#viterbofangirl

[sandushengshou]

Hi, hi! Regarding the Yunmeng Jiang edit you posted on June 27, 2021, I was really curious as to which character in which Cdrama you used for Jiang Chi. I absolutely love his gremlin vibes, and I've thinking of faceclaiming him as that dude and I'd like to check out more images to see if it sticks. Thank you so much!

Hello! That would be Huang Youming! The gif from that set is from Love and Redemption. This is a more recent pic from another cdrama.

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Leia Organa: Did you have to stab him?

Mara Jade: You didn’t hear what he said to me!

Leia Organa: What did he say?

Mara Jade: He said “What are you gonna do, stab me?”

Leia Organa:

Leia Organa: That’s fair

[fallynleaf]

@viterbofangirl​ replied to your post: 禁断の扉 😭

Uhm… Congratulations? Congratulations! <3

maybe i underestimated how utterly incomprehensible this post was outside of a very specific audience haha but we made it 🥲

there’s like... so much history leading up to today’s announcement (that AEW and NJPW are doing a supershow together), but i do very much enjoy the fact that wrestling has completely taken over the “forbidden door” google search. the Japanese version of the phrase does not appear to have gotten there yet lol but i feel like that’s about to change.

(even the short version of this is very long, but i’ll try to keep this brief akgjfdg)

so i got into pro wrestling in early 2019 because of a decade plus long epic gay love story between two of the best wrestlers on the planet. i didn’t know this at the time, but it ended up being kind of an awkward time to get into that story because starting in 2019, the two wrestlers separated to each walk their own path, with Kota Ibushi staying in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Kenny Omega heading off to America to help start a brand new company, All Elite Wrestling. it was a hard choice for the golden lovers that caused them very real pain.

from the beginning, what Kenny really wanted to do was to create a world where all of the companies could collaborate and work together, and he hoped to do this with AEW, but knew that it was an unrealistic dream, because the way that the wrestling industry has typically worked is that it’s very competitive and the industry leader, WWE, has historically basically tried its best to devour every other company and monopolize the entire industry. but Kenny’s dream for AEW was that they could work together with NJPW, and with DDT Pro Wrestling (his original home company), and basically everyone that they could.

there were some major obstacles to this. the biggest was that NJPW was... not exactly happy to lose a bunch of their wrestlers to AEW. especially Kenny, who was such a core part of their plans for western expansion. so there was a lot of bitterness there and feelings of betrayal. AEW was also a brand new company at the time (despite being financially pretty well off because their president is a billionaire and they’d secured a good TV contract with TNT), so entering into a business relationship with them would be very risky, and NJPW was just not interested.

this meant the golden lovers were essentially each trapped in their own world. Kota was doing stuff in NJPW in Japan, and Kenny was doing stuff in AEW in America an ocean away, and the golden lovers couldn’t really do anything as a team or continue their story. there was plenty of one-sided longing, but it was basically the two of them shouting out little love letters into the void. using each other’s moves, Kenny wearing a little golden lovers symbol on the winged side of his one-winged gear, etc. that was pretty much all they could do. their separate stories developed a beautiful, cruel symmetry, with each of them becoming tag champions at the same time—with separate partners, in separate companies.

at the very end of 2019, there were a few tantalizing interactions between NJPW and AEW because the AEW champ at the time, Chris Jericho, was having a match with the ace of NJPW, Hiroshi Tanahashi. Tana gave one infamous interview (in Japanese) where he spoke about being interested in the possibility of the two companies working together, and then he said a phrase that machine translation mistranslated as “it would open the forbidden door.” Chris Charlton, a NJPW translator, tried to do damage control on twitter, clarifying that that wasn’t what Tana had said (he’d just said something like “that might open a door”), but “open the forbidden door” was an incredibly evocative phrase for the seemingly insurmountable barrier between the two companies, so naturally fans completely ran away with it.

because this is wrestling, which is a medium that is entirely about fake things becoming real, the phrase ended up making it into an actual promo of Jericho’s. he said that Tony Khan (AEW’s president) had agreed to add a stipulation to his match with Tana where if Tana won, he’d get a title shot for the AEW belt, and it would open the forbidden door. the match happened; Tana lost; Jericho talked about wanting to help make an AEW/NJPW partnership happen in his post-match comments; NJPW ended up not sharing that part on youtube. the so-called forbidden door stayed closed.

then the pandemic hit.

