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Kevin Duala as Kevin on Blue's Clues UK Version

[happinessismusic]

“Gwen Stefani is the pride and joy of California!” stated Ana Martinez, Producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “Not only is she an acclaimed singer/songwriter and performer, Gwen is also a talented fashion designer and cosmetics mogul. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is ready to welcome not just a girl but a mega talent to the Hollywood Walk of Fame!” added Martinez.

As guest speakers, record label founder and entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine, CEO of the Azoff Company and manager Irving Azoff and country superstar and husband Blake Shelton will join emcee Ellen K for the star unveiling.

A three-time GRAMMY® Award winner, Interscope Records recording artist Gwen Stefani has achieved global success as a singer/songwriter, performer, charismatic frontwoman of No Doubt, and as a multi-platinum solo artist.  Currently, Stefani can be seen as a coach on NBC and Warner Bros. Unscripted Television’s Emmy®-winning series “The Voice.”

Stefani is a trend-setting music and fashion icon with an impressive array of honors: four MTV Video Music Awards, two Billboard Awards, an American Music Award, and a Brit Award.  To date, she’s sold more than 60 million units worldwide, and over ten billion streams, including her debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby.  The four-times platinum album delivered the hit singles “Rich Girl,” “What You Waiting For?” and the No. 1 hit “Hollaback Girl.”

Her sophomore album, The Sweet Escape, featured the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single “Wind It Up” and the unforgettable anthem “The Sweet Escape.”  Her critically praised latest album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and includes her powerful No. 1 single “Used to Love You.”

In 2020, Stefani had two No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with husband Blake Shelton, “Nobody But You” and “Happy Anywhere.”   Stefani released the new song “True Babe” in June ahead of a series of major festival performances in for the U.K. and Europe this summer.

Before the music there was makeup. Stefani’s passion for makeup was integral in the launch of her beauty brand GXVE in early 2022. The clean, high-performance cosmetics collection is inspired by Stefani’s iconic looks and created for the community of makeup lovers who find their inspiration, individuality and self-expression through artistry.

One of pop culture’s most magnetic style icons, Stefani is one of the first artists to brilliantly merge music stardom into a series of global lifestyle brands including her fashion-forward clothing line, L.A.M.B., sister label Harajuku Lovers and her eyewear line gx by Gwen Stefani.

Stefani continues to make giving back a focus in her life supporting several charities and foundations.

Source: SHE’S JUST A GIRL GETTING A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME! GLOBAL MUSIC ICON GWEN STEFANI TO BE HONORED ON OCTOBER 19TH IN CELEBRATION OF HER BIRTHDAY MONTH - Hollywood Walk of Fame

[klavierpanda]

Intro Post

Hello! I'm panda, check out my gender. I use they/xe/þei primarily and if you want to only use one set that's okay. I am very, very aro. I'm not cis but I'm not trans either. I'm very normal about Omori, Star Trek, Mathematics and trains (lying).

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Gender dysphoria is not a necessary condition to be transgender

I support all "weird" and "contradictory" queer identities of good faith, e.g. mspec gays/lesbians, lesboys/turigirls, xenogenders, queerhets, etc

Sex and romance are not intrinsically bad. Whilst the way that society at large interacts with them is flawed, completely getting rid of them is not the solution

Trans men face a unique form of oppression and "transandrophobia" is a good term to describe it

"Narc abuse" isn't real. There are ways of describing your abuse and abuser which do not demonise personality disorders

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[baronessblixen]

Idk why but I always love how Irish and Scottish people get offended when they are told they are British, that’s right bros stand up for your rights and your freedom !!! 🤲🙌

I mean they really aren't! They're their own countries. Scotland and Northern Ireland (and Wales) are part of the United Kingdom. But they're not Brits. I wonder what would happen if the countries did sever ties with the UK. Would it just be... the British Kingdom? Or plain England?

[orcboxer]

As much as I try not to talk shit about other countries, I gotta say it's fuckin bizarre the way a lot of brits talk about the queen. Every time she has another health scare there's a flood of tweets like "God save the queen she dedicated her LIFE to this country and rebuilt the united kingdom with her bare hands" as if she's been doing back breaking labor at the racism mines or some shit. Bro she is literally just standing there

[cantquitu]

The serious musician Harry Styles is the toast of the United States right now, having played both host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live (SNL) over the weekend. “With such a confident leap, it is easy to imagine him as part of a future musical bro-fecta with Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon,” wrote Vulture. He can sing. He can act. He can make fun of himself. He has, as he says, “fantastic hair” and, at 25, is now old enough to comfortably appreciate as eye candy. Appearing only weeks after Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who would have put money on Harry Styles to be the Brit to save SNL?

Well, I would have. As a former Directioner, now on “indefinite hiatus” with the band, Styles’s star power has been evident. I saw them perform live in early 2015, mere weeks before Zayn left. The tension on stage seemed clear to me in the audience, but Styles was so effortlessly charismatic as to emerge a frontman in a group seemingly determined to deny the existence of one.

Of the five young men, he was clearly the most at ease in the role of rock star, perfectly pitching his between-song banter to win over the swooning teenage girls, their chaperones, and the twentysomething journalists still working out to what extent their fandom was ironic. Though the show was certainly unpolished compared with the other big stadium pop acts I have seen – it looked as if Styles might have been chewing gum throughout – he was the one who looked as if he was actually enjoying himself. When he jokes in the SNL monologue about One Direction being grown in test tubes, it is clear that Simon Cowell had to give some of the members more fish food than others.

In making a star, there is only so much you can fake. The director Christopher Nolan said he cast Styles in Dunkirk unaware of the scale of his fame with 1D, and “because he fit the part wonderfully and truly earned a seat at the table”. Even in his modelling for Gucci at a St Albans chippy, and his competent Live Lounge cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain, there is an evident line through all of Styles’s ventures that makes him cohesive, likeable and bankable.

Watermelon Sugar and Lights Up – the first singles from his upcoming second album Fine Lines – are both very radio-friendly, but with brass and percussive elements that suggest yet another new sound for Styles. A few months ago he was in Rolling Stone talking winningly about doing magic mushrooms in Malibu, listening to Paul McCartney and biting off the end of his tongue – a true story, no doubt, but also a smart move when this sort of cheeky-chappy, British-eccentric brand plays even better in the US than at home. One Direction casts a long shadow in the UK, and Styles has not quite yet shaken off his image as a Fisher-Price frontman, but he makes perfect sense for what an American market understands by “British psychedelic rock”. PWB may have the Amazon deal, but Styles might yet just prove Britain’s most lucrative export.

