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yourtoradorasextendedwarranty · 3 years ago

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So..... Deem me racist if you wish but this needs to be discussed.

How that actual fuck do feminists, and by that I mean neo feminists (radicals) support causes like BLM? No really, because at least 2 of the people BLM defended have assaulted women in some way. Floyd held a pregnant woman at gun point (gun pointing at her stomach according to reports), and Blake whom had sexually assaulted (pretty sure he raped her) a woman then tried to kidnap her children.

And before I get some cheeky asshole saying, "oh well BLM is about~" no it wasn't. It was a political movement meant to prey on lies. Because GUESS what? Police brutality, while a real issue, is nuanced and not a black only issue. And according to the trail of the cop (who was unjustly convicted), secondary body cam footage showed that Chauvin wasn't on his neck. He moved between high up on his shoulder near his neck and the small of his back. And according to a use of force expert, he used LESS force than allowed to. He was allowed to use a taser on him. And given her was really high on basically lethal levels of drugs, it probably would have sent him into cardiac arrest. Blake was on camera, fighting 3 cops before moving to his vehicle for a knife. WHICH HE ADMITTED. Oh and the cops of whom were called by the woman he assaulted sexually and whom had a restraining order against.

But I guess rape and sexual assault are perfectly fine if the perpetrator is black. Or in some cases just non white. It's acceptable to be pro rape, so long as the one committing the crime is non white. So again. I really have no idea how it is that modern feminism or people who support it, actually support movements like BLM or otherwise. Quite literally sexual and physical assaulters. And before I get the people in the notes going "blah blah that's not what BLM was about" yes it was. It was about taking a situation where convicts with violent histories, serve as false idols, to be used as talking points for trained Marxists to get rich and famous.

Because let's be fair here about two things.

1. If feminists were actually pro feminism, they would have condemned the blind support and worship of these individuals considering the things they've done.

2. If BLM were honest about is message it would have gone with a movent name like all lives matter "a term actually coined by Mexicans I believe" and made the topic police accountability and anti brutality against everyone.

Because fact is, everyone faces cases of police brutality. Black Americans don't even experience more of it per capita. But movements against police misconduct and brutality should also focus on the nuances that are how dangerous it is to be a cop, waiting to see all the evidence first, and looking at the circumstances of all the encounters. Like for instance a 5' 9", 175 Lbs cop driving to a scene where 3-4 other cops are basically being wrestled by a 6'2"-6'4", 245 Lbs man, whom has a history of violence.

My initial point also looks at the fact that I've seen so much dismissal of assault against women so long as the person doing it isn't white. Which baffles me honestly, because most of these women that are neo feminists, tend to hate men and seek to blame them for quite literally everything. And I'm pretty sure that normally they don't care about skin color in that general hate. But truly it's very telling that neo feminists don't even believe their own messages, that they're willing to sacrifice women who've been assaulted to further a narrative. I mean shit. There was also this case-

Ohh this case right here? This "victim" of racism was a guy who's entered this gated community a number of times, and had inappropriately grabbed women. And when he got shoved, he was on the man's property approaching his wife. And he was asked to be outside to confront this guy after the cops refused to do anything so as to not make the guy "another statistic". So again..... Why are we fine with physical or sexual assault of women? Why are we fine ruining a man's life because he's protecting his neighborhood and his wife from a serial assaulter and trespasser? The truth is none of you can answer this because either you don't have an answer, or you don't actually believe any of the things that you preach.

Fact is, we will never reach unity until we're honest. And that honesty, needs to come from looking at situations and judging them based on reality rather than manufactured narrative.

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vintagegeekculture · 7 years ago

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Dead Fandoms, Part 3

Read Part One of Dead Fandoms here.

Read Part Two of Dead Fandoms here.

Before we continue, I want to add the usual caveat that I actually don’t want to be right about these fandoms being dead. I like enthusiasm and energy and it��s a shame to see it vanish.

Mists of Avalon

Remember that period of time of about 15 years, where absolutely everybody read this book and was obsessed with it? It could not have been bigger, and the fandom was Anne Rice huge, overlapping for several years with USENET and the early World Wide Web…but it’s since petered out.

Mists of Avalon’s popularity may be due to the most excellent case of hitting a demographic sweet spot ever. The book was a feminist retelling of the Arthurian Mythos where Morgan Le Fay is the main character, a pagan from matriarchal goddess religions who is fighting against encroaching Christianity and patriarchal forms of society coming in with it. Also, it made Lancelot bisexual and his conflict is how torn he is about his attraction to both Arthur and Guinevere.

Remember, this novel came out in 1983 – talk about being ahead of your time! If it came out today, the reaction from a certain corner would be something like “it is with a heavy heart that I inform you that tumblr is at it again.”

Man, demographically speaking, that’s called “nailing it.” It used to be one of the favorite books of the kind of person who’s bookshelf is dominated by fantasy novels about outspoken, fiery-tongued redheaded women, who dream of someday moving to Scotland, who love Enya music and Kate Bush, who sell homemade needlepoint stuff on etsy, who consider their religious beliefs neo-pagan or wicca, and who have like 15 cats, three of which are named Isis, Hypatia, and Morrigan.

This type of person is still with us, so why did this novel fade in popularity? There’s actually a single hideous reason: after her death around 2001, facts came out that Marion Zimmer Bradley abused her daughters sexually. Even when she was alive, she was known for defending and enabling a known child abuser, her husband, Walter Breen. To say people see your work differently after something like this is an understatement – especially if your identity is built around being a progressive and feminist author.