Japan closed their borders (they’re still pretty closed to this day), foreign wrestlers got locked out of the country or had to stay in Japan without being able to go back home, new visas weren’t getting issued anymore and only Japanese citizens could re-enter the country, pro wrestling moved to empty arenas without crowds, wrestling happening at all suddenly became a direct health risk in a way that it wasn’t before. etc.

keep in mind that when this happened, AEW was barely a year old as a company, and had been on TV for about six months. they’d been lucky enough to receive an extension for their television contract, and that extension probably ended up saving the company, maybe forever altering the course of the pro wrestling industry.

pro wrestling is, first and foremost, a live performance that is meant to be done in front of a crowd of thousands of people (it doesn’t have to be that many, but usually the goal is to get there). during a pandemic, this becomes impossible.

so AEW was in a really tight spot. they were forced to be basically incredibly creatively adaptive if they wanted to survive, and truly miraculously, they managed to make it. despite being a tiny fraction of WWE’s age, they managed to outmaneuver them creatively, and they actually gained viewers during a time when wrestling was uh. not at its best.

as a result, a few things ended up happening. one is that they actually became a legit threat to WWE, defeating WWE’s developmental show NXT (which WWE moved to try to compete with them) head to head so soundly that it got moved to another night and completely revamped lol. they also ended up attracting a lot of really good wrestlers that WWE either fired or was unable to keep on contract, including bringing a guy named CM Punk out of retirement after he hadn’t wrestled in seven years.

another thing that happened is that Kenny Omega became AEW champion at a pretty climactic moment. he turned heel and won the belt by cheating, then took it to another American company, Impact. he’d soon win that title, too. it was an absolutely wild moment in wrestling because no one expected those two companies to work together, but there they were.

on NJPW’s side, Kota Ibushi finally managed to win the IWGP belt that he’d been chasing after his whole life. and for a brief period of time, the two of them were on top of the world at the same time. except they were on top of two different worlds.

then Kota Ibushi posted this fateful tweet (link is to his and Kenny’s best friend Nak’s translation) on the anniversary of the golden lovers’ original reunion in 2018, speaking to Kenny for the first time in two years, and proposing a competition (so, a collaboration) between AEW and NJPW that would essentially raise both of them and the industry as a whole. he shares Kenny’s dream, too, with wanting companies to collaborate, and wanting wrestlers to be able to freely move between them.

Kenny’s response was... well... it’s a lot (link is to Nak’s translation again). i have too much to say about it, so i’ll just let it stand on its own. his character was in the midst of the biggest egotistical heel champion run of his life, while also clearly struggling with crippling insecurity over the fact that Kota left him, combined with a deep longing to be together with him again. at this point, they had been kept apart for two years, one of which was due to the pandemic.

(there’s a third response from Kota, too, though Kenny doesn’t reply to this one)

a few days after that, a NJPW wrestler, Kenta, made a surprise appearance on AEW. and just like that, the Forbidden Door was finally opened. most of us fans were ecstatic, and i breathed a massive sigh of relief.

of course, there were (and are) still plenty of obstacles. the pandemic being the biggest one by far. and for the rest of 2021, neither company was really able to properly kick off a true crossover story beyond a few one-off appearances. but they did make it clear that there was in fact an actual AEW/NJPW partnership in place. finally. at long last.

as far as the golden lovers were concerned, Kota lost his title, then caught aspiration pneumonia and couldn’t wrestle. then he came back to wrestling and made it all the way into the G1 finals, only to dislocate his shoulder on a failed phoenix splash (forcing the referee to stop the match), which he’s still recovering from.

Kenny lost two of his three titles (and ultimately had to give up the third one), finally wrapping up his long-term story with his former partner, Hangman Page. after he lost the AEW title, we found out that 2021 had been the hardest year of his career for him, and he’d been wrestling with a lot of injuries, so he needed to take quite a bit of time off in order to get several surgeries done and heal. we also found out that the NJPW/AEW partnership had happened largely because of him.

so that was how 2021 closed, and how 2022 opened. with both of the golden lovers injured, but recovering, and a massive network of collaborations existing between many of the biggest companies on earth (that are not WWE), including NJPW as well as DDT (despite the fact that they’re each other’s competitors).

the golden lovers actually did it. they managed to achieve their dream after all. somehow, against all odds, they were able to bring their companies together, and they’ve now created a stage together where, surely, their own story will be able to resume again, after over three years apart.

and as someone who has been following it this whole time, through three very long years of uncertainty, through global unrest, rumors, and messy company politics, not to mention the industry giant WWE trying to destroy them at every turn, it’s just absolutely amazing to see them reach this point and somehow manage to achieve their incredibly ambitious dreams. they’ve genuinely reshaped the wrestling industry.

at the end of the day, what i want most for the golden lovers is just for them to be able to be together again, and it feels like we’re so close to finally being there. but... man... the journey that it took to get here... some of it is just a story, but most of this was a very real, very hard thing that they had to do in order to accomplish this, and their dedication to literally moving heaven and earth so that they can keep their love story alive through so many years is just incredible to me.

