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colette arrand

3 months

Let’s give it a shot: For $8, I will write 750+ words on a wrestling match of your choosing. Send me a link and I’ll be on that match like The Genius on Mr. Perfect.

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2 years

R.L. Stine never said any dumb shit about trans people.

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3 years

This is the funniest tweet I’ve ever seen.

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4 years

This is the one of the barriers against COVID-19 that the University of Georgia set up.

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5 years

This is still an incredible piece of film criticism.

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The state of Georgia, particularly the city of Atlanta, is one of the centers of transgender life in the southern United States, but go off sis.

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6 years

A concentration camp where families are “allowed” to stay together is still a concentration camp.

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6 years

I found this on an anti-gay website and it might be the best single panel from a comic book I’ve ever seen?

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2 years

people in "red states" work so hard for things people in "blue states" take for granted that it's sickening that the takeaway for so many when something happens like roe v. wade's potential overturn is "fuck people in red states" and not "look at how easily we can lose this."

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11 months

man, this is quietly a very, very big moment in American professional wrestling. I have written a lot about queer representation on wrestling shows at this level, and it is exceptionally rare for a gay wrestler to say that there gay and be affirmed for it

All Elite Wrestling

@AEW

11 months

Anthony Bowens has some news to break to Harley Cameron. WATCH #AEWRampage on TNT! @platinummax | @bowens_official | @realbillygunn | @itsdanni_ellexo

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3 years

In this shot, I put the actress center frame in front of a green screen and let a hundred non-Union people in a room I never visited do the majority of the work. Ingmar Bergman was my biggest inspiration.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

3 years

HBO Max’s @OnePerfectShot series, based on the Twitter account, will premiere later this year. The series follows directors such as Ava DuVernay, Jon M. Chu and Patty Jenkins as they discuss their most iconic shots and present one shot from an auteur who deeply influenced them.

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3 years

Hello! Are you a person who either dined at or worked at Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania, which existed for a brief time at the Mall of America? I am trying to put together an oral history of the place and would love to talk to you. My DMs are open, brother.

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3 years

Sesame Street hates Donald Trump so much they did the same sketch about him gentrifying the neighborhood twice, once with Joe Pesci in a Trump wig.

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3 years

"Are you going to live in fear forever?" is such a weird question to ask an American. Like, yes, that is the eternal project of this country.

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2 years

The four American art forms are comic books, jazz, professional wrestling, and Jackass.

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6 years

*send tweet*

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5 years

By age 30 you should be: - a bitch - a lover - a child - a mother

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4 years

Apparently flyovers cost somewhere in the vicinity of $80,000. An N95 mask costs about $1.30. So, you know, each flyover to salute first responders could be 61,500 masks for them instead.

ABC News

@ABC

4 years

U.S. Navy Blue Angels, Air Force Thunderbirds fly over New York City area to pay tribute to first responders on the front lines of the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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10 months

“CM Punk won’t be able to handle people booing him.” My dude, he was straight edge in high school. He will be fine.

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7 years

brb, screaming

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2 months

Hell yeah brother.

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7 years

The 1990s ruled.

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5 years

Probably the worst two sentences in Gay Media 2019.

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10 months

Bro this is insane. This is as hard as Ishii can put someone over.

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10 months

Takeshita just knocked Tomohiro Ishii the F*CK OUT!

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3 years

When Caitlyn Jenner said she was living as her authentic self she meant “a massive bitch who sucks.”

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5 years

Remember when Ryan Adams put out a cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989 and tons of music media treated it like that dude was making art out of garbage? I wonder if the kind of system that treats the art women make like that also enables the men who leech off of it to be monsters.

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4 years

“Go study the transgender process and get back to me, junior” is going into the arsenal.

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4 years

Nyla Rose turned Chris Jericho into an outspoken trans ally in less than an hour wow her power

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5 years

I think my favorite thing about Nailed It is that a French pastry chef is stuck in a very specific circle of hell where Americans keep feeding him Rice Krispie treats.

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4 years

If I get sick or die people like Charlotte Clymer will absolutely celebrate it as proof of their moral and intellectual superiority. I carry this with me every fucking day.

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5 years

How did white feminists come up with something worse than the pussy hat so quickly?

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5 months

Incredible fits

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8 months

I wonder what other famous stories there are about Vince McMahon’s concern for workers who get injured on WWE’s shows.

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@colettearrand

4 years

Here are two more protective measures being taken by the University of Georgia, a school that has a $1.3B endowment.

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4 years

1. JK Rowling discloses abuse in a ~4000 word essay about how trans people aren’t real. 2. The Sun takes that and interviews her abuser. 3. British MPs call The Sun abhorrent/Rowling’s dehumanizing essay heroic. 4. Trans charities have to tweet that they abhor abuse.

