#osp Steven

[osp-originals]

Unfortunate Discovery

TW: emeto, brief food descriptions

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It was supposed to be a fun night out. They had just finished the final day of shooting for a short film and gone to a nice restaurant, and now Lucas felt sick to his stomach.

Armando was driving half of the crew—himself, Penelope, Lucas, Steven, and Ethan—on the two hour drive back to campus. Lucas, being the skinniest, was stuck between Penelope and his brother Steven in the back seats. It had only been a few minutes since they had started the trip.

With every minute that passed, Lucas’ stomach got more upset.

I don’t get carsick, so it can’t be that… and I don’t have any other symptoms, so I don’t think I’m actually sick…

He tried to figure out what could be making him feel so awful.

Did I just eat too much? I don’t think so…

The pressure of his stomach against the inside of his abdomen just kept getting stronger as more minutes went by.

Did I eat something I don’t usually eat? Let’s see, steak, rice, no, those are fine…

He leaned back in his seat to try to get more comfortable. It didn’t help. He leaned forward. It didn’t help.

Avocado? I guess I don’t usually eat that much of it. That could be it.

He tried to lean to one side somehow. It didn’t help.

Nothing was working. He held his seatbelt out from his body, which helped a little bit with the pressure.

“You okay, Lucas?” Penelope asked, breaking from her conversation with Ethan and Armando.

“Yeah, my stomach just feels a bit…” he shook his head, trying to think of the right way to describe it. “…bad.”

“How bad?” she pried.

“Are you gonna barf?” Steven teased him.

“I might just barf on you,” he quipped back.

“Seriously, though, so I need to get off the highway?” Armando asked.

Lucas thought about it for a moment.

“Yeah, probably,” he answered.

“Okay,” Armando said with a sigh. “You better not ruin my car.”

“Are there any plastic bags or anything in here?” Ethan wondered.

“I don’t think so,” Armando answered.

Ethan checked the glove compartment as Armando took an exit to get off the highway. The GPS voice started telling him how to get back on the highway.

“Ethan, could you turn that off and change it to avoid highways?” Armando requested.

“Sure,” Ethan said. “It needs your passcode.”

Armando skillfully typed his passcode without looking at his phone.

While Ethan messed with the GPS, Lucas tried to figure out whether he was really going to be sick or not. The feeling was right at the point where he couldn’t tell whether it was going to stay the same and eventually subside, or get worse and make him double over.

If it gets any worse, I’m definitely going to throw up.

It got worse. His stomach started to turn.

“Pull over,” he mumbled.

“What?” Armando asked.

“He said pull over,” Penelope told him urgently. “I think he’s going to throw up.”

“Oh, shit,” Armando said.

They were in the middle of a three lane road with a decent amount of traffic. He looked around for an opportunity to change lanes.

Don’t barf in the car, don’t barf in the car, Lucas repeated to himself, trying to prevent it from happening with sheer force of will.

Penelope noticed Lucas’ face getting pale and his cheeks getting flushed. His stomach churned and gurgled more and more. He pressed his hand over his mouth.

“If you don’t want your car ruined, you better get over, Armando,” Steven warned him.

“I know, I’m trying!” Armando snapped.

He cut aggressively into the left lane. Someone honked at him, but he didn’t care. Penelope unbuckled her seatbelt and got ready to jump out of the car. Lucas did the same while Armando pulled the car over onto the shoulder.

As soon as the car stopped, Penelope opened her door and gracefully hopped out of the way. Lucas clambered over the seats and practically fell out of the car. He staggered forward a few steps, then braced himself with his hands on his knees.

He gagged loudly, but nothing came up.

“Come on, get it over with!” Steven yelled from the car.

Lucas wished it was that easy. The pressure was unbearable. He heaved again, but still, nothing.

Steven mocked his retching noises. That finally sent him over the edge. His stomach violently contracted, forcing a large amount of his dinner up his throat and onto the grass.

He tried to spit out the awful taste. He could hear Steven laughing in the background.

Another painful heave sent up a mouthful of half-digested food. He spat again.

“Do you think it was something you ate?” Penelope asked, now standing next to him.

“Probably,” he responded.

Mucus dripped from his nose. His face was hot with embarrassment. He wondered how many people were looking at him from their cars.

