nobody kicks your ass but me

into wrestling, sumo, baseball, textiles, black sails et al, ao3 here

[sycamoretrees]

sumo has everything

[thelovingend-deactivated2025073]

No one tells you that one day you will get older and look around and notice that 95% of ppl who own a dog should not own a dog

[heelchiara]

💋

[childsacrifice]

Top 10 moments where love led to physical torture and excruciating pain

[nakanotamu]

Saw a jp fan retweet this and say "If I got this treatment I would definitely vomit and die" and Kid also said she couldn't stop talking about how many women were at the show, maybe the fandom really is improving

[mrswardh]

Confessions (2010, dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)

[leavemeuntold]

this is fine and i feel normal

[leavemeuntold]

suho is literally everywhere in whc2. he’s in the boy sleeping at the table in the back of sieun’s new classroom. he’s in gotak, teaching juntae to fight. he’s in baku’s touchiness and fierce protectiveness. he’s in juntae, who talks with his mouth full. he’s in the boxing ring sieun sits in the corner of in his dreams. he’s in sieun’s sleepless nights and his evenings at the hospital. in gotak and juntae’s persistent doorbell ringing that sieun hears from his bedroom, and the split-second spark of hope in his expression that it might be suho. he’s the driving force when the time comes for sieun to make a crucial decision—to help juntae, to refuse to fight at first, but then do it in the end still, to accept the boys’ friendship, to let fun and laughter into his life again, to wake up from his well-deserved sleep and go back to his friends and suho. he’s in the way sieun smiles differently around his new friends, and that familiar smile at the very end that he only saves for suho.

while the narrative keeps suho alive through these subtleties and implicities, sieun keeps his spirit alive explicitly. he goes to him, he talks to him, he writes to him, he lets himself be led and taught by him, despite his unconscious state. he’s still sieun’s best friend and his guiding light. he’s his heart and his home. he is all over whc2, and not as a ghost haunting the narrative, but as the soul of sieun’s story.

[naomichimarufuji]

[knightofleo]

Happy Pride Mnth.

[caranoirs]

"No past junior champion in history has ever won the heavyweight belt. What do you think it will take for you to make history?" // njdontaku 2023 press conference

[gordo-majima]

[thistledropkick]

For people who aren't aware: Most of those gorgeous wrestling photos from Japanese wrestling promotions that you see reposted on tumblr and elsewhere were taken by fans. They look like professional photos, because the fan photographers are just that skilled. But they are fan photos, taken by wrestling fans just like you.

Most of those fan photographers don't want people taking their photos and reposting them elsewhere without permission.

Fan photographers will generally clarify this in their profiles. They often even go out of their way to write this information in English too. But even if they don't, you can run their profiles through machine translate and check, and if you're still not sure, you should ask the photographer for permission directly before reposting their work.

I've seen fan photographers lock their accounts, stop posting new photos online entirely, and delete their photo archives due to rampant reposting. If you enjoy the work of wrestling fan photographers, you should respect their wishes regarding that work.

[thistledropkick]

I'm gonna go ahead and reblog this again since it's been a while, with a small addition/clarification.

If a fan photographer says that reposting their work elsewhere is prohibited, that doesn't mean that they want you to repost their work elsewhere with a link back to the source - it means they don't want you reposting their work elsewhere, so you should not repost it elsewhere.

You should treat fan photographers with the same level of respect that you treat fan artists, fan writers, and other creative fans. You should also treat other fans with the same amount of respect regardless of what language they speak.

[suiheisen]

most valuable puppy

bonus:

[realpersonfacts]

being a male professional athlete is an ontological sin the weight of which can only be balanced by having the sports rpf bloggers do some truly heinous shit to you in the google docs

[artschoolglasses]

Surprise kisses for Takarafuji at his danpatsu-shiki (haircutting ceremony and retirement) 💋

source

[ymutate]

“MISTY EVENING AT SHINOBAZU POND” 1932

Shiro Kasamatsu (Japan, 1898-1991),

Shinobazu Pond is located in Ueno Park, Tokyo.