#ALL THE ACTION GOT SHOVED TO CHAP 3 OK IT WAS ALL SUPPOSED TO BE TOGETHER BUT NOOOO ROSYS TOO GOOD FOR 30K CHAPTERS NOW IG

[rosyredlipstick]

FAR GALAXIES (2/6)

She didn’t answer. Instead, she pulled out her PADD from her coat, slow enough that Nico only slightly twitched. Jason’s transmission was loaded up on the screen—at the bottom, their signature tag was spelled out. “Guardians of the Galaxy. That supposed to be a joke?” “More like an aspiration,” Jason said. - Space, the final frontier. Or whatever.

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13k, solangelo.

ao3

[s-asuke]

SasuSaku Month 2017 - Day 3 - Chemistry

SasuSaku Month 2017 – Day 3 – Chemistry AU in which the Hyuuga were somehow infected / harmed by Kaguya and their Byakugan is weakened. Yuuno Hyuga is an OC. I think Bout this becoming a multi-chap story. If you would like it to become one, send me a request, PM or just simply reply to this post!! Feedback is love!! Warnings: mild nsfw (Sasu's thirsty ass is my thirsty ass ok) "Sometimes you just gotta relax, yeah? And we have so many missions lately, so just being at the onsen with you, Sai and Sakura-chan would be ideal, watcha think?" His favorite moron was waing four golden-lined cards at him, his Sharingan nearly wanting to shoot a few black flames at the annoying cards. Ah, destiny was so cruel. Naruto Uzumaki just told him that the Rokudaime has ordered Sasuke, and the rest of the Team 7, to go to hot springs and relax. Fucking impossible, Sasuke ponders, all the while staring at the jelly he was supposed to eat. "C'mooon, teme, it would be pretty good for us! We haven't had a vacation since the war!" Sasuke doesn't say anything to the comment that jabs his heart. "Naruto, don't be an idiot. We have a lot of work. And just because I healed Neji, and the main family does not mean we can lay back and relax!" Naruto's cheerful expression visibly falls, but gets back up quick, not minding Sasuke's stern demeanor. His strict, grayish eyes, color watered down by tiredness, stare at the blue, whose are nearly scared? Sasuke softens, recognizing the fear that Naruto's orbs held – the aftermath of war was almost as terrifying as the war itself. Kaguya cast a rather potent jutsu that manifested quickly – a month after the war. Only Byakugan users were in danger – and so it seemed only a Sharingan could heal them. Which made Sasuke get out of the prison pronto, since not even Tsunade could heal this one. Their discovery of his possibly life-saving kekkei genkai was made with a help of the most revolting person. Orochimaru edo-tenseied Madara Uchiha, the only Uchiha privy to all nooks and crannies of any doujutsu. The man had a few exausting, snarky and sarcastic sessions with Sasuke – having only heard of the issue in legends and myths of his clan. At last with much bitching (they just had to summon Hashirama so he'd calm the man down, he didn't hear the end of it) Sasuke was explained with much emotional pain from Madara's side how the only special ability he had ever seen to a Mangekyou Sharingan were the ones the user could develop aside the original three; ones like Kamui and his younger brother Izuna's Healing eye, which could heal and nurture any kind of disability and disease. The only irony laying in the predicament of him not being able to heal himself. Madara said that on a whim, it could cause people to even lose memory, and since those abilities were all passed down to Sasuke by blood. Madara was very well acquainted with what Sasuke could do (he seen it in war and he had a peek at the family tree). "Hmph." The rowdy haired man would note, Sharingan passing over the scrolls. "What," Sasuke became rather impatient as of now. "It says here, that you are related to Obito Uchiha." "And?" Sasuke hides his annoyance by the fact. "That means you are related to me, too." Dead serious, Madara waits for a reaction from the younger Uchiha. "His grandmother was my illegitimate daughter. I didn't know she existed until I met Obito. And that, Sasuke, means," he traces the line that intwines with other Uchiha, passes crossings and other details until it lands on Fugaku Uchiha, "that you are my great-great-great, many greats, grandchild. Did someone from the clan continue with a specific powerful Mangekyou Sharingan?" Sasuke answers quickly, leaving no room for any remark,"Father had a Mangekyou. He was hiding it, so the clan wouldn't force him to use it to control the Kyuubi." "Only a weak leader would allow his followers to dictate him. That's straight-out moronic." Ignoring Madara and his own clear bout of rage, Sasuke continues. "There was also Shisui of the Teleportation, he had an amazing Body Flicker Tehnique, and only Ita- my brother could match him in genjutsu. He also had a particular tehnique which he had done with his Mangekyou, Kotoamatsukami, he could manipulate a person's mind and make it seem as if the decisions he would implant in their brain were their own. My brother had a Mangekyou, and had extraordinary abilities even as a young boy. That's all." "Ooh. Would you look at that; Shisui was Kagami's boy. I bet that he inherited the Amatsukami from him. Or a variation thereof. It doesn't matter, even if the kid would be interesting to fight," Madara muses, fingers languidly passing the scrolls, ignoring Sasuke's questioning gaze. "Is your brother the one who slaughtered the entire clan with Obito's help and joined Akatsuki?"asks without raising his head from the scroll. "Aa." Sasuke's dry remark doesn't put Madara off, and Sasuke was prepared to