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"You're alive," said the Maker, and smiled at the aardvark.

You may have noticed I’ve had much less of a presence here lately, mostly because Tumblr is a cesspit and I’ve recently come down with the kind of anxiety issues that arguing on Tumblr/Twitter don’t exactly help.  In fact, I peeked in today just in time to see some dear friends of mine swept up in a bunch of Jesus Christ this is why I left.

So, uh, yeah, if you’re looking for me, might I suggest my Dreamwidth?  It’s mostly just fluff and gameblogging, probably not of interest unless you just really deeply care what games I just beat with essay-length book reports on what I thought about them.  On the other hand, maybe harmless fluff is what we need more of in this day and age.

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So I went to Spain last week and it was one of those really trashy tourist towns and ohhoho man did they have some interesting products. 

Everyone’s favorite underwater cartoon Spongeboy Shortshorts

Phonies and Freb sure has been popular lately

we all loved watching Dory the Exhibitionist when we were little

The good old game W…wario?

Ben 4 and the adventures of jaundice

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imaginativeghost

Gay sex has gotten complicated

I can’t believe straight people watch this and cheer

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hobbitsaarebas

WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON!!!! I DON’T UNDERSTAND?????

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sleepysamurai

They have appropriated the courting ritual of my people

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Can you explain anything about this, @kjorteo?

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In or out of character?  The handwave is that the person on the bottom is trying desperately to keep his shoulders off the mat because (in one of the few similarities professional wrestling has with amateur) that’s how you get pinned.  In reality, you are watching someone who’s strong enough to hold that position even with someone else on top of him doing so to show off because that is god damned impressive.  Wrestling is an art form (to quote Adam Blampied) and I mean it’s no worse (or less impressive!) than that statue act from Cirque du Soleil.

And since I’m on a video-posting kick to night, here’s one not by me... saw this opening segment for a wrestling show I was just about to watch, and, well, who am I not to heed their plea and pass it along?

(As for the actual show itself, my internet is terrible tonight and I need to get to bed soon anyway, so I’ll watch the rest of it later... no spoilers please.)

[The phrase “I am going to eliminate them slowly.” Which translates to “Voy a eliminarlos lentamente.”]

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The Colonel’s Bequest (Sierra On-Line, 1989)

Finally some gender roles we can all get behind

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The following collection of words will sound like total goddamn gibberish to most of you, but hardcore wrestling fans will know exactly what I’m saying: “Can you believe the canned heat they just piped in for that jobber? It was supposed to be a basic promo, but he worked himself into a shoot, and now smarks are going to be crying about how he needs a mouthpiece.”

This is one of the greatest parts of wrestling to me: the behind-the-scenes terminology. It says so much about the industry, once you know what it all means. Most of it was started in a time when wrestling was presented as a legitimate competitive fighting sport. They were code words that were only known to the people who were in the business. For instance, “jobber” is code for a sort of no-name wrestler whose sole purpose is to lose to bigger stars. But if it’s 1970, and you’re telling the world that the sport is “real,” you can’t exactly give away the fact that this guy’s job is “professional loser.”

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"All of these terms boil down to psychology. Manipulating people's emotions and perspectives to get them to react the way you want. It's why I love wrestling so much. It's not just "two oiled-up dudes, violently hugging each other." It's an emotional magic show. "We're going to get you excited. Now, we're going to piss you off. Now, we're going to make you laugh. Now, we're going to make you think you run the show." It's brilliant, but the thing you see on TV is only the curtain. The real tricks are being done behind it."

This is perfect :D Wrestling gets even deeper than this (the concept of finishing moves, for example) but this is a fantastic start.

Give me someone who has some fucked up tastes in fiction, but is kind and respectful to real people, over someone who only ever ships the healthiest ships and stans the purest characters, but is rude and cruel to real people, any day of the week.

Your goddamn fictional preferences don’t show what kind of person you are; your actions do.

It’s not a hard concept to grasp.