Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space
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Joined Dec 2017
@Moot I've actually met people who've had this problem. The moral of the tale was "don't handfeed wild animals and habituate them to human contact, or they will act accordingly"
Wrestling, NXT, UK millenial shit
Watching the NXT Wrestlemania go home show, brain went "Pretty Deadly are femboy Ant & Dec" and now I can't unthink it
@hokaze@queer.af Oh, what an odd coincidence, I just signed up for this, closed the tab and saw your toot.
After watching Guyver 1 and Mortal Kombat 2 and reading that both were critically panned, I come away convinced that the 90s kept just accidentally creating absolute masterworks of camp cinema and then going
"Ugh! Camp!? I thought this would be edgy, somehow!"
I love TJPW's penchant for high-melodrama show titles. AEW and WWE should have events called things like "What I Am Missing Is Something You Do Not Have, A Prince That Rode In On A White Horse"
Embrace the Utena energy, cowards
look, The Fugitive is a romance movie and nobody can convince me otherwise
I need a version of that "hate the monarchy, love when the rightful king reclaims his magic sword" tweet
but for hating cops and loving Javert stories
re: wrestleblather
Conversely, this has verymuch influenced the generation of wrestlers who made their name during lockdown shows (ex: The Acclaimed), where aside from a videocamera and their colleagues, there was no audience to rely on for feedback.
Seeing them first adapt to a full house audience, it's a completely different environment.
wrestleblather
It's tough to describe how much crowd feedback is a core part of wrestling, especially in the US.
Like, you watch a US wrestler go to Japan for the first time, and do something that's usually usually guaranteed to get the crowd on their feet, and instead they're met with
[polite applause]
. . .
And the wrestler flounders because the crowd is verymuch a character in their own right in this performance, and, from a US perspective, suddenly this character is giving them nothing to work with.
[CW Blood] Emi Sakura (joshi wrestling veteran) vs Billie Starkz (outrageously talented young wrestler) is an amazing match.
I'd describe the AEW Dark crowd as "happy but chill" for the most part, and this is one of those rare matches that really gets them to sit up and get invested:
Hunter X Hunter, perfectly encapsulating the twin poles of my aesthetic
@colon_three TJPW is DDT's joshi sister promotion, so no-but-adjacent
Yuka Sakazaki is imho one of the best wrestlers in the world, and for the last few weeks she's been in the US and doing a bunch of matches on AEW's Youtube shows (Dark & Dark: Elevation).
There's a nice person in the comments who always lists timestamps for the matches, so.. Have some very good, very free women's wrestling.
Dark: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLILTWWX_AIJQWi63ehKrNGZjXm4cnhtJu
DE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLILTWWX_AIJRo4ytGYfhO2Wd2gEMimcxd
@siege@octodon.social thankyou!
@siege@octodon.social would you mind explaining (or linking to) what that "Orphan Elephant" means?
I've not come across it before, and Google is being no help in this.
re: NSFW - Toy
@SnapHappyFox to be fair, I can think of more occasions for wanting to locate a buttplug in a darkened room than a graphics card.
two of The Wingmen (my beloved trashboy heel faction in AEW) have changed their look completely
I feel like a cat when someone's moved around the furniture in a familiar room
@variance happy birthday!
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