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hanzi83 · 1 year

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It is one of those weeks where more and more shit is spiraling out of control with narratives, and I could do the easy thing and just regurgitate shit that the experts say and pretend I know I am countering the far right wing shit, but if someone like me who has been dumbed down most of my existence, even when I thought I blew past it, then I still find out that a lot of people’s shows you have consumed, have now pivoting to the right wing, it seeps into me that propaganda will always be never ending and it will sophisticate and intellectualize itself under different guises and because dumbed down people like me have never understood the technicalities of all the information and how shit works, it is easy to persuade people who have been consuming the “underground” internet chat rooms and message boards, like I know I am not the smartest out there, and the establishment type that shit on any conspiratorial thinking, but when you are constantly pulling the “radio won’t even play my jam” antic for every person the new right and post left have decided to prop up as a truth teller and their only sole identity is going off on transparent establishment media while they spread lies and are being funded in my personal opinion to get more people into the right wing, like if I believe the politicians and celebs are cogs like wrestlers being booked by billionaires, when the discredited superstars of the past are losing it in the ring and their promos and storylines are getting boring and repetitive, you have the “anti establishment” type of faction which used to have more credibility to it because there wasn’t this constant flow of information coming at you, it could be seen as more genuine and we had a more simplistic nature of what we thought was anti establishment, so we have our Steve Austins who are against the system, but also at the same time allowed to function and do what they do even if it seems they are at war with the billionaire, because then years later Austin shook Vince’s hand and then became a caricature playing the hits, it is the same principle with today’s “anti establishment” type. The alt media will give you folklore of what was supposed to happen like they do in wrestling with Austin, “His name was supposed to be Frosty McFang”. So to me this propping up of RFK is one of the most disingenuous things on the planet, and if this were 10 years ago and this was happening at this level, seeing the online shit I consumed now would become discourse amongst the MSM, and believe it or not the internet is MSM. I know we have to constantly pretend it is 90’s and early 2000’s aesthetic, like the same shit valuable back then really has any value now, it comes off as a parody. Don’t worry about anything I say it just a delusional shit head’s opinion and I will mention illuminati clones to get you off the scent so people who are giving this a chance, you can then act like I am less than for not believing how the official narratives are. Like there is enough on the surface in “kayfabe” that you can dunk on Trump on, like the guy clearly has admitted he has the documents etc, even if he tells his base they are coming after him. I don’t believe they are going after him and they will keep prolonging until his base becomes more vitriolic and aggressive, like they haven’t been getting that way all the time. Chances are my blog will be consumed by people who hate me and want to align with everyone else who hates me and then they will work with people to fuck up your mentality even more with secrecy and showing off how much well off they are knowing at their heart of hearts they got all of that by using me as a guinea pig. They will spew the typical insults because aesthetically me putting out all this accumulated mental trauma over the last decade plus, is not considered a fact so in the end of it all I end up looking worse and coming off as a self important narcissist, which describes like most people who climb up in that system, it’s just I put it out there to show what the result of what my path has lead me to. I never seen people who have all this power that insist on me being suppressed and being a red flag as my online presence depletes, but then at the same time, they keep on this planet to endure the decline and hope for this planet and I am supposed to sit there be happy for people and not because of the advertised feats of making it in the system, but for them to get a lot worse mentally and do evil shit at the behest of billionaires while pretending they are against rich people, people who get funded to bring chaos and negativity in this world, nothing wrong with reacting to things in a positive or negative way if that is how you genuinely feel, but when the narrative is that anyone who is positive is automatically the most fake person, but the forced negative shit is seen as the most genuine because it comes off a lot more real. I can admit I have the aesthetic and presentation of someone who would checkmark all the boxes of who they say are the real weirdos of society while people who are respected will pivot to supporting Nazi like rhetoric, and I know at my heart of hearts I am not using my “conspiratorial” thinking to go more regressive and actually get to a better place mentally even if I don’t process information like every smart person who tells you how much smarter they are but then analyze the information like a reactionary edge lord to seem cool even if it blurs the line of facilitating the fundamentalist ideology. So if you stumbled onto this blog accidentally and you don’t know what you are getting yourself into, I am gonna warn you that not everything I say is 100 percent and it might get conspiratorial but don’t put me in the right wing leaning box, there is a reason why apolitical people who have seen ugly shit in the system or seen the results with society declining start leaning conspiratorial, and there is a reason why the right wing can pretend they care about shit that might need genuine concern while the rest of the 90 percent of what they say is luring you into Nazi level beliefs, and as someone who has almost fell into that, and trust me no one was gonna save me if I went into that direction, I actually think people from my past or others who hate me would’ve loved for me to go down to that level. They get mad at me and hold it against me for not being regressive because they want to be associated with industry creeps. I would rather opt to be gone from this planet because the right wing is winning even if they make it look like they are the victims, they can use the aesthetic of which president is in charge when the bookers of this shit have always had a right leaning trajectory and they need this new force of “anti establishment truth tellers” to be the face of what their end goal is, so all those alt media people who always scream about you being a shitlib because you don’t believe what they say as 100 percent, the ones who just say shit like “I am anti war so that means it is true and you can never question my beliefs or my intent ever” those ones are gonna be what they claimed to have hated all these years, they will be on the same equivalent of what people 20 years ago were doing when they were cheering on the Invasion of Iraq. They screamed about that like it was the best they had to be credible. They will be anti war but are pro culture war with sensationalizing the new right wing’s propaganda that is putting marginalized communities in danger, and they then do what they accuse democrats of doing by using their tokens, like white supremacy doesn’t have their tokens. If this ruffles the feathers then there will be random posts about me on the Stern reddit to basically talk about me if I am being irrational online so they can fein concern while doing backhanded concerns and pretend I am mentally gone, while their days consist of going on reddit and pretending to be mad at a 70 year old shock jock pretending he is gone more liberal and then call him a liar while regurgitating his narratives about people who got fucked over by him. They are not allowed in their shitty little boring script to acknowledge anything genuine. If I decided to sell my soul and use my situation to then go at Howard from the right, then there would be a bit more support. The democratic side knows I don’t like all of their narratives and how they might say some truth but then come off like pro US empire imperialism level shit. So I really don’t have anyone on my side on the surface, even though they will insist that I have a whole army. Yeah well they have done a shitty job if I have this power because I am at my most irrelevant.

I have a bunch of thoughts from different topics I talked about on the podcast. So since I write this spontaneously and not really think out and just go off the “vibes” I might be all over the place, when I have taken in too much narratives about stuff of the neverending 24/7 newscycle, it used to be easier to have an angle because I knew in the last decade I cannot trust the MSM’s word is on the matter so I used to take in alt media to at least give me another angle of what is not being talked about but now they are basically the same thing with some self preservation of truth while spreading nonstop propaganda and I have never been so fucking confused, and I know deep down a lot of people are too, that is why it is easier for them to go with a supposed expert that is promising truth and justice, but they all end up turning like the establishment that they have trained you to hate while becoming part of this new establishment. It is funny to me to see Christian fundamentalist types who would justify why you need to kill brown people overseas because of he fundamentalist shit those regions have because of corrupt leaders, but at the same time now in this current climate, those same fundamentalists types are now for other fundamentalists because they are in agreement for a common cause of being anti LGBTQ. Like they have generalized all Muslims and talk about how they are backwards when the whole time there has been western influence and investment in practicing fundamentalism in other countries before they are brought to the western countries. It is like how WWE in my opinion would have other stuff that would be used in their product by having it executed in other areas before using it themselves. Then Canada like always with a lot of things, it has to happen in the US first before we are allowed to have that come here because then you have more and more vitriolic right wing funded shit going on at school boards and other anti woke garbage seep in here and it is becoming clear that our world is moving into a new type of society and this is symbolism of more imploding shit, eventually I can see them privatizing education so they are making shit out of control, whether it is the right wing amplifying groomer shit, and taking away certain books etc, banning any education on important manners and make it seem it is all under grooming and political agenda, like our world by design wasn’t built on propaganda that has been normalized. For so long they dumbed down shit about genders where they trained you to think there are 2 and we don’t think that would be propaganda, there is this pressure to act like the most masculine and hetero person on the planet and never being allowed to admit you have weakness in your head from mental issues. You have dumbed down shit for so long that people like me are sitting here wondering “Hm did Autism always exist or did they make this stuff up?” I don’t understand a lot of the science shit, which is why when people come with alternative theories, it is easy to sway people. Maybe if people in the establishment didn’t downplay the internet and not talk about what was being organized for so long. People think the internet has always been a military experiment with propaganda, so while there was more genuine conversation and thoughts and some ideas being exchanged, there feels like there has always been far right wing agenda, because a lot of these convos back in 2005 or 2010 etc were just these fun little culture war topics we would all get involved with and I always assumed we were progressing so the people who think backwards were gonna be left behind, but being an online force for so long, now they finally have their people to make this all mainstream and they think they have been proven right. Like I remember in 2007 when a lot of the establishment welcomed the notion of Jim Carey and Jennifer McCarthy doing vaccine awareness and no one was outraged by it and at most it would be a disagreement so I figured that if people in the MSM in Hollywood are speaking out on a cause and no one is calling it out, maybe there is some truth. I wouldn’t know. I am not saying vaccines cause Autism, but because you have had bad cases of certain things going wrong in the scientific field whether it is an obscure story etc so if you told me that it could do that, I would be like “Well I guess this is the breaking science that is coming to light, and the MSM is a little slow with this” but if I were to believe that world’s design has always had a plan to go the way it has gone and they have ensured it would, my conspiracy would be that they planted a lot of vaccine skepticism and pretended they were gonna give you these warnings but if the powerful in this planet knew where it was going to go, wouldn’t it be more possible they trained you for so long to think these are bad for you because the characters promoting them have lied or are discredited. Like the reason why I don’t just blindly love Fauci or that Hortez guy is because even if they did good things that the right wing will be against, if let’s say that there was a leak in Wuhan and some of these people had some participating in the gain of function shit, it would imply that this shit could’ve been planned and for a right wing cause but through sports entertainment, because of the vaccine shit seems like it was popular under Biden etc, people will attribute any shadiness to do with how this started in a certain country when I think the entire world was going to go in this way and by the way throughout the 2010’s I would read about countless stories about how their was some biolab that did some fucked up shit in the US, so why couldn’t this have originated all over the world, the first story was Italy but then they started China as the main one, and because they purposefully censored people so the bad faith actors could play off that so that when there is something to do the Wuhan leak, then it would be like “The people who were being anti China on this matter they were proven right” I know I must sound like an idiot to smart people, but I am also sounding a bit scary to right wing people that I am theorizing on how they are manipulating the conspiracy because the easiest thing I can do is just blindly hate on all the conspiracies just because the right wing is in charge. Then it turns into “Debate me culture” because they chose this guy to be the sports entertainer scientist who might not be trained in debating since people work on their other strengths, but this has been an alt media and alt entertainment tactic they have been perfecting for the last decade about having to have a debate, it is like a WWE promo segment or contract signing, it is not there for debate and it always results with someone going through a fucking table. The people in charge have a right leaning bias so the alt media personalities like Joe Rogan can claim they are just a regular meat head pot smoker who is just asking the important questions while giving softball interviews to white supremacists on his show and then his shitty fan base will claim he didn’t give softball interviews, even though he has entertained race science talks and doesn’t push back, he downplayed what the proud boys were and you think if you pointed out in a debate that they are being propped up by the system, you think you won’t pay for it, people want to reduce these people to being celebrities but that is when the alt media are lying to you especially by using what happens on the surface, like this world we live in isn’t a fucking reality show. They want you on, it doesn’t matter who is right or wrong in the situation, these people who are online and are employed by these celebs and billionaires will manipulate it with their shit to make it seem like the right wing side is winning the internet argument even though that is fucking manipulated. You think if you point that out in a fucking debate, you think they would let you get away with it, you say the wrong thing to insinuate that Joe Rogan is a compromised shit head who people have had to pretend was funny and while the people who consume his podcast fall for the “comedy is going PC and those liberals suck at it” they will then be okay with a bunch of unfunny jocks that Joe Rogan helped make famous. And then you have supposed truth tellers in the alt media space also dumbing it down about how you should be open to debates when the people you are debating with are gonna win the narrative and they can then fund people to attack you nonstop because all these personalities in the political analysis game who pretend they are the most brave and uncompromised of them all will then say a bunch of compromised shit. I know the MSM and other establishment shit heads won’t ever dare getting conspiratorial but like when bad faith actors use the mass shooters, not all of them, the ones where the story becomes famous in the discourse, that there are times when these people have been approached by law enforcement and the FBI etc, and if someone is a danger and you are aware of them and they are able to go out and do the shit they do, I am allowed to believe that they allowed it to happen, but it is weird because the new right will use the feds as an excuse to downplay that there is white supremacist intent with it, and the people who are establishment on the left side will use whites supremacy in a blind way and pretend the feds could never be involved, but why do people think there aren’t white supremacists who are in the feds and there are different factions within these institutions. It is white supremacy to me on a bigger scale, where they have their mentally ill cogs they have at their disposal, and since the right wing has normalized the conspiracy of famous mass shootings happening because they want to take away guns, when after each shooting gun sales increase, they sign in laws to make it easier, I could buy they would organize shit because people think they have woken up to “false flags” and then it doesn’t help that the establishment pretend false flag mean that no one died, they would never want to think that evil people who oppress people daily and poison their water and endanger marginalized communities, that they could never do the evil shit and organize it because everyone has done this whole “America’s dumbest criminal” level shit when you are supposed to hate a villain.

