#Ken Mayer

[therileyandkimmyshow]

Podcast Actor Ken Mayer Golden Age of Radio Tribute

[theantoniomabs]

REVIEW: Vanish #8

Uhhhhh!!!! This is a good one! I love comics but I don’t often get to read truly amazing stories like this one. Vanish is filled with magic, action, spells, blood, and romance. It has it all! This issue is about the inner struggle of the main character Oliver Harrison as he faces an enemy named Diabolus. Diabolus once went to the same magic school our main character went to, and it was there that…

[70s80sandbeyond]

Ed Kemmer and Ken Mayer on "Space Patrol" (ABC, 1950-1955)

[thevelaryons]

ALYN & CORLYS - My Father, My Mirror

Fire and Blood, George R.R. Martin // Foundation (Season 1, Episode 2) // Vikings (Season 1, Episode 1) // Fun Home: Maps by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori // Gulf of Alaska, Two Oceans Meet by Ken Bruland // Independence Day (The River) by Bruce Springsteen // My Father's Son (Let the Ocean Take Me) by The Amity Affliction // Carved Baroque Mirror - PROHOMEWARE // DNA by Lia Marie Johnson // Franz Kafka (@dailykafka) // A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin // The Snakes by cerasusarbour // My Old Man (This Old Dog) by Mac DeMarco // Serpent Eating Tail (Ouroboros) // Wikipedia entry for ouroboros // In the Blood (The Search for Everything) by John Mayer // Scandal s7e1: Watch Me // Singularities, Susan Howe // The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

[mirimangarecs]

i’m not the final boss’s lover - WHYNOTME; KEN

a woman is dropped into the world of an rpg and toils for the benefit of the hero, but when she’s left for dead, she finds herself allied with the game’s final boss

the couple: they have a strong bond, personally and as military commanders. she covers all his weaknesses in ways that seem too good to be true, and he provides her the social cover and opportunity to be more than a support character. prepare for a slow burn/denial- real relationship development plays second fiddle to the overarching plot

story & setting: while being a fan of classic jrpg’s isn’t a prerequisite, i feel like those readers may get more out of its references and tropes. the world itself isn’t very exciting; it’s just a functionally blank canvas for the subversion of mayer’s character archetype and jun’s game-breaking meta-knowledge manipulation

the art: it’s not bad, but it’s not great either. more than the clumsily executed character designs, i feel like the sparse panelling and lack of detail holds it back while it’s trying to tell an epic adventure story

[ufonaut]

ALL-STAR COMICS (1940) #3 FACSIMILE EDITION

Written by GARDNER FOX, JERRY SIEGEL, KEN FITCH, SHELDON MAYER, and others Art by E.E. HIBBARD, SHELDON MOLDOFF, BERNARD BAILY, and others Cover by E.E. HIBBARD Foil variant cover by E.E. HIBBARD ($8.99 US) Blank sketch variant $6.99 US | 64 pages | Variant $7.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 11/7/23

All-Star Comics presents the inaugural meeting of America’s first superhero team: the Justice Society of America! Within the Justice Society clubrooms, the Atom, the Flash, the Sandman, the Spectre, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Green Lantern, and Hourman assemble and recount some of the greatest tales that made them the mightiest champions of right and justice in the world. With guest appearances from Johnny Thunder and the Red Tornado, this facsimile comic is a must-have for fans of DC’s preeminent Golden Age team.

The JSA's first appearance is finally getting a facsimile edition!

[heystephen]

what is genuinely the point for swifties to constantly talk about and hate on taylor’s exes?? like the ones i truly hate are john mayer and taylor lautner (mainly because he’s a zionist not because he dated her) but like the others? i don’t see the point. im not interested in them. some were/are simply just shitty men like most men. im a fan of taylor and want to talk about taylor herself not the men she dated. this all reminds me of tumblr hyping up and talking constantly about ken instead of barbie herself when the movie was about her.

i think. at the risk of sounding dismissive. you just have to let ppl do what they’re gonna do, ppl are gonna talk about whatever they want to on their blogs and you just can’t let it bother you

[becomingkatie]

I told Ken I accidentally made myself sad listening to John Mayer and he was like oh what song. Heartbreak Warfare. Then he says he’s never heard it before???