Robotech

I try to break up my sections on dead fandoms into three parts: first, I explain the property, then explain why it found a devoted audience, and finally, I explain why that fan devotion and community went away. Well, in the case of Robotech, I can do all three with a single sentence: it was the first boy pilot/giant robot Japanimation series that shot for an older, teenage audience to be widely released in the West. Robotech found an audience when it was the only true anime to be widely available, and lost it when became just another import anime show. In the days of Crunchyroll, it’s really hard to explain what made Robotech so special, because it means describing a different world.

Try to imagine what it was like in 1986 for Japanime fans: there were barely any video imports, and if you wanted a series, you usually had to trade tapes at your local basement club (they were so precious they couldn’t even be sold, only traded). If you were lucky, you were given a script to translate what you were watching. Robotech though, was on every day, usually after school. You want an action figure? Well, you could buy a Robotech Valkyrie or a Minmei figure at your local corner FAO Schwartz.

However, the very strategy that led to it getting syndicated is the very reason it was later vilified by the purists who emerged when anime became a widespread cultural force: strictly speaking, there actually is no show called “Robotech.” Since Japanese shows tend to be short run, say, 50-60 episodes, it fell well under the 80-100 episode mark needed for syndication in the US. The producer of Harmony Gold, Carl Macek, had a solution: he’d cut three unrelated but similar looking series together into one, called “Robotech.” The shows looked very similar, had similar love triangles, used similar tropes, and even had little references to each other, so the fit was natural. It led to Robotech becoming a weekday afternoon staple with a strong fandom who called themselves “Protoculture Addicts.” There were conventions entirely devoted to Robotech. The supposed shower scene where Minmei was bare-breasted was the barely whispered stuff of pervert legend in pre-internet days. And the tie in novels, written with the entirely western/Harmony Gold conception of the series and which continued the story, were actually surprisingly readable.

The final nail in the coffin of Robotech fandom was the rise of Sailor Moon, Toonami, Dragonball, and yes, Pokemon (like MC Hammer’s role in popularizing hip hop, Pokemon is often written out of its role in creating an audience for the next wave of cartoon imports out of insecurity). Anime popularity in the West can be defined as not a continuing unbroken chain like scifi book fandom is, but as an unrelated series of waves, like multiple ancient ruins buried on top of each other (Robotech was the vanguard of the third wave, as Anime historians reckon); Robotech’s wave was subsumed by the next, which had different priorities and different “core texts.” Pikachu did what the Zentraedi and Invid couldn’t do: they destroyed the SDF-1.

Legion of Super-Heroes

Legion of Superheroes was comic set in the distant future that combined superheroes with space opera, with a visual aesthetic that can best be described as “Star Trek: the Motion Picture, if it was set in a disco.”

I’ve heard wrestling described as “a soap opera for men.” If that’s the case, then Legion of Super-Heroes was a soap opera for nerds. The book is about attractive 20-somethings who seem to hook up all the time. As a result, it had a large female fanbase, which, I cannot stress enough, is incredibly unusual for this era in comics history. And if you have female fans, you get a lot of shipping and slashfic, and lots of speculation over which of the boy characters in the series is gay. The fanon answer is Element Lad, because he wore magenta-pink and never had a girlfriend. (Can’t argue with bulletproof logic like that.) In other words, it was a 1970s-80s fandom that felt much more “modern” than the more right-brained, bloodless, often anal scifi fandoms that existed around the same time, where letters pages were just nitpicking science errors by model train and elevator enthusiasts.

Legion Headquarters seemed to be a rabbit fuck den built around a supercomputer and Danger Room. Cosmic Boy dressed like Tim Curry in Rocky Horror. There’s one member, Duo Damsel, who can turn into two people, a power that, in the words of Legion writer Jim Shooter, was “useful for weird sex...and not much else.”

LSH was popular because the fans were insanely horny. This is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the thirstiest fandom of all time. You might think I’m overselling this, but I really think that’s an under-analyzed part of how some kinds of fiction build a devoted fanbase.

For example, a big reason for the success of Mass Effect is that everyone has a favorite girl or boy, and you have the option to romance them. Likewise, everyone who was a fan of Legion remembers having a crush. Sardonic Ultra Boy for some reason was a favorite among gay male nerds (aka the Robert Conrad Effect). Tall, blonde, amazonian telepath Saturn Girl, maybe the first female team leader in comics history, is for the guys with backbone who prefer Veronica over Betty. Shrinking Violet was a cute Audrey Hepburn type. And don’t forget Shadow Lass, who was a blue skinned alien babe with pointed ears and is heavily implied to have an accent (she was Aayla Secura before Aayla Secura was Aayla Secura). Light Lass was commonly believed to be “coded lesbian” because of a short haircut and her relationships with men didn’t work out. The point is, it’s one thing to read about the adventures of a superteam, and it implies a totally different level of mental and emotional involvement to read the adventures of your imaginary girlfriend/boyfriend.

Now, I should point out that of all the fandoms I’ve examined here, LSH was maybe the smallest. Legion was never a top seller, but it was a favorite of the most devoted of fans who kept it alive all through the seventies and eighties with an energy and intensity disproportionate to their actual numbers. My gosh, were LSH fans devoted! Interlac and Legion Outpost were two Legion fanzines that are some of the most famous fanzines in comics history.

If nerd culture fandoms were drugs, Star Wars would be alcohol, Doctor Who would be weed, but Legion of Super-Heroes would be injecting heroin directly into your eyeballs. Maybe it is because the Legionnaires were nerdy, too: they played Dungeons and Dragons in their off time (an escape, no doubt, from their humdrum, mundane lives as galaxy-rescuing superheroes). There were sometimes call outs to Monty Python. Basically, the whole thing had a feel like the dorkily earnest skits or filk-singing at a con. Legion felt like it’s own fan series, guest starring Patton Oswalt and Felicia Day.

