift #yeah I wrote another essay so what

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 1001-1100

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Pet Sematary (1989) had the most votes with 921 votes. I Know What You Need (2023) had the least votes with 310 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Sleepy Hollow (1999) was the most watched film with 56.4% of voters out of 424 saying they had seen it. Saint Drogo (2023) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.2% of voters out of 495.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

They/Them (2022) was the least watched film with 62.8% of voters out of 682 saying they hadn’t seen it. I Know What You Need (2023) had the least "No" votes with 5,2% of voters out of 310.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Pet Sematary (1989) was the best known film, 3,8% of voters out of 921 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

I Know What You Need (2023) was the least known film, 94.2% of voters out of 310 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

What Josiah Saw (2021) It Comes at Night (2017) Something in the Dirt (2022) Lisa Frankenstein (2024) The Toxic Slime Creature (1982) The House of the Devil (2009) The Dark and the Wicked (2020) Shin Godzilla (2016) Run (2020) Nine Dead (2009)

The Addiction (1995) The Guardian (1990) Open 24 Hours (2018) Here Comes Hell (2019) Sweet Home (2015) Like Dogs (2021) The Stylist (2020) Saint Drogo (2023) Girl on the Third Floor (2019) Evil Bong (2006)

The Hunger (1983) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 (2022) Bed Rest (2022) Witchhammer (1970) Leonor (1975) Cold Skin (2017) The Vourdalak (2023) Blood for Dracula (1974) Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) The Dirties (2013) The Vigil (2019) Storm of the Century (1999) Infinity Pool (2023) The Final Wish (2018) Devil (2010) Uzumaki (2000) Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023) Blood Red Sky (2021)

The Finale (2023) The People Under the Stairs (1991) Eli (2019) Autopsy (2008) Sleepy Hollow (1999) The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (2007) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Paganini Horror (1988) Titane (2021) Burying the Ex (2014)

They Remain (2018) Vicious Fun (2020) Vivarium (2019) Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018) Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019) Summer of '84 (2018) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Sweet Sixteen (1983) Popcorn (1991) April Fool's Day (1986)

Eerie (2018) Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Greener Grass (2019) The Innocents (2021) Dark Harvest (2023) Häxan (1922) Dark Light (2019) Arthur, Malédiction (2022) Polaroid (2019) Antisocial (2013)

Headless Horseman (2007) Radius (2017) Goblin (2020) Havenhurst (2016) The ABCs of Death (2012) Abandoned Dead (2015) Pet Sematary (1989) Dark Water (2005) Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023) Witches Straight From Hell (2023)

Belzebuth (2017) Fade to Black (1980) Scanners (1981) Blood Punch (2013) Cannibals and Carpet Fitters (2017) Split (2016) Game of Death (2017) Paperhouse (1988) The Baby (1973) Splatter: Naked Blood (1996)

A Perfect Child of Satan (2012) Blair Witch (2016) Night of the Devils (1972) I Know What You Need (2023) Midnight Son (2011) Slaxx (2020) They/Them (2022) The Darkness (2016) Wind Chill (2007) Crypt of the Vampire (1964)

#recap

[tenaflyviper]

A few picks from my queue, all currently free to watch on Tubi TV.

Horror:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Blood and Black Lace (1964)

The Wizard of Gore (1970)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Rabid (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

City of the Living Dead (1980)

Next of Kin (1982)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

The Toxic Avenger (1984)

House (1985)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

The Stuff (1985)

Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

Hellraiser (1987)

Meet the Feebles (1989)

The Dead Next Door (1990)

Santa Sangre (1990)

Bride of Re-Animator (1991)

Troll 2 (1991)

Ozone (1994)

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)

El Día de la bestia (1995)

Audition (1999)

Battle Royale (2000)

The Convent (2000)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

May (2001)

Undead (2003)

Train to Busan (2016)

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2020)

Comedy:

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1977)

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

SGT. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1993)

Series:

Freddy's Nightmares (1988)

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993)

The Kids in the Hall

Musicals:

Forbidden Zone (1980)

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Animated:

The Last Unicorn (1982)

Project A-ko (1986)

When the Wind Blows (1987)

Other:

Robo Vampire (1988)

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Manborg (2013)

Documentaries:

Film House Fever (1985)

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)

Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout (1990)

Reflections on the Living Dead (1993)

Zombie Jamboree '93 (1993)