The Guardian, 18 November 2019

[benjaminsblog]

D.I.S.M. (pt. 2)

2002: Arsenal’s League & Cup Double

The previous year I had suffered one of the most upsetting and unjust losses of my childhood when Liverpool stole the FA Cup from under our noses, and the sting of this loss meant that for a short time national hero Michael Owen became public enemy no.1 in my eyes! But Arsenal’s following season was the perfect tonic to that bitter day; they won the FA Cup against C****** thanks to a pair of classy goals from Ray Parlour and Freddie Ljungberg (resplendent with his red mohawk), and then four days later won the Premier League title in Manchester United’s own backyard.

While the FA Cup win was oh-so sweetly cathartic (we even knocked out Liverpool on the way for good measure), it is the latter result that is the main reason for its inclusion here. I probably only saw the MOTD highlights of Sylvain Wiltord sealing the deal at Old Trafford, but the real ‘moment’ was waiting for me when I got home the next day after school; Dad had bought all of the day’s newspapers he could lay his hands on and plastered every cutting pertaining to the Gunners’ triumph on my bedroom wall! And most fittingly, sitting front-and-centre was this gem below - a picture I have kept all these years!

                  2008: Andy Murray’s twilight Wimbledon comeback 

A week before Rafael Nadal & Roger Federer got everyone thinking 5-set dusk finishes were cool, Andy Murray was setting the trend. I was at Centre Court with Mum to watch the young Scot go up against the silky-smooth 8th seed, Richard Gasquet. Murray wasn’t playing particularly poorly, but not a lot seemed to be going his way, and he soon found himself two sets and a break down, with Gasquet serving for match.

But, another trend that perhaps started this evening was the string of victories Murray has pulled from the jaws of defeat throughout his career. In the next game he stormed to 0-40, but an ace flew past him, and then Gasquet played a devilishly delicate drop volley off his toes . The Frenchman couldn’t save a third break point though, double-faulting (quite possibly put off by the crowd noise in between first and second serves) to hand Murray the break back and all the momentum. He won the third set on the ensuing tie-break, clinching it with a winning point hit from pretty-much the front row of the stands, and the place erupted. The final result was never in doubt after this, and at 9:30pm Murray completed his late-night comeback and progressed to his first Grand Slam quarter-final. 

2008: Brits boost the boys in Beijing

A month-and-a-bit later, and it was time for another late-night Murray finish! Mum, Hannah and I had an incredible time at the Beijing Olympics, but our night at the tennis was the best by far. Things didn’t start well - fresh from his aforementioned Wimbledon heroics, much was expected of Andy Murray, but he was unable to conjure the same fighting spirit and lost lamely/moodily in the first round of the singles.

However, his brother Jamie had also made the flight, and they walked out on court together later that evening for a tough opening-round match against a Canadian pair including doubles supremo Daniel Nestor, who had added the Wimbledon Men’s Doubles title to his trophy cabinet the previous month. Initially, Andy still seemed to be in strop-mode from his earlier defeat, and after Canada took the first set, one might have wondered if his Olympic journey was about to come to an abrupt halt twice in one day. However, the Murray Bros dug in to fight back and win the match, causing something of an upset.

I am certain that they owe much of this comeback victory to the raucous trio of Brits sitting in the almost-empty stands; it was very late by the time this match started, but there was no way this tennis-mad family (and Hannah) was going to abandon our boys in their hour of need! We cheered and chanted from start to finish - I was probably emboldened by the lack of other people - and made the little outside court our own. There was another small pocket of Brits sitting on the opposite side of the stands from us, and we got them going too, creating multiple back-and-forth chants and generally being excellent cheerleaders!

As an added cherry on the top, we were sat above the entrance/exit to the court, and as the players departed we dangled our Union Jacks over the balcony for the Murrays to sign, which they duly did. Andy didn’t even look up as he scrawled something illegible on the flags, but Jamie thanked us for staying and cheering them on. And as we finally departed the venue at a very late hour, Hannah and I thanked the long line of dedicated Games workers who were waving the remaining spectators goodbye by running past and high-fiving the lot of them, to everyone’s enjoyment! 

2012: The Second Coming

10 years on from my previous Arsenal memory, and the footballing landscape had changed an awful lot - emphasis on awful - the Gunners were far from the force they used to be, and generally a ‘fourth-place trophy’ was the best they could hope for in terms of silverware. Thierry Henry had departed the club in 2007 having long since confirmed legendary status, but he returned for a brief loan spell, and gave the Arsenal faithful one more indelible moment for the memory banks.

He came on as a substitute and lit up a pretty uninspiring FA Cup third round tie against Leeds United by not only scoring the winning goal, but by doing so in such trademark, vintage Henry fashion that it sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it! His celebration was heartwarming too, as he didn’t behave like his typical cool, calm self, but went berserk with everybody else in the stadium. In his own words, this time around he celebrated the goal ‘as a fan’, and the sight of him running down the touchline and giving Arsène Wenger an almighty bear hug felt almost as poignant as the goal itself.

[ofmischancy-blog]

hey best british buddo. let's go cause mischief and mayhem together on this fine friday the thirteenth.

❝ OOOH, YES! I also brought some DELIGHTFUL scones to eat while we’re out and about!  ❞

[superchartisland]

Super Mario All Stars (Nintendo, SNES, 1993)

Any overall roadmap for this project (and my brother’s related predecessor) is very lightly sketched, but this is a useful point to reflect on it. We grew up playing Dizzy games; part of what we’re doing is trying to reclaim video game history as we and many other Brits lived it, to demonstrate how the American-led received wisdom is a rewriting of the record. All of my research suggests that we were in the majority there -- in the UK the NES didn’t get a look in, and we’re not going to properly encounter the Game Boy until it’s a decade old.

