#Like a football blog follows me and regularly likes my stuff

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recently i have felt like all of my tumblr posts are super repetitive, so i put a slightly edited corpus of every text post under "#graph100 originals" into a markov chain generator at length 4. here are the results (in yellow/orange color):

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this is some more hardcore shit. but you can still see the cracks. conclusion: the corpus is not big enough. anyways thanks to https://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/ for making a website for this.

for anyone who wants to try and recreate my results, i uploaded the corpus to https://blackstargarden.neocities.org/various/corpus.txt (it does sound like insane rambling)

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Thanks a lot as always for taking the time for such interesting and thorough answers!

You seem really knowledgeable about football. Is it just due to long years of watching, or have you played yourself? I'd very much like to progress in my understanding myself - I've gotten a bit better after a few month of regularly watching games and reading analysis, but not to the point where I can confidently analyze a game myself.

You're welcome!

Ahh thanks (//ω//) Yeah I've played. Also due to a certain amount of watching I'm sure, as I followed the men's game (Premier League and stuff) for quite a while before getting into woso more.

That's great! Hrm, I'm trying to think back on my football journey to see what I could suggest for you but it's quite hard bc I didn't have a pinpoint moment or any specific resource that helped me build my deeper understanding of the game... 🤔

If you're willing, I would say go to the men's football side for the better analyses and in-depth content. Even just watching post-match reviews on Sky Sports/MOTD can tell you a lot from the way they breakdown key scenes. Other than that I also watch a fair amount of tactical breakdown videos on Youtube too. I follow the men's Arsenal team, and channels like Catsenal and Latte Firm have really high quality content (never boring too, even when tactics can get dry sometimes). Imo, such underrated channels that deserve so much more plaudits than those reactionary ones that are just shouting about a goal (although those have an audience too, tbf).

The woso world is still far behind in terms of having just as good coverage; even the match analysis in the new Sky broadcast deal is a bit eh and has ways to go imo... But there's also great insights once in a while like this Casey Stoney video from the Coaches' Voice masterclass, I follow this series with male coaches so I was so hyped when they did an episode with her and it didn't let me down! Worth checking out even for someone who isn't so big on tactics because it also sheds a lot of light into the mind of manager and understanding their approach to a football game. (Plus, Casey Stoney's one references her United game against Arsenal so that's a bonus)

Hope you have fun with it, and tbh my final sentiment is that it doesn't have to be all complicated and serious either. You can just talk to friends/fans after a match and that discussion in itself furthers one's understanding bit by bit. My blog is certainly one that everyone is welcome to have a chat with too! :)

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please keep talking abt wrestling. i've kinda fallen into this hole recently and, since you're cool af, I would love to know whatever you have to say about it

Well I mostly watch AEW although I was very into Progress before the pandemic (which is a London-based indie promotion that's also basically the feed source for NXT UK) but idk whether or in what state Progress will come back not just bc of the pandemic but bc this year's wrestling abuse scandals involved a lot of their management and core roster so they've had to really reshuffle.

anyway that's an unnecessarily grim diversion let's talk AEW (I'm a few episodes behind bc I watch on Zoom with my pals and it's easy to fall behind while trying to line up our schedules, we're gonna watch Winter Is Coming tonight)

This blog's opinions are:

Women's wrestling is severely underrated and that's the fault of the promotion not the fans, AEW has a phenomenally talented women's roster with a big fan following but consistently gives them no air time, very little space to develop plots, one match per episode that the commentators half-ignore, and only ever one plot at a time. I love Hikaru Shida, Nyla Rose and Britt Baker as characters but there's a huge women's roster of compelling characters who only ever show up on Dark or for a single bout not tied into any particular plot on Dynamite and it's very wearing. When they launched AEW they made a big deal about equal pay for the men and women's rosters and paying the same regardless of gender and fan status, purely based on card position, but that means absolutely nothing if there's only ever one women's match and it's always at the same mid-card position. Sorry to open on a negative but it makes me so mad that WWE, the company which is notoriously misogynistic and whose director had to be shown Asian schoolgirl porn to accept that the audience would find Japanese wrestlers "sexy enough" to put in the ring, is somehow a better venue for women's wrestling than AEW. like fuckkkkkkkkk just treat the women's roster like you would the men's!!!!

on which note, AEW Heels, the Paid Fanclub For Women Who Like Wrestling, is the most half-assed attempt to court the female wrestling audience I've ever seen (and I watched WWE's Revolution pay-per-view where the line was 'isn't it nice that the men have allowed women to have their own PPV thanks to all the men who made this possible'). like ok I COULD give you money to Be A Female Fan OR, wild concept, you could do more than one women's match per episode on your flagship show and not relegate the women's tag title to YouTube

Relatedly, There's Too Much Wrestling. As you can probably tell from the fact I'm 4 episodes behind on Dynamite, I struggle enough to fit 2 hours of wrestling into my week, but AEW also expected me to keep up with Dark, BTE, and sometimes other side projects? and now also Impact and NWA and sometimes NJPW. and then if I want to recognise big names they're bringing in I would also have had to watch WWE which like. there's even more WWE than AEW. idk I'm a completionist and it's simply not possible to watch All The Relevant Wrestling bc that would be like. 20 hours a week and I have a job and a life and stuff. like I watch AEW Dynamite and BTE and that does me.

this is all very negative but I love wrestling! I got into it a couple of years ago and it's absolutely incredible to me I love the artistry I love the athleticism I love the creativity and the fun people have with their characters. and the reason I gave up on WWE as soon as AEW started up is that it feels so much like the wrestlers are given space to play and to find the stories they want to tell.

MJF is a DELIGHT he's like one of my favourite heels he's so loathsome and so much fun! and there's like a really good consistent emotional core to his overall storyline of desperate insecurity I'm so into it and I'm so hype about when inevitably Wardlow's gonna turn on him. I love the resonance of his relationship with Cody vs his relationship with Wardlow and also the extremely strong gay unrequited love vibes that keep popping up here.