He gagged again, puking up only a small stream of mucus and saliva.

He took a deep breath, letting the spit drip out of his mouth.

“Do you think you’re done?” Penelope asked gently.

“Maybe.”

He stood upright. He still felt queasy, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as it was before. The pressure was almost gone.

“Yeah. I feel so much better now,” he told her.

“That’s good.”

[arson-is-chill-actually]

So I was thinking about AvA and started breaking down core themes and tropes and stuff as one does (I watch too much OSP don’t blame me) and I started having this specific train of thoughts

“Alright, MC with crazy powers but has no idea how to use them, found family stuff, bio family is unimaginably fucked up, groups of four… why does this sound familiar all of a sudden?”

So I started filing through my mental cabinets and had a realization.

“Wait… wait, wait waIT WAIT NO NO FUCK NO ITS FUCKING STEVEN UNIVERSE NO THEY’VE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH DO NOT GIVE SECOND THAT KIND OF TRAUMA ALAN OR I SWEAR TO GOD”

[mira-nicodiangelo-grey]

I can add more than the required 30 tags on here:

Charlotte LaBouffe

Hob Gadling

Raven Queen

Tessa Gray

Cordelia Carstairs

Jem Carstairs

Jace Herondale

Alec Lightwood

Victoria Sutherland from Twilight

Freya Mikaelson

The entire Winx Club band

Jafar from Aladdin 2019

The Trix from Winx Club

CHYKN from WITCH

Edmund Pevensie

Susan Pevensie

Amy Pond, the Girl Who Waited

Clara Oswald, the Impossible Girl

Amara from the vampire diaries

Davina Claire

The Bat Boys from Acotar

Prince Zuko

Avatar Wan and his voice actor

Avatar Kyoshi

Avatar Yangchen

Catherine Parr

Katherine Howard

Jane Seymour

Catherine of Aragon

Anne Boleyn

Anna of Cleves

Sodapop Curtis

OSP’s Sun Wukong

Talia, Princess of Xeris

Opal from Steven Universe

reblog and put in the tags the prettiest fictional character to exist

[yourlocalcon-man]

You know, I was having a hard time really grasping the concept of The Merge^TM because all this time I thought it would just be Ozpin taking over Oscar, but now that we know a bit more, I realize it’s less a take over and more like fusion.

[thevoidiliketoshoutinto]

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[autumnhortsnort]

ok i have advice for how to learn to recognize story structures. bcs i don't think the underlying issue is world building. i think it might be story structure and where you want to go with it.

first off: world building is only as important as you need it to be. good world building doesn't actually matter as far as story enjoyment goes. look at game of thrones; people loved that show even tho the world building is atrocious.

Also world building is generally better of it is built in service to the themes and plot so having a good idea of where you want to go will help a ton with the world building later.

As an aside this advice may not work for people that have a different style of writing than me. im more of a architect style writer but garden writers are very common.

garden style is usually more episodic, the author may have a goal but usually will meander their way to it. its just messing around with stuff that you enjoy/feels right. generally its pretty character driven.

architect style is heavily planned out before hand there is a goal/endpoint that the writer knows and is working towards. usually needs a pretty thorough timeline/outline.

garden style lends itself well to exploring characters and character dynamics. a ton of sitcoms are likely garden style writing, as well as adventure time, steven universe, and the first season of gravity falls.(i strongly suspect neil gaiman tends to write garden style as well). architect style is generally good for people that tend to get lost or stuck in a spot. or if your story needs structure.

but this advice is more for architect writing, and doing this made my writing more strongly architect style.

It is also batshit crazy.

Basically you need to find a piece of media with multiple iterations and shotgun all of them. Take a ton of notes. Note story concepts, character interactions, tropes, writing techniques and compare these between each iteration. Beaze and i did this with as many of the on screen tmnt iterations as we could get our hands on. We watched nothing but tmnt for 2 and a half straight days. If it works you will not be able to go back to how you watched media before. I can't read or watch a story without seeing the narrative bones poke through.

breadsword watched the entire scooby doo movie collection and went through a ton of the same stuff. You could definitely do it with the transformers iterations.