When people in the liberal circles scoff at people who might be apolitical to think that there is no difference between the democrats and republicans, they are looking at the results of what is going on in the surface plus the right wing’s organization of sensationalist culture war shit, it really then makes people then think the people who are talking about conspiratorial shit be the people of truth. Like I don’t know shit about the science and chemicals, but when you tell me that chemicals have changed frogs sex, my stupid dumb ass head then thinks, “Well they poison us with chemicals in other ways, maybe that could fucking happen, I don’t know” but to people on the left’s credit, they have countered that argument which had an easy explanation of we are not the same species which is why it would not happen to us, it is like where the fuck have you been all my life? See what scares me the most about shit is that if I am not consuming MSM establishment shit and I am online consuming the news, it feels like when back when I was partaking in discourse of rhetoric on talk radio where they would use race science and stats, and even though I could feel that narrative felt racist, me not being the best educated person, I would not know how to counter that shit so it would be like giving into the pressure of buying into sophisticated racism, and I feel like if I don’t have the right people informing me on shit and I am consuming online shit, I can fall for the culture war reactionary shit and buying into every sensationalist trans story to make them look like they are the biggest evil that needs to be stopped. And that is when it gets scary for me because I am seeing more people lean that way whether it is being brainwashed or people wanting to climb up socially for a big payday and access because they get to hang out with their favorite celeb. If people I have known will use me as a guinea pig and then pretend they didn’t do anything to me all so they can have showbiz friends and connections, then when it comes for bigger stakes of getting ultimate power and protection while pretending you are just being a common sense person, because you are too cowardly to just proclaim you are selling our and giving up in the principles you claimed you have. And I would rather die than be on that side. I don’t give a shit if I will never hang out with people in the upper echelon, I don’t give a shit if I don’t have access to industry sexy workers. I really don’t belong in this “new world” that is forming. And if I feel that the overall trajectory is fascism, when people in bad faith say that if you vote democrat or liberal, you are part of the problem, like by the same shit that is supposed to implode by design, will be a reason why bad faith actors will advocate for people who will also become worse in the system, that is why I never really bought into the systemic shit that the presidents do is not really them physically doing it but rather if someone becomes a world champion in wrestling, the company is gonna go in the direction it goes no matter who the champion is, but then you will advocate for your guy to be champion and list off why someone like John Cena is a propaganda tool, but then your guy will do the propaganda tool shit as well. If people who are night high up in the system and are paid to be online personas are getting this worse and they are not at the top, and they are already willing to lie, what faith do I have in you to do the right thing. Maybe 5 years ago when I was sick of the system and what was transpiring, I could’ve bought into some anti establishment person, but it turns out the discredited people in the system have been right about a lot of the people who were being Bernie Bros types, not all of them obviously. I am not gonna generalize all of them, but key figures who gained more clout and status, they have all been saying some of the dumbest shit on the planet and they are supposed to be the smart ones. So people who say that if they vote Trump, it is done to stop fascism, then to me, in my personal opinion and remember everything I have written in this blog or say on the podcast is just an uneducated opinion from a dumbed down fatso, you mother fuckers are not telling people what their future aspirations are to make this world 10 times worse, and now some of these people who are “Kill the Rich” types, it is becoming clear that it is just rich people you hate because you are working at the behest of billionaires who control cops and organize chaos in this world, and you will downplay these celebs and public figures because maybe some establishment people will pretend to hate them but you are luring your base to accept Elon as being super funny and you will have to stay the shitty played out shit. “Man, I don’t like Trump, but man he is hilarious” and you are in a position of knowing what his aspirations are, but because you think democrats cry about him while giving him free promo, you have to be the “cool guy that has humor” so you pretend to think a shitty person who was probably a criminal before he became a president, is automatically funny, and it says a lot about you and whatever your beliefs are. You know better and you are playing devil’s advocate for people who want to bring the worst to the world. Like I don’t know what the rule of law is because no matter what it is, the people in the public sphere are not doing the same time and they will come up with a rule that doesn’t make any sense. I am gonna do something unpredictable, I am gonna tie it into wrestling again because I am so out there and wacky, but first Illuminati Clones, Illuminati Clones, Illuminati clones, now you can’t take what I say seriously, like you were anyways, but it is like when the wrestling world trained its audience with rules of the tropes in storyline telling etc, but during the attitude era, they would come up with reason why stipulations and rules meant less and less as it went along where you just say “I guess whatever they decide” goes, and that is what it seems with the criminal charges that go on. The left loves to hype up the possibility of Trump going away when it is all in his favor, you keep asking questions like “Why is Merrick Garland not doing so and so, it has been a year” is it possible in this fucked up reality show world that this is sports entertainment, and what is happening on the surface is designed to be out there and designed to be a circus? You give the impression Trump is going away so his base and even the “leftists” who insist on doing red and brown alliances and blurring the lines, will think everyone is being unfair to Trump because others did shit, fine arrest them all then if they all did corruption, why am I not allowed to hope for someone powerful like Trump to have to face the consequences. So now you can think Hunter Biden got let off easily and people on the left will think that Hunter is just some regular dude who is not president, any public figure and political person associate or family are all part of that the mafia rule system, like this Hunter Biden shit is also designed to make him a character where we cater to the lowest common denominator with him smoking crack and fucking hookers and showing his fucking cock. Like I get people think that stuff is cool, but do you have to think everyone who does that is cool, like aren’t there cooler and less compromised people who smoke crack and fuck hookers that you can say is cool, but automatically the right wing pretends to be outraged but it feels like everything has to be sold for the new online showbiz as sex related to make this even more controversial. But either way no one is going after Trump, they can pretend they hate him so they make money off of him, and make it seem like he is being piled on, but what is actually gonna happen, all these people in the media profited off these stories knowing where it is going and then start playing devil’s advocate for him. The only conspiracy some of the people have to cover now is the UFO’s because even that is being prostituted, where something is definitely coming very soon, but I have had the belief that other life forms have been amongst us and actually look like us, I feel like our entire existence is a lot more advanced than what it is, I believe in science that much, but it is only okay to say “This AI art generator is gonna be the reason why humanity has fallen” like why am I not allowed to think AI level shit that could’ve existed for a while now has played a part in getting us to this point. But it feels with whatever is advertised of becoming danger has already become the danger. That is why I think the elites needed the pandemic to happen because they need a reason for shit to go into the direction it goes so it forces some kind of revolution, when you pretend things are just happening the way they are because that is what happens and then the right wing claiming this is a plan-demic, there could be truth to it, but the people claiming it is, would also be in on it and are permitted to be the ones who are warning you so you take their side, and because the MSM media and the establishment are limited in what is said even if some of their truth is more out of self preservation so it says in the history books that so and so warned you about the dangers, but they won’t disclose that at that time, the establishment has been something that is discredited to a lot of people. I am not saying I am the one with the answers, I am just sitting here trying not to break down from mental trauma and my confusion in this world. Even if I write a compelling blog or do a podcast, even if I am trying to at least give you perception of how dumbed down people think, most of the “smart” people out there will dismiss it and the right wing will use it as a way to double down on their craziness.

It seeps into the fandoms as well, and maybe it is for the better because maybe I should’ve stopped using entertainment as my escape and live vicariously through because it has made me a bit worse, you know how many times I will say I am not watching anything or going to so and so events, and I end up fucking going and watching and still consuming it, but maybe it is for the best if I really did try to escape it because if everything is going more right wing, then definitely wrestling would be one of the main entertainment forms that will definitely embrace it. We have to pretend that the old timers are just out of touch etc and that is where it starts and ends because there will be some embracing on a surface level with inclusion and what not, but if you already view the entertainment world as another layer of fundamentalism, and noticing the pipeline from that world into right wing politics and what kind of political messaging was inserted into it from the beginning then it is not surprising there are old timers trying to get attention on AEW for some wrestlers supporting trans youth, and they are trying to get far right leaning people make these companies capitulate to them because they will say it is all a political agenda, like it isn’t ironic that Dutch Mantell, who did a patriot gimmick would complain about politics in wrestling, and I have noticed that there has been a pushback from people of all over who are embracing right wing sensationalist shit have basically shut down any talks about racism, misogyny and homophobia, even if it is talked about on a surface level, and they will act like they don’t want it in the product but then advocate for all the regressive shit, why didn’t Dutch Mantell’s concern for protecting kids happen when there have been active abusers in the industry, why are kids training with Chasyn Rance? The man literally managed the Harris Brothers who have Nazi tattoos, and so many people in that mafia underworld are into that kind of shit, so why is it surprising that WWE would have ties to fundamentalists from Saudi Arabia, and when you only mention that as the only shady thing WWE has done, then I am gonna think you are not well intentioned and don’t worry my opinion won’t mean shit, only if you are a sociopath who thinks everyone needs to praise your limited expose on the Saudi WWE deal and not see how these personalities are funded with their rhetoric of making it seem like they are calling out bad booking but then they will sneak in their edgelord personas for shit. And I can see this getting worse, and I want to believe the wrestlers supporting trans youth are being genuine, or was this a way to get this talked about so that it encourages people to lose their mind about it and go against the woke agenda. There is no both sides in this issue when you are not mentioning how far the right wing is going and because you might pick and choose scenarios from people who happen to be part of the community you hate on as a generalization of all people in that community you are a dip shit and you are help normalizing rhetoric that will get people killed, but don’t worry you will be able to hang out with all the celebrities you want to hang out with. They will promote stories about how someone who raped and murdered someone in 1984 was actually claiming to be trans later on while doing time, and because people don’t advocate for the death penalty, you will have ACLU make it seem like this is the main concern about the trans stuff which then prompts all the fake culture war shit heads then go “CAN YOU BELIEVE THE LEFT DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE RAPE AND MURDER AND MORE ABOUT THIS KILLER HAVING THEIR TREATMENT” I still think prisoners should be given access to treatment, prisons are supposed to be for rehabilitating people and if you were gonna be on your high horse about people not liking capitol punishment, maybe you should go after the right wing thought leaders guilty of legalizing the worst shit not to protect kids, from child labor, exploitation of migrant kids, blowing brown kids up overseas, or the many rapists who happen to be functioning in high level of power, maybe I would take your concerns seriously about being outraged about the kids if you stayed consistent with it and not be okay with guys like Andrew Tate, you know celebs and public figures, I have always assumed they are initiated or do initiations to get into the system, and we find out about it later through the gimmicked storyline they bring to the media, but now they are literally having people become famous solely for doing these horrible things and they become modern cult leaders. I never heard about Andrew Tate before this shit, it was like he was allowed to function and then we pretend we are calling him out because he happened to committ these crimes, but these crimes are now being exploited for the sports entertainment, it would be entertaining if it weren’t so fucking tragic that the system could be this disgusting with exploiting people’s trauma, like Russell Simmons became a heel because his antics became known and now out of the woodwork, now we are finding out he groomed his ex wife when she was 16, because the entertainment industry has an underworld where industry madams start off young and in the system until they are chosen to be in a relationship with some of these figures. And now his kids are coming out the woodwork about the abuse they had to deal with, and since the talking heads who get to be powerful voices online and in the media, they will apply regular rules to these people by going “Why aren’t they going to the police or a therapist” like it is that easy, like powerful people don’t have control over law enforcement, they don’t operate like that, when they are supposed to be exposed that is what happens, but the kids are now put in a position to get their trauma out there but it has to be broadcasted so there is heat on them for doing this. This is just my opinion. But I am looking at the overall pattern in how these celeb shit play out, and it feels like their major roles now have become reality show shit where they will be in the news for some controversy. Nothing about this shit makes any sense. But why would anyone want to entertain or investigate when then billionaires who fund this kind of shit have control over a lot of shit but they just reduced to being a regular civilian who happened to get caught for something later when their career is at the latter portion. It is like the scandals have become exploitative documentaries and television series and we just think this shit is playing out the way it is. Anyways I have gone on for a long time about shit but I don’t think anyone will be willing to change their mind with how I go off the reservation with my theories, but I at least am trying to figure out ways to counter the right wing shit online that is designed to be there and to me they have been recruiting people through online shit, because people only think the feds online just spy on us and know where we are, or they have our information, and then don’t think it is possible for them to recruit people to their cause. Again these are my theories. I am sure it will put a target on me, have people trigger some shit that fuck with my physical illnesses, and at this point, I don’t really have anything to really live for, I don’t have friends and it is probably for the better because most of them have either become far right or they have become elitist, and I have killed any shot of me being relevant again because I didn’t sell my trauma to the right wing cause because I would be so hurt I would go to anyone willing to talk to me about it. Maybe I am wrong about where this world is heading, I hope so. I don’t want to be here for a fascist takeover and every day it is being more normalized and I would hope the right wing people who consume what I say and write with the intent of hating me more and informing your patriot buddies that I am a danger etc, but I would people with that kind of mentality to open their eyes and see they are being lied to just because the establishment for the liberals don’t tell you everything. I have to reflect on my journey and where my mind went so I can at least give insight into how a dumbed down person kind of thinks. I never wanted to be on this planet, I was ready to leave 20 years ago, before I turned 20. I just didn’t see a happy conclusion to any of this and now that I am alive and have been used up for the fame game to make other people get the access and connections while I took the abuse, I fucking have nothing to look forward to. Maybe there will be a couple of wrestlers who might read this and try to insert some of this shit into a promo, some of them do but they could never admit that shit. There is definitely nowhere to talk about shit to have an actual conversation, everyone has an agenda. I have grown tired of all of it, this is just me getting shit off my chest, because the trolls will downplay my concerns so they can tell their like minded cult members that I am dangerous and they will pretend to care about me while mocking me for having to have this aesthetic of my life so they can discredit me more. I know I am not some fucking hero, but I am definitely not gonna let you turn me into another boring cookie cutter edge lord villain who will pretend the internet is some underground shit. You don’t get to be the main voice because you claim to be anti war while downplaying white supremacists on your show and because so many of these “leftists” were respectable thought leaders for a bit, they help manipulate you into accepting problematic takes and help normalizing it. How are you guys better than the MSM, or do you even give a shit. You clearly do because you can’t admit you are right wingers, you need the most out of the guise of being a leftist, or a socialist while showing you are having more in common with the national socialists. Go ahead, get mad, pretend you didn’t read this, but I know I am a subtle target, my only strength right now is no one is officially paying attention to me. But they are paying attention to me, they get extra mad that they didn’t push me over the edge so they could justify why they need to treat me like I am a danger to people. You can’t have it both ways, you all decided long ago I was not someone to be taken seriously, you just thought I would end up down the typical right wing trajectory. And trust me, listen to my Stern Show calls back 10 years ago and I would be the typical conspiratorial minded person even if I didn’t look at myself for falling for the right wing shit, because members of the new right were being normalized as lesser threats. I can admit where I went wrong and how I bought into shit, because I hear I don’t take accountability and I blame everyone else, but that is what the system does.

