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Aloha Oe X Edith Nox Crossover Special Ep. The Wedding of Edith Nox Part 4

PART 4! Ahhhhh!

FADE IN.

INT. ABRICOT. THE PAST

The very moment JUSTIN had returned CLEMENTINE in the past in his previous adventure of world-saving. She walked down the road, attempting to return back to The Castle. JUSTIN turns up again, stopping her for the moment.

JUSTIN

Hello again.

CLEMENTINE

Who are you?

JUSTIN

An old friend... one you’re about to remember.

Holding the memory device in his hand, it flashed a light in her eyes. Her memories returned, seeing a smile on his face.

JUSTIN

Hello again.

CUT TO: UNIVERSE 727.

PLANET: SAKURA. THE LAND OF FIRE. HOTARU CASTLE.

THE FIRE GARDENS

Out in the gardens, there was a small family. A woman, a man, and a little girl, the child playing out with her family, near the small lake.

ASAMI

Come here, my little baby!

(She says with a cute little voice. While the man stands behind her and smiles)

RYOTO

She’s so cute at this age. Just worried about the coming years.

ASAMI

Honey, she’ll be fine. Just follow Justin’s example of raising Yue.

A servant had immediately come.

SERVANT

Your majesty, urgent message.

RYOTO turned to face him, concerned.

RYOTO

What is it?

SERVANT

Your friend. The Time Walker. He’s in trouble… in another universe? The Eternity is on its way.

Turning to ASAMI and his daughter.

RYOTO

My love, I…

ASAMI

Go… I know you love him like a brother. Go save him. We’ll be here, waiting.

Giving her a kiss on her cheek and then picking up his daughter and giving her a big kiss.

RYOTO

I love you both, I’ll be back, I promise!

CUT TO: UNIVERSE 528

PRESENT TIME

INT. THE ETERNITY. THE BRIDGE

The heroes narrowly escaped The Downward and LIBERIUS’ grasp and his Fire Demon army. Now resting from their initial fight against the villains of this new crossover.

CUT TO: THE DOWNWARD. THE THRONE

In fits of rage LIBERIUS, slashed and destroyed his own soldiers with his sword of flame. Slicing through their stone made bodies, absorbing the fire within them.

LIBERIUS

THEY ESCAPED!

Teleporting behind him an unknown figure arrived. LIBERIUS was familiar with who he is.

LIBERIUS

Valerin...

Turning toward this VALERIN... In view... he saw his appearance. Taking on the appearance of a scraggy man with long, thin limbs, a thin neck, and an angular face. He has black hair in a mop-top style with V-shaped bangs and devil-horns rising over the ears to points slightly above the top of his head. He has black eye shadow around his eyes appearing as He has arched eyebrows and sideburns that taper to a point.

His clothes are formal, and predominantly black but include a white shirt with a tall, stiff collar. Along with a cloak with red trims, attached to his shoulder.

VALERIN

Liberius. Long time no see.

His facial expression was blank and lacked emotion.

LIBERIUS

I could say the same to you. Where have you been?

VALERIN

Plotting here and there. Watching from my dimension. Oh... AND SEEING YOU FAIL!

His eyes turned bright red in his fit of rage. His face altered by his anger and the hue of his skin turning blue.

The ground shook and roars of thunder were heard. LIBERIUS had taken a step as his powers were not matched with a Chaos Lord. But had the guts to take back to one.

LIBERIUS

I don’t see you lending a hand in all of this?! YOU A CHAOS LORD!

VALERIN

Chaos takes time... (He said each word slowly, one by one) My pantheon... my FAMILY OF CHAOS CREATORS WERE TRAPPED! AND IMPRISONED IN STONE BY THE TIME WALKER!

His alter face grew worse, as he appeared more demonic-looking. Breathing hard, he releases every breath to compose himself. His face reverting back to normal.

LIBERIUS

And you will have that Valerin... you gave me the power to be a god! Now I return the favor. We will both have revenge on those who wronged us. Look what I’ve created!

LIBERIUS showed VALERIN the DESTROYER.

VALERIN

Is that, who I think it is?

LIBERIUS

Yes, The Savior but I call this one the Destroyer.

VALERIN

Very satisfying.

VALERIN simply nodded and grinned.

VALERIN

Let’s give you and your army an upgrade.

He summoned a crimson fire in his hand. Chaos energy ready in his hand.

CUT TO: INT. EDITH’S HOUSE. LIVING ROOM.

Their small battle in The Downward may have won them their lives, but the war was still coming. It was rest and planning for their unexpected war... the heroes were back in their normal clothing. JUSTIN having been bruised and slightly burned from the fight. His stomach was getting wrapped in bandages by EDITH. He winces as the bandage wraps moved and tightened.

EDITH

You’ll be fine.

JUSTIN laughs a little, to handle the pain. She pats his hand and hands him his shirt.

VIOLET stood near CLEMENTINE... she was here, her sister, right in front her once more.

VIOLET

Okay, we’re safe now... how are you back?

CLEMENTINE

The moment Justin erased my memories from the last battle... he came back and got me. Gave me back everything. He also informed me that my little sister is marrying a beautiful girl.

She got a little cheeky with her comment. VIOLET smiled at her comment, looking over to EDITH while helping bandage JUSTIN.

VIOLET

Yeah, she’s really something else.

CLEMENTINE

Aw! My sister’s marrying her true love!

VIOLET

Shut up!

CLEMENTINE hugs her in order to hide her embarrassed face.

RYOTO was dressed normal and walked in.

RYOTO

Hey buddy.

JUSTIN standing up but winces from the pain being ached.

JUSTIN

Hey, bud! I can’t believe you showed up.

RYOTO

I couldn’t just leave my little brother.

JUSTIN

I’m older than you, you do remember that right?

RYOTO

Yeah, but you act like you’re still a kid.

JUSTIN

You’re an idiot.

They both laughed.

JUSTIN (cont’d)

How’s Asami?

RYOTO

Doing great, and your goddaughter...

JUSTIN was shocked

JUSTIN

No way... Are you serious?!

RYOTO nodded, JUSTIN hugs his big brother but groans in pain.

JUSTIN (cont’d)

Congrats bud! What’s her name?

RYOTO

Kaori

JUSTIN

Perfect.

EDITH enters the conversation,

EDITH

You gonna introduce us to your friend from your universe?

She smiled with excitement.

JUSTIN

Guys this is one of my closest friends from my universe. Prince Ryoto Hotaru of the Fire Kingdom of the planet Sakura.

RYOTO bows,

RYOTO

An honor to meet you all. Justin has told me about you all.

He looked at each one and gave one a smile.

The Lost Fire, Clementine. The Ice Warrior, Violet. The Dark Angel, Noemi. And The Savior, Edith.

EDITH

Are you a samurai?! I’ve read about Samurai warriors in the archives of the old world. ARE YOU ONE?!

She excitedly asked.

RYOTO

Yes, I am.

Starstruck, her eyes widened.

EDITH

AWESOME!

