Calm down, Tumblr!

I originally created a Tumblr for http://vince-sheila.tumblr.com/ as another fun way to microblog on what Vince and I do, while Blogger remained as my primary personal blog for my lengthy and not-so-coherent posts. After getting a few notes for some posts relating to WWE, I made a note on Tumblr that this is not a wrestling reaction blog and that I will try really hard to refrain from mentioning such things. Of course, I broke that when I noted that the last WWE Live show in Vegas this year updated their talent appearances to include Dean Ambrose (dammit!) and when I noted that WWEShop.com suddenly got new Dean Ambrose shirt designs. I didn't even add any tags to it but it still showed up.

For the most part, I didn't understand how anyone would get addicted to Tumblr, until I discovered what "tag lurking" was. It was the quickest way to browse anything in Tumblr related to your search. In my case, looking up "#deanambrose" and "#dean ambrose" yielded VERY weird results for me, ranging from Ambrose/Reigns and Ambrose/Bella shippers (yikes), to NSFW imagine blogs (YIKES), and this one blog that absolutely resents the beautiful Renee Young for not being open about dating Dean Ambrose (Well, she's not; Renee Paquette is dating Jonathan Good). Tumblr was pretty much a condensed search result engine and I found myself checking it on a daily basis, like Reddit.

Today, I got to truly see what makes Tumblr (and Twitter) enjoyable; the collective live reaction when something is revealed, and how quickly it gets picked up.

I laughed at the "OMG HOLY SHIT FINALLY!!1!1!" reactions from different Tumblr accounts because I felt the same way. Last August, Ambrose took time off for about a month to film the movie after being curbstomped by Seth Rollins (this was the Vegas show Vince and I went to) and there has been virtually little to no updates on it since then. When Ambrose stole the police paddy wagon back in May, it seemed to have reignited the discussion reminded the fangirls that there was still no "Lockdown" news and the fans were even bugging the actors and director on Twitter for updates. This was such a big surprise.

I haven't seen such a huge reaction to a WWE movie headlined by one of its own Superstars since John Cena starred in the first "12 Rounds" and "The Marine." Randy Orton was in the "12 Rounds" sequel and I didn't hear anything about it either. I've only seen excerpts of "The Marine" when it aired on FX years ago and even back then, Vince and I were just shitting on how predictable the movie was. WWE movies seem to border on either being passable or cheesy bad, and that's if it's being viewed with really low expectations, so I'll have to wait and see what the consensus is on this before watching it myself.

In the meantime, I'm just going to smile like a dork for a whole week since WWE is also featuring Ambrose as their first Superstar for their Body Series this Thursday. This monthly series consists of studio quality pics and a short video of a featured WWE Diva/Superstar working out. Natalya, Paige, and Eva Marie were the first Divas to be featured. So... There will be pics and video of Ambrose... Working out.

**fangirl mode activated**

"You know what we need? More Dean Ambrose shirts!"

After the Money in The Bank PPV and during Monday Night RAW and Smack Down!, Dean Ambrose was seen wearing his wife beater shirts again instead of his "DA" muscle shirt that he's been wearing for the last few months. That was his third shirt from wweshop.com. The first being the ugly "UNSTABLE" text on white and the second being "Dean Unstable Ambrose" as a parental advisory label on black (which is a callback to his indy and FCW designs that read "Explicit Mox/Ambrose Violence"). Anyways, I actually wondered if he was going to be getting a new shirt design. He could've simply chosen not to wear it that week.

And then Sunday night, WWEShop.com suddenly updated their new product listing. Not only did Ambrose get a new shirt design, he got 5 new shirt designs released all at once! And a (badly photoshopped) header image!

wweshop.com just quietly released 5 brand new Dean Ambrose t-shirt designs. What's going on?! #wweshop #deanambrose

A photo posted by sheila antonio (@sajcfan) on Jun 21, 2015 at 10:21pm PDT

This is BIG deal. Kevin Owens had 3 new shirts released when he signed on the main roster. And Samoa Joe was immediately signed to WWE after they saw how his one and only shirt sold out online on the night of his NXT debut. I remember reading last year that WWEShop.com had record breaking sales over Thanksgiving weekend and that their best-selling item was a Dean Ambrose hoodie. The fact that WWE went and released several new designs for one wrestler WWE Superstar is again, a very big deal. Seth Rollins, the WWE Heavyweight Champion, hasn't had a new shirt released since winning Wrestlemania and his current design is just a rehash of his first "SR" design. Meanwhile, Roman Reigns got another shirt design with a catchphrase he never says (i.e. "One Versus All." "Hit Hard. Hit Often." "I Bring The Fight.") but it still sells well. Either Ambrose is getting another big push or they're just trying to gauge how much money they can make from Ambrose again. He was so much fun to watch during his Bourbon Street instagram tour and he was the poster boy for the Money In the Bank PPV.

Part of me wants to impulsively pre-order one of the new Ambrose shirt designs but what's stopping me is the fact that none of the designs look good to me. I waited a while before buying the "DA" shirt because I liked that more than the "Dean Unstable Ambrose" design. I don't like either of the "Ambrose Stole My Heart/Title" designs because it looks boring. The two "Ambrose Asylum" designs, especially where it just features his crazy eyes and "Unhinged And On The Fringe" on the back, are freaking awful. The "Dirty Deeds" is the only unique looking shirt that isn't black but I'm still not interested in getting it.

Now I'm wondering which shirt would Ambrose would wear tonight O_O

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Looks like I got my answer. Ambrose was seen wearing the "Ambrose Asylum" design with the "Unhinged And On The Fringe" (ugh) back design in the dark match after Monday Night RAW. He didn't wear it during his match with Kane. I'm a bit sad that he didn't have a backstage segment like he did last week so it looks like he'll be midcarding for a while.