Even this first Nintendo direct encounter is somewhat of a guess. Super Mario All Stars was a documented best-seller for the SNES, but in an absence of evidence I don’t know for sure that it was big enough to be an overall UK #1. I remember hearing about it a lot at the time, and by then the SNES had had a chance to build an audience, but remember that this blog covers games which were a #1 but not necessarily always the #1. Yet at the same time as I refute the story that Nintendo swept in to replace a dying industry -- neither happened like that in the UK -- we’re pretty keen on many things Nintendo. I have a NES Classic Mini, SNES Classic Mini and a Famicom Classic Mini sitting under my TV: loving recreations of consoles which I never owned.

In the internet era, this kind of adoption of history is probably more common. When I wrote the first version of this post I had recently watched the period piece music video for Satellite Young’s “Don’t Graduate, Senpai!” and was overwhelmed with contented nostalgic feelings, left with the power of a glimpse into a familiar and loved past. All that despite the fact I’ve hardly ever listened to the Japanese genre that it takes after, City Pop, or watched shoujo anime, and never when I was growing up. The person who it is precision targeting isn’t me. But it needn't be. There can be a feeling that is just as real, but second hand, a gravity exerted on adjacent culture that was invisible until something made me look over and notice its force.

There are lots of ways that the influences on the song and video reached me. My partner did grow up with a lot of Japanese pop culture in Hong Kong, and talking with her about that and having watched a couple of episodes of Creamy Mami means having a feel for her fond memories. I have years of happily browsing tumblr gifsets of Sailor Moon, absorbing love for it and its place in culture. I can still get good use from a “but you didn’t do anything!” meme even if I’ve never actually watched the show. I’ve listened to 80s referencing music elsewhere, and modern Japanese music taking cues from City Pop, and that has added up to giving the sounds of the song a similar personal gravity.

And all of that has been made easier by the world getting smaller, by the internet giving providing an easy route to interests you share with people elsewhere in the world and from there to interests they share that you don’t. Look at it negatively, and it means a winning narrative can travel faster and become more comprehensive than ever, reaching into places where it doesn’t belong. But at the same time, it gives us a Japanese band and some Swedish animators uniting in their shared nostalgia, and it reaching out to me through next door culture which I’ve taken in via friends from all round the world, and me having feelings shared with those friends. That’s an amazing thing.

In common with most people I knew, we didn’t have the internet when Super Mario All Stars came out, and the world was still huge. Nintendo had other tools to work with, though. Their games were successful enough to reach out and have an outsized cultural impact beyond the limits of people actually playing them. 

When I started primary school, before football stickers, there was a craze for Nintendo sticker books, and friends and I collected images of all of their games. People tried to negotiate enhanced swaps for stickers of Game Boy screenshots by maintaining that they were gold stickers, even more valuable than the special silver ones. I knew more about the characters and background for Mario through Saturday morning cartoons, and I remember watching American TV programmes where people competed through playing Super Mario Bros. levels. I assume it made it to the UK’s own Gamesmaster at some point too. And of course, many of the European games we were playing took their own influence from Nintendo. I may have been unaware of Metroid until years later, but hours spent playing Turrican still gave my first impressions of it that nostalgic gravity.

Mario was Nintendo’s most successful reach out to the wider culture, and that wider culture drove people back to Mario’s original form. That could work better for Nintendo if Mario games were easier to access, and so we get Super Mario All Stars. What to do when moving on from the NES to the SNES? Reissue, repackage, re-evaluate the games! Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3, now brought together in one place. With an extra track, no less, in the form of Japan’s very different Super Mario Bros. 2, new to the rest of the world and hence called The Lost Levels. From 2019 the very idea of levels being lost feels faintly absurd – someone will dig it out in a mod, or you can just log onto your alternate Japanese online console account, surely? I guess a handful of British people probably did own imported Famicoms even in 1993, but everyone else got their cross-fertilisation of culture mediated by Nintendo’s eccentric international release schedule. 

Super Mario All Stars presents each game in its entirety, complete with newly upgraded graphics. Yet, in some way, the games seem to shrink in the transition. The act of selecting a game to play from a menu, turning them into pinned specimens labelled by year, emphasises the overall history and starts you off with a reminder that each world is only a part of a newly defined whole. Maybe that's why there is no Super Mario All Stars on the SNES Classic Mini, an assessment that the bird-inside-a-bird effect of featuring a retro collection on a retro collection would be that bit too spookily recursive. 

And that idea of recursion is where the realisation struck me as I played Super Mario All Stars. It wasn't the first version of Mario I played, (it was the first Super Mario Bros. 3 that I ever played, though, the briefest of enchanting glimpses). But it feels absolutely right as my version of these games, even for Super Mario Bros. 2 where I'm pretty sure I'd never played this version before. The very sense of diminished scale, the way that All Stars exists as a Mario game aware that not only each individual game, but the games as a whole, are but a small part of the Mario out there in the world, feels totally fitting. The feeling runs through everything. The upscaled renditions of the music which expand on it but nonetheless can't escape how iconic the basic originals were. The decision to put Super Mario Bros.’ underwater waltz on the title screen with the new confidence that duh, it rules. The little portraits of what to expect that have been added to the start of each level, not spoilers but cute reminders. This is a Mario for the late to the party, an artefact of the games' immense second hand cultural gravity, reflected back into the games themselves. It's a sign of so much to come.

In reflection of it being the first time these games have come up on my route through history, here are miniature entries for each of the four games on Super Mario All Stars, pinned to one place:

Super Mario Bros.

It’s all about the movement. Specifically, the jump, the balletic means of progression which sits at the tempting boundary of predictability and control. It is not the only game jump, it was not the first game jump, but it is somehow still the Jump. When you press the jump button the moment stretches in time, a repeated joy that resounds slightly differently from Jump to Jump. Sometimes the Jump is relaxed, sometimes the Jump is tense, sometimes the Jump is a celebration of achievement. Gravity and momentum make their claim on you, and you must not reject them or bow to them, but turn towards them, take their hands, and dance. Only when you are the lead in the dance can it proceed in its full majesty. All of the subtle design, killer music and cleverly revealed secrets play their part too, of course. The richness of the world, day and night, water and dungeon, clouds and green groundclouds, isn’t to be underestimated. The dance wouldn’t be as kaleidoscopically beautiful without all of that. Fireworks might not always be necessary, but they are still fireworks. And yet it is the dance of the Jump that gives meaning to it all.