NOEMI

You’re really warriors of honor?!

RYOTO

Of course, we have a code of honor.

VIOLET

Do you have special weapons?! I love weapons!

RYOTO

I can see that, I think I’ll show you my arsenal later.

JUSTIN

Ok, sorry to interrupt but let’s focus a little. We have to find a way to stop Liberus.

EDITH

Maybe the Fates have healed by now. We should go to the Temple.

JUSTIN

Good idea. Edith takes Clem and Vi. Noemi, Argento go do some research find any research on magics that can trap him or help with the banishment. Berry and Peri... just rest for now, thank you for your help.

CUT TO: TEMPLE OF THE FATES.

EDITH, CLEMENTINE, VIOLET had gone to the temple.

EDITH

Fates?

A flash of light teleports them to THE REALM OF FATES.

FOX in their shadow form and mask floating about.

FOX

Hello Nox... (Noticing CLEMENTINE in the room he freaks out) Cremite?! HOW?! TIME WALKER?! WHERE IS HE?!

EDITH

Fox calm down.

FOX

Ms. Nox, I’m sure you’re quite aware that anachronistic beings of the past are not allowed within the present time.

(They say with such passive-aggressive tone)

CLEMENTINE

Still the same as ever, aren’t you Fox?

FOX

Ms. Cremite, a very very long time. May you rest in peace once you’ve been returned your proper moment of taking. Not to be so rude but foreign presences like the Time Walker and yourself from the past are highly against our universal laws.

CLEMENTINE

Sorry to disappoint you. I was once a Savior.

FOX

That you were. Moving on, your mission to save Neydolya was a success.

EDITH

Yes, we blocked the portal entrance to the Downward. But we know it won’t hold on for long.

FOX

Good.

EDITH

He also stole some Creation Thread...

FOX

WHAT?!

EDITH

There’s an army waiting for us in the Downward.

FOX

Then you all must hurry, Owl, Cat and I have prepared a sealing thread for you. Create our symbol and you shall lock the doors of the Downward forever. You must hurry.

Sent away in a flash of light. The 3 ladies immediately run

Meanwhile...

CUT TO: EDITH’S HOUSE

JUSTIN, RYOTO, BERRY, and PERIWINKLE were back to back. JUSTIN and RYOTO holding their swords BERRY armored up and ready to fight. PERI with her wand and ready to create storms.

LIBERIUS and his army of Fire Demons stood and surrounded.

LIBERIUS

Uh oh. (He laughs maniacally)

In a flash of purple lightning, standing next to him. VALERIN an evil smile on his face.

VALERIN

Long time no see. Time Walker.

JUSTIN was in shock

JUSTIN

It can’t be!

FADE TO BLACK

END OF PART 4

TBC

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rochestergirl99-blog · 5 years ago

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Think about a famous superstar.

Let's take Robert Downey Jr.

I've never fulfilled him individually, but I “like” him. Why?

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Essentially we form opinions of individuals - especially celebrities - before we've had an opportunity to connect to them.

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Dress in a way to put your very best foot forward.

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The research style, know about styles (or have stylists help them), they understand the need for fit, and the PRACTICE dressing clear regularly.

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Willie Nelson.

Johnny Cash.

Justin Timberlake.

David Beckham.

Many of these men had/have become well-known for having very particular looks.

They crafted a graphic themselves and maintained it.

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The majority of us aren't celebrities.

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mrmichaelchadler · 6 years ago

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AFI Fest 2018: On the Basis of Sex

Almost half a year after the documentary "RBG" raked in $14.3 million, "On the Basis of Sex," tells how Ruth Bader Ginsburg began her trailblazing Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. The film made its world premiere as the opening gala movie for the 32nd AFI FEST in Hollywood. If ever we needed a real-life superhero during these dark days in Trumpland, then the now 85-year-old RBG has become just that.

Earlier in the day, RBG was trending because she had been hospitalized with three cracked ribs. Director Mimi Leder introduced this legal love story to the audience, saying that "our thoughts are with her and we pray for her speedy recovery." She and the cast had a good first-hand source confirm that RBG was doing well because the screenwriter, Daniel Stiepleman, is her nephew.

On a panel discussion the previous week at the Pacific Design Center, Stiepleman explained he first heard of the story at his uncle Martin Ginsburg's 2010 funeral. The couple, Martin and Ruth, whom Stiepleman deeply admired for their long-lasting devoted marriage, had only worked together on one case: A Colorado man was discriminated against on the basis of sex in a state tax law because he was not a female caregiver to his elderly mother.

The movie's beginning reveals Leder's roots as a cinematographer. A large group of young fresh faces are flowing into old building, an ancient piece of architecture for the young country of the United States. In a sea of white shirts, conservative ties and gray to black suits, is a single woman (Felicity Jones) dressed in a cornflower blue dress and walking confidently in pumps. As she finds a seat amongst the men and they wait for the dean to speak, the soundtrack plays the Harvard fight song about "ten thousand men of Harvard want vict'ry today." Once seated, she looks around for faces of other young women and spies two sitting close by.

This isn't the start of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's college career. She had already earned her bachelor's at Cornell University and was married to Marty (1954) and by 1956, they had a child, Jane. Marty (Armie Hammer) was a year ahead of Ruth in law school. We learn the necessary bits later through subtle exposition.

During his welcome speech to the new law students, the dean, Erwin Griswold (Sam Waterston), asks them all to "consider what does it mean to be a Harvard man." Later, Ruth complains to her husband while trying to decide which dress will make her look most like "a Harvard man" for a dinner with the dean. At the dinner arranged to greet the new female students, we learn that 1956 was only the sixth year that "women had the privilege to earn a Harvard law degree" and Ruth was one of nine women out of a class of over 500. Griswold asks each to explain, "Why you occupy a place at Harvard that would have gone to a man."

And so begins the parallel worlds where Ruth is fully supported by an astoundingly modern egalitarian husband at home and yet faces subtle and overt sexism in her academic and professional life. When Marty is diagnosed with cancer, she attends his classes when he can't and types his work when he is too weak to sit up and still takes care of their daughter, Jane. When Marty finds a job in New York, Ruth asks Griswold to make an exception--one already made for at least two men before her—but failing to find his support ("You have no compelling reason to transfer" and as dean he has a duty "to protect the distinction of a Harvard law degree"), she transfers to Columbia where she will graduate tied for first in her class.

Yet despite being in the largest city of the most "litigious" society in the world, in New York City in 1959, Ruth cannot find a job because she is a woman, a mother, a Jew and a distraction. She settles, as many women before, to teach when a position opens up because one token minority (black) has left and a woman fulfills the notion of diversity. Ruth hasn't relinquished her dreams of finding equal footing in the courtroom. By the 1976, she is stirring up predominately female students to examine sex discrimination in the law nationwide when she discovers a case and she tries to talk an old buddy, ACLU legal director Mel Wulf (Justin Theroux), into adding the ACLU's support. Wulf recognizes that this would engender what the opposition's legal team will later call "radical social change," but eventually, Ruth will find her voice and she will see it as protecting "the right of our country to change."