It helped that the boundary between fandom and professional was incredibly porous. For instance, pro-artist Dave Cockrum did covers for Legion fanzines. Former Legion APA members Todd and Mary Biernbaum got a chance to actually write Legion, where, with the gusto of former slashfic writers given the keys to canon, their major contribution was a subplot that explicitly made Element Lad gay. Mike Grell, a professional artist who got paid to work on the series, did vaguely porno-ish fan art. Again, it’s hard to tell where the pros started and the fandom ended; the inmates were running the asylum.

Mostly, Legion earned this devotion because it could reward it in a way no other comic could. Because Legion was not a wide market comic but was bought by a core audience, after a point, there were no self-contained one-and-done Legion stories. In fact, there weren’t even really arcs as we know it, which is why Legion always has problems getting reprinted in trade form. Legion was plotted like a daytime soap opera: there were always five different stories going on in every issue, and a comic involved cutting between them. Sure, like daytime soap operas, there’s never a beginning, just endless middles, so it was totally impossible for a newbie to jump on board...but soap operas know what they are doing: long term storytelling rewards a long term reader.

This brings me to today, where Legion is no longer being published by DC. There is no discussion about a movie or TV revival. This is amazing. Comics are a world where the tiniest nerd groups get pandered to: Micronauts, Weirdworld, Seeker 3000, and Rom have had revival series, for pete’s sake. It’s incredible there’s no discussion of a film or TV treatment, either; friggin Cyborg from New Teen Titans is getting a solo movie.

Why did Legion stop being such a big deal? Where did the fandom that supported it dissolve to? One word: X-Men. Legion was incredibly ahead of its time. In the 60s and 70s, there were barely any “fan” comics, since superhero comics were like animation is today: mostly aimed at kids, with a minority of discerning adult/teen fans, and it was success among kids, not fans, that led to something being a top seller (hence, “fan favorites” in the 1970s, as surprising as it is to us today, often did not get a lot of work, like Don MacGregor or Barry Smith). But as newsstands started to push comics out, the fan audience started to get bigger and more important…everyone else started to catch up to the things that made Legion unique: most comics started to have attractive people who paired up into couples and/or love triangles, and featured extremely byzantine long term storytelling. If Legion of Super-Heroes is going to be remembered for anything, it’s for being the smaller scale “John the Baptist” to the phenomenon of X-Men, the ultimate “fan” comic.

The other thing that killed Legion, apart from Marvel’s Merry Mutants, that is, was the r-word: reboots. A reboot only works for some properties, but not others. You reboot something when you want to find something for a mass audience to respond to, like with Zorro, Batman, or Godzilla.

Legion, though, was not a comic for everybody, it was a fanboy/girl comic beloved by a niche who read it for continuing stories and minutiae (and to jack off, and in some cases, jill off). Rebooting a comic like that is a bad idea. You do not reboot something where the main way you engage with the property, the greatest strength, is the accumulated lore and history. Rebooting a property like that means losing the reason people like it, and unless it’s something with a wide audience, you only lose fans and won’t get anything in return for it. So for something like Legion (small fandom obsessed with long form plots and details, but unlike Trek, no name recognition) a reboot is the ultimate Achilles heel that shatters everything, a self-destruct button they kept hitting over and over and over until there was nothing at all left.

E. E. Smith’s Lensman Novels

The Lensman series is like Gil Evans’s jazz: it’s your grandparents’ favorite thing that you’ve never heard of.

I mean, have you ever wondered exactly what scifi fandom talked about before the rise of the major core texts and cultural objects (Star Trek, Asimov, etc)? Well, it was this. Lensmen was the subject of fanfiction mailed in manilla envelopes during the 30s, 40s, and 50s (some of which are still around). If you’re from Boston, you might recognize that the two biggest and oldest scifi cons there going back to the 1940s, Boskone (Boscon, get it?) and Arisia, are references to the Lensman series. This series not only created space opera as we know it, but contributed two of the biggest visuals in scifi, the interstellar police drawn from different alien species, and space marines in power armor.

My favorite sign of how big this series was and how fans responded to it, was a great wedding held at Worldcon that duplicated Kimball Kinnison and Clarissa’s wedding on Klovia. This is adorable:

The basic story is pure good vs. evil: galactic civilization faces a crime and piracy wave of unprecedented proportions from technologically advanced pirates (the memory of Prohibition, where criminals had superior firearms and faster cars than the cops, was strong by the mid-1930s). A young officer, Kimball Kinnison (who speaks in a Stan Lee esque style of dialogue known as “mid-century American wiseass”), graduates the academy and is granted a Lens, an object from an ancient mystery civilization, who’s true purpose is unknown.

Lensman Kinnison discovers that the “crime wave” is actually a hostile invasion and assault by a totally alien culture that is based on hierarchy, intolerant of failure, and at the highest level, is ruled by horrifying nightmare things that breathe freezing poison gases. Along the way, he picks up allies, like van Buskirk, a variant human space marine from a heavy gravity planet who can do a standing jump of 20 feet in full space armor, Worsel, a telepathic dragon warrior scientist with the technical improvisation skills of MacGyver (who reads like the most sadistically minmaxed munchkinized RPG character of all time), and Nandreck, a psychologist from a Pluto-like planet of selfish cowards.

