#wikipedia is a wonderful thing

[livelaughlariat]

Jay White & Wrestle Kingdom

Jay White has never won a championship match at Wrestle Kingdom.

Everyone he has lost to at Wrestle Kingdom, he has also been able to beat in big matches on other occasions, often within months of his Wrestle Kingdom loss.

So early on we have:

Wrestle Kingdom 12 (2018): lost to Tana for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship

Wrestle Kingdom 13 (2019): defeated Okada, but no belt at stake

New Beginning in Osaka, Feb 2019: defeated Tana for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship

And then the pattern really sets in:

Destruction in Kobe, September 2019: defeated Naito for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship

Wrestle Kingdom 14 (2020): lost the IWGP Intercontinental Championship to Naito

Power Struggle, November 2020: defeated Ibushi for the right to challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight & Intercontinental Championships

Wrestle Kingdom 15 (2021): lost to Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight & Intercontinental Championships

Dominion, June 2022: defeated Okada for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

Wrestle Kingdom 17 (2023): lost the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship to Okada

#jay white #wrestle kingdom #njpw #new japan pro wrestling #wikipedia is a wonderful thing #patternsssssss

[zareleonis]

i wish we knew what Furina Focalors' name was before they ever became archon. it's definitely not Focalors—their demon/archon name—nor is it Furina, the name she chose specifically for her human half. all the named Oceanids—Rhodeia, Endora, Idyia, Lyris, Urania, the fictional Clio—are named after actual Oceanids from Greek myth, so presumably the same is true for her but. what was it!!!! will we ever know

#stares at the 'list of oceanids' wikipedia page wondering what it could be #furina #focalors #genshin impact #ann obviously isn't an oceanid name but ofc ann is a special case #i would be surprised if the game focused on fr's past at this point in their story where i feel like fr's future is most important for them #but i still want to learn more #and fr talks in their voice-lines about how having neither a past nor future caused them great anxiety so i dunno #understanding who she was before she had to take the horrible burden of being archon could be a positive thing for her. one day.

[totheidiot]

russian literature, yellow, byler color theory and you.

this is a really half-baked analysis, it was born and planted in my mind about an hour ago. a lot of them might not make sense at all. so, bear with me.

today, jay (@iamtheoneandonlyever) and i were having a very silly conversation on a random little guy i had made. the little guy happened to be quite literally yellow and it was all just random connections in the yellow. now, recently, i have picked up crime and punishment by the russian author fyodor dostoevsky, and yellow does play a part in the novel. specifically, in the room of the main character, raskolnikov's room.

"It was a tiny cupboard of a room about six paces in length. It had a poverty-stricken appearance with its dusty yellow paper peeling off the walls."

we have positive meanings for the color yellow: joy, happiness, sunshine, optimism. now, in the context of this quote from crime and punishment, that is not the case. yellow is connected to insanity, madness, mental illness and there is a reason why the color yellow has such meaning. the phase 'желтый дом' (quite literally 'yellow house') is the russian slang term for a psychiatric clinic. this became a term for all mental asylums as the first psychiatric clinic in russia, in the obukhovskaya hospital was painted a yellow. crime and punishment used this connotation of the color yellow to highlight his madness, which is an important theme of the novel.

when blue meets yellow in the west. obviously, yellow eludes to will in the show, but i am thinking it really has that sort of meaning. madness, it won't be uncharacteristic to have this symbolism. idk just found this interesting. not to mention — when blue meets yellow in the west is a russian code.

another thing jay also pointed out is that when henry ended up in the upside down, it was yellow. a statement about his descent to madness, perhaps?

except, stranger thing is a very science-y show, there isn't a lot of grounds for references to literature, history and just color theory when it comes to art. not to mention how niche of a topic it is. 'yellow house' as a slang is no longer used. there is no english wikipedia page for obukhovskaya hospital. i literally needed to manually translate the existing russian wiki page for the information and the confirmation.

some links i stumbled on that i found interesting !

cool analysis on the yellow wallpaper in crime and punishment

an essay on color symbolism and names in the russian language

a forum where the negative connotations of the color yellow in the russian language is talked about

the wikipedia page on the hospital (written entirely in russian though)

#🍂 arian's shit #stranger things #byler #stranger things analysis #stranger things theory #st analysis #byler analysis #when blue meets yellow in the west #the monster show that got really popular #take my opinion with a grain of salt #neither am i russian or any sort of expert in literature #there isn't even a wikipedia page for obukhovskaya hospital #if you wish for me to take down this post for the utter false information this might have #please tell me #also wondering if this post is in poor taste or not #yeah please tell me if you would like me to take down this post #also the russians HATED the color yellow i see #they called the prostitution ids 'yellow tickets' #will byers