Flesh & Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994)

Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)

Horror Effects: Hosted by Tom Savini (2008)

Not Quite Hollywood (2008)

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels (2008)

Monsterland (2009)

Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue (2009)

American Grindhouse (2010)

Celluloid Bloodbath (2012)

Eurocrime! (2012)

Inside Horror (2012)

Trailer War (2012)

Vampira and Me (2012)

Adjust Your Tracking (2013)

Birth of the Living Dead (2013)

Horrible Horror (2013)

I Am Divine (2013)

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of Horror (2014)

42nd Street Memories (2015)

Kings of Cult (2015)

Monsters Among Us (2015)

Blood on the Reel (2016)

Ghostheads (2016)

VHS Massacre (2016)

Greetings from Tromaville (2017)

King Cohen (2018)

Popcorn Fodder (2019)

Survival of the Film Freaks (2019)

VHS Nasty (2019)

Direct to Video: Straight to Video Horror of the 90's (2020)

Fulci for Fake (2020)

Hail to the Deadites (2020)

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Vol 1 - Midnight Madness (2020)

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Vol 2 - Horror & Sci-Fi (2020)

Hollywood in the Atomic Age (2021)

Oh! The Horror! (2021)

100 Years of Horror

#horror #recommendations #list #links

[softpastelqueer]

It’s so embarrassing for me to be all Green Party on main because of how often antisemitism gets outed among Green Party members or politicians in the US 🤦🏻

Like what the fuck is this?

Cynthia McKinney was the National Green Party Presidential nominee in 2008 and the Alaskan Green Party VP pick in 2020 (the decision got the Alaskan Green Party decertified but it’s still outrageous they chose her)

For reference:

Ayo Kimathi - far-right straight pride activist, and writer of “Jews Are The Problem” who wants to kill queer people and Jewish people

David Duke - famous racist and antisemitic KKK grandwizard and Louisiana House Rep from 1989-1992

It was done on 9/11 because of the famous conspiracy theory “Jews were behind 9/11”

Leftists and leftist parties, ESPECIALLY the Green Party, need to disaffiliate themselves away from open bigots and antisemites.

Leftists circles have always had a huge antisemitism problem, but lately it’s gotten worse

[blazehedgehog]

Who would you say is the most mismanaged video game mascot of all time?

Jeeze, I dunno. Sonic's the easy answer.

Mega Man, maybe. It's hard to believe it now, considering the state of things, but there was a time where most people were absolutely sick to death of Mega Man because Capcom was flooding the market from around 1989 to 2008 or so.

I mean, Mega Man 8 released with a "10th Anniversary!" logo on the box. Do the math on that one -- 8 games in 10 years? And, obviously, once you start counting spinoffs, it was significantly more than just 8 games in 10 years. (By my count, it was something closer to 27, meaning close to three games a year, every year, for a decade)

Like there was a point in my life where I was angry about Mega Man games, because there were SO many of them and they were all SO similar. There was a new Mega Man game every few months.

I'm sure they made a boatload of money, so maybe they weren't mismanaged so much as they were just milked to death and back, though I still think a lot of those Mega Man games are straight up bad -- only a handful of them truly "count" to me.

Maybe Bubsy. I will always hold a candle for that first Bubsy being one of the better Sonic clones, even if it completely falls apart by the end of the second world. But there's a flicker of something there, and they definitely were aiming high. And then completely crashed on the rocks the moment we got to Bubsy 2. A lot of people yell about Bubsy 3D, but the truth of the matter is, any game past Bubsy 1 is borderline unplayable.

#questions #anonymous #sonic the hedgehog #sega #sonic team #capcom #mega man #bubsy

[weaselandfriends]

Share the 0/10s and 1/10s from the movie ranking masterlist too please

Letterboxd doesn't allow 0/10s, so 1/10 is the lowest it goes. Mine are (in chronological order):

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

Orca (1977)

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

Poltergeist III (1988)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Troll 2 (1990)

Carnosaur (1993)

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

Digimon: The Movie (2000)

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Hannibal (2001)

The Master of Disguise (2002)

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2003)

Darkness Falls (2003)

House of the Dead (2003)

The Room (2003)

Scarecrow Slayer (2003)

Raptor Island (2004)

Alone in the Dark (2005)

Dragon Wars (2007)

Rubber (2010)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Furry Nights (2016)

Selfie from Hell (2018)