talk about uncomfortable things. "Interesting." It's silent for a bit, and then he asks something very weird. "What about your mother? Mikoto Uchiha? Did she awaken her Mangekyou?" "Hn. I have no knowledge of such a thing." "I suspect that she has." "And how did you come to such a conclusion?" Sasuke is sceptic, but Madara mentions nothing of it. "This person, Naori Uchiha, is related to her through here, and she also has the blood of my mother's sister. My mother had a great fighting power, and I even suspect she has awakened her Mangekyou before me. Your mother had a healing prowess or something?" "Not that I know of." "Very well then. I am about to teach you a very taxing healing technique, assuming that Orochimaru has taken my eyes post-war." "How can you assume such a thing?" "It's too great of a power for him to possess, at this point. He has my Rinnegan, probably both. Since they have mutated and I am dead, I have no use for them. You will absorb them rather simply: like you do jutsu. Then come back here since we have no time to waste." "Sasuke. I am... grateful. You know I am. But..." "Ugh, fine! I will come!" "Yas! I knew you would admit defeat, 'ttebayo!" Naruto shouts triumphantly, pumping his fist in the air, shoving Sasuke sideways in the process. "HEY! NARUTO!" "Heh, heh, sorry, Sasuke..." "You will be!" = It's a lonely night, as always, in the small complex Sasuke lives in. He is plagued by thoughts – a thing far more terrifying than any jutsu. Breathes in. Out. In again. Numerous times just thinking about the action... and the house feels vastly big and lonely... Somebody's voice he wishes to hear, somebody's heartbeat he wants to sleep on... he despises himself for it, but his dreams just aren't safe when he doesn't sense another person breathing, fighting, yielding, relaxing, dreaming, sighing, saying, 'Sasuke-kun, did you put away the food? The bread will go stale if you don't...', voice like a ring, small and everpresent, orbiting around him like a navigated fireball, the kind his mother liked to show him and Itachi when they were kids. "Sasuke Uchiha-san." From his sofa in the living room, he can hear them: two ex-ANBU, now Jounin, looking to take him to the Hokage's. He doesn't expect himself to be so fast as he readied his clothes and his headband, a wave of nostalgia shooting through him as his chakra flares. They are there quickly – Kakashi's silent and tired silhouette welcoming them wearily, Sasuke finding the literal sunshine emanating off the people awaiting annoying. And, well, endearing. Sakura's pink, now slightly longer hair that is the lead role in his wildest dreams and nightmares is in a braid, the toned muscle she has covered by a thin summer dress, no trace of her headband. The summer dress was so light and tight, it made him want to sallivate. "Here he is, all ready for a mission. Didn't I tell you we might have some problems with him, Kakashi-sensei?" "Well you must have mentioned," the silver-haired Hatake smirks underneath the mask, favoring the presence of his former students plus Sai. Naruto's comments are only natural to Sasuke, so he gives no reaction. "Naruto, this is a mission, after all. A mission of you four relaxing!" Good-naturedly putting his hands on his hips as he stands up from his chair, Kakashi looks over each of them. "Sai doesn't even know what the word vacation means... Sasuke thinks it's a tropical animal probably. God knows you need one, Sakura... and as for you, Naruto..." trailing off, as if not knowing whether he is finding a good word or not, he coughs up a bile,"we all know you deserve one." "Hurrah!" Loud exclamating of the blonde moron positively burst Sasuke's eardrums, he wonders what did he do to deserve this. But, in a second, he doesn't like the answer to the question. "Sakura-chan, Sai, Sasuke! Let's go to the hot baths and have a vacation like never before!" = Somehow, Sasuke is content. The futons they sleep on in the beautifully furnished inn are warm and comfortable, and he only remembers that the comfort of his own bed could rival it. So why does he fucking avoid it like plague? Because he is already plagued. Shit got real the night he finally realized that Sakura's hair is the softest fucking thing, that she reads him like a book, knowing how he breathes, all the things he hates (there's too many), how he doesn't like to eat ramen if it isn't with Dobe, or her. How he can't tolerate his eyes being nearly boiled out of his skull while Hyuga fucking Yuuno is worried about her ponytail. The utmost respect and damn near adoration for her skill and passion for medical ninjutsu, loyalty to the quite annoying person who has taught it to her, and all the nights he would make his small patrols to find her under the light of a candle, reading yet another scroll on headaches and how to remedy those caused by Rinnegan of all things, and it's their little secret. There is the second type of plague. When he can't stop thinking about how warm her eyes are, and how aflame they would be if he just sucked on her most secret place, there, in the crook of her inner things, and he would sigh, because she'd be all warm and wet and- Crap. He earned himself a hard-on. He thought of her as a specific kind of medication one couldn't take a little more than just prescribed, because if they did – he would be addicted. Like the heady scent of chemicals – so inviting, but capable of doom. He would take not the prescribed amount – he would take so much his doctor would scream at him to stop. And he would like to make her scream soon.

