#NO FIGHTHING IN THE COMMENTS

[idkfitememate]

Doing a domain with Childe, I get our ahh beat but we finished it!! And I jokingly said "I'm kinda disappointing when it comes to fighthing, haha" and my game just?? CRASHES??

and when it comes back, I'm face to face with him 😭😭 man did NOT like that comment, huh!!

Childe will not take this slander, bro heard you talking shit about your fighting skills and said “Nu uh”-

Took away your gaming privileges that’s honestly hilarious hehe-

[rooolt]

Not to like say “everyone should listen to naddpod” again, but everyone should listen to naddpod. I know it’s a more rules based dnd podcast with combat in honestly probably every episode, and that’s not some people’s thing, but it just doesn’t drag at all because 1) as I’ve said Brian Murphy is an encounter design god and 2) the players clearly love the game and are having so much fun throughout and it’s just such a joy to listen to and it just helps me fall in love with it all over again. For me, it has the perfect mix of knowing they’re an entertainment podcast and what that means in terms of pacing and in character decision making, while it still being clear that these people aren’t just doing this because it’s a hole they dug themselves into, but because it’s a genuinely enjoyable thing for them

[idknhlstuff]

hey, can you explain the jamie benn thing? i just got into hockey and i think i've missed something

Basically in 2015 Jamie Benn was arguing with Jason Demers on twitter (I don't really know why tho). And benn decided that tweeting this was a good idea:

Bunch mox is slang for eating a girl out. So he's basically saying 'look at this fucking loser, bet he eats his girlfriends pussy'. And he obviously told on himself that way. Lots of hilarious tweets followed:

Condolences to girlfriends past and present:

Anything and everything diving or fighthing related:

And this:

Also in 2018 Benn decided to comment under Jason Demers instagram post and he didn't get away with it:

Hope this helps!

[onikiribattousai]

Name: Mavis Ava Foncée de Lunielle

Nickname: Mavis, Black Bunny (due to her hat that has ribbons that resembles bunny ears), Checkmate Queen

Age: 12

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Occupation: Villain

Personality: Sociopathic, Self centered, Bit Bratty, Manipulative, Sadistic, Rude, Cynical, but she is also sweet girl on the inside and care for others

Notable Appearance:

-Her heterochromia eyes that is similiar to Bob's eye color

-Long maroon colored hair

-Tooth Braces

-Her black and red outfit that looks like a 19th century styled outfit

Weapons and items:

Umbrellaser- A parasol that can be used a laser shooter, quite destructive

SU1TC4S3- A hyper space mechanical suitcase that can store anything, even weapons

Boots that can stick to anything, especially wall (it has mini rockets in it)

Gloves that has invisible keypad on it, used it to control her SU1TC4S3, it can also copy anyone's fingerprints

Rings- The one her right finger can act as universal key, the one her left thumb can be used to reflect lasers, and on her left middle finger is currently unknown, but who knows what kind of function that it has, but some siad that it has tiny robot in it (still working on the rings actual functions)

Earrings- It can be used as a communication device (not much people noticed it because it was covered with her hair)

Skills and Abilities:

-Disguise

-Intellegence

-Hacking the security system

-Fighthing skill

Bio:

Mavis is a young child prodigy raised into the world of villainy and quite obsessed with Gru, which is one of the reason why she became a super villain. Thanks to her high IQ, she skipped elementary school and went to highschool at the age of 6. However, she often get bullied by several teenagers, not only because of her intellegence, but also her obsession for becoming a super villain. One time, a mean girl tore her drawing of Gru and herself, Mavis quickly spray paints all over her hair with one of her inventions and almost get her expelled. But, she never learns anyway.

No one knows what happened to her parents, some said they died during one of their heist, she has been left alone with her cat and her servants. At first, she dislikes Agnes, Edith and Margo, she even doesn't trust Lucy since she is an AVL Agent and wanted her idol, Gru back to the path of Villainy. But then, she befriends with them after she finally realise that she did all of those stuff about bringing Gru back to villainy was because of her selfishness. She still doing heist with Dru these days

Fact:

Mavis is one of my OCs that undergo a lot of redesigns

Her outfit and personality is kinda based on Ciel Phantomhive

Besides being a genius inventor, Mavis is also very good at playing chess, she even commenting that Gru's minions are similiar to chess' pawns

(I edited her left eye)

[watermelonlovershigh]

I often see if you don't agree with something, a lot of people want you to blame yourself, that's so... so mean, in this week a girl who I followed on tiktok posted a video when she dramatized as louis is being managed by oppressors, something like that. Is what she did wrong? Absolutely, but when you open comments on her video, 99% was about "K*LL YOURSELF!" Or “you're such a stup1d b1tch”, all these things are sad and evil.

