#kinda like the kings of saudi arabia?

[bonpocalypse]

can you please tell me your headcanons for the nationalities of the twst boys pretty pretty please 🥺 also any other headcanons you have!!!

I love love love nationality headcanons, they're so fun to think of!! A reminder that these are my headcanons, I'm not here to start arguments. If anything does come across as offensive/innapropriate please let me know! I'll gladly fix it :)

For the most part, I based the Twst Character's nationalities off of where their stories take place (I'm not all that skilled in headcanons, apologies!!)

Alright, going in dorm order here:

Heartslabyul

Riddle Rosehearts: Icelandic/Britsh

I have him as Icelandic purely because of LeafSheep's "Begin at the Beginning," the King Said!! Nordic Heartslabyul has my heart. and ofc since Heartslabyul is based on Alice in Wonderland, he's half-British in my headcanons

Ace Trappola: British

Alice in Wonderland :)

I don't have much to say about Ace, I kinda don't think about him all that much

Deuce Spade: Irish

In coming up with nationality headcanons, I wanted to explore more areas in the British Isles for the Heartslabyul students and eventually decided on Deuce being Irish! I had more reasonings but its 5 am and I cannot think for the love of me.

Cater Diamond: American with English/German heritage

I see myself in Cater. He's one of my highest kins, so he's 100% from West Coast USA. It also makes a lot of sense he'd be American looking at how similar some nations in the Twisted Wonderland universe are to nations in our own world! Pyroxene is really similar to the United States from what I've researched, and Cater's valley accent in the English version of the game really hits the mark :)

As for his heritage, he's English because of Alice in Wonderland and German because I feel it fits him very well

Trey Clover: British

I don't think about Trey often enough sorry :(((

I love him though he's so silly

Savanaclaw

Leona Kingscholar: Kenyan

The Lion King takes place in the Kenya area, and so I put him there!

Jack Howl: American with Kenyan/French heritage

Another Pyroxien!

Kenyan because Savanaclaw was based on the Lion King and that's set in Kenya

French because I have a sneaking suspicion Jack is based on the wolves from Beauty and the Beast

Ruggie: South African

Ruggie was hard to find a headcanon for, but I eventually just took someone else's headcanon that said he is South African

Octavinelle

Azul Ashengrotto: Italian/French/Danish

All come from where the Little Mermaid is set in both the movie form and the Hans Christian Andersen form. The movie itself was set in the Mediterranean Sea, and I headcanon Azul's family to be from around the Nice, France area of the Mediterranean

Danish comes into play from the original source material for The Little Mermaid and the fact that the Coral Sea in Twst gets cold. Also to note, the Coral Sea on the map of Twisted Wonderland is close to the coast of the Queendom of Roses, which is pretty far north!

Jade and Floyd Leech: Danish

Putting these two together because twins

Pretty much the same reasonings as Azul, the book's settings and the Coral Sea :)

Scarabia

Kalim Al-Asim: Saudi Arabian

I'm going to be so honest, I don't think about Scarabia like... at all. So for Kalim, I'm going straight out of where Aladdin is supposed to be set

That also came as a problem, because the movie has a habit of mashing Middle Eastern cultures together. Though I did find that the movie takes place in the Arabian Desert which narrows where Aladdin was filmed to a myriad of countries, one of which is Saudi Arabia

I decided to go with Saudi Arabia since a majority of the desert does reside within that country.

Jamil Viper: Saudi Arabian/South Asian

Same thing as for my headcanons with Kalim, and I got the South Asian headcanon from a mutual on TikTok

Pomefiore

Vil Schoenheit: American with German heritage

Hollywood star here, folks!

German heritage because of Snow White's setting :)

Epel Felmier: Finnish

Ok for this headcanon I went off of the Harveston event

(hey future Bon edit here when its not 5 am and running off of no sleep)

Rook Hunt: Australian

This headcanon is for shits and giggles

It's a running joke between me and my friend that Rook is not French and is faking the accent to sound more "beautiful"

I don't know why we chose Australia specifically but it came to fruition

He can't speak proper French he's literally calling Vil the King of Fish

Ignihyde

Idia and Ortho Shroud: Greek

Hercules is set in Greece!

Diasomnia

Malleus Draconia: French

For Diasomnia I went off of movie settings once again, and Sleeping Beauty is heavily implied to be set in France!

I really feel like I should explain more but that's really most of my headcanons for them, where their movies are set

Silver: French

Silver is tough to pin down since we don't know if he's even originally from the Briar Valley, but I went with French as well

Sebek Zigvolt: French/German

(Bon please please please come back to this)

Lilia Vanrouge: French

I actually have so many nationality headcanons on this dude its not even funny

I imagine him as French, Romanian, and Dutch

And for funnies:

Royal Sword (and Rollo) (excluding the dwarves)

Neige LeBlanche: American with German/Finnish Heritage

Che'nya: British/Russian

Rollo Flamm: French

[feetoffire]

showjumping individual qualifiers here we go:

Israel: Isabella Russekoff on C Vier 2. Micklem (or adjacent) bridle. pretty lighter bay. he spooks (or ‘spooks’) shortly after the final fence. 

Canada: Mario Deslauriers on Emerson. that turn to the ‘bonjour paris’ wall is Tight. in time, only one rail down. Deslauriers has been doing this forever so that really doesn’t surprise me. double reins on an elevator or pelham bit. 

Lithuania: Andrius Petrovas on Linkolns. Linkolns decided something about that jump or the course was not worth it and Petrovas retired. good for him!

Mexico: Andres Azcarraga on Contrendros 2. dropped a stride before the water and still cleared it - horses like that are the best. first double clear round! and an extra little buck. 

Sweden: Henrik von Eckermann on King Edward. Oh that’s right he goes in a nose fly net thing. King Edward is Going today - “jumping out of his skin” yeah you’re right. definitely saw Eckermann grab mane. 

Spain: Ismael Garcia Roque on Tirano. drop noseband. lots and lots of air on Tirano’s part. only one rail down. 

France: Olivier Perreau on Dorai d’Aiguilly. mare! some froth i think. this girl is here to Get It Done. knocked a rail on the last fence. elevator-type bit with converter reins. 

Saudi Arabia: Abdulrahman Alrajhi on Ventago. ah a kicker. tapped a rail but went clear and in time. froth. 

Austria: Gerfried Puck on Naxcel V. okay i’m sure those fly mask things are blinkers but i can’t get a close enough look to confirm. drop noseband. much discussion from this pair - Naxcel has his own plans it seems. elevator-type bit with two sets of reins. 

Japan: Eiken Sato on Conthargo-Blue. red ribbon. Disagreements after the water and over the red vertical. drop noseband, elevator-type bit with double reins. retires on course. 

USA: Karl Cook on Caracole de la Roque. mare! one of the two mares going in a hackamore. her topline still bothers me. double clear. every time i’ve seen this mare she gets shit done. 

Netherlands: Maikel van der Vleuten on Beauville Z. came in a little wiggly to that second jump (we’ve all been there). only one rail down and a 70 second course. 

Ireland: Shane Sweetnam on James Kann Cruz. would like a better look at that bridle. they are tearing through the course in style - no rails in 73.35 seconds. 

Belgium: Jerome Guery on Quel Homme de Hus. converter reins. one rail down, four seconds under time. 

Switzerland: Edouard Schmitz on Gamin Van’t Naastveldhof. quick buck as they get going. two rails down, four seconds under. 

UK: Harry Charles on Romeo 88. always interesting to see which horse’s manes get braided for showjumping and which don't (Romeo 88 doesn’t). the double noseband situation bothers me, and also it seems like you could just use a flash. blinkers. double clear. some bucks just for funsies. 

Norway: Victoria Gulliksen on Mistral van de Vogelzang. Mistral has things to say about the rein contact - tons of head shaking between fences. froth. double clear. 

Australia: Hilary Scott on Milky Way. mare! pretty gray. i don’t think she has a throatlatch. knocked two rails - one in the double combination and one in the triple combination. 

Poland: Dawid Kubiak on Flash Blue B. shadow roll and hackmore. blinkers maybe? two rails down. 

Denmark: Andreas Schou on Napoli VH Nederassenthof. Schou’s shoulders look a little slumped as they come in - kinda odd, for how much we worry about our posture. maybe i'm seeing things. knocks a rail on the last fence. 

Germany: Christian Kukuk on Checker 47. buck. pretty dapples. two rails, i think. 

Brazil: Rodrigo Pessoa on Major Tom. i’m not going to make a built-in sponsor joke. or a Space Oddity joke. i’m not. lovely jump. double clear. i think Major Tom is the third? horse i’ve seen with his fly bonnet tied to the noseband so it won’t flap. 

UAE: Salim Ahmed al Suwaidi on Foncetti VD Heffinck. froth. Micklem adjacent bridle. lots of praise after the round. four rails down. 

Israel: Robin Muhr on Galaxy HM. two rails down. interesting how there are so many dark bays/blacks in dressage but considerably fewer in jumping. 

Canada: Erynn Ballard on Nikka VD Bisschop. mare! big bold blaze. entered the ring fairly quietly. extra little kick over the jumps. i like this pair.

[idv-ask-the-showman]

Fun fact about the beta ideas for Phineas and Flynn!!

In the beta idea Flynn and Phineas acted as one hunter where you can play as Flynn but then calls for Phineas if you want and he would take over, much like Wu Chang and Dream Witch’s gameplay. But the idea was scripted and Flynn was put aside for awhile until I know what to do with him.

