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Book asks: 1, 2, 15, and 20!

1) book you’ve reread the most times?

I am like a chronic rereader so this is kind of hard to figure out, however it's probably a tie between any of the books from the Spenser series. I reread it at least once a year for every year (and I’ve been reading these books when they were regularly coming out new about as long as I’ve been reading so!).

2) top 5 books of all time?

oh jesus books are so hard for me to rank because there are so many books i read and love and never think about again and then there are books i read and it's been twenty years and i am still thinking about it. I’ll go authors over individual books because I love a series. Robert B. Parker easy number one. Frank Bidart is (at this point in my life at least) my favorite poet so number two for him. I think I’ve read just about everything Mette Hjort has written so pop her on there. Hard pivot to name individual books: On The Road (😔🫡) and Post War as #4 & #5 respectively.

15) recommend and review a book.

Title: Words of Stone by Kevin Henkes | Rating: ★★★★.5 So this is a book I read in the fifth grade for our reading groups and it haunted me so thoroughly that for years I had nightmares based around an inciting incident of the novel. I cannot express how many times I'd wake up sweating and shaking from a nightmare because of this book. But I also could not remember the name of the book I knew it was Stone-something or Something- Stone and it was like 2020? 2021 that Betty, the icon and hero that she is, actually found the book i was talking about and I reread it thinking okay it won't be as good as it was when I was a kid. Honestly it is still one of the most heartbreaking upsetting books that I've read. It's just got a lot of heavy topics, it's got some really complex child characters. It's just a ruin your night stick with you for life books if you read it at the right time I think. The way it ends is a big factor for why I think it hung with me for so long. It just ends. Nothing is wrapped up, you don't get any resolution of the tension It's Done. There's no sequel there's nothing. And I love that. I am not giving any plot details beyond this: it's about a boy who lost his mom and the friendship he makes with a little girl one summer. Enjoy!

20) what are things you look for in a book?

I am, and always have been, incredibly picky. Like genuinely I can walk in to bookstore, ready to spend money, and 9/10 walk away without anything. I don't know if there's anything specific that I can say I look for. If the vibe is right I'll know it, but I can go 'I want a cozy mystery' and spend an hour minimum carefully picking up cozy mystery after cozy mystery and not finding one that sticks out to me or vibes with me. It also is super specific. Timing IS in fact everything so there are books I said meh too that I rad years later and loved! There’s no one thing that I will always gravitate too, but good vibes win out.

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hangman playlist overhaul 👀👀👀

did immediately just run to open Spotify HELLO HANGMAN??? TAKE YOU BACK BEING ADDED?????

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i would absolutely love to hear you predictions for full gear tomorrow!! 🤠

Okay I wanted to wait until after Rampage to fully cement my picks BUT here we go:

Hikaru Shida and Thunder Rosa vs. Jamie Hayter and Nyla Rose

I think Hayter is on a streak right now and I love Nyla, but this is the buy in and you have the super over baby faces win. I think you can tease a Shida v Deeb III here if you want and you can really in earnest start to build the program where Rosa can take the belt off Britt with this match too. I also think this match is going to fuck tremendously and I can't wait to watch it.

Bryan Danielson vs. Miro

Here's the thing, I think this ppv card is so interwoven with one another that it is incredibly difficult to separate some of these matches from others. This is one of those but I think if Page wins you have Miro win. I don't necessarily know if Danielson v Page will be the right kind of matchup for your super over newly anointed babyface champion to go up against a super over undefeated babyface (not that I think Bryan is a baby face but that's a different post) challenger. I think Miro v Page will be a good first program to tell the story of Page coming into his own as champion and gaining confidence and you can spiral Miro's descent into fanatical religious madness further off of a loss.

The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz) vs. Men of the Year (Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky) and American Top Team (Junior dos Santos, Andrei Arlovski, and Dan Lambert)

I think this is arguably the easiest result to pick of the card. 1) Because Jericho programs are always the same he loses adn loses and loses and then wins and moves on without looking back, and 2) because in the go home angle the put out that Lambert was pinning Chris and I think that's going to be how they lose. Men of the Year will have put the Inner Circle away and tag Lambert in for the pin and some jazz hands nonsense will happen from Jericho and the IC will win it. It's also going to be the worst match of the card.

Darby Allin vs. MJF

I don't feel confident with this pick but I think you can do more with an MJF win than you can with a Darby win especially if you want to build to MJF v Punk (which I think they do seeing as they had teased Punk v Wardlow being on this ppv at one point). I think you have MJF win this, and can start setting up the Punk program. I feel like Darby is just kind of adrift right now, he hasn't really done much on TV lately, so maybe you can take the loss to kind of reconfigure what he's doing/set up a plan for him. I think there's more for MJF to do with a win than Allin is essentially why I am picking him. I don't really have any investment in this match though.

CM Punk vs. Eddie Kingston

Eddie Kingston should win this match. I know people think that Eddie is turning heel but I think those plans changed when everything with Mox went down. I think they're going to swerve us and this is clear start of a Punk heel turn (although I think the seeds of him turning heel have been being planted since his first promo but that's also another post). I also think Punk and Danielson both getting their first losses in AEW out of the way on the same show would be nice. Rip those band aids off they've been here a couple of months now let's start playing with the big boys. But they're intentionally referencing Cena v Punk and Eddie being as over as he is, with all the positive press he's gotten, with everything Mox, you keep Eddie face and put him over huge here. He's AEW, he was never WWE like Punk, and AEW puts their guy over huge.