To @harryhoney-bee (an amazing writer too 🤍) I also agree with you, I met some Brazilian Louies who call 'larry thing' at every step Louis and Harry take #givemeabreak

I usually see this when they fighthing or make a call on twitter’ spaces with larry vs anti larry stans 😒😒 so, maybe I'm lucky not to have contact with these people everyday and i wrote in my carrd as i don't tolerate disrespect to anyone, i don't fight or anything, i just sb when i see it (I don't care if they're disrespectful to my favs, to olivia or eleanor, I just throw these people away).

About Larry/larry stans, I have a new vision about it, I never thought in this way but make so much sense to me

my head burns when i write in english without translator’ help haha

- ☀️

^^^^^

[sweetlittleoreo]

Give me some crackhead-ish ideas for drawings?

(Stuff like Tim and Jonny fighthing each other with a toy watergun like @yamiiino 's drawing)

In asks/private DM/reblogs or comments idc

Also will be happy to get weird clothing combos/good werid t-shirt ideas/bootyshorts that say X

[amazonsbluefire]

Exposing my feelings on SMS because I have no money for a therapist and I feel I will soon start drowning on my on feelings and thoughts.

I guess that I will start using this to dump all my current feelings until I get to fully understand what I can do for this page.

Lately I have been feeling so shitty I feel like I have been losing my connection to my current group of friends. In the past when I was able to go to a psycologist on my country they told me that it was usual that people like me suffered this much because of other, because subsconciously we idealize the world a people and when they disappoint us our low toleration towards frustration gets the wors of us, also I remember my mum telling me how worried she was becuae "You seem to be suffering for others who can't" and is kind of true, I want to stop worrying so much for others this feels so tiring.

I met my actual friend group because of a guy of my university a while ago, less than a year tbh. At first everything was so good we had similar hobbies over gaming and stuff like that but lately I don't feel that connected towards them like it was before, sometimes I want just to lose all contact with them but at the same time I don't want to be fully alone.

They had make some questionable comments about certain topics I disagree with and I'm okay with not having the same point of view as others because this is a wide world but there are jokes they do that I REALLY DON'T LIKE, I tried to talk with them but we end up kind of fighthing so I stop speaking up, one of them do accept that we don't get along that much and that he low-key don't like me and I'm actually okay with that because at least we both know each others feelings and there is honesty, the thing is I have 21 and I haven't been able to feel comfortable for long time in a friend group I always feel like I'm out of place.

I feel easily judge and not fully comfortable to show of what kind of things I enjoy and I feel that way beacause of the bullying I suffered back at my school for being considered different and weird I want to stop caring about what others think of me and start being my true self, but there is other problem with this, I don't know what's my real personality I just found out I have been currently cherry picking different features from my current friend group and adding them to my personality IN FRONT OF THEM but when I'm not with them I feel just empty not me.

Sometimes I feel 2 like... how to explain this? Some sort of "fire" inside of me that is constantly BURNING and infuriates me so much and I feel like I want to cry and scream so loud until my throat hurts because I still feel so much hatred towards the people that once hurted me at school that I feel so stuck on this negative feelings but I just simply can't do it, this one therapist I talked b4, some paragraphs ago told me that I was not only not forgiving them but not forgiving myself. Why do I feel so much hate towards myself? Why I cannot get better? What am I doing wrong? Why do I feel so out of place all the time? Why my relationships don't last? What's wrong with me?

[geno-psd]

D E S E R T 🏜️

Maybe you're fighthing the last time in your life, so always keep the best effort in everything 💪

Hey guys 3rd render here, I'm still watching a lot of tutorials and for this time I was trying to recreate the desert and is just amazing how good is blender, I'm in love right now ❤️

If you guys know how to I can be better please let me know it in the comments and for sure I'll try to do it everytime better 🙏 and like always see u guys tomorrow with more, the best vibes for all -Geno

Follow me on ig:

Geno.psd

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Boxing's Al Bernstein is Getting Back to His Vegas Lounge Singer Roots

Al Bernstein has been boxing’s foremost commentator for three generations. He began calling fights for the nascent ESPN in 1980. At the time, boxing was the network’s biggest draw. and though Bernstein, a former newspaper man, was interested in covering other sports, the die had been cast. He had prominent ringside roles throughout boxing’s Golden Age of the 80s middleweights. He watched the relative nadir of the sport’s meandering slog through the late 90s and aughts and is still around now, analyzing the action through what he thinks could be another Golden Age.