The Lost Levels

It’s common in games for many a character or object to be accompanied by its inverse, its mirror, its shadow. Maybe it’s a product of how games are made, were made, of the commonality of repetition and the short distance from repetition to repetition with a twist. Super Mario Bros. 2 (“The Lost Levels”) introduces one such shadow as almost its first move with the poison mushroom, power-up turned to power-down. It takes that to a whole new level with the negative warp zones: welcome to warp zone, now a trick on you. The whole game, in fact, is a cruel mirror held up to Super Mario Bros., a reflection that looks right but doesn’t wave back. Much of its cruelty comes from luring players into familiar actions and then turning them back against them. This game is a dance too, but it’s one where the floor is trying to throw you off, where the steps and flow that you have learned are not only impossible to use but will quicken your downfall. But for some people who already know the dance back to front, perhaps trying to freestyle your way through some spiky math-rock is an enjoyable next step.

Super Mario Bros. 2

It’s common in games for many a character or object to be accompanied by its inverse, its mirror, its shadow. Maybe it’s a product of how games are made, were made, of the commonality of repetition and the short distance from repetition to repetition with a twist. Super Mario Bros. 2 (“Super Mario Bros. USA”) is the Waluigi of early Mario games, a mirror of a mirror. It doesn’t focus on the shadows of objects and characters, though, but whole shadow worlds. Pick up a magical potion and you can open a door anywhere, take a subtle knife to the fabric of the universe, walk through the doorway and find yourself literally in shadow. Even outside of that mechanic, there are doors everywhere, and each one could go anywhere. This is the world of the subconsciousness, where possibilities extend to such things as a playable princess and gliding across the world on a gravity-resistant egg. Super Mario Bros. 2 is barely even a Mario game, and handles more awkwardly than one. Yet among all of its doors, it opens one to one of the series’s futures, platforming which is first and foremost a series of puzzles and doors to unlock.

Super Mario Bros. 3

This is the game where Mario learns to fly, tail flapping, on unseen wires in front of platforms casting shadows on a sky painted on sheets. The game is a show, and it’s some production. It has a cast of thousands and is the introduction point for almost as many iconic series images as the original. Its brilliance as sequel and as theatre is in taking the solid and dependable gameplay and mechanics of the original and using those as building blocks, the platforms of its stageset, then rearranging them. Each world rejigs and relights them and makes them interact with new props and characters for a set of dramatically different scenes. Water levels go from brief distractions to an entire world; the desert and an idyllic grassland emerge; World 7 turns off all of the lights to interact with the bare mechanics of pipes. The transitions between levels feel like curtains down and a chance to move things round. And then occasionally it breaks all the underlying rules and throws you into giant world or climbs up through the clouds, and there is nothing to do but laugh in delight. This is the game where Mario learns to fly. 

SNES chart, Edge 004, January 1994

[classicrockblog1]

Brothers in Arms is the fifth #studio #album by the British #rock #band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. Brothers in Arms charted at number one worldwide, spending 10 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart (between 18 January and 22 March 1986), nine weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Album Chart. The album is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history, is certified nine-times platinum in the United States, and is one of the world’s best-selling albums, having sold over 30 million copies worldwide.[2][3][4][5]

The album won two Grammy Awards in 1986, and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards.[6][7]Q magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.[8] Brothers in Arms would become Dire Straits’ final album until they reunited and recorded 1991’s On Every Street.

[mahmoud37snedker-blog]

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the cult of personality thing... i'm not making a false equivalence here--unlike, say, bernie bros who said hillary and trump were "the same"--but clearly that isn't a healthy thing in our politics. we need a better, less corrupt, more representative political system overall, not a savior of any stripe. which is btw why i support obama's choice to hold back even as things fall apart - democrats need to get over relying on him to be jesus for them

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i miss him sometimes so much i want to gnaw on my laptop case and sob and guzzle wine, but i support his choice

It’s not a healthy thing, but I don’t know how we escape it.  It’s times like these I feel like the Brits have the right idea by having the monarchy and thus a ceremonial head of state (not that things have been going stellar for them lately either), because we focus so much celebrity on our presidents that it become a cult of personality thing every time.  Do we elect a conman reality tv star if we have royals to gossip over?  I don’t know, but at this point I’d be ready to give anything a try to get me some boring bureaucrats in charge.

I hate the idea of a carnie like Michael Avenatti running for president, but do we have to fight fire with fire?  I have to say I feel more adrift now as an American and as a Democrat than I ever have.  I wish politics could just be boring more than anything right now.

But if you look at the successful Democratic presidents of my lifetime-- Bill Clinton and Barack Obama-- both are these incredibly charismatic figures who had the ability to captivate and charm audiences.  I was born during the last year of the Carter Administration, and while Jimmy is truly beloved now by many for being perhaps the most decent of men to ever hold the office, he got primaried when he ran for a second term because he didn’t have that pizzazz and charisma, and even my die-hard Democrat mom was angry at him for withholding athletes from the Olympics.  So I think the Democrat who wins needs to be charismatic and charming.

But that leads to a thornier issue-- Americans still hate women.  Women aren’t funny, women aren’t inspiration, women who are profession are frigid, women who are older are like your mean mother-in-law, women who get angry and passionate are unhinged.  Elizabeth Warren is probably the best example of a woman who’s got charisma, but even she has her way of speaking like a college professor that will turn people off.

Like I said.  I’ve never felt more adrift.  I have a friend who was an immigrant from NZ and holds a PhD and became a citizen and loved the United States and participated actively in the political process... she’s currently on a boat back to NZ because she is terrified of raising her children in this country, and I gotta say, if I had the means, I’d be exercising my Canadian citizenship and moving, too.

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Nicki Minaj Vs. Everybody: Minaj Gets Into It With Piers Morgan, Joy Reid & More Over Anti-Vaccine Twitter Rant

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Nicki Minaj is apparently not done with her Twitter antics after her embarrassing anti-vaxxer-like tweet-storm that included her believing that her cousin’s friend’s fiance called off her wedding because the groom to be got swollen testicles as a result of him being vaccinated. (I mean, of all the things that never happened, that is the never-happenediest.)

To be fair, Minaj also tweeted that she likely would be vaccinated because she has to go on tour, so she never went full tin foil when it comes to anti-vaccination remarks. But she said enough to get people riled up and calling her out for using her massive platform to spread anti-science misinformation.

For whatever reason, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was asked about Minaj and her vaccine hesitancy, to which he responded with a very polite version of, “Bruh, who?”