Hikaru Shida is AMAZING I love her. did u know she makes her own ring gear and learnt to speak English pretty much from scratch when she joined AEW a year ago and is now cutting full promos in English? also her facial acting? 😘👌👌👌👌

Sonny Kiss is phenomenal I hope they're on Dynamite more bc not only is she a phenomenal character in their own right but when she started tagging with Joey Janela their in-ring chemistry actually made me LIKE Janela for the first time. also it warms my heart that JR, despite being kind of an old fogey, is regularly correcting other commentators on their pronoun use and vocally acknowledging that Sonny is nonbinary.

honestly JR does just warm my heart in general like he visibly struggled early on with getting out of the 2000s mindset on Female Wrestlers Are Sexy Divas and he accidentally misgendered Nyla Rose one time but he's been really open to criticism and often gone to bat for the trans and queer members of the roster. he seems like a nice guy and I'm glad he's here, which I didn't think I'd be saying a year ago yk?

I know I already said this but Chris Jericho is a phenomenon. he just makes everything FUCKING FUN every story he tells is wild and hilarious. The Inner Circle gives me life (on this blog we stan Ortiz) and his beef with Orange Cassidy was pure gold.

Also Matt Hardy is here!!!! I love Matt Hardy, I think his Ultimate Deletion match with Bray Wyatt was what made me realise how fun wrestling can be and he always brings the creativity. He's been through a lot of shit in his life, I'm really happy that he's able to work with a promotion that gives him room to be as hogwild as he wants because Matt Hardy's great strength is being absolutely off-the-chain weird. I love him.

Speaking of Matt Hardy and the Inner Circle have you seen the Stadium Stampede from this summer? honestly worth buying the whole PPV just for that it's wild choice after wild choice for 45 minutes it might be the best wrestling match ever. idk if I like it better when Matt Jackson Northern Lights suplexes Sammy Guevara the entire length of a football field, when Matt Hardy chases Sammy with a golf cart, the whole bit where Adam Page just goes off and gets drunk in a bar and has a brawl with Jake Hager, the bit where Proud & Powerful try to drown Matt Hardy but every time he goes underwater he comes up in a different costume and persona - holy shit it's just amazing it's everything I love about wrestling

Moving away from AEW, the best wrestling storyline I've ever seen is Progress' story with Cara Noir and Ilya Dragonov. They're both phenomenal wrestlers but also the raw power and emotional weight of the story? it's simple but it's heartachingly beautiful I was lucky enough to be in the audience for the second of 3 matches in the story and I was nearly in tears it's so theatrical and balletic???? Check it out if you can it's in Progress' video archives (those are all pay-to-watch though. I think they're also on Amazon Prime for American viewers?)

Cara Noir is probably my favourite wrestler, although Nyla Rose, Charlotte Flair, Chris Jericho, Luchasaurus and Adam Page are all up there. He's just the most phenomenal physical performer and he really gets how much theatre is in wrestling, his facial acting is impeccable and he's not afraid to take hard bumps and really sell. also he just seems like a very sound person out of character (touch wood), he's very principled and takes his work and the wellbeing of his colleagues really seriously which is what you want in a wrestler

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name: ashley nickname(s): ash, doe, pirate/pir, uni, glitzy zodiac sign: sagittarius height: 5′2″ nationality: american languages spoken: english, and very rough spanish what time is it: 11:34PM celebrity crush: hangman page, drew mcintyre, piper niven, eoin macken, tom hiddleston, richard madden, emeraude toubia, penelope cruz, and honestly probably so many more but I’m drawing a big ol’ blank favorite fictional character: charles vane (black sails) favorite musician: ahhh I have trouble picking just one. but if I HAD to, probably my chemical romance favorite sports team: I don’t really watch sports as much as I did growing up but when I was watching them the denver broncos was my football team and the sf giants was my baseball team. if I catch a game of theirs I get swept up pretty easy, though... that kind of goes for any sports with me. favorite season: autumn! though spring is a close second. favorite flower: I’d say roses! favorite scent: the mountains favorite color: pink favorite animal: horses, deer, and wolves! favorite food: PASTA!!!!!! dream car: mini cooper or a jeep renegade dream trip: scotland for sure, but definitely would love a long like six-month stay through europe to really get a feel for everything and feel like I sank my teeth in instruments: I don’t play any unfortunately, but I love the acoustic guitar, the piano, and the violin so much.  coffee, tea or hot chocolate: all three!!! depends on the mood i’m in tbh  dog or cat person: both! well, okay so while I do love both (my cat is my BABY I get teary-eyed just thinking of being separated from her) I will say I do bond easier and quicker to dogs. but I still love cats!!!! following: 64 (i’ve been meaning to do another wave of follows now that I’ve adjusted to the flow of my dash - it takes me awhile to get used to everyone and then once I am I’ll start following new people) followers: 2,114 although I’m pretty sure 2,105 of those are porn bots tbh other blogs: my non-wrestling/random blog that i’ve had for like 10+ years is @doedreamss; I have a few blogs I’m no longer running, a blog just to throw resources on, and a blog that I treat like a lovesick diary for my dude blog established: january 1, 2020 babeeyyy.. I can’t believe I’ve only been on this blog since then. feels like I’ve been over here forever in the best way possible tbh do you have a tumblr crush: if you mean like friendship crushes, like my heart goes all aflutter when I see their username and I giggle and grin all big when I interact with them then YEAH mark it down as all the people I regularly interact with thanks very much!!!!  do you get asks: yeah! *adam cole voice* makes my FRICKIN day! what is your lucky number: I don’t really have one but I always say 23 when people ask instead of going in to explain that I don’t have one. which I just did here... whoops ajdsfjkdf what are you wearing right now: a lil spaghetti strap summer dress!! it’s comfy to lounge around in. it’s blue with these lil black hearts all over it. super super cute!! drink of choice: non-alcoholic is gonna be a dr. pepper. alcoholic... I’m really into bahama mamas when I can get my hands on them tbh but just really any of those mixed drinks that taste like juice? that’s what I’d grab if I was out drinking. and summer bbqs and things like that I’ll always take those sugary fruity drinks like smirnoff’s or mikes hard lemonades or seagrams. that sweet stuff!!!!  number of blankets you sleep with: one comforter in the fall/winter, a sheet in the summer. I run so hot I can’t sleep with any more than that. average sleep hours: hmm... technically my body feels it’s best when I manage to consecutively get 9 - 10 every night but realistically I probably give it anywhere from 5 - 7. random fact: hmm about me or just in general? if in general - sometimes wild stallions will trail bands (herds of wild mares with their one stallion) for YEARS looking for their “in” to try and steal one of the mares away or become strong enough to beat the band stallion in a fight to take all his mares from him. on one range in nevada there’s been records showing a bachelor stallion who has been trailing a herd and occasionally picking fights/trying to steal the mares for the past three years. also on rare occasions sometimes other stallions will act as a “second in command” of sorts to the band stallion, helping him protect the herd from other stallions and predators. however, while the stallions are there for protection from predators, etc. it’s actually one lead mare in the herd who’s the entire boss of the herd and decides EVERYTHING. she picks where the herd migrates to, which mares are even ALLOWED in the herd (if a stallion fights and brings a mare back but the lead mare doesn’t like her she’ll drive her away from the herd and fight the band stallion on it until that mare is gone) and is always seen at the front of the herd when they’re traveling. she has a lot of very important roles for the entire dynamic of the herd. the stallion is just the muscle, but SHE’S the brains and the heart of the family. if you meant a random fact about ME uhhh... I know too much about wild horses???? asjfdjhfklg

