#this is aewsome

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dude and now my stupid p*riod started so now i can't breathe AND i'm in pain

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I only found out yesterday that Mox and Bryan’s AEW tag team debut was against the WorkHorsemen, and it’s killing me how proud I am of them. Yes the match was four minutes long. Yes Drake is doing other stuff in AEW and that’s the only reason commentary complimented them. I don’t care, I love the WorkHorsemen and Henry continues to deserve great things, especially after WWE failed to see his value. These are my local guys, good enough on their own but even better as a team, and commentary actually talked them up a little and I’m happy. I’m mad at AEW for something new every day it feels like, but this made me very happy.

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[AEW negative, ~*~Forbidden Door~*~ negative, whatever tag you need, idk.]

It’s nice that people who’ve stayed invested in the GL story through the years of bullshit get this story with Kenny mentioning Kota constantly and being his horrible nerd-ass heel self and probably eventually having matches or something because Kenta broke the forbidden windowpane. I wish it were something I could be excited about, but I’m non-sarcastically happy for people who can be happy about this.

But it feels REAL fuckin bad that this particular crossover started with Kenta being jerked around for half a year for a title match that apparently couldn’t happen when he was given the right to it. I don’t care that the title and briefcase are fake, because it made his character look bad to be presented as a whiner when the kayfabe reality was that Mox simply wasn’t showing up. I continue to think they just shouldn’t have had the tournament for the briefcase if they didn’t already have a plan for how it would be cashed in, because it came across as a clusterfuck.

When he showed up in Jacksonville, it indicated that the two companies could work together now and Mox could appear on Strong to defend his title. Which he did. And he won. After half a year of getting no other stories, of being tied up in this one-sided feud, after being the first current New Japan wrestler to show up on Dynamite, Kenta lost. End of story. New tournament for a new challenger.

And now, you know, other stories will be happening and probably other New Japan people will come over when it’s safe and whatnot, but I can’t forget that this all started to get Mox on Strong, and more specifically it started with Kenta writing checks he couldn’t cash. And it just fuckin hurts and I hate it and I resent it and I will remain bitter. So yeah I’m non-sarcastically happy for y’all but I’m also a little bit sarcastically “happy”, sorry.

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I don’t want to be annoyed about this. I want to go back to liking them, the way I like other wrestlers who are definitely assholes but are not what I would call Shoot Bad People. I want to hold out a vague hope that this is a work, just a really badly-thought-out one, because all four of these guys (still, I just checked) follow at least one member of the other team on twitter. I feel like - just based on past evidence - in a few weeks or a month I’ll have moved on to having a grudging respect for them, because they are a good tag team, they really are. I just wish this were better.

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ok please tell me about darius (:

I will talk about Darius Lockhart forever, he’s the best. (For those who do not know: he’s my favorite local wrestler, and possibly my actual favorite wrestler as well. Here’s my post about him leaving PWX.)

favorite thing: His… thoughtfulness, I guess is how I would put it. Or maybe intentionality? Not just in thinking of people, but the way he presents himself, and takes pains to make sure he’s lifting people up. He’s very much invested in black power and pride, but is also a firm believer that none of us are free until all of us are free, and as such he advocates for marginalized people of all stripes. Bayard Rustin is at the top of his shirt with revolutionaries’ names, and he has a move named after Marsha P. Johnson. He’s not selfless and doesn’t need to be, but he does think about others, and that’s… kind of rare in wrestling, it seems like. Heck, it’s rare in everyday life.

least favorite thing: That he isn’t here anymore! I don’t blame him, I don’t blame anyone who leaves, the booking and backstage politics in PWX are baffling to me and he can get better opportunities elsewhere. I still hate that he isn’t here, though.

favorite line: It’s maye a cliche (or… it would be if you went to my local shows), but “Be a revolutionary!” is still a good and important line even though he says it a few times every match.

brOTP: Him and Suge D (formerly Sugar Dunkerton, which I mention only for recognizability). They’re friends and I love both of them, and a match between them was actually my introduction to Suge, so they stay connected in my mind.

OTP: I don’t ship him with anyone, he’s too real for that. I can’t divide him into a person and a character, I’ve had too many personal conversations with him. I know his mom. He knows my birthday. I no longer have the disconnect needed.

nOTP: Not thinking about ships even in the context of people I wouldn’t ship him with, no.

random headcanon: Hm… I really don’t know. I think this falls under “He’s too much of a real person” again.

unpopular opinion: I have no idea what opinions are held about him by people who aren’t my personal local friends, and we all love him, so I have nothing to counter there. I’m sure there are some people who think he’s too radical or pushing his views on people, but they can fuck right off.

song i associate with them: Rockabye Baby, by Joey Bada$$, because it was his entrance music up until the month he left PWX. What I’ve linked is his entrance video. (Also sometimes Panini, by Lil Nas X, when I’m reminding myself that it’s for the best that he’s elsewhere now and I shouldn’t be selfish in wanting him back.)

favorite picture: Either the above picture with Suge, or this one with Big Swole and Ian Maxwell:

Because cosplay wrestling.

&; OH or else this one by Beyond Gorilla from when he was in England last year.

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Chuck Taylor is a coward, and deleted his thread of Wrestle Kingdom drunktweets immediately after the show ended. Unfortunately for him, he deletes tweets so often that I screenshot on sight.

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I never really post here, especially since I’m constantly like a month behind, but I went to AEW’s first show! I took no pictures, because it’s always a struggle to convince security that my e-reader isn’t a tablet and should be allowed, and I don’t want to risk getting it confiscated for that. But it was very fun, even if I have criticisms. It was a very good time over-all, and I’m not at all sorry I spent two nine-hour bus rides getting there and back. It was honestly worth it, it was so fun.

I may have been sliiiiiightly not-sober by the main, but Kenny with the mop was still the best thing that’s ever happened to me, I couldn’t stop laughing. He’s a terrible wretch and I’ve been forced to deal with the fact that I really am fond of him, when all’s said and done.

(This was the first of six shows I’m going to this month. As I said on twitter, this isn’t even my record, but since the record of eight was set in April, it feels like cheating. Six is a record for months that don’t contain a Mania week, and I’m excited about it.)

(Live wrestling is so much better than taped wrestling but it also means I am going broke.)

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There are so many beautiful people in this world, and with that wealth to choose from, somehow my affections have landed on this man.

How? How is this what I’m into? I mean, he’s cute in better pictures, I’ll defend that with a sincere heart, but this outfit? It doesn’t matter what he’s sending up, he looks like a farmhand who’s just come back into the house after tending to the herd and is about to ask for a tall glass of iced tea to cool down before he hoses off, and somehow I’m just enough of a hick that this appeals to me instead of being alarming. I hate him. I hate myself.

(Greg’s there too, but he’s from New York, the energy is completely different. It’s the Kentucky that makes this. Dipshit southern boys to the exclusion of all others.)