With his resume, you’d be excused for only knowing Bernstein as The Boxing Guy. But to fans of jazz and “The Great American Songbook” living in Las Vegas, he is also known as a singer. I sat down with Bernstein over breakfast in Brooklyn just prior to a recent Showtime Saturday Night Fights gig at The Barclays Center. We talked about boxing, and even though he said he’s not the kind of guy to “sit down and ramble on about myself”—and I believed him—I got him to talk about music: how he got started as a singer, why he stopped, and the path that led him back to the stage.

His Vegas singing career began thanks to boxing.

“I was very frustrated at ESPN," he said. "They weren’t letting me do other sports. I’d covered the NFL Draft, I’d done some college basketball. They weren’t so anxious to have me do other things."

"Around 1987 (before Marvin Hagler fought Sugar Ray Leonard) I was having dinner with some executives at Caesars Palace. Just before that Barry McGuigan had fought at Caesars. And his father, who was a pub singer in Ireland, had done a couple nights at the Olympic Lounge at Caesars where he sang Irish tunes and it was great. It was a gathering place for people. So one of the execs says, ‘Don’t you sing?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I like to sing.’ And he said, ‘You gotta do what Barry McGuigan’s dad did.’ I said, ‘Okay.’

And so Bernstein went from ESPN commentator to Vegas lounge act.

"I didn’t have a band, I didn’t have an act, I had nothing. I had done some music in Chicago when I was younger but really nothing. And now I’m doing Caesars Palace as my first thing. I was too stupid to say no.”

Bernstein got a band and an act together and played three nights in the Olympic Lounge leading up to the highly anticipated Hagler/Leonard fight, also taking place at Caesar’s.

“I did it and it went well. I look out and I see all these famous people out there and I thought what the hell did I get myself into. It was standards and some pop. I have very eclectic taste. It was really good, really fun.”

I asked him if he thought it was a way to diversify himself personally since ESPN wasn’t letting him do it professionally.

“Yeah. I said, you know what I’m gonna do something else. And I really love music. If I’m well known enough to get a job then I should do it.”

Bernstein did several of these shows leading up to big bouts at Caesars over the next couple years. He loved it and wanted to keep doing it but because he was still doing 40-plus fights a year on ESPN, he couldn’t rehearse and couldn’t have a full time band. He wanted to keep performing so he and his writing partner Tony Rome put together a hybrid music/Q&A/monologue performance called The Boxing Party. The show included 5 or 6 original songs about sports. These songs would make up the bulk of Bernstein’s first album 1988’s “My Very Own Songs.”

By then he had moved full time to Vegas and was performing The Boxing Party all around town at Caesars and other venues like Mandalay Bay and the Riviera. It was a hit. Bernstein would continue performing throughout the early 90s and put out a second record in 1996 leading up to his coverage of the Olympics called “Let The Games Begin.” But then performances became more sporadic; the time between each stretching longer. Until, as he puts it, “The music went away.”

“I parted ways with the gentleman I was writing with and I didn’t want to use his music because I felt like that wasn’t fair. There were also some other things, but I don’t know. I just got away from music.”

It is not uncommon for people to be pulled away from their passions. Things happen in life that demand, or at least appear to demand, your full attention at the cost of something else. Enough time can pass that the old enthusiast becomes unfamiliar. A face you used to know, but just can’t place. But life also has a way of jarring you back into it. Life did this to Bernstein, though he prefaces the story with, “I don’t want to make this sound too introspective.”

“My wife Connie is a cancer survivor. She had stage IV breast cancer. We’ve had our twists and turns. You need something in your life that is nourishing. For me riding (Bernstein’s first extracurricular activity while at ESPN was the rodeo, but that’s for a different article) was always nourishing. I’m not a religious person but that was my religion. That, and I loved music. I got away from it, I thought about it a lot. I could never figure out a way to do it, and to enjoy it. It sounds crazy but they intertwine.

A couple years back my horse got sick and had to be put down. It was very sad. This was going on at the same time as my wife’s health problems. I couldn’t justify getting another horse and spending all that time. So for a few years there was a hole in my life.