i’m tagging whoever wants to fill this out. seriously. do it. tag me. you like this and wanna talk about yourself? fill this out and TAG ME. I want to read about you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sometimes blogs follow you and you think “That has to be spam“ and you look at them and you are just like. “Well. I guess. . .not?“

[helheimawaitsyou]

I got tagged by @piratekingvaas & @hotmessteaparty Thank you very much! (*^▽^*)

rule: write ten facts about yourself then tag ten people you’d like to get to know better

1. I like photography. Ok, that's nothing new if you follow my personal blog. I like travelling and capture those beautiful places I see. That’s why I enjoy photo modes in video games so much. Now, all I need is a DSLR xD and someone who likes to travel with me because I don't enjoy to travel alone (shared memories are best memories :) 2. The definition of "old" to me is when your forehead wrinkles when you raise your eyebrows (I know that’s wrong af, but please let me believe it since I’m still "young" according to this theory, haha) 3. If you ask me how I've been or what I like; my favourite things or if I like that thing too, remember little details I said, you have a special place in my heart. 4. I like to solve complex problems. It’s a daily thing and a key skill in my job as a developer and that’s why I like my job and what I study. 5. When you are happy I’m happy. When you are sad I’m sad. I love to make my friends happy, to make them laugh and I care about them without limits. 6. I have a soft spot for piano. Such a beautiful instrument. 7. If I like you the chance that I take the first step is probably 1%. It’s not that I’m shy or so, it’s just when it comes to this. Fear of rejection is unbelievable high xD Everything else is fine. 8. I don’t like to waste time e.g. when I do things I don’t like I always have this feeling that I'm wasting my time on useless things. Or watching trash movies. For me a total waste of time :D 9. I love cars and I like motorsport (only GT3 class). I couldn't care less about other sports unless like football world/european cup every two years xD 10. There are only a few people where I feel calm talking/texting to and don’t start overthinking stuff. If I regularly texting you or initiate a conversation (i'm a better listener I guess).. you are one of these two people. Thank you!

I tag: @banukaloy, @layllahassan, @carja-in-shadow, @ysuhbella, @chanihobbit, @99-47, @ziimahfaeraak

[dragonwinnie-kotlc]

Tagged by - @primalrestoration (Dear J, I apologise for taking so long to do this （ノд｀＠）) Thanks for the tag!!

Tagging - Anyone who’d like to do this you can say you’re tagged by me! (The people who usually tag me in these fun tags have already done this so I don’t want them to have to do it again XD)

Nickname- DW, Winnie

Gender/Pronoun- She/Her

Star Sign- Scorpio

Height- almost 160cm

Time- 3.50am (yea I should be sleeping but here we are)

Birthday- 1 day after the official launch of Nightfall, for this year it’d be 2 days after the launch of Flashback YAY!!

Fav Band- Owl City, P!ATD, Linkin Park, BTS

Fav Solo Singer- Utada Hikaru

Song stuck in my head- The Other Promise by Yoko Shimomura

Last Movie- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Last Show- Ballroom e Youkoso

Why did I make this blog- I like to compartmentalise my life, so this blog is where I reblog exclusively keeper related stuff and to post my keeper fan arts, plus to interact with my fellow keeper fans

Other Blogs- my main blog @dragonwinnie , my haikyuu sideblog @haikyuu-dragonwinnie and a separate football blog from when I was crazy about English football few years ago

Ao3- nope, I am not good at writing :(

Do you get asks?- mostly art requests (which are still on queue because I’m currently kinda busy) and I also get really sweet messages from anons or fandom friends who told me that they like my art (warms my heart and encourages me to continue creating fan arts! XD)

How’d you get your idea for your url- I like dragons. I’m Winnie. This is my specific sideblog for kotlc. *BAM* dragonwinnie-kotlc

Followers- 222 (I adore and appreciate every single one of you (｡♥‿♥｡))

I follow- 348

Lucky #- 8 and 23

Instrument- Piano and a bit of flute

What am I wearing- My favourite Snoopy hoodie

Dream Job- Artist, Cartoonist, Piano Teacher, Medical Doctor (Reality: Dental surgeon, so you can see I went with which direction of my dream... Floss regularly, my friends)

Dream trip- Tokyo and NZ

Favourite food- ice cream

Last Book Read- Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey

Top 3 Fictional Worlds- Keeper, Harry Potter, Pern

[neymarsecretwife]

Rules : Tag followers that you want to know better

Name: Sarah

Nicknames: Saroura

Gender: female

Starsign: cancer

Height: 1.63 m

MBTI: /

Sexual orientation: Straight

Favorite color: Black

Favorite animal: mmh…. good question ?