What he actually said was he’s “not as familiar with the works of Nicki Minaj as I probably should be,” which prompted Minaj to clap back with a little light-hearted ribbing.

I love him even tho I guess this was a diss? The accent ugh! Yassss boo!!!

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send this to the prime minister & let him know they lied on me. I forgive him. No one else. Only him.

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— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 14, 2021

“I was born there, I went to university there, I went to Oxford,” Minaj recorded her saying in what I’m sure she thought was a spot-on British accent. “I went to school with Margaret Thatcher and she told me so many nice things about you,” Nicki joked in a voice recording. “I’d love to send you a portfolio of my work since you don’t know much about me. I am a big, big star in the United States.”

According to Complex, UK’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty weighed in on Nicki—again, I don’t know why, but whatever—saying she “should be ashamed,” and that there are “a number of myths that fly around, some of which are just clearly ridiculous and some of which are clearly designed just to scare. That happens to be one of them.”

And that’s when Piers Morgan, the British king of “Bro, nobody asked you anything,” entered the chat.

Professor Whitty beefing with the ghastly @NICKIMINAJ (one of the rudest little madams I’ve ever met) is not the breaking news that I expected today – but it’s most welcome. She’s peddling lies that will cost lives.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 14, 2021

Morgan called her “ghastly” and “one of the rudest little madams” he’d met (like, please, Piers, be more British), to which Nicki responded with a not-so-polite version of, “Bro, I don’t know you.”

Sir I’ve never met you. I know… we all look alike. “Rudest little madam”. I like it. Has a special ring to it. Thanks Pierce. Love the accent. I’d love to come chat. Scones. Tea. Clown nose & big red shoes for you. Lmk babe

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— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 14, 2021

Morgan then explained to Minaj that they had, in fact, had met before.

Madam, we met on @AGT when you appeared as a guest act – but you refused to say hello to my three young sons because you were ‘too busy’. Oh, and it’s ‘Piers’ – I know, we Brit names all sound alike. https://t.co/twedCv1Fae

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 14, 2021

At this point, Morgan really needs to stop because he’s already had to storm off set once after being called out for giving off big incel vibes in his constant attacks on Meghan Markle, who he also complained basically acted like she didn’t know him.

Sir, if you’re unpopular with the ladies and you’re salty about it, just say that.

Anyway, Nicki and Piers went back and forth a little more from there, but an arguably larger (and definitely more interesting) media beef sprang up between Minaj and MSNBC host Joy Reid, who also had some harsh words to say about the “Barbie Tingz” rapper and her remarks on vaccines.

.@JoyAnnReid responds to @NICKIMINAJ‘s tweets on the #COVID19 vaccine: “For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives… As a fan, I am so sad that you did that.” #TheReidOut #reiders pic.twitter.com/nmr85LSmug

— The ReidOut (@thereidout) September 13, 2021

“You have a platform, sister, that is 22 million followers, okay? I have 2 million followers,” Reid said on her show The ReidOut. “You have 22 million followers on Twitter. For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives…my god, sister, you can do better than that. You’ve got that platform. It’s a blessing. It’s a blessing that you got that, that people listen to you. And they listen to you more than they listen to me. For you to use your platform to put people in the position of dying from a disease they don’t have to die from, oh my god, as a fan, as a hip-hop fan, as somebody who’s your fan, I’m so sad that you did that.”

Nicki was having none of Reid’s criticism.

The two white men sittin there nodding their heads cuz this uncle tomiana doing the work chile. How sad. https://t.co/4UviONyTHy

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 14, 2021

This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets. “My God SISTER do better” imagine getting ur dumb ass on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman https://t.co/4UviONyTHy

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 14, 2021

Tomiana purposely chose to ignore these tweets & others. I wonder why pic.twitter.com/TRY7ti2nlc

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 14, 2021

Yeeeah, nah, Nicki. Sometimes when you work in media, your correspondents are white men, but that doesn’t make Reid an “uncle tomiana” for calling you out for reasons that have nothing to do with you being Black and everything to do with you perpetuating ignorance during an ongoing pandemic.

Sometimes, you just need to take your L and be quiet.

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How Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Bryan Adams Conquered the World

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It’s that magic hour right after dawn when Robin Hood and Maid Marian approach the water’s edge. With the sun still low enough to cast both figures in mythic silhouette, the couple is surrounded by a blanket of fog, looking as if they’ve just stepped off a storybook cover. For most of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ running time, the narrative and its music has built to this moment: A request, a kiss, and a declaration.

When Robin Hood asks the woman he loves to do him a favor—secret a message to her cousin—she doesn’t hesitate to say yes, but not for her King and not for her country. She simply says, “I’ll do it for you.”  That is when composer Michael Kamen’s “Maid Marian” suite swells to operatic heights for the first time in the movie, losing itself in a swoon of its own orchestral making. The strings soar and the harps weep. And as Robin watches Marian vanish, her boat ferrying away into the mist, the heart of the grand and nutty Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is finally revealed to have been on the movie’s sleeve this whole time.

Also, unbeknownst to either actor Kevin Costner or Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, the biggest pop hit of 1991 had just launched with Marian’s boat.

The simple musical melody of Kamen’s “Maid Marian” theme in this scene is almost head-to-toe the same musical composition of Bryan Adams’ “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You.”  Adams and producer R.J. Lange adapted the material into a power ballad inside of 45 minutes. Of course it was common practice at the time to turn elements of a movie’s score into aspiring top 40 hits: Disney started doing it the same year with Beauty and the Beast; and Adams would try again two years later with Sting and Rod Stewart for The Three Musketeers; and of course there was Titanic just a few years after that…

But in ’91? It’s doubtful even Adams and Lange anticipated they were making the biggest hit of the rocker’s career. “Everything I Do” was a single many pop acts initially turned down, but by the end of that year it would spend 16 consecutive weeks at the number one spot on the UK Singles Chart—which is still the longest uninterrupted run ever—and 17 consecutive weeks on the U.S. sales chart (it would also enjoy seven weeks at number one on Billboard’s Hot 100, which combines sales and radio play).

Our own UK editor Rosie Fletcher recalled the delight millions of Brits had each Sunday when the Adams single was revealed again to be the most purchased and listened to pop hit.