The scale of the conflict starts small, just skirmishes with pirates, but explodes to near apocalyptic dimensions. This series has space battles with millions of starships emerging from hyperspacial tubes to attack the ultragood Arisians, homeworld of the first intelligent race in the cosmos. By the end of the fourth book, there are mind battles where the reflected and parried mental beams leave hundreds of innocent bystanders dead. In the meantime we get evil Black Lensmen, the Hell Hole in Space, and superweapons like the Negasphere and the Sunbeam, where an entire solar system was turned into a vacuum tube.

It’s not hard to understand why Lensmen faded in importance. While the alien Lensmen had lively psychologies, Lensman Kimball Kinnison was not an interesting person, and that’s a problem when scifi starts to become more about characterization. The Lensman books, with their love of police and their sexism (it is an explicit plot point that the Lens is incompatible with female minds – in canon there are no female Lensmen) led to it being judged harshly by the New Wave writers of the 1960s, who viewed it all as borderline fascist military-scifi establishment hokum, and the reputation of the series never recovered from the spirit of that decade.

Prisoner of Zenda

Prisoner of Zenda is a novel about a roguish con-man who visits a postage-stamp, charmingly picturesque Central European kingdom with storybook castles, where he finds he looks just like the local king and is forced to pose as him in palace intrigues. It’s a swashbuckling story about mistaken identity, swordfighting, and intrigue, one part swashbuckler and one part dark political thriller.

The popularity of this book predates organized fandom as we know it, so I wonder if “fandom” is even the right word to use. All the same, it inspired fanatical dedication from readers. There was such a popular hunger for it that an entire library could be filled with nothing but rip-offs of Prisoner of Zenda. If you have a favorite writer who was active between 1900-1950, I guarantee he probably wrote at least one Prisoner of Zenda rip-off (which is nearly always the least-read book in his oeuvre). The only novel in the 20th Century that inspired more imitators was Sherlock Holmes. Robert Heinlein and Edmond “Planet Smasher” Hamilton wrote scifi updates of Prisoner of Zenda. Doctor Who lifted the plot wholesale for the Tom Baker era episode, “Androids of Tara,” Futurama did this exact plot too, and even Marvel Comics has its own copy of Ruritania, Doctor Doom’s Kingdom of Latveria. Even as late as the 1980s, every kids’ cartoon did a “Prisoner of Zenda” episode, one of the stock plots alongside “everyone gets hit by a shrink ray” and the Christmas Carol episode.

Prisoner of Zenda imitators were so numerous, that they even have their own Library of Congress sub-heading, of “Ruritanian Romance.”

One major reason that Prisoner of Zenda fandom died off is that, between World War I and World War II, there was a brutal lack of sympathy for anything that seemed slightly German, and it seems the incredibly Central European Prisoner of Zenda was a casualty of this. Far and away, the largest immigrant group in the United States through the entire 19th Century were Germans, who were more numerous than Irish or Italians. There were entire cities in the Midwest that were two-thirds German-born or German-descent, who met in Biergartens and German community centers that now no longer exist.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a lot about how the German-American world he grew up in vanished because of the prejudice of the World Wars, and that disappearance was so extensive that it was retroactive, like someone did a DC comic-style continuity reboot where it all never happened: Germans, despite being the largest immigrant group in US history, are left out of the immigrant story. The “Little Bohemias” and “Little Berlins” that were once everywhere no longer exist. There is no holiday dedicated to people of German ancestry in the US, the way the Irish have St. Patrick’s Day or Italians have Columbus Day (there is Von Steuben’s Day, dedicated to a general who fought with George Washington, but it’s a strictly Midwest thing most people outside the region have never heard of, like Sweetest Day). If you’re reading this and you’re an academic, and you’re not sure what to do your dissertation on, try writing about the German-American immigrant world of the 19th and 20th Centuries, because it’s a criminally under-researched topic.

A. Merritt

Pop quiz: who was the most popular and influential fantasy author during the 1930s and 40s?

If you answered Tolkien or Robert E. Howard, you’re wrong - it was actually Abraham Merritt. He was the most popular writer of his age of the kind of fiction he did, and he’s since been mostly forgotten. Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons, has said that A. Merritt was his favorite fantasy and horror novelist.

Why did A. Merritt and his fandom go away, when at one point, he was THE fantasy author? Well, obviously one big answer was the 1960s counterculture, which brought different writers like Tolkien and Lovecraft to the forefront (by modern standards Lovecraft isn’t a fantasy author, but he was produced by the same early century genre-fluid effluvium that produced Merritt and the rest). The other answer is that A. Merritt was so totally a product of the weird occult speculation of his age that it’s hard to even imagine him clicking with audiences in other eras. His work is based on fringe weirdness that appealed to early 20th Century spiritualism and made sense at the time: reincarnation, racial memory, an obsession with lost race stories and the stone age, and weirdness like the 1920s belief that the Polar Arctic is the ancestral home of the Caucasian race. In other words, it’s impossible to explain Merritt without a ton of sentences that start with “well, people in the 1920s thought that...” That’s not a good sign when it comes to his universality.

That’s it for now. Do you have any suggestions on a dead fandom, or do you keep one of these “dead” fandoms alive in your heart?

#fandom history #lensman #robotech #prisoner of zenda #mists of avalon

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buttdawg · 5 years ago

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5 Star Grand Prix 2019 Lineup

I’m having trouble keeping everyone straight in this tour, so I’m going to write a cheat sheet for myself. I’ve heard that the stables in STARDOM are important, but the promotion seems to take it for granted that you know who’s in which squad, so maybe it’s a little too important. So I’m referring to an October 2019 revision of the Stardom Roster article on Wikipedia. Hopefully they didn’t shuffle around too much between August and October.