Average hours of sleep: 7-9 h

Cat or dog person: Dog

Favorite fictional character: damn, a lot ! For the moment I’d say Hardin 😏

Bands/singers: a lot, but my favourite is Ed !

Dream Trip: Maldives

Dream Job: Sport Journalist

When was this blog created: Well @tumblr should help me remember

Current number of followers: 2287

When did your blog reach it’s peak: probably when I wrote my first imagines

Time right now: 8:21 pm

Song stuck in my head: T.R.W - Alonzo

Last movie I watched: « Fock you goethe 2 » (don’t even know if I wrote it right)

Last TV show i watched: Empire

What am I wearing right now: Pj’s

What kind of stuff do I post: football, funny posts, posts I like, landscapes…

Do I have any other blogs: yep ! @bloodydauntless

Do I get asks regularly: Mmh, nope, not that active anymore :/

Why did i choose my url: Because it’s the truth 🤭🤫

Lucky numbers: none. I’m not the lucky kind.

Following: 135

If any of my followers does it, tag me ! I’m curious to know ☺️

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i meant to do this last night lmao thanks @foreverpsg for tagging me 💕

Name: joanna

Nicknames: jo, jojo

Gender: female

Starsign: Taurus

Height: 5′11″ - 6′

MBTI: Idk and idc anymore

Sexual orientation: bi

Favorite color: green/red

Favorite animal: vultures (and birds in general)

Average hours of sleep: idek at least 6

Cat or dog person: Cats but im allergic 

Favorite fictional character: idk i have a lot

Bands/singers: a lot lmao

Dream Trip: Brazil but i want to go everywhere tbh

Dream Job: something with the environment

When was this blog created: 2012

Current number of followers: 1548

When did your blog reach it’s peak: when i blogged about blur and bands lmao

Time right now: 10:18pm

Song stuck in my head: that let me go song cause my bro just played it

Last movie I watched: justice league

Last TV show i watched: hmmmm idk whatever was on cartoon network this morning

What am I wearing right now: tshirt and sweats

What kind of stuff do I post: football, music, aesthetic posts lmao idk

Do I have any other blogs: no

Do I get asks regularly: Nope even though id like to

Why did i choose my url: its a good blur album

Lucky numbers: 13

Following: idk like 200 maybe a little less

if you wanna do this you can 

[sansese]

I was tagged by @thebluesideofmyworld :3

Name: Cassy

Nicknames: Cas’, Mistinguette (it’s a French thing, my sister still calls me that), Cassynette (my mother uses that sometimes), ma puce (my father)

Gender: female

Starsign: Aquarius

Height: 168 cm

MBTI: INFP

Sexual orientation: Not sure? Bi most likely

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite animal: Cheetahs, meerkats, and foxes

Average hours of sleep: 6h

Cat or dog person: Cat!!!

Favorite fictional character: Zuko from ATLA, Hermione, Felldoh from Redwall (I’m very fond of this series)

Bands/singers: I don’t really have favorites...I listen to almost everything. I’ll just write some down. Shaman’s Harvest, 12 Stones, Coldplay, Adam Lambert, David Bisbal, lots of soundtracks

Dream Trip: Portugal and South Africa! And a road trip through Ireland.

Dream Job: Writer or maybe something in the sports entertainment?

When was this blog created: September 2013

Current number of followers: 276

When did your blog reach it’s peak:  I guess when I posted those 2 gifs of Colin Farrell petting a dog? My phone was going crazy

Time right now: 1:26 AM (oops)

Song stuck in my head: Feel It  Still - Portugal. The Man

Last movie I watched: At the cinema: It, on tv: Avengers 2

Last TV show i watched: I’m finishing up ATLA again. 

What am I wearing right now: black daffy duck t shirt and white sweatpants

What kind of stuff do I post: Football, WWE, gifs and edits (not very much anymore)

Do I have any other blogs: Just saved URL’s

Do I get asks regularly: Nope

Why did i choose my url: Because SAN Iker and Sergio ‘SESE’ Ramos. Also because my initials CC when spoken in French is Sese.

Lucky numbers: 8

Following: 92 (I know, not much, but my dash is never dead so I follow the best people I guess!)

[schnaf]

@angelamerkelofficial and @madrilena11 tagged me, thank you! ♥

Rules: answer the questions and tag 20 people you’d like to get to know better

Name: schnaf

Nickname: --- :D

Zodiac sign: libra

Hogwarts house: ----

Height: smol (1,60m)

Sexual orientation: hopeless

Ethnicity: whitebread

Fave fruit: lime

Fave season: autumn (well, basically every season except summer)

Fave book series: the golden compass

Fave fictional characters: artemis fowl

Fave flowers: the ones that look like little turkeys

Fave scent: cold smell is brilliant! also warm air. the scent that tells you you’re in another country.

Fave animal: monkey

Fave band: my teenie band

Coffee, tea, hot chocolate: tea

Average hours of sleep: 6

Number of blankets: 1

Dream trip: OMG YES ICELAND. but basically everywhere. russia. remote areas of canada. china. thailand. australia. EVERYWHERE.