[theincorrigiblemagpie]

IPKKND 3 (Episode 3)- Utha Le Re Baba

July 5, 2017

Ok, make up your fucking minds. Is Advay Mahadev or is he Ram? I know I ranted about this yesterday but at least the Shiva parallels can be painted as vaguely romantic. The popular versions of the Ramayan are casteist misogynistic trash from the get-go. (So...not too different from desi tv.) This confusion is brought to you by THIS weird almost-meet-cute-ish scene but with heavy Ram-Laxman/Bharat implications via the music.

*swoooop* they miss each other in a temple. I’m not sure whether all this romantic trope subversion is deliberate or just a happy accident.

Oh man, of COURSE, the floofy haired chap is Advay’s brother. So 16 years ago, not only did Advay lose his parents but he also lost his little brother while trying to run away from the mob that killed his parents. And the only thing connecting them is a haunting tune that Meeku (the brother) casually whistles while walking by. I can’t wait for the scene in which Advay and Meeku sing Yaadon Ki Baaraat together after finding one another.

So Advay is back to not just take revenge but locate his missing brother. Wow, I like how confident you are that your brother is still in this godforsaken violent city.

Oof we got a name on comic-relief Jeeji who is Kajal. Still waiting on the other two. Badi Jeeji is still being SMOOTH AF and misleading the plebs into thinking she’s generous and amazing while covering major corruption.

This Meeku is basically a budget Ram from Ram-Leela, even if his character is more Bharat/Laxman-ish. They’ve even given him a similar colour palette to Tattad Tattad. I presume the action bit is reserved for bade bhaiya until push comes to shove. Right now, Meeku just does the lame flirting and speaking in unnecessary rhyming couplets bit. Great.

OMG HE JUST GREETED ADVAY WITH A “Professor! Ssssup?” while Advay was indulging in his usual skulking around. In less than a minute, this Meeku has “bro-ed” and “dude-d” Advay and also professed his fan status in the manner of Saif from Main Khiladi Tu Anari gushing over Akshay’s cop persona. Ok, forced “coolness” gives me michmichi but I am always here for the in-house fans in any show. 

Aiguhhh this boy needs to majorly work on his delivery but he has some potential to fill the bro-banter spot. I like how Gul is self aware enough to have peripheral characters make fun of her tropes and brooding male leads but not self aware enough to actually change anything material. And by “like” I mean “severely eye-roll.”

Yeah, Namaste London moment coming up. I’m not sure if the random white women even heard Chandni’s English explanation that Advay goaded her into. What a waste.

Yeah, they defs didn’t. Chandni is just speaking to this brooding stranger who likes to strut around with background music for effect.

This show is SO BAD at writing first meetings, I can’t. Advay tells Chandni that she surprises him every time he thinks he’s got her down and that she’s going to want to meet him again even if she doesn’t know it yet, while she’s cowering in fear at this aggressive dude who has special training in speaking in vague riddles and idioms. Oh, fuck right off, Advay. My general tolerance for sexually intimidating or predatory behaviour is at an all-time low.

*sigh* Chandni really needs to work on her screen presence. I don’t know if it CAN be worked on. But even this incredibly disinterested and bored Sobti is too much for her. “Quiet and nervous resilience” isn’t coming through and I don’t really have a read on her.

HAHAHAHA ADVAY JUST ‘I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER-ED’ BADI JEEJI. I kid you not.

For those who can’t read Hindi, it says “I know what you did 16 years ago.”

oho Advay did NOT send this note. He’s also confused about why the 3 witches are anxious. I really don’t get why the focus of his revenge isn’t the whole family as opposed to Chandni.

Chandni goes around fearfully with bodyguards, because of the abduction, I suppose. This makes me really sad. Useless bodyguards, though, in true 4Lions tradition.

UGH WE’RE AT THE ACTUAL RAPEY FIRE SCENE. THE FUCKER POURED KEROSENE ON HER DUPATTA AT THE MANDIR SO IT WOULD BE EASIER TO SET IT ON FIRE LATER. THE PROMO PYROMANIA ISN’T METAPHORICAL AT ALL. IT’S NOT A DREAM OR ANYTHING.

AND HE LECHES AT HER. MY GOD THIS SCENE IS SO REPULSIVE, I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY WROTE IT. ARNAVJI HAS BECOME SHYAMJI AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

KILL ME. Advay just jhaaro-ed Arnav’s “Badtameezi toh maine shuru bhi nahi ki hai” at Chandni. OH, ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FIND THIS NUDGE-NUDGE AT THE WORST OF THE OLD IPKKND AMUSING.

Ok, no, this isn’t remotely funny. Advay puts his jacket around her and they fucking play the original Rabba Ve with blurred lights and a hawa ka jhonka and I’m so, so disturbed by how this is framed as romantic. Especially as his sexual aggression reminds Chandni of her abduction and she faints in his arms. THAT SHIT IS NOT ROMANTIC. WHY ARE YOU PLAYING ROMANTIC MUSIC.

