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[ofgeography]

Public, because this seems like an educational moment. Mollyhall, your 4000 posts in 2 minutes about Six Flying Dragons piqued my interest. Please explain this show?

OKAY. the plot of this show is: 1300s korea. politics are very corrupt, duh. into this world comes…

6 very grumpy individuals who band together to make a better nation:

Jeong Do-jeon: Mastermind Who Wishes Kids Would Stop Following Him Around, really just wants to make up a new political system and be left alone by everyone in the world, because everyone in the world is an idiot, including his #1 fan/closest rival, named –>

Bang-won: Righteous Murder Nerd Disappointed In All His Father Figures, always has 4000 emotions he is VERY excited to talk about with everyone who will listen but especially with the love of/greatest irritant in his life, who is –>

Boon-yi: Smol & Bossy Peasant Girl Who Is Always 100% DTF (Down To Fight), truly believes a family can be just 1 girl & 200 villagers that insist on calling her “Our General” and is incredibly irritated any time anyone makes her experience an emotion, particularly her older brother, called –>

Ddang-sae: Self-Hating Waif On Life Mission To Protect The Two (2) Things On This Hellpit Of A Planet That He Even Sort Of Likes, namely his sister & his ex-girlfriend, deeply exhausted by people insisting he participate in politics or society writ large, with special attention to –>

Moo-hyul: Big & Strong Dumbo With A Heart Of Gold, mostly just wants to get food for his 82 siblings and mean mom, but also very interested in getting famous, perhaps by way of fighting Ddang-sae for the title of Best Swordsman but also perhaps by teaching from  –>

Yi Seong-gye: Stern & Disgruntled War Hero Who Accidentally Adopts Them All, old as balls, very tired, just wants to keep his head down and run his army but keeps plucking angry children off the street and raising them instead

it’s 50 episodes of everybody falling in love with everybody else and being very irritated about it. also there’s a lot of speeches about how rich people suck & reading is cool. also, murder. really just ….. a WHOLE lot of murder.

additional & notable plot points:

this show features my ULTIMATE FAVE TROPE, which is ride or die siblings who hate everyone except each other

ddang-sae’s (ex)girlfriend has 0 time for his manpain and is very busy enacting a convoluted revenge plot

there is an ARMY OF LADY SPIES

a raggedy bang of beggars/ersatz theatre troupe is constantly showing up to be like, “y’all are SO DRAMATIC, and we are saying this as THEATER PEOPLE”

bang-won and boon-yi are vERY important to me, particularly because she is constantly biting him and he is constantly shouting, “STOP DOING THAT AND LOVE ME,” to which she usually responds, “THEN STOP DOING ANNOYING SHIT THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BITE YOU (also i do love you) (never mention this to me again)”

this show features a set of twins who are constantly getting mad that people are calling them by the wrong name, and one of them solves this issue by insisting on wearing bright blue eyeshadow

“Welcome To My Garden Where I Plant My Murder Trees :)”

loyal sidekicks abound

10/10, highly recommend. it starts a little slow, so get through the first like, 5 episodes. i’d say you could skip them but there are some TRULY entrancing character scenes i’d had for you to miss.

[wrassleslashlibraryarchive]

Hello! I'd be interested in the Halloween fic contest. I'm not super familiar with your set-up, though, so I do have a question: what are the three branches you referenced in your post? Just need to know my options. :o)

Hi there! We’ve got 3 branches to cover all kinds of fic & visual art recs.

Wrassle Slash Library this one is where we started and here we post slash & femslash recs for all promotions and any type of ship...couples, threesomes or moresomes. 

Wrassle Het Library is our home for any sort of male/female ships. Just as with the slash branch, these can be for any promotion and any type of ship, couple or OT3+.

Wrassle Fic Library is for everything else that doesn’t fit on either WSL ior WHL. We treat friend ships & romantic ships the same way, but anything not ship focussed is welcomed here - slice of life fics, solo wrestler stories, original fiction - fictional promotions included.

