#fallynleaf

[viterbofangirl]

how are you doing? are you still suffering from covid symptoms, or are you feeling better? i just lost my grandpa to covid at the beginning of the year, so i've been thinking about you and your family

Oh you absolute sweetheart! Yes, thank you, we are (almost) all doing much better! My sister and I have improved to the point of returning to work and helping our parents as they recover. My mother and grandmother are slowly rebuilding their strength but otherwise doing well... and my bull-headed father just returned to his teaching job after 48 hours without fever because according to him that means he's perfectly healed, so we'll see how depleted he is this evening (a.k.a. the degree to which we all chorus "WE TOLD YOU SO" as he collapses/relapses.)

I forgot that you lost your grandfather. I again extend my condolences and best wishes to you and your family, and thank you so much for your care and concern for me and my family. We were very lucky and very blessed.

Thanks as well to all my lovely followers and mutuals who've kept us in your thoughts and prayers! *blows a billion kisses* Y'all are THE BEST!!! <3<3<3

[gaywatch]

remember an ask i sent you a few months ago about a pro wrestling tag team called the Golden Lovers? well, after two years, the story looks like it might actually be resuming again! Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi are currently the world champions of the second and third biggest wrestling promotions in the world, and Kota just tweeted at Kenny for the first time in years (on the three year anniversary of their reunion in NJPW 😭 ), paralleling the way that they met (their relationship started with Kenny challenging him to a match in 2008 via youtube) and basically inviting the two of them to compete again in order to change the entire wrestling industry, and Kenny replied to him and said: "Oh, so the new God still has a soul after all... I'm touched. Already feeling lonely in the Kingdom I left for you? Shall I destroy it? Take my hand, we'll build a new one." there's way too much going on here to easily explain, haha (even just the detail of the exchange happening through Michael Nakazawa's translation), but their characters right now are both extremely big deals in their companies currently, and Kenny is back to being an egotistical villainous heel (wrestling terminology for the bad guy), and Kota is currently a face (wrestling terminology for the good guy), so it's a fascinating dynamic for them to have between them now, after everything they've already been through. but the one defining thing about Kenny's character is whether he's evil or good at any moment, he's never not in love with Kota, and his love for Kota is both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness

Dude seriously if they ever Make It Official you gotta come screaming into my inbox

[green-blooded]

fallynleaf replied to your post: it is absolutely HILARIOUS to me that he doesn’t...

it’s wild to me because so many of the attempts at making newer trek are imo so much more shallow than old trek. lol. i feel like a lot of the nuance that was in old trek has been lost because people go for something much flashier and faster-paced. maybe it’s because the perception of star trek in pop culture has influenced people’s perceptions of the series and people have conflated tropes that it started (which now look different in their current iteration) with it

I do partly agree with this, which I’ll be talking about in my posts while i rewatch Discovery. Discovery seems to want to apologize for the talking scenes with action scenes, whereas the talking scenes are vastly more interesting. BUT, as far as Discovery goes, it’s still got time to grow. Most Trek is pretty rough in the first couple seasons. 

But like... if I were going to work on a new series in a franchise, I would like. Watch... all the old series. And I feel like that’s not happening.

[mizufae]

fallynleaf replied to your post: Okay okay my theory about Cats (2019) is that they...

why don’t they ever hire furries to design these movies

right??? no WAY did furries not apply en masse to work on this thing, it’s like they specifically selected the only ones who WEREN’T furries

[henstomper]

top five video game bugs

anything with t-posing

anything where lorum ipsum appears

in la noire where sometimes peoples faces are green at the beginning of a cutscene

in super mario 64 mario will, very rarely, shoot up into the air with no player input and nobody has ever managed to figure out why that happens (doesnt necessarily count because the theory is that it might not be an actual bug but instead the result of cosmic radiation hitting the n64)

when peoples faces disappeared in that one assassin’s creed

[gaywatch]

i didn't expect there to be any new developments this soon lol but here's a small update on the Golden Lovers!! last night, Kenta from NJPW showed up in AEW, and it's all but confirmed that the two companies finally have a working relationship now. the company drama is probably really boring to a nonfan lol but this gets rid of the biggest obstacle that would otherwise prevent the Golden Lovers from reuniting, so i feel almost certain that we're legitimately heading in that direction now, because i doubt these two companies would pass up this opportunity to make a ton of money. the other reason for this message is that Kota replied to Kenny's tweet! i waited to get Nak's translation of it, because Kota's Japanese is often difficult for machines and human translators to decipher, and he said: "A new kingdom? Didn't you just make it? I chose a different way and got a soul. You understand? I don't mind destroying the kingdom, but why don't we destroy something else like W*E? It may take time, but as long as I am the god, I am full of the dreams I want to make come true." i am extremely ready for Kota and Kenny to reunite and destroy WWE together lol with the power of gay love. there are still a lot of obstacles between them, though (not to mention a global pandemic), so i think we're probably in for quite the ride before they can be together in the ring again, but i expect that journey to be full of gay yearning and angst