What you could also do is read through the odyssey and watch and compare it to Oh brother where art thou. Basically taking iterations/adaptations and seeing how the writers translate it into there own story.

other stuff id recommend:

gravity falls dvd commentary goes over the basics of how these kind of shows are written episode to episode, useful for tv and episodic writing in general.

study politics for the era you plan to set your story, and what events caused said politics. i like to watch videos on the orgins of fashions and the aesthetics of an era bcs quite often the things people wear, the architecture, and how they decorated their houses with reflect a ton about culture and current politics.

try to figure out what sub genres make up your story, is it a: workplace comedy? roadtrip odyssey? springbreak rager? College grads trying to complete an experiment? ect. Highly recommend osp trope talks, and folding ideas for discussions of story elements.

ultimately nitty gritty world building is for after you've got a good idea of what you want to do. it will usually hurts more than it helps if you focus too much on it in the early stages of writing.

When it comes to character building I'd recommend making them with plot useful traits first, then add backstory that explains those traits, and flesh them out from there.

Additionally building characters in pairs or trios is a good idea. give them traits that inherently lead to character interactions (good or bad).

been strugglin to do art related things involving my own creations that arent fandom related. I want to do something with my art and characters, maybe make a comic or animation, but I don't feel my heart in some places where I do in others. like, the alien platoon i have, i want to do something with them but I'm not sure what , truth be told. I'm not much of a story writer and I guess not having a story has been pushing me away from wanting to do more with them as a whole, even tho I really want to.

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-Madoka Magika

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[thesportssoundoff]

Finally watched the fight card from Wednesday in full:

-Drew Dober turning into a kind of good lightweight is pretty cool. I don’t know if he’s always just going to be that reliable dude hovering around the top 10 or so but I’m enjoying how he’s basically turned a super basic gameplan based entirely around his strengths (size, pressure, power striking when the opportunity arises) into a full fledged top 15-ish run. I feel like Dober vs Felder would be a ball.

-The ballad of Beneil Dariush; he beat Thiago Moises and Drew Dober but got smelted by Alexander Hernandez. The dudes he beat are always way more impressive somehow than his weird losses.

-Speaking of which, Michael Johnson is the master of the “I was winning then I lost” strategy. He was casually piecing up Thiago Moises and then basically lost in the ONLY fashion he could’ve lost. I feel like Johnson’s always going to have one of MMA’s more mercurial resumes. He has wins over two Top 5 LWs and has lost to dudes like Steven Ray, Beneil Dariush, Thiago Moises and Reza Madadi. 

-I had OSP vs Rothwell as 29-28 Rothwell. Not sure if that’s a super complicated score. I had Lins vs Arlovski 29-28 Lins for whatever that’s worth.

-If you haven’t seen it, please go watch Omar Morales vs Moggly Benitez. A squirrely fight between a game as shit Benitez and Omar Morales who has all sorts of promise at 155 lbs. Morales’ kicking game is really good and after watching him for about five fights, I feel like what gives me hope for his future is that he has a tremendous knack for getting out of harm’s way when he’s flurrying. That’s sort of what did guys like Polo Reyes (and Moggly Benitez) in.

-I don’t know if it’s years of watching TUF/DWCS/regional MMA but the empty arena didn’t bother me much. I do wonder if the atmosphere is going to force coaches to have to adapt new terminology to hide combinations or if maybe coaches will speak even less and just let their fighters do what they want. It was pretty cool to hear Sijara Eubanks talking to her corner while trying to get out of a submission attempt. That sort of stuff is nifty. 

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Predictable Stories

I’ve seen this takedown of late GoT from Lindsay Ellis and Red of OSP, maybe also from Super Eyepatch Wolf too? Wouldn’t surprise me. Point is: I’ve seen it said really well that while following tropes so closely that everyone can guess your whole story from the beginning will probably bore some people, avoidance of predictable outcomes for its own sake is a really dumb thing to do with your fiction.

I entirely agree, but I wanted to talk about the positive inverse of this: When your work isn’t OVERLY predictable, and a reader or viewer predicts it anyway, that is excellent. When I was watching Steven Universe, and also when I was reading The Walking Dead, there were points where I finished consuming for the day and just before bed I started composing fanfic in my head. What should the team encounter next? How should they get out of this cliffhanger? What would bring good character growth, and what makes sense with the abilities we’ve seen from people so far? And then the next day, or next week, when I saw the next episode or chapter, something very similar to what I put together in my head was there on the screen, on the page. When this happens it is intensely satisfying. And it makes me want to see where you’re going next. It gives me a feeling that will invest me in your series pretty heavily. Even if all you cared about was marketability, this outsells shock from bad writing.