We hope to get enough interest to be able to run the contest on all three. Watch out for the contest launch post coming this Sunday.

[mithen]

Shipping Meme, Conclusion!

Share five must-read fics. 

This is so hard, so I’m just going through my recent bookmarks and picking the first 5 fics I’ve got about some of my favorite ships! 

Green Light (1567 words) by APgeeksout: WWE, Brian Kendrick/Daniel Bryan sex pollen.  It’s the ship I felt alone in shipping, but no longer!  Hot and just tender enough to be sweet while staying in character.

Than Dreamt of in Your Philosophy (1775 words) by misura: Master & Commander, Jack/Stephen.  This is a Lovecraftian take on M&C and is very good, understated horror--nothing too dark or disturbing, and Stephen saves the day and his dear one.

like monuments (1929 words) by Neffectual: WWE, Tyler Breeze/Fandango. This story takes a fundamentally silly pairing in canon and finds the sweet and wistful heart of it.

Q: Mourning (100 words) by jaclynhyde:  Picard/Q was the first pairing I ever searched for fic about!  This drabble is a terse, painful look at how Q deals (or does not) with Picard’s death.

Corporal Punishment (5988 words) by x_los: Blakes 7, Blake/Avon.  Aliens made them do it:  Blake must administer a spanking to Avon, and both of them try very hard not to find it erotic.  (They fail).

Share your favorite fanmix for your OTP.

Currently I’ve been listening to a lot of “Asterisk*” for Kevin/Sami, with the tracks:

The Bouncing Souls - The Something Special The Orion Experience - Nice Guys Finish Last They Might Be Giants - I've Got a Match Miike Snow - Genghis Khan Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals OK Go - Do What You Want Version 2 (Wallpaper Background) The Mountain Goats - Cry For Judas ( New Single from Transcendental Youth Gotye - Night Drive The Mountain Goats - Unmasked! Samson - Regina Spektor Suckers - Turn On The Sunshine Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed The Bouncing Souls - Hero Zero MASHUP DAY - (Of Sami)

Talk about a ship you initially disliked. 

I was slow to warm up to Kevin/Chris, because--I confess it with some shame--I am not very good at multishipping and I get jealous on behalf of my ships rather easily.  But the two of them had such good, easy chemistry, and were messed-up in a whole different way than Kevin is with Sami, so it was fun to write them for a couple of snippets.  

Do you have a favorite trope and/or AU for your OTP?  

With Clark/Bruce it is always and forever identity play of some sort.  The fact that the different facets of their personalities are so distinct and they often find themselves in situations where they have to pretend to be only that facet; the fact that there are so few other people in the world who know all of those facets--Clark the Kansan and Superman the hero and Kal-el the alien refugee; Brucie the rich kid and Batman the vigilante and Bruce the relentless will that unites them--so they can give each other a space to be all of their complex and contradictory selves, it’s really appealing to me.

With Sami/Kevin there’s some identity play going on there because of Generico, and part of what I love about wrestling as a fandom in general is the identity play aspect--the complex and blurry lines between the actors and the characters that inhabit their bodies and their lives.  With shipping that would take me further into RPF than I’m generally willing to go, but I do find myself sneaking ways to get that same frisson into my stories.  An AU that I’m turning over in my head with them is setting a story back in the 1920s and making them literal carnies, going from town to town fleecing marks and hopping boxcars in the night (Sami loves the art and challenge of it, but he always feels a bit guilty and leaves some money at the village orphanage before he goes).  I’ve started doing research on it, but it’s surprisingly hard to find out what life was like as a wrestler back when it was just starting to be a rigged game.

Is there a fictional relationship you’d really want for yourself?  

Gotta go with American Alpha here.  I just love that they’re basically goofballs who flat-out adore each other.  I mean, who wouldn’t want someone to look at them like Jason looks at Chad?

