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This is one of my favorite moments from the recent Tag Team match produced by American Beefcake Wrestling. Johnny Bronco gives poor Travis Maverick a devastating Over-the-Knee Backbreaker, then plants his elbow in that lean midsection to perform a Gun Show. Meanwhile Travis's impressive bulge is trying to steal our attention.

If you check out the ABW catalog, you'll see that the four wrestlers in this tag team match are no strangers to one another. There are only so many "Beefcake" guys who can qualify for the ABW roster, so they've had to face off repeatedly. Both sets of teammates have squared off at least once, and I think they've wrestled every possible combination and permutation of 2-against-1 matches.

I was gonna list all the times Blayne wrestled Gato, Travis wrestled Blayne, Gato wrestled Travis and Blayne, etc. but it's too much. Let's just say these guys are in a very enjoyable Quadruple relationship.

Here are other examples of Johnny Bronco in singles competition, administering his OTK Backbreaker on both Travis and Blayne. I'm guessing if I keep searching, I could find Johnny doing this to Gato as well.

@tazmiilly and i talked for no fewer than six hours today about parallel ford and his mobility aids. here's some of what i came up with

you can barely see it but credit to @badwaves for the institute logo (link to a drawing he did with it)

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After having to live in a lead lined room for 2 years, just to keep Bill from possessing him, Ford took to exploring a lot. Which is why he decided to order a custom “rain-trenchcoat”. He also treats the anomalies in containment better than he would have in the past. Something about living in containment made him understand what you miss from the outside world, including plants and sunlight.

Better World Bill, instead of removing the pain of getting ripped apart, left Stanford in that pain when he threatened to send someone to steal his eyes in 72 hours. The only silver lining about that was that Ford didn’t get to burn the journal pages about it; and Stanley found them soon after arriving and fighting with him.

Better world Ford was eventually cured of that chronic pain that no painkillers could alleviate, but he did have lasting side effects. Sometimes he doesn’t realize how bad an injury is because the pain is so minimal compared to what Bill did. He had to relearn lab safety and to use an oven mitt when you pick up a hot pan, for example. It’s slowly getting better, both because Stan and Mcgucket are there to remind him, and because students need to learn the safe way to do experiments.

Ford was also training himself during the 2 years he lived with the chronic pain. He wanted to be able to walk, run, and fight so when they got the chance, he could help kill Cipher. It wasn’t until after he was cured of the pain with outside help that he realized he had a leg injury. The chronic pain had made him struggle to walk, which was one of the first things that threw Stanley off when he arrived in Gravity Falls. So nobody realized Ford had hurt his leg for real.

When Stanley, Ford, and Fiddleford went to the nightmare realm and killed Bill, Ford took the last piece of Euclidia back with him. Some alien wizards helped Stanford contain the Euclidia atom in a durable orb and build the redwood cane he uses.

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Shadowheart/Tav (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Shar (Dungeons & Dragons), Arnell Hallowleaf, Emmeline Hallowleaf Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Violence, Eventual Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff, Torture, Implied/Referenced Torture, Psychological Torture, Implied/Referenced Abuse Series: Part 10 of Of Night Orchids, Lace, & Steel Summary:

Intent on revenge, Shar takes aim at Shadowheart’s most dearly beloved: Tav.