#swerve talk

[homoeroticgrappling]

Via Swerve's instagram stories at SDCC on 26/07/24

[enbyblades]

*squidward voice* we serve catboys here sir...

[eegnm]

Gossiping

[the-kipsabian]

[christiancagesupporter]

Just rewatched the swerve vs hangman death match I can’t believe I forgot how horny it was

this might be my favourite shot of the match religious imagery will always have me in a chokehold

Also swerve climbing over hangman’s body like he just drained his blood is insane

[likesummerrainn]

AEW Rampage | 01.12.24

[vellichorom]

I really like your headcanons for Cori and totally agree with them!

And if you don’t mind my asking, what did you dislike about the recent episodes of Chikn Nuggit? Because personally I dislike a lot of it too…the whole shift to lore has been kind of jarring for me and I also think things were resolved too easily.

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH, THAT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY!

& OMG THANK YOU FOR ASKING because god i've been pissed. with one episode they made me hate that stupid yellow dog

HERE'S THE THING, RIGHT. i don't even mind the shift from slapstick shenanigans in youtube short format to something that illustrates a bit more lore. in FACT, i thought the way they were going about it was very interesting! having chikn realize his ultimate power & being due to a moment of vulnerability & having been manipulated some by bezel therein,

however,

this is all cheezborger's fault. for some fucking stupid reason

LET'S BACK UP A MINUTE. cheezborger got the girl! she's all excited about it & prioritizing her girlfriend above all, as i think we all do when we're excited; we make whatever we're excited our entire worldview for a bit, it happens!

chikn, at least from my perspective, sees this - sees that all of his friends are busy doing stuff without him or have their " significant other " where he does not - with cheezborger, his best most important friend, caught up in the moment, & he feels left out. he feels like a " third wheel " &- with all of his friends occupied with something or someone else, he's all alone & feels bad. i've been there a few times, i get it. in that moment of vulnerability does bezel take advantage & PUSH chikn to realize his power & potential, to control his friends or control the world & make things how he wants them to be.

suddenly the plot goes from " chikn suffering from third wheel grief " to " chikn coming to terms with the fact that he's a god & his powers have unintendedly warped his friends. we're taking all the nonsense seriously suddenly " okay. interesting. so chikn ascends to god form & starts fucking up the whole world because he believes that's what he's MEANT to do. the conclusion of his spiraling is realizing that he was meant to cause chaos & rip apart the world? ok. i think we jumped a bit far, how & when did he decide that

now we're leaning really hard into the ' i have to do this because it's my DESTINY ' trope. okay. did you come to this conclusion after deciding you don't need your friends? or realizing that you're the god of everything & therefore such menial things don't matter? did bezel coach you more than we see through the shorts? i don't remember there being an episode dedicated to chikn's sudden snap of character, thus we just never find out where that leap in logic came from.

so the world's ending but fwench fwy & iscream manage to trap chikn for 5 seconds. chee intervenes & tries to get through to him, despite all his bullshit ramblings of " go away i'm a god this is my destiny, " this WORKS. chee pulls him from his divine spiral & all's fine now.

except chikn, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE MIND YOU - NOT IN PRIVATE, blames cheezborger for it. he's like " you ditched me & that wasn't very nice, you need to make time for all your friends "

LIKE OH OKAY. BUZZFEED YOU JUST KILLED THE VIBE.

cheezborger's excitement for her new girlfriend might have been the tipping point & the technical catalyst of this all, but not at any fault of her own. she did not do this maliciously or purposefully & i hate the way chikn says she " ditched " him. no she did not you horrible mutt she politely declined your offers to hang out because she was busy with her girlfriend, & YES IT CAN BE UPSETTING WHEN YOUR FRIEND CAN'T HANG WITH YOU BECAUSE THEY GET CAUGHT UP IN SOMETHING THEY LIKE, BUT SHE DID NOT DITCH OR ABANDON YOU SHE JUST GOT BUSYYYY

it's circumstances. chee didn't do anything " wrong ", things just happened & chikn couldn't take being apart from his friend or not having what all his other friends had & downspiralled + got manipulated by bezel.

chee gets called out in PUBLIC for " ditching " chikn when she really didn't & this is turned into a big lesson about " managing all your friends " ( kiss my ass buzzfeed your usual social lessons aren't going to fly with this one ), in essence blaming chee for the apocalypse despite the initial start of the arc having gone unaddressed since the beginning.