Last thing I googled: long time no see

How many blogs I follow: 576

Number of followers: 618

What I usually post about: football, memes, landscapes, personal stuff

Do I get asks regularly: sometimes. not often, but regularly.

I tag @chipsyio, @chocabel, @drama-kween-paulo, @shadybasementdeer, @thomasmuellers, @isaacdarlahey, @gianiro, @thefreak16 and @bluesmurf7 :D

[snoozey]

i got tagged in a couple of things !!! 

tagged by @jospehkavinsky​ thanks nerd

and @chinatsuhiyama thank u!!! 

i tag @dtsotunet .. again... and @narutosasukes @vjtya @nekoma @sawamuras @uravityx @kzumeskenma !! 

1. rules: answer the questions and tag as many followers as you want whom you’d like to get to know better

name: rebecca nickname: becca , my family call me bex sometimes?  zodiac sign: aquarius hogwarts house: hufflepuff height: 5'7 sexual orientation:��gay,, a Lesbian if u will  ethnicity: english favourite fruit: pineapple idk? i love pineapple and mango smoothies but i dont like mango to eat favourite season: winter  favourite book series: his dark materials  favourite fictional character: UM idk about one of All Time because it changes a lot but rn its suga  favourite scent: freshly baked baked... mm gud favourite colour: yellow!  favourite animal: otters, foxes, deer, hedgehogs... i have a lot favourite band: all time low probably? im not that into music anymore i just listen to whatever  coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: hot chocolate every day tea and coffee are Equally Bad number of blankets: 1 dream trip: uhhhhhh idk if i have one place? i want to go to a lot of places? last thing i googled is: midori tokiwa because i wanted to find out if she was canon gay dskljfdklsfjf how many blogs i follow: 209 number of followers: 2181 what i usually post about: anime.. gay stuff do i get asks regularly: um idk? ive been getting more recently which is nice!!

2. autumn would you rather tag

1. Go apple picking V.S. Go on a hay ride 2. Scary V.S. Sweet 3. Sweaters V.S. Boots 4. Socks V.S. Mittens 5. Bonfires V.S. Football 6. Trick or Treating V.S. Watch Scary movies 7. Apple Pie V.S. Pumpkin Pie never had either 8. Halloween V.S. Thanksgiving i dont celebrate thanksgiving 9. Bake Pie V.S. Bake Cookies and make a cake! 10. Rain V.S. Fog 11. Black Cats V.S. Owls 12. Ghosts V.S. Wizards 13. Harry Potter V.S. Halloweentown 14. Go Hiking V.S. Sleep in 15. Cinnamon V.S. Nutmeg neither 16. Reading V.S. Writing both! 17. Hot Chocolate V.S. Tea 18. Live in a Cabin In a Forest V.S. Have it be fall 24/7 19. Candy Apples V.S. Caramel Apples never had either 20. Blankets V.S. Pillows 21. Roasted marshmallows V.S. Roasted Chestnuts 22. Coffee V.S. Apple Cider 23. Red Leaves V.S. Orange Leaves 24. Braids V.S. Bows  25. Scented Candles V.S. The Smell of Fresh Baked Goods 26. Carve Pumpkins V.S. Make Pumpkin Pie 27. Pumpkin Spice Lattes V.S. Chai Tea Lattes never had either 28. Coats V.S. Oversized Sweaters 29. Beanies V.S. Berets 30. Candy Corn V.S. Peanut Butter Cups never had either 31. S'mores V.S. Apple Crisp never had either 32. Jump In a Pile of Leaves V.S. Swing on a Tire Swing 33. Corn Maze V.S. Haunted House 34. Bob For Apples V.S. Visit a Pumpkin Patch 35. Whipped Cream on Hot Chocolate V.S. Marshmallows on Hot Chocolate both!

[hufflepuff-morganne]

you all want to know me i guess??

thanks so much for tagging me @jebsplayshss @heart-jake @inkarys                     @xo-endlessmayhem-xo @topgunsprincess !! <3

Name: Morganne Nickname: Morganne Zodiac sign: Aquarius Hogwart house: HUFFLEPUFF Height: 5'10 Sexual orientation: straight Fav fruit: grapes! Fav season: fall! i love bonfires and smores, haunted houses, football games, and all that stuff!! plus the weather is PERFECT Fav book series: HARRY POTTER 5EVAH. I’ve reread the books many times (except for cursed child) and me and my mom took a trip to London so we could see the play and do the studio tour and all that jazz, it was AMAZING!! Fav fictional characters: I’m just gonna name a few  because I have so many and I’m gonna do non-choices ones because if you follow me here you probably already know which choices characters are my favorite. Charlie (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Leslie Knope (Parks & Rec), Pam Beesly (The Office), Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter), Diana Prince aka WONDERWOMAN, Sean Marcus Gayle (I know I said I would just do non-choices ones, but I couldn’t help myself) Fav flower: i don’t really have a favorite i just like flowers in general Fav scents: i really love citrus-y smells Fav color: blue! Fav animal: dogs and giraffes (giraffes are my spirit animal because they are tall and awkward just like me!!) Fav band: Mumford & Sons Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: hot chocolate!! Average hours of sleep: probably like 6 or 7 hours Number of blankets: one! Dream trip: I really wanna go somewhere to see the Northern Lights! I’d also like to go to Paris again because I was only there for two days last time and I wish I could’ve stayed longer. Also a trip to see a bunch of the National Park would be awesome!! Last thing I googled: music midtown 2017 (it’s a music festival like an hour from where I live that I wanna go to because it’s been too long since I’ve even been to a concert) How many blogs I follow: 398 Number of followers: 471, but a lot of those followers are from when I wasn’t just a choices blog What I usually post about: Chris Powell, Sean Marcus Gayle, and crappy edits of incorrect choices quotes!! it’s GREAT Do I get asks regularly: not regularly, but i love when i do get them!!!