I dunno, I just wanted to mirror the What to Avoid hot take with my own Something to Strive For take. That’s all.

[ronkarpel]

Monte Bello Loop - Apr 2019

Monte Bello Loop – Apr 2019

It was a cold and rainy day… no really, it wasn’t raining, but the drizzle was so heavy it might as well was raining. It wasn’t terribly cold, but we expected warmer drier weather, so without proper cloth it felt cold. The cool weather was made the hiking easier and we finish the 20 mile 4000 ft in good time and good spirit

Poipu Beach and a rainbow. Note the old red…

[bikejoel]

Gravelish - Hot & Dirty. Way too hot • 7/24/18

With a 21 lizard salute! Dirt Alpine, White Oak, Canyon Trail, Table Mountain & Charcoal Road (What the F was I thinking?) Skyline back. Descend Dirt Alpine.

Thankful for the Daniels Nature Center in Skyline Ridge OSP with their water faucet. Ran out of water just then. Had a small Camelbak and two bottles, but it was hot!

26.6 miles, 3400 feet https://www.strava/activities/1725894222

[madisonscholar]

Faculty, staff honored for external funding success

The opportunity to mentor undergraduate students while also pursuing meaningful research makes JMU special, Kristen St. John said Friday, Oct. 6, after receiving a lifetime achievement award during the Office of Research and Scholarship's Recognition Reception.

Friday's event was the OSP's second annual Recognition Reception, held to honor faculty and staff for their work in securing external funding and to raise awareness of the grant process. St. John, a professor of geology and environmental science, was among more than 100 faculty and staff honored for securing external funding during the 2017 fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, and for their careers.

The OSP asked deans to nominate faculty for the lifetime achievement award based on criteria in areas of teaching; research and scholarship; and service through their externally funded projects throughout their JMU careers. St. John has earned more than $500,000 in external funding since arriving at JMU in 2003.

Conducting research in paleoceanography, St. John has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature, and her scholarship has rewritten the geologic history of Arctic ice, information that is critically important as scientists seek to understand contemporary dynamics of climate change.

In 2004, St. John was selected to serve as part of an international research team for an Arctic coring expedition, a project she will lead in the 2018-19 academic year. Since 2012, she has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geoscience Education and in 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. She has mentored more than two dozen undergraduate students, providing them with opportunities to learn about the geosciences through cutting edge research in the field.

"I feel like JMU is walking a very important and fine line where we're able to maintain this really excellent undergraduate education but the faculty are also able to do research that’s highly respected and valued at many different levels," St. John said.

For faculty and staff who are considering seeking grants for the first time, St. John said sitting on a grant review committee will provide valuable insight. She also commended the OSP staff for its assistance.

The following faculty and staff received outstanding faculty awards for met criteria in teaching, scholarship, service and mentoring through their externally funded projects during fiscal year 2017:

·      Daniel Downey, chemistry and biochemistry

·      Mark Gabriele, biology

·      Kim Hartzler-Weakley, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services

·      Elizabeth Johnson, geology and environmental science

·      Jonathan Monroe, biology

·      Gerald Weniger, health professions

·      Steven Whitmeyer, geology and environmental science

The OSP also recognized faculty and staff for various funding tiers, including:

·      $20 million — Cheryl Henderson, Training/Technical Assistance Center

·      $15 million — Kim Hartzler-Weakley, Institute for Innovation in Health & Human Services

·      $10 million — John McNaught, Training/Technical Assistance Center; Ken Rutherford, Center for International Stabilization & Recovery; Rhonda Zingraff, College of Health & Behavioral Studies

·      $5 million — Bob Kolvoord, College of Integrated Science and Engineering; Jonathan Miles, Integrated Science & Technology

A full list of winners is in the event program.