#Hanzi 2023 Mental Illness Theories NoFacts sensationalist reactionary culture war pro wrestling politics discourse

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annie-mit-ie · 3 years

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Glimpses: Part 12 (Kathryn Hahn x Fem!Reader)

Part 1 // previous chapter <<< >>> next chapter

Summary: Will you be able to go with Kathryn?

Word Count: 2k

A/N: This is a little shorter, I know, but I hope all of you still enjoy it. Look at this little tag list we have going on now!! - I might actually get a little emotional that so many of you are still reading this little story. With all that being said, here we gooooo. xx

Tag List: @danvers97 @zafirosreverie @srtamercurio @wanatag @pulledbythestars17 @plantowl

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“You can’t take her.” Jennifer is walking up and down in Kathryn’s office. She arrived here right after you had left, ready to plan to thrip to New York, as well as the upcoming project. Kathryn shifts her focus from her hand to her manager and huffs.

“NO. Kathryn, no. You know it yourself. First of all, she is a distraction. Yes, you like her, I KNOW, but this is not you. This is not how you do your job.” Jennifer looks at her boss with pleading eyes.

Running her fingers through her long mane, Kathryn bites the insides of her cheek. “you’re right, I know you are, but at the same time…”

“NO BUTS, Kathryn.” Jennifer interrupts her, prompting Kathryn to shoot her a short glare.

“…but at the same time I haven’t been this happy in years.” Thinking back at the time you spent with her, a small smile creeps onto her face.

Jennifer gets it. She understands Kathryn’s point, but as her manager it’s her job to secure the actress’ job, which is why she needs to make sure there are as few distractions from work as possible included in the trip.

Placing a hand on her arm, Jennifer looks at Kathryn with warm eyes. “Sweetie, I know you don’t like it. I don’t like it either, because I know how good the time with her is for your heart. But we can’t have this. Not now. Not during your shining moment. Yeah?”

Slowly but surely, Kathryn starts to nod as she can feel the sadness rise in her chest.

Meanwhile, you and Alex are having the same conversation back in your room. She tries to talk sense into you and talks animatedly to her phone, as you try to find a way to accompany Kathryn.

“Honey, you simply can’t. There is no way. It’s during the exam phase. You can’t be abroad for that.” She shakes her head.

Considering your options, you try to talk against her. “I could ask for online exams.”

“… there is a multiple hour time difference - you can’t be serious, Y/N.”

“I could postpone exams?” You raise an eyebrow.

Alex shakes her head harder now. “NO GIRL. No. Kathryn wouldn’t want you screwing up your education for this. You have leftover classes, exams to write and then you’ll have to write term papers you have to prepare for,” you take a visible breath. “Yes love, I am aware you could write those on set but we all know you wouldn’t. It’s better for you to stay.”

You want to argue. You really do. But there are a few things holding you back. First of all, you know Alex makes a valid point. Second of all, you don’t even know where you are standing with Kathryn. What are you to her? What is happening with her? The lines are so blurry that it’s hard for you to see, so you think it might be better not to assume and make a fuss about all of it.

Lastly, you don’t even know if she wants to have you by her side in the first place, because, again, it’s not like she is your girlfriend or anything. Not that you wouldn’t want her to be.

So, just like Kathryn does with Jennifer, you agree to what Alex says and make your decision to stay, even though it hurts your heart just as much as it hurts hers.

Given the fact, that she has to leave for New York right the next morning, it’s not possible for you to see her again. You think back at the soft kiss she planted on your lips as you left her house under yesterday’s hot afternoon sun. You feel so good with her and you can’t stop to think back at how beautiful her eyes look up close - even more beautiful than on all her pictures that Alex and you have been sending back and forth whenever Kathryn did a new promo shoot.

It’s late afternoon as you’re lying on your bed and stare at the ceiling, a random Marvel movie running in the background. Alex has been trying to hype you up all day, but, given the fact that Kathryn is gone for an unforeseen time, you still feel sad.

You turn off the movie because you can’t seem to concentrate and connect your phone to the speakers to play some music. You remember that you can sit on your windowsill that’s facing the backyard and and decide to sit down and watch the birds in the tree outside your window as you open Spotify and it starts playing the last song you stopped on. “She” by dodie fills the room and you don’t think you related to a song like that ever before.

It really describes the feelings of uncertainty that you have right now. It doesn’t help that you never really took the chance to talk to her about all of not. Not properly, at least. This mistake leaves you with this endless feeling of emptiness that seems like it’s eating you up from the inside as you don’t even know if she feels the same in any way.

Your phone chimes and you nearly fall off the windowsill as you shoot up to reach for it. It’s the group chat you thought had died a while ago that you joined right after Kathryn appeared on Wandavision.

Apparently, news of Kathryn’s casting already sank through and everyone is screaming about it. Unwilling to share any knowledge, and also way too careful with it, you want to put your phone away as it chimes again and your eyes widen.

You immediately click the message.

“New York is wild! Haven’t had time to get to you yet. Seems like everyone and their mom wants to speak to me today. Just left my second meeting and now I have to leave for a work dinner in a few. How’s the day going back home? xxx K.”

A bright smile creeps onto your face as you realize she uses the “everyone and their mom” phrase that you use so much whenever you describe difficult situations to her. You decide not to reply immediately - you don’t want her to assume you are sitting on your phone just waiting for her.

Instead you opt to create some art and grab your supplies. There is an empty canvas behind your bed and you feel like there are enough feelings trapped in you to create something cool on it.

Your mom works long on Mondays, so you haven't realized just how much time has passed as you perform the last of the night and call it a day. Your picture is colorful. Very much so. The acrylic paint hasn’t even dried yet, but there are already tons of ideas floating around in your head about what to do with the artwork from here on out. Maybe you should get some fine liners and work out the edges, maybe do some highlighting as well, you don't know yet.

Just as you want to put the brush aside your phone lights up on your bed. You can't pick it up just now because the slowly drying paint sticks to your fingers and you anxiously reach for the closest paper towel to white it off as best as you can. Not expecting anything, you finally reach for your phone and pick up the call before reading the name - an automatic reaction to late night calls from Alex.

You are greeted by a very familiar, yet unexpected, face. Kathryn smiles into the camera and adjusts the lights around her. She is clearly in her pjs, with no make up on, her hair open and messy, falling off her shoulder. You can see she is wearing a loose gray shirt and your whole body starts tingling as you realize it's the shirt she gave you to sleep in last weekend. Immediately, your brain runs wild and you try to figure out if she packed this exact shirt on purpose or just grabbed the one that was available easiest as she was probably in a rush.

Luckily, Kathryn interrupts your train of thought. “Hey! Hiya hon! I just wanted to check in. Make sure you’re alright because you haven’t replied to my message.”

For the first time you look at the clock. It’s 8.30pm and you haven’t had dinner yet.

“Shit.”, you mutter and your hand flies to cover your mouth immediately.

Kathryn, who hasn’t heard your muttering, looks confused. “Sweetheart, is everything alright?”

You smile thankfully. “Yes! Yes it is. I guess I was just wrapped up in my art and you pulled me out of it and I always need a minute to adjust. I’m fine. It’s late though and I haven’t eaten yet. Thank you for reminding me.”

“Good. Do you want me to order you pizza or something. Because I totally would.” She reaches for a notepad.

“Alright Mom…” she looks at you for a moment and you can’t tell if she is shocked or amused or anything really because she stopped reacting completely and just stares at you. Right when you are about to start panicking about the situation she bursts into laughter.

“I mean I’M SORRY. How dare I offer pizza.” She continues laughing. You love this. This is easy and light and you realize once again just how much you enjoy her company. Gosh, you miss her already.

You remember her message as you make your way downstairs. “How was dinner, Kathryn? And the rest of your day? Tell me about it!”

For the next 10 minutes, as you prepare your own dinner, she tells you about her day and the plans for the next few weeks. The two of you laugh and make jokes and for a moment it seems like both of you have forgotten that you won’t see each other for a while. After she finishes talking, you fall into a comfortable silence and just look and smile at each other for a moment.

“I like you, you know?” She is the one to interrupt the silence. “Spending time with you makes me really happy and I’m sad you can’t come to Europe with me. I need you to know. I wish I could’ve taken you with me.”

Your heart melts and your hands start to shake as you realize Kathryn might indeed feel the same way. You put the knife, that’s in your hand from making dinner, aside. You’re unable to answer right away and fight for the right words, so she continues on with her short monologue.

“I just wanted to call tonight to check in and see how you are doing since I had to kick you out so abruptly last night and maybe we can do this from time to time, check in on each other? I would love that.”

Check in on each other? Why is she so vague all the time? For a moment you thought she’d confess her feelings for you but here you are again, uncertain of what she really thinks about you. You smile, though, and try to keep it calm because you don’t want her to get annoyed with you already.

You realize it’s getting close to 9pm, which means it should be about midnight at her place. Taking responsibility, you send her off to sleep and have a short dinner followed by some reading yourself.

Before Kathryn hangs up, she promises you to call again before leaving for Europe completely. She also wants to know if you want a souvenir from NYC (why is she so cute?) and tells you to call her anytime you need something or someone. With that, she shoots you the brightest smile and leaves you to it.

The ecstatic feeling you felt when you talked to her fades quickly as you come down from the call. Suddenly, your home feels all quiet and lonely and the silence is killing you. You walk back up to your room to sit on your bed and stare out of your window to enjoy the night sky. The tree right next to your room is slowly moving in the wind as its branches scratch the glasses surface.

You decide to call it a day as the week ahead is full of work and school and the weekend was eventful, so you change into comfy clothes and get ready for bed immediately. You fall onto your bed a few minutes later just as your phone lights up again.

"Good night, Sweetheart. It was great seeing your face. xxx K."

