#in many different ways

[nextstopwonderland]

“He’s one of the best I’ve ever been in the ring with.” -Bryan Danielson on Claudio Castagnoli deserving a title run, June 14, 2024

Bonus audio of Bryan gushing about Claudio from Brie & Nikki’s podcast this week:

“I didn’t ever think he was unattractive, but then he shaved his head and I was like… oh my gosh, Claudio you’re… you’re a handsome man, you’re such a handsome man! And he dresses really well…”

(In conclusion, Bryan Danielson’s Love Fest World Tour has continued as predicted. Next stop?)

[aalghul]

it actually bothers me very much that we were shown Cass’ relationships with Onyx and JPV, but were still meant to believe that she wouldn’t connect with Damian on that level

[pynkhues]

"The fact that they just so obviously were thinking of the exact same thing as well!"

I love too that Jacob looks at Sam slightly faster but Sam is the one who bursts out laughing first, which then breaks Jacob

Yes!! They just have a shared history and a shared language already, despite not acctually even knowing each other all that long, and the depth to which that seems to be felt for both of them really does feel like something special.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

"It is a risk their teams have been aware of from the beginning and have had strategies around" What do you think those strategies are or could be?

It's not really what I think those strategies are - there's lots of discussion and evidence about the strategies and available to UK celebrities to manage the British tabloids.

The basic strategy is to have someone who has information and power who can play their game and keep your story out of the headlines. There's a very good article in popbitch about it - and this byline investigates article is also pretty key. People only talk about the strategies after they haven't worked, but it still gives you a pretty good idea of the lay of the land.

It's important to understand that for at least the first two and a half years of 1D Max Clifford was involved in their publicity strategies. Max Clifford has boasted that nobody he represented was ever outted. There's quite a lot of information about how he operates in Louis Theroux's documentary 'When Louis Met Max Clifford'.

Tabloids haven't changed that much, and the strategies needed to deal with them haven't changed that much.

[bugdogg]

I’m back in the fucking building again

[hi-my-name-is-cosmopathy]

great to see you’re back, cosmo :] hope you’ve been doing well nowadays!

Holee sh*t hi :0

I've jumped into so many different fandoms since my absence (all of which took part in developing my ways of writing)

[cordycepsbian]

<- unwell

[nuclearpoweredsniper]

here are my tf2 headcanons:

1. theyre all queer

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[trashy-greyjoy]

sometimes, it's not so much about the romance as it is about the devotion. the adoration.

[iwishiknewmoreaboutlizards-blog]

Me in therapy today: My parents expectations for me to be perfect gives me a lot of anxiety and is a constant pressure in my life

inside my head: wow, just like Adrien Agreste :)

[chloesimaginationthings]

Taking care of kids is hard in FNAF

[dailyhatsune]

the old uncle who refuses to wear headphones on the train

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm re-reading the Discworld series for reasons, and honestly the most relatable part of reading these as an adult is how many of the protagonists start out being tired, used to their little routine and vaguely disgruntled by the interruption of the Plot. Sam Vimes wants to lie drunk in a gutter and absolutely doesn't want to be arresting dragons. Rincewind is yanked into every situation he's ever encountered, though he'd much rather be lying in a gutter too. (Minus the alcohol. Plus regretting everything he's ever done said witnessed or even heard about fourth-hand in his whole life.) Granny Weatherwax is deeply suspicious of foreign parts and that includes the next town over; Nanny has leaned into the armor of "nothing ever happens to jolly grannies who terrorize their daughters-in-law and make Saucy Jokes"

Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.

............well, that's not quite true. You get the sense that Vetinari knows how much certain people hate the Plot. And as the person sitting behind the metaphorical lighting board of Ankh-Morpork, he takes no small pleasure in forcing the Plot-haters specifically to stand up, and say some lines.

[seagiri]

the guy

[vriskan8or]

let her go