If you could change one thing about your OTP, what would that be? 

Comics Clark and Bruce: I’d want to go back to some form of them that has a long history together.  Right now there’s this weird and completely unimaginable situation where they each have years of history with someone who is almost but not quite the other guy, but they’ve only known each other a year or so, and… it’s awkward and unshippy for me personally.

Thorin and Bilbo: I would love some canon hint they were reunited in the afterlife, whether the dwarf version or the Secondborn version.  

Sami and Kevin: I’d want some guarantee they’re going to be tag team champs someday.  I don’t want it to be right now, that wouldn’t work psychologically. But I just want to know it’s going to happen somewhere down the line.

[mithen]

Shipping Meme Part 2

Do you have any poly ships?

I’d say Cesaro/Tyson/Nattie in the WWE is my favorite poly ship--I watched an entire season of Total Divas just because it had a lot of stuff about Tyson and Cesaro being astonishingly intimate and important to each other and about how Nattie came to accept that and value Cesaro herself.

I also ship Arthur/Lancelot/Guinevere pretty hardcore!  Which leads into...

How do you feel about love triangles?

They’re not usually my thing because they’re painful in ways that are hard to reconcile through fic.  I very much dislike writing people being unfaithful, and in a triangle (if you don’t go the poly route, which I don’t usually) some level of infidelity is kind of inevitable.

Do you have many ships that never got together at all?

Do I have any that DID?  I generally only ship non-canonical pairings, and in fact I feel no desire at all to have my ship get together.  I prefer a ship that’s never going to be canon, to be honest--it’s my job to get them together, not canon’s!  Back off, canon!  I want to give my favorite characters something they’re never going to get unless I help out.

Do you ship any characters that have never met? 

Um, oooooh.  That’s gonna be tough, because in general I don’t ship unless characters have a LOT of interaction in canon; characters with brief interactions don’t usually trip my shipping switch, so characters with none are even less likely.  Even in the rare crossovers I write, the pairings end up within the canon.  Hm.  I have to confess I can’t think of one!

Have you ever “shipped at first sight”? 

Almost always!  Clark/Bruce was within the first comic books I read of them; Kirk/Spock was the first few episodes; Thorin/Bilbo was by the end of the first movie; Kevin/Sami was six minutes into their canon existence together (a new record?)  Maybe the slowest ship build for me was G’Kar/Londo from Babylon 5, for the simple reason that their dynamic didn’t evolve into my shipping catnip until well into the second/third season.

[mithen]

Do you know if there's a DVD set that covers the feud between El Generico and Kevin Steen? I was poking around the ROH and PWG websites and didn't see one... but I don't want to accept that reality.

It’s framed as being a Kevin-only DVD, but what you want is Descent into Madness!  It’s probably the best Steen/Generico DVD there is, because it covers enough of the time before Kevin’s turn that you get a feel for their friendship, then it walks through the whole year-long feud and closes off with Final Battle 2010, which finishes that chapter of their relationship.  Warning that there’s a fair amount of blood (Both FB 2010 and Kevin’s title match with Tyler Black/Seth Rollins are total bloodbaths) and homophobic/sexist language and behavior throughout!

[strangehorse]

Do you think Donald Trump has blown Nigel Farrage or is it more likely that Nigel Farrage has blown Donald Trump? Or do they just 69?

Oh, Farrage has blown Trump. If he hasn’t, he definitely daydreams about it. Writes ‘Nigel + Donald 2gether 4eva’ and ‘Mr Nigel Trump’ in his notebook during important meetings. Bought them matching Klan outfits just in case.

[strangehorse]

What do you think of people deciding to just troll your AMA because of reasons?

I WISH I HAD SEEN THIS WHEN I WAS STILL HIGH

[strangehorse]

What genre is 21 Pilots?

small nerds playing piano with their tears and occasionally yelling about things