2015 Reflections

So I was thinking about how the New Year is coming up (and the inevitable RDJ memes complete with eye roll orgasm face) and I thought about my over all year in eFedding for 2015.

There were some really good moments, and some really good story.  There were some not so good as well.

I'm not really in the mood for a rant so those people and feds that might deserve a little Flamethrower Love (tm) aren't getting it today.  If you fucked up and are reading this I'm of the mind that you already know what you did and either apologized already (or didn't give a fuck in the first place lol).

TAG TEAM!!!  Wooooooooooo!

I got to do some fun tag teams this year - including FUCKING FINALLY a team of Christian Kane and Kitty Sasso.  That took us how long?  It was fun, and GDI it was glorious and while the ending of that falls under the heading of Flamethrower Love (tm) thanks to some asshats?  I still would have wanted to do this team.  The fact that we would have still been doing this team and aren't tells you all you need to know.  #Vanagloria

I was also blessed enough to run #SHERISSA with Sherry Diamond-Kane and Marissa Diamond-Kane.  Oh My God.  We had one hell of a run in Sin City Wrestling (@scwcentral) and I feel good about the attention we got for the tag team division.

S&V - now this is a newer team, so brand spanking new that we just literally got our first win in Carnage Wrestling (@carnagewrestlin).  This is the team of Shirlea Frost and Vivian Lee and man they are the smart ass weaselly cheatery heel beautiful bad girls :D  I love the fact that they were written as blatantly cheating too.

THE RETURN OF THE RETURN OF THE INCEPTION OF MCGILLICUTTY ... lol.  Okay maybe that's just funny to me.

It likely is just funny to me and I'm okay with that.


I had some interesting "shake ups" character / storyline wise during 2015.   Aurora, arguably my most successful and dominant character to date took a hiatus after Phoenix Wrestling closed in April because she was pregnant and when I run a pregnancy story we do the full nine months yo.  This allowed me to soften up a few of her harder edges while she was involved in the industry and so forth due to her many connections but didn't have to actively compete.  We also embraced the ridiculous quite a bit, like taking Ashlyn's assertions that Aurora was a succubus and just sort of rolling that forward into Aurora's being a crossroads demon and then Queen of the Crossroads.  LOL to those unfamiliar with the character no, she does not actually believe she is a demon in real life, but bless everyone that sells the fuck out of her assertions she is.  I could link a ton of Tweets from characters like Lucy Jones, Dom Harter, and many others that just support this lovely fuckery.

We won't even get into the whole Narnia thing.  >.>

Like she Tweeted the other day, her household is rather unique in that only in her house are you going to find a Frost Giant (Legacy), a crossroads demon (herself), a furie (Aubrey J Parker-Wilkinson) and two pixies (Allegra and Nicoletta).

So fun.

Sherry took a hiatus as well, for active competition though she's going to be making frequent appearances as a trainer with that developmental fed thingy that SCW is going to be doing.  She's also fervently training with THRONE MMA alongside her wife Marissa and who knows what might come of that.

Noelle Smith had an interesting character arc for a good chunk of the tail end of the year.  I've seen the grumbling over it, and I'm again not in the mood to dispense the Flamethrower Love (tm).  What I am going to say is thank you.  Thank you to Max, Dion, Lisa, Sasso, Dimitri especially - you five were crucial to what went on and helped to sell, support, build, and grow the story.  An extra thank you goes out to the people who DIDN'T, NOT ONCE use the off cam goings on to blow the reveal of Ruby having taken Noelle's life over etc.  Whether you liked, loved, hated, wtfe'd the idea or story?  You didn't fall to the temptation to ruin it for anyone else, and for the people that faced Ruby and reacted as if she were Crazy Noelle, you get an extra tip of the hat.

Claire.  Oh Claire.  Of all my characters in 2015 none of them were quite as successful as Claire Foxe.  She started out as a side character for Kitty Sasso, a sort of shy mouse cousin that some had seen briefly in RP but never quite known who she was.  I repurposed a character Twitter and had a fun sort of "reveal" process going on but by the time I was done ... it wasn't who I had first thought might occupy the space, so to speak.  Claire poked her head up and said "Hi" and hasn't looked back since.  She really started to blossom when she met Lex Collins though and dear God.  Those two... if you have followed Lex at all the change in him is so monumental that I could devote a whole blog just to the layers of character development that have happened.  She's my first true blue all the way to the bone babyface.  Not even Noelle is this good a person, and that's woah.  It hasn't always been easy, but she's in a great place (@boardwalkw) that appreciate her and let me grow her story the way it should be.

