#the crowd will often start singing 'oh scissor me daddy!' to the tune of seven nation army

[aleisters]

#i started the second paragraph and fully honestly considered if im having a stroke

i didn't even get to ... the scissoring. which they're doing with belts in this gif because they got custom made championship belts. for scissoring.

so...part of why i love wrestling is also a lesson that i think a lot of writers could really stand to learn. i'll use the example of the aew trios champions to illustrate.

the current champions run down to the ring and yell "scissor me, daddy ass!" before every fight. one of them always raps a diss track about their opponents. daddy ass is the name of a 65 year old man who you bet looks incredible in tiny pink trunks. they did a 69 day celebration of their trios run.

and they won their championship from a trio of goths who enter wearing spooky masks and dim the lights whenever they show up to make it look like they teleport. said goths also spit black mist into other wrestler's faces to turn them evil. one of them walks around the ring barking.

what rules about this is that none of it is ever questioned. there's never a cynical look into the camera to say "we know this is silly!" —the authenticity is never put into question.

i need writers in all mediums to just do this. no winking, no nudging. no eye rolling. whether it's horror, comedy, drama, whatever—go all out with it, man. the people who think your work is silly are not your audience. don't cater to them.

but the people who will love your work will buy into it one hundred percent. they will be there no matter how cringe you feel about your own writing. never give into the urge to be cynical about the story you're writing, because those are the people you stand to lose.