OH & GET THIS, we blame chee for being excited but bezel, THE ONE PUSHING FOR TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD & ACTIVELY MANIPULATING CHIKN TO DO IT, gets a literal slap on the wrist chikn nor anybody else calls him out for being a gigantic prick, he's just like " i fowgive u let's be fwiends " & we leave it at that apparently. are you fucking for real. that straight up smells misogynistic & straight up shitty regardless. this COMING from the stupid little youtube shorts series all about validating everyone & equality & being kind to people too just feels a PARTICULAR kind of rancid.

& yeah whatever it's a rinkydink silly buzzfeed show where every character is named some woobified or joke rendition of a food product ( chikn nuggit, cheezborger, fwench fwy - so on ), BUT I FEEL LIKE THEY WERE DOING A VALUABLE SERVICE & DOING PRETTY GOOD FOR BEING A RINKYDINK SILLY YOUTUBE SHORTS SERIES !!!!! they had such good intentions & good lessons in mind...

& then this happens. it just puts SUCH a bad taste in my mouth now, you know? & it's honest to god so disappointing! & INFURIATING

that ending was a total BUST & relaying it back now, THE PLOT OF THAT ARC IS ALL OVER THE PLACE. it can't at all decide what the point of itself was & ended SO poorly. i'll forgive the pacing because this is a youtube shorts series MEANT to be done relatively quickly & chikn nuggit isn't necessarily a show you're going to expect a masterpiece of, right. it's endearingly imperfect

but god that ending. this entire arc. fuck it all man fuck that dog

oh wow i wrote down a lot but YEAH. VERY UPSETTING. hopefully this was an entertaining read or i just look insane to my friends

THANK YOU FOR ASKING! been LOOKING for an excuse to be upset on main

[cowboyshit]

every time they’re like “swerve returns” my brain is like and how does this involve hangman. I simply don’t accept them NOT having an interaction tonight

[writer-room]

I think there’s some real untapped comedy potential between Imperium and the Ninja’s crazy abilities and history.

Like, the Ninja can summon elemental dragons. Does anyone remember that? Conquering their fears and summoning dragons? This is like, prime bait and switch material here.

Picture this. Imperium is trying to steal dragons. They found a horde of them and started trapping. The Ninja show up, save the day, etc etc, and Kai gets the brilliant idea to summon his elemental dragon. Imperium people have never in their life seen an elemental dragon. Far as they’re concerned, its just a cool looking dragon. Its one the Ninja seem to like, so they all target it.

All of the dragons escape. Except for this red fire dragon. The Ninja leave without it. Score! They’ve at least got one dragon to take home, and its a funky new kind of dragon! So they pack it up and start to head back and where the fuck did the dragon go. What do you mean it VANISHED INTO THIN AIR. What do you mean it DISSIPATED. Is it invisible?  Nope, it’s just. Gone. Completely. Poof. Did it teleport? Can dragons teleport? When was that a thing dragons could do. How. What the fuck. 

This happens four more times before all of Imperium starts avoiding shifty magical looking dragons like the plague, no matter how many normal ones are around. They don’t mess with spooky teleporting dragons, no THANK YOU

[shannonsketches]

He said "Fuck this shit, I'm out" I'm crying. Toriyama's Vegeta was so top shelf 🤌

(From Neko Majin Z Chapter 5!)

