Definition
The useful claim is narrower than 'everything is kayfabe': wrestling gives the corpus a concrete practice in which fabrication can require real competence and real consequences can occur inside a worked frame.
Key works
- SPACE FLYING TIGER 001: VENGANZA CIEGA
- ANICONISM
- Kabal / Garrett Barlow — persona and real competence held in the same frame.
- Gonzalo and Alma — mask-making as material persona infrastructure.
From wrestling podcast to earthquake gimmick
Jumbo Dumbsludge / NEVER FORGET begins the Baggot arc inside a retro wrestling podcast, where expert recall is itself part of the hosts' performance. INSTRUCTIONS NEVER... returns with a supernatural trident that finally snaps “like any other gimmick.” Pseudobaggot is kayfabe made civic: an assumed identity becomes a livelihood, a lair and a reality until the prop breaks.