#kathryn hahn #kathryn hahn x reader #Kathryn Hahn x You #Kathryn Hahn fan fiction #Kathryn Hahn Fanfiction #groupie #groupie au

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theyneverblindmedarling · 3 years

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AYYYYYY A BLACKPINK STAN I LOVE YOU BESTIEEE drag dem toes and larries to hell and back it was suspicious of her to give creds BUT STILL NOT CHANGE THE NATIONALITY IN THE OFFICIAL CREDITS like mam what is up---

Ahhhhhy yessss!!!!! Lmao I will like I may not be consistent much anymore but if there is one thing I’ll be consistent about its dragging l*rries and other semi delusional stan takes so

Also yes I don’t like that everyone moved on from that so quickly!!!! Like you gave him a pseudonym and nobody knew it was him til you said something so why didn’t you give him credits then? If she had just given him producer credits ORIGINALLY I wouldn’t have this issue. She put him on the Jack songs as well which doesn’t sit entirely right with me (I mean doing either would’ve felt icky but I’m just saying) like giving your bf credits for work he didn’t do and making your producers and friends share that credit (That they more than deserve for this album by the way) is just quite literally a blatant abuse of power and I don’t see how that is something that is up for debate.

Like honestly debate me and slam me and call me a hater all you want but when it comes down to it, she falsely gave him credit (JUST ENOUGH credit) so that he too could have a Grammy. All arguments of him being “just tooo humble and private to want to take credit” are absolute horse shit. HE USED A PSEUDONYM!!!!!! If he wanted that shit to be private he would’ve used the pseudonym and asked her to not spill the beans on it really being him its that fucking simple. You aren’t gonna be so not shy and non private that you get public credit for contributing to the creation of a few songs (that were still created by mostly taylors legwork gotta say) and then also be too shy to accept credit for songs that you apparently also worked on the production of. THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE. Literally everyone coming up with excuses like this might need to touch grass and maybe reactivate some neurons by taking some sort of online learning course I think it could be beneficial to us all.

The reason pseudonyms exist is for privacy. If he didn’t want his name attached to the music he simply would have asked. Secondly, its shady as fuck to give credit ONLY after your album as won an award almost 8 or 9 months after its release. In no way is that just a oops didn’t credit him before I forgot oopsie. NO its very obviously an attempt to get him a Grammy (and a very important/ Prestigious one at that). Finally I would like to make it clear that I don’t blame him for this (despite people loving to spin it that way) I hardly think he was begging on his knees like “babe please give me a Grammy if you love me I need this for my career to take off uwu” (Although it will undoubtedly fuel his career because he is only going to earn the movies he is in more money now because they can put Grammy award winner (barf) in movie promo now (Literally disgusting anyways). I am more than aware that in this case it is Taylor who takes the blame. She is the one with power in the industry who can make those changes. No one else. Therefore she is the one who made the decision for this to happen and I (clearly) strongly disagree with it.

#love you bestie lol #sorry for turning your ask into a long winded rant #but i still have so many thoughts about this and it makes me unreasonably angry #ts

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hellohellohellobingmetropcs · 4 years

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Sum lite 🤨

Zion was ordered by management to apologize to the beanz on your behalf for your breakdown on live.

His jealous fans finally got under your skin after 4 months of officially dating. This being the reason Zion kept his relationship offline. You were no secret to his friends and fam.

Of course he’d subtweet you on the timeline so fans were under the impression there was a lady in his life, but who?

In a state of pure bliss and love you posted a pic of you and Zion from your camera roll, tagging him in the picture on your public Instagram.

The next morning fans poured in with the screenshot, summing up his subtweets and little hints with your picture to confirm the relationship.

Zion being the fan favorite member, making you the most hated girlfriend out the gang. The other guys’ girlfriends got hate but also received much more love from fans than you.

Out of boredom you decided to go live on Instagram, just seeing what was up in the world. You rolled your eyes at some comments, making a mental note to block the accounts later.

“None of you know me. Shit, you don’t even know Zion!”

You sighed in frustration, pulling your hair up in my messy bun. Now they were calling you rude and telling you that you didn’t deserve Zion.

“Everytime he posts a pic of us here comes 50 of you calling me a gold digger— on my life everything I have is because of me. Nobody gave me shit. I don’t ask Zion for shit. Anything he gives me is a gift”

Zion nodded to himself in agreeance as he watched the video with his headphones on.

PrettyMuch were flying back to California from Florida for some promo for their new album. First thing on his mind was to get back to you and shower you with his love which he knew you needed right now.

“Then there’s the ones who think I wanna steal clout. Bro fuck y’all. Honestly”

You reached down to Simba, setting him on your lap. You cuddled him, watching more and more hate comments fill your screen. As easy as it is to just turn off the screen, everyone knew you and Zion to be the outspoken couple. A thing never got past you two without being addressed.

“Y’all are delusional as fuck. You’re like 15 behind a fanpage and only spread hate? Go do your homework”

Zion grew a little angry with his supporters as the tears in your eyes welled up. He couldn’t wrap his head around why people that support him want to make his significant other feel bad. You’ve been nothing but quiet when fans disrespect you online because you understood what it was like to be boy crazy over a boy band in your teen years and not like the idea of your idol dating.

Today was where you’ve had enough because in person you’d never let the disrespect slide like that.

“I don’t even know why I’m upset. I don’t care about what y’all think. That’s my husband .. yes we’re married, don’t ask. I’m not going anywhere”

After the complied clips of the livestream came an old video of you two kissing. In the background Zion could hear himself say he loves you.

The video splattered a hint of blush across his yellow cheeks, making him eager to get home.

Time had crept up on you when Zion’s appearance startled you from your book. It was 11pm already and you knew he had a late flight so you stayed up.

“Are you mad?”

He chuckled, already knowing what you were referring to. “Baby you can’t just go off on fans like that”

“Z I’m sorry. They just ..” you let a harsh sigh, circling the room as the anger re-entered your veins.

“Don’t cry mamas. Talk to me”

You hadn’t noticed the hot tears falling from your eyes until Zion mentioned it, pulling you into a warm hug.

“they make me so mad” you muttered out.

“They’re kids babe. Calm down love” his thumb wiped away your tears, pressing his lips over your swollen pair.

“You’re smart, funny, sexy, crazy .. everything I want in a woman. Fuck them kids! I’m in love with you, not who they think you are on the internet”

“You’re quite the looker yourself kuwonu. I love you too”

“I’m gonna shower I’m tired”

“Tired?” His hands slid down your back, thumbs drawing circles over your back dimples “Baby let me put you to sleep”

You laughed at his devastation to come, spinning out of his grip and making your way towards the bathroom for a hot shower before bed. “My cycle is on you hornball”

He mentally cursed himself knowing he was waiting for this day since the day he left. His favorite hello and goodbye present is always sex. He’d be broke if he was paid to keep his hands off you.

You did as you said, falling right asleep instantly after the wash. Zion was in awe of how you’d mindlessly for for one of his shirts instead of actual pajamas at night.

Before the night was over he wanted to get the whole live situation out the way and under wraps.

He set up his laptop in his desk, heading straight to Instagram for a live session. Fans poured in with their thoughts and opinions on your from earlier, he read a few just to see where their heads were at before going in.

“Hey guys I just wanted to hop on here and say wassup” he waved to the camera, watching as greetings poured in from his devoted fans.

One question about you caught his attention. He stayed quiet as he pondered on how to address the situation.

Looking into the camera he could still see you sound asleep in his bed with his T-shirt on.

“Most of you know this .. (Y/N) is my girlfriend and she’s been around for a while now. Like she said she’s not going anywhere any time soon so get used to her. Also, be nice. The name-calling is childish and if you were a true fan of mine you’d understand she makes me really happy. I’d hate to lose her over something like my own fans bullying her. It makes me sad that I even have to address this .. bullying isn’t ever ok. I’ve talked to her about what she said and she’s really sorry if she offended anyone and if that’s not great enough, I am too. I love you all so much and I love (y/n) too. Okay now that that’s out the way I’m about to shower and hop in bed with my lady. I’m really tired. So much new shit coming to you guys so stay tuned! Bye guys”

On that note he ended the live, doing exactly as he planned. The cool night air whipping around your body as he lifted the covers to slide into bed with you after his shower. The bed sank in on his side making you roll into him, wrapping your arms around him. He smiled to himself, dropping a hand on your ass per usual as his own tiredness took over him.

Masterlist

#zion kuwonu imagines #zion kuwonu x reader #prettymuch imagines

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Edited: RECAP OF THE SITUATION

Let me try put all this together, sorry if I forget anything or anyone:

- ROLANDO: stranded in Hawaii still working his bearding and still working press and tabloids with anything Rolando in spite of saying he hent there cause he needed holidays.

- CATALINA STUCK AT HOME WITH ANTONIO: Spending most of her time online and cooking. After clapgate she’s taken a break from SM.

- BRAZILIANS: just resist and trust... like we have nothing, he’s in Hawaii or is he really?, she’s in Glasgow or is she really? Antonio means nothing wedding or not. See the manipulation and lies? They are all going to hell for this. Yes they are.

- LIA WARNER: screaming indignant while showing zero proof or evidence to support her arguments. LOL

- PUFFY: claiming again to have an important screencap but oh no, backtracking just hours later cause you know she can’t share...LOL

- PURV&FATMUSO: masturbating in tandem to a gay dude’s sweaty picture. Dumb and dumber.

- FATMUSO: going over the shipper list of blocks trying to decide if Rolando missed someone while still manipulating the hell of the Hawaii story trying to make it about shipping to achieve two things: that dumbers ignore the perfect timing of Rolando’s bearding campaign beginning just in time for his moive promo (we here have longer memories than Antis you asshole) and also that dumbers ignore how Rolando was downplaying the pandemic and not taking it seriously to the point of getting stranded on an island when every recomendation was from authorities to get your shinny white shaved ass home. Stupid doesn’t even begin to cover his tweets asking people to go to the movies and forget the quarantine or how corona isn’t worse than the flu. We all saw that fatso, no matter how hard to try to cover for it.

- FATMUSO II: it’s not okay for a PR woman to ask for premiere tickets on Twitter yet it’s perfectly okay for a Music Producer and Band Manager (aka Antonio, Catalina’s husband in case you had no idea who I am referring to you Humpty Dumpty) not to get tickets for a Glasgow gig so that his fiance needs to go begging for them on Twitter.

- PURV: thinks everyone else is as dumb as the 4 anti followers she has and is selling all the beards, official or not, as dates of Rolando to fakely engross his love life and dating history. I believe she only worked with facts?? How come there are girls in the dating list that have never been his girlfriends? I’ll tell you, because that list is as fake as Purv’s boobs. All air and no substance.

- CLARYCLARK or whatever the way it is spelled: was a fraud. Turns out it was all lies. How surprising, someone from here that you don’t know from Adam fabricating it all. I hope to god this wasn’ one of the fanfic writers that shippers used as source for one of their old receipts.

- THE STALKER: nothing to say about Hawaii gate or about anything actually.

Does anyone actually believe that with Purv and Fatmuso gloating if anyone (Lia, Puffy, Brazilian, Stalker) had any evidence they wouldn’t have used it to out them by now? It’s all lies and deception and manipulation to keep the game and attention going.

- BIG PICTURE: I’m so fucking tired of folks using this as their wildcard. Whenever they are in a corner they go with you don’t know all the circumstances why people do what they do. Oh yes I know. People lie because are liars. End of story. There’s no reason enough or logical enough for 2 people in their 40 to fake being married to other people and deny being together. No fucking studio no fucking TPTB no fucking career no nothing can force them to do that.

EDITED: wanted to add one last thought, what do you think it’s gonna be Fatmuso’s way out when Rolando comes out?

a) I never knew, he never said anything

b) I always knew, I was just helping out a friend. Anyone would have done the same.

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20 Oct 19

We Made It announcement! At last official confirmation is here: Louis' next single is We Made It, and it will be released this Thurs! The announcement is brilliant, overlaid on a double of the original clip that he posted in 2018 and that we've been circulating since. Perfect aesthetic perfect in joke nod to the fans which is perfect for what he's been saying is the song 'for the fans', flawless all around, bravo! The lyrics in the old clip were "I remember those nights, (me with you or being with you), cheap drinks through the whole night" but journalist Bree Player tweeted the lyrics from today's clip, drawing attention to the fact that it isn't actually the same clip and the lyrics are "meet you at your uni" in place of the "me with you" line which is maybe new, or maybe just sounds different in the new version. Cue a lot of discourse for not a lot of lyrics but it has been a slowish day... We'll see what the lyrics (and their context) are soon enough. The song will be debuted on the Sirius morning show Thurs at 8:30 am ET though of course it will first be played at the international listening parties! All of them take place tomorrow though due to the perpetual annoyance that is time zones, not at remotely the same time as each other; the first of the events will be happening in about nine hours. What country will leak info first?? Lay your bets! South America would be traditional but the Philippines have a massive head start timezone-wise so.... Some of the listening party hosts have asked for questions for Louis, as have many others, everyone wants to hear your questions for Louis this week! The most exciting opportunity to grill him is via a Most Requested Live Ask Me Anything which they tell us will be posted Nov 2. All at once this time then? Or will we be getting clips randomly and unexpectedly for months again? cause TBH I'm fine with that. He was also, last but not remotely least, announced as a guest for the Build Series! It's an online in-depth interview series, very serious and respectable. So cool! A few lucky fans will get to attend and sit a few feet away from him in the tiny studio and I do mean a few fans: get ready for a real fight to the death for this one there are gonna be like 30 seats yiiiikes.