“Actually, I don’t think I know any of his stuff.”

????

So then I made him listen to “your body is a wonderland” and “dreaming with a broken heart.” He had never heard them before????

[therecordconnection]

I genuinely think that being a member of Dead & Company unlocked something in John Mayer and allowed him to become a much more chill and funny guy in the same way that playing Ken in Barbie unlocked something for Ryan Gosling.

[ptbf2002]

My Top 30 Favorite Paramount Pictures Movies

30. Transformers: The Last Knight

29. Transformers: Age Of Extinction

28. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

27. Transformers (2007)

26. G.I. JOE: The Rise Of Cobra

25. G.I. JOE: Retaliation

24. Shake Eyes (2021)

23. Gemini Man

22. The Adventures Of Tintin

21. Yours Mine And Ours

20. The Rugrats Movie

19. Rugrats In Paris The Movie

18. Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts

17. Playing With Fire

16. South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut

15. Rugrats Go Wild

14. Beavis And Butt-Head Do America

13. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

12. Barnyard

11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

10. Rango

9. Good Burger

8. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

7. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

6. Rumble

5. The Little Prince

4. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

3. IF

2. Sonic The Hedgehog

And 1. Sonic The Hedgehog 2

Original Template: https://www.deviantart.com/princessflamefigher/art/My-Top-30-Favorite-Meme-763485673

Transformers: The Last Knight Belongs To Akiva Goldsman, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Ken Nolan, Weying Galaxy Entertainment Ltd. Huahua Media Co. Ltd. The H Collective, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Takara Co., Ltd. Tomy Company, Ltd. Takara Tomy, Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Transformers: Age of Extinction Belongs To Ehren Kruger, Jiaflix Enterprises, China Movie Channel, China Central Television, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Takara Co., Ltd. Tomy Company, Ltd. Takara Tomy, Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Belongs To Ehren Kruger, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Takara Co., Ltd. Tomy Company, Ltd. Takara Tomy, Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Transformers (2007 Film) Belongs To John Rogers, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Takara Co., Ltd. Tomy Company, Ltd. Takara Tomy, Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Partners, LLC. Storyteller Distribution Co., LLC, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

G.I. JOE: The Rise Of Cobra Belongs To Michael B. Gordon, Stuart Beattie, Stephen Sommers, David Elliot, Paul Lovett, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. Spyglass Media Group, LLC, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

G.I. JOE: Retaliation Belongs To Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. MGM Holdings, Inc. Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon, Inc. Skydance Media, LLC, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Snake Eyes (2021) Belongs To Evan Spiliotopoulos, Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. MGM Holdings, Inc. Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon, Inc. Skydance Media, LLC, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Gemini Man (film) Belongs To David Benioff, Billy Ray, Darren Lemke, Fosun Pictures, Fosun International Limited, Alibaba Pictures Group Limited, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc. Skydance Media, LLC, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Adventures of Tintin (film) Belongs To Hergé, Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Hemisphere Media Capital, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, WingNut Films Productions Ltd. Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Amblin Partners, LLC. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, Sony Group Corporation, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Yours, Mine & Ours (2005 film) Belongs To Mort Lachman, Melville Shavelson, Bob Carroll Jr. Madelyn Davis, Ron Burch, David Kidd, Robert Simonds Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. MGM Holdings, Inc. Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon, Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, Sony Group Corporation, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Rugrats Movie Belongs To Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, Paul Germain, David N. Weiss, J. David Stem, Animagic Studio, Anivision Corporation, Sunwoo & Company Co., Ltd. Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials, Grimsaem Animation Co. Ltd. Klasky-Csupo, Inc. United International Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie Belongs To Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, Paul Germain, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jill Gorey, Barbara Herndon, Kate Boutilier, Grimsaem Animation Co. Ltd. Koko Enterprises Ltd. Seoul Movie, Sunwoo Digital International, Sunwoo & Company Co., Ltd. Tama Production, Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. Yowza! Animation, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG, Rugrats Production K.G. Klasky-Csupo, Inc. United International Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Belongs To Joby Harold, Darnell Metayer, Josh Peters, Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber, Bayhem Films, New Republic Pictures, LLC, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Takara Co., Ltd. Tomy Company, Ltd. Takara Tomy, Hasbro Studios, LLC, Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc. Allspark, Entertainment One, eOne Canada, Lionsgate Canada, Lionsgate Studios Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Hasbro Entertainment, Hasbro, Inc. Skydance Media, LLC, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Playing with Fire (2019 film) Belongs To Dan Ewen, Matt Lieberman, Broken Road Productions, Walden Media, LLC, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. The Anschutz Corporation, Nickelodeon Movies Inc. Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Rumble (2021 film) Belongs To Rob Harrell, Hamish Grieve, Matt Lieberman, Reel FX Animation, Walden Media, LLC, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. The Anschutz Corporation, WWE Studios Inc. World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC, Paramount+, Paramount Streaming, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut Belongs To Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady, Blur Studio Inc. Silicon Graphics, Inc. Scott Rudin Productions, Braniff Productions, South Park Studios, Comedy Central Films, MTV Films, MTV Production Development, MTV Studios, MTV Entertainment Studios, MTV Entertainment Group, Paramount Media Networks, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global