[zerodaryls]

i often find myself questioning reality and i'm thinking that maybe people shouldn't let their 8 year olds watch The Truman Show (1998) because it might actually create lasting psychological damage

#anyone else see The Truman Show as a kid and still catch themselves wondering if the entire world is a Set Up or nah?? 👀 #like i know it's a pretty narcissistic concept to believe the entire world revolves around you lmao but i mean. the paranoia sometimes... #i genuinely 100% blame that movie for this #like i actually think that if i'd never seen that movie then i would just dilly dally on my way through life #never questioning the very fabric of my existence #...i mean realizing that christianity was bullshit might've still ended up doing a number on me #but like. HELL what if watching that movie opened my brain up to be ABLE to consider that my concept of reality (in which YAHWEH is real) #was actually bullshit. and i needed that movie in order to be able to eventually break free from the bullshit. #who knows lmao #but dear god... the other day i was driving #and i noticed that most of the cars would like. ease off the brakes jUST BEFORE the light turned green. like they KNEW. #and logically i'm like. 'that is because they are watching the cross traffic slow down and anticipating their turn.' #but Truman Syndrome Brain was like 'THEY HAVE CUES. THE DIRECTOR IS TELLING THEM TO GET READY TO GO.' #which is dumb bc if i were running a large scale program and had actors driving around i'd just tell them to follow the basic traffic rules #but ya know. the 'Truman Syndrome' or 'Truman Show Delusion' is a legit thing. there's a Wikipedia article on it. lmao #that shit done fucked some of us up :| #unreality #unreality tw #my posts #ramblings #my life is not nearly interesting enough to warrant a tv show #...but then again neither was Truman's. which was the point.

[a-tiny-sloth]

honestly, i've always expressed my love for stuff the same way (looking for specific little details and information and organising them into lists). like, when i was seven my favourite game was zoo (we had a variety of different animal figures and we built enclosures for them) and my favourite part of it was feeding the animals. and since i was also obsessed with animal encyclopedias, i ended up researching what foods every single animal would eat and made a chart and made little paper cut-outs of the food we didn't have toys of. so yeah, i've always been like this

#i think abt this so often. idk it's just neat that some things never change #baby noah was sifting through encyclopedias to find out what kangaroos eat #and adult noah is sifting through wikipedia to find every single painting mentioned in tdt #<- in case you were wondering what i'm up to lmao. more on this once i've actually finished greywaren #noah's stuff

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

like ok and you thought the solution was to make the voyage of the dawn treader 2010. 🤨 not what i would have done but ok.

#imagine producing the cinematic masterpiece that is prince caspian 2008 and then talking shit about it #he should kill himself no offense. #‘lacked wonder and magic’ that. was the point. was it not!!!!!!!! YOU made it and you’re telling me u didn’t even GET it????? #sorry for being on the wikipedia page for a movie i refuse to speak about most of the time. i needed to wikipedia some things… and i got #carried away. you know how it is. and i’m not asleep and i’m angry as fuck about it

[boypussydilf]

hes so…… *gesturing* …………i dont know, easy to manipulate? *like an exhausted mother* what on earth am i going to do with you

#I think there’s something wrong with him I don’t know #also wow at the start of the show he Always calls keroro keroro-kun instead of it being reserved for special occasions huh? #i wonder when they made the switch. and what the case is in the manga #although i think the way they do it later on in the anime is also how its done in the manga #just based on like. #his jp wikipedia page seems 2 pretty consistently make a note of it when smth is different between the anime and manga #and it talks abt him saying keroro-kun and giroro-kun Only under special circumstances as like. a normal default thing #so it’s probably the case #The anime DID start coming out ….. not very long after dororo was first introduced i think #basilposting #frog renaissance #i think it can joining the military for trauma

[solstheimtxt]

Trying to find the best real world religion to properly compare to Scientism for a fic (I think calvinism is the best fit so far), so I went looking through the basic ideals of the most prominent protestant religions in the US post 1850 and I wanted to know what the basic ideals of southern baptist were since that's what I was raised (but haven't practiced since I was like 7 since im a big queer) since that's 90% of where I grew up since we have that 11th largest megachurch in the united states and uhhhhh

