Est. 2012, Still Miss LJ. Beats TikTok though.

Wrestling Sideblog is Marq-Lynch. Crotchety fandom queer who writes fic but never finishes it, vids a bit & rants too much about tv/film theory & history. Find me everywhere else as Montager, I'm just too sentimental to lose this blog name. If you're not a SWERF, TERF, and don't think Dead Dove fic is the end of society we'll probably get along.

[kominfyrirkattarnef]

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Power is a funny thing.

[beardedmrbean]

[captaincrusher]

Me filtering out kinks I don’t like on AO3. 

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[nadjasnandor]

consuming media like

[swallowedabug]

ALOK VAID-MENON Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022)

[swallowedabug]

Alok’s book report of The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Dr. Kyla Schuller

[transunity]

This is one of the most impactful posts on this subject I personally have ever seen.

[mostlovedwrestlershiptournament]

Most Beloved Wrestling Ship Tournament

ROUND 3 - Matchup #14

Matt Jackson X Nick Jackson

Jetspeed (Kevin Knight X "Speedball" Mike Bailey)

Voting ended onJul 18

Propaganda:

MJ x NJ

-Tumblr is for the freaks & so are they

-That time on BTE when they literally made out

Jetspeed

-they are literally so cutes. bugs you find under a rock. they love and support one another. theyve been in eachothers orbit since kevin was in japan. kevin has a thing for people older and more experienced than him. their height difference. their neurodivergent slay. -true love is stored in the tag team

[marq-lynch]

[willgrahamscock]

sorry about not replying I think I’ve gone missing

[penandinkprincess]

parenting commitment level 3000

[penandinkprincess]

apparently a requirement for working at poison control is a talent for stand-up comedy

[starsarefairylightsfornerds]

[utopians]

people aren't even exaggerating indeed is literally like that. walmart attendant $13 an hour, target attendant $13 an hour, AI dick sucker $40 an hour, home depot attendant $13 an hour, guy who designs bullets that can only kill children $160k a year plus benefits, gas station manager $18 an hour

[redsixwing]

Hey, Bandcamp users. You have probably already heard, but Bandcamp was bought by a music licensing firm, and laid off half its staff "as a cost cutting measure."

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

Bandcamp Undergoes Ownership Transition with Layoffs and Industry Concerns | Enterprise Wired

In a significant shift of ownership, Bandcamp, the renowned digital music marketplace, has officially transitioned from its previous owner,

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

do you remember why you followed prev

yes :)

no :)

Remaining time: 3 days 17 hours

[mostlovedwrestlershiptournament]

Most Beloved Wrestling Ship Tournament

ROUND 3 - Matchup #14

Matt Jackson X Nick Jackson

Jetspeed (Kevin Knight X "Speedball" Mike Bailey)

Voting ended onJul 18

Propaganda:

MJ x NJ

-Tumblr is for the freaks & so are they

-That time on BTE when they literally made out

Jetspeed

-they are literally so cutes. bugs you find under a rock. they love and support one another. theyve been in eachothers orbit since kevin was in japan. kevin has a thing for people older and more experienced than him. their height difference. their neurodivergent slay. -true love is stored in the tag team

[marq-lynch]

[antiadvil]

it's wild that popular discourse around migraines is that there are too many people who claim to have migraines but "just have bad headaches". this is the exact opposite of my experience? i'm still trying to convince several of my friends that their "bad tension headaches" that are unilateral, throbbing, cause light sensitivity, nausea, etc, are migraines lmao. migraine is underdiagnosed and undertreated by every metric i can think of.

this narrative is not harmless! it prevents people from getting treatment that could really benefit them. so i would like it to die. thank you.

[shamebats]

As a guy who went to see a neurologist only to "rule out migraines" because I thought I had "tension headaches at worst and also it's not that bad really" only to realize by tracking my headache days that I have very bad chronic migraines just with no aura (most people with migraines don't have them), I co-sign this 100%.

Just starting abortive medications already improved my quality of life so much and now that my doctor started me on preventatives, I might actually be able to have more than a handful of headache-free days each month.

Migraine is frequently misdiagnosed as chronic sinusitis or tension headaches according to research. Mostly because people have a very rigid (inaccurate) idea of what it actually is.

But even if it's not migraine, you still deserve treatment for your headaches. Just because someone else has them worse than you doesn't mean you don't deserve relief.