Original the appearance of Phineas was gonna be a whole lot different, he was gonna black and from Saudi Arabia but I change that since I wanted to curse him to be French LOL (also cuz the first design was kinda wild and didn’t scream a man from KSA lol)

One of Flynn’s beta ideas is him being a fire breather performer along side many others but I settled with the knives thrower.

The brothers at first weren’t supposed to be brothers but more of best friends since childhood, meaning if I stuck with the first idea I had for them it would mean Flynn was gonna be older and maybe around the same age as Phineas.

Phineas name was gonna be Badr (meaning moon) while Flynn was just gonna be Finn.

Flynn was gonna have shorter brown hair but I change it to match with his brother and also cuz I like king hair!

[awshithereigoagain]

guys watch 'king of clones' on netflix or pirate it or whatever bc boy you're in for a ride

its the stem cell south korean fascist doctor (his name is Hwang Woo-suk) who claimed he was gonna make people in wheelchairs walk again, quickly rising to fame in South Korea on a MASSIVE scale and then bam illegally purchased human embryos on the black market to experiment on using the project funds (many women had no idea their eggs were gonna be used to clone human cells and the ones on his team were pressured into undergoing the procedure which is v invasive) and then arbitrarily changed the results of his study to make his research seem more successful he was found out and now he lives in saudi arabia cloning racing camels for sheiks and rich people's dogs the doc gives him a platform (crazy eery to hear this mf talk about his past like its nothing, v nazi doctor vibes) and doesnt really take a stance on the cloning issue which is disappointing, they still frame it as like 'should we act as god? is this too much?' which says nothing of the ethics behind it, however they do highlight the conservatism, nationalism and fascism of south korea. they have this guy Paul Root Wolpe talk who is a bioethicist https://ethics.emory.edu/who-we-are/our-people/director.html#:~:text=Paul%20Root%20Wolpe%20is%20the,of%20the%20Center%20for%20Ethics and another ethics expert Sarah Chan https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/sarah-chan https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/sarah-chan/publications/

tbh i left just kinda wanting to learn more about ethics and bioethics

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

[rygoespop]

The King of Street Fighters: Kimberly vs Rashid (Chapter 8)

Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, the fourth round is about to begin!

The crowd cheer

Announcer: First up, we have the Niece of Albert Jackson, the Student of Guy, and Rising Ninja Star of the Bushinryu Style, Kimberly Jackson!

Kimberly: Let’s get this started! *enters the Macho Ring as she spray a cloud of Spray Paint*

The crowd cheer

Announcer: And her opponent, hailing from Saudi Arabia, he’s known as the Turbulent Wind, give it up for Rashid!

Rashid: Who’s ready to start this match like a Hurricane?

The Crowd: Rashid! Rashid!

Terry was watching Rashid and notices

Terry: He kinda reminds me of Najd

Back to Rashid

Rashid: Yes! *enters the Macho Ring and places his camera on the wall*

Kimberly: Wait, is this fight going to be livestream?

Rashid; Yep!

Kimberly: Sweeeeeet! *gets in a fighting stance*

Rashid: Simple and Clean! *gets in a fighting stance*

Announcer: Both contestants, begin!

Rashid: Flapping Spin! *uses Flapping Spin on Kimberly*

Kimberly: Whoa! *evades*

Rashid: Hmm, not bad, but no matter what, the turbulent winds will be my side!

Kimberly: I figured! Windmill Kick! *uses Windmill Kick to kick Rashid*

Rashid: *stumbled* Not bad for a guest on my Livestream!

Kimberly: Hey, thanks!

Rashid: But the fun ends, Arabian Cyclone! *uses Arabian Cyclone on Kimberly*

Kimberly slides back from the attack

Kimberly: Not bad!

Rashid: Tch! You wished that you learned from me

Kimberly: I wished, but I’m happy that Guy mentored me!

Rashid: What?!

Kimberly: Bushin Senpukyaku! *uses Bushin Senpukyaku on Rashid to defeat him*

Rashid: Doooh nooooo! *defeated*

Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, Kimberly Jackson advances to the Semi Finals!

Kimberly: Hey, I had fun! *holds her hand out for Rashid*

Rashid: I’m glad you did *takes her hand and gets pulled back up*

Kimberly: Bet everyone enjoyed it

Rashid: *takes his camera* Yes they did

Announcer: The Semi Finals of the King of Street Fighters tournament will begin shortly, reveal the Semi Finals Bracket!

The Bracket reveals the 2 matches, Marisa vs Terry, and Ken vs Kimberly

Terry: The Semi Finals, I’m impressed

Meanwhile, outside of the arena, AKI and Ed were planting explosives nearby

AKI: Once they’ll go off

Ed: We’ll get their attention *brings out a drone with a Hologram Message by Bison*

Back inside the Tournament

Announcer: Let the Semi Finals, get underway!

The crowd cheer as the scene cuts to black

Story End

[sebfreak]

In our f1 group we came to a conclusion after saudi arabia that f1 is really a circus and drivers are kinda like a showplace. Because no fan is gonna go to a race for fia/liberty media/Ross Brawn or Domenicali. Every fan wanna see the drivers and their races. 

And they are aware of it so they treat the drivers like an attraction they can show off and forget that they are human beings with an opinion and with emotions, who wanna participate in some decisions. 

Cash is king and nothing else matters... 

[kingfrumpkin]

kingfrumpkin’s New and Improved map of auradon!

aka i hated the other one and well...

there’s obviously more cities but i got lazy  and didn’t want to include them. i tried to make everything as accurate as i Could but its kind of hard when i shaved down 85% of italy, split the UK into england and scotland, turned belgium and holland into denmark, etc etc

read below the cut for all my changes and explanations for things!!

starting off with New France:

i tried to keep auradon city + area the same, put it in southern france bc thats what beauty and the beast is based off of in location

changed cinderellasburg to cinderstead bc i hate the name cinderellasburg with a passion

her castle is there it looked too ugly making it a separate landmark

cinderella’s manor is the one where she grew up and inherited after lady tremaine was kicked out; it’s their like summer/country home

auroria is the same bc its an ok name tbh

not technically france but briar cottage is the one she grew up in with the fairies

and paris is there for the aristocats and the hunchback and esmerelda, etc

I ALMOST FORGOT THE ENCHANTED LAKE

i regret making france so big but its too late now

New Germany:

i decided to use grimms brothers german ver of snow white bc yeah sure okay even though disney likes to make everything french

i changed charmington to snowblaen bc thats so much cooler are you kidding me

her castle is there too

the dwarf’s cottage and the mines are to the south and they’re in the woods too i just didn’t feel like putting geographical markers

i kept corona the same tbh. realized the castles on an island. fucked up

also realized that tangled’s rapunzel was probably more mediterranean but it was TOO LATE

there’s a forest probably separating snowblaen and corona

grimmsville is there somewhere

ENGLAND:

ok so london is there for rodger & anita & the dalmations, then the peter pan kids, and whoever else is in london idk

oxford for alice in wonderland

sherwood forest, yknow, robin hood

SFU is there too

camelot was theorizes to be in great brit? idk i read sources that said that so. yes

Liberated Scotland:

merida is there

yep

Partial Louisiana:

they only had the bayou in the original map? fucked up. tiana worked for that restaurant

i had a whole plan for an America Island that was louisiana, misourri (lady and the tramp) and floria (dumbo) but it looked ugly and so i scrapped it

back up to New Denmark

i just kinda. repurposed holland and belgium to make New Denmark

i started to see that ariel mightve been french and started crying

anyway i made port ariel for the city bc thats SICK

her castle is nearby and then theres atlantica in the water yay

Reduced Norway:

man disney has no idea how they want arendelle to look like huh

i honestly just kinda slapped everything there

southern isles off the coast. the label is too far way but IDC

i repurposed iceland for it

atahala is somewhere

The Forest(tm):

the wooland creatures gotta go somewhere

its where bambi lives

Italy but 15%:

did i have to include pinocchio? probably not. nevertheless its there

Greece:

the gods are there. yep

i just put mt olympus wherever i wanted to

Polynesian Islands:

i didn’t want to fuck with these too much. not all of them are there tho sorry

.052% of Africa:

i really needed only 2 countries for africa its so small i

disney make more african stories challenge

anyway .. pride rock. yep. i was too lazy to map out the other locations for the lion king

tarzans home in the congos...............................i should have swapped those two countries in their positions huh. oh well

back around to Small China:

i really just took inner mongolia and made do bc i didnt want to take All Of China

and its, like, supposed to be ancient china anyway?

anyway i tried to make the locations of the few landmarks i put accurate but its probably not. better than what disney had

Arabia?:

disney PLEASE pick where the fuck aladdin takes place i beg of you

i took saudi arabia and went with it tbh

tried to keep it the same

i was going to map out all of the cities but the lore around them was?? weird??

ill probably map out more of it later when i do a 2.0 ver

also “”quirkistan”” sounded racist???? but its like some store based in india so

Neverland..........aka ireland

ireland had the resources to become neverland

its north of england bc, yeah. its north of england in the story???

it made NO SENSE!!!! WHERE IT WAS!!!!!!

also skull island is there

last but not least...Isle of the Lost:

i just took part of new zealand and shaped it until it was unrecognizable

i drew the magic bridge and how it would appear bc sure

WATER!!!!

i tried to keep most of the waterways the same and just named the ones that were on the OG map

ursula’s strait is now a bay im sorry

hooks bay is now a channel bc it wasnt a bay but idk what else to call it. i think its too wide to be a channel but whatever i guess

[laufire]

@ahesaidshesaidloveaffair replied to your post “even if I sometimes would want to, I rarely talk here about politics...”