#delete later #they supported the fucking confederacy so uhhhh #among other things i see why my exs parents were so hateful lkankdksfn #i kept reading the wikipedia article and it just KEPT GETTING WORSE #they split from the nothern baptists bc THEY SUPPORTED SLAVERY #IM IN FUCKING CALIFORNIA WHY THE HELL DO WE HAVE THIS VERSION HERE THE FUCK #no wonder they hated that i was queer they EXCOMMUNICATED QUEER PEOPLE IUHGEKJHGKJEN #edit: apparently ours got removed from the sbc bc we had women pastors so theyre just basic baptist now uiehukfkf #fucking CHRIST

[toiletpotato]

with all this talk of celebrities here, what is the group consensus of 14 year Tumblr user Amitabh Bachchan

#he's been updating his blog daily #and puts his signature at the end of every post #idk if he answers his asks though #someone replied to his post and asked if he was getting their messages #neither he nor Neil Gaiman are on the notable users section of tumblr's wikipedia #at least not of writing this post #because I am going to fix it #celebrities #celebrities on tumblr #he is 80 years old so I wonder if he could be one of the oldest users of the site? #desiblr #desi things #bollywood #amitabh bachchan #neil gaiman #tumblr

[abyssopelagic-terror]

cilantro and coriander are the same thing? huh.

#detritus #i saw a piece of grey tofu in my dining hall meal today and wondered if that meant it was bad #then i googled it #which led me to a tangentially related reddit post about hairy tofu #which reminded me of stinky tofu and i started reading an article about that on wikipedia #bc i remembered getting it with a friend for their birthday at a hole in the wall shanghainese restaurant #[it wasn't in shanghai it was in a strip mall in socal lol] #it was good tho #anyways the article said a regional version of stinky tofu uses coriander and put cilantro in parenthesis #so yeah i guess cilantro and coriander are the same thing

[crunchycrystals]

continuing the new hbomberguy video im like 2.5 hours in and i feel like im losing it

#crunchyposts #GOD. I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW SOME OF THESE PEOPLE COULD GET THE AMOUNT OF VIDEOS OUT AS QUICKLY AS THEY DO #LIKE NOW IM QUESTIONING OTHER YOUTUBERS WHO KIND OF DO THE SAME THING #I DONT KNOW IF THEYVE PLAGIARIZED. BUT NOW IM WONDERING #this man is PLAGIARIZING WIKIPEDIA HOW #yt

[asexualannoyance]

i need somebody to tell me where this info comes from, like, did i just miss it in the show or am i stupid???

#pete phongsakorn #pete phongsakorn saengtham #pete saengtham #kinnporsche the series #i have wondered this for longer and wanted to look up if it maybe was a ff thing yk #but as you can see sb wrote it on wikipedia (with no source but that's why i'm asking here) #and now i am just kinda confused #lmao

[hua-fei-hua]

i'm fully aware that actually figuring where, exactly, ethyl valerate gets extracted from to make apple flavoring will be incredibly pointless and almost certainly nearly irrelevant to the fic i'm writing, but at this point i'm committing to the bit

#this is mostly just me wondering if one can actually extract apple flavoring from apples or if it's like entirely synthetic #i'm starting to suspect that it's actually entirely synthetic which is like. SO sick and twisted. #ethyl valerate is also specifically green apple flavor which as we know has that bitter/sour tinge to it which is NOT what i want #花話 #but it's the closest thing i've found via trawling through wikipedia so far

[heartvisor]

that post about listening to music to hold your favorite characters up to the light to but about browsing through various specific species of bugs to match to various rider characters instead

#i don't listen to a lot of music to be honest i rely on my mutual's taste for that sort of thing #but i DO love browsing the many wonderful bug images on wikipedia dot com #krtext

[creature-once-removed]

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#I finally came around to actually reading more of Stephen Crane's poetry #Wikipedia said his style was regarded as more intellectual; moving the brain and not the heart #damn it's touching my heart alright. the things this man could do with a couple of lines #I think I'm a little bit in love with his mind #also I actually physically laughed out loud twice already. I'm only six pages in #(and taking a break now. I am filled with wonderful words and feelings)

[j-esbian]

truly don’t understand people who know about musicians’ personal lives or like. ANYTHING except their music

#i like the music but idc about who they are as people lol #even artists i’m ‘obsessed’ with like hayley kiyoko. listen i just like her music and i think she’s hot #ppl talking abt idk some drama about her secret gf or smth #most bands i listen to. i don’t even know their names quite honestly #cause like. i listen to their music but i’m not about to look them up on wikipedia for it #every day i see things on twitter that make me wonder how people live like that #it’s probably honestly bc. i don’t listen to music all that frequently in the first place tho #i feel like i can’t call myself a Fan of anyone bc that seems to imply a much deeper level of engagement #when all i’m trying to say is that i like their music a lot