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Anti-Socialite. Professional Shit-Talker Instagram/TikTok: @HeisJavon subtle Michael/Janet stan account

[lauren ꨄ︎ @J0DECIDAL]

24 years ago this masterpiece aka one of the best songs ever was released

[JVN @Heisjavon]

@TheYumx2 WHO IS EVERYBODY? You loose

[JVN @Heisjavon]

Exactly why she’s the GOAT and my fave

[ＡＪＥＢＯ✰.🧙🏻 @_heisajebo]

Mystique is arguably one of the most dangerous mutants in the X-Men universe.

[Bryheim @Bryheim3]

Cristóbal Balenciaga, was gay
Christian Louboutin is gay.
Marc Jacobs is gay.
Yves Saint Laurent is gay.
Tom Ford is gay.
Gianni Versace was gay.
Christian Dior was gay.
Alexander McQueen… gay.

But yall so homophobic huh…?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In 2000, Rebecca Romijn's call time was midnight so cameras could roll at 9am. Becoming Mystique took 9 hours, around 100 individual silicone prosthetics covering 60% of her body, and hand-painted blue over the rest. Removal took another 2 hours. That's 11 hours of makeup wrapped around every shooting day.

The first film's contact lenses left her nearly blind, so she had to fight choreographed battles she couldn't actually see. They moved the yellow eyes to post-production for X2. The paint transferred to everything she touched. The crew always knew when she'd used the bathroom because the toilet seat turned blue.

Over three films the team compressed the process from 9 hours to 6. Then Jennifer Lawrence inherited the role, developed skin reactions to the paint, and the studio cut it to 3 hours with a partial bodysuit. Each generation of Mystique traded a little of the look for a lot of the labor.

Which explains the reaction to today's reveal. The version fans keep holding up as the definitive Mystique is the one that was too brutal to keep producing. The 2006 look wasn't a design choice anyone abandoned for creative reasons. It was an 11-hour daily industrial process that only existed because one actress agreed to live inside it.

Romijn put it best herself: the makeup was the job. "The acting was free."

[Becca 🎧 @BeccaRBRoyalty]

Janet Jackson knew how to stretch an album era. Her album cycles lasted 2–3 years because every new single brought an evolution in the music, visuals, videos, performances, and overall creative direction.

[JVN @Heisjavon]

@maybezavion Add Feels So Right and When We Ooo in the mix and I’ll happily rotate between the 3

[ΔLΔΝ @pyramids_of_aj]

Mystique, Let ‘em KNOOOOOW

[王 @0seiagyeman]

To anyone finding their fire again, may it come back steady, unshakable, and impossible to lose.

[JVN @Heisjavon]

All of this “pays tribute” shit is tired. Give us some new shit thats tribute worthy in 10-15 years

[Movies Scenes 🎫 @SceneinCinema]

POV: Sadie Sink when your whole friend group is about to be jobless, but you've got Jean Grey waiting at Marvel. 😭

[Monte. @monteDDR]

be my nigga or watch me get niggas got it 😂🎯

[JVN @Heisjavon]

@PedroMayCare

[JVN @Heisjavon]

Me on a dry spell.

Next week, I may be ready to put a baby in a nigga just for wearing the color pink idk

[Pedro @PedroMayCare]

I must be becoming asexual bc I do not be interested in men at all anymore 😅

[Omo Ade @MaxToks001]

at war with myself because i understand the potential i have

[OSIRIS ASSAD @Osirisassad]

I’m a gangsta but talk 2 me sweet

[JVN @Heisjavon]

Breath, armpits, feet.

You’ll forever be a funky mf to me after that

[𝕜𝕚𝕠𝕟 . @MrFlyyyGuyyy]

There’s no coming back from your breath stinking around me. I’ll never forget.

[JVN @Heisjavon]

@frankmontanaa Bet. Then nudes right after

[JVN @Heisjavon]

Classic 🤌🏾

[evil @EVILSCRE4M]

Eight Legged Freaks was released on this day in 2002.