We were out with my friend Clint Holmes and his wife was performing. He said to me, ‘Why don’t you sit in with her?’ He knew I used to sing and I said, ‘Ehh…. okay.’ So I sat in with her, did a couple tunes and I said to myself ‘Why am I not doing this? What’s wrong with me? So I got on it. And in the last year and a half I’ve really dug back into the music.”

I comment that music is unique to people because it can expand to fit nearly any size or shaped void that may exist in someone’s life.

“It really does. It’s meant to do that to people that listen to it and it’s meant to do that to people that execute it.”

Bernstein calls himself “the third best singer in his family.” His wife Connie was a performing singer for many years as part of a sibling duo called The Rocco Sisters and his 18 year old son, Wes, is a singer/songwriter. Despite that status he has taken to performing again on a somewhat regular basis.

He’s a frequent co-host of Kenny Davidsen’s show at the Tuscany, a spot he calls, “A really great Las Vegas room.” Judging by the website, the Tuscany’s old school, just-off-the-strip vibe suits his style. Davidsen’s MO is letting his co-hosts branch out into different styles (or in this case, vocations) than they’re used to. Getting people out of their comfort zones can chill even the most seasoned of acts but Bernstein’s approach to the show is similar to that of a workman middleweight with a good chin.

“I enjoy it. I try and do it well. I try not to embarrass myself. I stick to the material I know I can sing,” he says.

His version of Desperado is proof of his fight plan. The Eagles are one of Bernstein’s favorite groups and he delivers it with a combination of its original plaintive dustiness and his own Great Las Vegas Room Mojo. Bernstein is going to continue following music and its ability to fill out and brighten the corners of an already full life. The Tuscany gigs are making him feel like it might be time to return to his headlining roots.

“I’m edging towards the point where I’m going to start (putting on shows). I’ve got a couple different ideas that I’d like to put together. One is called ‘Al Bernstein Pays Tribute To The Champions…Of The Great American Songbook’ and the other is called ‘Going The Distance With Al Bernstein,’ which is going to be a combination of video from my career along with songs that fit the narrative. I think that will be the one that’s done more easily somewhere. I’ve even got a lot of good stories from the older shows that I can incorporate.”

Bernstein is not pursuing music to escape boxing, or change his image. Boxing, singing, riding, and family are all part of his persona and he’s not using one to distance himself from any of the others.

While he’s planning these shows, the International Boxing Hall of Famer is still ringside for every edition of Showtime Saturday Night Fights and all of their Pay Per View broadcasts. While we were talking about boxing he called 2017 “the best year of boxing that he has broadcast in 37 years, and the best year for boxing overall in that span,” and it didn’t strike me as hyperbole. The riveting fighthe would analyze two nights later in Brooklyn between Jarrett Hurd and Austin Trout would only burnish that proclamation.

As Bernstein takes on yet another new beginning, the only melancholy moment in our entire breakfast was about an ending. He’s sad that the band Heart has broken up. He pauses after we talk about it. He can imagine what they’ll be missing.

Boxing's Al Bernstein is Getting Back to His Vegas Lounge Singer Roots published first on http://ift.tt/2pLTmlv

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Boxing’s Al Bernstein is Getting Back to His Vegas Lounge Singer Roots

Al Bernstein has been boxing’s foremost commentator for three generations. He began calling fights for the nascent ESPN in 1980. At the time, boxing was the network’s biggest draw. and though Bernstein, a former newspaper man, was interested in covering other sports, the die had been cast. He had prominent ringside roles throughout boxing’s Golden Age of the 80s middleweights. He watched the relative nadir of the sport’s meandering slog through the late 90s and aughts and is still around now, analyzing the action through what he thinks could be another Golden Age.

With his resume, you’d be excused for only knowing Bernstein as The Boxing Guy. But to fans of jazz and “The Great American Songbook” living in Las Vegas, he is also known as a singer. I sat down with Bernstein over breakfast in Brooklyn just prior to a recent Showtime Saturday Night Fights gig at The Barclays Center. We talked about boxing, and even though he said he’s not the kind of guy to “sit down and ramble on about myself”—and I believed him—I got him to talk about music: how he got started as a singer, why he stopped, and the path that led him back to the stage.

His Vegas singing career began thanks to boxing.

“I was very frustrated at ESPN,” he said. “They weren’t letting me do other sports. I’d covered the NFL Draft, I’d done some college basketball. They weren’t so anxious to have me do other things.”