Niall arrived back in the UK, went to a Derby match with his dad, posted an morning time not dressed yet dancing in the bathroom to his own song on the radio clip, and went on what seems to have been a successfully incognito trip to a London shopping mall on a weekend afternoon! Nice. He posted a series of pics from Flicker tour bidding the era farewell once again.

Also: interesting chatter out there about Irving Azoff's ongoing battle with the Radio Music License Committee over licensing fees, saying that artists are getting screwed over. It's been suggested that perhaps Harry is choosing not to pursue radio promo (and thus not buy into the payola, etc) in order to support this fight. If so maybe it's working; he's charting, and well, and thus getting radio play even while giving his promo dollars seemingly pretty much all to streaming. Obviously there are an array of things happening with probably multiple reasons of which that is just one piece, but it's an intriguing one.

#Louis Tomlinson #Niall Horan #Harry Styles #Niall #Harry #Louis #we made it #mrl ama #build series #the first tag that tried to come up when i typed that was build a bear btw #bree player #Siriusfm #irving azoff #rmlc #20 Oct 19 #also Louis liked a post about the DMAs having new music out this week HELL YEAH #bitch me too WTF

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haich-slash-cee · 5 years

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Is the print publishing world picking up online/fandom terms? How they are using them? How do we feel about this?

So this is... attention-getting, for folks who like to follow publishing and meta stuff.

https://twitter.com/sapphicxrey/status/1215065948677443584

https://twitter.com/TorDotComPub/status/1233391556750647299

(2nd tweet -- TW, mentions of non-con)

Are we seeing the beginnings of book publishers directly borrowing from online/fandom culture in promoting their books? How do we feel about these examples?

More below cut.

Exhibit #1: screenshots of Bonds of Brass promo from Jan 8 2020. (Which is probably going to have reactions of “haha, cute” at most.)

Transcript of blurb:

“If you like...

forbidden romances, “there’s only one bed”, cityships, weaponized umbrellas, powersuits, secret princes, best friends, best friends PINING, fake dating between PINING best friends, tactical streaking, the minivan of starships, cigar-chomping cyborg ladies, scary empress moms, galactic-level bisexual disasters, LEGACY (WHAT IS A LEGACY?), rooftop hopping, golden trios, rumblin’ drums, bootleg fireworks, BIG SPACE BATTLES PEW PEW, a surprisingly functional public transit system, mob trouble, one hell of a pilot, the inherent DRAMA of empire, a nice interlude in a river, smoking a joint that’s been on the floor, sick stunts, slick grifts, hiding in a dumpster, or any combination of the above,

Then you might like

BONDS OF BRASS”

The Twitter responses seem to be generally enthusiastic. (And also, “FinnPoe! FinnPoe!”)

Personally, I’m intrigued from a meta-view of “oh so that’s definitely pulling from online world and fanfiction world, interesting. I wonder how much fanfiction culture is starting to influence print book culture and promotion.” Maybe I’ve got some questions like, “Ok so moneymaking companies such as Penguin are now using culture developed by the not-moneymaking-world of fanfiction? How do we feel about this?” Anyway, the book looks cute, I’m interested enough and I might get it from the library.

I suspect many people’s reactions are along the lines of “hm, interesting”, “sounds like a lark”, or “haha they’re using AO3 tags as promo”, etc.

Exhibit #2, screenshots of DOCILE promo, from Feb 28 2020 (today is March 1 2020), and screenshots of Twitter responses so far:

(*CW, non-con discussion)

Tweet transcript:

“DOCILE by @KMSzpara:

-Dubcon/Noncon

-Dramatic Trillionaire Content

-BDSM and then some more BDSM and then a lot more BDSM

-Hurt/comfort and hurt/no comfort

-Cinnamon roll of steel

-The most scandalous kink: love

-Courtroom, bedroom, & Preakness drama

[Tor book website link]”

So this is getting mixed reactions on Twitter. All dozen or so reactions, so far. Here’s text transcripts and bio info from repliers, below. I’m being a little obsessive, mostly to show that there’s a mix of queer, book-ish people in the replies (including the author).)

Noncon is nonconsentual sex, rape. Even in fandom it's a content tag, not a promotional term. I can't imagine being a rape survivor and seeing this come across my TL. -- @WriteSomeGood [queer rainbow] [Cis queer homemaker, aspiring author, maker of incredible cinnamon buns. She/her] [has a Tumblr page]

I’m not a survivor but it was an instant “no thank you” from me. And I was sincerely looking forward to this prior to. This is the most immediately off-putting marketing push I’ve seen for a book in a long damn time. -- @AGAWilmot [Author, editor, artist. Co-EIC of @anathemaspec. @SFU alum. The Death Scene Artist/W&W 2018. Ace/enby. They/them. Horror is my comfort food.]

Whichever intern wrote this tweet, deserves a full time job. With benefits. -- @simeontsanev [Aspiring writer, post-aspiring musician, and overall geek He/Him /[queer rainbow]/ To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now! http://simeontsanev.com]

Idk why everyone thinks it’s always an intern writing copy and not a team comprised of extremely skilled social media experts, editors, publicists and marketers, and their assistants I worked on those tags with my editor and a good friend!! -- @KMSzpara [Kellan. [queer rainbow] Speculative fiction writer. Queer agenda. Hugo & Nebula finalist. DOCILE 3/3/20 from Tor Dot Com Publishing. He/him. Rep @suddenlyjen] *The author, bio page and twitter page.

this is CUTE! -- @MSSciarappa [queer rainbow] I do books. he/him.

I am Extremely Ready for this content thank u -- @JessicaBCooper [Journo ☽ Writer of faerie, villain fuckery & cruel desires ☽ Lestat & Loki's love child ☽ Aleksander Morozova's side-hoe ☽ Rep'd by Kate Testerman @ktliterary]

I’m listening -- @MerynLobb [Government worker. Weightlifter. Nihilist. Aspiring cult leader. Avid user of words, often bad ones. #AMM R6 Mentee. she/her]

Soon! Soon!! -- @castrophony [Geek. Gamer. Cosplayer. Bibliophile. Scientist. She/Her.]

[happy reaction gif] -- @TorDotComPub [Providing a home for writers to tell SFF stories in exactly the number of words they choose. All our titles are available globally in print and DRM-free ebook.]

[throwing stuff in dumpster, unhappy reaction gif] -- @cursedgravy [name's xavi, im a transman and i like to daydream about making content]

For more context, here’s the blurb from the author website. Below is the blurb from the publisher’s site:

“Docile

K.M. Szpara

K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.

There is no consent under capitalism.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future.

Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him.

Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution. When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family’s crowning achievement could have any negative side effects—and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.

Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse.”

So that’s a lot of info and reactions.

Personally: at first glance, I absently skimmed the tweet and “hurt/comfort” popped out, and I was like “What? Mainstream publishing is cool with this now? I was wondering if ‘hurt/comfort’ would one day become commonly used in publishing [related post]. But this is way sooner than I thought.” And then I read the rest of of the tweet and thought, “Wait, what?”

And then I started reading through the tweet replies and thought, “OK, at the risk of getting a bunch of Tumblr drama, I want to bring this to the whump community and see how people feel."

As for myself, one of my squicks is non-con, and I’m not really interested in hurt/no comfort. So just from the tweet, I know the book is not for me. The official blurbs confirmed that. In this sense, this is like skimming Ao3 tags on a fic and saying “pass” on a story.

However, I have questions about the specific promotion of the book. So the official blurbs are pretty standard. What about that tweet, which Tor (and the author, who helped put it together) put out? Because I think an official publisher’s Tweet comes with different context than Ao3 tags.

First, the different internet spaces. You can filter tags on Ao3 and Tumblr. I know you can mute words on Twitter, but is that the same thing? Also, would people be expecting these tags on Twitter? Compared to Ao3 or Tumblr or Tumblr Whump spaces?

Within the Tumblr Whump community, from what I’ve browsed, the community attitude (guidelines?) seem to be “Write and discuss what you want. Be sure to tag it, use content warnings, or otherwise clearly communicate if you have things that may be triggering. Respect people’s squicks/triggers. Walk away from what you don’t like.” Like, tumblr whump has a very specific culture of trying to balance discourse/stories about potentially very dark stuff, but also wanting to make sure the IRL people and Tumblr users are okay. There’s always posts going around about how to do this, are we doing this in the right way, ethics, so on. Also -- and people can correct me -- the whump tumblr space might be where tags are content warnings for people to stay away, and also what people might actively look for. So if any space is going to discuss if this promotional tweet checks out, I feel like it’s this space.

Also, to note again, Tor Tweets are in the money-official-publisher-world, not unpaid-tumblr-people or unpaid-fanfiction-fandom-world.

Maybe I just want to ask, “Hey those first two tweet responses, does they have a point? Tor using ‘noncon’ as official promotion? On Twitter?” I mean, I’ve previously written, “The CW and TW tags that Ao3 writers use, I really wish those were used with published books as well.” But somehow, the Tor tweet was not quite what I was expecting. Maybe for reasons similar to that first tweet response. (I guess one could debate if a tweet is really promotion or just information... you know what someone can correct me, but I’m gonna say that a Tor.com tweet is promotion, compared to information like Ao3, and that tweet was there for promotion.)

Those tags operate within specific Ao3 and Tumblr cultures and infrastructure. I don’t hang around Twitter for whump stuff, IDK what the culture is. Anyway, does dropping these tags into a promotional tweet from Tor.... translate?

The tweet is evidently gathering the people who are there for it, and the people who aren’t there for it are quickly realizing that they are not there for it. But personally, the Tor website blurb does a better job at that, using writing that I’d expect from a publisher for communicating fictional non-con situations. (Maybe the blurb content warnings are what I wanted more of, when I said I wished for CW and TW in books.)

Anyway, there’s no huge drama about that Docile book promo on Twitter, as far as I can tell. So this is a niche thing, right now. But. The promo for Bonds of Brass and for Docile might be the beginnings of a trend of well-known book publishers borrowing from online writing / fandom culture and terminology in order to promote or categorize their books. These two promos might set a precedent or have other significance.

So if anyone has discourse on the tweets or potential future trends...

#meta #discourse #publishing #bonds of brass #Docile #publishers #future trends #maybe #non-con #trigger warnings #content warnings #fanfiction #ao3 #tumblr #whump #hurt/comfort #hurt/no comfort #books

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meetmebehindthemall13 · 5 years

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About the whole ttb debunking stuff

I honestly find it really difficult to stan this.

To be honest, I do not take everything TTB or other main blogs post as absolute thruth, personally sometimes I doubt the sources as well because I have a hard time trusting what unknown people say in general, let alone online. I also had personal contacts with some of them where they weren’t super kind or polite too. And I do believe some stuff is really trying to hard and reaching.

BUT I find it really difficult to stan a blog created specifically to systematically debunking them because:

1) If you are an ex-Kaylor.. it means that at some point you too believed there was more than meets the eye. It means you, too, read between the lines of the public canon narrative and lyrics and you came to believe that things weren’t really black and white. If they were, there wouldn’t be such a numerous group of people who believes in Kaylor, right?

So, to me, this approach kind of diminishes the credibility of the whole thing. It’s an attempt to systematically dismantle every theory or post a blog puts out there. This kind of approach only stands if you are 100% positive that without a doubt that blog only puts out bullshit. So much that you feel confident enough not only to debunk or examine post by post or theory by theory but that you jump right at debunking the whole blog. Which is totally centered on something you used to believe.

That resonates with me more as a “I used to passionately believe in something, I got skeptical, I got burned now I’m bitter” than a “I realize some of the stuff might really be a reach and I’m not 100% sure the whole Kaylor thing is real, let’s try to have a constructive conversation about different theories or topics and let’s help each other out”.

2) The argument that Taylor’s relationship is not up for speculation. I don’t totally agree.

Taylor has proven that she is aware of everything (EVERYTHING) that is said about her on social media, especially on Tumblr. She could’ve shut the whole fandom down, just as she has done with wedding rumors with Joe. Tree is one of the best PR pro out there. If you think she is not aware of all this, you are wrong. And yet, no official statements.