Rugrats Go Wild Belongs To Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, Paul Germain, Steve Pepoon, David Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic, DongWoo Animation Co. Ltd. Lotto Animation, Inc. Sunwoo & Company, Co., Ltd. Klasky-Csupo, Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Belongs To Mike Judge, Joe Stillman, Rough Draft Korea Co., Ltd. MTV Productions, MTV Films, MTV Production Development, MTV Studios, MTV Entertainment Studios, MTV Entertainment Group, Geffen Pictures, Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Belongs To John A. Davis. David N. Weiss, J. David Stem, Steve Oedekerk, DNA Productions, Inc. O Entertainment, Nickelodeon Movies Inc. Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Barnyard Belongs To Steve Oedekerk, Omation Animation Studio, O Entertainment, Nickelodeon Movies Inc. Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Belongs To Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman, Brendan O'Brien, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jeff Rowe, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Mikros Animation, Technicolor Creative Studios S.A. Vantiva S.A. Cinesite, Mirage Studios, Point Grey Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Rango Belongs To John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit, GK Films, Blind Wink Productions, Nickelodeon Movies Inc. Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Good Burger Belongs To Michael Tollin, Brian Robbins, Dan Schneider, Kevin Kopelow, Heath Seifert, Tollin/Robbins Productions, Nickelodeon Movies Inc. Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Belongs To Stephen Hillenburg, Paul Tibbitt, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Rough Draft Korea Co., Ltd. Method Studios, Screen Novelties, United Plankton Pictures Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run Belongs To Stephen Hillenburg, Tim Hill, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Mikros Animation, Technicolor Creative Studios S.A. Vantiva S.A. MRC II Distribution Company, L.P. United Plankton Pictures Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Little Prince (2015 film) Belongs To Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Irena Brignull, Bob Persichetti, Reynal & Hitchcock, Éditions Gallimard, Groupe Madrigall S.A. Lucky Red, LPPTV, Method Animation, ON Animation Studios, ON Kids & Family, Mediawan Animation, Mediawan, Orange Studio, Orange S.A. M6 Films, M6, Metropole Télévision S.A. Groupe M6, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Belongs To Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Stephen Hillenburg, Kent Osborne, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt, Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Rough Draft Korea Co, Ltd. Toon Boom Animation Inc. United Plankton Pictures Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

IF (film) Belongs To John Krasinski, Sunday Night Productions, Maximum Effort Productions, Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

Sonic the Hedgehog (film) Belongs to Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, Hirokazu Yasuhara, Pat Casey, Josh Miller, Blur Studio, Marza Animation Planet Inc. Original Film, Sonic Team, SEGA of America, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Belongs to Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, Hirokazu Yasuhara, Pat Casey, Josh Miller, Blur Studio, Marza Animation Planet Inc. Original Film, Sonic Team, SEGA of America, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global

[the-firebird69]