“In the UK in 1991 the official top 40 was a Big Deal,” Fletcher says, “and much attention was paid to what was at number one on any given week. So much so, that many of us of a certain age would listen to the charts on the radio on a Sunday night, ideally on a tape deck with a blank C90 in hand. That way you could basically make your own mixtape of the charts that you could listen to throughout the week so you were guaranteed to know all the words to the most popular hits. There was no Spotify. Most people didn’t have MTV. This was the ‘90s equivalent of a download.”

She continues, “For this reason you will find an entire generation of Brits who know, without hesitation or looking it up, that ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ was at number one in the UK charts for 16 weeks. 16 weeks! That was a MASSIVE deal. So massive, that every week when it was STILL number one, we’d be amazed! How long will this go on? How long can it last?! And we would phone each other up on our landline telephones to discuss how amazed we were and we’d chat about it at school with our friends or on the bus, because there was no Twitter or Facebook or comments section to have an opinion about it on… That song was a legit cultural phenomenon and I still know every word.” 

It cannot be overstated just how popular “Everything I Do” was that year. With its wistful guitar strings and angelic keyboard harmonies, the piece still oozes sweeping sentimentality and unabashed romance. It was so big, in fact, that for the VHS release of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Warner Bros. Pictures placed the single’s original music video over the end credits—a fact which either the studio or Adams might’ve regretted since it is absent on subsequent DVD releases, and the only music video on YouTube is the one without clips of Costner’s well-coiffed hair.

For adults of a certain age—the ones who can remember the early ‘90s from the vantage of being a teenager or a child—Adams’ earnest bridge where he vows, “Yeah, I’d fight for you, I’d lie for you, walk the wire for you, yeah, I’d die for you!” is as entrenched in the memory as a national anthem.

All of which came back to my mind last week when Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves turned 30. Certainly a movie of its time, the film triggered a wave of retrospectives, but none as attention-grabbing or baffling as The Guardian’s latest slice of contrarianism entitled “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves at 30: a joyless hit that should stay in the 90s.” As with many of the paper’s recent anniversary features, it seemed designed to gleefully tear down a pop culture relic from the early 2000s or 1990s that many readers grew up with.

But at least in the case of Prince of Thieves, the venom-laced arrow missed the target by several groves. Yes, there are many problems with Prince of Thieves. You can pick at Costner’s spotty “accent” (or lack thereof) and how filmmakers tried to turn Christian Slater’s Will Scarlet into an angsty heartthrob. Also the less said about the hackneyed revelation that the Sheriff of Nottingham is a Satanist, the better. Errol Flynn’s The Adventures of Robin Hood, this ain’t.

And yet, one of the many reasons the film was so successful in 1991 (and thereby unlike Hollywood’s two recent Robin Hood flops from the last decade) is because the movie is joyful. Filmed on location in the United Kingdom, the picture obviously has a grayer color palette than 1930s technicolor. But the newer movie is still imbued with the swashbuckling spirit of a rollicking romp.

That’s most obvious thanks to the oft-praised Alan Rickman performance, whose turn as the Sheriff of Nottingham is an inspired rendition of scenery chewing and arch-villainy. It’s a performance so deliciously evil that it steals the movie from Costner and won Rickman a BAFTA. But it’s not the only thing that works about the ‘90s touchstone. From Nick Brimble’s red-blooded introduction as Little John, which features the best cinematic rendition of that riverside brawl, to Sean Connery’s walk-on as King Richard the Lionheart, which still makes a play for the best movie cameo of all time, the picture is nothing if not mirthful in its swashbuckling gusto. It even ends with a literal wink to the camera.

But outside of Rickman’s dastardly turn, its enduring qualities are most apparent thanks to Kamen’s music. There’s a reason it conquered the world via “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You.”

Intriguingly though, Adams was not the first choice for the piece of music. The composer originally wanted the tie-in song to be written from the point-of-view of Marian, who indeed has the line, “I’ll do it for you” in the movie. Yet this concept was deemed too bland by the likes of Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, and Lisa Stansfield, who all turned the project down.

So Adams was approached and he instantly understood what the music needed—giving it a forlorn, unrequited grandeur. His vocals along with the earnestness of the film melded almost too perfectly, feeding off each other in a year which saw one become the song of the summer and the other the biggest box office smash of the season outside of Terminator 2.

This piece of music also stands as one of several tracks which have outlived its movie. Indeed, production company Morgan Creek quickly turned the high note of Kamen’s “Overture” into their new logo’s theme.

Kamen, who died in 2003 of multiple sclerosis at only age 55, was unapologetic in his lifetime about the sentimentality he strove for in both pieces. Primarily known for hyper masculine ‘80s actioners like Lethal Weapon or Die Hard before Robin Hood, the composer was visibly elated in 1990 while writing for Robin and Marian. You can see for yourself in the otherwise hopelessly dated behind-the-scenes special, “The Myth, The Man, The Movie.” Narrated by a misused Pierce Brosnan in his pre-007 days, the doc nevertheless includes a fairly candid interview with Kamen.

“I’ve carried an idea of who Robin Hood is in my mind since I was six,” Kamen enthused 30 years ago. “So that’s a pretty strong vision to have, musically.” For the composer it meant embracing the rousing heroism of boyhood in his overture’s opening march and to lean into the romance of a lakeside rendezvous.

“The basic theme is really simple,” Kamen said of Marian’s theme. But by the time it comes into the film, “We’ve been building it up for pages and pages and pages of music. And finally she kisses him, and that’s where the score turns black with notes and everybody goes [crazy]. This is a work of love. This comes from the heart. This is something I really, really care about. Music is a real substance. It’s a very powerful substance. It’s got to be taken seriously.”

He visibly did that day, as the camera catches him swooning as the orchestra reaches the crescendo of what became “Everything I Do.”

Said Kamen, “I guess I was in love with Maid Marian. Just looking at Kevin Costner give her a big kiss and thinking, ‘Man, that’s as close as I’ll get to that.’ I love that.”

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1.@.seven.deadly.syns most people sit on these things called "chairs" Syn: ya, but I'm not "most people" I'm awesome! Chanel: Syn, those socks just blinded me Syn: ur welcome ❤

2. Cutest little baby ever, your cat could never be as precious as my little Vhagar. Syn:  Idk~ Zeppelins a little cutie 🖤🤘🐱 Svea: sure, but Vhagar is the cutest XP Moses: Your cutest little baby bites me. Not as cute as it looks TT_TT Svea: It's not Vhagar's fault, it's Galileo's fur that sets her off. :P   Eloise: Adorable. Chanel: My cat is cuter than all of yours combined Svea: please, Vhagar demands more adoration than Fabergé demanded perfection.

