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i'm still thinking about the gayest match i've seen in recent times (zsj chris vs ueno mao) and its second close contender, kenoh vs kaito in korakuen.

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it is my hope and dream that everyone on tumblr can go outside and visit a gay bar or go to a queer event and see that our community is very beautiful and very diverse and that half the internet discourse isn’t real

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realized i never uploaded these here huh

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realized i never uploaded these here huh

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had a real giggle at this lowres pic so i made it into a wc3 autocast because i'm a child

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*penis starts throbbing* my arch nemesis is near…

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almost forgot to post the lil guy on here!

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almost forgot to post the lil guy on here!

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Thoughts on Ren Narita

sorry for the late reply!

i love narita. i was in a bad mental state when the crop of narita, shota and co made their original excursions so i remember more of their debuts and then their re-debuts on japanese soil than those tours, but i started paying attention to narita a lot more when he lost to shibata. i think sometimes people dislike grouping wrestlers together under more or less arbitrary names or even associating them with their mentors and other figures who shape their style or what have you (and trust me as a fan of nakamura and shibata i'm quite sick of anything containing the word "musketeer" lol), but i also deeply, deeply value mentor protege relationships in wrestling and i think ren being the antithesis to guys like shota and uemura in much the same way shibata was the antithesis to guys like tanahashi and nakamura is a really fun aspect of their stories that i enjoy a lot. of course it helps that narita and shota have been absolutely feral about each other, and the apron spot from noah's new year show where narita quite literally drags shota with him down to hell has been living rent free in my head ever since (the rest of the show is gone from my memory and i hope it stays that way forever).

i feel mixed about the heel turn. i can see why someone would count it as an advantage for him, a chance to change up your gimmick and try out something new, but imo it came a bit too early and HoT is nothing but the bane of my existence. most of those guys have shoot heat with me lol so i don't like ren being in there. i think the cape looked like a spirit halloween costume and the less we see of it the better. also the turn sadly changed his style and whenever ppl do get a glimpse of his, quite frankly, stellar grappling abilities, they're like oh wow the guy can actually wrestle! goes to show you what being in HoT does to a talent. sigh.

but i have high hopes for him still and i don't think those will go away anytime soon, misplaced allegiance to evil or not.

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i stole this from twitter shhhh they dont need to know

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Ramadan Kareem to all those who observe, may Allah accept our fasts and duaa and allow us growth and harmony over the course of the next month. May Allah ease the suffering of those in Gaza and across Falasteen, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Tigray, Kashmir, West Papau, and all those who are oppressed around the world. May He grant them shifa, tranquility, steadfastness, and sabr. May He grant us the strength and ability to fight injustice wherever we see it, and victory over our oppressors.

Here is a list of resources for Gaza and Falasteen. Here is an even bigger list. Here’s a much smaller one. Here is one with resources for both Gaza and Sudan.

Here is the link to a GFM that is very important to me. Here is the link to a GFM for a family in urgent need of evacuation out of Gaza.

Here is a way to help out Sudan. Here are links for donations, Sudanese businesses to support, and brief education about Sudan. Here is a post with resources for education and updates about what's happening in Sudan.

Here is a post with resources for Tigray.

Here is a post with important information on boycotting for Congo. Here is a post with links to support Congo.

Here is a list of resources for education on various issues around the world, including but not limited to West Papau, Hawai'i, Kashmir, and Armenia.

You can check my resources tag for more. I know tumblr's searching system isn't the best, though, so I tried to put as many as I could from that tag here.

Ramadan Kareem. May every action we take towards justice bring us lasting freedom and tranquility 🌙

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MELISSA BIANCHINI • drag race italia 3.05 back to school look

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"We would have guys that frequent the dojo all the time, new applicants, new trainees, and I would feel like they would be there one day and then they'd be gone the next. And so I'd felt like, dang, these guys really lack discipline and they lacked dedication to the sport. So I need to know where these guys are at, can't just let them have a free ride here. Because if guys are moving all their stuff in just for one week later calling the U-haul in to take all their stuff out, it just gets annoying and we needed to create a new generation, we needed to create the future generation, especially once that I knew that I would be moving on to New Japan. It was really important to me to make sure that DDT's future would be okay.

And we had sort of known that Takeshita was gonna be around and that the company had put a lot of stock into him for the future, but one person, one athlete is not enough. And a lot of people had hoped or thought that Endo would be that guy. And so I started to put people through the ringer. And we had a park that was kinda near the house [dorm]. And I would do like my running training or my jogging over there, and I wanted to see, you know, what kinda stuff Endo is made of. And it wasn't that I wanted him to beat me, it wasn't that I was purposely trying to break him or anything like that, I just wanted to see if he had the heart to try and keep up.