Leder knows the terrain of sexism and being a pioneer. She was the first women accepted in cinematography and the first female graduate of the AFI Conservatory in 1973. The new festival director, Michael Lumpkin, who just this year replaced Jacqueline Lyanga who served for eight years, boasted before this movie's screening that 48 percent of the 135 films shown at the festival were directed by women.

Daniel Stiepleman's script and Leder's movie have the full blessing of Notorious RBG (Stiepleman said when he asked permission to write about the case, RBG told him, "Well, if that's how you want to spend your time.") as does the casting of the handsome Armie Hammer. Hammer and Jones have a sweet chemistry and they might make the story visually more agreeable as is the Hollywood way. Waterson brings all the "Law & Order" baggage of respect effectively to his role as the old establishment sexist heavy who reappears in Ruth's life as US Solicitor General during this case. In contrast, the movie includes brief appearances by Kathy Bates as a feisty but weary feminist civil liberties lawyer and ACLU board member Dorothy Kenyon (1888-1972). This is a movie that floats on an atmosphere of admiration, but also one that solidly appreciates what it is like to be a pioneer for social change.

One quibble with "On the Basis of Sex" is that it skips over the 1960s when RBG researched International Civil Procedure in Sweden and learned how gender equality worked in another country. That might have given "On the Basis of Sex" a sense of global context, particularly when you consider that Margaret Thatcher was the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK from 1975 to 1990. Yet "On the Basis of Sex" still has potent emotional power. Even viewing it a second time, I felt a sting of tears and a heaviness in my heart. I've been where sexism and discrimination pushed me back but I must also admit that I was so delighted by the documentary "RBG" that I bought an RBG action figure.

"On the Basis of Sex" is the origin story of a super hero who doesn't need a cape, whose super power was her relationship with her husband in an intellectual and emotional equal partnership, and, in this imagining, has blue as a motif (the movie ends long before RBG wears her trademark jabots). "On the Basis of Sex" is a primer for men and women about social change and sexism, how one person can change the world one case at a time and how a marriage between equals can lift both partners up, even as far as the Supreme Court of the United States.

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postculturemag-blog · 7 years ago

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What’s Better Than This? Guys Being Dudes

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The End of the Movie

Despite being a child of the 90s I consider myself a super fan when it comes to 80s movies. Every month my local Alamo Drafthouse movie theater holds viewings for older movies and I always try to make at least once a month. Last month it was Nick Castle’s The Last Starfighter.

The first 80s movie I remember falling in love with was the Spielberg classic Stand by Me. Stand by Me was a coming-of-age story about a group of friends who go in search of a rumored dead body. Along the way they meet a host of characters and challenges that send them on individual journeys of self-discovery.

Even back then I couldn’t help but draw comparisons to another childhood-best-friends coming-of-age movie I’d seen: Now and Then. Now and Then was billed to me as Stand by Me, but for Girls. Instead of a group of boy friends going on an epic journal of self-discovery to find a dead body, the audience was treated to snapshots of summer spent with a group of girls who just wanted to buy a treehouse together and maybe put a disturbed spirit or two to rest, too.

Both films share themes that are integral to all coming-of-age films, most importantly growth and independence. At the end of Now and Then once the girls have secured enough money to buy their treehouse Samantha comments that “The tree house was supposed to bring us more independence. But what the summer actually brought was independence from each other.” The idea is sweet and profound, made even more so by the opening reunion between the friends, now all grown-up, and the promise they make to each other at the end to visit together more often.

The end of Stand by Me is noticeably different. After our brave heroes overcome trials and the perils of pubertal self-discovery and find the dead body, the adventure, and summer, are over. A flashforward narrated by Gordie tells us that the boys drifted apart with age. Teddy and Vern became passing figures in Gordie’s life. He remained close with Chris through college until he went off to university—then died breaking up a fight at a restaurant. This prompts Gordie to write the famously heartstring-pulling line: “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve.”

I remember casually asking my dad at the end of Now and Then why the boys didn’t stay together like the girls. His response? “They’re boys.” Like that explained everything. At the time, it actually kind of did. There was a reason the men in the movies I saw didn’t hug or talk about their feelings like the women did. In fact, attempts at intimacy or emotional connection between male characters were either played for laughs or shown as a cautionary tale.

“They’re boys” was the simple answer to a complex problem, but like most moviegoers, I was content to leave it at that.

But now that I’m older I have to ask why? Why are boys expected to sever ties with the people they care about when they grow older? What kind of Wormer Brothers-level havoc does puberty wreak on boys that it seemingly spares girls?

The answer is a lot less mystical than dead bodies or resurrected spirit.

Dude, Where’s My Emotional Intimacy?

Gordie’s line about never having friends like the ones he had when he was twelve isn’t isolated fiction. Boys tend to form closer bonds with other boys in childhood and almost seem to “lose” the ability to later. Sociologist Lisa Wade theorizes that around the ages of fifteen and sixteen teenage boys start learning what it means to “be a real man,” and the feminine-coded traits of friendship do not fall into that ideal.

In her book Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection psychologist Niobe Way followed boys of varying ages over four years to chronicle their views on friendship. Wade highlights a particularly devastating part of her research in which a 15-year-old boy named Justin was asked to describe his feelings towards his best friend at two different parts of his life:

[My best friend and I] love each other… that’s it… you have this thing that is deep, so deep, it’s within you, you can’t explain it. It’s just a thing that you know that person is that person… I guess in life, sometimes two people can really, really understand each other and really have a trust, respect and love for each other.

By his senior year, however, this is what he had to say about friendship:

[My friend and I] we mostly joke around. It’s not like really anything serious or whatever… I don’t talk to nobody about serious stuff… I don’t talk to nobody. I don’t share my feelings really. Not that kind of person or whatever… It’s just something that I don’t do.

Niobe’s interviews with boys are both eye-opening and heartbreaking. At one point she interviewed a freshman named Jason who touted the merits of friendship as having someone to turn to. Three years later she asked Jason if he had any close friends and he “said no and immediately [added] that while he nothing against gay people, he himself [was] not gay.”

Despite popular belief, men actually desire (and need) emotional intimacy just as much as women do. In fact, not having those emotional connections contribute greatly to men’s health problems.

So if men want it, and the lack of it might actually kill them, why can’t they have it?

Heterosexual men are taught that the romantic and sexual relationships they have with women are the only acceptable source of intimacy and closeness they’re allowed to have. That’s often why straight men feel the need to caveat any positive, slightly friendly interaction with another male with “No homo.” Popular belief is that if a guy is showing affection to a person he must want to date or have sex with that person. Hence the word bromance. Know what the female equivalent of a bromance is? A friendship.