[thesportssoundoff]

DWCS 8/13 Primer

Herdem Alacabeck vs William Knight Light Heavyweights

Herdem Alacabeck 5-0 Record From Sweden Has trained with All Stars in Sweden, now trains with Blackhouse

Fun Facts:

-Herdem Alacabeck has a win over a current member of the UFC roster; a rear naked choke win over DWCS 3 signee Antonio Arroyo. -On two different occasions, Herdem Alacabeck was on the verge of getting signed to a UFC deal. The first time was in March as a short notice replacement to face Saparbek Safarov. The second time was for a fight in Sweden on short notice. -He did not fight for nearly two years due to problems with his foot and at least not showing up to fight despite weighing in.

Check Him Out:

Vs (2-2) Rumen Blagovestov- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHiykMXyc-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv9j9Z7BNQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIO_MtwI_2U

William Knight 4-0 Record From Connecticut Trains With Thornton Martial Arts And Fitness

Fun Facts:

-William Knight got into high school wrestling as a suggestion from a friend to combat anger issues due to buylling. From there, he found his way into MMA. -He has an amateur win over DWCS Season 3 signee Yorgan De Castro. -Knight's original goal in getting into MMA wasn't the UFC but One FC so he could do MMA and kickboxing.

Check Him Out: Vs (1-4) Tom Velasquez (complete with backflips): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJYL9nIm7Xc

Brok Weaver vs Devin Smyth Welterweights

Brok Weaver 13-4 record From Alabama Trains With Port City Kickboxing Academy

Fun Facts:

-Brok Weaver was scheduled to compete on the first episode of DWCS but Leon Shahbazyan had a weight cutting snafu and the fight got cancelled. -Brok Weaver was on a six fight winning streak but two of those are split decisions wins and one of those was a DQ win due to an illegal knee. -8 of Weaver's last 10 fights have been against opponents with winning record and he's a solid 6-2 in those fights.

Check Him Out: Vs (30-36-2) Charles Bennett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIUR7979gM vs (8-5) Wanderley Camarilo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1pZSv-yu4c

Devin Smyth 9-1 record From Michigan Trains With Murcielago MMA (Same gym as UFC vet Dequan Townsend)

Fun Facts:

-Of his 10 fights, only 3 are against fighters with winning records and only 1 of them is against a fighter with more than two wins. -Something worth keeping an eye on, Devin Smyth has been fighting at/around 175 to 180 lbs in his last few fights. He has made 170 lbs as recently as April 2018 though. -Devin Smyth headlined the first ever WXC card on Fight Pass

Check Him Out: vs (3-11) Jay Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6y6SeI4No vs (11-8-1) Rocky Edwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37WJcJs0Ktg

Sarah Alpar vs Shanna Young Women Bantamweights

Sarah Alpar 8-4 Record From Texas American Elite MMA

Fun Facts:

-Is a neat and tidy 1-1 vs UFC fighters with a win over Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger and a loss to Heather Jo Clark. -Alpar also has fought regional vets/names like Carina Damm (loss), Brenda Gonzales (loss) and Delaney Owen (loss). -Is the current LFA women's bantamweight champ after winning a split decision from 8-1 Joselyne Edwards

Check Her Out:

vs (3-2) Suzy Watson; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1hSCp34u1c

Shanna Young 6-1 Record From Tennessee American Elite MMA  (Same gym as OSP)

Fun Facts:

-Shanna Young took two years off suffering back to back labrum injuries that required surgery. It was so bad that after the second injury, her doctor advised her to retire. -Shanna Young has a win over potential UFC featherweight Pam Sorenson back in 2018. -Young's one loss is a split decision loss to Lisa Spangler who took the fight on short notice.

Check Her Out:

vs (1-1) Jessica Borgas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mxbCEZeRcY vs (0-1) Katelyn Dykas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnxzdxqBb1s

Tony Gravely vs Ray Rodriguez Bantamweights

Tony Gravely 18-5 Record From Virginia Training With Tech MMA

Fun Facts:

-Gravely is 0-4 against fighters you may have heard of; losses to Bellator vets Ricky Bandejas and Patrick Mix, UFC super prospect Manny Bermudez and former UFC fighter Merab Dvalishvili. -Gravely is 9-1 in his last 10 fights with his one loss coming to Patrick Mix. -Tony Gravely currently holds both the CES and KOTC Bantamweight titles.