O’Malley outlines plans to rebuild Social Security Administration workforce

That's part of the new budget the improvements are including and these articles are awful it's included in the new budget that was approved is to hire more employees and yeah John remillard is trying to cut our son off to try and extort stuff and he says I don't have anything remember this is just how it works and you're wasting your time following a big group of poor heavily arms people and it's going to show and he's sitting there saying no no no retarded Essen said it is in the cooking show and we are going to go to war with these people all of them but they're doing is jerking us around and saying they get stuff and a bunch of coupons little f***** but for real Trump needs to leave and he's getting attention and who's going to fire people who are not and he already started and he laid off about 20% of social security before the freeze of hiring and to make sure that people saw that they needed to hire people and bja saw it and his attacking and they're going to get him out of there again boy is he a pest and we are going to make sure that he stays out right now we're working on a solution but really this needed attention and to ken is afraid everybody is up in arms. Bja is going to fight him hard and the pseudo empire they see the issue the government is not going to start paying them and they take it the wrong way and a lot of people are alarmed and they see what they're doing this kind of money is for those who are disabled and the use it as an excuse and they think it works. They are spend the time money and don't intend on paying anything and he's controlling the money and Terry cheesman is the treasurer and they're going to sit there and do nothing I would like to take advantage of it and crush the idiots you might want to take a new in the Midwest if they want to act this way they don't need anything just going to sit around and screw around with the move around the country they don't need trucks and we do see that we need them out in other countries but not here that's actually true and we're going to start fighting it I've had enough of this stuff we don't really want them to move he wants them to leave when you start clamping down on everything and he says they're being very mean to me and we should at least be that mean to them they don't understand English they don't understand verbage they don't understand numbers nobody here knows what the hell it is. So now we have some things we have to do and stanstanza ties and he doesn't give anything and the idiots are going to attack his bunkers tonight no what the hell. Now we are going at it with him over social security this month and he's going to send out for people to be hired to a certain hiring managers and we know what to do there and it's going to be hell for them cuz I asked for it and we are moving out right now

Thor Freya

We are working on it we see the problem with this a nightmare this guy is a complete nightmare he eats up time and resources he's a huge moron and a pig we need him out of our face and we can't think about isolated we're not really

Macs

This is very true they're not really isolated and they acted and they're doing stuff like they are and boy everything's going to fall apart this guy doesn't do anything right and he's the wrong place he's got all these evil schemes and says he's trying to be a good person and just reformed and who cares you have to get them out of there this is gross and Daniel had a good idea although he already had that check sent you need to issue one from mayer luce... And my grand nephew says I have an idea that there are people that hate him and they have ability to cut checks at some of these companies that I worked at that he works at still and I get that too there's only one really no HMC is around and people have authority to do it and he's running social security and what the hell are you thinking

Mac

[theantoniomabs]

REVIEW: Rogue Sun #13

Interesting book. I don’t know what to say about this one. It hits all the marks of a good comic book. The story is pretty solid, the art is very good and so is the lettering. Character designs are good and the art style is pretty awesome. Background work is equally good too. In all regards, this is a great book. I’m just a bit out of sorts with the story. This being issue 13 puts us pretty far…

[nachoaveragejoe234]

OK, I agree with this post except we need to stop peddling the "I thin a villain is too ugly or too power hungry so I ASSUME THEY'RE JEWISH CODED and accuse the producers of bigotry" tuff. Several people have talked about the nonsense of these claims and how the people who associate these things with Jews in the first place are the problem. Some of these debunkings even came from JEWS. If there are even Jews saying these critics are blowing things up.... they ARE.

I have reblogged ones I think make a good point.

First, two Jews discussing this among each other:

And debunking entire threads:

As you can see, people don't seem to be aware Gothel is BASED ON HER NON JEWISH VA and CHER. The only people who are seeing "Jews" are people who are purposefully looking for features to call Jewish. They do that with any villain with a big or pointy nose. That's why they look at a witch, trolls, bird-themed villains like Rothbart in Swan Lake, and just assume they're secretly some sinister plot to brainwash kids into hating Jews. Yes that may have happened in the past, but a cartoon character with magic is not gonna suddenly make people hate a culture. Also as pointed out, Rapunzel and Flynn would be Jewish by this logic of using small things to code. They're voiced by Jews and definitely have Mandy and Zachary's influence IN THEIR CHARACTERS. Then.... what almost any movie accused of antisemitism whether it's Tangled, Barbie Swan Lake, PBarbie Princess and the Pauper, Barbie Fairytopia, Christmas Carol, Wizard of Oz, etc either has a Hebrew dub or was released in Israel. Disney has lots of Jewish characters in their TV shows made before and after Tangled, the Walt hating Jews and loving Nazis is a common rumor that has been debunked. Barbie was made by a Jew so people can't use the aruments of Barbie and Ken being blonde (aka calling them Nazis) to criticize Barbie movies. Wizard of Oz was directed by multiple people. including Louis Mayer, and his studio MGM made it. The Mayer family was JEWISH. The author, L FRank Baum, based on his surname, was also Jewish. People caused a fuss about Uncle Boris from Rugrats because they saw his nose and of course assumed the worst. Only for it to backfire in their faces when they realized Rugrats was created by two Jewish people and the episode was made by Jews. Jesus Christ.