“Around 1987 (before Marvin Hagler fought Sugar Ray Leonard) I was having dinner with some executives at Caesars Palace. Just before that Barry McGuigan had fought at Caesars. And his father, who was a pub singer in Ireland, had done a couple nights at the Olympic Lounge at Caesars where he sang Irish tunes and it was great. It was a gathering place for people. So one of the execs says, ‘Don’t you sing?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I like to sing.’ And he said, ‘You gotta do what Barry McGuigan’s dad did.’ I said, ‘Okay.’

And so Bernstein went from ESPN commentator to Vegas lounge act.

“I didn’t have a band, I didn’t have an act, I had nothing. I had done some music in Chicago when I was younger but really nothing. And now I’m doing Caesars Palace as my first thing. I was too stupid to say no.”

Bernstein got a band and an act together and played three nights in the Olympic Lounge leading up to the highly anticipated Hagler/Leonard fight, also taking place at Caesar’s.

“I did it and it went well. I look out and I see all these famous people out there and I thought what the hell did I get myself into. It was standards and some pop. I have very eclectic taste. It was really good, really fun.”

I asked him if he thought it was a way to diversify himself personally since ESPN wasn’t letting him do it professionally.

“Yeah. I said, you know what I’m gonna do something else. And I really love music. If I’m well known enough to get a job then I should do it.”

Bernstein did several of these shows leading up to big bouts at Caesars over the next couple years. He loved it and wanted to keep doing it but because he was still doing 40-plus fights a year on ESPN, he couldn’t rehearse and couldn’t have a full time band. He wanted to keep performing so he and his writing partner Tony Rome put together a hybrid music/Q&A/monologue performance called The Boxing Party. The show included 5 or 6 original songs about sports. These songs would make up the bulk of Bernstein’s first album 1988’s “My Very Own Songs.”

By then he had moved full time to Vegas and was performing The Boxing Party all around town at Caesars and other venues like Mandalay Bay and the Riviera. It was a hit. Bernstein would continue performing throughout the early 90s and put out a second record in 1996 leading up to his coverage of the Olympics called “Let The Games Begin.” But then performances became more sporadic; the time between each stretching longer. Until, as he puts it, “The music went away.”

“I parted ways with the gentleman I was writing with and I didn’t want to use his music because I felt like that wasn’t fair. There were also some other things, but I don’t know. I just got away from music.”

It is not uncommon for people to be pulled away from their passions. Things happen in life that demand, or at least appear to demand, your full attention at the cost of something else. Enough time can pass that the old enthusiast becomes unfamiliar. A face you used to know, but just can’t place. But life also has a way of jarring you back into it. Life did this to Bernstein, though he prefaces the story with, “I don’t want to make this sound too introspective.”

“My wife Connie is a cancer survivor. She had stage IV breast cancer. We’ve had our twists and turns. You need something in your life that is nourishing. For me riding (Bernstein’s first extracurricular activity while at ESPN was the rodeo, but that’s for a different article) was always nourishing. I’m not a religious person but that was my religion. That, and I loved music. I got away from it, I thought about it a lot. I could never figure out a way to do it, and to enjoy it. It sounds crazy but they intertwine.

A couple years back my horse got sick and had to be put down. It was very sad. This was going on at the same time as my wife’s health problems. I couldn’t justify getting another horse and spending all that time. So for a few years there was a hole in my life.

We were out with my friend Clint Holmes and his wife was performing. He said to me, ‘Why don’t you sit in with her?’ He knew I used to sing and I said, ‘Ehh…. okay.’ So I sat in with her, did a couple tunes and I said to myself ‘Why am I not doing this? What’s wrong with me? So I got on it. And in the last year and a half I’ve really dug back into the music.”

I comment that music is unique to people because it can expand to fit nearly any size or shaped void that may exist in someone’s life.

“It really does. It’s meant to do that to people that listen to it and it’s meant to do that to people that execute it.”

Bernstein calls himself “the third best singer in his family.” His wife Connie was a performing singer for many years as part of a sibling duo called The Rocco Sisters and his 18 year old son, Wes, is a singer/songwriter. Despite that status he has taken to performing again on a somewhat regular basis.

He’s a frequent co-host of Kenny Davidsen’s show at the Tuscany, a spot he calls, “A really great Las Vegas room.” Judging by the website, the Tuscany’s old school, just-off-the-strip vibe suits his style. Davidsen’s MO is letting his co-hosts branch out into different styles (or in this case, vocations) than they’re used to. Getting people out of their comfort zones can chill even the most seasoned of acts but Bernstein’s approach to the show is similar to that of a workman middleweight with a good chin.