Friendship between men is such a delicate walk between ‘just-guys-being-dudes’ and ‘full-on-homo’ that its become almost regulated. Telegraph’s Chris Moss posted a handy guide titled “A fine bromance: the 12 rules of male friendship” that featured such ‘rules’ as this:

Never openly verbalise that you value the friendship. Most men avoid literalness. There’s something vulgar about declaring “how important you are to me”. But there is also a kind of mysticism in never quite affirming that this might just be the second, or even the, central love in your life. Sometimes stating the obvious makes the obvious deteriorate or vanish. So respect the given; you can always weep openly at a friend’s funeral.

Even with the wink-wink-nudge-nudge aspect, it is still depressing to think that men have to edit their feelings in an effort to not make the people they care about uncomfortable. The other day on Twitter a virtual (female) stranger told me she loved me. In line at the checkout at Walgreens, I overheard a man say to his (male) companion “That’s a nice shirt, man. No homo.”

The restrictive range of what’s considered “acceptable” emotions men are allowed to feel are just some of the ways the patriarchy takes a toll on men, and it has real-life harmful effects. Misogyny and homophobia are core driving factors to this epidemic, and what’s worse is that it’s become normalized. One way society is both chronicles and reinforces these unwritten rules of masculinity? Movies.

It’s important to remember that things haven’t always been this way for men. Silver screen blockbusters show us that at some point in time a fella could hug another fella after a shootout without anyone feeling the need to qualify it with a “No homo.”

So where did it all begin to turn?

Blow Your Wig

Because platonic intimacy between men wasn’t vilified in early years, depictions of strong bonds between men were actively depicted in cinema. In fact, the first same-sex kiss on screen in the 1927 silent film Wings was an entirely platonic kiss between two male infantrymen (Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen).

Audiences didn’t so much as bat an eye at the kiss. It went on to become a critical success and won the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture.

Another early 20th-century film that highlighted male friendships was the bad boy classic Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Let’s be honest here for a second, folks: James Dean wasn’t that great of an actor, he was just handsome (don’t @ me). That mug put butts in the seats for his performance as Jim Stark, the film’s troubled teenage protagonist just trying to make it. Aside from James Dean’s bad boy good looks the most memorable aspect of the film is Jim’s friendship with even more troubled outcast Plato (Sal Mineo). Jim’s feelings toward Plato take on a paternal tone, helping them both make up for something they lack. For Plato, it’s a stable, loving family. For Jim, it’s a sense of what it means to be a real man. Unusual as their dynamic was people were touched by love and care they shared. That’s further complicated when you look a little harder, but that’s a conversation for another time.

What’s Your Damage?

The 1980s and 1990s gave rise to the timeless buddies trope. Buddy comedies were defined by their “odd couple” approach to hyper-masculine films. Movies like 1988’s Midnight Run took the tried and true formula and flips it on its head, but still stays true to the hyper-masculine-odd-couple trope.

The most popular of this genre is the buddy cop film. The Lethal Weapon franchise (1987) is often credited with starting the movement in films, and sure enough, helped define other films in the genre. You take one by-the-book veteran cop, mix in a younger, more hair-trigger partner, throw in a few explosions and shootouts for maximum masculinity, and bam, you’ve got yourself a buddy cop film.

Because the men themselves were in a profession defined by its hard-shelled masculine nature the characters were allowed—in small doses—a degree of intimacy between one another. You wouldn’t catch Martin cathartically kissing Robert Thelma & Louise-style after one of their many near-death experiences, but the average heterosexual man wouldn’t feel too weirded out over an affectionate clap on the back or mildly fond poses in marketing materials.

The late 80s and early 90s also gave birth to a peculiar kind of cinematic take on male friendships I like to call Feelings Are Gay and Bad.

Unlike the buddy movies of the same decade, these films wielded homoeroticism like an Aesop’s Fable in 35mm. Rather than depict male friendships as the begrudged act of two hardened, red-blooded American males, these films opted to show brutal, all-consuming homoerotic unholy unions that eventually came to screeching—and often deadly—halt. A character who placed his love and care with another man would come to rue it by the film’s end or would learn a valuable lesson about vulnerability.

In Reservoir Dogs the audience watches as Mr. White lovingly cradles a wounded and terrified Mr. Orange in his arms. In between horrifying, blood-soaked scenes in the present we’re privy to Mr. Orange’s secret: he’s an undercover cop working to bust White’s crime ring from the inside. Blissfully ignorant, White soothes and protects him. He even goes so far as to pull a gun on the man in charge for threatening to kill him. After the infamous Mexican stand-off, White crawls over to Orange’s body as the police close in, only to be told Orange is actually a cop. The movie closes in on White’s anguish as the police surround them.

Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break (1991) introduced the world to Special Agent Johnny Utah (birth name Heterosexual McManlyman), former football star and current by-the-book FBI agent who goes undercover in a group of adrenaline junkie surfers and becomes dude-smitten with their charismatic leader, Bodhi. The explosions, killer surfing scenes, and the fact that Special Agent Johnny Utahis a former Rose-bowl winner and current gun-wielding badass makes it okay for male audience members to laugh at lines like “We gonna jump or jerk off?”

Nick Schager of The Daily Beast referred to Point Break as “A Homoerotic Classic.” Whether Point Break is a cautionary tale about getting too close or an intentionally subversive homoerotic film a female director remains a hotly contested.

The film adaption of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (1994) and David Fincher’s take on the Chuck Palahniuk classic Fight Club (1996) both use their source materials’ explicit homoeroticism to make the story darker and grittier. In Fight Club’s case, this was used in conjunction with what many feminists consider a critique of hypermasculinity, made with the intent to draw straight men to watch and leave rattled. For Interview with the Vampire, while Anne Rice’s intent was clear, some parts had to be altered considerably for consumption.

During this decade films of this kind also started to utilize the Deranged Homosexual trope. Poor, unfortunate heterosexual men would offer their friendship and find themselves in the grips another, obsessed and subtextually sexual man. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), another novel-to-film adaptation, takes the time to build up the dynamic between Tom and Dickie from budding friendship to growing obsession until Dickie’s ultimate death at Tom’s hands.

The 80s and 90s weren’t the purgatories of male friendships, though. For every Cable Guy(1996) there was a Sandlot (1993) after all. Still, the trend in media portrayals of male intimacy in films during this era set a particular tone that went virtually unchallenged until the following decade.

Isn’t It Bromantic?

The 2000s were the start of the “exclusively comedy” buddy films. In contrast with buddy films of the 80s that were action films that sometimes featured comedy, the male friendship movies of the 2000s were comedies that sometimes featured action.

The 2000s also saw a rise in the use of the term bromance or bromantic comedy to describe close male friendships. Even the word bromance evokes a mocking callback to romance, self-deprecatingly lampshading the connotations of two men being emotionally intimate. ‘Bromance’ takes the idea that men are emotionally illiterate and incapable of showing care without sexual or romantic inclinations and applies it homosocial relationships. In other words, the word ‘bromance’ pretty much plays itself. So started the attempt to strike a balance between “Fuck yeah, friendship!” and dudebro-ish mocking.