Talk talk talk... tell us your feelings about politics going on in Spain and EU

There’s just... too many things lol. Especially in Spain. These few months have been as chaotic here as they’ve been everywhere else. I have a post with some of the highlights I felt like commenting on tumblr, like “famous porn star gets arrested for manslaughter during a shamanic ritual” (he’s kinda like our Gwyneth Paltrow, genitalia shaped aromantic candles included. But also like, more drugs I guess? And the ritual involved a toad); “80yo ex-mayor gets mugged but mugs his attacker BACK” (he was from the famously corrupt party WHAT WAS SHE THINKING), and Madrid’s president announcing she wants to created identification cards for those that have passed COVID so it’d grant them things like job priviledges, etc. (I hate her Trump-lite ass so much... I’ve said before that she reached her full potential when she managed the twitter account of one of her predecesor's DOG and I fucking meant it).

Beyond that... oof. Where do I even start. There’s that journalist caught live on camera cheating on his girlfriend that went viral, with everyone mocking his unethical, alt-right adjacent ass (Whoopie Goldberg included... I’m not over that). There’s a paper that systematically attacks the leftist party that’s half of the government coalition; this has included stealing pictures from the current vicepresident’s ecographies during his wife’s, also a Mininster, first pregnancy, or leaking their home address so fascist could easily stalk him (which they’ve been doing the entire time the COVID has been here btw). One of the most recent articles I’ve seen calculates how much time he’s “lost” watching tv shows (he’s a known nerd, and apparently you can’t have hobbies if you’re a socialist/communist, my bad); it adds up to less than four hours a week but the point is to make it sound ~scandalous. Reminds me of those tweets attacking AOC for playing Animal Crossing or some shit.

Also, the leader of the facist party had a stroke-slash-personality transplant one day on Congress, screaming about how his party was the less homophobic one (?) while everyone else wondered if they’d crossed dimensions, but he seems to have forgotten that by now, probably after seeing it just confused his base (and it’s not like conservative gays weren’t voting for him already, the fucking traitors). Surprisingly unrelated to that, kpop fans made him trend with the hashtag Princess and absolutely genius manips, bless them.

Oh, and there’s allegations (by his former lover; I say allegations because I have to be careful of how I talk of the royal family thanks to our libel laws :))) that our former king (still alive, he abdicated for his son) was as corrupt as many suspected. He’s run to Saudi Arabia (the country that paid him under the table, allegedly). I will refrain from wording my opinion because, again, libel laws. VERY different from the one’s pertaining us commoners. Rap singers have been accused of terrorism-apologia and had to flee the country for speaking ill of the the royal family, js.

Wrt the EU. Man. I have so little patience for them lately lol. And like I’ve alluded in another post, is a difficult topic to bring up in left-wing spaces because anti-EU sentiment has been hijacked by alt-right, xenophobic parties accross the continent. But that shouldn’t fucking mean that we pretend they’re upholding some humanistic ideal, ffs. A lot of them just want a comfortable status-quo where they can be as greedy and paternalistic to the “lesser” countries (in and outside the union) as they please.

[poetlcs]

books I’ve read in 2020 (so far) + their ratings

non-fiction

crossing the line: australia’s secret history in the timor sea by kim mcgrath: important research into australia’s theft of oil in timor leste. didn’t rate

hood feminism: notes from the women that a movement forgot by mikki kendall: essay collection dissecting modern feminism, pointing out the exclusionary practices of mainstream feminism and offering new frameworks through which feminism should operate. really recommend. didn’t rate

the uninhabitable earth: life after warming by david wallace-wells: good introduction to environmentalism and the climate disaster. a little too introductory for me but good for those new to the topic. ★★★

homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow by yuval noah harari: it is simply not Sapiens nor as good as Sapiens. Looks at potentials for our future but, thought it was a little poorly researched. Some parts were still interesting though.  ★★★

SPQR: a history of ancient rome by mary beard: a little dense at times, but super interesting and detailed look at ancient rome. enjoyed it a lot. ★★★★

sister outsider by audre lorde: collection of audre lorde’s essays and speeches, about feminism, lesbianism, the queer community, being Black and a lesbian ect ect. outstanding, important collection anyone interested in intersectional feminism must read. ★★★★★

all boys aren’t blue by george m. johnson: memoir about johnson’s experiences growing up as a Black gay boy in a poor neighbourhood. Very poignant memoir, written in such accessible language which I liked. guarenteed to get you emotional, another one everyone should read. didn’t rate because it’s so highly personal that felt wrong but highly recommend. 

under a biliari tree i born by alice biari smith: memoir by an Aboriginal Australian detailing her life growing up learning traditional Aboriginal ways and how the lives of Indigenous Australian’s have been impacted through the years, specifically in Western Australia. Probably more aimed at school age people but still a 101 I think many Australian’s (and non Australian’s) can benefit from. didn’t rate 

classics

maurice by e.m forster: gay man coming of age story in college + themes around class and sexuality. forster’s end note saying he thought it imperative to write a happy ending because we need that in fiction, i love him. ★★★★★

emma by jane austen: read before seeing the movie. loved emma as a character but thought this was okay compared to other Austen I’ve read. ★★★½

perfume by patrick suskind: a man with an incredible sense of smell starts murdering young women to try and bottle their scent for a perfume. weirdest shit I ever read still don’t know how to feel about it. ★★★

the color purple by alice walker: follows the life of Celie, an Black woman living in rural Georgia. deals with her relationship with her sister Nettie, her lover Shug Avery, and with God. this tore my heart to shreds absolutely everyone must read it, like even just for the beautiful writing ALONE. ★★★★

a study in scarlet by arthur conan doyle: its sherlock holmes #1 no further explanation required. not my fave sherlock story, was the weird morman subplot needed? ★★½

dracula by bram stoker: yeah vampires!! this was way easier to read and also way funnier than I expected. we STAN gothic aesthetics and Miss Mina Harker here. ★★★★

fantasy

the diviners by libba bray: teens with magical powers/abilities solving mysteries in 1920′s new york. reread. ★★★★★

lair of dreams by libba bray: the diviners #2. reread. ★★★★½

before the devil breaks you by libba bray: the diviners #3. reread. best one in the series hands down.  ★★★★★

the king of crows by libba bray: waited so long for this series ender and it let me down lol. ★★★

clockwork princess by cassandra clare: the infernal devices #3. dont @ me this is my comfort reread series and I was travelling. ★★★★★

we unleash the merciless storm by tehlor kay mejia: we set the dark on fire #2. latinx inspired fantasy about overthrowing a corrupt government with an f/f romance. didn’t like as much as book one but still good, BEST girlfriends ever. ★★★½

wolfsong by t.j klune: basically feral gay werewolves and witches living in a town together. feels like a teen wolf episode but way more gayer. despite that hated the writing style and I don’t like age gap romances so yay the concept no the execution.  ★★

the fate of the tearling by erika johansan: the tearling #3. finally finished this series, dunno why everyone loathes the ending so much I thought it was cool. underrated fantasy because it’s very unique. ★★★★

girl, serpent, thorn by melissa bashardoust: persian inspired fantasy about a girl who is cursed by a div to kill anyone she touches. has an f/f romance. bashardoust writes the most aesthetically rich settings I love her. ★★★★

crier’s war by nina varela: reread. f/f enemies to lovers where the main character poses as a handmaiden in order to try and murder the princess whose father killed her family. PEAK gay content literally a modern classic. ★★★★★

we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal: I was so disinterested in this book I barely can describe the plot but basically it’s a prince and a hunter who are enemies but are forced to go looking for this magical artifact together anyway it was boring.  ★

ghosts of the shadow market by cassandra clare + others: short story collection set in the shadowhunter world. probably the strongest of her collections but they just don’t hit the same as her full length books. didn’t rate. 

a storm of swords: part two by george r.r martin: a song of ice and fire #3. I WILL finish reading these books eventually i swear !! probably the best one yet though. ★★★★

amarah by l.l mcneil: world of linaria #3. high fantasy with politics, dragons, warring races. tolkein/asoiaf vibes if they had more women with agency. didn’t rate because I haven’t decided my feelings on the end yet. 

science fiction

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: f/f enemies to lovers between spies on rival sides of a time war. good book but writing style wasn’t for me (others love this so eh take my opinion with a grain os salt:  ★★★

not your sidekick by c.b lee: main character is from a superhero family but has no powers herself, so she takes an internship working with a superhero corp. has an f/f romance with a villain character. so much fun and super cute

speculative fiction:

the deep by rivers solomon: speculative fiction wherein pregnant African women thrown overboard by slave ships gave birth to babies that became mermaids. main character holds all the memories of her people’s past but runs away after being unable to deal with the burden. about self discovery, intergenerational trauma and the burden of remembering. a little short imo but still all round excellent book ★★★★

how long ‘til black future month? by n.k jemisin: short story collection, many with an afro-futurism focus. hard to explain because there is such a wide variety of stories but this is an AMAZING collection. didn’t rate because I don’t like rating short story collections but wish more people would read it. 

mystery

the family upstairs by lisa jewell: woman inherits an english house and starts to unravel the secrets of a mass cult suicide that happened there years ago. loved it because it was wild. ★★★★★

the hand on the wall by maureen johnson: truly devious #3. boarding school mystery where the main character has to solve a murder that happened in the 1920s at her school while another mystery is happening in present time. my least favourite of the series but satisfying conclusion nonetheless. ★★★½

contemporary fiction

maybe in another life by taylor jenkins reid: dual timeline book showing the two outcomes of a decision the main character makes. cool concept but ultimately boring book because I didn’t care about the main character at all.  didn’t rate because I didn’t finish it. 