[angels-hook]

since i finally got around to watching the texas death match with swerve and hangman i would not stop talking abt it to my friends and like its so funny bc they dont watch wrestling so they were literally like “what do u mean he drank his blood 😧”

[cephalopodsquad]

so... bare with me and put on your tinfoil hats, but im having thoughts about swerve strickland, death and resurrection, the supernatural, and hangman adam page.

so as we all know, swerve at wembley was in a coffin match and IN KAYFABE was stuck in the coffin for 2 weeks.

(this gifset is by bloodycowboyclub)

so... what if he wasnt stuck? but was actually dead and buried?

what if swerve came back... not necessarily wrong, as he was already ruthless before (i mean, look at the nick wayne attack spot. that was brutal)... but instead came back different? almost... inhuman? came back with an unsettling smile, with even less regard for human life?

(bloodycowboyclub again)

his eye makeup is getting darker every single week, almost like hollywood rotting zombie makeup, or showing that he himself is getting darker. same with his gear, focusing on reds and blacks (and gray fur coats ofc) instead of colors.

he hasnt slept since August? since the coffin match?

my favorite though, is how he knows how to get under hangman's skin. yes yes, going to his home. the drawing from his child. but also every word swerve says in the ring to page. his body language.

(original gifs by firstmix)

he knows exactly what to say and what to do to make hangman angry. angry enough to draw blood. angry enough to drink it.

and then there was last night's promo. I'm still thinking about it.

“If God opened up the clouds above us and challenged everyone on earth, I believe Hangman could beat Him….. But he still couldn’t beat me”

implying that Swerve is not of this earth like hangman or anyone He would challenge. but isnt capital g God either - instead something different. something stronger.

swerve was in a coffin for two weeks. he hasnt slept well since then. his makeup and gear has gotten darker. he has gotten bloodier in the ring, and has targeted hangman, easily getting under his skin.

(bloodycowboyclub once again)

i wonder, if when hangman shouted the above words at swerve, if he knew just how right he really was.

[birdstooth]

Ok but consider: Erik comes to Christine as the angel of music but Christine is a theology nerd who is like "Omg an angel!??! Is it true that your true forms will cause humans to die if you aren't shapeshifted? I heard angels are so big it takes a human several centuries to walk from one end to another! Are you shapeshifted into something smaller? Or are you like phonecalling me or something? What kind of powers do you have? What did Adam and Eve look like? What's the afterlife like? Do you go there often to visit? How many other people have talked to you? What kind of tasks does God give you? How many other angels are there? Are you a seraphim or something? What rank is there? What religion of angel do you come from since Muslims, Christians and Judaism all have angels? Are you the 'millions of eyes on a wheel' type of angel? Do you have wings? How does it feel like to fly? I like this city please look after it. Can you carry this message forward for me to god? How many times have you spoken to god? Have you ever killed people? What does it feel like? For what reason did you kill? Can you please not kill more? It's so cool to meet an angel! Do you do stuff aside from flying? How do you spend your time and such?"

Meanwhile poor unhappy Erik is behind the mirror like:

“I’ve made a huge mistake 😬”

Bonus: Erik at his sewing machine with 800 googly eyes making a biblically accurate angel costume 👀 bc he’s committed to the bit

Bonus 2: Raoul running his mouth lmao

[simplepotatofarmer]

my partner got into a car accident ;__;

[elitehoe]

Hangman told Swerve you can't lace my boots and I'm not gonna lie that shit got me bricked up

[thechampagnesocialist]

hi so i was at all in today and i met oli ?!?! my dad was at the bar and he was there too so my dad started talking to him about wrestletalk and stuff. my dad mentioned me and oli told my dad that he wanted to meet me too like what ?!? so my dad got me while oli waited for us and we talked for like ages !! i gave him a friendship bracelet and he shook my hand and we took a picture with him its kinda crazy hes such a nice person. he said he was gonna give the other friendship bracelets to pete and luke and tempest and dan. crazy

hello????

first thing first, hope you have a good time at all in. second thing second, wild that one of the first people you decided to share this story with (right after all in, might I add) is tumblr user champagnesocialist.