Most of these are not the most controversial choices, and many barely qualify as films. To be a 1 out of 10 you either have to be obviously incompetent in every possible regard (Manos, The Room, most of the other low-budget horror trash here) or else notable and unique in your atrociousness. Digimon: The Movie is a movie that is bad in a way no other movie has ever been; there's almost something admirable in how fundamentally fucked the film is in every conceivable way, especially considering the movie is pieced together from bits of actual movies that are, if not masterpieces, significantly better than this Frankenstein thing. Then there's the class of films that are completely full of themselves despite being pretty terrible (Hannibal, Rubber, Only Lovers Left Alive), where any shred of competent filmmaking is tanked by the complete tonal mismatch.

I have 143 2/10s, so I won't list all of them (many are low-budget and/or straight-to-DVD horror films), but here are a few honorable mentions among movies people may have actually seen or heard of:

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

The Flintstones (1994)

The Parent Trap (1998) (This film may not actually be that bad, but I was forced to watch it about 200 times as a child, so I hate it)

What Women Want (2000)

Reign of Fire (2002)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)

Eragon (2006)

Teeth (2007)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Transformers (2007)

Jumper (2008)

Burn After Reading (2008)

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

Watchmen (2009) (Still better than the original comic, which I loathe)

Dragonball Evolution (2009)

Land of the Lost (2009)

Public Enemies (2009)

Year One (2009)

Gamer (2009)

Jennifer's Body (2009)

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

Clash of the Titans (2010)

The Last Airbender (2010)

Devil (2010)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

The Hunger Games (2012)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

Sharknado (2013)

Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)

The Imitation Game (2014)

The Equalizer (2014)

Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017)

High Life (2018)

#movies #film

[cherrystainedknuckles]

3, 14, 31, 39 for the ask game!

3. Who's your favorite comics hero/sidekick duo?

I think dick and damian genuinely have the funniest batman/robin dynamic ever but otherwise... idk. ollie and mia? I don't find hero/sidekick duos all that compelling tbh which is funny bc I am into The hero/sidekick franchise. I just find "favorite" is the wrong word. like bruce and tim are fascinating to me as batman/robin as are bruce and steph but also bruce was so terrible to them. OH wait DING DING DING final answer!! max mercury and bart allen. I miss impulse 1995

14. What's your favorite thing about character [x]?

you did not provide me a character 😔

31. Shine a light on a character you think deserves more love.

GRETA HAYES GRETA HAYES GRETA HAYES!!!! she is like THE most ignored member of yj98 which is wild since she's been there LONGER than cassie and cissie??? but she's literally everything to me. she died and then came back Wrong and everyone can see it and they're scared of her inherently because she's made of death but she literally just wants to be a normal girl but she's so so so terrified of being evil that it drives her into a spiral where she eventually becomes evil!!!!!! underrated duo: slobo and greta. I'm begging everyone to actually read all of young justice 1998 before yj posting because she is by FAR the most interesting character.

39. What comic plotline gives you brain worms?

hmmm okay so in titans 1999 when those kids from the DEO or w/e break into the tower and stay with them for a few issues. in my HEART! I think the titans should've just continued to have a gaggle of children in their tower. if we expanded each one to have a coherent character it very reasonably could've been an expansion of lian's gen alongside cerdian except DC decided they hated kids and murdered all of them in between the years of 2006 and 2008 </3

same thing with james from huntress 1989!! where did he go!! DC loves introducing kids between the ages of 8 and 14 and then wiping them off the face of the planet a few issues later. helena straight up adopts a child supergenius, gets erased, and when she appears again two years later she is childless. where are they :(

also fear state (batman rebirth) was a really cool concept but the execution was terrible. in my heart I did it better

#cherryblogs #ask game

[lemeute]

activism planning/involvement resources, post 1/?

does anyone have resources on what practical involvement in activism looks like and what things actually work to make change when voting and petitions and Reform This Organization From The Inside are not doing it? someone I know asked

and sometimes I forget that not everybody just has this knowledge jumping around in their head all the time and now that I've remembered (and also thanks to @barricadescon panel-ing getting me to consolidate my brain), you have to look at (or skip past) this tumblr post full of Links I Think Are Helpful

these are resources about strategy and tactics:

this means they are not here as advice on what to believe or what organizations to work with.

it also means they are not one-size-fits-all, because strategy and tactics are highly context-dependent.

when someone asks "is this effective?" my first response is always "effective for what goal?"

with that said! yay! here are some great links!