love is real, and so is wrestling

[guqin-and-flute]

@sagetsukimura said: I LITERALY JUST FINISHED READING ALL THAT WASS UP, GOT ON TUMBLR, AND HERE YOU ARE. I DIDNT COME LOOKING FOR YOU, I DIDNT EVEN REMEBER I FOLLOWED YOU BUT NOW I KNOW AND TODAY IS A GOOD DAY

AAAAH HOW FORTUITOUS! 😀 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING, I'M GLAD IT MADE YOUR DAY GOOD!!! ♥

@january-summers said: Oh wow, it's been so long since madam Jin's been to Lotus Pier, wouldn't it just be an absolute shame if one of the boards on one of the piers was rotten and she just happened to fall into the water into a patch of the grossest, slimiest, clingiest weeds? 😡 truly, just so tragic. 🔪 (also: OMG this was so good, it hurt me in the best way)

PFFFF THIS SEAWEED HAS MURDEROUS INTENT. It would DEFINITELY make Yanli sad but I can see 'Oh man, it ws just awful, her window got left open in a thunderstorm while she was out and her shoes and letters got all ruined how saaaad. AH, thank so muuuch, it was definitely a kicker 😓 Happier times on the way for sure, slow and steady!

@themoonbunnyverse said: Oh no. No no no no 😭 Why the timing had to be so bad? Ugh. Can I punch everyone in Koi Tower? (Minus Mianmian) The fact that Jin Guangshan did the wedding behind Madam Jin's back makes me wonder if Mingjue, Huaisang and Xichen even know that A-Yao is married. (I don't remember if they were at the wedding. I apologize If that's a dumb musing 😅)

OOF, just absolutely awful :((( Yessss, Mianmian escapes punching (and Koi Tower eventually, because holy shit), but Zixuan hasn't done anything that bad, except decline to renew the betrothal (and he has his reasons, we shall see when we hear from him!) And NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR MUSING! IT IS NEVER DUMB!! That is a good thought! They didn't exactly advertise it, but JGY definitely told Xichen who would have told Mingjue and Huaisang--and if JGY hadn't, it's been roughly about a month or 2 since they got married, so the gossip of a man being married out has spread.

It wasn't a secret to the world, just Madam Jin because she would put up the most fuss, so Jin Guangshan waited until she went on her trip and sprung the idea. (I get the feeling she needs lots of trips away from him 🙄)

They all have reasons they haven't been around (though Xichen has written, in his defense) and we may be hearing from them all soon 👀

@viterbofangirl said: ^^^ That's a good point about knowing about the wedding! But anyways AAAAAAAAA PLEASE LET'S GET SOME FLUFFY COMFORT UP IN HERE!!!

Yes, definitely, especially since Yanli was wondering!! DON'T WORRY I DEFINITELY WILL, there's a bit of hard stuff to go through first, but there will definitely be a way more of a balance with comfort than just the straight angst this chapter was!

[singinprincess]

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[viterbofangirl]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Early Edition (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Toni Brigatti/Gary Hobson Characters: Gary Hobson, Toni Brigatti, Marissa Clark, Original Characters Additional Tags: low-key kidnapping, big families, UST Summary:

An unexpected encounter during a save results in more than Gary bargained for.

[izzyaro]

Prompt 104 ““I’ve never felt stronger than when you’re with me.”

There weren’t any characters specified, but I’m in a Helga/Salazar mood. It’s a bit shorter, but I hope you like it!

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There is blood everywhere.

It doesn’t belong to any of her friends, but that is little comfort when there is a man dying in front of her. All her standard spells and potions have proved useless, and there is only one thing left for her to try.

There is already so much blood, and she cannot do it alone.

Helga bites her lip, and holds out her hand. “I need your help.”

Salazar blinks, his eyes flickering from her hand to her face. “Godric has more raw power than me-”

“I don’t need power,” Helga interrupts. “I just need...”

She trails off, unable to complete the sentence, but Salazar’s eyes widen slightly and she sees the understanding dawn. He swallows, but drops his staff and takes her hand.

“You can do this, Helga.”

They say that Salazar Slytherin speaks more lies than truths, that his word cannot and should not be trusted, but he has never lied to her. Helga breathes, feels his fingers squeeze hers, and lays her other hand over the gaping wound.

She has work to do.

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Mara Jade: This whole Luke thing is bringing up this strange sensation. It’s like my feelings are itchy.

Talon Karrde: Oh! It sounds like something human is trying to fight its way out of you.

Mara Jade: Yes, I think it’s an emotion. Like “joy” or “spicy food.”