I’m gonna go ahead and apologize if I tag you and you’ve already done it, I’ve kinda been MIA the past couple days because a dumb boy slightly crushed my heart so I haven’t really seen who has already done this!

@hellomynameisdeviblaire @thechrispowell @mrswalkerwrites @ohmysnarkydrake @couchbubbles @massivelysilentchaos @misha726author

[83gigsof90semocore-blog]

Post 4: The letter C

Welcome back! It sure wasn't yesterday, how have you been? I'm fine thanks, been a little busy myself and had to put this project on the backburner as you can probably tell. I alluded to being really busy in the last post and that's been pretty much true for all of the past year. Luckily, things are looking a bit better up ahead so I might actually start posting regularly soon!

Much has happened outside of the blog too. I toyed with the idea of moving this beuat over to blogspot (where all the real emo blogs are anyway) when it looked like tumblr was self-destructing for a hot minute. But in the end cooler heads prevailed and it looks like tumblr is just gonna keep existing albeit with less popularity. In the emo world, 125, Rue Montmartre, the first band I covered about a year ago are releasing their discography on vinyl and are now on spotify. All thanks to my blog, I'm sure. Don't be fooled by my modest follower count

I actually have quite a few prestigious readers. Most notably perhaps being Prof. Anders Ahlén, a man important enough to have his own wikipedia page.

C has been the longest letter so far by far clocking in at a mighty 6.56 GB as opposed to the average of 2.8. I've been listening to it in phases with sometimes a month or more in between so it hasn't really been a coherent experience. It has been a real slog though, which is part of why I gave up several times. This has also been a letter with a great number of "famous" emo bands. Because part of the purpose of this listening experience is to experience 90's emo "as it was" rather than colored by nostalgia or what is deemed worthy of attention by the internet discourse I'm disqualifying bands that are prominent in the emo canon from best name, song or image. I will however still do a quick write up on them for those of you not as familiar with emo, chances are I'll reference them in the future so do take notes.

Emo classics

Cap'n Jazz

It's almost impossible to tell the story of 90's emo without Cap'n Jazz. Among their members they have Tim Kinsella, who would later go on to play in Joan of Arc and Owls, his brother Mike Kinsella who would later play in American Football as well as Owls, Their/They're/There and Owen and also Davey von Bohlen who would later play in the Promise ring. When they formed in '89 they where just a bunch teenagers, Mike being just 12. They released their first album 6 years later which goes by the title Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We’ve Slipped on, and Egg Shells We’ve Tippy Toed Over, but is simply referred to as Schmap'n Schmazz by fans. Most of the lyrics where supposedly written by Tim one night while high on mushrooms. They have a wonderful surreal dadaist quality to them with lines such as Hey coffee eyes, you've got me coughing up my cookie heart or You are colder than oldness could ever be. The music is chaotic and full of a warm messy energy. I am personally absolutely enamored with their cover of Aha's Take on me which I insist on putting in as many playlists where it makes some sense whatsoever. As you can hear, Tims vocals do absolutely not Morten Harkets heights (not an easy feat in Tims defense) and you can plainly hear a teenagers voice falseto-cracking and it's absolutely amazing somehow.

Cap'n Jazz really hit the spot of this awkward sensitive yet punk energy that from the start was very central to emo. Although Cap'n Jazz are a big helping sillier and more pubertal than, say, Rites of Spring.

One popular quip about the Velvet underground is the following:

The Velvet Underground didn't sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started a band.

I suppose Cap'n Jazz is a bit like that for emo although their presence was perhaps felt as strongest around 2010 with bands such as Snowing, Glocca Morra and in particular Algernon Cadwallader aping their style.

Christie Front Drive

I think part of the reason for Cap'n Jazz's status as a cornerstone band stems from their originality. Christine Front Drive is in contrast a very prototypical 90's emo band. They have a sound that borrows heavily from both post-hardcore and indie-rock with the slightly whiny vocals typical for the genre and era. On their song November they sing Still the same // Fucked for what you've done // Still over // Staged over // November's almost done // Still the same which I think is a nice cross section of their lyrics (most of the rest of the song are just variations on the same words with "remember" also thrown into the mix). The overall sound is slow, moody and a bit dreamy, very typical of their brand of emo. As easy as it is to find bands that sound similar to CFD, I dare say that they did it better than most and that this is what has earned them their spot in the emo cannon.

Cursive

Cursive formed in 1995 and has since been together on and off up to the present day, the drive only has music up to 2005 though. This includes their 2003 release the Ugly Organ which was released by Saddle Creek and is the only one I've heard before starting this project. By that point they had already moved away from their emo roots though, and I'm glad to finally have gotten around to their earlier stuff. The Ugly Organ is artsy, catchy and a bit baroque, but also definitely on the outskirts of emo to the point where I'd perhaps describe it as an indie/alternative album if I wasn't talking about them in the context of emo. This doesn't mean that it isn't worth a listen because it absolutely is. Their early stuff is more typical of what the rest of the drive is like with a sound more in the ballpark of CFD but much more punk, with a higher tempo and angrier vocals while still maintaining a somewhat whiny voice, introspective lyrical content and the cold, big guitar sound typical to this branch of emo.

My favorite band

Car vs Driver

So far I've generally picked bands that stand out a bit because in a long stream of relative sameness, that's what you end up paying attention to. Car vs Driver is however not one of theses bands that stand out but rather pretty typical of the emocore sound. They do it pretty well though. They are undeniably punk, but with more introspective lyrics and a slightly melodic edge, which is exactly how emo was first conceived. One some of their tracks like the featured Without A Day day even flirt a bit more with an alt-rock sound but they also have songs that are a lot more hardcore like Livid Step.