“I enjoy it. I try and do it well. I try not to embarrass myself. I stick to the material I know I can sing,” he says.

His version of Desperado is proof of his fight plan. The Eagles are one of Bernstein’s favorite groups and he delivers it with a combination of its original plaintive dustiness and his own Great Las Vegas Room Mojo. Bernstein is going to continue following music and its ability to fill out and brighten the corners of an already full life. The Tuscany gigs are making him feel like it might be time to return to his headlining roots.

“I’m edging towards the point where I’m going to start (putting on shows). I’ve got a couple different ideas that I’d like to put together. One is called ‘Al Bernstein Pays Tribute To The Champions…Of The Great American Songbook’ and the other is called ‘Going The Distance With Al Bernstein,’ which is going to be a combination of video from my career along with songs that fit the narrative. I think that will be the one that’s done more easily somewhere. I’ve even got a lot of good stories from the older shows that I can incorporate.”

Bernstein is not pursuing music to escape boxing, or change his image. Boxing, singing, riding, and family are all part of his persona and he’s not using one to distance himself from any of the others.

While he’s planning these shows, the International Boxing Hall of Famer is still ringside for every edition of Showtime Saturday Night Fights and all of their Pay Per View broadcasts. While we were talking about boxing he called 2017 “the best year of boxing that he has broadcast in 37 years, and the best year for boxing overall in that span,” and it didn’t strike me as hyperbole. The riveting fighthe would analyze two nights later in Brooklyn between Jarrett Hurd and Austin Trout would only burnish that proclamation.

As Bernstein takes on yet another new beginning, the only melancholy moment in our entire breakfast was about an ending. He’s sad that the band Heart has broken up. He pauses after we talk about it. He can imagine what they’ll be missing.

Boxing’s Al Bernstein is Getting Back to His Vegas Lounge Singer Roots syndicated from http://ift.tt/2ug2Ns6

[sakuchii-fanfiction]

Now I'm curious, what are some of the worst memories you had? Or bad things that happened in the fandom?

Worst ones, huh? 

In the earlier years in fanfiction.net when there was this quest reviewer who reviewed practically to everyone “your writing sucks” without any proper reason. Don’t get me wrong, I personally love to hear what people found negative in my stories, but that needs to be done in a constructive way. Now, spamming inspiring writers (who in this fandom are mostly in their early teens) with negative comments with no explanation can hurt their pride to the point they decide to abandon their stories and writing overall. I remember the comment hit me hard when I got it for the first time, but then I realized it’s been posted on others authors stories as well. This period sucked, but gladly it didn’t last long. 

Now, as a submission writer, you sometimes have to deal with - how to say it - “difficult” people. I find myself easy to deal with people, but there are those types who go on expressing their own ideas and wishes, while completely ignoring your replies. Like, you told that character A couldn’t be used as a crush because of his timeline and once you receive the submission the person used character A as the crush. When you have trouble dealing with the author, your feeling towards their characters gets complicated too. Like “Oh, this OC is from them, I wonder how can I handle them” (sigh). 

But what I truly consider as the worst memory in the fandom is - as I call them - “The Reader Insert War” what was going on in 2014/2015. For some reason, the reader insert stories got popular all of a sudden and there were also many of new writers who started with them as their first story. Now, by the rules of fanfiction.net these kind of stories are forbidden, and a lot of old writers - some speaking in the name of 11th Division or any other Rule Committee - commented on them for breaking the rule. Some were kind and reasonable, some were not. The authors of those stories reacted differently too - some ignored, some quit writing and some started fighthing back with “rules are made to be broken” mentality. Because of the Reader-Inserts there were no interesting stories to read and my head hurt to read those reviews. I temporarily left the fandom for about two years making a full return in 2016. 

Now, Love Pondering is my take on reader-inserts. I don’t like them, the writing style disturbs me, which is why I ignored a lot Inazuma stories during those two years. I had fun writing Haikyuu! and Cry of A Fallen Cry is my most popular story to date.        

Then of course, it was sad to see your fellow writers leave the fandom and their stories. There will always be new amazing writers, but I feel like the fandom is still healing it’s wounds from 14/15. I truly hope the baby will get better soon. 

Yours Truly, Sakuchii

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Kamen Rider Climax Fighters Rilis Trailer Gameplay dan Screenshot Perdana!

Kamen Rider Climax Fighters Rilis Trailer Gameplay dan Screenshot Perdana!

