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Hot take: Morgan was right the whole time.

Journal gives us a very clear explanation for Morgan's general antagonism towards Harry, and recontextualises literally every interaction they ever have.

Storm Front, he's actually not at all unreasonable. He's very suspicious, but anyone would have good reason to suspect Harry, and seriously bad stuff is happening. And Harry takes the opportunity to attack him over an insult. And there's every chance that Morgan knows Nemesis is in play. Maybe he even knows something specific about the heart ripping spell, which turns out to have a Nemesis connection of some kind. And then... It works out so very perfectly for Harry. An encounter between a Nemesis pawn (we know for sure that the Gatekeeper recognises this at some point, so it's reasonable that Morgan does too, possibly even at the time) and Harry, who is a suspected Nemesis pawn, a very high stakes one, ends with the situation working out so perfectly that Morgan himself is obliged to vindicate Harry from all suspicion. Doesn't that just sound like a perfectly manipulated play? Doesn't that sound exactly what Nemesis does with Maeve subborning Lily? Nemesis sacrificing smaller pawns to give an important one credibility?

Then Morgan doesn't show up until Summer Knight. Harry just kicked off a war between the Courts and the Council. Oh hey, and his Godmother (who Morgan almost certainly knew about), who has actually always been trying to protect Harry, has traded away her leverage that would let her do so, to the ruler of the force that protects against the Outsiders. Harry's gone from being a festering question mark that might be a time bomb, to being a nuclear power plant that already exploded and is now slowly building towards utter, Armageddon class meltdown. Not only that, but one of the Senior Council is dead, Dresden's own grandmaster on the evil side, and Dresden's own grandfather is now taking his place, which he'd refused for years before, after a private conversation with Dresden, one of the few times the Blackstaff has even been out in the open for years. Oh, and then Dresden manages to immediately get the famously neutral Gatekeeper, the single most crucial figure in the fight at the Gates, the most important person to keep free of Nemesis, to back him up, at least in part. Morgan has *every* reason to be absolutely frothing at the mouth *insane* to take Dresden out of the picture at this point. He looks *exactly* like the worst case scenario Morgan has been fearing since Malcolm's death. And yet with all that, what does he do? He follows the Merlin's orders to goad Harry into giving him an excuse for execution (just goading, Morgan doesn't attack him). And when Harry tries to contact the Senior Council again, Morgan doesn't let him through. Morgan who clearly suspects Harry is spreading the Contagion, won't let him get more access to the Senior Council at a critical moment.

After that what is there? Their next two significant interactions are Morgan trying to kill him after he watched Harry murder the woman Morgan loved, his master, his commander, the woman in charge of leading the combat arm of the Council. *Nobody* can blame him for that reaction, even without the Nemesis context. And then at the end of the book, he leaves Harry as Warden commander of half a continent.

I really can't pick out a moment where, all things considered, Morgan acted unreasonably. Hell, aside from the Dead Beat incident where there was simply the sensible reaction to a situation that seemed crystal clear, he constantly shows tolerance and fairness and restraint with Harry.

But of course I didn't just say he was justified, I said Morgan was *right*. We see in Ghost Story how He Who Walks Behind gave Harry an antagonist to hate and fight and blow up a building to kill, setting him on a darker path, preparing for something. Who says He Who Walks Beside wasn't doing the same thing in Storm Front? And gosh, giving Harry credibility and heroism in the eyes of the Council do masterfully really *does* feel like a Nemesis plot going off flawlessly, doesn't it? Then Summer Knight, we know (assuming that Harry hasn't *actually* been infected this whole time) that he wasn't spreading the Contagion, but the way that Lea, who we know *was* infected, and possibly working up to depose Mab, puts Harry into her orbit is definitely out of character, and absolutely reeks of Nemesis influence. Indeed, considering the events of Cold Days, it's very possible that this whole episode was about forging Harry into a weapon to kill Mab at a critical moment. This is also around the time we assume Maeve to have been infected...

Aside from the Dead Beat incident, Morgan only really went at Harry hard in situations where I think he actually *was* being moved like a chess piece by the Adversary.

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Freddie Mercury's cats

Unknown Cat

Miko

Tiffany

Oscar

Oscar & Tiffany

Dorothy

Goliath

Lily

Romeo

and his favourite cat who has a Queen song named after her…

Delilah

And here is Freddie wearing a waist coat with all of his cats painted on it

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My one of my two favorite scenes from Turn Coat

“It’s a tough target,” I admitted. “It knows magic, and how to defend against it.” “Yes,” Morgan said. He watched me pick a preloaded syringe of antibiotics from the cooler. “And its abilities are more than the equal of both of us put together.” “Jinkies,” I said. I primed the syringe and pushed the antibiotics into the IV line. Then I got the codeine and a cup of water, offering Morgan both. He downed the pills, laid his head back wearily, and closed his eyes. “I Saw one once, too,” he said. I started cleaning up. I didn’t say anything. “They aren’t invulnerable. They can be killed.” I tossed wrappers into the trash can and restored equipment to the medical kit. I grimaced at the bloodied rug that still lay beneath Morgan. I’d have to get that out from under him soon. I turned to leave, but stopped in the doorway. “How’d you do it?” I asked, without looking behind me. It took him a moment to answer. I thought he’d passed out again. “It was the fifties,” he said. “Started in New Mexico. It followed me to Nevada. I lured it onto a government testing site, and stepped across into the Nevernever just before the bomb went off.” I blinked and looked over my shoulder at him. “You nuked it?” He opened one eye and smiled. It was sort of creepy. “Stars and stones… that’s…” I had to call a spade a spade. “Kind of cool.” “Gets me to sleep at night,” he mumbled. He closed his eye again, sighed, and let his head sag a little to one side.

why are you even talking to him… you know he’s doomed by the narrative right

Funny story the first time I read Storm Front I somehow managed to entirely gloss over Morgan's physical description outside of "tall and have sword" - I have no fucking idea how I did it but it happened - and when I went back to reread my favorite parts I saw it like a solid two months after I'd finished the book and had a VERY different picture of him in mind. The part that shook me the most was the ponytail, I had always pictured him with short hair up until then

When the author describes a character’s appearance way too late and you have to quickly redesign the image you already have for them in your head:

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Morgan headcanon:

He has a bunch of crazy stories that are actually true, but hes started telling ridiculous fake ones just to see how insane he can make it before someone doesn't believe him. So far, no one has called him out on this.

No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did.  He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is.  He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him?  And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets.  And his wife Coral Browne?  The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck.  They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s.  His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community.  When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance?  Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Happy birthday, Vincent Price.  You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.