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Savvy Saturday

Whether you're taking a road trip or going camping, having a quality first aid kit is a handy asset to have.

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💫🌙 Who doesn't love a nice road opener spell to help clear the blockages that stand in your way to your goals? Keys have been very prevalwnt in my life right now, so using them as a symbol to unlock new beginnings only seemed fitting. What are some of your favourite symbols to use for clearing roadblocks?

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The Road to... Wrestlemania XL

Part 4: Sami Zayn vs. Gunther, LWO vs. Escobar & Dominik, 6-Way Tag Team Ladder Match, & Damage CTRL vs. Belair, Naomi, & Cargill

On top of the three I have already mentioned, there are four other matches on Wrestlemania XL Saturday!

We have Damage CTRL, who have been running roughshod over the Smackdown Women's Division for the better part of the year. We'll get to the crown jewel of that faction tomorrow, but their three other members are in action on Saturday. The Women's Tag Team Champions, The Kabuki Warriors (Kairi Sane & Asuka), and Dakota Kai are representing the unit as they take on a trio of popular women's stars.

There's the returning Naomi, who rejoined the WWE in January, and is keen to show-up the unruly faction. There's also Bianca Belair, a multi-time women's champion who has been frequently undone by Damage CTRL. Completing their team is the debuting Jade Cargill. She has wrestled just one WWE match, that being the 2024 Royal Rumble where she made an immediate impression. She's joined Naomi & Belair in their fight against Damage CTRL, so the stage is set for Wrestlemania.

There's also a big 6-team ladder match for both the Raw Tag Team Championships and the Smackdown Tag Team Championships! The Judgment Day have been on top of the tag team division, holding both titles for almost the entirety of the last 9 months. This will prove a challenge for the dark and dominant team of Damien Priest and Finn Balor...

There's the 11-time champions The New Day, Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods. The happy-go-lucky team are always favourites to win a big match, having been some of the strongest champions in recent years. The team of #DIY are also in the match. Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa have had their ups and downs, but when they're on the same page like they are now they're one of the best teams out there. You can never count out the team of Awesome Truth though, The Miz & R-Truth. The cocky and opinionated Miz will do anything to win, and Truth is entirely unpredictable, whether he means to be or not! He may have extra motivation too, having thought he was in The Judgment Day despite their dislike for him, leading to them feuding with the rapping wrestler.

Smackdown has some hot tag teams also in contention too though! There's the New Catch Republic, the former British Strong Style team of Tyler Bate & Pete Dunne. They challenged for the titles at Elimination Chamber in a losing effort, but these awesome young wrestlers are some of the best in the world and they'll want to get the belts on the second attempt. Lastly, there's also A-Town Down Under, Austin Theory & Grayson Waller. This mouthy and underhanded pair will be keen to win here and laud this accomplishment over the rest of the roster. Who will claim each set of titles in this chaotic matchup?

Speaking of tag teams, we have a tag team matchup between the Latino World Order and the team of Santos Escobar & Dominik Mysterio. When Rey Mysterio revived the LWO name, Santos Escobar was honoured to be a part of such a legendary faction. However, he grew frustrated with the Hall of Famer, and he would shockingly and brutally turn his back on Mysterio with a vicious beatdown. He would bring back his faction Legado del Fantasma with new members Angel Garza and Humberto Carillo, and they have been at loggerheads with the remaining LWO for months. However, when Mysterio & Escobar finally went head-to-head, the masked man's son Dominik, who had long-since distanced himself from his father, helped Escobar cheat a win.

A year after Rey defeated his son at Wrestlemania, a tag match was set up with Santos & Dominik against Rey and the newest member of the LWO, Dragon Lee. Despite the faction containing the tag team of Joaquin Wilde & Cruz Del Toro, plus legend Carlito, already in their ranks, Mysterio reached out to his fellow masked man for assistance. Carlito would find Lee injured on Friday Night Smackdown though, and a change had to be made. But in a surprise, Andrade El Idolo, a former rival of Mysterio's, showed up to assist the LWO against Legado del Fantasma and The Judgment Day's Dominik. Andrade would join LWO and be the man to tag with Rey at Wrestlemania.

Will it be the nefarious team of Santos Escobar & Dominik Mysterio?

Or will the veteran Rey Mysterio and his ally Andrade El Idolo come out on top?