Christian Cage and Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) vs. Superkliq (Adam Cole and The Young Bucks)

Remember the point I made about interwoven matches? This is one of them. I think that if Page wins the Superkliq win, plus on Rampage tonight the baby faces stood tall and there's easier talent to pin on the JurassiCage Express than on the Kilq's side. You can pin a Christian or a Luchasaurus or even use the Bob Fish beat down to protect JB. I think the Kliq are winning because I think Hangman Page is winning and I think that the Elite Split is coming.

Cody Rhodes and Pac vs. Andrade El Idolo and Malakai Black

I don't really have much of a reason for this except that Cody will want to win and so he probably will. I don't really care much about this match either, it was originally supposed to be a 4-way match and I would've liked that a lot more. I also know that Malakai gave an interview where he said in the coming weeks his character would be changing. Maybe that change is fueled by a win, but I think the change could also be fueled by a loss too. I don't know, this one is a toss up and frankly I don't want to see Pac lose so that's why I've picked Cody/Pac.

Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix) © vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood)

What a shit run the Lucha Brothers would have if they don't retain here. You cannot take the belts off of them this soon after they won them. Plus both teams are heading off to do stuff in AAA/they have a match at Triplemania so I think LB retain here, and then in their AAA match it can be a winner takes all deal. But keep championships on both teams, and keep the AEW tag titles strong by not hotshotting them off an incredible team.

Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. © vs. Tay Conti

They've put Tay over hard in all the promo material which is why I am almost certain she's not winning here. I think that she's grown tremendously as a wrestler but I think Britt is still where the people are at and I think Britt v Rosa for the title is still where the Big Big Money is at. So I think Britt retention is a pretty much sure thing.

Kenny Omega © vs. "Hangman" Adam Page

Okay here me out: Hangman is winning. I know this, you know this, everyone knows this.

But. See the thing is that I've worked myself into a shoot, brother. All the comparisons to Kenny v Okada and Kenny v Ibushi have gotten stuck in my craw and here's why: Kenny is a loser. He's never beaten Kota and while he won the rubber match against Okada (their respective records being: 2-1-1 & 1-2-1) Kenny isn't a winner like he keeps trying to tell everyone. He's a fantastic wrestler, but he goes over huge in defeat.

And in this dynamic Hangman is Kenny. Whether that's the Kenny to Kenny's Ibushi or Okada Hangman is Kenny. I think that if Kenny retains here Danielson wins v Miro and the Superkliq lose v JurassiCage Express. I think that it is a domino effect of matches. I think you risk losing some of the heat and faith in fans if Page doesn't win here, but I also think that AEW is good. Great even. At putting people over in defeat and if anyone knows how to do that it's Kenny. If Hangman is the Kenny to Kenny's anything?

He loses tonight.

But the thing is Hangman is his own person, and makes his own choices, and is NOT Kenny. Which is why I did all my other predictions on the basis Hangman wins. He should, I think he will but I just....

I have this nagging feeling, that I gave to myself, that... maybe, just maybe, Kenny retains.

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hi hope ur having a good evening (or whatever time it is for you)! Idk what your music taste is like, but i figure you might be interested in the character playlist Hangman made! it's titled 'anxious millenial cowboy' on spotify and it's honestly really good 🤠 also i think he's gotta bring the trunks back 😤

It's a bit later here, but it has been a good night so far 🥰I hope you're having a good one too!

My taste in music is all over but 🗣 THAT PLAYLIST (link if anyone else wants to listen!) SLAPS wow ty I had no idea it existed and it will now be on repeat!! 🤠I knew he was a fan of Orville Peck but the song he chose are 😵‍💫 I'm obsessed with him

and yeah!! 😤male wrestlers show some leg challenge!!

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guy who only thinks about EinLor voice: top 5 EinLor things in this moment

Their playlist, which I think is going to dominate my top 100 this year 🙂‍↔️ it’s perfection.

The level of faggotry we’ve achieved with these two, unparalleled. Untouchable.

Related to two all of the AUs with their various little toxic dynamics. Dare I even say bark!!! About it

*sincere voice* I’m so grateful for them because I’ve created so much this year and I would not have been driven to do so without them. My angels. My muses. My beloveds. This year had such a horrible start to it for me and they’ve made the last months not only easier but enjoyable.

*silly voice* the memes we’ve made have been so funny (such as the one above) a top three funniest ones below the cut. No context!

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hi cj im late to the associations ask game but BASEBALL good music and things that make me say DUDES ROCK

wah!! Thank you Taylor these ones are so good.

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Choose violence numbah 1 3 6 and 13 👁👁

1) the character everyone gets wrong

Laszlo Kreizler. I just have so many thousands of thoughts and feelings and every time I go into the tag on here my brain explodes with how mischaracterized he is. He is not a sopping wet 80 year old virgin blowing out Bucky’s back, I hate that I’ve even had to write that. He is a fascinating character with depth and sorrow and also is just Caleb Care’s Gilded Era Self-Insert and my kingdom for someone who gets Laszlo the way I do.

3) screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

it was any of the asks i got from weird spn fans & t*rf$ from that window of time where people were all strawman and offensive. like being told umm actually you can't find any story about transness offensive bc someone might come out as trans later was a fun time. did you know you don't have to unlearn any transphobic ideas (that society teaches you) if you're trans. huge incredible big brain takes.

6) which ship fans are the most annoying?

my hot take answer to this is that any ship can have the most annoying fans. i think there's no such thing as a ship that doesn't have the most annoying fans. as someone who isn't big into shipping culture i just find the whole concept largely annoying.

13) worst blorboficiation

Zemo. I’m not going to elaborate much on this but because of this blorbofication canonically gay characters have x female reader fic written about them and it makes me want to shoot laser beams out of my eyes.

make me choose some violence