What Type of Headache Do You Have? | American Migraine Foundation

Learning about the different types of migraine and headache disorders can help you better understand your symptoms and discuss them with you

[roach-works]

yeah i found out awhile back that the 'pressure headaches' that i get that 'aren't that bad' (but still leave me feeling sick and dysfunctional all day) were migraines. i now take a low dose of a preventative medication and the number of shitty rain days i have per month has dropped from like ten to two. it's great.

[captaindibbzy]

In my experience anyone who has chronic pain of any kind ALWAYS under diagnoses it in part cause people who DON'T have chronic pain always tell them how it's Not That Bad Just Get Over It and it takes a lot of fighting to get anyone (including doctors) to do anything about it. Fucked if I know why. Everyone seems to think we're making it up. I've never met anyone who is making it up.

[thealexandriaarchives]

I almost ended up blind because I was convinced I was just sleeping wrong and had bad desk posture and needed to drink more water because the headaches kept coming.

Then I woke up with blurry vision and a splitting headache after my 30th birthday and thought I had my first hangover but nope, turns out my brain was making 40x times too much cervical fluid every day and my throbbing headaches were actually my brain being squished by its own juice to the point I could hear my heartbeat from my artery shoved up against my eardrum and the blurry vision was because the fluid in my eyes was about to crystalize from the sheer pressure.

Turns out if you have more than one (1) headache per month there is an underlying condition of some kind.

Whether that's your brain making too much juice, brain cancer, migraines, or a really bad knot in your neck you haven't been dealing with that's blocking blood flow, you should figure it out and deal with it.

[thealexandriaarchives]

I don't have an account but someone who does please add 'daddy long dick just landed in la' to Know Your Meme, I was trying to find it and it's not there.

There's one example as a reference to something else but none as its own thing, and it needs to be documented, especially the versatility of customizing it to have a whole friend group trying to stop one person going back to an ex vs a single person throwing everything at the wall to try to prevent daddy long dick.

[marq-lynch]

What if buckcest and strickpage actually make it to their rightful place in the finals haha imagine wouldn't that be funny but thank goodness it would never happen because I'm sure people will have catastrophically bad taste somewhere first and I won't have to make that choice

[marq-lynch]

No but really Young Bucks won with 110 votes and Strickpage with 118 which are both some of the highest voted polls of the last round but those numbers are insanely close.

I must look to the Golden Lovers to ruin things and save me from having to consider the Young Bucks in one of their comfortable married bliss eras vs StrickPage in another Divorce Era where Hangman is actively telling Swerve to stop calling every week.

Kota Ibushi, you served my fathers faithfully during the cold wars. Help me homewrecker, you're my only hope!

[thealexandriaarchives]

You have failed me my general, by decimating a far weaker foe. An act unbecoming your heritage but I understand the position in which you were placed.

I am NOT taking this context seriously because it is weird and insane and the recency bias and reach and timelines are ridiculous half the ships have no real propaganda some of them are basically in two or three variations and half the biggest ships are getting knocked out by three second pins this is the Continental Classic baby anything can happen but I have the dodgeball of Apollo looming over me with this post so:

We still have the ships I'm gonna call Long-Shots, especially with the changing pictures every time rule and current propaganda and voting numbers.

Dannyuta

Kenny x Speedball

MxM Collection

Bayley x Sasha Banks

StatCam

BryanMox

Then we have the Solid Ships, very respectable, good history, Jetspeed got a boost last night too:

Regular Jetspeed

Hangmox

Zowens

Then we have the Poly Factions. The multi-ships. Two are variants of the same one but one has Marina Shafir instead of Bryan Danielson. One is the faction that Built AEW but I assume we're keeping it to the core three trio for ship name here. One is another variant of TWO of our biggest yuri ships because they were a canon messy yuri trio before the murder and remarriage. Unfair but thems the numbers. These are a threat.

Mariah X Mina x Toni

Death Riders

BCC

The Elite

And finally, we have the Toxic Yuri. Original and extra spicy. Very powerful, very dangerous.

Statingale

Timeless Glamour

All o my beloved top two that have not yet appeared in round three.

Buckcest

Strickpage

...the way this weird tournament goes they'll end up in the threeway with the vote split and dannyuta will make it through somehow.