Blade led the way for the success of all the following Marvel movies. No Spiderman or X-Men or Disney buying Marvel without Blade. No Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, or Avengers without Blade.
^^^^ Marvel was in the toilet before Blade. Blade was a sleeper hit that summer and was the first official hit of not just Marvel films, but the comicbook superhero genre in general. Before this super-slick R-rated feature, it was B-movies with day-glo tights. NO ONE took the the genre seriously. Blade, a black superhero changed all of that.
Seriously before Blade, we had Howard The Duck, and the horrible 80′s versions of Captain America and The Punisher, both of which were direct to video.
The 80s Captain America was fucking hilarious poor Ernest Hemingway
The Expanse has released a bunch of playlists today, most of them character-inspired, put together by the cast themselves! Here are the direct Spotify links:
tbh the worst thing about being a self aware mentally ill person is that people assume that because you understand your illness you’re automatically able to actually apply your knowledge to your life and cure yourself
Do I know my brain isn’t making the most sense right now? Yes. Can I stop it? No.
Me: I know what I should be doing but my brain has decided we’re not doing that
People: why are u so anxious
Me: I have anxiety
People: Now you know that you can get better
Me: knowing I have anxiety does not make me Less Anxious that is Not The Way Anxiety Works
People: Why are you doing that?
Me: I have OCD, so my brain spams me with terrifying thoughts until I do things to get rid of them. This is a compulsion.
People: So you know nothing bad will actually happen if you don’t do that! Why not just stop doing it?
Me: That is not how this works. That’s not how any mental illness works.
Me: *crying and hyperventilating over something objectively minor*
Someone: It’s not a big deal, why are you freaking out?
Me: *through sobs* I can’t… I can’t stop, I know it’s dumb… I know I shouldn’t be like this.
Them: Oh, well if you know that it’s dumb to freak out then why are you still freaking out?
Me: *sobbing harder because now I hate myself*
If you know your leg is broken you can’t magically walk on it like, knowing what’s wrong isn’t a cure ffs
