#catch up on wrestling

[gingermintpepper]

I saw it in your tag game post that you're also fond of the Apollo-Heracles conflict 👀 for a myth that appears in only a couple of sources, it sure has a lot of presence in the vase paintings (no seriously, everytime I think I've seen the last of it, I find ten more)

SO do you have any favorites among the paintings that represent this story??

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I also think it's extremely interesting that it's a story so popularly portrayed by vase paintings and in such a variety of ways!! It's certainly one of the stories that gets left out of written compilation of Heracles' legend a bit (which is a shame, I think it's a fantastic story) but Apollo had a very peculiar relationship with Heracles in general that I just kind of find amazing (and very, very funny).

Apollo is not a god with any legitimate grudge against Heracles, but he does argue with the mortal a bit like he argues with his favourite brothers 😂Part of why I love the story of Apollo and Heracles fighting over the tripod so much is that it is such a little brother thing for Heracles to be upset with the proclamation his elder brother has given him and so, he throws a great fit, taking up the chair and declaring that he'll just give himself a better prophecy! And Apollo, instead of being a marginally professional big brother, decides to fight him for it until their father has to break up their cat-fight. Like was that not just the plot of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes? Is this not exactly how Apollo treated Hermes when he was a child and now those two are inseparable? 💀

Because of this, my favourite vase paintings tend to be the ones that highlight the personal squabbling between Apollo and Heracles the most. There are some very elaborate ones that have the full host of them - Athena, Heracles, Apollo, Artemis, usually a dog and a doe, I've even seen a couple that had birds and plants etched on them, but the simplest ones that show Heracles about to bonk Apollo with his club out of frustration or depict Heracles nyooming away from Apollo while Apollo (presumably) yells curses about how he's going to fling Heracles head first into Tartarus for daring to take his things? Yeah, those are the premium big brother/little brother things I'm looking for.

(Photo. Marie-Lan Ngyuen)

(Photo. Museo Claudio Faina)

Also the one in the Theoi.com archives is a real classic - perfect energy.

[fishwikipedia]

good sequence from Gabe Kidd v ZSJ G1 08.08.24

[likesummerrainn]

APC Catch | 01.06.24

[luxurysystems]

He's making a list. He's checking it twice... He's gonna find out who's paying the incorrect price... (x)

[rxttenfish]

merfolk in general are just. horrible horrible polyglots. their brains are already hardwired for language and quick language acquisition that remains active all their lives, further helped by retaining a high neural plasticity for their long lives, and especially enjoy complex language and language-based play and problem solving. but they also tend to have a lot of their society arranged where there's often multiple different languages at play within the same area, and only really stops being so once you get into especially small villages that have below the merfolk norm for outside contact. every merfolk alive today knows at least two languages, but most of them know far more than that, especially because one of those two will be the common-technical language. its been standardized and wide-scale implemented across the merkingdom after their dominance, to help bridge the gap between these different languages, basically as a successful version of esperanto. but its a trade language, and is mostly used for information you might want to reach as many people as possible, such as laws or business dealings or public announcements or the like. most merfolk don't view it as and don't treat it as a language proper, and its not what they prefer to converse in if they have another choice, usually finding it pretty limiting and restrictive, which is why its called common-technical.

miranda, being a royal who is regularly in contact with many different people around the merkingdom and regularly expected to be fully able to converse with them to do her job, knows just. so many languages. i might be changing exactly how many soon, but last time i counted it was in the low teens. like its just a perfect storm of her brain being wired for swift language acquisition and having a job that requires it and a position that means shes constantly around people from all around the merkingdom. not to mention having to know english too, which isn't just not her first language, it's not even her fourth language.

meanwhile, aaravi knows english and a little bit of hindi, less because of her mother and moreso because of her nana... its not that her mother never used it with her, but she was. less focused on using it or teaching aaravi, let's say. nana mishra uses it a lot more and is more interested in teaching aaravi when she asks her, especially in the intermittent period after her mom died and nana mishra was able to come back into her life to help aaravi pick up the pieces (though not after aaravi kind of. got left on her own. for an unfortunate amount of time). its just also fallen by the wayside with aaravi's whole Everything Else and kind of having a hard time accepting her nana's help and kind of being terrified of her (of no fault of her nana's, aaravi's just. she's just really traumatized after Everything, alright. having someone try to offer her help afterwards, especially when aaravi's scared of getting singled out as half human and half monster, is just. it's not something she can bring herself to trust.)

[recurring-polynya]

I am absolutely in love with this lil tag-in maneuver Rukia does with Chappy to get back into her gigai in Memories of Nobody.

[dynamitekansai]

wwe: Sami Zayn saved Roman Reigns, Jey and Jimmy Uso from a post match brawl… but tonight was not the way any of them wanted this to go. 😮‍💨👎

[mrfunnyinthebank]

I actually like Seth's outfits but also I can totally see how they don't work for you. He's also kinda wasteful with 'em. He said in an interview that he basically just sends most of his, as you said, "jerkoff regalia" off to the archives almost immediately after he wears them.

i see a lot of people enjoy his outfits a lot, and i certainly never want to rain on someone else's parade. especially about something like fashion and wrestling preferences which comes down to individual perspective and tastes

there have been plenty of pieces and even full outfits of his that i do think look good and are interesting. it honestly comes down more to the way he wears his clothes that i personally don't like

i didn't know that about him sending them to the archive, that is interesting

some of my thoughts on seth rollins' fashion under the cut

there are 2 levels to my distaste for seth's use of fashion: the most obvious one is that it usually doesn't align with my personal preferences. but the reason it really chaps my ass so much - and the reason that i do post my hater thoughts while there are plenty of others that i keep to myself - is because something feels ungenuine about it all

wearing an outfit once and essentially sending it to a museum immediately seems very odd to me, and honestly reinforces the vibe i get that seth is wearing a costume rather than dressing like seth rollins

i didn't notice this until i saw it on youtube, but it was pointed out that his look from monday was very much him dressing up like 2 different popular wrestlers - brimmed hat and leather jacket like the undertaker and black turtleneck sweater with a silver chain like that one picture of the rock

and it looks like these clothes cost a lot of money and take a lot of time and effort, but i don't get the feeling that he cares about the outfits he wears in the same way that many of his peers do, and likely not as much as the people who make the outfits do

i don't know how the archive works, but knowing what i know about this company and the industry i would assume that these outfits are truly getting hung up and put away where people will not wear them and will likely rarely see them. i am a huge believer in preservation, and i am happy to know that these article of clothing are going to have a good chance of surviving for future generations to enjoy and learn about what fashion and culture and wrestling was like in 2020s america. i am truly surprised to hear that he sends most of them directly there rather than reusing them for himself or giving them a new purpose elsewhere. i hope that this isn't a common practice

[keyofjetwolf]

One day I'm going to learn to not receive breaking news alerts. Sadly, that day was not yesterday.

[the-kipsabian]

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[vanityangel]

SOLO SIKOA NXT STAND & DELIVER (APRIL 2, 2022)

[malakaie]

wishing everyone who's watching a very happy world's end

[schadentekkers]

super sasadango machine showing up with a can of red bull in his tits is so me coded

[scarletspider2the2ndpower]

Chasm: Curse of Kaine (Vol. 1/2024), #1.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler and Inker: Andrea Broccardo; Colorist: Brian Reber; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

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