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo: vignette stories of various women whose lives are vaguely interconnected. incredibly well written with such vivid characters. deserves the hype. ★★★★

tin heart by shivan plozza: australian YA, the recipient of a heart transplant wishes to connect with the family of her donor, after she discovers the identity of her donor. good story but didn’t like the writing style. ★★★

a little life by hanya yanigahara: follows the life of a group of friends living in life, especially that of jude, a closed off and damaged man with a troubling past. a little too torture-porny/Tragic Gays but I cannot deny the author has a beautiful writing style and I went through all the emotions. didn’t rate

a girl like that by tanaz bhathena: explores the events leading up to the main character dying in a car crash. set in Jeddah, saudi arabia and explores expectations on women, feminism and expressions of sexuality and relationships between women during teenage years. kinda no good characters but I loved it for it’s messy depiction of teen girls (whilst not condemning them for this). underrated. ★★★★

little fires everywhere by celeste ng: drama in white american suburbs when a new family moves in and the neighbours start investigating their past. eh, I heard a lot about this and thought it was just okay. ★★★

stay gold by tobly mcsmith: trans boy decides to go stealth at his new school and falls for a cheerleader, georgia. about navigating being trans and definitely felt like it was written to educate cis people. it was okay but ultimately not my thing and not really the story I was looking for, even though I respect it being written by a trans author and still would recommend to certain people. ★★½

everything leads to you by nina lacour: main character and her best friend have to unravel a hollywood mystery, all while the main character is trying to get over her ex-girlfriend and find work as a set designer. f/f romance and loved the focus on movie making and the power of stories. ★★★½

the falling in love montage by ciara smyth: a girl meets another girl at a party, but she’s not looking to date due to the amount of family issues she has going on. so her and the girl decide to spend the summer having fun, renacting scenes from rom-coms, but never dating. awesome family dynamics and the relationship between the two girls was sweet also set in ireland which is fun. 

normal people by sally rooney: explores the relationship between connell and marianne, who meet in school, date secretly, and then are inexplicably drawn to each other for the rest of their lives. explores power dynamics, relationships, love and trust, and what we owe to eachother. great book, great mini-series, love it to bits. ★★★★★

the glass hotel by emily st john mandel: impossible to explain this book, but there’s a mystery about grafitti, a ponzi scheme and a character falling to their death on a boat under suspicious circumstances. honestly idk what happened in this book but I liked it. ★★★½

historical fiction

half of a yellow sun by chimamanda ngozi adichie: historical fiction about the biafran war loosely based on adichie’s family experiences. incredibly well written with an ending that punches you in the gut. ★★★★

hamnet by maggie o’farrell: explores the shakespeare family after the death of their child, Hamnet, from the plague, and how this leads to Shakespeare writing Hamlet. cool as fuck concept and boring as fuck book with such tropey female characters. ★★

all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr: WW2 fiction, dual perspective between a blind girl living in france and a german boy forced into nazi youth. I cannot believe this book is award winning it’s so boring and predictable and i reget the time i wasted on it. ★

poetry:

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong: poetry memoir. vuong writes a letter to his illiterate mother, knowing she’ll never read it, exploring their relationship, his experiences growing up as second generation Vietnamese-American, and hers during the Vietnam War. My favorite book I’ve read so far this year, just too good to explain, genuinely just feel like everyone is better off for having read this. ★★★★★

currrently reading:

girls of storm and shadow by natasha ngan

meet me at the intersection: edited by rebecca lim & ambelin kwaymullina

stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america by ibram x. kendi

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

[feetoffire]

olympic jumping qualifiers this time. less in-depth because of how quick the rounds are vs dressage tests, and i’m sure i missed some details, especially in terms of tack/tack names. if anyone is actually reading these and knows the names of things, please tell me!

(please assume everyone is in a running martingale, they're so common i quit mentioning them.)

Spain: Ismael Garcia Roque on Tirano. pretty gray. i know it’s hard to not have (some) mouth gape when you’re fighting about speed (i jump too) but i can’t help cringing. interesting running martingale set up - i don’t think i’ve ever seen one like that. 

Austria: Katharina Rhomberg on Colestus Cambridge. also a gray. three rails down, which is rough.

Mexico: Carlos Hank Guerreiro on Porthos Maestro WH Z. that is an…interesting set up. looks like a normal noseband and drop noseband on the same bridle? not sure i like it/why not just use a flash

Switzerland: Steve Guerdat on Dynamix de Belheme. a mare! her blaze is cool :) she’s gaping a lot coming out of the arena - again, i get it, you do really have to fight them on tempo sometimes, but i’m still cringing. knocked a rail or two; that triple combination has gotten everyone so far and i think it’ll continue to do so.

Sweden: Henrik von Eckermann on King Edward. i have no idea what’s going on with his bridle. i think that’s a net of some sort to keep the flies off his nose? idk. kinda cool that he has no browband. watching the jumpers’ big canters is awesome. the first pair to go clear and inside the time! i think he threw a shoe on that last jump - something shoe-shaped goes flying in the slo-mo replay.

Japan: Taizo Sugitani on Quincy 194. this boy wants to look at the crowd and go. not the cleanest round i’ve ever seen - my instructor would have made me go back and do some of those again (in a lesson). 

Poland: Adam Grzegorzewski on Issem. several rails down - this course is tricky. 

France: Simon Delestre on I Amelusina R 51. a stallion - look at that crest. so much gape. too much gape, even for a jump course. i want a closer look at his bridle - two sets of reins. 

Ireland: Shane Sweetnam on James Kann Cruz. okay that’s a decent pun. i wonder how old he is; he’s really grayed out. the bit set up looks ridiculous - there’s so many straps. 

UK: Ben Mahler on Dallas Vegas Butilly. this mare has some favorite cities, it would seem. she’s got a nose net thing too. low, tight frame in canter before the round started. they’re also clear and in time! she’s frothing tho 🙁

Germany: Christian Kukuk on Checker 47. nice, plain figure 8 bridle for once. he does a little extra kick with the back legs as he’s in the air over the jump. clear and in time. 

Israel: Ashlee Bond on Donatello 141. it’s always interesting to see how much sheepskin each horse likes; Donatello has it on all three straps of his breastplate. 

USA: Laura Kraut on Baloutinue. i like them. came in nice and quiet, gave Baloutinue some pets before they started. fantastic, chill feeling round/not frantic at all. clear and in time (5 seconds under!)

Netherlands: Maikel van der Vleuten on Beauville Z. for a horse who apparently likes wiggly lines, they looked very straight through the triple combination. also a nice round - boring, as my instructor would say. (that’s a good thing)

Brazil: Pedro Veniss on Nimrod de Muze. i couldn’t help it, i laughed at the horse’s name. there’s some head tossing, especially as Veniss tries to steady him before a fence. clear and in time. 

UAE: Omar Abdul Aziz al Marzooqi on Enjoy de la Mure. pretty dark bay. happy ears, even over the jumps. nice pair. 

Saudi Arabia: Abdulrahman Alrajhi on Ventago. red ribbon tail, watch yourselves y’all. his stirrups are green to match his coat and the saddle pad and ear bonnet. it’s cute. lots of sheepskin on the breastplate. not the ride Alrajhi was hoping for, methinks - he was shaking his head a little after the round. 

Australia: Hilary Scott on Milky Way. a gray mare, as her name suggests 🙂 sheepskin on her breastplate too. four rails down, but a nice ride in other respects. 

Canada: Mario Deslauriers on Emerson. head tossing in the turns and coming up to some of the jumps. two sets of reins - i don’t think it’s a double in the two bits sense, but there’s a definite elevated-control situation happening. looks like there’s a star under his fly bonnet! touch of froth. 

Belgium: Gilles Thomas on Ermitage Kalone. gorgeous chestnut and a big bold blaze. he’s got a nose-fly-net thing. lovely round (clear and under time) and lovely ride (no gape or froth). i like this pair.

[orenonahaichigoda]

I had a rough day, and came to a realisation. I will say a bit about my own experience, and then, after having to lay the groundwork of explaining 400 things about Japan because American schools and media think the whole world is the US, Western Europe, and places to blow up, making explaining necessary, will tie it to Ichigo, or at least how I portray him.

I'm Post Dankai Juniors, growing up in Japan. So's Kubo, actually. The boundaries of this Japanese generation are roughly '75 to '85, Yutori, the following generation that's always translated and localised as Millennial, pretty solidly set as beginning at '86. These things are always fuzzy because you can't vivisect living brains and find the part that likes char siu buns and the part that likes jazz fusion. I *majored* in Social Science. You'll have teachers who say "it is absolute that we date people who are similar to us because we're all actually narcists." (It *might* be because they're like our beloved family or community. Narcistic Personality is not universal) But it really just is fuzzy, and that teacher/book author is an idiot. Anyway, Yutori is always translated as Millennial. I don't know the end boundary. Post Dankai Juniors covers almost totally a debated throe for Germanic nations (I know Britain, Germany, and Nederland use the same generations as America, and their languages are Germanic) because of how fuzzy it all is, though.

