@domthebomb “If I ever were to lose you I’d surely lose myself.”
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Derek Norris
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What’s the first word that comes to mind when you see this?
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@NextGenPlayer I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way👍👍. It’s really fitting for the setting.
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Final Fantasy XVI traversal options are walking and Chocobos
So no airships, boats, canoes or cars
#PS5
See more: gameinformer.com/exclusive-feat…
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@mhdksafa She was one in a million. She never took the easy way out and all that hard work has paid off. Her legacy and talent will carry on for many generations to come. She was truly amazing and will be missed. Rest in peace.
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When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.
Will Stenberg
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“Peaches” from ‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE’ is eligible to be nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars.
(Source: bit.ly/3UrEC7S)
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@clampsupremacy Definitely Cardcaptor Sakura!! I love it because of its cuteness, creativity, and unforgettable story. Every episode would bring a warm smile to my face🥰🥰.
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Happy Clamp Day! In honor of this global holiday, what is your favorite Clamp series and why?
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Happy CLAMP day! Today is also the birthday of Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura, Watanuki Kimihiro from xxxHolic, and Sakura and Syaoran from Tsubasa Chronicles. Let's give them a like, comment, and RT to wish them Happy Birthday! 🎉🍰
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@IGN It’s honestly no surprise🤩🤩. The original RE4 got me hooked to the Resident Evil series. Very awesome game, highly recommend👍👍!!
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Resident Evil 4 has had the best launch of all the REmake games, with Capcom confirming it sold 3 million copies in two days. Resident Evil 2 shipped three million units in its first week and Resident Evil 3 hit 3.9 million sold after a year and a half. bit.ly/3U8K13z
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@NoContextBrits Shaun of the Dead hands down!! One of the greatest movies of all time.
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@domthebomb They better do us right by changing Joel’s fate 🤞🤞.
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The Gintama manga's 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei high school spinoff novels get a new anime! animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-03-1…
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Your favorite anime song in the comments below!
[Bocchi the Rock!]
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@WendellPierce Oh my god noooo 😭😭!! He was such an amazing actor. Rest in peace, you will be missed.
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A man of great strength and grace. As talented a musician as he was an actor. The epitome of class. An sudden unexpected sharp painful grief for our artistic family. An unimaginable suffering for his personal family and loved ones. Godspeed my friend. You made your mark here. RIP
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@ZoeRoseBryant 2022 Was definitely the redemption year. They all truly deserved the Oscars 😃😃. Excited to see what the future holds for them.
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They may not all be your “personal picks,” but one thing I *do* love about this year’s acting winners quartet at the #Oscars is how they’re all actors who have been counted out - or shut out - at various points in their careers and came back against the odds to come out on top.
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@MTV @Florence_Pugh Michelle Yeoh truly deserved the win 👍👍🥰🥰!!
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STILL celebrating Michelle Yeoh on the timeline with a little help from @Florence_Pugh 👏 #Oscars
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