-this is a training outline for campaign planning from powershift network, which talks about how tactics go together in an arc that builds pressure. it's a really excellent thing to start with.

-powershift also has a huge activism/organizing resources section on their site, from recorded webinars to handouts, and I find their stuff really practical. since they collect stuff from multiple groups, they may have

-the beautiful trouble toolbox is a rad site with intros to common protest tactics, frameworks of thought, etc, that's great for brainstorming! it doesn't have enough explanations to use alone, but it's really approachable as an overview or as a way to remind yourself of options when you're trying to plan something. (they have a BOARD GAME VERSION that you can either buy or print out and like, use to shuffle around your plans? and I've always wanted to do that but never gotten around to it)

-this checklist is also from beautiful trouble and is more geared towards "how do you make sure that an action you're part of planning is going to be effective" rather than abstract learning, but there's so much you can generalize from it. (I would say it's most specifically geared towards a march or rally with a large-ish crowd, rather than something like an affinity group of four people taking direct action together, but still).

-Saul Alinsky's 1989 book rules for radicals is honestly a really good read for learning about strategy/tactics from. there is PLENTY in this book that I don't endorse - as a person, he is uhhh abrasive and his Straight White Dude-ness can be painful (not always clear how much of this is him trying to Convince Decent 1989 Americans To Be Organizers and how much of it is just him). but if you don't mind shoving the narrator to the side, his writing does a great job of showing how you move from a situation to a choice of tactic. the chapter Tactics, on starting page 130, is the most immediately relevant part.

-adrienne maree brown's emergent strategy is a book that is eternally on my TBR but so many people that I admire and trust swear by it that I feel very confident recommending it. (plus, I'm familiar with brown's other work, like her podcasts.) my impression is that emergent strategy is a little bit bigger scale/less hands-on than most of these resources, but that it's somehow no less practical for that. brown always pays a lot of attention to things like wonder and love and how to build activism cultures that are pieces of the world we're trying to create. this one isn't free online, but you can support the author by buying it from AK press (there's also an e-book there I think) or checking your library!

-crimethinc's anarchist cookbook is pretty generally useful! (it does not contain just high-risk things, contrary to what might be expected). this is the 2008 edition but there's also older ones on archive.org, which have some different content if you're just on a kick.

I take no personal responsibility for what you choose to do with this knowledge, etc., but whatever you do, please love each other and protect each other.

#hand over the future

[dailydaneo]

What's Your Favorite Ghibli Movie? | Korean Vocabulary List

We all love Ghibli movies. And probably everyone has that one movie which they feel particularly pulled towards or which has the most (nostalgic..?) sentiment for them.

Being led by my own personal nostalgic sentiments, I've been meaning to rewatch ‘Nausicaa From the Valley of the Wind’ but this time dubbed/subbed in Korean. I thought knowing the plot beforehand would be more effective for language learning than jumping straight into a movie I haven't previously watched and familiarized myself with. When I was trying to search it up on the internet, I figured it will surely have '나우시카' somewhere in the title but had no clue as for the rest of it... Thankfully, the search engine algorithms are indeed very smart and helped me find what I was searching for anyways haha.

Yeah, well, and later here I am thanks to my curiosity to know every single title of Ghibli movies in Korean 😸 Half of them are pretty straight-forward and intuitive while another half offers some good new vocab 😼 Most importantly – now you'll know how to say in Korean which Ghibli movie is your favorite!

I didn’t translate names, grammar points nor repeating words twice. However, I did add literal translations when the title differs from the English one.

그럼 시작해보자!

1. Studio Ghibli 스튜디오 지브리

2. Nausicaa From the Valley of the Wind 바람계곡의 나우시카, 1984 바람 n. = wind 계곡 n. = valley

3. Laputa: Castle in the Sky 천공의 성 라퓨타, 1986 천공 n. = the skies; the heavens 성 n. = castle

4. Grave of the Fireflies 반딧불이의 묘, 1988 반디 n. = firefly 불 n. = fire; light 반딧불 n. = the firefly lights 묘 n. = grave

5. My Neighbor Totoro 이웃집 토토로, 1988 이웃집 n. = a neighboring house(hold)

6. Kiki's Delivery Service 마녀 배달부 키키, 1989 마녀 n. = witch 배달부 n. = postperson, delivery person Literal title: Witch Delivery Girl Kiki