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4 months

If the lesbians who are into Rhea Ripley got into 90s joshi, queer culture would be immeasurably better for it.

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4 years

The part that fucks me up about this isn’t that Charlotte is trans or a liberal grifter or whatever, but that *thousands* of people like her agree and find it easy to gloat in the face of boundless human suffering.

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4 years

You ever think about how Star Trek hints at Whoopi Goldberg being a space wizard but they never follow through on it?

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2 years

Somebody brought Heathcliff’s meat helmet to AEW Dynamite.

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4 years

This is Heath Slater’s one official WWE t-shirt, btw.

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3 months

On the subject of WWE’s media scrum, every single question should be about Vince McMahon. Every single one. If they say they can’t comment? Ask anyway. If they end the press conference early? You’ve done your job.

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4 years

"He's back, which means he didn't do it" is the sort of wrestling fan sentiment that guarantees that wrestling will continue to be a safe haven for abusers.

WWE NXT

@WWENXT

4 years

Back in his element. #WWENXT @DreamWWE

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5 months

Henry Kissinger died during wrestling?

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2 years

If you, the fans, want to stop transphobic wrestling signs from appearing at shows, grab them and rip them up.

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3 years

It took five fucking days.

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3 years

Can’t wait for the government to use the vaccine as an excuse to provide no further assistance to us.

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4 years

Every time someone asks Werner Herzog what he watches and he says “wrestlemania” and there is no follow-up, this is what we miss out on.

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6 years

Here is Herzog trying to remember the gist of WrestleMania X7:

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5 years

Every tweet about how Jessica Biel “came out” as anti-vax makes me hate heterosexuality for creating the need for people to “come out” as anything, since now what you can come out as is “queer,” “trans,” or “in favor of the return of preventable disease thru your child.”

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4 years

@nonmodernist I feel safer already.

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9 months

Two clout chasers who never built a thing on their own. They deserve each other.

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9 months

man I swear if some of y’all don’t shut the fuck up

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4 years

Apparently the painter’s tape is there to keep the shield in place until the glue binds to the desk. The university, which has been closed since March, only had the time to source two sizes of plexiglass, which don’t do anything for people over 6’, if it does anything at all.

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6 years

Casting aside that this is an incredibly femme diesel dyke, that MUFF DIVA croptop is fucking incredible.

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1 year

Ah, the circle of life.

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3 years

This is apparently a widely-held belief.

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2 years

Stokely Hathaway vs. Zack Sabre Jr. at Forbidden Door

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4 years

Everyone who says that Bret Hart “isn’t cool” and “can’t cut a promo” can eat shit, he just bodied two legends in 20 seconds while working PROPS.

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don't feel sorry for him

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5 years

Making Totino’s pizza rolls in a skillet because yr girl keeps it ✨artisanal✨

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2 years

Four years sober today. This year feels like a real accomplishment, tbh.

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2 years

Bryan Danielson making “I have good cardio” a heel character is beyond anything I’ve seen in wrestling.

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4 years

The faculty listserv is BURNING UP on this shield situation rn.

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7 years

"It's unfortunate that my professional wrestling pursuits keep me away from my personal studies in demonic lore."

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1 year

Beginning to think that the way we’re taught to process narrative storytelling doesn’t leave much room for the possibility of just making something beautiful or interesting because you can’t extract any intrinsic “value” from it.

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I have a question. What do explicit sex scenes achieve that implied sex scenes don’t? Unless an important plot point/character moment/relationship moment is taking place during the scene, does it actually need to be explicit?

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3 years

Please don’t put an * after “trans” unless you’re denoting that our community’s home run totals from the late 90s are in dispute due to our use of anabolic steroids.

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3 months

Man, it’s almost as if asking questions at the press conference yielded real, measurable consequences that will require the company to further engage with the lawsuit they’d rather you forgot about. Strange.

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TKO Stock Sags As Investors Weigh Vince McMahon Liability; Asked About Explosive Lawsuit, WWE Content Chief Paul Levesque Instead Touts Company’s “Amazing Week”

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2 years

So, in news that still doesn’t feel real to me, I’m starting up at Merge Records tomorrow as their new junior publicist.

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5 years

It feels like nitpicking, but man, it feels like about half the people who say “including in cases of rape and incest” are making a value judgement that some abortions are more justified than others, when abortion is a right, period.

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@IANdrewDiceClay A man who can’t wait for Shawn to get to the fucking point.

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2 years

Wrestler of the Year: Eddie Kingston Promo of the Year: Eddie Kingston Match of the Year: Eddie Kingston vs CM Punk Color Commentator of the Year: Eddie Kingston

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3 years

So “throwback SmackDown” means original SD logo, a WWE logo that was out of service roughly five years before SD started, and a graphic motif that’s early Hulkamania. This company, I swear.