And mock they did. It was as if the homosocially-propelled films of this decade were constantly at war with their desire to show the close bonds men can foster with each other, and their need to assure the men watching it that yes, they know how “gay” the idea sounds.

I call this the “No Homo!™” movement.

When The 40-Year-Old Virgin premiered in 2005 it marketed itself as a raunchy, stupid, over-the-top sex comedy for men. Steve Carell plays Andy Stitzer, the eponymous forty-year-old virgin. After it’s revealed to his friends that he’s never had sex he’s put on a quest to lose his virginity as quickly as possible. This devolves into a series of cheap laughs, dubious sexual situations and, of course, rampant transphobia and homophobia.

The movie focuses on Andy’s quest (spoiler alert: the real loss of virginity was the self-discovery he had along the way!) but the B-plot belongs to two of his friends/bullies: Seth Rogen’s Cal and Paul Rudd’s David. The two spend most of the money bickering and insulting each other by making jabs at who’s “gayest” (“You wanna know how I know you’re gay? You like Coldplay.”) The jokes are cheap and unfunny but are sure-fire ways to get a chuckle out of your standard insecure bro-type.

At the end of the film after Jay apologizes to Andy for pressuring him into losing his virginity the two hug and embrace. In a call back to Cal and David’s game Haziz, their manage, comments snidely:

Haziz: Do you know how I know you guys are gay? You’re holding each other ever so gently.

This allows the film to reassure the audience that despite the lovey-dovey shit that’s just happened this is still a dude film.

Some praised The 40-Year-Old Virgin for “deconstructing the bromance formula,” but when compared to other films in its decade we can see its done nothing of the sort.

After the commercial success of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, we were treated to another Apatow-Rogen bromance film with Superbad (2007). Superbad brought Jonah Hill and Michael Cera together as Seth and Evan (named after writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg), two high school seniors desperate to lose their virginity before college. Despite the classic pitfalls—Seth Rogen himself later said jokes in the movie were “blatantly homophobic”—the movie handled the friendship between Seth and Evan with surprising care. During a quiet scene, Seth (drunkenly) confronts Evan about rooming with their mutual friend in college. Evan apologizes and admits he’s afraid to live alone. The two make up and say they love each other, then wonder aloud why they’ve never said they loved each other before.

Evan: I love you. It’s like, why can’t we say that every day? Why can’t we say it more often?

Seth: I just love you. I just wanna go on the rooftops and scream “I love my best friend Evan.”

Sure, they’re drunk and it’s comedic, but the comedy is more about their drunkenness than their love for each other.

At the end of the film the two friends meet up with their respective love interests at a mall and go their separate ways. This reminded me of the end of Stand by Me (and that is the first and last time you’ll hear me compare Stephen King and Rob Reiner to Seth Rogen and Greg Mottola): boys with a fierce bond drifting apart as evidence of their maturity and growth. As if the moment they spent telling each other they loved one another the night before was meaningless.

Seth Rogen, you sonofabitch.

Riding off the rise of Seth Rogen’s bromance comedies came I Love You, Man (2009) which tried to brand itself as the “bromance” movie. The movie set out to answer one question: Why don’t men have friends? The answer was a resounding “Uhhh?”

Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) goes in search of a best guy friend after realizing he has no one to be his best man at his upcoming wedding. After going on a misfortune of “friend dates” he runs into and befriends smooth con man Sydney Fife (Jason Segal). I Love You, Man starts off as Feelings Are Gay and Bad and ends up a lukewarm reunion that skirts clumsily around the subject of real emotion like Jason Segal on a moped.

The only reason I rip on I Love You, Man is because it truly could have been groundbreaking. At the time it was considered groundbreaking because for once the premise of the movie was about male friendship. Not friendship plus virginity and booze, just friendship. It went even further to prove its progressive cred by introducing Paul’s But-Not-Too-Gay brother Robbie (Andy Samberg) as a shining example of sports-and-meat-loving masculinity. Still, despite its failure to truly commit, I Love You, Man managed to make a bromance film that didn’t rely heavily on sex and slapstick to validate itself as a “guy’s” movie.

Other notable bromance films of this decade like Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004), and The Hangover (2009) also used similar tactics of highlighting friendship and neutralizing the discomfort of seeing intimate male friendships via homophobic language, slapstick comedy, objectification, and more. The self-deprecating overcompensation that defined the movies of his decade was a reflection and reinforcer of America’s evolving feelings towards male intimacy. It was no longer “Don’t be intimate with your male friends” but “Don’t be too intimate with your male friends.”

Men Have Feelings, Too (And That’s Okay)

Things began to subtly shift for bromance movies in the 2010s. Slapstick and Seth Rogen still reign supreme, but now there was a softer and more forgiving edge to it all. Conversations on hypermasculinity and homophobia were propelled into the mainstream to start a national dialogue. The idea of what it means to be a man and what masculinity really means started to change as did their portrayals in film.

“Your average dudebro” is the very demographic that needs to see these kinds of relationships normalized in the first place.

You could argue that Seth Rogen is the kind of bro comedies. He’s produced such nerdboy-testosterone, weed-filled slapsticks as Pineapple Express, Superbad, This is the End, and Game Over, Man! Whether as an actor, director, producer, or writer, Seth Rogen’s name has become synonymous with the kind of obnoxious bro-rock marketing execs don’t even consider women a demographic for.

But I would argue that much of the normalization of intimate male friendships comes from your average Seth Rogen film. Most of the time these are “dumb fun” comedies. That’s not to say other films by other people don’t portray male friendships just as well, but while movies like Magic Mike XXL (2015) are heartwarming examples of the kind of power platonic male intimacy can have they’re not as likely to be watched by your average dudebro. “Your average dudebro” is the very demographic that needs to see these kinds of relationships normalized in the first place.

The 2011 comedy-drama 50/50 cast Seth Rogen as Kyle Hirons, a man watching his best friend Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) undergo chemotherapy. Even though he doesn’t possess the necessary bedside manner he plants himself as Adam’s rock (and wingman) through his treatment. When Adam’s girlfriend cheats on him he angrily confronts her to defend his honor.

The film is at times tone-deaf and crude as any movie starring Seth Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine is wont to be, but the message at its core is sweet and powerful.

In the controversial Netflix film The Interview (2014), Seth Rogen balances crude humor and James Franco-ness with an almost careful tenderness between the two male leads. During the penultimate scene where Dave and Aaron are preparing to walk to their deaths in order to save North Korea, the two share a quiet, intimate moment together discussing Dave’s hypothetical biography.

Dave: As the two best friends stared into each other in the eyes, they knew that this might be the end of a long road. But they also knew how much they meant to each other. And even though neither one could say it out loud, they were both thinking…

Aaron and Dave: [whispers] I love you.

What shocked me about this scene wasn’t just that two men had said they loved each other in an action-comedy, it was that the scene was played straight. No jokes, no thrown in “No homo!” It didn’t make up for the rest of the film, but it furthered my appreciation for Seth Rogen.