Red Stars Block

AZM (Queen’s Quest)

Momo Watanabe (Queen’s Quest)

Tam Nakano (STARS)

Hana Kimura (STARS)

Mayu Iwatani (STARS)

Saki Kashima (STARS)

Natsu Sumire (Odeo Tai) [Trios Champion]

Hazuki (Odeo Tai)

Avery (???)

Blue Stars Block

Arisa Hoshiki (STARS) [Wonder Champion]

Jamie Hayter (???)

Bea Priestly (Queen’s Quest) [World Champion]

Utami Hayashishita (Queen’s Quest) [Future of Stardom Champion]

Jungle Kyona (Tokyo Cyber Squad) [Tag Team Champion]

Konami (Tokyo Cyber Squad) [Tag Team Champion]

Natsuko Tora (Odeo Tai)

Kagetsu (Odeo Tai) [Trios Champion]

Andras Miyagi (Odeo Tai) [Trios Champion]

I’m gonna steal a page from David Finlay’s book and declare a “C-Block” for everyone on the tour but not actually in the tournament.

“Yellow Stars Block”

Riho (Unaffiliated) [High Speed Champion]

Leo Onozaki (Queen’s Quest)

Hina (Queen’s Quest)

Saya Kamitani (Unaffiliated)

Rina (Tokyo Cyber Squad)

Ruaka (Tokyo Cyber Squad)

Starlight Kid (STARS)

Saya Iida (STARS)

That’s everyone I have so far. Unless I really botched this, it sure looks like they loaded all their champions into the Blue block for some reason. The “Yellow” Block might have more women in it than I know, but the above list covers everyone who wrestled on the undercard on the first two nights.

For reference, they give all the titles really elaborate names. The World title is the “World of Stardom Championship”, which is fairly straightforward, but they call the tag titles the “Goddess of Stardom Championship”, which doesn’t really communicate that it has anything to do with tag team wrestling. The only reason I figured out “Artist of Stardom” is the 6-woman tag title is because there were three of them.

While I’m at it, I may as well go over the title belts, just so I’ll understand what’s going on when the wrestlers mention them.

The World of Stardom title is commonly referred to as the “Red Belt”. It’s the top singles belt in the company. No worries there.

The Wonder of Stardom title is the “White Belt”, and essentially their version Intercontinental championship.

The Future of Stardom title is for wrestlers under 20 or who have less than two years of pro wrestling experience. So I guess it’s like a developmental title, of sorts. It’s kind of a powder blue.

The Goddess of Stardom titles are the tag belts, and they’re.... well, I don’t know. I see like four different colors when I look up images on Google. Maybe they don’t bother color coding the team betls.

Artist of Stardom is the trios championship, and I’m not even gonna try to figure out what color those are.

The High Speed title was purchased from the defunct NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. It’s for “fast and high-flying wrestlers”, which suits Riho, although I’d say most of the women I’ve seen in STARDOM could qualify. But that’s why it doesn’t resemble the other titles, since it originated elsewhere.

What else? Oh, yeah, I found out the ref with the yellow boots is Daichi Murayama. All I could find on the guy was that he may have worn yellow footwear as a dig on Red Shoes Umino, which is about what I would have expected. I hope it was like a friendly rib and not some sort of grudge.

#stardom #world wonder ring stardom #this fed is confusing but good

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marikoyoshida · 2 months ago

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Deluxe Wrestling 32 (デラックスプロレス32) - 2001.12.01

#misae genki #neo women's pro wrestling #joshi wrestling #deluxe wrestling 32

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d2kvirus · 7 years ago

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Dickheads of the Month: March 2018

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of March 2018 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

It takes a remarkable lack of awareness to liken somebody wearing a political symbol to the Star of David, the Nazi swastika or a t-shirt bearing the image of Robert Mugabe, yet that’s exactly what FA chief Martin Glenn managed to do - almost word-for-word, in fact.

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson issued Russia the blood-curdling threat of “Shut up and go away�� - which he somehow forgot to say when accepting £30,000 to have dinner with Lubov Chernukin, the Russian banker who happens to be a member of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

For whatever reason, NRA TV host Collins Iyare Idehen Jr. (otherwise known as Colion Noir) broke from the channel’s remarkable similarities to ISIS recruitment ads to mock the Parkland teens by saying that nobody would know who they were if their friends hadn’t been shot - somehow missing how that’s the fucking point as there is no reason for anyone to know the names of any of these kids or their former classmates, but rather than consider the reason why (as that would involve taking responsibility) the only thing he can do is mock, and sneer, and underline just how much of the problem the NRA have become.

Twitter user...sorry, former Twitter user MomsLuvTrump20 hit the dickhead jackpot by doctoring an image of Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez tearing up a shooting target from a shoot with Teen Vogue so instead it showed her tearing up the US Constitution (quite poorly, it has to be said) and shared it online, not only getting tens of thousands of shares and an undercurrent of seething ignorance that someone would dare tell America that they have a gun problem, but this also led to people sending Gonzalez death threats. Yes, death threats, to someone who all too recently survived a gun massacre - which, contrary to what Adam Baldwin thinks, is not satire.

On the subject of Photoshopped images, Newsnight editor Jess Brammar really took offence at accusations that the programme she is responsible for was responsible for manipulating images of Jeremy Corbyn in order to make him fit the narrative that he was some sort of Russian stooge, and did so by...posting an image to her Twitter account that made it even more obvious that Newsnight had Photoshopped the image of Corbyn.

Somehow forgetting to uphold the obvious lie that they are in any way left wing, CNN columnist Jeremy Bailenson came up with a quite remarkable crock of shite in an article ripped from the late 1990s where he said gamers playing first person shooters are being trained to be the next generation of mass shooters citing evidence such as...some gibberish about holding a VR controller being exactly the same as holding an AK47.