And of course, there's the big match for the Intercontinental Championship. Gunther, the big man from Austria, has held the title for a record-breaking 665 days. However, if there's anyone who can defy the odds, it's Sami Zayn. Zayn has gone through a lot in recent years: joining The Bloodline, breaking out of The Bloodline, winning the tag team titles in the main event of Wrestlemania 39 Saturday. He has yet to taste singles gold since he became a fan favourite again, and he is struggling to wear his heart on his sleeve once again to defeat the champion. He was able to win a gauntlet match to earn the opportunity though, despite his previous doubts of how he gets onto the card, and has been working with one of Gunther's biggest rivals throughout his reign, Chad Gable. The former Olympian has been training Zayn on all his experience with Gunther, but only time will tell if he can defeat the leader of Imperium, Gunther.

That's all for Wrestlemania XL Saturday! You can also check out WWE's compilation videos for the ladder match, Rey & Andrade vs. Dom & Santos and Zayn vs. Gunther!

DIY Pottery Work Table & Drying Box Combo

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WIP of Automaton, as of 24 May. One of the great challenges for me with regards to my recordings this year has been sorting out what to do with my voice. My whole life I’ve received negative feedback on my singing voice almost exclusively. Until quite recently, I’ve been encouraged by listeners to let others be the primary/sole vocalist in all my work, which makes obvious sense when my collaborators’ talents are considered but still made me feel bad. Only in the past several months have I gotten any positive singing feedback from anyone except my partner, but even that has been couched in “we never knew you were actually good”. When said about something as personal as the voice, and my voice being a quality I have learned to be exceptionally sensitive and guarded about, those compliments I only took as, at best, condescending. I’ve had a lifelong habit of shirking what I perceive to be mainstream measures of success. Instead, I seek different ways to define myself, by which I could possibly be among the very best, unlike the standards presented to me. This is not a strength. I despise this quality, even, and it has had negative, material consequences in my life. However, until I unlearn this vile tendency, it is part of me, and I must understand myself accurately. Inspired by vocalists like Sue Tompkins of Life Without Buildings, Tim Darcy of Ought, and Isaac Wood of Black Country, New Road (and many others), I resolved to find my own lane in which my voice could succeed. “Shouty” I had been called when I still sang with my high school band. I stopped singing in that group after a couple of years. “Have the other singers sing more” was the thought offered upon hearing my college group, for which I was bandleader, sole songwriter, producer, engineer, nearly every credit possible. How deflating for months of work representing the height of my technical and artistic achievement to be chewed up and spat out as “less You would make this better”. That record was the purest distillation of my creative voice possible, and someone told me they’d rather have less of my actual voice on it. Crushing. If I couldn’t succeed at singing Well, I’d just make my own rubric. Get expressive, intense, own my own Shoutiness and just talk and shout and monologue. Sometimes I took that too far. But it felt good to lean into my identity in such a bold way, and sometimes receive positive feedback from people who Got It. Automaton (finally the real subject of the post) is lyrically about lots of things. The production choice to double-track my vocals is the relevant quality, though. Double-tracking vocals isn’t new or experimental. There’s a great history of artists using this as a signature sound, like Phoebe Bridgers and Elliott Smith, to pick just two serial offenders. But for me, it was a step into the great wide open. It’s my attempt to reel myself back in to more traditional singing, but push for a new aesthetic I had never tried. I haven’t settled on the choice yet, but making that choice at all is an act of reclamation of my voice lost.

all my f/os laughing at my haircut. Ok.

new DIY alert!

finally finished those predominantly mad max: fury road themed patch pants i was talking about! they were a huge project starting out, but i was so excited to start them, since the base is a pair of handmade pants i got from my family. the fact that these bad boys are massive enough to drown out 40-ish patches is wild

January patterns are up on my Ko-fi Shop!

Let me know if you make them 💙💙

Crochet Video Tutorial - How To Crochet: The Rail Road Stitch!

Crochet Video Tutorial – How To Crochet: The Rail Road Stitch!

https://crochetml.com/crochet-video-tutorial-how-to-crochet-the-rail-road-stitch/ Thanks for visiting my page! Here is my newest video on how to make the Rail Road Stitch! I hope you guys enjoy it! 💛👏😄 Like and subscribe to see more videos from me and Please leave me any suggestions for future videos! Also I’d love feedback on my settings/lighting/sound too! ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ Check out this playlist featuring more Stitches with…

went to the first ever show of a trans artist i've been listening to a lot lately, and i dressed femme for the first time in public. she thinks she bombed her set but she helped me get the courage to show who i am to the world so i loved every second of it

I restored a bike I bought at an estate sale and made a post about it (and a web site to post the post on)