Another unexpected gem in the same vein are the 21 Jump Street movies, specifically its sequel 22 Jump Street. In 22 Jump Street we’re re-introduced to Jenko and Schmidt, who are assigned to go undercover at a college to find out what student has been dealing the drug WHY-PHY. Jenko gets close to a suspect in the investigation–the popular, athletic Rooster–and starts to blow off Schmidt, much to the latter’s dismay.

While Schmidt does spend a not insignificant portion of the film playing a comical version of a scorned lover for audiences to point and laugh it, you can’t knock 22 for trying to tackle a virtually undiscussed issue in male friendships: jealousy. This is pleasantly resolved near the end of the film with Jenko assures Schmidt that he lifts him up—while they’re dangling from a helicopter, but still.

There are plenty of other films from the 2010s that truly flip the script on your standard movie bromance (Due Date [2010], The Green Hornet [2011], and even This is the End [2013] if you’re in the camp of thinking they did rape jokes the right way) but I’d like to wrap up with one that’s dear to me: Seth Rogen’s Neighbors (2014).

On premise alone Neighbors sounds like your run-of-the-mill ignorant bro comedy. Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) get into a prank war with the Delta Psi Beta fraternity that’s moved next door, headed by Teddy (Zac Efron) and Pete (Dave Franco). The humor is slapstick and borders on gross at times but is absent the casual bigotry that early Rogen/Goldberg films weren’t shy about including. Of note is Pete and Teddy’s relationship. It’s revealed that Pete slept with Teddy’s girlfriend, and even though this causes bad blood between the two Teddy still sacrifices himself when the police show up to spare Pete’s bright future.

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), though, by far takes the cake for the best of the two. It opens on the old Delta Psi brothers assisting Pete’s boyfriend Darren in a Jason Mraz-inspired proposal. Having peaked in college, Teddy lives on Pete and his boyfriend’s couch. This comes to an end after the proposal and the two friends having a falling out, prompting Teddy to leave in search of a place to feel wanted. When crashing with the Radners doesn’t work out he moves on to a struggling sorority.

The decision to make Pete bisexual (or gay) was a conscious one suggested by writer Evan Goldberg and reporter asking director Nicholas Stoller why he’s never had gay characters in his films.

At the end of the film, Teddy and Pete make up in time for Teddy to plan and be the best man at his wedding. Before walking Pete down the aisle Teddy stops to give him a pep talk:

Teddy: You all right? You seem really nervous.

Pete: I’m having a little bit of a meltdown.

Teddy: Just remember, man, Darren loves you more than anyone in the entire world- Darren cherishes his friendship with you. Darren can’t imagine his life without you. And Darren is proud to call you his best friend.

Pete: You’re not talking about Darren, are you?

Teddy: No, not really.

The humor stays intact and without the expense of losing intimacy. Teddy is even allowed to tear up with pride and happiness for his best friend in full view of the camera before the scene is over.

And you still get a poop joke.

A movie that utilizes Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, and Dave Franco and a plethora and copy-and-paste frat bros to chastise against using misogynistic slurs (“Don’t call them hoes. That’s not cool anymore.”) and normalize gay love is a feat in and of itself. You could argue that the movie tries a little too hard to seem progressive and open-minded (at one point Teddy helps the sorority throw a Feminist Icon Party that features three different Hillary Clinton costumes) but the effort is genuine and appreciated. The film doesn’t equate masculinity with misogyny and homophobia. It allows their funny frat bros to show vulnerability and care for one another in a way that promotes laughter but doesn’t mock.

The expected bro humor isn’t sacrificed in favor of these progressive elements either. There are women in bikinis, babies holding sex toys, and unnecessary dick and poop comedy. All the elements that define a sleazy bro comedy but without the sleaze.

These movies are important to show that men being vulnerable and caring about one another doesn’t have to be something shameful, or something that comes with rules, or something that should be laughed at. Looking back on the up-and-down progression of these portrayals is at times hilarious, but are mostly sobering and sad. We should promote and support portrayals intimate male friendships in media to normalize the concept of platonic male intimacy.

So, straight men, go. Re-watch Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle or The Shawshank Redemption and consider telling a friend they’re important to you. You might never have friends like the ones you had when you were twelve but it’s never too late to find that kind of bond again.

#toxic masculinity #let boys be soft #patriarchy #no homo

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off the rack #1162

Monday, May 8, 2017

Life is full of rude awakenings. There's a skiff of snow on the ground this morning but not enough that I need to haul out my boots to go to work. The weather has been brutal recently with major flooding around Ottawa. I hope everyone affected can recover so that their lives can get back to normal.

I want to thank all the friends and families that came into Comet Comics on FREE COMIC BOOK DAY to make the day fun and happy. Spreading the joy of comic books always makes me feel warm inside.

I'll be making my first road trip to Killarney, Ontario to visit my old friend Ron later this week. I'll return in time for Ottawa ComicCon even though I won't be attending. Pike and pickerel season opens this coming weekend so I will be out on the lake trying my luck with my buddy Matt. I will be interested to see how high the water level is and if that affects where the fish will be.

Black Bolt #1 - Saladin Ahmed (writer) Christian Ward (art) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). This is one of them artsy fartsy first issues where it took way too long to get the story started. Black Bolt waking up in a prison is repeated three times and I almost stopped reading after the third time. The nice art kept me going until the last page but even though Saladin made it so that this isn't just a comic book starring a mime dressed in black, I wasn't impressed enough to want to keep reading. I also didn't like the downward arrow attached to the tuning fork on his head. Jack's original design was just fine.

Eternal Empire #1 - Sarah Vaughn (writer) Jonathan Luna (art, script assist, letters). This new fantasy story is about a worker who escapes from a farm. She's essentially a slave. The kingdom is ruled by an empress who is praised or is forced to be praised by all. I love Jonathan's art and the slave's quest has caught my fancy so I'm hoping she finds her happily ever after.

Jean Grey #1 - Dennis Hopeless (writer) Victor Ibanez (art) Jay David Ramos (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). I am not a fan of the bangs. So I was wishing for the young X-Men trapped in the present from the past to get their own book and this is sort of that but the focus is on Jean. Dennis impressed me with his run on Spider-Woman and he starts off here explaining how this Jean Grey isn't all those other Jean Greys that existed before. Well, that's not confusing much. Young Jean is having lunch in Kyoto, Japan and all of a sudden she has to play super hero because the Wrecking Crew is robbing an armoured truck. Ugh. I would have believed Jean fighting some evil mecha a whole lot more. Then a major distraction helps the bad guys get away. Holy smokes, there's so much contrived nonsense that I can't go on reading. Sorry Jean. I hope the big flaming bird doesn't burn you to a crisp.

Ab Irato #1 - Thierry Labrosse (writer & artist) Jeremy Melloul (English translation) Andworld Design (letters). The title is Latin for "from anger" and it's an angry populace living in Montreal 100 years in the future. It looks like the Saint Lawrence river has risen a lot due to climate change and the city resembles Venice in Italy. A young lad from the country has arrived in Montreal to seek his fortune while a rebellion is taking place. Thierry's art is beautiful and I like the naïve Riel so I'm going to see what happens to him in this 6-issue mini from Germany.