Advay is a textbook example of a gaslighting, abusive partner who hurts you and then is nice to you to fuck with your head and get you to stay and take the abuse. I’m not even saying he’s deliberately and manipulatively so. Not all abusive partners are. But it’s a pattern that many develop. I can’t underline enough how horrendous the normalization of this behaviour is.

Oh, we have the youngest witch’s name-- Shakun.

We do get some more explanation on the past. Chandni and Dev had been bff’s until Chandni accused Dev’s mother of being a witch publicly, that led to the murders and then she also exposed Dev who had been trying to run away with Meeku, leading to the separation. Yeah, it was all super terrible.

BUT THIS JUSTIFIES JACK. She was 5, maybe 6 years old. Advay is a right psychopath who needs major help (as does Chandni who is clearly suffering from PTSD). I can’t explain how many shades of awful this is and Harneet’s so-called lib-dem social media persona is a complete farce if this is what she produces.

I lasted all of 3 episodes, because I tap out here. I can deal with a lot of tellywood’s nonsense but my threshold for the romanticization of physical and sexual violence has gone down drastically in the last half-decade. Which is exactly what this is, I don’t care what kind of “soulmate AU” it’s supposed to be. This is fully why I never went back to watch the early episodes of IPKKND after starting late. Perhaps I should’ve given this one a chance later in its course too. Oh, well, it’s too late. Ugh, sorry folks, I’m done.

[grapsandclaps]

Ladies and Gentleman, my name is not @oggypart3, and I do not have the (greatest) Clap (in the business)...but I am @KingGazOfMadine (I am not Raymond Rowe) and I am here to bring you a round up of show Number 55.5 in #the80ShowYear (Andy's show number 55.5 by the way. I'm only on 34)

PROGRESS Chapter 52: Vote Pies was a show that was originally not on the Wrestling Schedule for us Manchester fans, so 4/5 of British Wrong Style (Andy / Geoff Ogden, Chris Linay and Ben Corrigan) along with top Pigeon Fan Shauna Askew made the decision to book tickets to go and see Tidal Wrestling, across the penines in Leeds (You can read Andy's review of that show right here, at Graps and Claps *cheap pop*) and therefore once the show was announced, had to miss the event.  For me personally, I've never been to a Tidal show or watched any of their shows, and had made the decision to take a weekend off until the PROGRESS announcement, so I was all in for this event. Must admit, it was a bit odd to be at a show without the others. I think of all the shows I've been to this year, only ATTACK in Cardiff I've done without any combination of Andy / Geoff / Shauna / Chris / Ben

Now then, unlike Andy, I did not make an early start for this show to take in some fine ales beforehand. No, my decision was to stay at home and watch Day 5 of the 27th annual G1 tournament in New Japan (should point out here, Tesco had a cracking deal on 6 cans of Dr Pepper for £1.77 which I had picked up the day before, so my choice of drink for the G1 was Dr Pepper coming in at approximately 30p per can. We may be living in Tory Britain, but you can still find a bargain when you try), and then jump on the #GrapsBus at around 1pm for a show thats doors opened at 1.30pm. I arrived in town a little before 2pm and did have time to meet up with t-shirt designer to the stars and future wrestling superstar (HOWAY) Jimmy Nailz at the regular Wetherspoons on Oxford Road. £1.99 for a large Lemonade, and I was good to go and ready for the show, but not before conversations on whether soup should be classed as an actual meal or not, and apparently certain sectors of Mormons aren't allowed hot drinks. Not because of caffeine (which apparently some Mormons are not allowed) but just because of the temperature. So like, they can have a cup of coffee / tea but only after it's cooled down. Please don't take this as fact and quote me on this, but that was what I learned yesterday and have done 0 research into it's validity, but will pass it off as legit if ever needed.

On to the show. Before the regular Darth Vader / Drake intro, we were told over the microphone there would be one last song before this, which was a Linkin Park track, dedicated to Chester Bennington who had unfortunately passed away a few days prior to this. Following this, we got the regular Jim Smallman intro (Hiya - We Sold Out - It's Your Round - 7 matches, 4 in the first half, 3 in the second) but were then introduced to a fan that had apparently made a bet with Jim that the Manchester show wouldn't sell out as quick as usual (Odd bet to make?) and because Jim had lost (Who bets against their own team!?) said fan was allowed in the ring to have his photo taken with Jim (This is an odd bet to make. Just go and ask Jim for a photo before the show starts when he's walking around the ring. He's a nice chap and will more than likely say "Yes") at which point Jim asks said fans girlfriend to come into the ring to take the photo. Jim and fan prepare for photo, fans missus gets camera out...BUT WAIT...the fan is down on one knee and has pulled an engagement ring outta nowhere (Ok, that's why this all seemed so ridiculous...Jim didn't bet against his own company!!!) and he's asked his missus to marry him. She's in a wrestling ring, with 700 of us watching, she literally has no chance of saying No, and thus she says....YES!!!! Cheers aplenty, now get out of the ring and enjoy the first 3 hours of your engagement surrounded by people who want to call Zach Gibson a Scouse Bastard.