Not only this. She is fully aware of memes or inside jokes in the general fandoms, she reads theories, she knows which meanings we attribute to symbols or songs. She knows we speculate in general, on lyrics meanings, on aesthetics, on promotional choices etc. As a matter of fact she expects us to, she has trained us for it and encouraged us to do so in the past years. She knows what some things mean in the fandom because they have been discussed for years. And instead of taking some distance or avoid to bring them up, she just includes these elements in her songs, in visuals, in outfits etc... it’s leverage.

She’s not a baby, she’s not defenseless. I’m just saying she’s a super smart bad ass business woman, she’s more intelligent than all of combined, and at this point she mastered the art of taking her career AND her reputation exactly where she wants to.

And since I see it coming, let’s address the “she never invited us to speculate on her personal life though”! True. But she did say her art, mostly her songs, are what comes from her heart the most authentic and intimate part, but everything else IS strategic. And she takes full credit for the promo strategy she chooses to market her album with and she says she’s in charge of it! And as many have previously stated, if you claim that you want to keep your relationship so private and secret but every time something comes up about it, it is so conveniently and timely followed by promotional boosts for you or your boyfriend’s career, you kind of accept the consequence that some people might get confused and take it as part of the strategy itself.

I cannot say that Kaylors are 100% right just as I can’t say people who don’t believe in Kaylor are. But there are grey areas for sure and there is ground for speculation.

I am doubtful at times, sometimes I see a lot of reaching. I’d be happy if there were more grounded, rational, leve headed and critical thinkers among Kaylors but I just don’t think this approach is the best. If you are complaining that main Kaylor blogs are acting as messiahs, bringer of indisputable truth, in my opinion you can’t save the situation by being petty, flooding their hashtags and acting like you’re the Police and you are, in fact, bringer of your own opposite but still indisputable truth.

It just kind of seems the same symmetrical behavior, don’t you think?

#kaylor #gaylor swift #gaylorswift #gaylor #ttb #taylor swift

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ivebeenthearcher · 5 years

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Good morning fellow Taylor Swift fans. I already made some posts about this situation, but since we’re talking about it again, and it seems like the argument is actually spreading, I wanna say something again.

As you may know, I’m from Italy. A country that Taylor doesn’t seem to know exists since 2011. We haven’t got any kind of promo, events or concerts in 8 years. Taylor is pretty well known here. If you talk to anyone, they know who Taylor Swift is. As you may have seen from our posts, Lover debuted at #2 on our Italian official chart. The radio stations do pass her new songs. I know for certain that there are a lot of fans here. Still, we are basically ignored by Taylor and her team.

I discovered about the Paris Concert on here cause none of our radios talked about it at first. I am (sadly) used to being an international fan, and I knew for sure I wasn’t going to be able to go to this event anyway cause I started to work last week and I can’t get vacation days. Anyways, I find incredibly frustrating and sad that Universal Italy didn’t organize any kind of contest for this event. We’re pretty close to France, we could get there with a train ride. Still, we got nothing. One of our radio tweeted that they’re gonna be there: ‘surprise for Taylor Swift fans!’ yeah but where’s the surprise? They didn’t do any contest, they didn’t invite any fans. So some casual radio guys that know maybe 3 songs from Taylor are gonna be there (and maybe some kind of influencer from Instagram so they can get that promo) and any of my beloved fellow Italian fans won’t? The irony is that I discovered that even Japan has contests for this event. JAPAN.

Another thing I wanna talk about is the absolute clownery problem of the physical copies of Lover. I still have to get my copy. I ordered it online to make sure that I would get it on Friday, but in the morning of the 23rd I got an email saying that the supplier (read: Universal) had some problems with the supplies and that my cd was supposed to arrive on NOVEMBER. I am in contact with several other fans and I know for certain that this was a common problem, and that physical copies of the album couldn’t be found in ANY kind of Italian music store at least for 2/3 days. That particularly makes me very mad cause one of the argument that some fans use to explain why Taylor doesn’t come to Italy is that ‘she doesn’t sell enough albums’. How is she supposed to sell enough albums if we can’t even find them? Thank god we’re in the streaming era and we kind of diverted all to streaming services and iTunes. But I can’t help thinking that MAYBE Taylor would’ve scored her first Italian number #1 if we would’ve been able to find physical copies from the first day.

I say this as a privileged fan. For the last eras I was able to fly to another country to see Taylor in concert (idk if I will be able to afford it this time but whatever). But I know that I am an exception. Many of my fellow Italian fans have never seen her live cause she never tours here anymore and they have kind of lost their hopes. The fact that she only tours in UK is even worse cause UK is expensive. Plane tickets are expensive, hotels are expensive, damn even just being there for 3 days and eating and stuff is expensive.

I just wish we would be treated equally. I know Taylor is American. But she is a global superstar. She takes pride in this. So maybe her and her team should start to act like that. Give us more opportunities. Free events. Ways to meet her for free. An ACTUAL world tour. I think it’s not that much to ask. We love Taylor as much as her American fans do.

#long post

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dangermousie · 6 years

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So ep 4 of Alhambra really turned the screws on

It’s official, I really don’t care about any romance, even though little hints are quite cute. I am here for Hyun Bin’s storyline of his world slowly dissolving into a hellish nightmare as reality and game begin to merge with more and more terrifying results. I can see why Park Shin Hye fans are less than pleased - her role is really nothing to write home about - it’s very much a Hyun Bin show all the way. But I came here for the writer and so far, she is not disappointing me at all.

As I was discussing with @theseasasleep , this doesn’t really feel much like a kdrama. I can imagine it being a Spanish show or a Turkish one, more so than a typical kdrama. That may or may not work for other people, but it truly works for me. This is the first time in a while that my brain is running amok with theories and guesses watching a kdrama. (Hmmmm - since W?)

But to get the romancy things out of the way first :) The future OTP has more interactions in ep 4 than before and they are quite cute but also she is being unintentionally let more into his world than most people are (as when he takes her as a translator and she witnesses her ex lose it at him.) Then there was this cute scene where he picked up the phone she was looking him up on. Haha.

Or this. They don’t have scorching chemistry (Park Shin Hye is not the lady to go for if you want to fantasize about your OTP banging against a wall after their on-screen interactions) but what is there is quite nice and serves the story. It’s a little bit of lightheartedness and tenderness in a story that is quickly veering into pure horror territory elsewhere.

Because in the main story, the rival Hyun Bin killed in the game (and who died in real life as a result) comes back as a game character and keeps trying to kill him. Imagine - you feel guilty about causing someone’s death (and try to desperately believe that’s a coincidence, that you killing him in the game is not tied to his RL death) and then a version of him - still in that same suit, still with blood, keeps coming and coming after you like a vengeful ghost.

So many interesting things here - like I think if you play for longer than a certain time/above a certain level, the game becomes too absorbed in you and wounds/death in the game mean the same in real world. It’s too integrated. And also, the game will absorb your avatar and it will be another fodder for the characters - trapped there forever, your body and soul dead in every correct sense, only a certain soulless zombie likeness left. (And you can tell the game is going off-plan in part because it’s supposed to be set in 1492 but even though rival is now a character, he is wearing a suit and looks modern - the game did not transform him into a 1492 character, it just took what he was when playing the game and shoved it in.)

And maybe people dying in the game for real and then becoming game avatars only wouldn’t be truly terrifying (because now Hyun Bin knows/suspects, the solution is just to never ever play the game again, and have rival - who actually appears an OK enough guy in RL - be the sole victim that we know of, together with the developer.) Except the game now starts on its own for Hyun Bin. You can tell he knows something is wrong when he hears thunder - what it means, clearly, is that this is the signal for the game world to start whether you want to or not and you cannot escape, and you have to battle God knows what (in this case the avatar of a real life person you killed in the game and thus in real world, a person who once was a friend and then an enemy) and if you lose, you get hurt or die for real. Talk about hell world. You are trapped in a bloody (literally) nightmare forever and the only way to end it is to die. Yikes. It’s pretty clear by now that this is likely what happened to the developer - he got hurt or killed in game and that translated to real life. It was clever to have him be on the run and for the viewers to think it’s rival hunting him (which in retrospect makes no sense - even before we knew rival was OK enough, he was just trying to buy the game; what would be the point in killing the developer?) while it’s the game run amok and he was killed either by game characters or real people now trapped as game avatars.

And we end on PSH’s horrified face as Hyun Bin plummets down six flights of stairs thrown by a character who should have no powers in real world but has managed to make him bleed for real and has now shoved him off the balcony. Remember how fun and bloodless in any real sense it was in ep 1 when Hyun Bin was fighting the assassin? Well, this is the opposite of that. The realistic game is suddenly too real. A little Sword Art Online, if you will.

The preview promises us this: I kind of love that in his delirium he is confusing her game avatar and her real self. The possibilities are delicious. (Clearly her avatar in the game is because her brother based the character design on her; thankfully she’s never played the game.)

But the most terrifying shot in the preview is Hyun Bin, recuperating and barely mobile in the hospital and hearing thunder and knowing the game is about to drag him in, and utterly helpless to stop it even though, severely hurt, he will be toast ASAP. (His characters have no luck with precipitation; first Secret Garden, now this.)

The concept of fake and real worlds meshing is something this writer is clearly fascinated with (see W, now this, even Queen In Hyun’s Man meshed two disparate worlds even if neither one was fake) but every time it’s something different. I can’t wait to watch more.

And to watch Hyun Bin’s character fall apart because I am that type of person.

PS I sympathize with their difficulty in coming up with proper promos because this is not a concept you can explain easily or quickly in kdrama context, but I think they shot themselves in the foot pushing it as a major romance. Because much as I love it, a heavily romantic drama it is not.

#memories of the alhambra #memories of alhambra #kdrama #hyun bin #park shin hye

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closetofanxiety · 5 years

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50 Wrestling Questions: Why Not

Remember this? It’s been a while. Let’s do this again. Let’s twist again like we did last summer. Or the summer of 2017 in this case.

1. What got you into wrestling?

People ask me this all the time, and I don’t really have a good answer. I’ve liked it on and off since I was very young, and who knows why you like the stuff you like when you’re a little kid?

2. What is your favorite wrestling promotion?

Of all time: ECW, even though I would probably think of it very differently if it were happening today. Currently: Beyond Wrestling.

3. Favorite male wrestler of all time?

Gorgeous George, but if we’re talking about people who were alive when I was alive, Dusty Rhodes. I want to say Bruiser Brody, but in my heart I would know I was just saying that to look cool.

4. Favorite female wrestler of all time?

Gail Kim. For the longest time, she was the only woman in a major global wrestling company who got over based on her wrestling ability. She was doing stuff in TNA that was years ahead of its time, and could adapt her style to get great matches with a variety of opponents with very different backgrounds. And she can still go, as she showed in the match against Tessa Blanchard the other night. I know it would be cooler to say Bull Nakano or Chigusa Nagayo or something, but I don’t know enough of their stuff to make that claim credible. I am who I am, a person who goes to the mall to buy shoes.

5. Favorite current male wrestler?

Nick Gage

6. Favorite current female wrestler?

Momo Watanabe

7. Favorite theme song?

Joey Janela’s music captures his vibe perfectly, and sounds great being blasted out of PA speakers inside a small bar or VFW hall. Of all time, probably, I don’t know, Honky Tonk Man? In an ironic way that slowly becomes sincere?

8. Least favorite theme song?

Ricochet’s WWE theme music is pretty dreadful.

9. Favorite gimmick?

Currently: Orange Cassidy. All time: Road Warriors maybe? They were almost 100 percent gimmick, and they were the biggest tag team in the world at a great time for tag team wrestling.

10. Least favorite gimmick?

All the racist and gay-hating gimmicks that have been used throughout the years are more or less equally horrible. If we’re talking about a terrible gimmick that was non-malignant, I’d say it was taking giant indestructible ass-kicker Mike Awesome and making him “That 70s Guy.”

11. Best entrance (either their usual entrance or a special one, like a Wrestlemania entrance)?

Gorgeous George had the best entrance of all time, and it’s been copied ever since (Ric Flair’s entrance is basically Gorgeous George’s, scored with a different piece of classical music). The Sandman also had a great entrance. He was kind of all-entrance, now that I think of it. I also love those old shows in Japan where Brody would come out to “Immigrant Song” running through the crowd, swinging a fucking chain over his head like a lunatic. An entrance that makes you fear for your life: mission accomplished.

12. Best Undertaker Wrestlemania match?

I am not the right person to ask for Undertaker superlatives, but the Lesnar match had a legitimately shocking conclusion that I still appreciate

13. Most overrated?

I’m tempted to incur the wrath of the online by making a contrarian hot take selection like Ken Omega, but in reality it’s probably the Undertaker.

14. Most underrated?

There are a million choices from before the 1980s, the Before Time of contemporary pro wrestling. Edouard Carpentier, say; he was having matches in 1970 that would not look out of place in 2019. Since the 1980s, I’d say Jerry Lynn is a very strong contender for most underrated. The popular choice would be Sid or Lex Luger, but I think they’re pretty much rated exactly as they should be.