Check Him Out:

vs (8-0) Bruno Ferreira: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y62FANOifvk vs (2-0) Dylan Caca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ncesULCFY vs (3-1) James Quigg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WRyneK5IY0

Ray Rodriguez 15-5 Record From Texas Training with Ohana MMA (Home to the Hernandez Bros)

Fun Facts:

-Ray Rodriguez is 1-2 vs UFC fighters; defeating (then 7-6) Joseph Sandoval with losses to Chris Gutierrez (currently 2-1 in the UFC) and Steven Peterson (currently 1-3 in the UFC). -Ray Rodriguez has fought for some organizations you might've heard of, namely LFA, Fury FC and Combate.. -Ray Rodriguez is a former member of the Armed Forces.

Check Him Out:

vs (9-5) Michael Rodriguez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KgtrphE25A vs (3-1) Johnny Rodriguez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGXsOonsvxw

Karl Reed vs Julius Anglickas Light Heavyweights

Karl Reed 6-1 Record From South Carolina by way of New Jersey Upstate Karate (Home of Stephen Thompson)

Fun Facts:

-Karl Reed fought Cameron Olson back on the 2017 edition of the DWCS. Despite it being just his third pro fight, he entered the fight as a -300 favorite before ultimately losing by decision. -Karl Reed is a physical education teacher and a wrestling coach for Limestone College. -Reed has a win over former TUF contesetant James Miles by TKO.

Check Him Out Vs:

Vs Alec Hooben (5-4)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pum88lheSuU Vs Charles Gamble (2-3)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GILXJLyvxsc

Julius Anglickas 6-1 Record From Minnesota by way of Lithuania Trains With St. Charles MMA (Home of Alp Ozkilic and Josh Sampo)

Fun Facts:

-Julius Anglickas is the LFA Light Heavyweight Champion after finishing 5-0 Clayton York in the 2nd round. -Anglickas' one pro loss? To Cameron Olson. Olson got around I guess on the regional LHW scene. -Anglickas came to Long Island from Lithuana at 14 years old before eventually moving out to Minnesota in his 20s, he has a physical education degree from Brockport University and won the Golden Gloves in Minnesota.

Check Him Out:

Vs (5-12) Rashid Abdullah- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUO0VbGwpg Vs  (3-1) Brandon Edman- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ5pGFwj2K4

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fandom and blog list under the cut!

-UNDERTALE

-Friday Night Funkin’

-Invader Zim

-BATIM

-Pokemon

-Baldi’s basics ((even thogh it’s kinda ded))

-Cuphead

-Steven universe

-Spooky month

-Furry ((don’t judge))

-Madoka Magika

-A little bit of Cardcaptor Sakura

-AHIT

-That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime ((good anime))

-FNAF

-JSAB

-the smallest sliver of Spooky’s house of jump scares

-Kawaii stuff in general

-glitter force

-weirdcore

-dreamcore

-cottagecore

-Lofi

-ENA

-internetcore

-the second-smallest sliver of hazbin hotel

-TM v TM ((The Mitchels vs the machines))

-THE BACKROOMS

-BUGSNAX AL THE WAAAAY-

-OSP because yes

-DDLC

-No Straight Roads

-The owl house

-gravity falls

-Madness combat

-SPLATOON!!!

-Hollow knight

-OMORI

-restaurant to another world

-tohu

-become fumo

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“The UFC Heads To Charlotte! Please Read? A little?” UFC on Fox: Jacare vs Brunson 2 Preview

Joey

Jan 23rd, 2018

The UFC returns to Fox with.....

I mean.....

Okay so this card isn't all that great. The UFC went all out to end the year and made November and December some big months. This Fox card is sort of a victim of that as well as the usual fact that Jan tends to be a thin month PLUS fighters tend to get hurt when it's cold and they tend to not wanna do a training camp around the holidays and etc etc etc. This show is a rather thin show but hey! I'll convince ya to care it because there are some fights worth keeping an eye on. Y'all ready?