And I actually went to the park and I made sure that I went with another wrestler who the company didn't have that much stock in and was only there just to visit, and I wanted to compare the levels of dedication. I wanted to see who wanted it more. And so i took this wrestler from Chile, named Guanchulo, someone who came from an area that had a scene but his dream was to make it in Japan. So I knew that he was dedicated, I knew that he had the passion. so did Endo? So I went to the track, we went to run. And the first lap is tough but then the second gets worse and then the third one kinda gets into this weird place where you don't feel anything or whatever. But then from lap four onward it gets really rough. And at that point too my knees were already pretty shoddy, not as bad as they are now. But, you know, they would hurt after a while if I would run too much or just use them too much. And Endo quit a lap and a half in. And I said, "Endo, you're out, get out. Go home, you're done, you don't got what it takes, you need to find what it is deep in here [points at chest]. And then you come back and let me know if you wanna be a wrestler." And he was sad. And from that day onward he took more interest in bodybuilding, I started to see him study more tapes. And he only studied, like, oldschool TNA AJ Styles, but hey, I mean, nothing wrong with that. I mean, that's a great person to look up to. And I've been there.

So it was great to see him watch more tapes, he started to take his diet more seriously, he started to train more, I saw him buying more weights for the house, he started a subscription to Muscle Fitness, and you started to see it. Little change, little by little by little. And now, if you've ever seen him live, he's completely changed his appearance, he's kinda, himself and the aid of others have catapulted him to the upper echelon of [DDT, he mistakenly says AEW], he's higher up in the card.

So did I train him, like wrestling-wise? No. Can I even take credit? No. I tried to, I wanna say it was because of me, but I was there for the beginning of that process, or when he had that revelation that he was gonna take it more serious and become the person that i guess he was destined to become in DDT.

DDT had always thought for sure that they had a future with Endo and Takeshita. And I think they knew that Takeshita's dreams were in the west, they knew that he wanted to make a run for it more on an international scale. And I think Endo they wanted to make more like the domestic star, and I think they'd gotten themselves into a position where they could do that. And where Takeshita is now, I think his main contract is with AEW and Endo is still over in DDT. And he held the belt for a while, he was doing stuff in the tag division, I mean he's always high up on the card. And he's doing really well for himself.

And obviously, if you guys here have seen Takeshita in AEW or maybe some of the promotions he's appeared for like PWG or DPW or what have you, he's been doing great there too." Kenny talking about his wrestling sons Takeshita and Endo on stream (starts at around 24:37)

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As the seed [of the tournament] would have it, he's immediately facing Zack, and it's one of the reasons he can't afford to lose. During their time in Suzuki-gun [the two], under the team name of "Dangerous Tekkers", even won the Tag Team of the Year Award in 2022. [Taichi] opened up about his feelings regarding this special opponent: "I knew that, after Suzuki-gun ended, we would face each other again somewhere one day. [The chance] has finally come so I want to make it happen. Yeah. I think this might be the perfect time for us to see how much we've both changed."

Since they've parted ways Zack has been leading TMDK, but they are on [friendly] terms, recognizing each other's talents. [Taichi] even went so far as to hint at an immediate reunion during the NJC: "Maybe we'll feel out the vibes and join forces. It's not like we had a fight [in the sense of "argument"]. There's also a non-zero chance we might link up again, and while we're at it we might add Fujita (Kôsei) to the mix too so we become "Just 7 Guys". "

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had a dream that I met a wizard and we fell in love and became unhealthily attached to each other so we decided to meld into one single creature together but the process was horrifically slow and painful and most of the dream was us lying in bed holding hands while lesions opened up in our skin and seeped out blue and green fluid and the wizard said "this is going to take a very very long time" and I said "that's ok"

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In her essay Less TikTok, More Screaming, Persinette writes that these e-therapists have turned healing into “a religion, a lifestyle, and above all, a brand” while promoting a culture of isolation and individual optimization. In this ecosystem, “...therapy has become a litmus test for social belonging and inherent goodness, a sign that one is aware of and has adapted to the newest standards of how to behave.”  The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a non-emotive butterfly who will surely attract the relationships you’ve always deserved — relationships with other “healed” people, who don’t hurt you or depend on you or force you to feel difficult, taxing emotions. And finally, your life will be as frictionless and shiny as you, alone, have always deserved for it to be.

Rayne Fisher-Quann, no good alone

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