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Xyon McKell
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A riddle wrapped in nerdiness. Derailments of Thought: personal blog about wrestling, games, books, art, & other randomness. derailmentsofthought.wordpress.com http://ko-fi.com/xyonmckell
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As a Bluesy intro to my (sporadicly updated) personal blog, here's a thread of spotlight posts: career retrospectives & tributes I've written about/for several amazing women wrestlers over the years including retirements, major career changes, & sadly a few memorials.
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My response to this is always "if everyone's only responsibility is to themselves, and we're all responsible for protecting our selves and the harm we do to others doesn't matter. Then I think I, an immunocompromised person, should be allowed to shoot people who cough near me".

It upsets people.
In the two weeks going into her 30th Anniversary show Emi Sakura is wrestling on 4+ different promotions, including reuniting with Yunamon, and wrestling against Riho, Ram, Chihiro, Yuu, Mizuki, and so on. And the actual anniversary match isn't announced yet. Incredible.

#chocopro #senjo #tjpw #aew
Happy Birthday Asahi 🌅
The supposed tie in is that she sarcastically said "at least put in effort" and he's "jokingly" checking the amount of "effort" that was put in. It's dumb, misogynistic, and inappropriate, but that's the supposed intent/logic behind his comment.
It reads like an unprompted and unneeded defensive justification of the company's general philosophy. And on top of that the word choice distorts the point and makes the whole thing odd, inaccurate, and dismissive of their participating guests. Yeah just really strange all around.
"We've actively discouraged fans from wanting to see inter promotional matches. Must suck to be one of the companies that send wrestlers to our shows every month. Yay us."
Post show moments like that were always really cool when they happened. In addition to that one, another that stands out was when wrestlers in a crazy, awesome trios high speed match exhaustedly told me they never wanted to do high speed again.

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SEAdLINNNG 4/18/18 Live Thoughts
April 18, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I’d have just enough time on the day I arrived in Japan for my Spring trip to catch this SEAdLINNNG show featuring n…
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Charlotte (Beach) and Chili (the town/avenue, not the food)
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
Time flies. I absolutely adored this game. Still need to play the sequel.
Six years ago...

Happy 6th #AInniversary to AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES!! 🥳
On top of the behind the back garbage, suggesting speech therapy to "correct" her accent in order to force a name on their child he chose without her is a truckload of red flags. He's going to approach every cultural difference the same way: as something she has to fix to accommodate him.
... it's a total and frankly unnerving yet amusing coincidence that shortly after I wrote this up Yuuka was announced for a special appearance as a second on today's show.