7. Only Yesterday 추억은 방울방울, 1991 추억 n. = memory(-ies) 방울방울 n./adv. = the manner of drops (of water-like consistency) dripping down one by one Literal title: Dripping Memories

8. Porco Rosso 붉은 돼지, 1992 붉다 desc. v. = to be colored in blood/ripe cherry red; to be "colored"/involved with/influenced by communism the fitting double meaning here :-) 돼지 n. = pig Literal title: The Crimson Pig

9. Ocean Waves 바다가 들린다, 1993 바다 n. = sea; ocean 들리다 v. = to be heard, to be audible (often simply translated as "to hear" but actual "to hear" is 듣다) Literal title: The Sound of Sea

10. Pom Poko 폼포코 너구리 대작전, 1994 너구리 n. = racoon 대작전 n. = a big (strategic/military) operation Literal title: The Big War of Pom Poko Racoons

11. Whisper of the Heart 귀를 기울이면, 1995 귀 n. = ear 기울이다 v. = to lean, to tilt; to concentrate on smth, to direct one's attention/efforts to smth 귀를 기울이다 phr. = to listen attentively and carefully Literal title: When You Listen Closely

12. Princess Mononoke 모노노게 히메, 1997

13. My Neighbors the Yamadas 이웃집 야마다군, 1999

14. Spirited Away 센과 치히로의 행방불명, 2001 행방 n. = the state of having walked some direction/place; whereabouts 불명 n. = the state of smth not being certain 행방불명 n. = the state of being lost, missing Literal title: The Missing of Sen and Chihiro

15. The Cat Returns 고양이의 보은, 2002 고양이 n. = cat 보은 n. = the action of repaying, showing gratitude towards sb Literal title: The Cat Repays

16. Howl's Moving Castle 하울의 움직이는 성, 2004 움직이다 v. = to move

17. Tales from Earthsea 게드전기, 2006

18. Ponyo 벼랑 위의 포뇨, 2008 벼랑 n. = cliff 위 n. = top, the above Literal title: Ponyo From Atop the Cliff

19. Arietty 마루 밑 아리에티, 2010 마루 n. = floor 밑 n. = under, the below Literal title: Arietty From Under the Floor

20. From Up the Poppy Hill 코쿠리코 언덕에서, 2011 언덕 n. = hill Literal title: From the Kokuriko Hill

21. The Wind Rises 비람이 분다, 2013 불다 v. = to blow Literal title: The Wind Blows

22. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 가구야 공주 이야기, 2013 공주 n. = princess 이야기 n. = story

23. When Marnie Was There 추억의 마니, 2014 Literal title: Marnie From the Memories

If you read until the end, please do share your Ghibli favorites with me! 끝까지 봤으면 제일 좋아하는 지브리 영화를 알려주세요!

#learn korean #korean vocab list #korean langblr #studio ghibli

[sacramentonewsjournal]

God Of Conflict: Ragnarok Leak Reveals Doable Playtime

A brand new leak revealed a attainable approximate playtime for God of Conflict: Ragnarok that signifies the sport might embrace extra aspect quests than its predecessor. In response to a report from Insider Gaming, God of Conflict: Ragnarok will take roughly 40 hours to finish. To be clear, this contains aspect quests. A straight shot by means of the principle story will take round 20 hours. The report additionally claims that round three and a half hours of the principle story’s whole runtime is made up of cutscenes. As for the 20 hours dedicated to aspect quests, just one hour can be cutscenes. Measurement: 640 × 360 480 × 270 Need us to recollect this setting for all of your gadgets? Join or Register now! Please use a html5 video succesful browser to look at movies. This video has an invalid file format. Sorry, however you may’t entry this content material! Please enter your date of beginning to view this video January February March April Could June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 12 months 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1922 1921 1920 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 1912 1911 1910 1909 1908 1907 1906 1905 1904 1903 1902 1901 1900 By clicking ‘enter’, you comply with GameSpot’s Phrases of Use and Privateness Coverage enter Now Taking part in: God of Conflict: Ragnarok – Every thing We Know The report doesn’t state the place the outlet obtained this data or upon what, if any, playtesting knowledge it’s primarily based. It does state that these numbers are simply an estimate and that a number of components will affect the ultimate hour depend. Evaluating the leaked numbers to the earlier recreation’s player-aggregated knowledge on How Lengthy To Beat signifies that Ragnarok’s essential story is across the similar size as its 2018 predecessor. Nonetheless, the proposed playtime of 40 hours is round seven and half hours longer than the general common playtime listed by How Lengthy To Beat, which means Ragnarok might embrace extra aspect quest content material than the final recreation. In different God of Conflict: Ragnarok information, the extremely anticipated sequel obtained a brand new story trailer and a restricted version controller on the final State of Play. GameSpot could get a fee from retail affords. The merchandise mentioned right here have been independently chosen by our editors. GameSpot could get a share of the income in the event you purchase something featured on our website. Originally published at Sacramento News Journal