Beritapasaran.net – Kamen Rider Climax Fighters, Setelah sempat diumumkan lewat commercial break di jepang pada waktu itu, kemarin akhirnya Bandai Namco merilis trailer gameplay perdana dari Kamen Rider Climax Fighter s, beserta beberapa detail dari screenshot terbaru. Kamen Rider Climax Fighters Rilis Trailer Gameplay dan Screenshot Perdana! Game ini, nantinya akan mengusung genre fighthing,…

[kmp78]

Off topic / Non Mars relate 

Im comtempling (!Excusé my FRENCHGLISH language barrier)  for the possibilty of Helping me writte a Memoir / Motivation / Awarness book with all my past contacts and the amount of support i have gain during my 7 yrs of hustling, fighthing, learning understanding, barganing, acccepting now on my stage of healing with my demons, i feel i can share my story with whomever is openminded.  

K you have and your blog as been part of this Journey, if you are interested? 😁 

I’ ve read some interesting Kmp78blog team unit fanfiction, debates comment (s), Logical point of views comment (s)… Btw it’s not a Joke nor a Spam, i have been thinking about this for about 3 yrs. 

Hopefuly just like my request about the New Year playlist project i might be as much suprise.  Thank you in advance 🙏 

Q 😘 

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Sounds intriguing, Q! I think if any of our topics and freak outs and whatever else goes on around here can serve as inspiration or support etc., it´s all good!

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Boxing's Al Bernstein is Getting Back to His Vegas Lounge Singer Roots

Al Bernstein has been boxing’s foremost commentator for three generations. He began calling fights for the nascent ESPN in 1980. At the time, boxing was the network’s biggest draw. and though Bernstein, a former newspaper man, was interested in covering other sports, the die had been cast. He had prominent ringside roles throughout boxing’s Golden Age of the 80s middleweights. He watched the relative nadir of the sport’s meandering slog through the late 90s and aughts and is still around now, analyzing the action through what he thinks could be another Golden Age.

With his resume, you’d be excused for only knowing Bernstein as The Boxing Guy. But to fans of jazz and “The Great American Songbook” living in Las Vegas, he is also known as a singer. I sat down with Bernstein over breakfast in Brooklyn just prior to a recent Showtime Saturday Night Fights gig at The Barclays Center. We talked about boxing, and even though he said he’s not the kind of guy to “sit down and ramble on about myself”—and I believed him—I got him to talk about music: how he got started as a singer, why he stopped, and the path that led him back to the stage.

His Vegas singing career began thanks to boxing.

“I was very frustrated at ESPN," he said. "They weren’t letting me do other sports. I’d covered the NFL Draft, I’d done some college basketball. They weren’t so anxious to have me do other things."

"Around 1987 (before Marvin Hagler fought Sugar Ray Leonard) I was having dinner with some executives at Caesars Palace. Just before that Barry McGuigan had fought at Caesars. And his father, who was a pub singer in Ireland, had done a couple nights at the Olympic Lounge at Caesars where he sang Irish tunes and it was great. It was a gathering place for people. So one of the execs says, ‘Don’t you sing?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I like to sing.’ And he said, ‘You gotta do what Barry McGuigan’s dad did.’ I said, ‘Okay.’

And so Bernstein went from ESPN commentator to Vegas lounge act.

"I didn’t have a band, I didn’t have an act, I had nothing. I had done some music in Chicago when I was younger but really nothing. And now I’m doing Caesars Palace as my first thing. I was too stupid to say no.”

Bernstein got a band and an act together and played three nights in the Olympic Lounge leading up to the highly anticipated Hagler/Leonard fight, also taking place at Caesar’s.

“I did it and it went well. I look out and I see all these famous people out there and I thought what the hell did I get myself into. It was standards and some pop. I have very eclectic taste. It was really good, really fun.”

I asked him if he thought it was a way to diversify himself personally since ESPN wasn’t letting him do it professionally.

“Yeah. I said, you know what I’m gonna do something else. And I really love music. If I’m well known enough to get a job then I should do it.”

Bernstein did several of these shows leading up to big bouts at Caesars over the next couple years. He loved it and wanted to keep doing it but because he was still doing 40-plus fights a year on ESPN, he couldn’t rehearse and couldn’t have a full time band. He wanted to keep performing so he and his writing partner Tony Rome put together a hybrid music/Q&A/monologue performance called The Boxing Party. The show included 5 or 6 original songs about sports. These songs would make up the bulk of Bernstein’s first album 1988’s “My Very Own Songs.”