Anyway, so since coming to the US, my interactions with other Asians, again, how is this defined when China, Mongolia, Japan all border Russia and West Asia includes Jordan and Saudi Arabia, South Asia is India's area, Southeast Asia is Laos, Thailand's area, I mean, find the Arabic kanji. I don't think Thailand even uses soy sauce. What the heck IS Asia, really? (Or "Middle East" when half of that's Africa and the other half shares plate with Europe? )

Anyway, my experience with Asians that are Boomer ages tends to be people who immigrated as adults, who more identity with a generation like "Dankai" or "Sirake." My experiences with Latinos older than me... I've never actually asked if the generational labels are even the same.

The thing about that is that when the name is the same, it means enough cultural traits are shared.

My biggest experience with people who grew up under the term "Boomer" are Black and white.

I've noticed a unifying trait.

If they're something oppressed (Black, gay), their attitude tends to be"it is mandatory to stand up for *my* demograph...but kicking the person behind me on the ladder in the teeth is wholesome, pure, and fun."

Outing me to large groups and saying I "speak Asian" seem to be the most common two. Calling me "Chinese" long after I've cleared this up for them is a close third.

I mean, don't get me wrong--my experience with Italian Americans past GI generation has been that now acquiring the "white" label, just like biphobic/aphobic/transphobic cisgays, they're more often staunch priveledge defenders than cishet people of Anglo descent! And it's just as true for X and Y as it is for Boomer (for the latter, one need only look at NYC destroyer and trump defender Giuliani) I actually don't really identify with my Italian side at all because I was kinda locked out of making any meaningful connection.

But back to my point that even in so-leftist-it's-almost-not-America Bay Area, Boomers are still like this!

The kind of stuff that flows out a X/Y TERF's mouth, or the mouth of an X/Y person with a Confederate flag on his wall, American-raised Boomers say with ease regardless of their alignment! It's banananas.

(Please note that I also just have not met a whole lot of Native Americans, period, nor enough people significantly older than me from any one place in Africa, that was an omission of lacking data, not intended as erasure)

How I tie it to Ichigo--

So Kubo avoids specifying birth years for anyone.

When I see something like this, I generally assume date of publication, as do most people in most fandoms (which of course gets screwy when you have something endlessly rebooted like Superman or Batman or something eternally unchanging like Detective Conan)

Anyway, the first Bleach something published was the comic in '01.

I generally assume it was supposed to be the start of a new school year, as Ichigo doesn't know many of his classmates until at least the first test scores come out. So it's probably April or something.

If Ichigo was 15 then, he'd also be Post Dankai Juniors, just barely. If Ichigo TURNED 15 shortly after, during his adventure, he'd be undebatably Millennial.

Now, there is still something up with Dankai and Sirake. PM Abe is the latter, b. 1954. A lot of his age-peers are behind him. This is the guy who supports remilitarisation and was caught funding a private militarist/fascist high(?) school that teaches that people from countries Japan conquered during its brief phase of trying to beat colonial Europe are less than dogs.

Now, I left there as a teen. Clinton was US president. Scandals still got people kicked out of public office in Japan. I hadn't figured or come out yet. Sure, I got bullied for being mixed, but kids will pick if you like different singers than the "cool" ones. They'll pick based on what's in your lunch. That data is sausage.

I'm not 100% sure what Ichigo would face day-to-day sociopolitically as he grew up/aged. I haven't had living family since'95 there, and friendships don't get deep enough to ever last distance until at least high school. For me, adulthood.

But I've kept/caught up enough (you try keeping up in the South before the internet was more than ten University sites!) that I know he'd face fascists (c'mon, the guy takes on a martial law government to save a new friend--that's anarchist, he just doesn't seem anarchist in his own world. He only fights humans in defence) I'm not sure how he'd feel about the JSDF, but he only fought the sinigami's war out of feeling like it was his responsibility because the adults around him kinda made it so. I super don't see him being for *starting* wars. In a human war, I see him actually being like Sugihara Chiune, a historical figure who died when I was a kid who I majorly admire. He worked at a Japanese embassy in Nazi territory, and when the embassy was evacuated,he continued throwing passports to Jewish people to go to Japan from the train he was departing on,and is hidden from Americans in the same spirit that Martin Luther King is...pulled the teeth out of. (PS, speaking of,go Google Steven Kiyosi Kuromiya)

Also, Ichigo's whole schtick is defending those worse off than him. He's not someone I see defending Yamato Japanese priveledge. Heck, I could see him joining Uchinanchu efforts to get Parliament and the US base to leave them alone. I can easily see him sticking up for a Filipino domestic worker he met thirty seconds ago.

To this end, I think regardless of what he is, he'd have a large rub with Japan's equivalents of Boomers.

Not to mention that Abe supporters tend to be very sexist and queerphobic, which isn't even homegrown but imported from Américanisation. I mean, there were female warriors--assasins, which is what Yoruichi and Soi-Fon are styled after, and go look at some Ukiyoe, like Utagawa Kitamaro. Quite a few artists in the 200-ish years of the Edo period depicted life in the queer districts. I've also had people posit that Noh might've been a welcoming draw for trans people the same way drag was all over the US in the twentieth century and still is in rural areas, where there's less cisgay gatekeeping. But this isn't something I can reasonably research without access to plenty of older and not well known dusty documents, and lots of time, and I live in the US many years now. And do you know how much round trip airfare alone is!? Also, the language changed so much and I can't read anything before Meiji without dropping words. Rukia, Byakuya, Yoruichi all have made for TV old-sounding Japanese like period dramas. Actual 18th Century Japanese would be unintelligible to the unspecialised.

So this stuff isn't really native, but Abe and a lot of people his age support all these -isms.

I super don't see Ichigo being happy about this.

(I also feel like Issin's old enough to remember before these -isms, but that's my own thing. In my project, he was in those districts, but that's me)

At the same time, I'm still writing this through my own lens. Also, not still being there, I just don't have enough data on Yutori in adulthood, or the grown Yutori lens. Honestly, even most other immigrants I meet are older than that. Or older than that and their adorable three year old children. So I have no clue.

In the early 2000s, I got myself from the South to CA and began to reconnect, but began to is the key phrase. I can tell you right now that Abe is as much of a second phase of Nakasone as trump is of Nakasone's buddy Regean. But what shifted when, I can't say. I'm not entirely sure how Koizumi ran the ship, as it were. I know some things, but not enough to say.

But whenever things shifted however, and whichever year Ichigo was born, I just cannot imagine him being any more on board with current events than really anyone in my area not born between 1946-1964 and raised in America.

I feel like he'd probably be too tired or self-effacing to fight for himself, but he'd take on, loud and proud, any bigotry against *others.*

I...also can't really say I'm much different, except my joints are held together by the power of wishes, so I'm more like "get the victim to safety" than "give the attacker plenty of regret." So, I can only do anything in limited ways.

Ichigo is also entirely fuelled by the power of love. Lost his ability to protect and feels like his sinigami friends ditched him? Mondo depressed, however much he wants no one to notice--which most do a great job of ignoring! Everyone in his world turned against him for a guy who has attacked people close to him? Terrified, and murder can now be an answer. (Fullbring Arc)

I was going somewhere with that. I've forgotten, but I'll leave it.

But anyway, I feel like he really only comes close to fighting for himself when others are taken away from him in a way that's also wronging them.

So yeah, I super don't see him happy with current events or Sirake gen.

I'm not sure how much I see him fighting for himself as mixed panromantic grey-ace. I mean, we know he fights people who are about to punch his face in for his looks, but what else can you reasonably do at that point? Get your head bashed in? I'm not sure how much I see him fighting hateful words pointed at him versus resigning himself to "people are the worst." I mean, when he talks about being picked on, he kinda seems resigned, or at least like it's a fact, like shoes being for outside or something.

I guess I tied it to Ichigo a lot better than I thought!

But also, the struggle against people born just after the war is not just you, and not just America. It's a major problem.

And it's likely that Ichigo would agree.

[mithliya]

Is Bahrain Sunni or Shia? How is the govt structure at national and local level? Like democracy or monarchy? And is it secular?

1. bahrain is shi’i-majority (around 70%). the government is sunni. 

2. it’s structured kinda similar to how the US government is. except the head of the state is the king, and he has the ultimate say. so there’s the elected representatives, but the king decides ultimately on which representatives he wants there. and then there’s like the senate which the king decides on. the crown prince & prime minister also have a lot of power, both are members of the royal family and the people basically don’t really have any say in that (the arab spring in bahrain in 2011 started due to people wanting to remove the prime minister from his position, it lead to thousands of arrests, exiles, and hundreds of deaths). as for ‘local level’, i believe it’s separated into the northern governorate, capital governorate, muharraq governorate, and southern governorate. these are governed by governors appointed by the prime minister. again, the people have no say in this. keep in mind, bahrain is a pretty small island (london is 2x larger than bahrain) so like, there isn’t much of a separation if any separation in  terms of local & national.

3. monarchy. they claim to be a ‘constitutional monarchy’ like the UK, but that is false. it’s an authoritarian monarchy.

4. no, bahrain is not a secular country. but it is religiously liberal compared to the countries neighbouring us (saudi arabia, iran, UAE, kuwait, qatar, etc). there are some regulations that are religiously-based and there is a sharia court, and the country goes by sharia law. but it is far tamer than the countries around us! 