Should also note here that the ring looked a bit low, and as we were discussing this, it was pointed out that T-Bone was on the show, and this was in fact T-Bone's ring (more to this later). Plus, pint of Lemonade here at the venue was £3.50. Not sure what kind of Lemonade they have at The Ritz for it to cost an extra £1.51 over Wetherspoons Lemonade, but it didn't taste that much better. That's Tory Britain for you (Cheers Andy)

Now to the wrestling....or is it...? Turns out there are balloons in the ring, and some "Happy Birthday" signs up, and out first is El Ligero, with 2 birthday hats hanging from his horns. Turns out it's Dave Mastiff's birthday, and as he still doesn't have any entrance music (or at least not any that can be shown on the WWE Network, for just £9.99 a month), the Bastard comes out to 700 of us singing Happy Birthday (no trombone this time Andy, sorry about that). Out come their opponents for the night Extra Talent(ed) and the super over, merchandise machines #CCK We get the introductions out of the way, and then it turns out one of the Extra Talent(ed) lads has a birthday card for Mastiff. Jim reads it out as "Dear Dave, Happy Birthday, from Jeff Jarrett and everyone at ITV Wrestling" at which point Mastiff cleans house with German Suplexes aplenty, including German Suplexing Kid Lykos over the top rope into Chris Brookes and the Extra Talent(ed) lads. This 3 way Tag Match included a grand total of 0 tags, and was just all action from start to finish, but included a few botched moments including Lykos pulling down the top rope for one of the Extra Talent(ed) lads to go over, only for him to still fall out of the ring between the top and middle rope, and the same lad receiving the Brookes assisted Code-Breaker, and then not staying in place for Brookes to senton him...but Brookes did it anyway coz he's Chris fuckin Brookes and he can do what he wants. Talking of which, Chris Brookes hit a knee on one of the Extra Talent(ed) lads and a kick on the other, in totally seperate moments, and both of them made me think that Extra Talent(ed) maybe owe him money or something.  The ending happened, not entirely sure what happened, but #CCK won, Roberts called for the bell and said he'd counted 3, the bell never came, Jim's mic was turned off so he couldn't announce the winners, and some people were trying to continue the match. Not sure what was supposed to happen, but #CCK got the win, and then Chris Brookes said they didn't want a win like that, and challenged Extra Talent(ed) to another match next week in Camden. Kid Lykos got the mic and was ready to tell them what he thought, but Brookes took the mic off him and told him to "Shut the fuck up Lykos"

Next up we had Mike Bird vs T-Bone in some big lads wrestling. Big Lads as in guys who actually weigh over the weight limit for the Atlas title and not David Starr or Fred Yehi. Talking of David Starr, question for you. If David Starr wins a match, and neither me or Andy sees this match, did David Starr still win a match? For me, it's a no, and old Canvasback Dave remains winless. Anyway, Bird and Bone started off quite tasty with them getting in each others face during the intros, and then a bit of pushing and shoving until T-Bone gave Bird a lovely looking headbutt. This was standard 2 big lads beating each other up, but the crowd was a bit quiet for it. Most local fans obviously know T-Bone from the likes of FutureShock, PCW and GPW and were getting behind him, and there was the odd Ginger Jesus chant too, but I don't know if it was the awkward finish of the last match, but the crowd weren't too into this one. I even tried to get an Ogden special clap going but that died on it's arse. T-Bone ended up the victor, and personally, I'm hoping we get a T-Bone vs Walter match for the Atlas title at some point. T-Bone did only lose 1 match during the Atlas Division series, and that just happened to be a Semi-Final match unfortunately.

Toni Storm was up next defending the PROGRESS Womens title against Laura Di Matteo. Again, this seemed to start with quite a flat crowd, but we were treated to a decent match that finally woke the crowd up and got everyone going. There was quite some chanting on behalf of Laura Di Matteo, which is quite surprising really. One, becuase Toni Storm is absolutely ace, and two, because Laura Di Matteo is obviosuly very talented in the ring, but post-Jinny feud (is that feud actually over?) there really isn't anything there with Laura Di Matteo to care about, other than the fact she's one of the ones who come up from the ProJo. She just doesn't seem to connect, and I'd happily listen to any of her fans to tell me what it is that makes them get behind her. Cracking match though between these 2, and Toni got the win following her Piledriver she's been using lately.  Laura was visibly in tears outside the ring afterwards, not sure if that's gonna set up a storyline or something with her?

Onto the first half Main Event, which was 2 blokes I've heard of vaguely recently. Travis Banks vs Matthew Riddle.  2 of the absolute best right now, and these 2 did not disappoint. Riddle came out first, cool as fuck as always, and then Trav came out second and he was ready to scrap, getting right in Riddles face before the intros had even begun. These 2 chopped, kicked and suplexed each other like there was no tomorrow. Thought Riddle would still be recovering his chest after what Walter did to him in Birmingham, but nope, there were chops a plenty. I can imagine these 2 having a much better match than the one they put on here, but this was still a really good match and one to look out for on Demand. At one point it was like watching Kane vs Undertaker at Wrestlemania, when Matt Riddle kicked out of a "Tombstone" at 1, grabbed Travis, hit him with a jumping "Tombstone" at which point Trav kicked out at 2. Had to point out here that moves where you get dropped on your head are a lot less effective in 2017 than moves where you have to slap your knee for effect. However, neither Travs or Riddles tombstones actually drop the opponent on their head, therefore making them even less effective. Finish to this match came when Pete Dunne made an appearance on the rampway to distract Trav, and Riddle managed to hit Banks with a jumping knee when he returned his focus to the match, but was at this point out for the count.

