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Dancer Ashley Everett has been dancing alongside Beyoncé for over a decade, but in 2016, a surprise proposal suddenly made the athlete the main attraction of the show.
During a Formation tour stop in St. Louis, Beyoncé handed Everett’s soon-to-be fiance the mic so he could get down on one knee in front of the entire world and ask Everett to be his wife. In the rush of the moment, Everett said yes. The romantic proposal quickly went viral, with fans, family and friends in awe of the engagement. But three years later, the dance captain has decided to part ways with her ex.
Looking back the the proposal, Everett told Essence that she isn’t the type of girl who need a lot of PDA.
‘I’m pretty low key, so I don’t need big gestures all the time,’ she told the mag in a recent interview. ‘I’m happy with one little rose on Valentine’s Day not a house filled with flowers. The big grand gesture, I felt, wasn’t necessarily for me. It was sweet and a nice way to show the love in front of the world.”
With all eyes on there relationship, Everett felt a lot of pressure to keep up appearances that their relationship was headed towards “happily ever after.” But after awhile, the star made the decision to take the veil off the mirage.
‘Eventually I had to look in the mirror and ask myself why,’ she told Essence.
‘”Do I really want to be married or do I even want to marry him? Am I really happy? Do I need to work on me before I take this leap?”… then of course with work and travel comes distance which means you have to work harder for communication… we could go a day or two without talking and I just felt like we weren’t on the same page anymore,’ she explained.
‘We had different goals and dreams workwise and our friendship was fading away.’
The two called it quits, and within the space, Everett has made more room to focus on herself and her goals, and encourages other women to do the same.
“What’s important about [my story] is showing that we’re all human. Just because you’re on stage with a superstar or have X amount of followers doesn’t mean we don’t go through things. I know a lot of women can relate. I think it’s important for women to care and love on ourselves like we would somebody else. Our mental and physical health plays a role in our overall happiness. The breakup has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in years. It was time. Just because things don’t work out doesn’t mean we’ve failed ourselves or anyone else. This is a new door that’s leading to a new pathway. I’m happy about where my life is going.”
Source: Bennett Raglin / Getty
Dancer Ashley Everett has been dancing alongside Beyoncé for over a decade, but in 2016, a surprise proposal suddenly made the athlete the main attraction of the show.
During a Formation tour stop in St. Louis, Beyoncé handed Everett’s soon-to-be fiance the mic so he could get down on one knee in front of the entire world and ask Everett to be his wife. In the rush of the moment, Everett said yes. The romantic proposal quickly went viral, with fans, family and friends in awe of the engagement. But three years later, the dance captain has decided to part ways with her ex.
Looking back the the proposal, Everett told Essence that she isn’t the type of girl who need a lot of PDA.
‘I’m pretty low key, so I don’t need big gestures all the time,’ she told the mag in a recent interview. ‘I’m happy with one little rose on Valentine’s Day not a house filled with flowers. The big grand gesture, I felt, wasn’t necessarily for me. It was sweet and a nice way to show the love in front of the world.”
With all eyes on there relationship, Everett felt a lot of pressure to keep up appearances that their relationship was headed towards “happily ever after.” But after awhile, the star made the decision to take the veil off the mirage.
‘Eventually I had to look in the mirror and ask myself why,’ she told Essence.
‘”Do I really want to be married or do I even want to marry him? Am I really happy? Do I need to work on me before I take this leap?”… then of course with work and travel comes distance which means you have to work harder for communication… we could go a day or two without talking and I just felt like we weren’t on the same page anymore,’ she explained.
‘We had different goals and dreams workwise and our friendship was fading away.’
The two called it quits, and within the space, Everett has made more room to focus on herself and her goals, and encourages other women to do the same.
“What’s important about [my story] is showing that we’re all human. Just because you’re on stage with a superstar or have X amount of followers doesn’t mean we don’t go through things. I know a lot of women can relate. I think it’s important for women to care and love on ourselves like we would somebody else. Our mental and physical health plays a role in our overall happiness. The breakup has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in years. It was time. Just because things don’t work out doesn’t mean we’ve failed ourselves or anyone else. This is a new door that’s leading to a new pathway. I’m happy about where my life is going.”
With Marvel’s plans for X-Men and Fantastic Four movies completely up in the air, the rumor mill is churning, and one that’s going around is that Kevin Feige and co. are considering having people of color portray both Magneto and Professor X in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to Full Circle Cinema. Time to make those Malcolm X/Martin Luther King Jr. comparisons really pop!
This casting could be part of the MCU’s oft-stated desire to promote representation and diversity. After all, Feige told The Wrap that he does believe that the future of the MCU depends on that:
So, the notion of representation onscreen, in front of and behind the camera, somebody asked me once, so is Black Panther a one-off? I said, no, it’s not a one-off. This is the future. This is the way the world is, and the way, certainly, our studio’s going to be run going forward, because it brings about better stories. The more diverse the group of people making the movie is, the better the stories.
Now, this might come as a surprise, but I only think this half works. I think making Erik a visibly Romani Jewish man would be super important and a good way to counter the whitewashing casting fail that was Scarlet Witch/Wanda. I think you could also choose a mixed-race Jewish person, but I think it would be important to actually cast someone with Jewish ancestry, which could be someone of any racial group.
As for Charles Xavier, I think he works best as a white guy because of his relationship to power. Charles is a manipulator, in many ways, who has taken advantage of young people and turned them into child soldiers. When you read Professor X in the comics, there is a lot of privilege that he has that I think makes his optimism about human/mutant relationship so viable in his mind. He also has a very colonial mentality, molding these kids into his idea of what it means to be a “good mutant.”