All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #1 - Gerry Duggan (writer) Aaron Kuder (art) Ive Svorcina (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This relaunch is part of Marvel's Galactic Realm and we're back to a team of five with Drax, Gamora, Groot, Rocket and Star-Lord. I relished every issue of the last run and this debut was fun. The team gets tangled in some one-upmanship between The Grandmaster and The Collector so the threat to life and limb is quite high. This is more comedy caper than universe saving so I might read this just for the halibut. Oh, and it explains why Groot is a baby too.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Mother Entropy #1 - Jim Starlin (writer) Alan Davis (pencils) Mark Farmer (inks) Matt Yackey (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). The second of three Guardians of the Galaxy comic books to hit the racks just before the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hits theatres May 5 features the team trying to work off their debts. It was fun to see one of Jim's creations show up to complicate the Guardians' mission. This story has a universe ending threat but it's kind of silly. I can't say that I like Alan's versions of Star-Lord and Gamora. Peter Quill looks like Douglas Fairbanks and Gamora's wide features are not pretty to me. She looks more like She-hulk than the deadliest hottie in the universe.

Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout #1 - Christopher Hastings (writer) Edgar Salazar (pencils) Allen Martinez (inks) Andrew Crossley (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). The Collector's name is Taneleer Tivan. Learn something new every day. The third of three Guardians of the Galaxy comic books to hit the racks just before the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hits theatres May 5 features the team trying to escape from the clutches of The Collector. Y'think he's in the movie? This was a fun space romp with superb art. I liked Gamora a lot more in this comic book.

Savage Things #3 - Justin Jordan (writer) Ibrahim Moustafa (art) Jordan Boyd (colours) Josh Reed (letters). The bad guys want to cause a black-out in New York City. That can't be good.

Superman #22 - Peter J. Tomasi & Patrick Gleason (writers) Doug Mahnke (art) Jaime Mendoza & Ray McCarthy (inks) Wil Quintana (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). This is some good stuff right here. Lois makes a surprising discovery that leads to some scary action with creepy townsfolk. There are more surprises in store as "Black Dawn" continues. Doug's art is so good in this. I've stopped reading a lot of DC books but this issue is a good example of why I've stuck with this title.

Paper Girls #14 - Brian K. Vaughn (writer) Cliff Chiang (art) Matthew Wilson (colours) Jared K. Fletcher (letters). I hope this isn't the "season finale" and we have to wait three months for the next issue because this issue has one heck of a cliff (Chiang) hanger.

Spider-Man/Deadpool #17 - Joe Kelly (writer) Ed McGuinness (pencils) Mark Morales & Walden Wong (inks) Jason Keith & Matt Yackey (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). The story of Spider-Man's crisis of conscience continues. Will he kill Itsy Bitsy or will Wade save Peter's soul? I am staying tuned.

Batman #22 - Joshua Williamson & Tom King (writers) Jason Fabok (art) Brad Anderson (colours) Deron Bennett (letters). The best thing about part 3 of "The Button" is that I wasn't confused because I didn't read part 2 in Flash #21. The bad thing is that the time traveling and other dimensional paradoxes made me grind my teeth in frustration. Father Thomas Wayne meeting alternate son Bruce Wayne was touching but I did not believe for a second that what Thomas asked Bruce to do would become reality. If none of the Watchmen show up in this story I will be sorely disappointed.

Riverdale #2 - Greg Murray & Daniel King (writers) Joe Eisma & Thomas Pitilli (art) Andre Szymanowicz (colours) John Workman (letters). Got my teen drama fix for the week. I am so glad they updated these old characters to make them more relevant and multidimensional.

Spider-Man #16 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Oscar Bazaldua (art) Justin Ponsor (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This issue starts with the opening salvo of a turf war between the Black Cat and another crime boss. Man, Oscar draws a super cute Felicia Hardy. Then we get back to the complicated life of Miles Morales. I liked how he blew off steam there.

The Unstoppable Wasp #5 - Jeremy Whitley (writer) Elsa Charretier (art) Megan M. Wilson (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). The members of G.I.R.L. (Genius In action Research Labs) gathers for the first time to try and defuse the bomb in Ying's neck. It's Nadia AKA The Unstoppable Wasp, Taina Miranda (engineer), Alexis Miranda (Taina's sister), Lashayla Smith (physicist), Priya Aggarwal (biologist) and Ying (chemist and ex-Red Room roomy of Nadia's). I liked that the girls don't save the day which sets up a meeting with the villain. Hello Mother.

Champions #8 - Mark Waid (writer) Humberto Ramos (pencils) Victor Olazaba (inks) Edgar Delgado & Nolan Woodard (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). How do the kids deal with the Freelancers stealing their brand? Find out in this terrific issue. I love team books that explore the interpersonal relationships of the team members and Mark does some interesting exploring here. I would find this book boring if the Champions just went from issue to issue dealing with crises and fighting bad guys. The last page will put a crimp in the team's roster.

Jessica Jones #8 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Michael Gaydos (art) Matt Hollingsworth (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Jess has a new case and her client is Maria Hill, ex-director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Maria is wants to know who is trying to kill her. My favourite Bendis books have a lot of dialogue and this issue has loads.

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Selena Gomez on Instagram Fatigue

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Selena Gomez on Instagram Fatigue

On an unusually moist and windy evening in La, Selena Gomez indicates up at my door with a heavy bag of groceries. We’ve decided that this night’s dinner could be a form of tribute to the after-church Sunday barbecues she recollects from her Texan youth. I already have ten simmering in green salsa, poblano peppers blackening at the flames of the stove, and crimson cabbage wilting in a puddle of lime juice. All we want are Gomez’s famous tacky potatoes—so bad they’re excellent, she guarantees. She sets down her Givenchy purse and brings up, in gaudy succession, a frozen bundle of Massive Eagle Potatoes O’Brien, a can of Campbell’s Cream of hen soup, a bag of shredded “Mexican cheese,” and a squat plastic canister of French’s Crispy Fried Onions. “I wager you didn’t assume we have been going to get this real,” she says, and after I inform her that real isn’t the first word that springs to mind whilst confronted with these ingredients, she responds with the booming conflict-ax laugh that offers a foretaste of Gomez’s many captivating incongruities. However actual is exactly what I used to be awaiting from the 24-yr-vintage Selena, simply as her a hundred and ten million Instagram fans (Selenators, as they’re regarded) have come to expect it. Of course, celeb’s old codes are lengthy gone, MGM’s untouchable eggshell glamor having given manner to the “They’re Much like Us!” generation of documented journeys to the gasoline station and cellulite captured via telephoto lenses. However, Gomez and her ilk have long past similarly nevertheless, using their smartphones to generate a stardom that appears to say now not merely “I’m Just like you” However “I am you.” People so badly wanted me to be true,” she says, laying a tortilla in scorching oil, “and when that came about, sooner or later, it turned into a massive release. I’m no longer extraordinary from what I placed out there. I’ve been very vulnerable with my enthusiasts, and once in a while, I say things I shouldn’t. But I have to be sincere with them. I feel that’s a large a part of why I’m wherein I’m.” Gomez lines her shift towards the unfiltered lower back to a track she launched in 2014 known as “The Heart Wants What It Wishes,” a ballad approximately loving a man she is aware of is awful news. The name derives from a letter written via Emily Dickinson, although Woody Allen reintroduced the phrase when he used it to explain his relationship with Quickly-Yi Previn. We will count on that Gomez is referring here to Justin Bieber, with whom she ended a 3-yr dating at across the time the track debuted.