Half time break, and due to arriving at the venue late, this was the perfect time to pick up that sweet new #CCK merch. Turns out I could now go 6 of the 7 days of the week wearing a different #CCK / Chris Brookes t-shirt. #CCK literally becoming the UK Young Bucks.

Second half of the show brought us a 4 way match between No Fun Chief Deputy Dunne, Scouse Bastard Zach Gibson, Ben's Favourite Chuck Mambo and Shauna's Number 1 Heel Jack Sexsmith. Match started with introductions for Sexsmith and Mambo, only for Chief Deputy Dunne to take over microphone duties and inform us that as long as we don't have fun, we won't get hurt. Gibson took the microphone from Dunne here though, and did his usual schtick, ending with how he is the Premier Wrestling talent in England, and he's in a match with a surfer, a policeman and an absolute joke. This was a fun 4 way, nothing to really shout about, but still enjoyable. Sexsmith picked up the win with a cheekly roll up on Gibson, meaning Sexsmith has beaten Gibson here and at Super Strong Style now.

Next up was PROGRESS Champion Pete Dunne going against Eddie Dennis, who has got himself some new shorts to go with his full time schedule.  I liked them personally. As for the match, this was an absolute cracker of a match.  The longer it went on, the better it got, and I started to get the impression that maybe Pete Dunne would lose via DQ, therefore having to defend his title agsinst Eddie in a second match. Unfortunately, it did not go this way. Eddie had Pete Dunne pinned for the 3 count following the NEXT STOP DRIVER!!!!! but unfortunately Joel was down at this point and did not make the count. Peter rolled out the ring, and as Eddie followed him got blasted by Peter's Sledgehammer (I thought these were only kept under WWE rings...?) rolled back into the ring, Pedigree and then The Bitter End, for Peter to pick up the win. Talking point here though was Eddie Dennis looking absolutely phenomenal. He's always been good when I've seen him, but having recently gone full time, he's got a lot more serious and looks a lot better for it.

Main Event time gave us British Strong Styles Tyler Bate and Trent Seven defending their PROGRESS Tag Team titles against current IWGP Heavyweight Tag Champions, War Machine (I am in no way related to Raymond Rowe by the way). Following the introductions, Jim declared that he was making this match a Tornado Tag Rules match. If you've never seen War Machine wrestle in PROGRESS before, then you were in for a treat without knowing it, however if you have seen War Machine in PROGRESS before, then you knew this was gonna be awesome...and it was. Match started with War Machine offering the code of honor handshake, BSS doing the Triple H, but turning and spitting it in War Machines eyes and then mockingly shaking their opponents hands, only for War Machine to hold on, and beat the piss out of the 2 of them. This match was everything you'd expect from a War Machine match. Don't think it was as good as the London Riots match from Birmingham a few weeks ago, but still a cracker and up there as Match of the Night for this show. They wrecked the joint throwing their opponents into the ringside chairs, along with being thrown themselves. At one point Tyler Bate and Ray Rowe were wrestling in the crowd right next to us. Tyler hit Rowe, and then proceded to do his best Karate stance and declared himself Bruce Lee. If you want to see the video of this, look up Ian Crompton on Twitter (@iancrompton89) and ask him to share his video. Also, Tyler Bate managed to squat Hanson. Like that shouldn't even be a surprise anymore that Tyler is freakishly strong, but it still is amazing. Now then, earlier I mentioned how the ring in use was T-Bones ring. During this match, I noticed T-Bone up on the balcony watching the match. However, what I also noticed was that when Trent and Tyler did a double Superplex from the top rope to Hanson, Chris Brooker was up there too, putting a hand on T-Bone's shoulder as if to say "It's ok. You're ring survived it. It's going to live another day". BSS got the win in this match, when Trent hit the pedigree on to Hanson (I think) on top of the IWGP tag title. War Machine gave a post match speech about being disappointed they weren't raising the PROGRESS Tag Titles, and how they've wrestled everywhere but we are the craziest fans they've ever known. Standard really.

Post-Show, it was fuckin pissing down and I'd only gone and decided today was a good day to come in just shorts and t-shirt. Headed back over to Wetherspoons with Jimmy Nailz and Dave Hackney (JHFC represent!) to grab some food (Chilli Dog and Lemonade for £6.99, but could also go for an alcoholic beverage instead for £7.99 if that's what you prefer) and talk about the show. As we were finishing up, Matt Riddle casually strolls into Wetherspoons, cool as fuck (as always) and with around 50% of the Wetherspoons audience having all just come from the show, suddenly Wetherspoons broke into "BRO! BRO! BRO!" chants, with Matt Riddle looking absolutely happy as larry, looking around and smiling at everyone, and other customers just not having a clue what was going on. Following this, it was home time on the 38 bus back to Little Hulton, and was back home for 9pm

Apologies that there's no puns in this one. I'm not on Andy's level for this. But I would like to finish by saying it was really nice to go to a wrestling show to see good friends and also some wrestling, without a fuckin toy pigeon in sight.

