THE MOST SUCCESSFUL EXPORTS OF...

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WORLDWIDE EXPORTS OF...

The UK
Liberalism (first came the Magna Carta, then came the Enlightenment...)
Shakespeare (great at coining words and portraying human nature)
TV Comedy (Monty Python, 'Allo 'Allo, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder...)

France
Lieutenancy (nearly every military in real life and fiction has adopted the rank).
Fashion trends (ever since before the Revolution)
French bread (the quintessential baguette)

Sweden
IKEA (furniture, food, and items of vanguard design in a huge package the colours of the flag)
Brigades (Thank Gustavus Adolphus!)
Nordic model of welfare state

Denmark
Andersen stories
Butter cookies
Tiger (IKEA's Danish cheaper version)

Australia
Vegemite (tastes like... Vegemite)
Movember
Marsupials (nearly every zoo has got them)

SPAIN:
Hot actors and actresses
Siesta
Fiesta
And I'm trying pretty hard not to include "corruption."

ALICE-THEMED BRITISH CURE

In this week's episode of Happiness Charge, the dashing and puzzling Phantom routed the Pretty Cure in charge of protecting the UK. With such long fair hair, that headband, and those spade-shaped earrings, Cure Continental reminded me of a certain fairytale character:

By the way, the Hunter has also struck in Russia and Auz, among other locations no longer protected by Pretty Cures. Which makes me wonder if the Cures stationed in Sweden and/or Spain may be next on the hit list!

NORMAN CONQUEST VIDEO GAME

Setting the scene... Server: England

Will_teh_Bastard has entered the server

Eddy_Con:i is leavin ths game

Eddy_Con:Will u can have mi server admin privelages

Will_teh_Bastard:ty

HardMan:n00bs

HardMan has server admin privelages

Will_teh_Bastard: u bitch

HardMan: lol owned

Eddy_Con has left server

Will_teh_Bastard:wtf man

HardMan: he said i culd hav it

Will_teh_Bastard:god dam

editNot happy... Server: France

Will_teh_Bastard pm: froGGy: dude help mi own this guy

froGGy pm: Will_teh_Bastard: sure

froGGy gives 1000 soldiers to Will_teh_Bastard

Will_teh_Bastard recruits army

Will_teh_Bastard: yes

Will_teh_Bastard: i is 1337

editUh Oh... Server: England

Hard_Fi57 has entered the server

Hard_Fi57: sup guys

Hard_Fi57: i is invading this shiz

Will_teh_Bastard: sup

HardMan:no way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HardMan marches army to Stanford Bridge

HardMan attacks Hard_Fi57

critical hit

Hard_Fi57: wth i wasnt ready

Hard_Fi57:c u guys

Hard_Fi57 has left server

HardMan:n00b i is teh pwnzor

Will_teh_Bastard launches fleet

wind +100

Will_teh_Bastard: F***

Will_teh_Bastard launches fleet

Will_teh_Bastard lands near Hastings

editthe Battle of Hastings... Server: England

Will_teh_Bastard: yes!

HardMan:dude wth i was in battle

HardMan marches army to Sussex

HardMan: i will pwn again

Will_teh_Bastard: no way biatch

HardMan uses shield wall

Will_teh_Bastard attacks HardMan

damage +1

HardMan: POWNEDZOR

HardMan attacks Will_teh_Bastard

Will_teh_Bastard counter attacks

critical hit

HardMan: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Norman_archer101000100111 uses arrow on HardMan

critical hit

HardMan has left server

ENGlishxaarmy: screw this shiz

ENGlishxaarmy routs

ENGlishxaarmy has left the server

Will_teh_Bastard: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWNED

editThe aftermath... Server: England

Will_teh_Bastard:who else on teh server

Pesant66: just me

Will_teh_Bastard:sweet

Will_teh_Bastard marches army to London

Will_teh_Bastard has server admin privelages

Will_teh_Bastard: i powns this server

OTHELLO: THE MANGA

Released in the UK, both written and drawn by London-based mangaka Ryuta Osada, based upon Shakespeare's tragedy, in characterization and plot faithful to the original Othello:

She will follow him to war - and find a far more insidious war instead...

Desdemona from up close...

DROWN YOURSELF MY ASS! Drown kittens instead...

That lieutenancy was MINE BY RIGHT...!

Iago asking Othello if he is already married?

Preparations for the war council.
Notice the size difference between Othello (dark-skinned angel),
Iago (the girly one, who looks like a one-eyed Franz Liszt),
and kawaii (childish-cute) Lieutenant Cassio.

Iago convinces other officers: "He'd be the perfect lieutenant if he just stayed sober.
 I do love Cassio, and I wish to help him".
Speak of the lieutenant... and he appears (pursuing Roderigo, a German Shepherd/Werewolf)

As Cassio sobers up, Iago resorts to reverse psychology once more.

Soon, Othello is convinced of Desdemona's "true" colours.
Is she faithful or isn't she?

Upon seeing Cassio with Desdemona's kerchief, his fiancée/girlfriend Bianca snaps! The young lieutenant is drawn with childish features, to emphatize his innocence. This banter reminds me of Kenny and Emma in Much Ado...

A sarcastic, sensible Emilia advising Desdemona (notice her cute face!).

A colourized illustration of the climactic scene. She is pleading for mercy,
but her spouse won't listen...

A much more dramatic scene: the point of no return (notice the cut to black!)...

Osada-sama showing an autographed sketch of his feminine, yet detached, Iago.

The great general. Othello is one of two winged characters in the manga, aside from
the only dark-skinned one (the wings symbolizing his otherness).
When corrupted by Iago, his white "angelic wings" gradually turn gray,
until they finally become black "raven wings".
The suit of armour he wears, and his stalwart frame, give the impression
of a veteran general.

The lady fair. Desdemona is blond, elegant, innocent, pure: in short,
the way Shakespeare imagined her. She makes a nice couple with Othello,
doesn't she?

The young lieutenant. Cassio has the air of a cute-looking teenager,
 whose light frame betrays a low threshold for ethanol, and whose childish
features betray his loyalty and innocence.
He looks more like a cleric than like a military officer,
if not for the ponytail.

The clever maid. A dark-haired and bespectacled Emilia resembling Mary Poppins,
fittingly enough. She is far more sensible and sarcastic than Desdemona. Like Othello,
she has wings... only that hers aren't feathered, but butterfly wings.

The plucky wench. In making Bianca a redhead, Osada has completed the hair colour
trio with the female cast. That plucky personality and those pigtails remind
me of Pippi Lângstrump. She acts mostly as comic relief, her
relationship with Cassio, second to Othello and Desdemona,
also being affected by Iago's lies.
Though she doesn't wish for the lieutenant's death...

The spurned suitor. It struck me to see Roderigo as a German Shepherd-like
werewolf. But then, I got used to the concept...

The outpost setting has become a futuristic spaceport.

 Here, you can see the whole leading cast in colour.

Iago and Roderigo, either drowning their sorrows or during the kegger scene.

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