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4 years

At the point now where all of the jokes are starting to bleed together, so I’m gonna mute this. Stay safe, advocate for remote education, reinstate the $600 unemployment benefit, etc.

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3 years

Letting wrestling fans back into arenas was a mistake.

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4 years

Like, I know that it’s complicated for people on the outside of this issue looking in, but the biggest author in the world not only got away with equivocating her abuse with the mere presence of trans women, but she’s being called a hero for it.

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4 years

Vox creating a first time protester database with enough input to effectively doxx someone is peak journalism not understanding the moment and its stakes.

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2 years

Gonna start making up genres of wrestling the way music journalists made up genres of music. Cottage catch, freak folkstyle, art wiggan, hyperhoss, sports entertainment, lariatcore, thrash kings road, suplexwave, UWFIDM

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3 years

As more details about WWE/Twitch stuff come out, the narrative needs to shift from “WWE wants the money” to “WWE has realized that third party things like Twitch give its labor more leverage than they’re comfortable with.”

WrestleTalk

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According to this report, Zelina Vega was making more money on Twitch that she was working for #WWE

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10 months

I saw a tweet the other day that was like “wrestlers have to look at a guy like Hiroshi Tanahashi and wonder if they want to be like that when they’re older” and I was like “what, hot, rich, famous, and a legit icon in his field?”

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7 years

@iamJwalt @MiataMike @imteddybless Don't live in the past my dude, that is the road to ~depression~

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3 months

“Vince McMahon is gone!” Brother, an empire he still holds stock in was built to allow this man to get away with human misery at an unimaginable scale, and others who benefited from that culture are still in power.

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1 year

re: blood in wrestling 1. Wrestlers test for bloodborne illnesses. 2. Wrestlers are consenting adults. 3. Bleeding has historically been safer than bumping. 4. If it is truly offensive, watch another product. Dozens exist.

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1 year

The unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

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7 months

@meakoopa He’s got those Iron Sheiks

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4 years

My favorite thing about WWE is how half of its roster and staff are on some caped crusader shit about child trafficking while simultaneously working with Velveteen Dream, a man credibly accused of grooming/sending nudes to children.

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1 year

This is the crowd that booed Elon Musk during Dave Chappelle’s set

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6 years

Here is Herzog trying to remember the gist of WrestleMania X7:

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1 month

Slim J’s tweets made me particularly sad because, while I never really bought into the idea that AEW was really going to Change Everything Wrong About Wrestling, finding out that they have WWE Performance Center subsistence-level contracts is beyond disheartening.

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4 years

Wrestlers need to unionize.

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2 years

@OrcGirlBoss In fairness, it’s hard to know which of the 16362015 cuts of the film she saw.

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5 months

I like it when straight guys say that male wrestlers have “the look” about hot guys instead of just saying that they’re hot.

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4 years

psst ... "late term abortions" are not a thing. what you're talking about is an abortion, and calling them "late term" cedes rhetorical ground to the bastards trying to curtail the right to an abortion at any stage of pregnancy.

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2 years

@nikostratis He went through the incredibly uncinematic process of filling out some fucking forms.

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2 years

Vince McMahon booked his employees to cheer for him.

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@colettearrand

5 years

Hello. I wrote this article about how I desperately want to see a trans person serve coffee or something mundane on TV.

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All I want to see is trans mediocrity on TV

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2 months

One of the things about AEW and NXT shrinking the indies is that the viral joke economy moves so fast that “Blue Kane” feels like someone whose time passed *years* ago.

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2 years

This is the funniest possible way of saying “this truck will sink in water.”

Road & Track

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2 years

Elon Musk says the Cybertruck can "serve briefly as a boat."

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4 years

I’m fucking SCREAMING

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7 years

I'm here to tell you that Jesus Christ was solidly in favor of transsexualism.

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2 years

nobody is safe under christofascism, friends

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7 months

I don’t want to seem like I’m complaining about King vs. Suzuki, but it’s wild to me that Tony Khan is throwing all of his best shots at beating NXT tomorrow and not one of them has been “a second women’s match.”

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6 years

I didn't realize how angry I could get today until I saw Jesse Singal paint the last five or six years of his life as a professional harasser of trans people as an oopsie.

🍓 Camellia-Berry Grass 🍓

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when you build a career out of incorrectly interpreting studies in order to defend conversion therapy but you suddenly have to save face when people see you for the cartoon villian you are

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3 years

I got to interview Atsushi Onita.

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5 years

WRITERS FOR ABORTION RIGHTS is live! Send us your receipt from a donation to an abortion fund, and one of 70+ writers will give you feedback on two pages of whatever it is that you're working on:

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