Playing a face for me is uber hard, not because I'm not at heart a nice person, but because being a face of any kind in efedding can be tough.  You have to balance the need for trash / smack talk in a way that a real life face wouldn't have to, and still keep true to the character.  I think I've finally hit that stride with Claire :)

2015 also had the return of the return of (lol you knew I'd get back there) of the second character I ever made in eFedding, Cynthia Cross.  She'd had a decent start back in IWF, even finished out as their final Rising Phoenix Champion when the fed closed its doors.  But the more I thought about it, the more I realized ... she's not done.  I faced a few things that were problematic about a return for her - for one, the handler of her boyfriend was done with eFedding actively and while he may pop up for a cameo or two?  Frankly I've already got two major characters stuck in a situation where their other half are having to be done by me as well since the handlers retired and I was in no mood for a third.  So I thought about it for awhile, it wasn't something I wanted to just retcon though I could have fairly easily just because she wasn't a hugely known character... but that seemed just wrong on several levels.  This wasn't a case of the other handler being a jackass or a liar or something awful, he was just done.  I certainly understood that and still do.  But it left me with that problem... what now?

I decided when Sherry went on hiatus to bring Cynthia into SCW.  There were people there from IWF she knew in Dexter and West (or had been there like Molly and Gordon) and she knew from Aurora's husband that they were decent employers.  So there had been some plans for another character return that had to be put on hold - and I'm not revealing details because that's still happening and needs to be a surprise LOL... but when that had to be put on hold I realized there was no reason that Cynthia couldn't be the one that stepped up.  I'm so glad that I did, too.  We're getting some positive changes for her, and revealing the story of what happened between IWF's closing and her getting hired by SCW.  I'm loving how this is happening, and I'm excited to see what comes for her in 2016, especially now that she's met her a "nice boy".

LMFAO while I was typing this, we ended up in a Twitter conversation about vajazzling.

I also debuted very late in the year a character who had originally been created as a sort of  'straight man' foil for the comedy tag team Triple X Xpress, Vivian Lee.  She's running in Carnage of course and teaming with Shirlea (as mentioned above) and so far I am just loving this!  I get to work with a great writer that I get along with and I love tag teams - and she's got story to tell.  This is fun for me :D

Which leads me to : NON WRESTLER CHARACTERS!

I have two that I am so in love with playing, even though they don't actively compete anywhere (because oooh not wrestlers!).  These are Missy Mae and Sabrina Shaw.  Missy Mae is a character who was supposed to be one thing but right away took the reigns and told me what was up.  I got exceptionally lucky that things happened for her the way they did too.  She ended up hired by Jackson and things just unfolded from there.  Working with Jax has been something I've wanted to do for YEARS ... I've had several characters be a part of Jax's story, Sabra for example but this was more than that nearly right off the bat.  Right time, right place, and the chemistry was insane.  Some of the most intense characterwork I've done in years has been with Jax and Missy and I love it beyond expression.

And Sabrina?  She started out as a 'mere support' character for Xander Shaw and boy did that just not stop LOL.  She's become her own independent person, with her own friends and job, and everything.  It's always such a pleasant surprise to me when people tell me how much they like Sabrina :D

So yeah WOW.

Edit - you know there's a THIRD.  And I didn't include him the first time, which is an absolute crime really because he's been a character that I've had a long time and yet never got his chance to really shine.  I'm talking about Mikhail Petrov, Sabra's half brother (though most people think they're cousins).  He's got this amazing backstory and I'm finally getting to show him off and he's been a real thoroughbred as far as RP goes.  He's something else and I'm also looking forward for more people to see more of him now that he and his lovely, gorgeous wife Kaitlynn are more in the spotlight.

He's come a long way from the guy that made appearances in Sabra RP's and on SCW TV threatening to murder Extream.

In closing I want to thank first and foremost Lisa.  To take nothing away from other people I write with, she is amazing and everything we write has been a sheer and absolute joy for me even if I just look at it from a creative standpoint.  Sometimes we forget to thank the people we write with regularly because it becomes expected I guess?  But there isn't a single time that I write with her that I'm not just insanely happy that I got to, and so much of the best of what I've done this year has been with her.