15. Have you ever been to an event? If so, which one?

I certainly have been to many pro wrestling events. I go to one or two a month. Like a lot of things, wrestling is pretty much always fun in person. It helps that the Northeast has a ton of good companies within easy driving distance. My favorite show of all time might be Americanrana 2016.

16. Who has the best merch?

We’re in a weird period where people on Instagram are making better shirt designs (in insanely limited editions) than the vast majority of wrestlers or wrestling companies. I will say that Kris Wolf has yet to make an ugly or boring piece of merchandise, which is a huge complication in this day and age.

17. Do you own any merch?

Nope! Wait, I mean, “yes, entirely too much.” Shirts, 8 x 10s, DVDs, magazines, random pieces like fancy enamel badges and a stack of Okada bucks. The one thing I’ve never gotten into is action figures, and that’s probably good for the ol’ bank balance.

18. Best nickname?

"The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes is an all-time classic.

19. Worst nickname?

"The Game” is a dumb nickname. “The Cerebral Assassin” is also a dumb nickname. Are assassins supposed to be stupid? I bet they’re typically very smart, although of low moral character. “Triple H” is his only good nickname, and even that sounds like the nickname of a guy who owns a car dealership out by the highway.

20. Best mic skills?

Nobody was ever better than Bobby Heenan, who had incredible range and versatility. He could do comedy and he could do menace. He could do calm and he could do spitting rage. He had an uncanny sense of timing and was quicker on his feet than almost anyone. No one really comes close at matching his astonishing depth, but Dusty Rhodes was an all-time great promo. He really made you care about wrestling matches, which is not an easy thing to do.

21. Most annoying?

I mean, it has to be Vince McMahon.

22. Most attractive male?

Is Tanahashi too obvious a choice? Best hair in wrestling. It’s incredible and luxurious, like an untamed mountain stream. Andrade “Cien” Almas or whatever they’ve shortened his name to (”And”) is a handsome man. Killer Kross: very handsome. We live in a golden age of attractive wrestlers. Just look back at the gassed-up Zubaz mastodons of the 1980s, or the territories-era guys who all looked like they were 48 years old and had pot bellies. You almost have to try to find unattractive wrestlers. Nick Gage, for instance. But I’m sure even he has his swooning admirers.

23. Most attractive female?

Again, what a time for attractive wrestlers. It may be shallow, but wrestling is a business that’s at least partially cosmetic. Attractive people sell tickets. I would, and have, bought a ticket to see Hana Kimura.

24. Favorite faction?

Of all time? Probably the Barry Windham-era Four Horsemen. More recently, Team Pazuzu.

25. Worst faction?

BULLET CLUB. No, it’s not the Bullet Club, as exhausted as they’ve become. It’s probably the nWo after early 1998 or so, when they had like 60 members and dragged down every storyline.

26. Best ring gear?

Su Yung and Pentagon Jr.

27. Who do you think would be the nicest in real life?

I bet Jerry Lynn is a good guy to know. People in wrestling universally praise Little Guido, which is very rare. The Young Bucks seem like they might be decent dudes. Willow Nightingale told a story on a podcast about Nick Gage excitedly playing with Solo Darling’s dog backstage, so you never know.

28. Who would be the rudest in real life?

On the indie level, it’s probably someone who doesn’t work very much. Above the indie level, I bet some of those British guys are secretly horrible, like Jimmy Havoc.

29. Favorite heel?

Currently it’s a tie between MJF and Alisha Edwards, two of the only people who can regularly get indie crowds to boo them. Of all time, heel Flair was hard to beat.

30. Most hardcore?

It’s definitely either a guy in Japan or a guy in Mexico, and he’s definitely been burned by explosive charges multiple times. Onita? It’s probably Onita. Or Jun Kasai? I think Onita has probably been exploded more times than Jun Kasai.

31. A wrestler you could beat?

At wrestling? Not a single one of them. Nicholas, the small boy who won the WWE tag team championship with Braun Strowman, would wipe the floor with me. Even the most callow bodybuilder-turned-wrestler would not break a sweat beating me senseless. But writing talking points for senior administration officials in preparation for legislative testimony? Now you’re on my turf. Not so tough now, huh, Nicholas?

32. Best story line?

Freebirds vs. Von Erichs or Stone Cold vs. Vince. My heart says the former, my head says the latter.

33. Biggest missed opportunity for a story line?

The WWE blowing the invasion angle after purchasing WCW is the obvious one. More recently, they blew it by not turning Reigns heel.

34. Worst story line?

Ha, so many of them. Impossible to choose just one. At least most of the dumb embarrassing Russo ones in WCW and TNA were basically harmless, like the time Samoa Joe got kidnapped by ninjas. The Chuck and Billy wedding thing was far worse. A low point even by Vince’s impressively cretinous standards.

35. Which wrestler should turn heel?

I’d like to see a Jordynne Grace heel run in Impact. Heel Finn Balor would also be good.

36. Which wrestler should turn face?

Samoa Joe has a good fiery babyface, “I’m tired of doing your dirty work, McMahon!” run in him.

37. Who would be the worst to room with?

Can you imagine sharing a living space with Enzo Amore? Or the thicket of twee Disney merchandise you’d have to negotiate every day if you lived with Johnny Gargano?

38. Who would be the best to room with?

I bet Eddie Edwards would be a surprisingly thoughtful roommate, like he’d always do the dishes “because I love doing them!,” that kind of thing. I have nothing to base this suspicion on, he just seems like my old roommate, Shane, who was like that.

39. Who would be your best friend if you were a wrestler?

I’d like to say Jushin Thunder Liger, and posit that we would go on exciting adventures, but the answer is probably something like “Comp Time” Terry Dandridge, who wrestles monthly for 2Xtreme All-Pro Wrestling Alliance out of Euphoria, Kansas and has a 9 to 5 as a hardware store manager.

40. What would your job be in a wrestling promotion?

I’d normally make a self-effacing joke here, but I do social media training at my real job, and so many wrestlers are badly in need of help in this area.

41. Favorite wrestling podcast/Youtube channel?

I like AIW’s “The Card is Going to Change” podcast a lot, and there’s one by the owners of RevPro that’s pretty good. It’s hard to find a well-produced wrestling podcast that talks about independent wrestling. My favorite wrestling YouTube channel is OSW Review.

42. Favorite finisher?

BURNING HAMMER

43. Least favorite finisher?

The Bayley-to-belly suplex. HOW IS THIS A FINISHING MOVE

44. Favorite match?

Kerry Von Erich vs. Jerry Lawler at Superclash III. It was a bloody, weird, engrossing spectacle, and it was the symbolic end of the territories era.

45. Favorite PPV?

Royal Rumble is the last PPV my casual fan friends reliably want to see, and with good reason: it’s engrossing.

46. Guilty pleasure wrestler?

Big Banter Baron Corbin, but I feel no guilt here. He rules.

47. Favorite submission?

THE KATA HA JIME, otherwise known as the Tazmission.

48. Most entertaining to watch?

All time? Randy Savage. Currently? Io Shirai.

49. Best spot?

Anyone spitting mist into the unsuspecting eyes of their foes

50. Who do you most respect?

I respect you, booker man.

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Life Thru a Lens||Jaricio

Tagging: @beniciomotta Where: Hotel Lobby -> Cafe When: March 16, 2019 What: Jared and Benicio literally bump into each other and decide to get to know each other

Jared kept his head down as he walked through the lobby of the hotel, his hair windswept from skating around town. San Francisco had surprised him with a ton of different places to explore, and he was excited to see them all. However, if someone was looking closely enough, they would see a small bashful smile, the same one he'd been wearing since he'd seen Benicio's answer his fan question. It wasn't often he was complemented, let alone like that. He was so distracted that he didn't realize that other people were walking around him. He bumped hard into someone, breaking him out of his daze. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I wasn't pay attention-"

Benicio was heading out to lunch. He didn’t know where his friends were so figured he’d just go out and grab something quickly. He was dressed casually, his usual crop top and thick 80s style blue jeans, having showered after a dance rehearsal that morning. He was staring down at his phone though as he walked through the lobby, not paying attention until he ran right into someone. He gasped, hands moving to grab the boy’s shoulders out of instinct, blinking as he stepped back and grinned softly, “Hey, Hey no worries, gorgeous boy. I wasn’t either. So sorry, too!”

Jared had reached out and caught the other's elbows on reflex. His eyes widened slightly as he realized who it was, his face turning bright red. He laughed nervously, his smile shy as he shook his head. "It's no problem at all. You all good?"

Benicio grinned softly, his eyes warm as he looked at the boy. “Yeah, you?” He asked, rubbing his shoulder in a friendly action. “You’re Jared. The Spider-Man photographer”

Jared smiled back, nodding before ducking his head with a laugh. "Yeah-yeah I'm fine. And yes that's me. Never a nickname I thought would stick, but here we are. And you're Benicio, yeah? I pronounced it correctly, right?"

Benicio chuckled, before nodding with a happy grin, “You certainly did, sweetheart. It’s great to officially meet you.” He held out a hand then, eyes sparkling.

"Oh good, I'm horrible with names sometimes, I'm glad I got it right," he rambled, glancing down at the other's hand, grabbing it and shaking it. "It's great to officially meet you too," he said with a crooked smile. "Um, also, thanks for-for what you said, in response to that question. It's not every day someone goes outside their three for a special mention, nor every day anyone thinks I'm cute," he joked, stumbling over his words slightly, still not having let go of Benicio's hand.

Benicio’s grin softened, eyes warm as he listened to him speak, tilting his head at first in confusion before catching on and laughing happily. “Oh! You’re entirely welcome, gorgeous boy. And surely that can’t be true? Don’t you have a doting girlfriend?”

Jared's smile fell for a moment as he saw the confusion but he sighed in relief quickly afterwards. He laughed, shaking his head. "Ah, no- no girlfriend. Between the traveling and the general lack of interest, I'm very single," he chuckled, before noticing he still had a grasp on the other's hand. He let go gently, grinning sheepishly. "Sorry," he laughed softly.

Benicio chuckled and nodded, “I feel that,” he replied, before glancing down at their hands still clasped, grinning a little as the boy finally let go. “But I can hardly imagine there’s a lack of interest, darling?”

Jared shrugged softly. "No idea. I was...typically something of a loner in high school," he admitted. "I had a small group of friends, but never really managed to get outside of that. Then, right out of high school, I couldn't stay in one place," he rambled quietly. "Who knows, maybe it's just not for me," he said, smiling tightly.

Benicio smiled just softly as he spoke, before straightening up and tilting his head, “Hey- I was literally just heading out for lunch? Are you hungry? Maybe we could continue talking over food?”

Jared smiled slightly, nodding his head. "You sure? I don't want to impose, if you were meeting anyone...?" he trailed off, his own awkward and inefficient way of asking if Benicio was seeing anyone.

“No! I was literally gonna go sit on my own because I couldn’t find anyone. I’d love the company,” he grinned softly again, hoping the boy would take him up on his offer. He was cute, and he knew making friends with photographers was always a good move if you wanted a portfolio. Not that that was the only reason he wanted to have lunch with Jared. The guy was sweet.

Jared's grin widened as he nodded again. "Then by all means, yeah, I'd love to," he said, pulling his board up and sliding it behind him through the arms of his backpack. He wasn't quite sure what it was about the other boy, but he was excited to spend time with him. Maybe it was because he was one of the more unique people of the tour, but Jared was intrigued. He was eager to find out more about him. "So, you made the post about the Castro district, right? Have you gotten a chance to check it out?"

Benicio clapped his hands together and grinned, “Yay! Fabulous. Let’s go. I was heading to this cafe place I found online, is that okay?” He started walking then, glancing back at him, “I am. And not properly yet. I think a few of us are going out tonight!”

"Yeah, that's fine," he murmured, smiling warmly as he watched the excitement pour from the other boy. He followed after him, quickening his pace briefly to fall in step with him. "Nice, it sounds like a good time. I was thinking about heading over there this afternoon. There's too many colors over there for me to not go take pictures."

“Oh, of course!” Benicio replied, glancing at him as they walked together. “I bet you could get some amazing shots there.” It didn’t take them long to arrive at the cafe and sit down at a table, Beni ordering himself a water to drink before he started glancing over the menu. “So, how’d you end up with Cordella?”

Jared nodded in agreement, opening the door to the cafe for both of them and following Benicio inside. He ordered the same as he looked at the other boy. "Sheer luck, honestly. I'd been doing some freelance for a magazine, and they had an in at Cordella; heard they were looking for photographers. The whole, reality tv part threw me off for a minute, but it's an incredible opportunity. I'd have been an idiot to turn it down," he said, thanking the waiter for the water and ordering a sandwich. "How about you? What brought you here?"