What I do think would work better is that you keep Charles white, but diversify the rest of the X-Men. Scott Summers I can see as Native American/First Nations, Jean Grey could be Latina, Beast could be Southeast Asian, etc. I think diverse X-Men is a better goal than a non-white Charles Xavier himself—not to mention the optics of him, as a white man, running a school of young POC for his political agenda would be an interesting longterm narrative and highlight Charles’ ignorance towards the feelings and issues facing his students.
I love diversity in these movies, and I want it to happen, but I would like thought put into it. While “organic diversity” is a term that I feel has been weaponized, I do feel like, if you are going to race-bend important characters, you need to think about how that would change their mentality and experience. You want to write a non-white Charles Xavier? Then think about how that would change him and the makeup of the X-Men.
Let’s not forgot that part of the reason Charles and Magneto have conflict about their methods is because Magneto is a two-time minority as both a Jewish man and a mutant. He is aware that humans already hate other humans, so he cannot believe in some utopia where humans will come to love mutants who are even more different. So, if we have a non-white Charles, then we need to understand why he, as a person of color who had experienced racism, would have that optimism.
I’m glad Feige wants more representation, but let’s also get some of that behind the scenes and in the writers’ room.
(via Full Circle Cinema, image: Fox)
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A newly discovered comet may have originated outside our Solar System.
Discovered late last month by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Crimea, C/2019 Q4 has not yet been confirmed an interstellar comet.
If it is, though, it would be only the second such object detected, following ‘Oumuamua, first spotted in October 2017.
The unimaginatively named C/2019 Q4 is currently 260 million miles from the Sun, and will approach no closer to Earth than about 190 million miles on Dec. 8.
After the initial detection, NASA’s Scout system (located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California) automatically flagged the object as possibly interstellar.
Its current velocity is high—about 93,000 mph, well above what is typical of objects orbiting the Sun at that distance, according to NASA scientist Davide Farnocchia.
“The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our Solar System, but also that it will leave and head back to interstellar space.”
Based on its fuzzy appearance, astronomers believe C/2019 Q4 has a central icy body that is melting into a cloud of dust and particles as it approaches the Sun.
“The object will peak in brightness in mid-December and continue to be observable with moderate-size telescopes until April 2020,” Farnocchia explained. “After that, it will only be observable with larger professional telescopes through October 2020.
The first known interstellar object to visit our Solar System was ‘Oumuamua—disappointingly not an extraterrestrial spacecraft coming to spy on Earth.
In 2017, astronomers discovered the strange, oblong object—with characteristics of an asteroid and a comet—nicknaming it ‘Oumuamua, which translates to “scout” in Hawaiian.
Early reports of the odd visitor led people to believe it could be an alien spacecraft. But a recent analysis, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggests otherwise.
Red in color, the celestial body has a long, cigar-like shape and weird spin pattern, like a bottle lying on the ground and spinning on its side.
More on Geek.com:
- Scientists Find Tiny Fragment of Comet Inside a Meteorite
- NASA Telescope Captures Stunning Sight of 2018’s Brightest Comet
- Rubber Duck-Shaped Comet Has Been Blown Apart and Reborn
Writer: Dan Abnett / Artist: Will Conrad / DC Comics
Justice League Odyssey #13 starts a new arc in a fresh location with new characters aligning themselves with the same goals as the previous team. After Cyborg, Starfire, and Azrael got turned into Darkseid’s New New Gods, and Jessica Cruz got turned into Lantern dust, we’re dropped across the galaxy to a space station near the Source Wall with Okkult, Red Lantern Dex-Starr, and a scientist from Zamaron.
No one saw this coming.
But it’s a welcomed change.
Let’s first talk about Jessica Cruz. She got murked last issue. M-U-R-K-E-D. Darkseid did the damn thing and blasted her with all that newly obtained Omega energy bestowed upon him by Sepulkore. My girl was dust. And I was lowkey mad. Did they just off one of the more intriguing albeit underused characters DC has to offer? And not even in a flagship title!? They couldn’t send Jessica out like that. They just couldn’t. Well, I’m pleased to tell you that’s not what happened, though you probably could’ve guessed. This is comics, dude. Nobody stays dead.
You see, those Omega beams from Darkseid both killed her and healed her, and now she’s teeming with the stuff. She’s leveled up, maybe even reached her final form. Who needs willpower when you’ve got literal god-level energy running through your veins?
In addition to Jessica’s Jesus level rise from the dead, this was a pretty solid issue. And a refreshing one at that. This new group is surprising. A far cry from the Justice League B-Team we’d grown accustomed to. Hell, this wouldn’t even be the C-Team. Yet they face the same monumental task– a steeper one at that– in facing Darkseid and his mind-controlled Leaguers.
An aspect of this issue that I really enjoyed was how everything took place in a singular location: this Zamaronian space station. Staying put in one spot allowed these characters, especially the new ones, to really breathe and introduce themselves to us in ways that felt a lot more intimate than it would have if they were jumping around a lot.
Also, now that Jessica is back, and stronger than ever, she’s the de facto leader of this group. And I love it. She lowkey should have been calling shots with the OG Odyssey squad, but she showed up late to the party. She’s been the most level-headed, & rational character in this series, and now she’s got a ragtag team of space pirates who’ll probably listen to her less than her actual friends did. But it’s a major potential for character growth. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and the odds are against her more than ever. At least since Rebirth launched. I’m very excited to see how she overcomes all this in subsequent issues, and even more excited to see her go toe to god-level toe with Darkseid in the near future as well. It’s not something that I would have told you I saw coming at the beginning of this series, but now it seems almost inevitable.
Justice League Odyssey #13 switches up the beat by introducing us to some new faces with the same aspirations to defeat Darkseid. Also, Jessica Cruz channels her inner Jesus and enters her life after death.
9 Jesus Jessicas out of 10
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