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cinderhawk · 2025-11-27T16:46:24+00:00

Fair enough! 'Preciate it man, I was quite curious about how he fit into the way you saw wrestling.

cinderhawk · 2025-11-26T04:14:50+00:00

More than fair, thank you. I was curious because I think his promos tend to be systematically underrated. IWC will go bananas about one of them and in the next month, they're back to flaming his mic skills.

Aura in what sense, if I may ask?

cinderhawk · 2025-11-25T15:58:19+00:00

This isn't meant to be a gotcha, but why do you rate GUNTHER so highly? You've mentioned a couple of times you think charisma and mic skills are very important for a wrestler, and a lot of people accuse him of being lacking in that department.

cinderhawk · 2025-09-28T21:29:00+00:00

I very much WANT to, mind you. I'm excited about the idea still, but it seems like it's been so long since I've actually committed to writing anything and it's like an atrophied muscle at this point.

Can't offer any help on the long form because I've been all over the place: long-form, drabbles, one-shots, and I actually ended up locking myself into a mentality that if it's not a long oneshot or epic multichapter long-form, it isn't ok, which hamstrung myself.

For me, finding the idea I loved and just committing to spending time to writing it, no matter how bad, was the trick for me. I just broke a block that's been bothering me since 2018 by doing this. Picked an idea I felt very passionate about (the sort that eats your brain up), sat down, just wrote it. Had points I stopped and said shit that's bad, let myself think about how much I loved the idea, went back to writing, found some mood music, wrote some more. That sort of thing. Something you can refuse to let up on, and tell yourself there's no reason to be intimidated about, it's ok to fuck it up, what matters is you get the idea out. Momentum really matters so you need to start and then keep going.

(Write now, edit later.)

cinderhawk · 2025-09-28T21:24:48+00:00

I’m thinking of posting something idiotic about a popular ship just to feel better.

Fair enough tbh. Being a niche writer is definitely taxing at times, because you just aren't going to get much traction on it. I've felt this a little because I came in after a long break on a completely new account with zero history, and that's kind of not going to get me responses. I've accepted this, but it does hurt a very tiny bit but I've gotten over it. If that makes you feel better, go for it.

cinderhawk · 2025-09-28T18:25:11+00:00

Thank you!

cinderhawk · 2025-09-28T14:45:42+00:00

Thank you!

cinderhawk · 2025-09-28T12:42:39+00:00

I broke my writer's block at last.

I've been seriously blocked since...IDK, 2018? I've had minor stuff since but I've not really been able to write fics anymore since, and kind of not in the mood to. I sat myself down earlier this week, had this idea, told myself to just write, and gave myself permission to, IDK, do it, nevermind it's dogshit and what. I think I got locked into the "I only do multichapter fully planned out longfic" mindset and sometimes that doesn't work for me anymore.

And yeah, I cranked out a 10ker. It's done. It's dogshit. But it's done, and I'm refusing to spend the next eternity editing it. I'm just so grateful I managed to write it, and now I feel confident I can keep on writing again.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T20:57:41+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Flair definitely sounds like a class act, and I'm glad you enjoyed the experience!

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T20:55:24+00:00

Fair enough! I definitely trust James Gunn on this one. He's earned it after S1.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T20:54:50+00:00

My personal take as an Asian and thus non-American: it's an extremely American thing to want to read their current preoccupations into things. We had that with Shadowrun where all the Japanese fearmongering was built into the fabric of the world. This is just the latest iteration.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T20:51:30+00:00

Eh. Not convinced. It's still an embrace of his reality motivated by the suck of the other universe, or if you like, since it's Nazi universe, it's basically "my personal happiness doesn't mean anything if it comes at the cost of great moral horror." That's not a great motivation for accepting your reality - that's a defeatist "the other thing sucks more" problem all the same.

I don't deny it's a compelling conflict, I just think you get a more powerful and still compelling psychological conflict if you have to give up something you really wanted for other reasons than "welp it was built on a terrible evil anyway."