Also, Gothel doesn't look "more Jewish" than her concept art. She has the SAME FEATURES, only difference is her hair is up to look more glamorous. If your idea of "Jew" equates with "having curly or kinky hair", then Merida from Brave must be Jewish coded too as she has the same wild, curly hair.

I never see people say something's anti Buddhist, anti Christian, or anti Shinto or whatever, just antisemitic or Islamophobic.

Will you tell me why nobody calls Harley Quinn antisemitic despite ACTUALLY being Jewish and a villain? Or why you don't think Gretchen from Mean Girls is antisemitic even though she's a canon Jew, who's a fancy rich brat? By that logic she's a Jewish American Princess and I thought Jews hated that? Really says where these critics heads are. Being upset and causing a hullabaloo about non Jewish characters being "coded" aka "secretly" Jewish and thus offensive, but when it comes to actual Jews they can't headcanon because they KNOW the character is a Jew, they suddenly go quiet unless it's an actual Nazi movie or made by some fringe group.

You want some antisemiism? Never have I Ever is a very antisemitic show. Or look at how a lot of people talk about Israel or anyone who even shows care for Israeli civilians. VAs like Tara Strong attacked for being proudly Jewish by "Free Palestine" people. THAT'S where the antisemitism is. NOT a character having a design or personality you don't like. If they're not actually Jewish characters, they don't represent Jews. You HC them as Jewish so you can have a reason to be offended. No, not you specifically but people who complain about this in general.

Love the post as a whole but you ruined it by buying into the bad faith headcanons made specifically to try and cancel media.

i don't understand why with the modern retellings of fairytales no one has done rapunzel? there's been a growing trend in wanting to have 'darker' fairytales, or to deconstruct or explore the original stories. but a rapunzel adaptation would be able to do this so well!

compared to other fairytale's and princesses, rapunzel isn't in many adaptations. think of how many different versions of cinderella, snow white, beauty and the beast or peter pan there are (obviously varying in quality lmao)

it's honestly endless!

but rapunzel has very few adaptations:

there are two major movies: 'barbie rapunzel' and 'tangled',

rapunzel is a character in the musical 'into the woods', which also became a movie

one major tv series which is the tangled spinoff 'rapunzel's tangled adventure'

even in stories that combine many fairytales, rapunzel is rarely in them - being a minor villain in 'shrek the third', and as a minor character appearing in one episode of 'once upon a time' in season 3, and then a different version of rapunzel appears in season 7 as a villain who is also lady tremaine (idk i didn't write it)

so there's a lot of potential to explore the story more, especially considering no adaptation has ever gone into the original story (into the woods would be the most similar, but the ending is quite different and rapunzel's not a major character in the musical) and that most versions of rapunzel so far have been for younger audiences.

even just the basic premise of the original story would fit a darker fairytale - a girl is raised in isolation, kept in a tower with no doors or ways to leave and her only company is the abusive woman who raises her, telling the girl she is being kept safe from the outside world. not to mention the other elements of the original story that would be interesting to see portrayed onscreen or be interpreted in different ways - a baby being bartered, rapunzel banished by the woman who raised her for being pregnant, the prince is pushed from the tower and is blinded by thorns, in some versions the witch ends up trapped in the tower herself, etc.

there's a lot of elements there that would make for a fascinating, darker version then what we've seen.

in some of the earlier concept art for tangled, rapunzel is portrayed as much more wild:

which makes a lot of sense!