Okay seriously the English translation ‘It may take time, but as long as I am the god, I am full of the dreams I want to make come true’ is fucking METAL and has been filed away for future use whenever remotely possible.

[gaywatch]

i've hesitated a bit to send this recommendation to you, because 2020 is a really bad year to get into it, but have you ever heard of the pro wrestling tag team called the Golden Lovers? Kenny Omega, voted world's best professional wrestler in 2018, basically used his entire career to tell a decade+ long epic gay love story. this love story is also deeply intertwined with what is widely considered to be the best wrestling match in history. i found out about it a year ago and am obsessed now lol

(cont.) there are a couple existing video essays about the Golden Lovers story out there. if you're completely new to wrestling, i recommend starting with Super Eyepatch Wolf's video "Professional Wrestling is Stupid and Beautiful and I Love It," which talks about the GL story at the end, but explains how pro wrestling works, first. the best summary of the story (albeit out of date) is Rachel's twitter thread and medium article titled "that one tweet thread about the Golden Lovers, annotated"

(cont.) whether or not the Golden Lovers story is "canon" is a complicated question. neither Kenny nor Kota are explicitly "out," but they're also in careers where that can be complicated, and Kenny has basically all but said that he's bisexual. the story also blends real life and kayfabe (wrestling fiction) to a point where it's impossible to determine exactly how much of it is real and how much of it isn't. it's also made complicated by company politics, lol, and the pandemic hasn't helped

(cont.) but the Golden Lovers story is still going on! it's very much just in the background, but there are hints in Kenny's costume choices and Undertale promos (yes, really), and both Kenny and Kota are still referencing each other in the moves that they use. pro wrestling is actually incredibly rewarding to watch if you're into close reading and analysis, because it basically requires that level of attention in order to fully follow the storylines. it also weaves together RPF and fiction

(cont.) to bring this full circle, Kenny is actually a huge Star Trek fan haha, and before his last singles match with Kota in 2018, he made a tweet explicitly comparing it to Kirk and Spock having to fight each other in Amok Time. sorry for sending so many asks in a row! if you want more information about this or other LGBTQ things in wrestling, or just about wrestling in general, lol, feel free to shoot me an ask! so much of wrestling fandom basically gets passed down through word of mouth

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I tell you, I did not have ‘decade long gay love story as told by professional wrestlers’ on my Bingo card. 

I’ll definitely have to read through that Twitter thread when I get the chance. And one day I’d love to watch that explanation of pro-wrestling because I’ve never had any idea wtf was going on there (but people seemed to have fun with it so I didn’t judge).

What a nifty, random thing to suddenly be aware of. Thank you for the rec. <3

[green-blooded]

fallynleaf replied to your post “Hokay, I’m starting Star Trek: Beyond. Going to rant again… maybe say...”

your point about liking McKirk the most out of the trio ships in AOS is something that i feel as well, and it surprised me, too, lol, though i’m coming at it from the perspective of a spirk fan and not a spones one, haha. how did AOS mess up Spock’s character that much??

It makes me so upset! Like I said in the tags, I love Quinto, I love Spock, but the way he’s written in AOS is just AWFUL. His character makes no sense at all. He doesn’t have any of Spock’s (often misunderstood) kindness or internal conflict. He bluntly states that he’s Sad about his Planet. The relationship with Uhura just... they break up constantly but there is never any indication of why they’re together or why they get BACK together. Just never-ending stupid reasons to break up?

And, like, I can’t stand Spirk as a ship, but I do love their friendship in the series, and I’m so upset that they did it so poorly in favor of a gross, toxic manliness contest.

When I watch TOS, I get sad for Spock if he slightly furrows his little eyebrows because he’s sad and can’t express it. But in AOS, I laugh at him when he’s screaming in pain! It’s... it’s bad.

Um, but to avoid making this all me yelling again. I really do enjoy the McKirk a lot. It’s cute as hell, if a little shallow.