To the surprise of nobody, certifiable headcase Munroe Bergdorf didn’t last long on the LGBT advisory panel they were appointed to (while a section of the media still wrongly claim that Bergdorf was appointed as LBGT advisor), yet when stepping down from their role Bergdorf’s response was to cite racism instead of the more common diplomatic response stating their appointment had brought undue pressure upon the panel - which merely added more fuel to the fire of the Tory commentators who kept making all manner of false equivalencies between Bergdorf being appointed to an unpaid role on an independent panel to Toby Young being appointed in an official capacity worth tens of thousands of pounds a year by his mat Jo Johnson back in January.

In yet another example of the right using the “Left = Nazis” rhetoric, we had Minnesota Republican Mary Franson making a direct comparison between the March for our Lives march and the Hitler Youth - and after her making a direct comparison between the two (unsurprisingly) led to her being called out for such idiocy, she attempted to defend herself by claiming she didn’t make a direct comparison between the two nor was her intent to...and when that predictably failed, then she decided to apologise which certainly has nothing to do with her being up for reelection.

Filibustering enthusiast Philip Davies took time out from his hectic schedule of campaigning against political correctness as he refuses to treat women, ethnic minorities, homosexuals or the disabled as being equal to him to conduct himself in the most professional manner when being interviewed by Luisa Omielan - by responding to reasonable questions by hurling out insults and accusations before shoving Omielan around his office.

In response to the imminent threat of a whistleblower revealing the Vote leave campaign broke rules on electoral funding, Stephen Parkinson knew there was only one thing he could do: threaten to publicly reveal the homosexuality of the whistleblower to keep him quiet, and when that obviously didn't work he outed him anyway - which was not only sanctioned by Theresa May, but she also supported Parkinson for his gross violation of privacy, use of blackmail, and endangering the safety of the whistleblower and his family.

Let’s see if I’ve got this straight: Tommy Robinson had a camera crew waiting for him outside a random branch of McDonalds, who just so happened to be in place to film a group of “far left extremists” as they “attacked” Robinson and, more importantly, were able to film him fight them off to show who the “real” “man” is - just as I am sure there is a perfectly legitimate reason for Robinson insisting that the police shouldn’t investigate the incident or, for all his talk of him and his crew being assaulted, the paramedics being unable to find so much as a bruise on them. I can’t think what I could possibly be implying here...

On a similar subject, we have those people wailing about “free speech!!!” at the news of Paul Golding & Jayda Fransen being jailed and, a week later, Facebook shutting down Britain First’s page. Obviously that was what happened, and nothing to do with the pair violating the terms of their exclusion orders for the former, or spending six years violating several of Facebook’s Terms of Service (without the provider batting an eyelid, it needs to be stressed) for the latter.

On the subject of freedom of speech, Sajid Javid referred to Momentum as “neo fascists” in Parliament knowing full well that he could hide behind parliamentary privilege and not be sued for it there - but if he set foot outside and said the same thing he'd receive a solicitor’s letter within the hour.

One of the approximate 357 Liverpool FC correspondents on Sky Sports’ payroll, Jamie Carragher, showed he could handle the mildest form of criticism by...winding down the window of his car and gobbing in the general direction of somebody reminding him that his beloved Liverpool just lost a game to Man Utd from the window of his car, only to miss and instead coat the taunter’s daughter instead. The only surprise is he didn't have seven of his mates join in, just like his ex-teammate Steven Gerrard.

Glorified talent show judge with the business acumen of a market stall trader Alan Sugar thought it was a clever idea to tweet an image suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn shares the politics of Hitler’s inner circle. What is it with Apprentice judges showing levels of judgment and intelligence that would make calling them “halfwit” a compliment?

There’s something remarkably pathetic that it took two hacks from Murdoch’s Hate Comic, Gary O’Shea and Thea Jacobs, to write a sneering article damning “snowflake students” for suggesting that Frankenstein’s monster wasn’t the antagonist of Frankenstein but the victim. You know who else made the same suggestion? Mary Shelley, when she wrote the fucking book back in 1818!

In the latest example of their historic women’s division historically making history, the WWE announced a battle royale for WrestleMania 34 named after the Fabulous Moolah - only to find that quite a lot of wrestling fans are aware of Moolah’s reputation for holding back women’s wrestling in North America for the best part of four decades, not only skimming the vast chunk of her trainees’ salaries but also forcing them to pay rent at her motel if they wanted to work, and even pimping out her trainees and they were quick to let the event’s sponsors know about it.

Seemingly not learning from the last time he made a complete tit of himself (and earned a visit from Jeremy Corbyn’s solicitors in the process) Twitter troll and occasional MP Ben Bradley thought it was a good idea to pose with a pair of former Labour councillors and welcome them to the Tory party - only to be reliably informed that those councillors had been suspended and, in one case, deselected from the Labour party for making racist comments, and that them being happy to cosy up to the Tories sort of proves Momentum’s point better than anything else.

In an apparent competition to see who could act like the biggest fuckwit when discussing the same subject, the intense wave of revulsion that comes from a group of Floridian teenagers having a better grasp of what humanity involved led to Laura Ingraham taking to Twitter to mock how David Hogg got rejected by various colleges as his GPA was too low that led to various advertisers dropping Fox News like a hot, faeces-covered stone before she announced she'd be taking a week-long vacation, while the homophobic, pro-gun, child molesting racist Ted Nugent referred to the Parkland kids as “soulless” which led to...not much happening, because who has given a tuppenny fuck about Ted Nugent in the past 25 years? Either way, still a colossal dickhead.

