Robin

My Ambition cannot be stopped!

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Echo by Red~Star

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My ascii of Broken Matt Hardy. He liked it on twitter, which was elating! Sorry for my recent absense, been a bit out of it creatively. Should be more to come!

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Where I do agree with miss-balor-if-ya-nasty, I’m just thankful for the turn out we received on August 10th. The reaction we received was unbelievable! When I first joined Tumblr I had no idea Damien had such a huge fanbase, but I’m so happy he does. Albeit we didn’t reach our goal of becoming the #1 trend, we did manage to make #SandowAppreciationDay the #4 trend, which blew me away! It just goes to show what we as fans are capable of when we work together. It doesn’t surprise me the WWE have yet to do anything, like sixdegreesofsandow said, I think they are just trying to revamp his character before bringing him back, which more than likely proves to be a difficult task, considering the wide array of characters he has already portrayed. We just have to remain positive and pray the WWE does the right thing by Sandow and continues where they left off. Hopefully when they finally decide to have him return, they will continue with his push, because he was beyond over and it’s what he deserves. It’s difficult being a Sandow fan, but I’m certain things will come around, we just have to stay patient. Easier said than done, I know. 

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This is a bit tricky - for the moment Mr.Sandow is on vacation. He actually has been doing some stellar humanitarian work as well - something I hope the WWE takes note of- Sandow is good from their PR standpoint, but I digress...

They could have plans, and I am patient. I can just concentrate on hot stars like Sasha Banks, Stardust, Kevin Owens, and so on. While my favorite is gone my appreciation for others grows a bit. But still, it's like with the WWE creative you can hope they have plans but what if they don't? what if they don't have a plan and he's released because they don't. I've seen it happen before and it worries me. Maybe it's nothing to worry about though. Sandow could be great somewhere else (Lucha Underground might be great). It's just hard, hard as a fan to not see him for so long and be mostly not sure where things stand.

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Bayley NXT Women's champ, New Day 2x Tag Champions, Seth Rollins WWE+US Champ!! End to end good-excellent matches between nxt and summerslam! This has been a great weekend for this wrestling fan, only thing that could possibly make it even betrer is the return of Sandow.

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Sorry, Couldn't resist. ❤️ Rollins.

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IT IS - WHAT IT IS !

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Curtis Axel made a telvision singles return last night on Superstars tapings vs Adam Rose! Could mean Sandow isn't far behind, could be seen again tommorow on Smackdown or on Main event. Either way, I'm happy for the Axe-Man to be working his way back up into the mix with a serious gimmick!

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Drew Vader. This time it’s ascii which looks a bit odd as a .png.

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This blog is a part of the Cesaro Section.

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Cesaro is good.

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Putting this sligtly old Sasha Banks ansi in here! Enjoy.

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The search continues...

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Roman Reigns is a natural heel.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he's a bad guy, he seems like a very nice guy, very positive, a real family man - the whole 9-yards of nice guy traits and I'd like to have a burger with him. As a performer he's electric in the ring and most everything about him screams badass, I'm a fan.

But does Roman Reigns have the personality of a natural character babyface? I do not think so, perhaps in another era but not in this one. Roman is extremely confident in himself, stoic yet seems like a sensitive, morose person as well. He is a talented dominant athlete, genetically gifted and born into a wrestling dynasty. A lot of these traits both superficially and deeply play into the makings of a amazing heel character. Also for better or worse, by the WWE promoting their authority figures as heel characters for so many years anybody who is seen to be pushed heavily becomes a good heel candidate, it is a blurring between reality and fiction. We are in an era were people love the underdog, Roman is by no means an underdog nor should he be.

Listening to many Roman interviews over the last year, something really sticks out to me in the question he's asked again and again; his reaction to his critics (eg: https://youtu.be/wCu24r6sa3s?t=10m10s). He says the critics opinions don't matter to him, that he is out there to entertain and they don't know what they're talking about. It is a very standoffish (heel) attitude; Roman is essentially saying he is "above his critics". While at the same time, he also says that people are welcome to voice their opinions and he loves any noise they'll make about him, in other words he loves the attention, and it would sound like he doesn't want to appear affected by it. As far as I can tell These aren't in-character statements, it's his personality. He's determined to be #1 and if you like it or not he believes in himself.

I think the "prototype" Roman Reigns seen in the NXT video above is a preview of his true potential. Witness how naturally he behaves this that interview, well before he was ever given a microphone for even a minute in the main roster. This is before he improved greatly on the mic this year. I love it, I love heels (Have since I was a kid) and natural heels especially. To compare; the late Roddy Piper was also a very nice guy who I met and experienced what a great guy he was but he was also a tough as nails bad boy and one of the greatest character heels, arguably the greatest in wrestling history.

Roman Reigns should be himself, he should be a heel.

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First off before anything, Sandow Appreciation day was amazing and special indeed, it was great seeing Sandow respond to it like it did. More of my thoughts on what it means to me personally in a previous post.

Had a crazy idea I'd like to put out there, We've shown Sandow our appreciation and will continue to so in little ways, but the secondary goal to Sandow Appreciation Day was making WWE notice. What if we dedicate to a movement just about getting Sandow on TV and making WWE notice? #RawIsSandow or something ike this? The focus would be getting the hashtag trending during raw. It could even run week after week until they get it. Perhaps even find a way to expand beyond twitter, we may need a movement alike "YES!" or at least "Cesaro section".

Tell me what you think, how you'd go about it. I'm just throwing an idea out there!

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Pixel Sandow I drew up quickly earlier! Enjoy! Also I updated my ANSI.

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Sandow Appreciation day is here and I have a few things to say! To me it hasn’t just been a chance to appreciate my favorite pro-wrestler, but also a chance to connect with a community of fans. Without going into too much detail, I’ve been trying to tranform my life for the better, and this event has been a catalyst to help me reconnect and really start to understand the power of twitter, tumblr, and non-inclusive communities in general. My 5 or so followers may notice I wasn’t here since briefly in 2011; I didn’t get it back then. I get it now and it’s thanks to this event.

It’s been a chance for me to come out of a shell, be myself and experience some truely cool moments with fellow fans. I don’t know how much I can say it all means to me without getting into really personal life details, but I thank you all so much. I plan to stay active here for the years to come and draw many other wrestlers (Though Sandow will remain my favorite for a very long time).

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Here’s my ANSI art for Sandow Appreication Day! I’m not sure if this is the *FINAL* version. What do you think, does it look finished? Did I properly convey the likeness of Sandow? Whenever it's done I’ll be posting this on Twitter for Mr. Sandow to hopefully see.

EDIT: Final - final version uploaded! Thanks for the feedback!

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Sweet retweet by Dr. Tom! Everybody, let's keep spreading the word, Sandow Appreciation Day can be even bigger!