[ellvie]

ELVIE CROFT, twenty four years old. youtuber and ghost with the most on beloved emmy award winning netflix series ghost gallery. interests include horror movies, the 80s, halloween, and the absolute abomination that is black licorice. the smartest dipshit you’ll ever meet.

elvin tupelo croft. prefers elvie, but el is okay if you’re a close friend or family member. is extremely sensitive about the fact that he was almost named elvis after the famous musician because his dad is OBSESSED.

born in the salem, massachusetts on halloween day. descendant of an accused witch, son of an actual witch, and practices himself albeit casually. his dad is the county district attorney while his mom owns a small shop in town, so they were...lower middle class i guess. they always had enough to meet their needs, but couldn’t afford any extra spending or splurging. as he got older he’d go on to work small jobs around town, most notably as a janitor in the local movie theater. so no silver spoon or high horse here.

margo massey has been his best friend since birth. her maternal grandparents disowned her mom when she fell pregnant with margo, so elvie’s dad gave them some legal help and the rest is history. they’ve been best friends for longer than either of them can even remember, true ride or dies for life. if you don’t like margo then elvie doesn’t like you and that’s that on that. the antics of elvie croft and margo massey were famous in salem long before they were famous on netflix.

so he tried lots of different activities as a kid. he was a boy scout, he took music lessons, he was absolutely awful at tee ball, but nothing really stuck. he’s always had a lot of energy and a short attention span, so he gets bored of stuff pretty easily. 

something his parents and teachers would often notice about him was that he’s very smart. he’s a fast learner, one of those annoying types who seems to just do well in school and get perfect grades without even trying? that’s him. some people have even thrown around words like brilliant and genius. tbh they probably aren’t far off, but elvie hates being called smart to the point where he?? intentionally dumbs himself down 24/7 and passes it off as a joke

ofc that didn’t stop from being mercilessly bullied all throughout school. he had braces and glasses and chronic nosebleeds and didn’t play any sports and only had one friend who was picked on just as badly so he was definitely a favorite target of his peers.

fortunately elvie has much thicker skin than most people seem to realize. he doesn’t...really care what people think about him. at all. oh so what you don’t like him. he’ll have a good long cry about it while his emmy award is getting polished. not that he’s arrogant bc he honestly isn’t. it’s just that he knows his worth and your opinion of him isn’t going to change that.

he was fifteen when the rich & snobby abernathy family bought a huge summer home in salem and he met their daughter, astrea...it was love at first sight and to this day he’s never loved anybody else or even dated anybody else. their summer romance turned long distance when she went home in the fall. they were insistent upon not letting anything break them apart and aside from about a year where they weren’t together, nothing ever did. elvie croft has been dating the same girl since he was fifteen and just keeps falling more and more in love with her.

it should be noted that astrea’s parents absolutely hate him and they always have. he didn’t do anything except come from a poor no name family, which was more than enough for them, so elvie was resorting to climbing through her window and helping her sneak out in the middle of the night so they could see each other for even five minutes. it’s a regular romeo juliet story. how disgustingly lovesick and On Brand™ for them.

a year later he started his youtube channel at the age of sixteen with margo & the camera that he got for his birthday. it’s basically buzzfeed unsolved supernatural. he’s the believer, she’s the skeptic, and they go looking for ghosts! it was an instant hit. with every video posted they were gaining subscribers in the dozens, then the hundreds, then the thousands. they weren’t even in college yet and they were already two of the most popular & beloved names in youtuber fandom.

attended nyu once they did get to college. tbh elvie didn’t really wanna go?? he doesn’t like school, so he technically studied business and was top of his class as per usual, but he was mostly just there to party and hang out with margo and finally get to be with astrea all the time. he loves her so much like i can’t stress this enough.

too bad for him bc he got DUMPED in their last year of college. astrea broke up with him and then immediately went to saudi arabia for a year. he didn’t take it well at all, but fortunately he’d be distracted soon enough.

elvie and margo were approached by netflix producers who basically wanted to turn their youtube channel into a tv show which turned out to be a really smart move because ghost gallery is a HUGE HIT. everyone’s seen it. everyone loves it. no one can seem to shut up about it. basically think of the hype around stranger things and you’ll understand how much everyone loves ghost gallery.

they’ve put out two seasons so far & are just about to start filming for season three which is scheduled for a late october 2019 release and elvie absolutely loves his show so he couldn’t be happier about it!

and now for a few other fast facts bc i SOMEHOW feel like i haven’t covered everything yet!

loves horror movies, halloween, and scaring people. by the age of twelve he was getting full grown adults to scream and run away from him in terror while he just laughed and laughed bc it was the best thing ever to him.

it’s been a running joke all his life that he doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything and who knows? maybe he isn’t.

his other major interest? everything 80s. tbh at least 90% of everything he’s ever said is an 80s movie reference, often too obscure for most people to even catch. 

he’s extremely rich bc he spends almost none of the money he earns from youtube and netflix. he grew up poor enough to have the mentality that he can’t just go around wasting money on whatever he wants even though he very well could without even making a serious dent in his bank account. at worst he might impulse buy some extra candy or smth but nothing more expensive than that

they type of eccentric genius who will solve a whole rubik’s cube in .0000000001 seconds like it’s nothing and act like it isn’t even a big deal bc he’s already distracted by something else entirely. it probs gives people a little whiplash tbh

PERSONALITY: elvie is nice, but he’s not for everyone. eccentric is probably the best word to describe him. he doesn’t do things the way everyone else does. he’s extremely hyperactive and very ~out there~ which is a combination that’s just Too Much for some people. he tends to come across as either witty and endearingly charming or loud and flat out annoying. so he’s kinda terrible at making friends but it doesn’t stop him from trying. in general he’s well liked if only bc almost everyone loves ghost gallery, but ofc there are outliers so pls feel free to hate him. tl;dr he’s completely harmless but maybe a little annoying, will just ramble at you for hours about ghosts and horror movies and the 80s and assume that you’re friends because of it.

CONNECTIONS

family

maternal cousin - willow sparks and alexandra blakely (distant)

paternal cousin, constant bickering - river espinoza

romantic

wife - astrea croft

unrequited crush - open

platonic

best friend, might bicker sometimes but ride or die 5ever - margo massey

acquaintances - torrance keynes, saywer duncan, open to more.

close friends - open to several.

family friends - rosalind cox, open to more.

friends -  jordan parkes, wren daily, reign monroe, sahar santini, genesis iver, ingrid larson, marialena goldstein.

online → irl friends - ginny baker

unlikely friends - eden o’ connor, open to more,

frenemies - beckley bovér, open to more.

negative

enemies - angel almeida, open to more.

bad terms - carson king, open to more.

ex friends - luna reyes, anastasia sangster.

he doesn’t tend to have a lot of enemies but whew he absolutely despises angel so if you like him then elvie probably doesn’t like you. 

[baekhvuns]

No worries bestie it's a member guarantee group order so I'll most likely get Hwa, if not I'm gonna fight all the Shitstars, doesn't matter if they're my friends 🤗

I do remember Top dogg yessss. I would love to see the members from Gugudan and Pristin, CLC too... but doubt

Wow way to expose me, huh...🙉 I saw one photo of Superkind and wasn't sure which one was the AI one, because the picture was so photoshopped akhdjabdhjs. Well but he has pink hair <3 also...a tail(?) that's a choice, hmm and his shirt says PINK DEVIL lol. This is a gimmick and I feel like it might get old pretty quick, but so far the guys seem interesting. The sad part is they're not appearing on music shows because of the AI so that's definitely a downside, they need to figure it out next comeback. Also hmmm

I recently bought this set at Sephora a few days ago, gonna test it out. Sadly I'm very inconsistent with my skincare routine, one day I do 10 different steps another day I fall asleep with my make up on because I'm too tired after a party ☠ I also like Then I Met You - yea it's a brand name, if you're expecting a glow up there's a company called Glow Recipe 👀 there's an older brand called Tony Moly I remember buying a lot of their stuff because at some point you couldn't easily find a huge variety of vegan skincare in SK. My friend who sends me kpop stuff got me their watermelon sugar scrub AND I WANNA EAT IT

Ohhhh miss ma'am is killing it with her outfits, seriously I LOOOOOVE SUITS SO I'M DYING. Koo Ryeon is a true fashion icon though, whoever the stylists on Tomorrow were they killed it with her outfits. Also thanks for putting Soo Hyuk in turtlenecks, coats and vests 😉

So the heatwave got you as well, it wasn't raining here yesterday and today it's already scorching. Also wtf I woke up, looked at my phone without my glasses on thought it was 9:43 so I decided not to sleep anymore, only to see 9am later so it was 8:43 instead 🤯 this happened to me a few times before lmao

Also Ateez is playing a FREE (apparently) gig in Saudi Arabia?! I wonder how long the festival gonna be, but I'm fuming with jealousy nevertheless

BABY

EVIL

Anyways NO MORE ROCKY CONTENT PLEASW FUCK OFF JESYSSSSSHSHHS.

Stop talking about king Hwa especially if he's a cry baby, because I won't be able to control myself 🤚🏻🤚🏻🤚🏻🤚🏻 what do you want me to hack your computer?!

Bestie you're looking AT SHAMPOOS??? I wanna steal that denim outfit, well all his outfits, but what's new. The worst thing is I think we have similar sizes 😭

BBHWA... btw I always read it as baby boy first I'm sorry I'm not normal. Yeah the handsies... 🤲🏻 let me paint your nails sir

I had a dream about Taeyong hahahaha it was winter in my dream, almost had a heart attack and thought it was winter for real.