3. I know I'm hot, but damn you're blinding @Elo_Vera Syn: yeah she is W O W Z A H 😍 Eloise: Oh that's what you were doing.. But yes, I am blinding :) Chanel: Eloise always looks blinding Eloise: Loving the love guys @.Chanel, @.svea Svea: 😘

4. Swedes v Brits in ice skating. Guess who won? Henry: why do you two have to make everything into a game? Svea: is this about paintball again? Henry: YES!!! Not everything has to end in bruises and loss! Lili: chill Mr Clark, ice skating is a game. Paintball is life! Henry: Life is life little Ruski Chanel: Hope you didn’t get frostbite brrr! Svea: please, winter in Cornwall is nothing compared to Sweden year round.

5. There is nothing more enjoyable than introducing people to the glitter EXPLOSION that is Eurovision. Eloise: Yes! Eurovision! Are you watching? Svea: ALWAYS! ZIEBEN ILULU~~~~ Eloise: ooh, I am almost done with this, where are you watching? Svea: Gryffindor dorms, I'm inducting young Xander to the glitz and glamour that is European music. *Cue Te Deum* Chanel: Eurovision is a joke but fun too watch Svea: fúcking excuse you! Eurovision is the greatest thing the muggles have ever made, and I would remind you, they've landed on the bloody moon. It's a multi-national effort of cooperation and friendship, a muggle version of the triwizard tournament if you will, and no one dies in it! Eurovision is an absolute joy and my country is the best at it, so screw you! 😠👿🖕 Eloise: Eurovision is not joke. It is a way of life. @.Chanel Henry: Svea, Älskling, remember that chat we had about being nice? Svea: that and Eurovision are two every different things, don't be a dotard because you guys haven't won since 1997. Henry: that is not the point Svea: yes, the point is that Eurovision is the best. Fúck you too, sötis.

6. There it is, the "I'm better than you" face.   Moses: It's also "I knew you'll mistake that part" Chanel: What’s the bow for Greaves?

7. Sometimes I surprise myself with how gorgeous I am. XP Henry: vanity is not one of your most redeeming qualities Svea: yeah, but it's not vanity if I am ridiculously attractive. Henry: you are, but still the height of vanity Svea: whatever you say pretty boy Henry: as you command, your royal highness :p Chanel: Got to admit it, you’re stellar ugh

8. The Viking and The Frank, and the awesome Scandinavians. Your countries will never be as cool as ours! Syn: preach Chanel: Can someone go with me there?? Svea: We're modern countries and our English is excellent, you'll be fine on your own. Except Copenhagen muggle zoos, "fūcked up" does not even begin to describe them.

9. Paintball is the greatest thing muggles have ever made! apart from # eurovision Henry: I still don't understand how I got bruises from a game involving paint. Lili: it's because you're weak Henry: that was rude, Ruski Syn: Henry, u r weak tho Henry: I'm not weak! Paintball is just more vicious than quidditch! Eloise: What is this paintball you speak off? Svea: omg, you are coming to Sweden this christmas so that we can play a massive game of paintball assassins! Bring your cheapest clothes, it's a messy muggle game. Eloise: Want to tell my grandparents that? Svea: I'll tell them you're coming to explore and "observe" the ways of Scandinavian nobility. If they don't like that, tough. What are they going to do, call me a blood traitor? Oooh, I'm quaking in my boots. Chanel: Looks fun! When is your next to the death fight? Svea: You'll need to wait for an invite from my Grandmama, she's the Grand Duchess of Paintball. Eloise: Maybe with a little fire-whiskey I'll send exactly all of this to my grandmother. Of course, you'll probably never see me again, but that is a problem for future me. Svea: don't worry, I'll just expecto patronum the fúck out of her, 'cause she's definitely a dementor. Eloise: my grandmother is not a dementor. she's just very... dementor-like. most of the time.. Svea: I would bet 1000 galleons that she's sucked out at least one person's soul. Eloise: I don't ask what I don't want to know (I am 300% sure that it's been more than just one person tbh) Svea: -nods in solemn agreement-

10. GOOO VRASTRA VULTURES!!! Henry: PUDDLEMERE UNITED ALL THE WAY! Svea: THEY'RE NOT EVEN PLAYING LOSER Lara: neither are as good as Germany Syn: excuse you Svea: she means in a muggle sport, and OH! YOU WANNA GO THERE? Henry: TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP, DO-DAH, DO-DAH!!! Lara: I can't hear you over the sound of us winning~~~ Svea: I'm not showing you my cool textbooks anymore. Syn: FIGHT ME LARA! U TOO HANK! 😡🖕 Henry: How dare you call me Hank, my father is a literal lord. That's offensive. :P Chanel: Jealous of that view though

11. Someone thinks they're hot af. Henry: no, I'm thinking flash photography is a rude way to be awakened. Svea: XP Chanel: Get out of bed Clark! How did you get into the Gryffindor common room Svea? “I have my ways” doesn’t cut it hun Svea: first, that's the Clark Manor in London, and second, I have a special favourite who adores me and tells me everything in Gryffindor House (and no, I don't mean you Henry).   Henry: Xander!!! I told you to stop doing that Xander: 🤷 wake up on time then, you're storasyster's problem now

12. You wish you had a little sister as cute as mine Lili: aww, you're the cutest big sister (also the creepiest, when did you snap that) Svea: I'll never tell~~~ Henry: no offense, but my little brother is clearly the cutest Xander: I'm your cousin Henry: :O Xander, who taught you to be so cruel Svea: you're totally my little bro though right? Xander: storasyster <3 ^_^ (Swedish for "big sister") Henry: THIEF!! TTwTT Chanel: Wish I had that opportunity :/ Svea: to steal Xander? Soz, but he's already my lillebror (Swedish for "little brother") Lili: excuse me, but this post was about how cute I am! I'm sending you people a curse from Mother Russia. Henry: I'm pretty sure one of you have already cursed me.