Fights: 11

Debuts: 2 (Cory Sandhagen and Austin Arnett)

Fight Changes/Injury Cancellations: 1 ( Ilir Latifi vs OSP Cancelled)

Headliners (fighters who have either main evented or co-main evented shows in the UFC):  4 (Ronaldo Souza, Derek Brunson, Dennis Bermudez, Randa Markos)

Fighters On Losing Streaks in the UFC:  2 (Bobby Green*, Dennis Bermudez)

Fighters On Winning Streaks in the UFC:  4 (Gregor Gillespie, Derek Brunson, Joaquim Silva, Vinc Pichel)

Main Card Record Since Jan 1st 2016 (in the UFC): 18-10 Jacare Souza- 2-1 Derek Brunson- 4-2 Dennis Bermudez- 2-2 Andre Fili- 2-2 Gregor Gillespie- 3-0 Jordan Rinaldi- 1-1 Drew Dober- 3-1 Frank Camacho- 1-1

Too High Up- Drew Dober vs Frank Camacho

Okay so I feel bad about this because Dober/Camacho might be a fantastic fight. At 170 lbs, Camacho/Dober is one of those needed "THROW HANDS AND DO COOL SHIT!" type fights that you put on a card to guarantee an exciting fight where one dude is down to get finished. The problem is that both guys are sort of just there to be action fighters. Nothing is going to change for the winner or the loser, they'll always exist as mauler brawler types who have fun fights. This is a pretty good fight for action purposes but I just don't see main card on Fox. Sorry fellas.

Too Low- Kaitlyn Chookagian vs Mara Romero Borella

This to me would be a fine main card opener. No, it's not going to be a super action fight but Kaitlyn Chookagian vs Mara Romero Borella would be a solid fight with some divisional relevance. Give me this fight over two dudes swangin' on a main card filled already with dudes swangin'

Stat Monitor for 2018:

Debuting Fighters (Current number: 0-3): Austin Arnett, Cory Sandhagen

Short Notice Fighters (Current number: 1-1): 0

Second Fight (Current number: 1-3): Mara Romero Borella, Yi Jeon Kim

Cage Corrosion (2-4): George Sullivan

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- 185 lbs is sort of undergoing a bit of an under the radar renaissance of sorts. Robert Whittaker's emergence as a serious dude to know coincides with a heap of new talents being brought in at the weight class, namely guys like Eryk Anders, Oskar Piechota, Karl Roberson, Julian Marquez as well as the emergence of good fighters hitting their stride like Kelvin Gastelum, Anthony Smith, Gerald Meerschaert, Thiago Santos, Antonio Carlos Junior and Paulo Costa. Even with all of that being said, this is still a division that relies on about 6-10 guys to be headliners. Brunson and Jacare are two of those guys who will always be put into positions like this almost entirely due to what they bring to the table. They're known and in the UFC 185 lb class, they're almost always contenders to some various degree. The point I'm going for is that this could be the last chance for both of these guys because there's a heap of fighters under 30 who seem to be knocking on the door to the top of the division.

2- This is a weird sort of event where one of the guys is the hometown guy but you get the feeling that the other guy is the one they really want to build up. The UFC and Jacare reached an agreement on a new contract the day BEFORE he fought Robert Whittaker and so Jacare probably is earning more money now than he ever has before. He's a popular guy who has headlined in Brazil and could in theory be a continuous headliner in Brazil. He's reputable, fans like him and he's the sort of fighter who always seems to be one fight away from the title picture. It's easy to point out that he's lost to the guys in the interim title fight and got smoked by Whittaker but I wonder how much that matters at this point. It's in Brunson's backyard but I wonder if this is all about getting Jacare back into the title picture.

3- Brunson on paper is a pretty intriguing stylistic matchup for Jacare. It's grappler vs wrestler but Brunson hits hard enough to give Jacare reason to pause and avoid getting reckless. If it stays on the feet, I feel like Jacare is the guy with the more versatile offense compared to Brunson but the power is on Brunson's side. Jacare has been dropped and stunned in fights that extend beyond the first round recently and while he's still pretty quick for 185 lbs, I wonder if he's beginning to morph into one of those "Tough Dads" that makes middleweight such a wacky division.

4- Once upon a time not too long ago, Mirsad Bektic was expected to be in that mix at 145 lbs as a serious title contender. He had earned high praise as a prospect and did little in the UFC to disappoint from that regard even if you had concerns about how little he seemed to strike comfortably on the feet. Bektic's journey to the top was halted by Darren Elkins and if you're a prospect who loses at 135 to 155 lbs, you might as well fall off the face of the Earth. Since the loss to Elkins, Bektic has disappeared and might as well be redebuting at this point. There's so much to like about Mirsad Bektic that you're left to hope that he can recover from that loss even better. He got caught wrestling too much vs Elkins, gassed and then got finished when his wrestling abandoned him so it's not like it's a talent related issue I don't believe. Godofredo Pepey is the opponent and he's the right guy to test Bektic; active off of his back, more flash than substance on the feet, holes in the game that can be exploited and a real lack of wrestling savvy to not get taken down.