When researching them I half expected them to be a pretty substantial band that I had somehow managed to miss, but they're actually very unheard of, something which I consider to be a shame.

I did however find that the drummer of the band has a blogspot at beyondfaliure.blogstopt.com where he catalogs various bands he's been a part of. There is a collection of Car vs Driver flyers as well as two live recordings and this summary he wrote for their discography

Car vs. Driver began when I was 17 years old. By the time we played our final show, I was 19. This band was the music of my life during a period when people usually experience the greatest amount of freedom, which is what I think of whenever I listen to this music now. There were so many new experiences: living on our own, meeting new people, getting a new perspective on life. Our lifestyle in turn gave us a new perspective on expressing music, and we poured all of our energy and emotion into it. Music that now seems a world away – music from a different life. It’s hard to remember that everything about being in a band at that time was simply making a 7”, buying the cheapest van you could find, and touring the country for the summer. There was no infrastructure to build your music around, which also removed its barriers. Instead of running our band like a corporation, we played peoples living rooms and basements, engaged in kickball tournaments, made record covers out of manila envelopes, slept on top of our van, cooked pasta, and played with some of the most amazing bands in the process. Bands that epitomized the time – like Spirit Assembly, Policy of 3, Friction, Current, The Yah Mos, Assfactor 4, Frail, Hoover, Freemasonry, Scout, and Inkwell. The experience we had is something that could never be recreated, and I consider myself incredibly lucky to have been a part of that moment in time. Thank you Matt, Steve, and Jonathan for bringing this to me.

James Joyce August 2004

This compilation is dedicated to our faithful roadies Ashley Lawrence Moore and William Anthony Nation.

We froze, sweat, bled, argued, and laughed.

Amazing stuff in all, I can highly recommend clicking around their for a while if you, like me are a bit obsessed with the 90's emo scene.

My favorite band name

Christopher Robin

Christopher Robin is a screamo band that go pretty hard. The name is a funny contrast to this and the juxtaposition between childhood nostalgia and angsty screaming works really well.

My favorite picture

Featured is the cover to a demo tape by french screamo band Cather Mathra, which features songs such as Ils M'ont Oubliés (they forgot me) or Leur Révolution (their revolution). You can read more about them on psychoviolence, a blog dedicated to French punk & violence. I think that using a medieval (?) drawing for a cover is pretty cool, especially if you're a french screamo band.

Curiosly they don’t have any music on youtube, you’ll have to check out the drive if you want to listen to them. Tumblr has a limit of 5 embedded videos anyway, so that worked out nicely I suppose.

[homodorito]

Tag Game!!

@ughhizzy thanks for tagging! 

Rules: answer the questions and tag 20 followers you’d like to get to know better

Name: Beie

Nickname: Beie (smh like hell would I ever reveal my name lmao)

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Height: 154cm

Sexual Orientation: Pan

Ethnicity: Miao Chinese

Favorite fruit: hMmhmm idk I like mangoes & watermelon & honeydew & pineapple & durian & ?? etc lots man there’s no favourite I guess

Favorite season: when taobao does those end of year discounts yas 

Favorite book series: hmm probs hp

Favorite fictional character: :^)

Favorite flower: idk anything about flowers so none I guess??

Favorite scent: roast chicken yEET

Favorite color: mint green

Favorite animal: cats nyan & fishes & birds

Favorite band: it changes every week and this week it’s Get Scared!!

Coffee, Tea, or Hot chocolate: tea take a fuckin sip 

Average hours of sleep: 5 on a school night, 10 on weekends

Number of blankets: 2.5 currently on my beds rn

Dream trip: going to Japan to see After the Rain aaaa

Last thing I Googled: European football championship 

How many blogs I follow: 443

Number of followers: 544

What I usually post about: memes nd sins

Do I get asks regularly: nah so pls ask me stuff!!

Tags: @ldimmedlightsl @slutbutvirgin @cosmic-goblin @whocares3480 @sir-whey @sir-lag-a-lot @red--dog @ahahahahhahaahhahahahahacloud   @cvntinuos

I know that wasn’t 20 people but heck i’m lazy :^)

[andrewuttaro]

New Look Sabres: GM 58 - NJD - The Room

Yea, I guess there still in the race even if it is a distant third. The race for the final wildcard spot has felt… hopeless at times. At some point in that game against the Rangers something snapped in me. You can talk yourself into a lot of things in life: putting off the laundry for too long, being lazy on your car registration until the Cop pulls you over, buying a Brian Gionta jersey that won’t even fit you. I was still able to talk myself into the Sabres making the playoffs before Friday night. I’m not so sure anymore. Sure, as of the posting of this blog Buffalo is a full five points back on first team out Carolina while Philadelphia is now breathing down their necks dead even in points while the Sabres have a game in hand. There is a scenario that could unfold here where the Hurricanes make the playoffs and the Flyers are the first team out. I mean Pittsburgh missing the playoffs would be fun but that’s like ordering a garbage plate and getting just the pasta salad: yeah, this isn’t bad, but the nature of this situation had me believing I would get quite a bit more. Yeah, our expectations were inflated by November but I’m not relitigating that again and I think all reasonable observers were placing the Sabres on the bubble back in September. We’re still on that bubble but who would have thought bubbles hurt so much to sit on? Luckily the Playoff Trash talk is out of the way for the Devils because I really don’t have the heart for that. I turned this game off after the Reinhart goal. Yeah, after it because I felt that hopeless. My dad messaged me because we have our cute little Sabres chat with my brother and he, perhaps for not knowing hockey so well (he’s more of a football guy), thought a one goal deficit wasn’t too much to overcome. He messaged me that in the third period and shortly thereafter admitted himself it was time to turn the game off. Get someone in your life who knows when to turn it off.