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[roadworksbicyclerepairs]

The first in some posts showing excellent photos from the 1996 MTB Worlds in Cairns, Australia. My boss Henry was a mechanic for the NZ Team, and our shop Cycle Services had a couple of riders in the Team racing Veterans DH. 1. Legendary NZ DHer John Kirkaldie styles it up. 2. These Worlds were most notable to the CS crew for the awesome bronze medal to our rider Sarah Dee in the Vet Women DH!❤ 3. Our other rider was the Rodfather himself, Rocking Rod Bardsley. 4. Our mate Darryn Henderson was in the Elite DH, as was his good mate Dave Cullinan. 5. Ex-road pro and 1989 Tour de France KOM Gert-Jan Theunisse. 6. Winner of the Elite Women DH in Cairns was he great 13-time World Champion over DH, dual slalom and four-cross and 2008 BMX Olympic Champion, Anne-Caroline Chausson. 7. 1993 DH World Champ, dual slalom and BMX star Mike King. 8. 1990 XC World Champ and straight up absolute legend of mountain biking, Ned "The Lung" Overend. 9. 10 time DH World Champion as junior and elite, the amazing Nico Vouilloz would go on to win the gold medal in Cairns for the 2nd of his 7 senior titles. 10. Pistol Pete Loncarevich! (at Roadworks Bicycle Repairs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfnIHjFBU4X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hviid17gorman]

hermes mini kelly 23

Hermès Kelly Clutch The historical past of the 2 baggage provides a hint into the main differences between the Birkin and Kelly. The Kelly bag was designed as a classy bag of luxurious, made for the princesses of this world to cowl their child bumps. The Birkin, however, was designed as an on a daily basis bag, able to holding all of your essentials with out worry of them spilling out. The major distinction between the two, and one that is immediately evident, is that the Kelly bag has one handle on the highest plus a shoulder strap whereas the Birkin has two handles on the high and no shoulder strap. Dating back to 1989, this rare dainty-sized Hermès Kelly 20 is a much-coveted classic piece unmatched in class. From the costs listed in the desk you may notice that there's a vital price distinction between the Kelly Sellier and Retourne types. 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[woshisouaoman]

One Single Day. That’s All It Took for the World to Look Away From Us

This article is part of a collection on the events of Jan. 6, one year later. Read more in a note from Times Opinion’s politics editor Ezekiel Kweku in our Opinion Today newsletter.

The Jan. 6 attack on Congress by a mob inspired by former President Donald Trump marked an ominous precedent for U.S. politics. Not since the Civil War had the country failed to effect a peaceful transfer of power, and no previous candidate purposefully contested an election’s results in the face of broad evidence that it was free and fair.

The event continues to reverberate in American politics — but its impact is not just domestic. It has also had a large impact internationally and signals a significant decline in American global power and influence.

Jan. 6 needs to be seen against the backdrop of the broader global crisis of liberal democracy. According to Freedom House’s 2021 Freedom in the World report, democracy has been in decline for 15 straight years, with some of the largest setbacks coming in the world’s two largest democracies, the United States and India. Since that report was issued, coups took place in Myanmar, Tunisia and Sudan, countries that had previously taken promising steps toward democracy.

The world had experienced a huge expansion in the number of democracies, from around 35 in the early 1970s to well over 110 by the time of the 2008 financial crisis. The United States was critical to what was labeled the “Third Wave” of democratization. America provided security to democratic allies in Europe and East Asia, and presided over an increasingly integrated global economy that quadrupled its output in that same period.