By then he had moved full time to Vegas and was performing The Boxing Party all around town at Caesars and other venues like Mandalay Bay and the Riviera. It was a hit. Bernstein would continue performing throughout the early 90s and put out a second record in 1996 leading up to his coverage of the Olympics called “Let The Games Begin.” But then performances became more sporadic; the time between each stretching longer. Until, as he puts it, “The music went away.”

“I parted ways with the gentleman I was writing with and I didn’t want to use his music because I felt like that wasn’t fair. There were also some other things, but I don’t know. I just got away from music.”

It is not uncommon for people to be pulled away from their passions. Things happen in life that demand, or at least appear to demand, your full attention at the cost of something else. Enough time can pass that the old enthusiast becomes unfamiliar. A face you used to know, but just can’t place. But life also has a way of jarring you back into it. Life did this to Bernstein, though he prefaces the story with, “I don’t want to make this sound too introspective.”

“My wife Connie is a cancer survivor. She had stage IV breast cancer. We’ve had our twists and turns. You need something in your life that is nourishing. For me riding (Bernstein’s first extracurricular activity while at ESPN was the rodeo, but that’s for a different article) was always nourishing. I’m not a religious person but that was my religion. That, and I loved music. I got away from it, I thought about it a lot. I could never figure out a way to do it, and to enjoy it. It sounds crazy but they intertwine.

A couple years back my horse got sick and had to be put down. It was very sad. This was going on at the same time as my wife’s health problems. I couldn’t justify getting another horse and spending all that time. So for a few years there was a hole in my life.

We were out with my friend Clint Holmes and his wife was performing. He said to me, ‘Why don’t you sit in with her?’ He knew I used to sing and I said, ‘Ehh…. okay.’ So I sat in with her, did a couple tunes and I said to myself ‘Why am I not doing this? What’s wrong with me? So I got on it. And in the last year and a half I’ve really dug back into the music.”

I comment that music is unique to people because it can expand to fit nearly any size or shaped void that may exist in someone’s life.

“It really does. It’s meant to do that to people that listen to it and it’s meant to do that to people that execute it.”

Bernstein calls himself “the third best singer in his family.” His wife Connie was a performing singer for many years as part of a sibling duo called The Rocco Sisters and his 18 year old son, Wes, is a singer/songwriter. Despite that status he has taken to performing again on a somewhat regular basis.

He’s a frequent co-host of Kenny Davidsen’s show at the Tuscany, a spot he calls, “A really great Las Vegas room.” Judging by the website, the Tuscany’s old school, just-off-the-strip vibe suits his style. Davidsen’s MO is letting his co-hosts branch out into different styles (or in this case, vocations) than they’re used to. Getting people out of their comfort zones can chill even the most seasoned of acts but Bernstein’s approach to the show is similar to that of a workman middleweight with a good chin.

“I enjoy it. I try and do it well. I try not to embarrass myself. I stick to the material I know I can sing,” he says.

His version of Desperado is proof of his fight plan. The Eagles are one of Bernstein’s favorite groups and he delivers it with a combination of its original plaintive dustiness and his own Great Las Vegas Room Mojo. Bernstein is going to continue following music and its ability to fill out and brighten the corners of an already full life. The Tuscany gigs are making him feel like it might be time to return to his headlining roots.

“I’m edging towards the point where I’m going to start (putting on shows). I’ve got a couple different ideas that I’d like to put together. One is called ‘Al Bernstein Pays Tribute To The Champions…Of The Great American Songbook’ and the other is called ‘Going The Distance With Al Bernstein,’ which is going to be a combination of video from my career along with songs that fit the narrative. I think that will be the one that’s done more easily somewhere. I’ve even got a lot of good stories from the older shows that I can incorporate.”

Bernstein is not pursuing music to escape boxing, or change his image. Boxing, singing, riding, and family are all part of his persona and he’s not using one to distance himself from any of the others.

While he’s planning these shows, the International Boxing Hall of Famer is still ringside for every edition of Showtime Saturday Night Fights and all of their Pay Per View broadcasts. While we were talking about boxing he called 2017 “the best year of boxing that he has broadcast in 37 years, and the best year for boxing overall in that span,” and it didn’t strike me as hyperbole. The riveting fighthe would analyze two nights later in Brooklyn between Jarrett Hurd and Austin Trout would only burnish that proclamation.

As Bernstein takes on yet another new beginning, the only melancholy moment in our entire breakfast was about an ending. He’s sad that the band Heart has broken up. He pauses after we talk about it. He can imagine what they’ll be missing.

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