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When precisely was it has been determined that cartoons are for kids? Even now, when a demonstrate like BoJack Horseman makes on feeling and self-loathing, beings act like it's a gambit.( "Can you believe we're going ADULT themes from this CHILD'S medium? ") Not merely does this move no ability, but animations have been ahead of the arc on some serious issues for decades. Like how ...

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In Rick And Morty , Nihilism Is A Thinking, Not A Character Flaw

Nihilism has got a real bad rep on the mean streets of pop culture. It's typically boiled down to "Nothing truly interests, so why bother doing good situations? " that are generally evidences in the "villainous nihilist" stereotype. Anton from No Country For Old Men is a violently efficient nihilist, returning lectures about how life and death are as meaningless as a silver flip.

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The nihilist gang in The Big Lebowski give it as a goofy affectation. In True Detective , Rust Cohle's nihilism is a character flaw he heroically overcomes in the finale.

Dour, cranky, cold-hearted ... nihilists are pretty much illustrated as sociopathic versions of Eeyore.

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One of best available occasions I've ever seen on Tv was the Rick And Morty ( i.e. theme of the virulent Szechuan Sauce Riots of 2017) chapter "Rixty Minutes." Summer, Morty's older sister, discovers that her delivery involved in an accident which, it shows, cleared her parents' lives worse. Morty then confesses in her that he's not the chap she thinks he is, and that he's actually a Morty from another aspect who changed the Morty she knew after his death. He terminates this history by saying, "Don't run. Nothing exists on purpose , nothing belongs anywhere, everybody's going to die. Come watch TV."

That's where they leave it. There's no joyful, "This was all meant to happen! " revelation afterwards. She has to come to expressions with the fact that nothing was meant to happen ... and that's OK. That is, in fact, the running theme of Rick And Morty . Yes, life had not yet been higher represent and good-for-nothing eventually problems, except the things that matter to you . Rick, has become a superhuman multidimensional supergenius, knows for a fact that nothing was meant to happen. But he formerly killed a jellybean emperor because he supposed he had tried to molest Morty. It's, uh, a bit hard to convey out of context.

Still, all of this is a astonishingly accurate( though extreme) representation of what nihilism really is. Life is without objective represent, determination, or righteousnes, and you're free to do good happenings because you wishes to , not because you think the Universe will reinforce you for it.

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In Steven Universe , Child Heroes Have To Distribute With Trauma

It's simply the grittiest of campaign movies that actually deal with the psychological consequence in a realistic course. When the subject comes up in more lighthearted fare like Iron Man 3 , the panacea is for Tony to get right back into the action.

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The omission of post-traumatic stress is never more glaring than in kids movies. Stranger Things Season 2 and Harry Potter Movies 2 through 7.5 "shouldve been" has just taken place entirely on therapy lounges. Those children have heard. Some. Shit. But all is well as soon as the bad person is demolished. Knowing your motive was blameless does the PTSD go away! That's the style it drives, right?

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It absolutely doesn't. Just question Steven Universe .

Steven is the titular courage in a show about himself and his fantastical gem-themed buds protecting the world from a rogue's gallery of gem-themed villains. Steven is a bubbly, quipping war hero who accomplishes bad people the route you'd expect a parody persona to. And then comes the occurrence "Mindful Education."

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In it, Steven is helping his acquaintance Connie deal with her regret over inadvertently pulsating someone up. His stellar suggestion? Shove everything deep, deep inside you and claim it doesn't exist.

As amusing as it would have been to merely resolve the occurrence there, soon Steven is currently facing hallucinations of things he's done in the conflict that he appears frightful about, concepts that no one( includes the gathering) knew he was still dealing with. He's literally left in the fetal statu crying and screaming, "I didn't want to hurt anyone! "

After four seasons of Steven generally saving the day with a punchline and a smile, we learn that he's been internalizing every single grim cache of what he's had to do to save his planet. Recall about how seriously the pop culture scenery get changed if every movie and serial had to do this. Not in surly, "We didn't ask for this war! " kind of acces, but actually making the superstars indicate utter vulnerability in the face of regret. Here's stock exchanges :P TAGEND

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Connie: "It's OK! "

Steven: "No, it's not! "

Connie: "But it's OK to think about it! "

Steven: "It feels so bad! "

Connie: "That's OK, very. There was nothing else you could have done."

Steven: "I don't want to feel this way."

Connie: "You have to! You have to be honest about how bad it seems, so you can move on."

