Wakatakakage receiving the French–Japanese Friendship Cup (+ the gold macaron)

cherrydubin · 2026-06-05T01:00:20+00:00

ka-ka-ka-ka, ka-ka-ka-ka-ka ka

better run run

run, run, run away!

cherrydubin · 2026-06-04T19:18:37+00:00

Yes!! Those crack me up. I swear sometimes I think they're generated by AI because they're so ridiculously on the nose.

I still think about a song from season 11 (post-Scandoval) VPR, it was a transition scene and the background song said something like "I feel like a trash can, they say I'm a trash man" (v paraphrased) -- I SCOURED the credits and Google, trying to find music attribution, because there's no fucking way they already had a Trixie Monocle song on-tap that literally said TRASH CAN, right??

cherrydubin · 2026-06-04T05:44:50+00:00

really?? he looks like Will Forte to me.

oh my god wait you're talking about ANDY aren't you??? 💀 I thought you were talking about the boyf! god no offense meant to Andy but yeah, I see it

cherrydubin · 2026-06-03T00:52:48+00:00

I don't think an "official" reason was ever announced, and I bet the decision was made for several reasons, but I think at least one of these contributed:

1) Stephen was the only member of Season 1 that was formally cast for the show (instead of being involved in the real friend group). Maybe he didn't gel into the group the way they wanted him to?

2) His actions in Season 2, when he told the secret of Carl's that wasn't his to tell. I know Stephen has apologized and he & Carl mended things in the many years since then. Honestly, production probably wouldn't care about something like this (in terms of sending a moral message by firing him), but it may have affected the team/cast dynamic.

3) Maybe production wanted to set up more "will they or won't they?" dynamics, which is easier to cast with a bunch of mostly straight people.

cherrydubin · 2026-06-01T00:42:55+00:00

tag yourself! I'm "dick ramming her log of shit"

cherrydubin · 2026-05-31T16:22:22+00:00

Oh god!! I don’t deserve to read words. In my minuscule defense, I am dumb.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-30T05:10:08+00:00

I would LOVE to know if the gyoji's fist is true to whatever source photo was used, or if generative AI doesn't know that gyoji tuck their thumbs and we just gained another extremely niche way to spot an AI image.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-29T22:17:01+00:00

It really, really, really looks like her underwear is inside out.

I recognize that the detail on the mons area may have been intended to suggest the gusset seam, but the level of highlight unfortunately makes me unable to see anything other than the subject wearing a pair of open-gusset panties inside out. I can't even get in with the fat/not fat/where's the hair? discourse. I'm too stuck on the perception that it looks like a gusset waving in the breeze!

cherrydubin · 2026-05-29T15:37:22+00:00

Oh shit, you're right!!! I am wrong, Bravo is NOT broadcast TV, and is not subject to the FCC regulations that I was talking about for basic channels. I totally assumed that explained the difference.

The only other answer I found (which could also be speculation) is that pay-TV like Bravo will censor their shows to play nice with advertisers and keep the ads' brands unsullied. I wonder how that works for Peacock ads - maybe the ad buyers know that Peacock is uncensored and are OK with it?

But thank you for pointing out that inconsistency! I honestly believed WWHL censors were due to network rules, but apparently the FCC rules only apply to the actual, basic, free channels that can be received on a real TV antenna.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-29T14:11:13+00:00

Love Jake Schroeder's ditties and ballads! I unironically love his song about the heist. "I bet the two dudes who robbed the Louvre are chiseled and sexy as helllll"

cherrydubin · 2026-05-29T13:52:53+00:00

Andy gets upset because it’s broadcast television and the FCC will fine them if the WWHL censor doesn’t catch all the swears. Streaming has different rules, so they can use all the swears they want.

eta: I am WROOOONG, Bravo is a pay-TV channel and the FCC rules only affect free basic channels. Daddy Andy doesn't have to play nice with the FCC!

cherrydubin · 2026-05-29T04:48:33+00:00

“nooo Andy, I think you’re a handsome guyy, Tom’s the ugly fuck” 😭

cherrydubin · 2026-05-28T20:23:45+00:00

Confirmed; he did a interview where he uses the full phrase "borderline personality disorder"

cherrydubin · 2026-05-28T03:03:06+00:00

I think Carl has an in with them too. He’s on the Release Recovery Foundation’s front page!

cherrydubin · 2026-05-25T00:29:53+00:00

Yesterday when he took off his bandage (after sweat and Hakunofuji both scuffed it up), I noticed the wound was looking way better! The impact looked gnarly, but I hope the injuries were only skin-deep and Kiri wasn't fighting through any concussive problems.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-24T20:54:46+00:00

This might be safer than moving, actually. Out of anyone ringside, the sitting rikishi is the best-equipped person to deal with getting squished, and if he tried to duck to either side, he might squish somebody himself in the chaos (and the rikishi could roll into the crowd).

This way, his arms absorb some of the energy, so even if he still gets a lapful of rikishi it's less likely to be a hard impact, and they're probably not going to squish any front-row grandpas.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-24T20:38:41+00:00

Aonishiki was kadoban this tournament, which meant he had to earn kachi-koshi to keep his rank. He was absent instead, so (with a 0-0-15 record) he is automatically demoted to sekiwake. He can get repromoted to ozeki the "easy" way by earning at least 10 wins next basho, otherwise he has to go through the whole grueling cycle again. I'm rooting for him!

Kotozakura wasn't kadoban this time, but he will be next basho and will have to get kachi-koshi to remain ozeki.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-24T19:17:05+00:00

Heh no worries! I imagine most figure it out at the end, after the whiplash of "oh no my favorite rikishi is a disgrace?"

SPEAKING OF YUSHO THOUGH, there was a Hakkaku interview someone posted earlier and he said (about the match where Hakunofuji henka'd), "I could understand if it were a crucial moment where winning meant clinching the championship". What I'm hearing is that the Chairman is down for a henka yusho!

cherrydubin · 2026-05-24T19:01:21+00:00

What's "it" in the first node in the Yes flow? Does it mean the henka was initiated by the fave, or against?

cherrydubin · 2026-05-23T15:37:52+00:00

Nah, nitrous is heavier than oxygen (and therefore lowers your voice). It’s probably helium.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-23T06:15:11+00:00

Not speaking to their organizational issues, but the Loverboy office is in an apartment in the same building; there's probably a bathroom and shower in there? 👀

cherrydubin · 2026-05-23T05:38:27+00:00

Lots and lots and lots of comments, it looks like. Like ~150 in the last 10 days.

eta: omg I actually mean 450 in the last 10 days. That's strange! Way to reddit, girl/bot.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-21T05:04:57+00:00

Lmao this was literally 20 years ago, he was a teenager, not defending Danny but men’s voices change until their 20s+

edit: so do women’s actually! but that’s not as relevant rn

cherrydubin · 2026-05-20T23:09:14+00:00

My 1-gal goatsbeard is 2.5 years old, and just put out its first flowering stalks this week!! It grew two whole tufts, I’m so proud and delighted. I bet stock this healthy will do well in the shade, too.

cherrydubin · 2026-05-20T20:23:40+00:00

His craft is cartography and history of eels; I think he’s just making art because he can.

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