How To Get Instagram Followers Fast

Instagram is some other of the numerous social networking websites running out on the internet today. It’s far a platform wherein you can share your snapshots privately or publicly. Now, in case you want to reach out to a much wider target market, you need to start amassing your Instagram fans.Instagram online

Here are a few legitimate and tried and examined techniques to get Instagram followers speedy.

Public money owed –

If you have a non-public account, it is most effective your buddies who can see what your percentage. Hence, the first step to getting Instagram fans speedy is to head public. For the ones of your actually involved about privacy, you can constantly preserve a check on what you pick to proportion.

Hashtags –

Instagram uses hashtags to filter out photos. When you look for pictures, the social media community will display all of the photographs with a commonplace hashtag. Popularity isn’t always the only criteria whilst choosing the hashtags to go with your pics. You must also use relevant ones. three is an excellent range of hashtags to use with your image.

Normal uploads –

A dormant account does not normally get too many fans. Instagrammers on an Everyday basis tend to unfollow inactive money owed. Consequently, the approach is to refresh your account with new, original and charming content material.

In general of the thumb, don’t post too little and do not flood your web page. A picture each day is a superb popular.

Use filters –

Why have you to use filters? Nicely, they definitely enhance the appearance of your photographs adding a more personalized touch. This experience of delivered splendor is enough to draw greater followers who love following great paintings. test how a selected filter looks before you actually apply it.

Image collages –

Instead of importing alone Photo, you could integrate multiple pix right into a single one. Such photos are more engaging as they inform a story. There are numerous paid and loose, 1/3 party university makers and image-enhancing apps you can use for the motive.

Time it right –

The maximum breathtaking pics will have no viewers in case you publish it while the whole Instagram community is asleep. The peak times on Instagram are within the morning earlier than paintings and inside the evening after work. This is when maximum Instagrammers take a look at their debts. So, time your uploads proper.

Follow, like and comment –

Yet some other tip to growth your visibility on Instagram is to Comply with others. They could Observe you in go back. Take it a step in addition via liking and commenting on other’s pics and movies. You are in all likelihood to seize the eye of the image owner as Properly his/her fans. It’d spark off them to test out your Instagram account, increasing the likelihood of fans.

Sync with Facebook –

With Fb taking up Instagram, you can now percentage your pix across both the structures with the aid of integrating your Fb and Instagram account. This manner your Instagram activity gets streamed on to Facebook. Fb friends that also have an Instagram account will start following you if they prefer what you upload.

Detroit Could Use Gomez For Pennant Race To Fill Out Injured Roster

The Tigers had been the most lively contender given that final month’s change closing date, looking to fill in for the numerous injuries which have sidelined key players. They’ve misplaced half of their establishing day infield and one 0.33 of their ordinary outfielders, collecting a crowded disabled list.

Just days ago, Detroit engineered a change with the Braves. The Tigers acquired veteran Erick Aybar from Atlanta to help replace injured shortstop Jose Iglesias, who’s on the 15 days D.L.

Even extra these days, Detroit referred to as up utility guy Alex Presley from their Triple-An affiliate in Toledo. Presley became without delay inserted into left discipline against the Boston Red Sox, hoping that the former Mudhen can assist fill the void left through the injured Curtis Granderson.

The team should see an extra on the spot impact if they looked within the course of a former All-Famous person who was Just closing week released by using the Houston Astros, a player that Detroit has to be very familiar with.

In the end, that player, Carlos Gomez, changed into worried in one of the maximum memorable plays that most Tigers fanatics would really like to overlook. Even as gambling for American League imperative rival Minnesota, Gomez scored the run that prevented Detroit from reaching the postseason.

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After the closing recreation of the season returned in 2009, Detroit and Minnesota had been dead even atop the department. The two golf equipment had to meet in sport 163, which would decide who could be going to the playoffs.

Now not only did the golf equipment need that extra recreation to decide the champion, but they ended up wanting twelve innings before it changed into ultimately decided. The result thrilled the fanatics at the Metrodome that night, but the sight of Carlos Gomez rounding third and crossing home has been for all time painfully etched into the reminiscences of Detroit lovers as well.

Suffering From Low Energy And Fatigue

Fatigue can deliver a mixture feeling of weariness, tiredness and in standard a loss of electricity. There are many causes for low energy. It is able to be as simple as placing extra electricity into your each day lifestyles to end up extra lively, the much less movement or exercising your frame receives the greater strength it could lose.

Being low on power the maximum commonplace one is nutrition. But, if fatigue is not willing to head away after having made adjustments in your nutrition and activity plan, then It can be caused by any underlying clinical hassle and pleasant see a health practitioner. There are many approaches to offer yourself again the electricity or replace the only you misplaced. Regardless of what age, deficiency can show up to anybody and faster than you think.

The Purpose Of Deficiency

In accordance with research, human beings over 60 are much more likely to have better deficiency levels. The cause at the back of this is, the absorption price lowers as we grow old. The body calls for greater effort to absorb nutrients. Alas, the larger percent of meals our frame receives is lacking crucial nutrients. The principle bulk of meals humans devour is over processed, loaded with sugar and coffee on nutritional values.

To retain a weight loss plan wherein the bigger percentage consumption is over processed and delicate food, this not best will bring forth low power and fatigue, it will weaken the immune device, opens the frame’s defense for any type of infection. refined ingredients are complete of chemical compounds, meals colorings and loaded with preservatives. Including to this is pollution, strain, tension, which all of them drain your body of energy. An unexpected upward push in temperature and humidity will even supply that feeling of low strength. As your frame adjusts to the new temperature this will quickly depart and is not any type of deficiency.vitamins for tired and no energy

A way to Fix The trouble

As stated before, absorption is often the issue as we age. In our food regimen most probably are lacking a few minerals and nutrients and this might be one of the reasons via no longer having the proper absorption. Blockers: It is recognized that positive pills and medication can block your frame’s nutrition consumption, and prevent therefore right absorption.

What do help absorption and occasional electricity are a specific nutrition belonging to the diet B organization Methylcobalamin B-12? Do no longer confuse the call with Cyanocobalamin; keep away from them and take most effective Methylcobalamin B-12, (methyl B-12).

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