On that subject, I can’t help notice there’s a lot of pro-gun liars intent on regurgitating the lie that the March for our Lives kids bullied Nathan Cruz, and how the poor innocent victim Cruz fought back against these vicious bullies and we should stop persecuting him for cold-bloodedly murdering seventeen people who, by their own thick-headed excuse for an argument, weren't even the seventeen people he meant to shoot in the first place. And that, Ted Nugent, is what a soulless person looks like - and there’s a shitload of them all over Twitter.

Be thankful for the Salisbury nerve agent attack as it gave the British media even more reasons than usual to avoid reporting how Drug Minister Victoria Atkins banned the growing of cannabis for medicinal use in the UK with one swipe of the pen - and with another granted Paul Kenward, who just so happens to be her husband, a license to grow medicinal cannabis in the UK for export abroad.

Somebody who thinks it’s a good idea to describe themselves as a “professional shitposter” Count Dankula attempted to say that he was going to jail for teaching a dog the Nazi salute, which of course Breitbart and lots of people who used this as an excuse to make completely unconnected rants about Islam jumped on immediately. They probably should have broken with tradition and checked their facts before mouthing off, because what actually got him charged with inciting racial hatred was making comments as “Gas the Jews!” throughout the video, as if the systematic extermination of millions is the basis for some good, hearty gut laughs for all the family.

I know that he wasn't aware of the irony that he was unfolding in front of him, but watching how Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went into detail about how the company would use hidden cameras in a ploy to honeytrap politicians while being filmed saying this by a hidden camera did almost as much damage to the firm’s image as the revelations that came out as a result of the piece.

And finally, blaming video games while an elephant with the letters N, R and A emblazoned upon it shits on the Oval Office carpet, we have Donald Trump.

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With just a one UFC party on the routine for the thirty day period in advance, we’re deviating from the norm this thirty day period in The 10 and wanting back on the greatest fights to strike the Octagon in the thirty day period of August.

Although the bouts that stand out in July and December constantly come to thoughts a little easier mainly because the UFC has traditionally shipped major occasions in the course of Worldwide Struggle Week and at the near of the year, one glimpse at the list that follows will clearly show you that there have been some amazing fights in August about the decades.

This is The 10: The Finest August Offerings of All-Time.

(Take note: as constantly, these are in chronological buy, not ranked)

UFC 87: GSP beats Jon Fitch (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

UFC 87 is a fairly large party for the record buffs, as it showcased the debut of Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar’s initial UFC victory, but it’s the welterweight championship main party that stands out the most.

Preventing for the initial time considering the fact that unifying the belts and avenging his loss to Matt Serra, numerous wondered how Georges St-Pierre would perform back in the role of undisputed champion and if Jon Fitch, who had won sixteen straight general heading into their showdown, would be equipped to outwrestle and outwork the French-Canadian titleholder.

About the study course of 25 minutes, St-Pierre turned in one of his most dominant initiatives, successful via scores of fifty-forty three, fifty-forty four and fifty-forty four, showing for the initial time that there was a sizable gap separating the champion from his closest challenger.

UFC a hundred and one: Anderson Silva channels Neo (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

A 10 years immediately after The Matrix grew to become a shock box business smash, Neo arrived in the Octagon in the kind of Anderson Silva.

Preventing at light-weight heavyweight for the next time in the UFC, the middleweight champion twisted his overall body out of the way of each and every punch Forrest Griffin threw, countering with precision, pace and power. Silva was basically functioning on a further stage and the former light-weight heavyweight titleholder Griffin had no prospect.

Slip. Bang! Bend. Bang! Twist. Bang!

A sharp jab at last put Griffin down for great and brought one of the most thoughts-blowing performances in UFC record to a merciful stop.

UFC 102: Nogueira and Couture go toe-to-toe (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

A few months immediately after Silva defeated Griffin (and BJ Penn submitted Kenny Florian), these two heavyweight luminaries stepped into the Octagon inside the Rose Yard and put on a clearly show.

Equally have been coming off losses – Minotauro Nogueira to Frank Mir, Randy Couture to Brock Lesnar – and the transference of power at the leading of the division had already commenced, but for fifteen minutes in Portland, “Big Nog” and “The Natural” reminded every person why they have been two of the most beloved and respected rivals of their time.

There have been stretches exactly where the veterans slugged it out in the middle of the cage and other moments exactly where their tactical, technological expertise on the ground have been on whole display. And each and every next of the struggle was amazing.

UFC 117: Anderson Silva submits Chael Sonnen (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

For several months, Chael Sonnen talked about how he was heading to be the man to halt Silva’s reign atop the middleweight division. Most men and women chalked it up to what we now would say is “Chael becoming Chael” – large talk from one of the most gifted orators in the record of overcome sporting activities.

Then the struggle started off and Sonnen dominated Silva on the mat in Spherical one. And in Spherical 2. And in Spherical three.

And he may possibly truly do this. Silva requires a finish. This is authentic.

And in Spherical four.

Chael’s heading to operate as a result of Anderson Silva, just like he mentioned he would. This is unbelievable.

Two minutes away from authoring one of the most impressive upsets of all-time, Sonnen had a mind cramp. Inside Silva’s guard, he allow “The Spider” management his appropriate wrist and in advance of he could react, Silva threw up a triangle choke and Sonnen was caught.

Sonnen tapped, Silva retained and the initial chapter in one of the greatest rivalries in UFC record was in the books.

UFC 118: Frankie Edgar erased any doubt (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

In April of 2010, Frankie Edgar scored a near, hotly debated unanimous final decision get about BJ Penn at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi to get the UFC lightweight title. Specified Penn’s lengthy reign and elite standing, he was granted an instant rematch.

