Gentleman's Combatives

“When fighting against Royce Gracie, Ismail was the only one who accepted the conditions that Royce proposed for the bout, like having no point scoring and no time limit, thus making the fight only winnable by submission. The fight took four minutes and fifty three seconds, until Wallid defeated Gracie with the Relógio, the Clock Choke, a move that has been associated with Wallid ever since.”

my favourite thing about They Live is how this dude sees roddy piper shirtless once and asks him if he's got a place to live and invites him to his own place. gay rights.

“Let’s tackle the most common, and most pernicious, falsehood: Trans women competing in sport are men who self-identify as women in order to gain an unfair advantage. In order to compete in most competitive sports, trans women have to satisfy strict criteria to prove that they have undergone hormone treatment. They have suppressed testosterone levels for a certain period of time (often a minimum 12 months). On top of that is the description of a trans woman who has undergone hormone treatments as “biologically male.” Although biological sex has a number of different elements to it, hormones play a significant role, especially when it comes to performance. The idea that someone who isn’t trans would do this just for an athletic advantage is absurd. In the history of trans people in sport, since Renee Richards competed in the Women’s US Open Tennis Championships in the late 1970s, that has literally never happened.”

Sci-fi illustrations by Gino d’Achille (1935-2017), for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars series mostly.

MONICA BELLUCCI Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

MONICA BELLUCCI Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

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