Hollllllyyyy shit. Aight. Two parts.
1) I don’t feel this is deserved fully because I haven’t voted in the btbotm. Anyone (mostly fwa guys) that knows my situation knows I’m out the door busy with a lot of shit going on in my personal life. It hurts me to admit but the reason I haven’t voted is that I’ve barely had time to do anything aside from update my btb whenever I can. Off-site writing projects have had to be stopped for the foreseeable, the efed run has halted to the point that I completely missed this years flagship PPV after being featured extremely prominently the last two years. I work a 32 hour week and attend university full time as a mature student PLUS do placement and substitution teaching fairly regularly. There’s so many btbs I wanna check out fully and there’s so many people I wanna pay back for feedback and engagement. My latest placement ends tomorrow and I vow that before I update my btb again imma spread some love around and read enough to vote next month. That’s a promise.
2) woaaaah omfg I’m a slithery scumbag so I’ll take the award anyway!!! All jokes aside, it’s kinda hard to put into words what this accolade means to me, it’s akin to winning my first singles title in the efed after nearly seven years contributing, maybe even greater. Between here and wc I’ve been doing projects for… fuck, like, 13 years? This is the first one of these I’ve ever been honoured to receive. I could never ever make a project stick. I’d more started projects than I could count and only ever (at best) made it to two or three updates. I’d the wandering eye syndrome BAD. Truth be told, I don’t watch wrestling pretty much at all anymore. I don’t think I’ve watched regularly since pre-pandemic. Before then even. I think the last time I’d a couple of months run watching a weekly was smackdown live in 2016. Ever since I first came onto wrestling forums I’ve always wanted to run a somewhat successful BTB and despite not really keeping up with wrestling, that never really went away. TNA 2010 was my most passionate time as a fan of wrestling and in the back of my mind the idea to run a booker around this era was always there. I must’ve planned out a dozen different iterations of TNA in 2010 and never pulled the trigger. Finally, a few months ago, I did. I took the leap and said this will be my last roll of the dice, so it may as well be my passion project. And here we are. Crazy.
thanks so so so much guys. It honestly means the world. All I’ll say is: do it. Do that passion project. Do the thing you want to do more than anything else. Even if it is cliche. Even if you get through it slowly. Write for yourself and trust the process. Just do it. Honestly folks, I’m so chuffed.
ps -
@Doom thanks for the sick banner. As soon as I get onto a laptop I’ll finally have an sig on Smarks.
love you all,
tig
pps - if you’re reading this… YO JON! I DID IT!