But global democracy was underpinned by the success and durability of democracy in the United States itself — what the political scientist Joseph Nye labels its “soft power.” People around the world looked up to America’s example as one they sought to emulate, from the students in Tiananmen Square in 1989 to the protesters leading the “color revolutions” in Europe and the Middle East in subsequent decades.

The decline of democracy worldwide is driven by complex forces. Globalization and economic change have left many behind, and a huge cultural divide has emerged between highly educated professionals living in cities and residents of smaller towns with more traditional values. The rise of the internet has weakened elite control over information; we have always disagreed over values, but we now live in separate factual universes. And the desire to belong and have one’s dignity affirmed are often more powerful forces than economic self-interest.

The world thus looks very different from the way it did roughly 30 years ago, when the former Soviet Union collapsed. There were two key factors I underestimated back then — first, the difficulty of creating not just democracy, but also a modern, impartial, uncorrupt state; and second, the possibility of political decay in advanced democracies.

The American model has been decaying for some time. Since the mid-1990s, the country’s politics have become increasingly polarized and subject to continuing gridlock, which has prevented it from performing basic government functions like passing budgets. There were clear problems with American institutions — the influence of money in politics, the effects of a voting system increasingly unaligned with democratic choice — yet the country seemed to be unable to reform itself. Earlier periods of crisis like the Civil War and the Great Depression produced farsighted, institution-building leaders; not so in the first decades of the 21st century, which saw American policymakers presiding over two catastrophes — the Iraq war and the subprime financial crisis — and then witnessed the emergence of a shortsighted demagogue egging on an angry populist movement.

Up until Jan. 6, one might have seen these developments through the lens of ordinary American politics, with its disagreements on issues like trade, immigration and abortion. But the uprising marked the moment when a significant minority of Americans showed themselves willing to turn against American democracy itself and to use violence to achieve their ends. What has made Jan. 6 a particularly alarming stain (and strain) on U.S. democracy is the fact that the Republican Party, far from repudiating those who initiated and participated in the uprising, has sought to normalize it and purge from its own ranks those who were willing to tell the truth about the 2020 election as it looks ahead to 2024, when Mr. Trump might seek a restoration.

The impact of this event is still playing out on the global stage. Over the years, authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin of Russia and Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus have sought to manipulate election results and deny popular will. Conversely, losing candidates in elections in new democracies have often charged voter fraud in the face of largely free and fair elections. This happened last year in Peru, when Keiko Fujimori contested her loss to Pedro Castillo in the second round of the country’s presidential election. Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been laying the grounds for contesting this year’s presidential election by attacking the functioning of Brazil’s voting system, just as Mr. Trump spent the lead-up to the 2020 election undermining confidence in mail-in ballots.

Before Jan. 6, these kinds of antics would have been seen as the behavior of young and incompletely consolidated democracies, and the United States would have wagged its finger in condemnation. But it has now happened in the United States itself. America’s credibility in upholding a model of good democratic practice has been shredded.

This precedent is bad enough, but there are potentially even more dangerous consequences of Jan. 6. The global rollback of democracy has been led by two rising authoritarian countries, Russia and China. Both powers have irredentist claims on other people’s territory. President Putin has stated openly that he does not believe Ukraine to be a legitimately independent country but rather part of a much larger Russia. He has massed troops on Ukraine’s borders and has been testing Western responses to potential aggression. President Xi of China has asserted that Taiwan must eventually return to China, and Chinese leaders have not excluded the use of military force, if necessary.

A key factor in any future military aggression by either country will be the potential role of the United States, which has not extended clear security guarantees to either Ukraine or Taiwan but has been supportive militarily and ideologically aligned with those countries’ efforts to become real democracies.

If momentum had built in the Republican Party to renounce the events of Jan. 6 the way it ultimately abandoned Richard Nixon in 1974, we might have hoped that the country might move on from the Trump era. But this has not happened, and foreign adversaries like Russia and China are watching this situation with unconstrained glee. If issues like vaccinations and mask-wearing have become politicized and divisive, consider how a future decision to extend military support — or to deny such support — to either Ukraine or Taiwan would be greeted. Mr. Trump undermined the bipartisan consensus that existed since the late 1940s over America’s strong support for a liberal international role, and President Biden has not yet been able to re-establish it.

The single greatest weakness of the United States today lies in its internal divisions. Conservative pundits have traveled to illiberal Hungary to seek an alternative model, and a dismaying number of Republicans see the Democrats as a greater threat than Russia.