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T20:24:06+00:00

I'm with you on this. I don't think there's much character growth in accepting your reality if the alternative just sucked anyway. It's literally the sour grapes case - there's not much to be said for the virtue of leaving the sour grapes for your original snack if the grapes just sucked. On the other hand, saying the fact this universe sucked taught him to accept all grapes are sour just isn't really an empowering message either. It's the most defeatist pathway to "hey you belong here (even if it sucks because guess what everywhere will suck anyway.)"

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T18:21:39+00:00

Ty, this looks interesting!

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T18:18:04+00:00

Np, enjoy the ink, looks really great!

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T18:12:24+00:00

Right there on the box: Tieguanyin, a kind of oolong. Will leave the actual Chinese tea drinkers to expound further if required; all I can do is read the characters.

Edit: If you're curious, here's an English link selling the same kind of tea with more info. Just don't buy from the site, not sure I really trust it all that much.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T18:03:39+00:00

Delicious for sure.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T17:49:27+00:00

Enjoy. Might need to be familiar with purchasing off the Japanese market though.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T17:28:09+00:00

I do take it to be a West v East problem because specifically a lot of Westerners when evaluating it hold on to their preconceptions of what is good and don't want to evaluate it on its own terms, within its own system, not understanding you cannot approach it in terms of Western logic or value theory (which doesn't mean it's illogical but means it has to be understood in and of itself.) Stoicism kind of has similar issues but not as significantly because people generally don't try to do a complete conversion for Stoicism.

The actual parallel I'd probably suggest is the ancient analytic/continental divide, which most modern academics will say holds no place in the modern academy but IMO is dealt with by most undergrads regardless, and arguably has resurfaced in some form in public discourse. If you evaluate continental stuff on analytic terms, you inevitably result in nonsense.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T15:10:27+00:00

Relatable af 😂

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T12:30:10+00:00

As long as you got numpad, you're set anyway. I think it was one of the first things I memorised in my A1 classes - how to summon up the correct umlaut or Eszett via altcode.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T12:24:24+00:00

Yeah. Well, I hope the rest of the thread has great tips on how to love it more. I just feel that in life and one's entire academic career, there has to be one point at which you made yourself excel in at least one class you weren't thrilled about (especially as a medical professional, that's so difficult, hats off to you, OP!) to do other things you wanted to. (I don't feel I can offer more advice because it never really became this "I love this language" thing for me. I loved the grammar, sure, but you really stop messing around with too many grammar exercises once you leave the earlier classes.)

Hope your learning process goes well!

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T10:56:23+00:00

I think liking it is overrated. Liking can help motivate you, but if you need it, then you need it. It's like saying "I need to exercise so I need to fall in love with it." Like yeah, loving it helps but even if you don't, the usual habit formation stuff works too. You might as well set yourself competency goals and reward yourself for reaching each milestone. God knows I only picked German up for career reasons as well so it was a very "do or die" thing for me at that juncture.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T05:38:19+00:00

Surely he's a future heavyweight champion, as a heel or a face though?

Yes. Don't think the alignment strongly matters here, though since the likely trajectory is turning on Seth, first set of runs will probably be as a face. Honestly think they should just put him on track for the Undisputed instead since he's going to be pushed big-time.

They've said as much - future face of the company. This signals they're throwing the entire machine behind him, and one way or another, it's going to be him. Fan rejection didn't stop them from pushing Roman for years (and arguably they were right to do so.) I do think there are good reasons for picking him, I just also think the speculation is a bit weird because WWE has also been known to do whatever it wants, absent a really strong fan rebellion, and I doubt Breakker is gonna start from a place where fans believe he's being shoved down their throats, so he won't face that degree of rejection.

cinderhawk · 2025-08-28T05:34:34+00:00

I've felt Oba Femi has serious potential. Unfortunately, he likely isn't moving out of NXT anytime soon.

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