how i count exes— by personal significance. sometimes the unlabeled romantic experience was significant to me and it deserves to live in the romantic resume.
Hollywood spent 21 years pretending this didn't happen first.
Michael Jai White headlined Spawn in 1997. A Black actor leading a major comic book movie, two decades before Black Panther made the idea look brand new.
The face in this clip cost him two to four hours of makeup every shoot day. Glued-on bodysuit, yellow contacts that shredded his eyes, a mask that choked his breathing. He credited his martial arts background for surviving days most actors would have walked off.
The film was a New Line gamble. Greenlit around $20M, ballooned past $40M once early effects footage came back, because the producers believed they could match Men in Black's visuals at half the cost. It pulled roughly $88M and got buried by critics on arrival.
Now look at what it opened. Blade arrived in 1998. Luke Cage, Black Panther, the entire run of Black-led comic adaptations followed. Black Panther alone cleared $1.3 billion in 2018.
The movie people file away as a forgotten misfire was the proof of concept for one of the most valuable lanes in modern Hollywood. White carried it there first, under a mask that barely let him breathe.
My question is why does a female video game character NEED to be attractive to you for you to consider playing with her?
Is your attraction to the male characters in games the reason you play those games?
I understand they’re figures of speech, but I’ve never saw the point of phrases like, “On my [insert loved one]’s soul/grave”, “I swear on everything I love”, etc.; cuz has that ever REALLY made anyone believe someone any more than their anger is even letting them at that time?
Never everrrrrr be ashamed of having a big and/or empathetic heart. Love is an infinite source and so is kindness. What people choose to do with the energy you naturally put out shouldn’t be your concern. Be that person anyways
Ideally life should feel like Animal Crossing. You’re hanging out. Going to the beach. Eating fresh fruit. You are a little in a hole financially but it’s fine
This also why I against naming my kids after me if I’m blessed w/ any, I want them to have their own identities and to not outright feel any pressure to be like me, nor would I want anyone NOT named after me to feel less than
I kinda bristle at the notion that parents have children for vanity, but some conversations I have & tweets I see really show how many don’t really think about raising a unique individual kinda like them, as much as folks hope to raise mini-thems lol