#America

[webothwentmadwonderland]

taylor joining the show just to give bunch of easter eggs for 5 minutes straight is one of the most unhinged things she has ever done, well played girl you gave us so many signs

#1989 is coming #straight from 2008 to 1989 #taylorlurking

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #224

Over the course of the show's continuing run, Sesame Street has been home to a plethora of parodies. More specifically, it has parodied around thirty five shows and movies, excluding individual Monsterpiece Theatre and Cookie's Crumby Pictures sketches.

A list of these being as follows:

"24", parody of 24

"30 Rocks," parody of 30 Rock

"The Add'ems Family," parody of The Addams Family

"All My Letters," parody of All My Children

"As the World Takes Turns," parody of As the World Turns

"As the Worm Turns," parody of As the World Turns

"The Crossing Zone", parody of The Twilight Zone

"Desperate Houseplants," parody of Desperate Housewives

"The Eating Game," parody of The Dating Game

"Family Food," parody of Family Feud

"Far From Seven," parody of Far From Heaven

"The Grouch Apprentice," parody of The Apprentice

"Grouch Eye for the Nice Guy," parody of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

"Here is Your Life," parody of This Is Your Life

"Law and Order: Special Letters Unit," parody of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

"Meal or No Meal," parody of Deal or No Deal

"Miami Mice," parody of Miami Vice

Monsterpiece Theater, parody of Masterpiece Theater

"Mysterious Theater," parody of Mystery!

"Outrageous Makeover: Home Addition," parody of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

"Pre-School Musical," parody of High School Musical

"The Remembering Game," parody of Concentration

"Sally Messy Yuckyael Show," parody of The Sally Jessy Raphael Show

"School in the Afternoon," parody of Love in the Afternoon

"Scramalot," parody of Spamalot

"Sounds of Our Lives," parody of Days of Our Lives

"Spaceship Surprise," parody of Star Trek

"Spaceship Surprise: Next Generation," parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Squeal of Fortune," parody of Wheel of Fortune

"Survivor: Musical Chairs," parody of Survivor

"Trash Gordon," parody of Flash Gordon

"TriangleBob TrianglePants," parody of SpongeBob SquarePants

"What's My Letter?," parody of What's My Line

"What's My Part?," parody of What's My Line

"Young and the Vestless," parody of Young and the Restless

Sources:

Sesame Street. Episode 0131. November 9, 1970.

Sesame Street. Episode 0310. December 31, 1971.

Sesame Street. Episode 0370. March 24, 1972.

Sesame Street. Episode 0406. November 13, 1972.

Sesame Street. Episode 1162. April 25, 1978.

Sesame Street. Episode 1640. February 19, 1982.

Sesame Street. Episode 2277. January 27, 1987.

Sesame Street. Episode 2329. April 9, 1987.

Sesame Street. Episode 2329. April 9, 1987.

Sesame Street. Episode 2331. April 13, 1987.

Sesame Street. Episode 2414. February 4, 1988.

Sesame Street. Episode 2569. March 9, 1989.

Sesame Street. Episode 2731. April 23, 1990.

Sesame Street. Episode 2819. February 21, 1991.

Sesame Street. Episode 2942. February 11, 1992.

Sesame Street. Episode 3120. April 16, 1993.

Sesame Street. Episode 3195. February 11, 1994.

Sesame Street. Episode 3365. April 7, 1995.

Sesame Street. Episode 3374. April 20, 1995.

Sesame Street. Episode 3736. March 9, 1998.

Sesame Street. Episode 4066. April 16, 2004.

Sesame Street. Episode 4079. May 5, 2004.

Sesame Street. Episode 4091. April 14, 2005.

Sesame Street. Episode 4099. October 24, 2005.

Sesame Street. Episode 4104. September 28, 2005.

Sesame Street. Episode 4107. December 29, 2005.

Sesame Street. Episode 4109. August 14, 2006.

Sesame Street. Episode 4128. September 26, 2006.

Sesame Street. Episode 4132. November 8, 2006.

Sesame Street. Episode 4134. November 10, 2006.

Sesame Street. Episode 4138. August 16, 2007.

Sesame Street. Episode 4165. August 15, 2008.

Sesame Street. Episode 4168. August 22, 2008.

"Sesame Street: Far From Seven." Sesame Street. YouTube. January 22, 2010.

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[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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