#let that man wrestle!

[sequentialprophet]

Fave moments of Kentucky Chuck Taylor being very sexy(and my best guy getting his ass kicked real good)

[turtleblogatlast]

Shockingly underrated thing about Leo is that he’s legitimately charming when he wants to be?

He’s the Faceman! He’s persuasive! That’s not just some random title he gave himself with no backing to it. People will listen to him. Even if they think he’s being annoying or if they’re upset at him, people listen to him anyway! There’s a reason his bros push him out front to talk to people, and when this happens, that talking nearly always works.

Moreover, Leo knows people. He looks at them and takes into account how they act and what they’re like as he makes his way through the conversations. It’s easy to forget this aspect of Leo’s character because he only brings it out when he really needs (read: wants) to, but it really is a notable part of him that always love to see.

And I say charm in particular because he has a knack for not only getting people to pay attention, but for getting people to stay and listen to what he has to say.

[whetstonefires]

The reason I keep banging the Jiang Fengmian drum so hard is not that he did nothing wrong--he's definitely in contention for best parenting in this book but that bar is in the ground--but because most of the takes I see about him are so extremely bad.

If you want to slag him off for trying to make choices that would hurt no one, and winding up properly protecting no one as a result, that's valid! That's an interesting and text-based critique, which opens into his parallels with Lan Xichen!

If you want to blame him for being weirdly over-invested in Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng being bffs, that's fair, that definitely contributed to the weirdness between them. If you want to say he was a poor communicator, that he fundamentally misunderstood his son, that he failed to be emotionally available in a way his kids could get much use out of, even that he should have figured out a way to stop Yu Ziyuan from creating such a hostile environment, all of that is fair game!

If you want to tackle how the worst thing he did to his kids was die I am so interested in how Wei Wuxian went on to abandon A-Yuan by going to his death, and how that might be tied to how his primary adult role model tied him to a boat and went off to a fight he knew he was going to lose.

After his parents had already left him like that once before, presumably less intentionally.

But no, instead I keep seeing that Jiang Fengmian didn't care. That he never expressed affection. That he actively participated in Yu Ziyuan's fucky game of forcing proxy conflict onto the boys instead of constantly trying (and failing) to shut it down, or that he ignored her bad behavior because it didn't affect him, or that he fought with her constantly, or that he was too much of an unmanly coward to stand up to her when she wanted something.

All of which are directly in contradiction to every scene he's in, and several of which manage to invert or erase the actual conflicts between him and his wife that were the source of all that tension.

And which are really interesting, because some of the most intractable elements are ideological--Yu Ziyuan is fundamentally a conservative and Jiang Fengmian seems to want to be an egalitarian, which ofc matched poorly with his hereditary authority as patriarch of a large sect.

The fact that the bit where we get to actually see him failing to parent Jiang Cheng consists of him gently and firmly trying to correct Jiang Cheng's ethics when what was actually needed in that moment was reassurance for the well-founded insecurities that were causing him to be a little bitch, only for Yu Ziyuan to charge in and make everything fifty times worse, is so much more interesting than literally any version of this family dynamic I have seen in fic. It's to the point I'm relieved when writers kill Jiang Fengmian off, because it means they probably won't feel the need to character-assassinate him too badly.

The number of people I've seen come right out and say some variation of 'men can't be abused' is killing me here. No, Yu Ziyuan wanting to hurt her husband does not constitute sufficient proof that he abused her first and deserved it! That's not how anything works!

[princedevitt]

"Orange Cassidy is an elite wrestler. Anyone who doesn't think so is a fool."

[hanitje]

Adam Copeland Being Classy

[likesummerrainn]

TNA Hard To Kill | 01.13.24

[the-kipsabian]

[bloodycowboyclub]

...If I was your hero, do you want to be the best technical WRESTLER in the world?

[knifepervert]

On today’s edition of “Jay makes an oopsie whoopsie”…

[suja-janee]

I’m sorry I love how in one of the Bireena drawings Bi Han looks like he’s trying to sneak off with her and he’s carrying her like a Looney Tunes villain 😂

Love ur work💕👍

I’m not sure if you’re talking about the most recent one but it’s actually based off this wrestling move

It’s kinda a random headcanon that Bi-Han doesn’t really know how to show affection and doesn’t know how to receive love either so he feels he must earn it through combat 😂

Sareena only puts up with it to let him blow off some steam, plus she’s a demon and can handle it (no human woman can handle that mess tbh)

[jj-dyl]

jey uso being so over is such a double edged sword for me. on the one hand, jey is finally getting the recognition he deserves and i could not be happier genuinely. i remember fighting for my life when people used to say jey could never be a main eventer. and now he’s undeniable.

on the other hand, tho, i feel it’s completely flanderized him as a character. “yeet” is who he is now. he used to have so much depth. he used to be so genuinely exciting and interesting to listen to. the way even the smallest micro expression would build on his character and story. even in ring i feel like he’s a little more watered down than before. and don’t even get me started on the feud with jimmy. it came across much more “lighthearted rivalry” rather than the genuinely emotional feud it should have been.

don’t get me wrong, the “yeet” thing is fun and i still love jey. but idk. i miss pre-summerslam jey uso.

[dayurno]

what are your fav crack ships of aftg? personally me i love allison and kevin two bitches slaying love to see it

WHEHE well obviously its kevseth to me im too invested in the lore i made up in my head with @rabidfoxt to ever actually answer anything else when it comes to absolute favorite, i think hardly any other interactions in the book beat "i'm sick of him getting everything he wants because he's kevin day". like the jealousy! the tension! the hatred! the resentment! you have everything i want and i dont know what id do with myself if i wanted you too. you couldnt believe in me if you tried so i will make you hate me before you can get to that conclusion yourself. LIKE ITS PERFECT. ITS PERFECT

other than that though. (grabs you by your cheeks) listen to me. kevrenee. kevrenee is good and true. kevin acting out and being met with affectionate patience. trying to get renee to snap and hurt him and realizing she's not going to. knowing she COULD hurt him, knowing the extent of her mercy when she chooses not to. It's Real. It's Too Real. renee couldnt fix him but she could make him believe in a kind god when he looks at her

also if im being EVEN MORE real its kevjeanrenee. but i will abstain from sounding insane on main

[biancabelairs]

having the first several weeks of mercedes' aew run be her cutting long promos and doing commentary and never getting in the ring sure is a choice

[danhausensboots]

Danhausen join the House of Black challenge

[forestfxck]

Alexander Louis Leloir, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1865)

[wnightingales]

stooop the tv feed being black and white for toni’s entrance is such a cute touch