wrestling that was good last year

I may make another post about the overall media I liked in 2025, but what’s most important is my beautiful huperfixation: wrasslin’. I watched a lot of wrestling last year, mostly AEW, and here are some highlights of things I liked.

DPW Beast Coast and the Surprise MOTY

Miracle Generation with their tag titles, GYV look on angy. (I took this picture)

This is the big one. I went to DPW’s Beast Coast show live in New Jersey and it was god damn incredible. I got so see so many of my favorite indie folks. I got to see Mad Dog Connelly and Dominic Garrini beat the shit out of each other. I got to see Jake Something be the coolest dude ever and Adam Priest and Trevor Lee on levels of toxic yaoi never before seen. I got to see EMI SAKURA VS MEI SERUGA. Literally what more could you want.

But honestly, the biggest surprise for me was Miracle Generation defending their tag titles against Grizzled Young Veterans. And it’s not like I’m not a fan of either of those teams! But compared to tag teams I’ve seen in DPW like Violence is Forever and Speedball x Something, they just never particularly stood out to me. Well now I feel like shit about that because watching this match in person was a god damn electrifying experience. I have never seen hotter tags. Just the pure, distilled essence of what makes wrestling awesome.

I really need to get more into local indies this year. Definitely want to go to some JCW shows.

Cashing In My Harley Cameron Stocks

Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale making me the most valid person ever.

My favorite thing in wrestling is when I see someone and think “y’know this person has potential everyone should keep an eye on them” long before everyone else does. I was big into the Gunn Club long before everyone realized how fun they could be, and now I am on top of the world because I saw Harley Cameron on god damn QTV and thought “Hey, does she wrestle? I think she could be a great personality.”

AND GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT. Seeing Harley get more and more over, to the point of winning the women’s tag titles with Willow Nightingale (who I also adore) by the end of the year, was such a fun experience. I got a Babes of Wrath t-shirt for Christmas. I love you Harley. Thank you for validating me.

speebo

 

nobody's doin it like this guy (gender neutral).

Similar but not exactly the same experience, of course everyone who follows the indies already knew Speedball Mike Bailey was an all-timer, but seeing how easily and quickly they got over with the AEW crowd made me feel so good and happy. I don't know, I can start to feel jaded about "representation" sometimes but seeing someone nonbinary be this good and get this much screen time warms my little heart. Pairing them with Kevin Knight was also a genius choice, it was a great year for tag teams that were kinda just thrown together, Brodido being another one. Speedball my best friend Speedball. Would love commentary to throw in a they/them when talking about him sometimes but I guess you can't have everything.

I'm thinking of some other stuff, but I'd probably need to sit down and really think a long time to get my thoughts in order, and if I'm gonna be making a post a day I can't really do that, so that'd it for now. Wrestling good. 

 

WHAT’S UP EVERYBODY! WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

 

It’s funny that the only other post on this blog was a rundown of LIW representation that I posted in 2018. Kind of want to do a follow up with the smaller amount that came out from like 2018-2020.

Anyways, I will try to do a blog in 2026. Next post will probably be talking about some Media I Like from last year. In case you couldn’t tell the SnapCube/RTVS Kingdom Hearts fandub was one of them. Very excited for HL2VRAI. Happy 2026 I guess. The world sucks but maybe I can do some good things this year.

Where We Are and Where We Were in Literary Web Series: 2013 - 2017

DISCLAIMER: I have not seen all of the series I speak about. I have looked into the ones I have not watched, but it is possible that, for example, an actor is white passing but actually a POC, or a character is queer but I missed the episode where they were established as such.

Fitz Williams (Craig Frank) with Lizzie Bennet (Ashley Clements) in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Fitz was the first queer character in a literary web series, and also the first queer character of color.

2013: 

• Of the 8 literary web series active in 2013, there were 18 characters that can be considered leads. Of these 18 leads, 6 (33.3%) were POC, and 0 were queer.
• Of the 8 literary web series active in 2013, there were 61 characters that can be considered leads or regulars. Of these 61, 20 (32.8%) were POC, and 2 (3.3%) were queer. Only one character (1.6%) was a queer POC — Fitz Williams from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

Jamie Watson (Sara-Renee Weatherby) and Mary Morstan (Reva Stover). Mary was the first queer woman of color in a literary web series.

2014: 

• Of the 19 literary web series active in 2014, there were 51 characters that can be considered leads. Of these 51 leads, 4 (7.8%) were POC, and 7 (13.7%) were queer.
• Of the 19 literary web series active in 2014, there were 141 characters that can be considered leads or regulars. Of these 141, 16 (11.4%) were POC, and 12 (8.5%) were queer. Again, only one character (0.7%) was a queer POC — Mary Morstan from The Adventures of Jamie Watson (and Sherlock Holmes).

A Document of Madness was notable for both its Hamlet (Xavier Pacheco) and Horatio (Michelle Taplin) being played by people of color.

2015: 

• Of the 22 literary web series active in 2015, there were 60 characters that can be considered leads. Of these 60, 11 (18.3%) were POC, and 21 (35%) were queer. 6 leads (10%) were queer people of color.
• Of the 22 literary web series active in 2015, there were 187 characters that can be considered leads or regulars. Of these 187, 34 (18.2%) were POC, and 59 (31.6%) were queer. 15 leads or regulars (8%) were queer people of color.

Anne Shirley (Laura Eklund Nhaga) confessed to having a crush on her best friend Diana Barry (Jutta Majava) in a 2016 episode of the long-running series Project Green Gables.

2016: 

• Of the 25 literary web series active in 2016, there were 72 characters that can be considered leads. Of these 72, 25 (34.7%) were POC, and 38 (52.8%) were queer. 15 leads (20.8%) were queer people of color.
• Of the 25 literary web series active in 2016, there were 223 characters that can be considered leads or regulars. Of these 222, 54 (24.3%) were POC and 96 (43.2%) were queer. 26 leads or regulars (11.7%) were queer people of color.

Bisexual Alex Everett (Liv Chavez) and lesbian Adriana Hill (Grace Brunson)’s romance was a key element in the 2017–2018 web series Twincidents. Chavez also played Alex Everett’s twin Alex Seymour, who was bi as well.

2017: 

• Of the 21 literary web series active in 2017, there were 55 characters that can be considered leads. Of these 52, 18 (34.6%) were POC, and 37 (71.2%) were queer. 16 leads (30.8%) were queer people of color.
• Of the 21 literary web series active in 2017, there were 162 characters that can be considered leads or regulars. Of these 162, 38 (23.5%) were POC, and 81 (50%) were queer. 26 leads or regulars (16%) were queer people of color.

Below I have created graphs of this information.

Graph of leads over time by percentages

Graph of leads and regular characters over time by percentages