[fandoms-for-a-college-dude]

The Pitch of Harry Potter and the First Avenger

Exposition

- Grindelwald is still the Dark Lord Dumbledore fought, he just wasn’t involved with any muggles and it was a Wizard only war in the 1800s, and looks more similar to Voldemort’s rise in Canon

- Voldemort uses Muggles as his catspaws ala Grindelwald, he manufactures WW1

- Prophecy is same

- Voldemort is ‘defeated’ in 1918 by Lily’s sacrifice

- Harry is younger than in canon, only 3 months old at his parents death

- He is abused by puritanical Dursley’s, worse than in cannon(probably)

- Philosophers Stone takes place in 1929

- Events proceed as in canon

- Voldemort is resurrected in 1933 (GoF) and co-opts Hitler

- Canon proceeds, +1 year of Voldemort consolidating, Dumbledore dies a year later and uses said time to actually help train Harry.

- Horcrux Hunt is more of an Order effort, (Mad-Eye in charge?) and takes many years

- Call it early/mid 1941 when last Horcrux is destroyed

- Voldemort is killed by Harry later that same year (historical turning point in war) but the muggle front proceeds as history/MCU canon

- Harry is 23

- Harry is MOD

Plot Begins

- Wizarding world is rejoicing, Harry doesn’t, people are still dying by the thousands

- So he goes to interim Minister Kingsley, asks for an introduction to Churchill

- Churchill wants to ignore the young man telling him that he is an asset that he can’t refuse, but he stills and gnaws at his cigar and looks at the serious looking black man standing to the side who he has been informed is the Minister for Magic and sees the respect being paid to this Harry Potter.

- And so he puts him through training with the SSR.

- The reports aren’t glowing, Colonel Philips hasn’t been effusive in his life and he’s not going to start with a Brit who looked like a wolf on the edge of starvation moving through the obstacle course. But Churchill can read between the lines and it seems like it was worth listening to the wizards.

- Harry is exercising every day for the first time in his life and his magic, greatly increased now that he is the MoD, leaps to its masters will.

- Harry refuses the serum, but stays with the SSR. He’s now helping train the new candidates while they keep trying to pressure him into the serum

- Meets Peggy in spring 1942

- Fast Friends

- Definitely work spouses

- Steve is recruited and Harry sees the look in her eyes and starts teasing her mercilessly

- He’s right next to Erskine telling the Colonel he’s a bloody idiot if he thinks about choosing anyone but Rodgers

- His smugness knows no bounds when the dummy grenade is jumped on.

- When Peggy touches Steve’s pec post serum, she can hear Harry’s laughter from the stairs on his way down from observation.

- Harry doesn’t know how not to be involved in war, or at least around soldiers

- When it looks like Steve is about to be shunted around and ignored, Harry steps in and makes sure it doesn’t happen

- Steve goes to war earlier, Harry by his side.

- Two man wrecking crew

- When Steve hears about Bucky’s unit being captured, it’s not even a question that Harry will be going with him.

- Steve knows Harry is hiding something at this point, but they’ve saved each other’s ass enough times now that it doesn’t matter

- The Howling Commandos are born

- Realizes he’s not aging, typical MoD scene (1944)

- Gives up his “life” to save Bucky sometime in 1944/5?

- Winter Soldier never exists

- Cap still goes into the ice, Death stops Harry from helping him, saying that this is a Fated©️ moment and he can’t do anything

1946-2008

- Sorry, but Tony’s parents are still killed, just not in a way that causes the Avengers to blow apart, due to Bucky fever

- Bucky and Peggy co-found SHIELD

- Other than that ?¿?¿?¿?¿

- What the hell does Harry do for the intervening ~70 years? Up to you!

It’s kinda crazy how the timeline works out kinda well for this. The only major change comes from the War on Voldemort needing to last longer to stretch it out to 1941, which isn’t necessary, but I just like the idea of the turning point in the war coinciding with Voldemort’s death. Axis Powers start to not be as effective due to Riddle not pulling strings anymore. Also I feel like the worst Dark Lord in modern history should have a longer run than like 3 years

You could play with all kinds of cool relationships in this.

- Harry and Peggy being non-romantic BFFs and Steve being really confused about their relationship

- (Not my thing, but you could set them up as an OT3, better than Bucky IMO because lifelong bros are hard to come by and god knows we need more non sexual friendships in our lives)

- Steve looking up to Harry as someone who’s already been through a war and is still a good man

- Harry and Erskine being buddies and Erskine being pissed off Harry won’t become the Super Soldier, and then Steve turns up and Abraham is like “Move Along Brit, this is the guy”

- Steve is doubting that it shouldn’t be Harry and Harry has to smack him upside the head

- Harry pushing Starks buttons with his lack of knowledge about all things science and technology

- Natalie Dormer isn’t kissing Steve because Harry is turning on the British charm every time he sees her

- “Good god man, for the last time, Agent Carter and I are not involved, stop using me as a bloody excuse to put off asking her to dinner!”

Harry as a Person

- He’s a soldier, a general, and kinda fucked up never having lived for himself all that much

- Dumbledore was a bit more comfortable starting Harry in training after Voldemort’s return given the times

- He’s 23 at Voldemort’s defeat and while he knows that he probably needs a rest, he knows that way too many people are still dying for him to just go on vacation.

- Ron and Hermione died? Disagreed with his decision to rejoin the war so soon?

- Ginny? Does training earlier change his pairings during school/war? Does a Harry with a more scholastic mindset attract different people? (I’m a sucker for Daphne.) Why didn’t Harry’s relationship with whoever work out? What were wizarding relationships like in the UK in the 40s? Maybe he just devoted himself to the fight and ignored that whole aspect. Maybe Harry flirted his way through school and war because he knew he could’t have anything serious, and now that he doesn’t have a Voldemort shaped shadow trailing him around, he is useless and terrified at taking it anywhere past a fling

- Harry has seen some shit. He’s no greenhorn, he has been training and fighting for 8 years by ‘41 and when things get serious, he doesn’t care to act like anything other than the veteran he has become

- At the same time, his prophecy is over. A weight has been lifted and he might still be at war, but it isn’t HIS war, not anymore. He can keep calm through gunfire because if he dies, the war isn’t over. The Commandos aren’t his soldiers, they’re Steve’s. He doesn’t realize how much Steve relies on him for more than just tactical advise

- 5’11”-6’1”

- From Wiry to Athletic through training and large calorie meals in army

- His reflexes are as good as Steve’s, but he’s not as strong, but still stronger than a human should be