A quiz for you. This is my result okdhdjdhdsjhddh I can't - DV 💖

hi hello!!!

No worries bestie it's a member guarantee group order so I'll most likely get Hwa, if not I'm gonna fight all the Shitstars, doesn't matter if they're my friends 🤗

SHITSTARS 😭😭😭😭 i support fIGHT for that pc its ur birth right too 🔫

I do remember Top dogg yessss. I would love to see the members from Gugudan and Pristin, CLC too... but doubt

YEAHH I HOPE THEY BRING MORE GG’S BACK IF THE SHOW EVEN CONTINUES

Wow way to expose me, huh...🙉 I saw one photo of Superkind and wasn't sure which one was the AI one, because the picture was so photoshopped akhdjabdhjs. Well but he has pink hair <3 also...a tail(?) that's a choice, hmm and his shirt says PINK DEVIL lol. This is a gimmick and I feel like it might get old pretty quick, but so far the guys seem interesting. The sad part is they're not appearing on music shows because of the AI so that's definitely a downside, they need to figure it out next comeback. Also hmmm

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭 he’s sO PRETTY kinda looks like a mix of sehun and jeno i wonder if the irl guy actually looks like that 😭😭😭 YES THE PINK DEVIL FJWHFKE AND THE PINK HAIR 😩😩 no fr they need to show us the guy next cb id beg on my knees for it,,,,, oh that looks so similar buT TAEYONG LOOKS MORE AI THAN THE AI ITSELF FBWMF

I recently bought this set at Sephora a few days ago, gonna test it out. Sadly I'm very inconsistent with my skincare routine, one day I do 10 different steps another day I fall asleep with my make up on because I'm too tired after a party ☠ I also like Then I Met You - yea it's a brand name, if you're expecting a glow up there's a company called Glow Recipe 👀 there's an older brand called Tony Moly I remember buying a lot of their stuff because at some point you couldn't easily find a huge variety of vegan skincare in SK. My friend who sends me kpop stuff got me their watermelon sugar scrub AND I WANNA EAT IT

10 DIFF STEPS??? 😭😭😭🤚🏼 THEN I MET U SOUNDS LIKE A FIC TITLE BFNWBDKS ID BUY IT JUST FOR THAT REASON 😭😭😭 tony moly pls 😭😭😭 DID U EAT IT HAVE U TRIED TOO HOW DOES IT TASTE LIKE FOR SCIENCE FJWKFHEK

Ohhhh miss ma'am is killing it with her outfits, seriously I LOOOOOVE SUITS SO I'M DYING. Koo Ryeon is a true fashion icon though, whoever the stylists on Tomorrow were they killed it with her outfits. Also thanks for putting Soo Hyuk in turtlenecks, coats and vests 😉

So the heatwave got you as well, it wasn't raining here yesterday and today it's already scorching.

FRRRR THE SUITS FIT HER SO GOOD AND SUITS ON WOMEN 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨🤌🏼speaking OG soohyuk,,, this is literally him

Also wtf I woke up, looked at my phone without my glasses on thought it was 9:43 so I decided not to sleep anymore, only to see 9am later so it was 8:43 instead 🤯 this happened to me a few times before lmao

LMFAOOOO BESTIE 😭😭😭😭?????? IS EVERYTHING OKAY AT HOME LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭😭

Also Ateez is playing a FREE (apparently) gig in Saudi Arabia?! I wonder how long the festival gonna be, but I'm fuming with jealousy nevertheless

YEAH AND a lot of ppl aren’t happy abt music concerts being held in jeddah bc of the religion so idk how that will end up but arabteez era stARTING 🤌🏼🤌🏼 if one if them doesn’t say habibi im unstanning on spot 🔫

BABY EVIL Anyways NO MORE ROCKY CONTENT PLEASW FUCK OFF JESYSSSSSHSHHS.

NO FUCK OFF TBWKEJWKDJWK IM NO RJQJFJWDKW stop it bc bodyguard just boxed aND THIS IS NOT HELPING PLS SHELWHDKW HAJIMASAEYO?????

Stop talking about king Hwa especially if he's a cry baby, because I won't be able to control myself 🤚🏻🤚🏻🤚🏻🤚🏻 what do you want me to hack your computer?!

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭 CRY BABY FOR MISS GIRLIE WHO LOOKS THE OTHER WAY 😭😭😭 HRKWHDKW HACK IT SO U CAN SCROLL THRU IT DRAFTS AND TELL ME WHICH ONE I SHOULD WRITE NEXT DBDB

Bestie you're looking AT SHAMPOOS??? I wanna steal that denim outfit, well all his outfits, but what's new. The worst thing is I think we have similar sizes 😭

THERE WAS LIKE 6 THICK BOTTLES OF SHAMPOO HOW CAN U NOT LOOK WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY CLEANING WITH THAT MUCH THEY BARELY HAVE HAIR WHATS GOING ONBRKWHDK atz the type to use 13in1 shampoo’s <3 RGQNDHWKDH BESTIE STEAL RIGHT AWAY I SUPPORT

BBHWA... btw I always read it as baby boy first I'm sorry I'm not normal. Yeah the handsies... 🤲🏻 let me paint your nails sir I had a dream about Taeyong hahahaha it was winter in my dream, almost had a heart attack and thought it was winter for real.

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭 HOW DID THE DREAM GO PLS ENLIGHTEN US 🤲🏼🤲🏼🥰

A quiz for you. This is my result okdhdjdhdsjhddh I can't - DV 💖

bestie..SEONGHWA???? 😮‍💨😮‍💨🤚🏼SOULMATES??

for you

[justanotherprowrestlingblog]

Greatest Royal Rumble: Review

Friday 27 April, from the King Abdullah International Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Triple H vs John Cena:[***]

The show kicks off with a match you wouldn't expect as an opener and  it was an actually good overall match: not their best match ever but actually watchable. They worked a smart match where they kept working the crowd as they were chanting for both but Triple H made sure he would get them to boo him which at the end he did. Cena picks up a rebound victory after he lost at WrestleMania as expected and now goes back being a part timer unless WWE needs him for something, while Hunter goes back doing behind the scene stuff. Solid opening.

Cruiserweight Championship: Kalisto vs Cedric Alexender:[***1/2]

This is weird to say but actually the cruiser did a better job than on the mania Kick-off and i wasn't expecting anything from this match. While the crowd did not give a fuck about the match, which it really sucks, i feel both guys delivered a really good and fun match that almost made us believe Kalisto could pick up a win but at the end of the day Alexander  won with his lumbar check outta nowhere and it looked as cool as kalisto's springboard spanish fly. I would have loved the crowd to go more behind the cruiserweights, but still it was really a little surprising match, because as i said before, on paper it looked like a filler but it was actually one of the best matches of the night. Alexander now can fully move on with Murphy and they'll probably square off at Backlash.

Raw Tag Team Championship:  Woken Matt Hardy&Bray Wyatt vs The Bar:[**]

I personally lost interest in this match after the Shake Up not because i thougth it was gonna be a bad  match but because the result was very predictable: with it being the Raw Tag team titles, the title couldn't change brand like the IC or US title could and so it was clear that Bray and Matt would have won the match and the belts. The match itself was ok and there is not much to say about it. It will be very interesting to see how long will the team of Wyatt and Hardy last on Raw and also what's gonna happen to the Bar on tuesday nights because of how the tag team division on SD is quite stacked at the moment.

Us Championship: Jinder Mahal vs Jeff Hardy: [*]

Good god what an horrible match it was. It was really painful to watch even tho it leasted only 6 minutes and in this six minutes jinder even sold air after Jeff Hardy did not hit him with his twist of fate. Slow, boring, predictable, easy finish. It was really bad and even i wouldn't advise you to watch it even if you have the whole time in the world to fully watch this show.

Smackdown Tag Team Championship: Usos vs Bludgeon Brothers: [**]

This match had the same effects on me as the other tag team match did: it was ok but there isnt much to say about it. It also feels again like they could have done much better, and in the past they already did, but they were limited to do this and couldn't do much about it. Bludgeon Brother looks even more dominating after this win as they are going towards a possible showdown with Sanity, which at the moment are the only real threat to the BB title reign.

Fatal 4 way Ladder Match for the IC Championship: Seth Rollins vs Samoa Joe vs The Miz vs Finn Balor: [***3/4]

This match is easily the best match of the whole event. It wasn't a ladder match for the ages but in this event it is enough to be the match of the night. It lacked same drama as to be fair Rollins winning was very predictable, unless you had Miz retaining, but then you had him to win again next sunday with Finn and maybe it wasn't to much for WWE to book and we know how heels get booked. It was a cool match but it kinda lacked some spots to remember but it's ok since they have another PPV next week and they don't need to go all out and risk their body for a “special event”. The finish was actually smart because protected the loser and made Rollins look smart, as babyface usually aren't booked as smart guys and for once it's cool and also it sets up Balor nicely as the next challenger after Rollins gets rid of Miz who is gonna get his head kicked by Bryan

WWE Championship: Shinsuke Nakamura vs AJ Styles: [***]

So i came into this match with the mindset that they were gonna do a better match than mania but even this time, the match didn't lived up the hype. It was a little bit better than the mania one but the mania one had a better finish. I was really enjoying the match because they were telling a story that was well fitting with the whole build  up and it was showing why they went with Nakamura turning heel, which for me is really a great idea, but the finish killed the momentum for me. And now they set a rematch for Backlash and i hope this match will have a stipulation with no count-outs (it would make sense since how this one ended) and also with no DQ's (it would also made sense why Nakamura going always for the low blow), unless this time they want to have Styles losing by DQ because he low blowed Nakamura and set up another match for the next event, which if i'm not wrong, it's gonna be MITB. Let's see what's gonna happen on SD live and also what will happen on Backlash, hoping finally for a really great match between Styles and Nakamura

Casket Match: Undertaker vs Rusev: [*1/2]

Good lord. I was expecting a bad match but it was even worse than i thought. It was really really slow and Undertaker look really bad as he isn't even at 30%. They tried to deliver an Ok match but it felt too long and pretty much useless and never in a milion year Rusev would have won. Also i hope English didn't got seriously injuried because that tombstone piledriver looked really nasty. What's gonna happen next for the Dead Man? Hopefully he won't show up untill summerslam because he need really a long rest if he is gonna wrestle again.