Four months later in Boston, Edgar left no area for debate.

Edgar crafted on the blueprint that labored 4 months earlier, doing work his adhere-and-shift regime even though mixing in timely takedowns and leaving Penn frazzled on the toes. He was swift and fluid, dancing close to the Hawaiian legend, sticking clean jabs and sharp crosses in his experience the entire night time en route to sweeping all five rounds on all 3 scorecards to eradicate all doubt about who was the leading lightweight in UFC.

UFC Stay Hardy vs. Lytle: “Lights Out” Goes Out on a Win (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

Chris Lytle was by no means a contender, but he was one of the most constantly entertaining fighters to ever grace the Octagon.

Tougher than a $2 steak and bent on providing the enthusiasts their money’s value whenever his title was on the struggle card, Lytle racked up eight post-struggle bonuses in fourteen fights immediately after appearing on Season four of The Supreme Fighter and designed a cult adhering to.

Prior to his headlining bout with Dan Hardy in Milwaukee, the Indianapolis indigenous declared his retirement, turning in a letter stating his intentions to Dana White at weigh-ins. He allow Hardy know far too, and the pair agreed to put on a clearly show the adhering to night and that’s just what they did.

The welterweights traded leather-based into the last minute of the third round, both locating good results at different factors and both comprehensively taking pleasure in them selves. With just under a minute remaining, Hardy ducked in for a takedown, leaving his neck uncovered and Lytle capitalized, locking in a deep guillotine and drawing a faucet from “The Outlaw.”

As he had during his vocation, Lytle left it all in the cage that night and wrapped matters up in style. He also took dwelling two extra bonuses as effectively.

UFC on FOX Shogun vs. Vera: Joe Lauzon and Jamie Varner incorporate for a classic (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

The lightweight veterans met in the center of the fourth UFC on FOX party and shipped one of the quite greatest fights of 2012.

This was one of individuals fights whole of swings and shifts – Varner beginning rapidly, Lauzon proclaiming management only to get dropped. Ebb and movement. Attack and protect. Back and forth. Your convert. My convert.

Midway as a result of the last frame, both gentlemen operating on fumes, but not letting off the gasoline one little bit, Varner strike a completely timed takedown, only to have Lauzon strike a sweep and lock up a triangle choke in the ensuing scramble. It does not get as much enjoy as Lauzon’s upcoming struggle – a bloody, epic clash with Jim Miller – but this was an excellent struggle involving two fantastic, veteran lightweights.

UFC Struggle Night time Shogun vs. Sonnen: Travis Browne Rallies (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

Positioned as the penultimate bout on the inaugural UFC struggle card on Fox Athletics one, this heavyweight clash carried explosive possible and surely shipped.

Alistair Overeem started off rapidly, urgent Travis Browne into the fence and doing work the midsection with knees. A minute and change in, Overeem buried a knee into Browne’s stomach that despatched the Hawaiian to the canvas, putting the Dutch superstar in pursuit of the finish. Browne covered up effectively, but ate a few extra knees as he tried using to get to his toes and fend off the onslaught.

When Overeem paused to catch his breath immediately after unleashing non-halt offense for virtually a minute, Browne responded, slinging large punches, making an attempt to get some separation together the fence. But Overeem was unrelenting, continuing to push ahead, showing little worry for the plethora of kicks up the center Browne had been presenting.

With just under a minute left in the round, Browne connected, putting toes to jaw with a entrance kick that despatched Overeem falling to the mat and despatched the group at TD Yard into hysterics.

UFC 190: Rousey rolls as a result of Correia (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

Immediately after beating Jessamyn Duke at UFC 172, Bethe Correia extended 4 fingers in the air, the gesture produced famed by the legendary pro wrestling faction The Four Horsemen that had considering the fact that been co-opted by women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and her instruction partners/roommates/fellow wrestling enthusiasts Duke, Shayna Baszler and Marina Shafir.

As the final decision was declared, Correia dropped a finger, leaving only 3 standing. She recurring the gesture 4 months later immediately after defeating Baszler, throwing up her 4 and using down two in advance of contacting out the chief of the team.

It was a great system, in principle, for the gritty Brazilian, as it caught everyone’s awareness, which include that of Rousey, who agreed to protect her title towards Correia at UFC 190 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That is exactly where the approach strike a snag.

Rousey rolled into Rio and rolled as a result of Correia, sending her somersaulting backwards into the cage out of a clinch try exactly where she proceeded to blast the challenger with a series of large pictures in advance of ultimately felling her with a clean appropriate hand driving the ear.

UFC 202: The Rematch (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

On March 5, 2016, Nate Diaz stunned every person but himself by choking out Conor McGregor in the next of the UFC 196 main party.

Immediately after using the bout on limited recognize and finding bombed on with large power pictures in the initial, Diaz rallied, stinging the Irish standout on the toes, prompting McGregor to shoot for a desperation takedown, opening the doorway for the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Diaz to consider his back, lock in the choke and shock the globe.

McGregor started campaigning for a rematch practically promptly and the two strike the cage yet again at UFC 202 and the sequel managed to surpass the original.

“The Notorious” one was extra economical with his output and additional leg kicks to his assault, but Diaz confirmed his trademark toughness and the bout appeared to be using on a very similar trajectory as the initial struggle, with McGregor beginning scorching and the resilient veteran from Stockton needing time to locate his rhythm in advance of seizing momentum.

But contrary to the initial struggle, McGregor didn’t wilt. As an alternative, he steeled himself towards the press back and countered, successful the struggle in the championship rounds to draw stage with Diaz in their personal series.

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