I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary
I’m honestly impressed at this woman’s ability to improv. Fall off the horse you’re supposed to know how to ride? Blame it on the fact that your pants probably shrunk and then distract everyone with some stretching.
One of my favorite things about Andrew and Neil using social media as Exy pros is the willful, default obliviousness of the public concerning similarities in their posts and pictures
These are the same two cats, okay, but Neil abbreviates them to things like Fatty and Fluff while Andrew calls them Sir and King.
Neil takes selfies with the cats while Andrew posts blurred and butt-angle shots of them doing stupid things. It's hard to tell they own the same animals.
Neil will post photos of the cats sleeping on Andrew but clearly they're supposed to be compromising photos posted to ruin Andrew's uncaring cool image, left over from college before they became bitter rivals.
Or they must be having a whole 'old Foxes' team get together and the traitorous cats just like Andrew, unlike their owner. Clearly. The men wouldn't just hang out.
Andrew posts pictures of bumblebee and fox Halloween pet costumes. Neil posts the cats wearing them. Andrew must have sent dumb costumes to Neil and Neil put them on his cats anyway as a "fuck you, thanks for spending money, my cats look amazing in them".
They both have the same Palmetto blanket on their bed, totally expected given they have the same Alma Mater.
Renee posts a photo of her and Neil baking in the kitchen and tags the location as Andrew's apartment (it was his first before it was theirs so it's "Andrew's place" as an existing tag location) but clearly she selected the wrong location out of a list because that's Neil's kitchen.
His fans have seen it lots because he sometimes liveblogs what he calls "Learning To Cook Healthy, One Disaster At A Time". It's immensely entertaining and relatable and humanizes him a bit.
There's that one time Andrew took photos of said disgusting disaster on a plate and complained about how gross it was and everyone thought it was hilarious he'd "followed along with Neil's live blogging, cooked the same monstrosity, and roasted his rival's cooking skills on social media".
Especially when he ended his commentary with "this will kill me faster than ice cream, fucking junkie".
On the other end of the spectrum are the THEY'RE MARRIED shipping conspiracy theorists who use all these "similarities" as evidence and who are actually Not Wrong.
Anyway I didn’t liveblog Takeover because I ended up watching it a couple of hours late, but just imagine several posts of screaming and sobbing about basically everything and that pretty much covers it
Sanity vs Rando Squad was a huge ton of fun, but if this doesn’t end with Tye Dillinger winning SOMETHING... how will we as a fandom live without this catharsis WE NEED THIS OKAY
I’m sad that Almas had to lose another thing but I can totally see why they matched those two up, both their wrestling styles and their taunt? styles? meshed crazy well. (I remember when I first started watching shit I sometimes had a hard time telling the heel from the face and LET ME TELL YOU there was some first-time NXT viewer out there who was real confused about who to cheer for.)
Was Black’s thing as Tommy End that whole cross-legged thing or is that new? it was like he spent the whole match trying to summon Shibata through angry squinting alone
TAG TEAM WRESTLING OH MY GOD. TAG TEAM. WRESTLING. I COULD WRITE A FUCKING DISSERTATION ON WHAT AN INCREDIBLE END TO THE DIY/REVIVAL STORY THIS WAS, THEY’VE LEARNED EACH OTHER SO WELL THAT THEY CAN WORK ALMOST AS WELL WITH EACH OTHER AS WITH THEIR OWN TEAMMATES. THE REVIVAL HAS THEIR TACTICS BUT DIY HAS THEIR NUMBER, THEY MAY NOT LIKE EACH OTHER BUT THEY RESPECT EACH OTHER. I know there was some salt about DIY going out first but I honestly think that was the right call. The faces go out with some plausible deniability because they technically were against two teams; the Revival spent the match slowly becoming the least-heel-heel and got a brief one on one vs AoP which I don’t believe they’ve had. I just hope all these perfect boys get their callups after Mania, not only because they deserve it but because this is where the story ought to end for now, it’s too perfect not to.
Asuka/Ember moon was probably the best NXT women’s match since Bayley/Sasha? I’ve been hyped about it basically since Ember debuted and I was NOT DISAPPOINTED. Honestly, this was exactly how I expected it to end - Ember would lose not 100% clean and she wouldn’t hit the Eclipse. A bit of an Okada/Omega One-Winged Angel thing. They’re gonna have another match and it’ll be even sicker. The new womens’ belt is stellar. Asuka is so good. Ember is so good. Westling is so good.
Roode/Nakamura was probably a wicked good match but I just didn’t care that much? I intellectually know that Bobby Roode is a super good wrestler but the only thing I really connect with is his theme song, and as much as I love Nakamura it was (close to) a foregone conclusion that he was losing to get called up but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Mostly I was just too burned out from being hype, I think I just had no hype left to give.
(no one tell mojo rawley)
(i don’t want him to show up at my window like a goddamn junji ito hype cryptid)
The NCAA tournament starts tomorrow. Contrary to popular belief, I'm a huge sports fan, and college basketball is one of my favorites (my own alma mater tragically missed out on a ticket to the big dance this year but we won't talk about that) so you may see me post about it on tumblr. I might even liveblog games if I feel so inclined. If that's not your thing, feel free to blacklist--I'll try to tag everything properly!
I love how Mannequin was this freaky, inhuman, indestructible figure, and then he came to Brockton Bay and a sixteen year old kicked his ass so completely that her strategy of ass-kicking remained invaluable years after his death. Worm is just an Alan Gramme cringe compilation