Steel Cage for the Universal Championship: Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar: [*]

Well...another really really bad match between those two and to be fair in some aspects this one is even worse then their match at wrestlemania. It was just a really disconnected finisher matches just like those on older wwe videogames where both wrestler started with 3 or 5 finsihers. And then a real trainwreck of a finish as Roman speared brock through the cage and his feet touched the ground first but Brock still won. If this was a football game (soccer for my american readers), it would be a great spot pro VAR (video assisting referee), but since it's not, it just a really bad botch and WWE had to find a way to justify it to not ruin the plans. Now, whats gonna happen next? Roman will complain, beat Joe and probably get one more match and maybe beat Lesnar for title, but still it feels like they are waiting and waiting and waiting too much to move on with a new Universal champ.

First ever 50 men royal rumble:[***]

Let's finally talk about the reason we had this event: many people loved it, many people didn't liked it and then there's me standing in the middle between them. It was a good rumble, not great but still watchable and in some aspects really enjoyable and i'm not talking about Titus O'neil sliding under the ring (best royal rumble moment ever). The thing i hated about this match is how they used the surprise, because it makes no sense that a guy that has yet to make his debut on WWE nxt TV, gets a chance to perform in the biggest rumble ever. Or why in the fucking hell should we care about a sumo wrestler, than the majority of us didn't knew nothing about, being in the squared circle. Why instead not using more 205 live guys or even some returning legends(better than hornswoggle) or even some people that actually wrestled previous in the night or wrestle regularly on NXT. Braun wins and makes the new record for most eliminations in a single rumble as Bryan makes the new record for being the wrestler that was in the match for the most time. Also Cass eliminating Bryan makes sense for their match on Backlash. So i'd say it was a good experiment even tho if they doing it again, i hope next time they'll pick the spots in the match more wisely and a great spot also for Botchamania, because between Lashley, Cass, Dawson eliminating himself and Titus doing a Shockmaster is full of stuff for Botchamania

Overall: so what to say about the greatest royal rumble ever? For me it's an ok event that had some good matches, some ok stuff and some shocklingly bad stuff. If you're short on time, just watch the cruiserweight match, HHH vs Cena and the ladder match, if not you can watch also the rumble and Nakamura vs Styles. The rest is not worthy unless you have 6 hours of spare time. The event felt important even tho the result didn't felt as important, but still an Ok experiment if they are gonna do another similar event, even with the time zone being different (praise the gods for giving me an event that ended at 11PM and not at 5AM...i live in italy so usually WWE PPVs start at 2AM for us) in the future. [6]

[mytwitterisdogtoast1]

Hell in a Cell is a problem and how to fix PPV’s in WWE

You know what is stupid? Having a Hell in a Cell every year. In fact, having 3 every year seems really stupid since HIAC is meant to be this special occasion when someone hates you so much they want to hurt you badly. See I remember when I was young and the second Hell in a Cell came out and the referee was so traumatized he killed himself off camera. Now is this a little excessive? Very much so but it was a different time. Or maybe I’m depraved and this is all a fever dream I’m having but still, HIAC is meant to be horrifying for those who enter. Remember folks, anyone who enters has their career shortened. It is meant to be that bad of a time. The problem is since it started there are people in the WWE who have been in many who are still in great states in their career. Here is a few Randy Orton - 8 Roman Reigns - 4 Seth Rollins - 3 Kevin Owens - 2 Bray Wyatt - 2 The thing is that these men are all main eventers and have been in more than one. This is because the PPV list is kind of lacking. So I figured out a list of PPV that can be what we watch every year with a couple other things to not. First let me state this. There are 3 PPV that should not be a thing. 1: Hell in a cell - No need to explain since I already did. Again, need to keep HIAC special for those days when someone really needs to get it handed to them. Especially since the idea of something harsh can be done with other types of matches. In fact there are even some matches that need to be given special rules. But that’s another story. 2: Night of champions - Here’s the thing. Every title should be defended at every PPV. Whether it’s on the pre show or is on the main event. Or, you know, Have them on the main roster shows more and have them defended there if they can’t be put on the PPVS. Sure some story lines come to a head and need to be on a PPV. But if a title is important or needed than put it on the PPV. Also to be completely fair, it doesn’t ALWAYS have every title on the line. So why have a PPV that is specifically based on all titles when you don’t even do that? 3:Great balls of fire - In fact, don’t just name your PPV dumb shit. I know that is harsh, but I know no one who liked the name and it could have been any of the other names that were thought of before this. And since it aired? It never aired again. With that out of the way let’s look at the list of PPV we have. All 12 of them. But first with the special ones. Look, it’s uncomfortable for some people but WWE is a business and they made a business deal with Saudi Arabia and like my opinion doesn’t really matter on it but they exist so let’s get them out of the way. They are all to some degree glorified house shows and are there for the fun of it so why not have one every 4 months? Keeping The Greatest Royal Rumble, Crown Jewel, and Super Show-Down are all fine events to have. Their should however, NOT HAVE THE STORY LINES ALREADY BEING DONE BECAUSE PEOPLE MIGHT NOT WANT TO WATCH THEM. This is a show that is as WWE put it meant to try and bring change to Saudi and I think they should do that with some fun stuff as well as more progress things when they can. More women, More gimmick matches, More Mansoor winning. More things that are not a story line thing. Lacy Evans and Natalya fighting over there was super important to the world and its progression and sure, it might not have been “riveting” and might have been something we’ve seen numerous times but still. It was women, fighting in Saudi. Next we need some stuff to put on when we need random stuff for whatever reason. Those can be In your house, Evolution, Halftime showdown, and Starrcade. Sometimes it would be nice to just have some stuff for whenever. These would help. We want more womens PPV and if you just hold random Evolutions you can have anyone from the entire company in it. Put on dream matches and so on. Now let’s get to the good stuff. Here are my choices of the PPV including the big 4. 1: Royal Rumble - This is the first month and should always be held this month. the reason? It gives 2 months of story build up to Wrestlemania for the rumble winner to fight people who want his spot such as the second place person or anyone else. 2: Fast lane - Here’s the deal. Anyone who goes in this and wants to fight surely can’t do it for the title. I mean clearly you can but having the upper card title up for grabs kinda ruins the moment when whoever wins the rumble gets the chance to call out and fight the person they choose. Having that as a chance to lose the belt and have it different people seems really strange. But hey, that’s just my opinion. 3: Roadblock - Goes well with Fast lane name wise and it’s the thing right before Wrestlemania. See the story line here doesn’t matter so much as it’s a good name. Story can be anything of a rematch between the two final people of the rumble. Another two people who were the final 4 of the rumble or something. I don’t write story so much as this is just the third PPV. 4: Wrestlemania - This is THE big one. This is your main event. What else is there to say about it? 5: Money in the bank - Time to have your first title defense or have your champ get challenged one more time by the winner or even maybe the second winner of the royal rumble and maybe have the original winner go after the other title. Thing is this night is based on one main thing. 6 men and 6 women going into a ladder match and coming out with a briefcase.  6: King of the ring - So you’ve had months to set up a championship tournament with a bunch of other people and some matches with belts that could be up on the line. Now with 4 main titles on the line and 3 matches in the king of the ring tournament. That is a total of 7 matches that can be put on that night for a good PPV. The king of the ring would be able to be pushed into the main event status or upper card too.  7: Great american bash - Goes great with the 4th of july. Has a good name for it and everything. 8: Summerslam - One of the big 4.  9: Breaking point - Just another PPV 10: Extreme rules - Here is what you could replace your HIAC PPV with. This is any single match that needs to be done that is “extreme” in nature. No rules, no holds barred, no dq, no countout, falls count anywhere, and so on. There are so many match types that equal out to things that can be done once a year but are now guaranteed Every other PPV can have these but they are not guaranteed. But Extreme rules? It needs them and thrives off of them like HIAC does with a single match. The reason to replace HIAC with this is because having both in a year lowers the impact of HIAC and makes these matches and anything else lose their effect. If HIAC is so damn important and special. Than these are nothing but generic matches in comparison. 11: Survivor series - Having all the shows fight each other, and having the champions from each show fight each other and even lastly having some people represent each brand makes it special. No story lines should here except when it involves the teams. 12: New years revolution - Perfect name to finish off the year. Now I know I didn’t give much of a reason since there is no real story except people fighting people. Unless we have something concrete like I was making up a years worth of PPV and not just giving what should be in each month the only real thing is when a thing is placed because of its name. These are all fantastic PPV names for great times.