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Bob's Burgers Portrays Budding Female Sexuality In A Way Normally Reserved For Dudes

TV pictures will spend various episodes devoted to helping a teenage boy out with his abrupt outbreak of boners. Tim Allen's favorite thing in the world is to sit down and explain that shit to whoever happens to have been tricked into playing his son at the time. But girls affecting puberty is frequently be converted into one of two equally inefficient tropes. They either evolve beyond their age and start doing trash like sleeping with schoolteachers( like in a strange number of teenage pictures ), or are interpreted as unattractive punching ball( like Meg on Family Guy , who is detested for plainly prevailing ).

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On TV, pubescent girlfriends aren't allowed to be weird in a winsome, relatable nature. They must either have the sex drive of a porno pizza bringing mortal or be an amoeba with glasses.

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Tina on Bob's Burgers is an anomaly. She's unabashedly curious about sex in a way that's not is expected to be sexy to the public or the men she's very interested in. That's where most TV shows stumble. Because a person is currently in the process of wade through the morass of her own virility, scribes decide that we need to find her seductive as well, or at least cute -- otherwise, she's a punchline.( "Can you suppose if unattactive people wanted to have intercourse ? ") This is Tina :P TAGEND

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She ogles guys, she writes startling lascivious myth, she honestly seeks the guys she misses. Tina's journey is not read through the "male gaze, " as they say, so her investigate of her changing torso is actually all about her as a human being. That's super rare on Tv, much less in animation.

The poignant circumstance is that a good part of that are able to because Tina was primarily supposed to be a male reputation. The columnists liked the specific characteristics, but thought it was too close to the character of Eugene, so they changed the gender but little else. So basically, the only style you can get Hollywood to depict a woman's coming of age in a odd more honest course is to get them to pretend it's a dude.

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Captain Planet Was Making On AIDS Hysteria In 1992

Words cannot describe the affection I have for Eddie Murphy. I was fostered on his movies, and his influential stand-up specials Hallucinating and Raw might have single-handedly gotten me through college. But I wince every time I discover the divisions in his specials where he speaks of homosexual beings, specially when he talks about AIDS, which he laughter about with all the subtlety of someone shedding a golf club at a seagull.

And regrettably, he wasn't alone -- back in the working day, when AIDS was just some mystery disease that people associated with homosexuality , no one wanted to be in a room with someone who had it, let alone talk about it in a reflective behavior. Beings with the disease were treated like villains. Ryan White, who contracted it while "hes in" secondary school, was forced to use separate bathrooms and munch his lunch with expendable utensils, which is so horrible that after typing it, I invested a moment staring into space.

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Somehow, in the middle of all this, the person or persons behind Captain Planet are determined to do an episode about AIDS. In 1992 's "A Formula For Hate, " a high school basketball participate( voiced by Neil Patrick Harris !) gets HIV, and the bad guys get the town to rampage against him. Captain Planet, that unceasingly genu blue-skinned beefcake, gradations in to speak up on the boy's behalf, moves the town directly on the facts about AIDS/ HIV, and persuades them to let him represent basketball again. There's too a PSA at the end on not freaking out on people who have AIDS, in cases where you envisioned the actual occurrence and thought it was mostly about basketball.

This was a year before Tom Hanks' AIDS theatre Philadelphia , and an epoch in which missionary pastors were calling AIDS a judgment from God and informing panic-struck parishioners about AIDS-infected blood being used as a weapon against Christians. Captain Planet lighted this incident directly to the exceedingly children of the grownups who'd bought into that hysteria. Grownups who, in the chapter, were made to look like rueful assholes led astray by their own blatant ignorance.

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Sailor Moon Was Way Ahead Of The Curve On LGBTQ Relationships

If you want to squirm your stomach out, start watch any '9 0s sitcom dealing with LGBTQ issues. Even when queer references were presented as people who could hold basic human relationships( like in Will& Grace ), they were countered by sees like Friends , in which males couldn't even touch each other for anxiety of being seen, and I hope you're sitting down for this, gay. If you don't believes me, here's a montage of some of the homophobic moments from Friends . Too, this video is a fucking hour long :P TAGEND

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Not that it was any better in film, where "deviant" sexuality was code for sociopathic amorality( watch: Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct , or Buffalo Bill in Silence Of The Lambs ). This was not that long ago, children!

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Before Will& Grace and Buffy The Vampire Slayer 's Willow and Tara, there was the beautifully ass-kicking Sailor Moon -- exclusively, the ties between Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune( Haruka and Michiru ). Introduced in Season 3, the girls were suave, proficient superheroes who just happened to be in love with one another, and it was shown as perfectly OK in that macrocosm, before it was perfectly OK in our world.

There were gay male affinities very, like Kunzite and Zoisite, though they were villains, because no one is truly escapes the '9 0s unscathed. And while there weren't any actual transgender references, there were the Sailor Starlights, a boy banding that turned out to be women when they be converted into superheroes. In a kid's prove! In 1996!

And it was all managed highly casually. "Oh, you guys aren't really boys? Aight." If it was on Friends , Ross and Chandler would've identified the band and then comically made a self-loathing rain together for a whole season, and then even MORE comically have been forced to move one another. Then they'd ought to have panicked about any blatant homosexual sensations it may have stirred.

Ugh. Fucking Sidekicks .

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