5- Speaking of "Once upon a time not too long ago", Dennis Bermudez once racked up a winning streak that featured Clay Guida, Max Holloway and Steven Siler. Since then? Well it hasn't quite been as pretty. Bermudez has always been hittable but he's always recovered well and been able to keep himself in the fight. Ricardo Lamas took advantage of Bermudez's slow starts and hittable nature, hurting him early and subbing him with a guillotine. Bermudez and Jeremy Stephens had a fucking amazing fight that ended with Bermudez being on the wrong end of the last knockdown, getting dropped and stopped by a Stephens flying knee on a sloppy takedown.  Since then Bermudez has been more and more skittish as a fighter. He's still aggressive when he needs to be but he wrestles more, strikes less and seems almost cautious to the point of self conservation. He had the Zombie hurt and never stepped back on the gas en route to a stoppage loss and he never seemed to get out of the starting blocks vs Darren Elkins. Dennis Bermudez and Andre Fili are similar like minded talents who have struggled finding any sort of footing in the UFC.

6- Some might call Andre Fili inconsistent but let's be real; Fili has gone W-L-W-L-W-L-W-L-W in the UFC. Seems consistent to me, am I right?

7- Juliana Lima is not a fun fighter to watch compete by any stretch of the imagination BUT her vs Randa Markos is a really intriguing fight. This is a battle of two fighters who could exist on the back end of the 115 lb division and both have lost to the elite of the elites (Tecia Torres, Alexa Grasso, Carla Esparza and Joanna Champion to name a few).

8- Gregor Gillespie is a really intriguing 155 lber who is a bit too old to be a prospect (31) but not proven against top competition to feel like we know what he is in total. Unfortunately he's really not getting a fair step up with Jordan Rinaldi who is kind of a bottom layer of the division. Showcase fight for a big market.

9- Vinc Pichel vs Joaquim Silva is a REALLY good fight that is way too buried on this card. It's opening up the FS1 prelims but it's easily better than a collection of fights swimming around on the card above it. Pichel came back from a lengthy absence to flatten Damien Brown and his hands and wrestling skills make him a pretty intriguing 155er. Joaquim SIlva is a little basic for my tastes but he may be one of the best Brazilian "prospects" around. He's another guy we've seen tested before and he's passed those tests.

10- Bobby Green vs Erik Koch is such a battle between two guys who lose in spite of themselves consistently. I am ALL about this fight.

11- The featherweight division has won FOTN the past two shows to kick off 2018 so let's see if they can keep this going on with three straight shows. Bermudez vs Fili has an awesome shot to do it.

12- Any idea why fans have completely hopped off the Niko Price train? Seems totally weird given how good he was prior to his loss.

Must Wins

1- Derek Brunson

It's in his hometown against the highest ranked opponent he's ever faced. For MOST MMA fans, Brunson will always be the guy who loses to the best guys he faces. Machida could've been a guy you could rely on to turn that reputation around but alas alack. Brunson has improved a bunch since their first fight but has he improved enough to leapfrog Jacare?

2- Dennis Bermudez

Two fight skid, co-main event on Fox, opponent who stylistically matches up well with him. Bermudez needs this one.

3- Niko Price

Price finished Alan Jouban, Brandon Thatch and Alex Morono* to the point where it looked like the ATT product would crack the top 10 or so. Price took a step back vs Vicente Luque on short notice and then EVERYBODY forgot who he is. He's under 30 at 170 lbs with fight finishing instincts, length and pacing. The loss to Vicente Luque feels more like a roadblock and not an indictment of what he is.

Five Can't Miss Fights

1- Dennis Bermudez vs Andre Fili

2- Derek Brunson vs Jacare Souza

3- Gregor Gillespie vs Jordan Rinaldi

4- Bobby Green vs Erik Koch

5- Mirsad Bektic vs Godofredo Pepey