Dana

Women's wrestling, rally, RPGs, Fallen London, tokusatsu. She/her. Anti-capitalist, trans, painfully gay.

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

Hi! I'm pretty new to this sort of thing but I've had a couple people ask how they could support my translation work so, I've finally gotten around to setting up a kofi account! https://t.co/I74uQmE7wl

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

@summertimedyke 🥰

[Storybook TJPW (also on bsky) @StorybookTJPW]

I had a few run-ins with Thom Fain re: some things he (and Monthly Puroresu) did with TJPW. He belittled me when I called him out, then tried to push all of the blame onto his trans employee rather than have his own publication publicly take responsibility for their twitter posts

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

So much of Stardom has gotten so much better in the past year but finally getting rid of Sonny for this guy instead was such a monkeys paw situation. I just avoid Stardom's english content entirely for now.

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

(I'm crossposting my comments from bsky:) I unfollowed Stardom's english accounts the day I heard Thom Fain had been hired there and nearly quit the company altogether, and that was based on accounts I'd heard from completely different people.

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

Being white and having money carry him to opportunity after opportunity despite some of the worst quality of work in a field where the bar is already on the floor.

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

@summertimedyke When this first came out I watched an entire discord server watch this and go oh Unagi & Poi are FUCKING

[Bangaranga Benghalensis @Mizmi_Studio]

話題になってる「私はカマたくの動画を観ているから同性愛嫌悪者じゃない」と弁明したDesperadoが元々拡散して海外から批判されていたのはこの片山さつき(自民全ての女性を守る議連代表)とカマたくのトランスジェンダーヘイトデマ及びヘイトスピーチの動画だそうで弁明は完全にズレていて苦しいです。

[Kuma @golden_kuma]

Those are all that I could find right away but they got decent amount of traction and more importantly they are absolutely on point. Even Desperado responded to one of them.
My point is he deserves these criticisms and should learn from them.

[Kuma @golden_kuma]

Desperado was caught sharing a video featuring a recent online variant of that kind of grifter and there have been non-zero amount of criticisms from the Japanese side as well (even a LGBTQ+ media account who's totally alien to the wrestling discourse mentioned it)

[Storybook TJPW (also on bsky) @StorybookTJPW]

I know it's hard when there are language barriers both ways, and no one likes to find out that a wrestler they like posted something that contains transphobic dog whistles, but please make sure you understand what is being criticized before you dismiss it
https://t.co/nYTS3Em89L

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

@summertimedyke https://t.co/04RjEJLor5

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

@summertimedyke Okay you can just @ me if you're gonna tweet about me you know jesus

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

@summertimedyke Okay you can just @ me if you're gonna tweet about me you know jesus

[axelmania @axelmania5]

i see no one who likes kamitani watches her comments. this is her true personality. she has always been cruel and arrogant, so much so ami called her out for it last year and the fans were turning on her. now that she's at rock bottom, why wouldn't she make the selfish choice?

[axelmania @axelmania5]

venues $1
dojo $1
streaming $1
gravure $10000000
merch $1
wages $1
tospo placement $1000

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my fledgling joshi promotion is dying.

[axelmania @axelmania5]

the tone here is actually of poi warning anou that if she takes too long to respond and go back to her old self, poi will just go for the white belt without her. it's not looking great for them rn. please stop using ai 😔

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

I know wrestling fans are real quick to praise a booker for success but like, don't discount how important and good a roster that cares about what they're doing is. The wrestlers make the art, a good booker is like a good ref - mostly invisible and just ushering things along.

[Dana @ItsDanaNow]

Actually one more thing before I go. Okada said a while ago he asked Aja Kong for advice and she told him "your job isn't to show 'Okada's Stardom', it's to facilitate the work these wrestlers want to do." I really hope this is a sign that he fuckin listened bc my god.