barbie rapunzel, tangled and into the woods went for a route of rapunzel being sweet, sheltered and naive, which was fuelled by the witch's manipulations. depending on the version, the witch treats rapunzel as a daughter, an indentured servant, or a mix of the two.

but there could be a version of the story where rapunzel is left more to her own devices. or models herself more after the witch - the only person she's ever known. or where her learnt fear of the outside world leads her to want to protect herself against these dangers.

it would be also interesting (as well as pretty heartbreaking) to look into how rapunzel would feel after knowing that her entire life was a lie. that the woman she obeyed and cared about was using her and lied to her. how rapunzel would interact with a world she's never known, but always been taught to fear. and if the story has rapunzel and the prince separated for a time (some versions for years), what would rapunzel's life be like - pregnant and alone and in the world for the first time?

and then there's the prince!

he hears rapunzel singing in the woods and is captivated, but can't get up into her tower, but comes back to listen to her every day. and after he secretly watches how the witch gets into the tower, he calls for rapunzel to let down her hair and climbs up himself. and then they... fall in love and secretly get married.

that part is always glossed over.

it could be a really beautiful love story - a lonely soul who spends most of his time wandering alone in the woods basically hears a siren song and is determined to meet the singer. rapunzel, who's only ever known abuse, meets a genuinely kind person who wants to show her the world. he comes back every day with a strand of silk for rapunzel to make a ladder so that she can be free. after they're separated the now blind prince wanders in search of her, eventually hearing her singing again and that's how they're reunited.

it could also be quite terrifying - a man becomes obsessed with a girl he barely knows, tricks her into letting him into her home, she has no relationship experience (or experience with people at all) and is just as isolated with him as she is with the witch. they get married in secret and she gets pregnant and is punished by the witch for it.

it could even be some version of the two - the prince being captivated by her song, but also drawn to the one thing he can't have (the girl in the tower). but rapunzel being wild when he meets her and him having to slowly earn her trust and respect, and genuinely wanting her to be free of her tower prison.

any adaptation would have to be careful with the character of the witch though - often called gothel, to not fall into antisemetic tropes.

the article 'antisemetism in children's media' explains the harmful ways villains are often jewish-coded:

"[Mother Gothel] was originally drawn as an elegant caucasian looking woman, only to be edited to look like a stereotypical Ashkenazi Jew, presumably as a means to appear more “evil”. Gothel is animated with a hooked nose, and coarse, black curly hair – all aspects commonly seen in antisemetic caricatures. Though these features on a villain alone are shocking enough, what is most terrifying about Gothel’s portrayal is the obvious use of Blood Libel tropes. This can be described as a false belief that Jews kidnap and murder young Christian children in order to perform religious rituals (often associated with Manischewitz wine and matzah). Sound familiar? That’s because it is thinly veiled in Gothel’s portrayal. In Tangled, the main character Rapunzel is portrayed as a young innocent white girl, who is kidnapped by the Jewish villain, who uses Rapunzel’s magical essence to make herself appear younger. What is the laziest attempt at villainizing Jews in this character, and possibly the most hurtful however, is that Gothel is a common jewish surname."

it's awful, and unfortunately something that's been present in many iterations of gothel over the years (as well as other fairytales and witch caricatures)

a solution to this is to not having the witch be jewish coded. her name doesn't have to be gothel, she does not have to have stereotypical or exaggerated features, and rapunzel doesn't even have to be white

but having a focus be on the witch and her relationship to rapunzel is key - because unlike many other fairytale villains, the witch raises rapunzel. in many versions she's the only human contact rapunzel has ever had, or in the versions where rapunzel is locked in the tower as a pre-teen, the witch is the only person she's seen in many years.

the witch's motivations for locking rapunzel away are also important for their relationship and the story:

the original fairytale and into the woods has the witch want to punish her neighbour for stealing from her garden, and wanting a child of her own

barbie rapunzel has a twist on this, gothel was in love with king wilhelm, and when he did not return her love, she kidnapped his daughter rapunzel and framed the neighbouring kingdom, causing the two to go to war.

tangled has gothel using a magic flower for eternal youth, but after the kingdom uses the flower to save the queen & unborn princess, gothel kidnaps the baby in order to stay alive and keep the magic now in rapunzel for herself

Another portrayal of her motivations:

"Many scholars have interpreted "Maiden in the Tower" stories, which Rapunzel is a part of, as a metaphor for the protection of young women from pre-marital relationships by overzealous guardians.[23] Scholars have drawn comparisons of the confinement of Rapunzel in her tower to that of a convent, where women's lives were highly controlled and they lived in exclusion from outsiders.[3]"

this would be a really interesting approach for the character that hasn't been done before. someone who truly believes that she is protecting the child, but is really the one doing all the damage. having the character be inspired by nuns/convents would also work well, as a lot of the techniques gothel uses line up with abusive nuns - isolation, guilt, emotional/physical abuse, and the treatment of rapunzel after the witch finds out she's pregnant. it also flips the head on the often antisemetic coding of the witch

depending on the version made there are a lot of possibilities for endings:

rapunzel having to brave the world alone and pregnant

rapunzel and the prince being reunited - but have days, weeks, months or years gone by? do they ever meet again?

meeting the prince again going differently if it's the terrifying version where he was using rapunzel just like the witch, only in a different way. maybe he wants nothing to do with her or the babies, maybe he pretends they never met at all. how would rapunzel's story change then?

is rapunzel ever reunited with her birth parents? does she want to be?

the ending could be darker, bittersweet, or end on an optimistic note

all this to say that rapunzel is a story with so much potential, and i would love to see it brought to life in more ways - with different genres or interpretations and taking more from the original story.

with the amount of random, unnecessary remakes that are being made - wouldn't a familiar fairytale told in a new way be more interesting?

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Bad movie I have Jack the Giant Killer 1962

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The Volcan Baru National Park, Panama

Credit: Ken Mayer / CC-BY 2.0

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My data below the cut if you want to peak :)

20+

Larry Gelbart- S1-4, Drafted 1 year WWII

Lawrence Marks- S1-3+6, No Data

Jim Fritzell- S3-6, No Data

Everett Greenbaum- S3-6, Navy Pilot WWII

11-19

Alan Alda- S1,2,5-11, ROTC/Reserves

Gene Reynolds- S2+4+5+8, Navy WWII

Ken Levine- S5-8, Yes

David Isaacs- S5-8, Yes

Dennis Koenig- S8-11, No Data/Probably No

Thad Mumford- S8-11, No

Dan Wilcox- S8-11, Probably No

David Pollock- S9-11, No Data/Probably No

Elias Davis- S9-11, No Data/Probably No

6-10

Robert Klane- S1-3, No Data

Simon Munter- S3-4, No Data

Burt Prelutsky- S4-6, No Data

Larry Balmagia- S6,7,11, No Data

Ronny Graham- S6-8, Yes, WWII

John Rappaport- S8-11, No Data/Probably No

Karen Hall- S9-11, No

2-5

Burt Styler- S1, Yes, WWII D-Day

Hal Dresner- S1, No Data

Jerry Mayer- S1,2, No Data

Karl Kleinschmitt- S1,2 No Data

McClean Stevenson- S1,2, Yes, Navy Corpsman 46-7

Sheldon Keller- S1,2, Yes, Signal Corps WWII Pacific

Sid Dorfman- S1-5, No Data

Linda Bloodworty- S2-5, No

Mary Kay Place- S2,3, No

John W Regier- S2-4, No Data

Gary Markowitz- S2,4,5,7, No Data

Bernard Dilbert- S2,7, No Data

Erik Tarloff- S2,7,9, No Data

John D Hess- S3-5, Yes, WWII

Jay Folb- S4,5, No Data

Allan Katz- S5, No Data

Don Reo- S5, No Data

Bill Idolson- S5,6, Yes, Navy Pilot WWII

Mitch Markowitz- S7, No

Tom Reeder- S7, No Data

Sheldon Bull- S7,9, No Data

Burt Metcalfe- S7,9,11, Yes, Navy 56 2 years

Jim Mulligan- S8, No Data

Mike Farell- S8,9,11, Yes, Marines 57-59

Paul Perlove- S10, No Data

I was talking about shift in tone between early and later seasons of MASH and I wondered if it was because of the writers own experiences. So I made a list of every writer who wrote 2 or more episodes of MASH then did my best to find out who had served in the military. The results did not exactly confirm the hypothesis, but I thought they were interesting.