Sasso, Cris, Benny, Josh, Kyle, MAX, Dion, Dimitri, Gordo - THANK YOU all as well.  I've worked regularly in at least some capacity with all of you and <3

A special thanks for Max, Kyle, and BMac for keeping me from losing my shit on people more than once :D

An extra special thanks to Sasso - you've taken SCW and made it what we always knew it could be, and we ALL of us see what you're doing and it's so very yay.

Love you guys to death :D

So Hi There Party Peoples - Shilling a Fed, out of Love.

Hey peoples!

Okay usually my blogs are helpful hints, don't be that guy posts, rants etc ...

today I'm going to shill a little.  :)

There are lots of feds out there - every time someone tells me that fedding is dying I lol because what this tells me is that they haven't actually looked around outside of their comfort zone bubble.  That's fine, but please don't piss on everyone else's good time just because your umbrella broke a strut.

The fed I'm going to talk about is Carnage Wrestling.

http://www.carnagewrestling.com/forum/

and can be found on Twitter @CarnageWrestlin

They are described as "Hybrid Bi-Weekly Intergender Fed! Always looking for good members. Give us a try. Great shows, Good Fun. CW: It's Home"

What they are?  Oh God.  Like I told one of the fedheads, Carnage Wrestling is a glorious hot mess of a fed and it's FUN.  Holy shit is it fun.

The rules are fairly simple, and can be found here: http://www.carnagewrestling.com/forum/index.php?topic=359.0

- CW is a HYBRID Fed.  By that, we mean that we strongly encourage you to work with other members closely to come up with stories and 'angles' that play out over time.  Parts of these stories or angles may include matches to have a predetermined winner.  That is not only perfectly okay, but encouraged.  Contendership points are still paid out to the winners of 'angled matches' due to CP being an In-Character system.
- However, MOST title matches will be contested under best RPs wins scenario.  Staff will only accept angling a title match if it's really necessary or if the angle desperately calls for it.

Some key points that people usually want to know about:
- There is a 3 Roleplay Limit per match, unless other wise specified in the Match Thread.
- Tag Team matches are the exception here, having a 2 RP limit.  One member of the team may post both RPs or, if a team has two handlers, they may split the posts up at one a piece.
- Word Limits: 4000 Word Limit per roleplay. (Unless otherwise noted on match thread.)  For most Championship matches, we will increase the word limit to 5000 words per roleplay.  

I suggest reading the entire rules page OF COURSE.

The fedheads care about things, and are very open to be approached to talk to about issues - just please be an adult if you check them out on my recommendation ;)

My active character there is Vivian Lee (@sweetvivianlee though I also have a non-wrestling character who is often seen on shows named Missy Mae (@missed_missy )

There are two belts, the top is currently held by Jackson (@bjaxsun) and the UltraViolent title (which he vacated at Chaos 11 - so it's up for grabs folks!)

For those that like having an extremely light travel schedule for their characters, the fed is based out of Baltimore and is in a way very reminiscent of ECW - a small, rabid fanbase and a place where up and comers rub elbows with big names on the way towards retirement.

So if you're looking for a place to build up a new character, bring back an old one who just didn't seem to have a place somewhere else I would suggest Carnage.

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A handy side note:  I've been asked by a few people where I'm currently running & what active characters so here's this:

Claire Foxe (@Claire_Foxe)  - Boardwalk Wrestling (@boardwalkw) http://www.boardwalkwrestling.com/index.php/forum

Cynthia Cross (@CynthiaJilliane) - Sin City Wrestling (@scwcentral)
http://z15.invisionfree.com/SCWforums/index.php

Noelle Smith (@Noelle_licious) - Frontier Grappling Arts (@fgawrestling)
http://fgawrestling.proboards.com/

Raechel Lynne Bello (@raechel_lynne)  (she's doing the MMA thing - it was BIG DOG FIGHTS but I forget what it changed to LOL)

Jet Blanchard (no Twitter) - Southern Cross Pro Wrestling (@SCPWOfficial)
http://s13.zifboards.com/SouthernCrossPro
This is a brand new fed, currently building roster.