So, I know last game I said I wasn’t going to do the goal for goal recap and ended up doing it. I mean it for real this time: I just don’t have a recap in me. I was at the last game against the Devils and it wasn’t shit: in fact, Buffalo won 5-1 in a game that kind of felt liberating after the stretch of games before it. Buffalo lost 4-1 tonight and it looked like a different team. Sam Reinhart scored the one Sabres goal in this game, it was a nice rebound tap in when the game was still 2-1. I don’t feel the need to recap any of the Devils goals because they are folks I don’t follow regularly on a team that not only will not be a threat if the Sabres do pull a playoff berth out of their asses, but are likely one of the next teams to be mathematically eliminated from the playoffs after the Senators led the way into that abyss earlier this week. How long until the Sabres join those sad ranks? As recently as last week I thought this group of guys could pull off a tight race going into March and here we are with 24 games left and they don’t even look like they want it anymore. Yeah, once again a lot of stuff was said in the locker room after this game and I will get to that but what is it? What is the thing in the room that is holding them back? They lost to a Cory Schneider in this game who hadn’t won a game in a calendar year up until recently! I could rationalize the recent loss to Winnipeg as a tight game lost by inches. This one looked like a surrender. How is the team that led the whole league in November, however much that was obviously an aberration, coming out in a playoff race game like this? Something isn’t right in the room and apparently this is the only recourse for guys like me who don’t want to throw Jack Eichel and Rasmus Dahlin under the bus. It’s either there is something wrong in the room or we need to discuss our brightest stars not living up to potential. The former is the solution we opted for after last season’s utter shitshow. Botterill shipped Ryan O’Reilly out and if you’re decrying that trade now, you’re missing the forest for the trees. The latter option is too depressing to contemplate when we’re going on eight years without Sabres playoff hockey.

Is Jason Botterill going to do anything about this state of affairs? You know I’m not convinced the playoffs was ever the internal goal for this season. Every professional organization has the external goal which is fixed squarely on winning games, making the playoffs and winning a Stanley Cup. The internal goal is the real shit you get from the insiders like Friedman and McKenzie. We all pegged this team as a bubble team. Did Jason Botterill and the Front Office decide they were going to get Reinhart signed, then Skinner and make minor moves at the Trade Deadline and continue to build at the Draft and over the summer? The lack of movement at this awful moment seems to suggest that and the deadline a week from tomorrow stands to prove it. Yeah, Botts could make a splash and signal he wants this group to make the playoffs now. Frankly I’m desperate for that outcome to the point of not feeling the need to spell out exactly which trades I’m ok with and which ones I’m not. This ship looks to be going down right now but it isn’t below the waterline yet. And oh yes, I am past the point of bandying about around Phil Housley and his strategic decisions. We got our Scandella-less game and you see how well that went! I’m out of answers on the ice but the scarier part is that I am running out of answers in the Front Office now too. Was Housley’s comments about only having what the GM gave him to work with merry conservation starters over wings and Pearl Street? I’m not saying the GM needs to act in spite in response to those comments but what’s going on? What is going on? I really lead myself to believe we were in a hot new smart organization after the wild offseason last year and now I’m not so sure about that either. The jury is still out on that but in terms of the shot at a playoff spot I feel like the deliberations may be coming to an end.

But it isn’t over yet! Let’s get to our handsome ice soldiers in the locker room! What consolation do they have for us? Phil Housley said: “We’re still in this race.” I am not wasting my time dissecting the “we” and “in this race” right now with him. At this point we’re running about a 50/50 chance he’s completely lost the room morale wise. Us fans always make mountains out of mole hills but let’s look and listen to how the players felt. Sam Reinhart, visibly frustrated at being asked “…are you guys just about toast?” responded saying “we in the room don’t feel like we’re out of it at all.” It seems like that question came from media man Donald Trump warned you about Mike Harrington with the News, so I’ll let Samson off on that one. Zach Bogosian, okay yeah why not, let’s go to Zach Bogosian who responds to similar questioning about what makes him think this team can put together a few wins going forward here with: “It’s because of all the guys in this room here. I believe in them.” Okay, even if they’re losing faith in the coach if they can work together as a team that’s something, right? Fuck if I know. If their united there in the room, God bless them: I hope it results in more than just a festive golf trip in April. Captain Jack? I’m sure someone got words from him but I know he’s taking this hard so I’ll sit back and see if he’s going to hoist this group out of it. I won’t be grilling him about why he’s not scoring at the same clip he was in the middle of December. I’m sure he’s lifting twice as hard because of this slump. Three times as hard for the team itself.

There are no matchups over the next two weeks that inspire much of any confidence. If you are expecting to count potential W’s down the stretch here just trust me and don’t for your own mental health. I think we’re past that point now. These guys need to string 3 to 5 wins together now to even look like competitors for that last spot so take it easy now. Take solace in the fact that this less-than-hopeful calculus is happening after Valentine’s Day this season and not before Thanksgiving. There’s progress right there even if it’s not the advancement we wanted. Hey, the Rochester Americans are holding onto a division lead and stand to capture that title for the first time this decade. I’m enjoying that and you can look for this month’s Amerks Angle in the near future celebrating that. The Americans rough stretches last for three maybe four games. You can comfortably speculate about playoff matchups with them and if that’s what you’re looking for I recommend it over looking for rays of lights right now with the Sabres. Like, share and comment and the internet algorithms that curate our lives will cause us to meet again soon for that good time. In the meantime, I think we can take in trade deadline rumors with a not completely unrealistic hope that something may develop to change what we’re going through right now on this crazy roller coaster that is Sabres fandom. Let’s Go Buffalo.

Thanks for reading.

P.S. I can’t believe I got this done tonight. It’s better than starting a Monday off this way, eh?