Benicio nodded with a soft grin still, taking a sip of his water, “That sounds awesome. And me? I was dancing professionally beforehand, but mainly doing work as a choreographer for shows back home in Vegas. Then I heard Lia Lopez was looking for backup dancers for the tour and that the entire thing would involve a reality show, I was sold. Went in for the auditions and managed to get it. So, here I am.”

Jared's brow shot up as he grinned. "Here you are. Damn, that's incredible. What's it like, living in Vegas?"

Benicio chuckled, “It’s wonderful. Tacky as hell, neon lights, a party every night. I already miss it.”

Jared smiled and nodded. "That sounds about right. I visited briefly as I made my way out here. It was amazing, definitely a place I'd like to go back to."

Benicio grinned and nodded too, “If you’re ever around after the tour just hit me up. I can get you free cirque de soleil tickets. I know people.”

Jared’s eyes widened as his face split into a grin. “I will definitely take you up on that, that’s the dream. And likewise, if you’re ever in New York, I can hook you up with Broadway tickets...for some shows anyway.”

Benicio raised his eyebrows at that, grinning, “No way, really? That’d be awesome. I love most Broadway so definitely!”

Jared smiled and nodded. “Yeah, it’d be no problem. I’ve done a lot of promo shots for a few of the theaters, it has its perks.” He took a sip of his water and sat back against. “So, what’s your story? Before Cordella, I mean.”

Benicio grinned softer, “That’s awesome,” he said, pausing a moment as they both ordered their food, before turning his attention back to the other. “In what sense? I mean- I grew up in Vegas, I always wanted to dance. My papà didn’t love it, but he wasn’t awful honestly. We were just never close.”

Jared chuckled softly, nodding. “It is something of a vague question,” he said quietly. “Did he have other plans or just...not a fan?”

“Just not a fan, really. But he was alright because he adored my sister. She was a regular daddy’s girl, so took up most of his attention,” he explained, “which granted me time to take dance classes and acrobatics and gymnastics.”

Jared kept his eyes trained on him, his gaze soft as he listened. “I feel that,” he murmured quietly, before smiling. “So what got you into dance and gymnastics, and everything?”

“Seeing the performers in Vegas, on Fremont street. There was this group of female performers. Dancers but also skilled in acrobatics. I used to go to every show and watch wide eyed. They were incredible.”

Jared’s smile grew as he listened, nodding along. “It sounds it, I can definitely see why you’d be inspired.”

Benicio smiled warmly and nodded, “What about you? What got you into photography?”

Jared smiled back, finding himself a little more drawn to the other’s smile than he ever thought he’d be. “Pure happenstance, I think. When I was five, my parents got me a little like instant camera. It wasn’t a lot, I think the film roll only had like 24 pictures worth on it, but I loved it instantly. Obviously, being five, I wasn’t an artistic genius or anything, though I knew how to take a damn good picture of the corner of a coffee table,” he grinned, chuckling softly. “But it just grew with me, and I explored more, got daring with it, and here we are.”

Benicio grinned wider at that, leaning his elbows on the table and resting his chin in his hands as he watched the other talk. There was nothing he loved more than seeing someone talk about their passion. “That’s really cute. And really great how it grew into your passion and your career. You’re obviously very talented. I was meaning to ask if you’d got any pictures of me, or if not, to let me know if you do.”

Jared ducked his head bashfully as he grinned to himself. He perked up though as he heard the last part, nodding his head. I’ve got a few, actually, yeah. I have them, actually, if you want to see them,” he said pointing to his backpack.

Benicio perked up ever more at that, eyebrows raising, “You do? Oh my gosh, I’d love to see them!”

Jared smiled earnestly. “Yeah? Yeah, okay, um, give me a second.” He turned to open his bag, pulling out his laptop and opening it up. “There’s a few that are unedited, but...” he trailed off, clicking through his files to bring up Beni’s folder, before grinning proudly. “Hopefully there’s something in there you like and can use,” he finished, turning the computer around to the other boy. It was mostly performance shots from the shows, but the end of the roll held quite a few candid shots from backstage and their shared tour bus.

Benicio quickly pulled his chair closer to the others, biting his bottom lip as he waited patiently before peering closer at the laptop. His lips parted then as he gasped softly, smiling almost shyly, “Oh my god, these are incredible, Jared-“

Jared watched him with a sheepish smile. It was his favorite part of his job, showing the people the photos he had taken of them. This was new though, a certain nervous energy washed through him. Whether it be because he was getting his first feedback on his work from the tour, or the subject in front of him. His eyes drifted back to the computer, watching as he moved through the photos. “Well, you’re incredible, so it translates well,” he murmured before he could realize what he was saying.

Benicio glanced up at him at that, a happy grin tugging st his lips at he raised his eyebrows again. “You think I’m incredible?”

Jared blinked at the question, the realization washing over him instantly. He chuckled nervously, a hand running over his face as he nodded. “I mean, I’m only just now getting to know you, but...I mean yeah. You’re an incredible dancer, you move with a passion that’s kind of insane; electric. And then, I don’t know, the way you interact with other people, and just are. Like, that smile there,” he pointed out, his face beet red as he couldn’t stop himself from rambling. “There’s a certain life there, it’s...incredible,” he finished, hiding his head in his hand.

Benicio blinked at that, not having expected any of that to come out his mouth, his cheeks flushing just slightly. He ducked his head before glancing back up at him, a shy grin tugging at his lips but clearly flattered. “I don’t think anyone’s ever said something so nice about me,” he said with a soft chuckle, reaching out to pull the boy’s hand away from his face.

Jared groaned but smiled softly, letting the other move his hand as he shook his head. "I'm sure that's not true," he murmured. "Sorry, I do try to keep the 'you're incredibly talk' to at least 24 hours after I meet a person," he joked quietly, glancing back at the computer.

Benicio squeezed his hand before dropping it gently, eyes warm, "It is. And I'm not complaining, you're really sweet, Jared."

"Then no one's been paying attention, and for that I'm sorry," he murmured, smiling at him and reaching over to continue moving through the pictures. "And I have my moments, thankfully."

Benicio grinned, his eyes sparkling as he kept his eyes on the boy a little longer than necessary, before glancing back at the photos. "Can I post any of these on my instagram?" he asked then, "With credit of course."

Jared nodded, stopping on a picture and sliding it back to Benicio. "Yeah, any ones you want, they're yours," he grinned happily, leaning on his elbow on the table.

“You’re amazing,” Benicio said, leaning forward to look at the photos. “You manage to capture so much. I don’t get it.”

Jared chuckled softly, eyes trailing back to the other to watch him. He shifted quietly, reaching to pull a smaller camera out of his bag, one that was good and compact enough to go on small little adventures with. He held it up to his face, taking a moment to frame the shot just right and leaning back when needed. He quietly took the picture, a small snap sounding before he lowered it again. “There’s so much to see,” he finally responded, setting the camera down on the table. “I’ve always seen the world a certain way. I just strive to let others see things and others as I do.”

Benicio didn't notice whatsoever, completely immersed in the different photos on the laptop screen. He glanced back eventually, grinning softly as he nodded, "That's pretty incredible."

Jared smiled back at him, shrugging softly. "It's the not worst job I could have," he teased softly, leaning back in his seat and rubbing his finger gently across the table as he continued to watch him. Yeah, not a bad job at all.

#f2f: benicio #f2f: life thru a lens

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Dating App For Athletes

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The Dating App for Athletes ️ I've been looking for a dating app that is for athletes. So many other apps do not have the people I'm looking for. After easily setting up my profile in a few minutes, I was swiping away. I already have found a date in my first day using the app with a former National Champion! A strict diet usually means no alcohol or high-calorie foods. For all you foodies out there, dating an athlete is a big no-no unfortunately. Athletes are usually extremely dedicated in both the gym and in the kitchen. This means there will be no junk food, very little alcohol. Meet Fit Singles is the official dating app for competitors and athletes looks to be the answer to this dilemma. The app officially launched at the 2020 Arnold’s Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. We can’t think of a better way to find real connections with other fit singles, while still following the current physical distancing mandate.

This is NOT a dating app! But, if you do meet your swolemate, we're totally taking credit. This is a lifestyle app. Athletes Mingle has created an ecosystem ...

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Post your best gym selfie, select the sports/activities you enjoy or want to get into, and fill out your bio. Showing off is highly encouraged.

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You don’t have to be single to mingle on AM. We believe in fostering real connections between our users so we have done away with commenting. If you want to say something to someone…talkto them. (surprised face emoji). I know, such a wild concept, right?! Connect with that girl that rides next to you in spin class or find the perfect hybrid spotter/photographer that will hold you accountable to your lifting schedule. We are social beings y’all- we were not meant to sit online and scroll and like. Connect on AM, make sure they’re not a serial killer, and then connect in real life.

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As an athlete myself, let’s get the cons out of the way first and then, if you’re not totally put off by the idea of dating someone like me, you’ll get to see all the wonderful pros of dating one.

They have a tight schedule

Dating an athlete is inevitably difficult due to their tight schedules. So, if you’re used to being with them all the time and enjoy spending your days in bed with your partner, a sportsperson probably isn’t a good choice for you. A tight schedule also means that you’re unlikely to see them everyday, but hey, this way it becomes even more special when you do!

They will usually prioritize their sport over you

You may find yourself thinking “my girlfriend / boyfriend prioritizes sports over me”. With sports being the centre of most athletes lives, there’s a constant struggle of becoming the main priority in your boyfriend/girlfriend’s life. Dating an athlete with strong dedication usually means that they have to put their sport and training first, with everything else riding in the back seat. So, I wouldn’t personally recommend this to anyone who cannot deal with not being the #1 most important thing in their partners life. This can be tough when in a relationship with an athlete, as you can almost feel as if you’re not being valued, which sucks.

A strict diet usually means no alcohol or high-calorie foods

For all you foodies out there, dating an athlete is a big no-no unfortunately. Athletes are usually extremely dedicated in both the gym and in the kitchen. This means there will be no junk food, very little alcohol and more than likely a lot of bland foods and greens. I’d like to say that this is a positive thing about being a person competing in high-leveled sports, but I really can’t. Plainly put, it sucks.

Statistics have shown they are more likely to cheat

This is the biggest con of being in a relationship with a sportsperson. A study by The Independent showed that athletes who played certain sports have a higher chance of cheating, compared to the average joe. There have also been multiple cases where sportspersons have used their tight schedules as a way to hide their affairs/cheating. The sad fact is that sports-people are also more likely to cheat because they are usually relatively good looking and, therefore, just have the option and a bigger incentive to do so.

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But keep reading,

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Athletes travel… A lot

Whether its for sporting tournaments, a simple league game or to access some new type of training, sportspersons are always on the move. Again, this links back to the overarching issue of dating an athlete. Time, or the lack of it. Travelling is both exhausting and takes up a lot of time. I’d personally recommend you give it a go, however, as the positives for dating an athlete are tremendous.

Now let’s get onto the pros of dating an athlete!

Again, usually they are in good shape and work hard to maintain their physique. A real blessing and a curse!

Have you always wanted to date the fittest and most attractive person you know? Chances are they’re a sportsperson (or just very lucky). So, there you go. The first positive of dating an athlete is that the physical attraction you feel towards one another is likely to remain.

Traditionally athletes are confident and outgoing

Being an sportsperson often forces a person to become confident, because you’re constantly competing, and competition grows confidence. This is definitely something you will want in your girlfriend/boyfriend. Insecurity is not a good look on anyone; as well as the simple fact that confidence is an attractive personality trait to have. Personally, I have found that dating an athlete results in their confidence and positivity rubbing off on their partner. Sportspersons are often good leaders, because of the responsibility that sports places upon you.

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You will get into shape!

In order to make time for each other when dating an athlete, you can try and go to the gym together. You might have heard the saying, “If you sweat together, you stay together.”

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“If you sweat together,

you stay together.”

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This way, you can both spend time getting to know each other better. Plus you’re able to get fit while doing so ( you basically get a free personal trainer this way!) This is a major perk of dating an athlete. You will also most likely feel pressured into eating healthier, as to not be embarrassed when they pull out their thorough meal plan. Though now that I’m reading this last point, I’m starting to see it as a negative… Moving quickly on!

Athletes are always competing, and are therefore ambitious and driven

When I used to list the things I was looking for in a potential partner, the most important thing I wanted was for them to be ambitious and to love travelling. When dating an athlete, you get both of these. I’m sure you agree that people who are driven foster good relationships. It isn’t easy to maintain and develop a relationship, but at least you stand a chance if you’re attempting it with someone who is willing to reciprocate the effort you put in.

Free tickets to their sports games

This one seems relatively self-explanatory. Free tickets for you and your friends to go watch them compete! Plus, maybe you can set your friends up with a teammate this way. This is simply one of the many perks of dating an athlete! What more could you want?

Dating App For Athletes

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