#wonderwolfballoon

[son-of-hate]

Commission work for @wonderwolfballoon !! This art was made for her fic, check it out!

#my art #obikin #fanfic fanart

[palfriendpatine66]

Make Me Write

I was tagged by @wonderwolfballoon :) Do you want to play? I tag you! (anxiety cop out, yes.) Rules:

Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count)

Tag anyone you think might also enjoy this game. (No pressure of course)

Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote. If it gets more votes than your comfortable with, feel free to swap it to words.

If somehow that completes the fic or reaches the end of a chapter, move to the WIP with the second highest votes and continue where you left off on your sentence/word count. Repeat until you reach your goal.

(Optional) Share what you wrote in a new Tumblr post with a link to your original poll or attached it to a reblog.

#wip game #one wip at a time #perhaps i can find new ways to motivate me

[kittycharles]

heheh thank you @wonderwolfballoon my love for the tag

Favorite colour: this question is always hard for me because it changes so much but my go to answer right has been pink and yellow, because i like that combination. but ive been kind of having a dark/brownish red moment rn.

Currently reading: Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura (im really normal about these manga and the characters in them)

Last Movie In Theater: normally we dont go to actual theaters, we go to the drive in (which i prefer because i dont like being around people indoors for so long) but i did just go see the little mermaid with my niece in theater

Last Series: rewatching sasaki and miyano, but im also watching haikyuu!! for the first time right now. a very "gay high school boys" heavy watch lately.

Last song: breakeven by the script. i was having a dramatic throwback concert in my room last night, you understand

Craving: spicy tuna sushi. assume the answer to this question is always sushi for me.

Tea or Coffee: coffee. im very much a "do you want some coffee with your cream and sugar??" type person. i can tell i would probably like tea if i had a good one, but most tea ive ever had has been. mid.

Currently working on: i have like 30 wips in my google docs that no one has ever or will ever see.

No Pressure Tags: i feel bad tagging people and making them feel awkward/pressured so if ur a mutual/follower you should do this if you want to and say i tagged you ;)

#<3

[meatmandean]

🌻

Dean is a sub 😌 that’s not even an opinion it’s canon fact I just wanted to say it

#wonderwolfballoon

[andyridgeley]

would you rather date Jake from Sleeping with Other People or Kurt from Horrible Bosses?

LOVE THIS MATCH UP ... i think ... for sure i'm going with jake from sleeping with other people honestly he's my ideal man :')

give me two fictional characters and i'll say which one i'd rather date!!

#both of these characters are just...straight up ho energy and i love it #i feel like if i needed a chaotic wingman i'd go to kurt #fare thee ask #wonderwolfballoon

[wingedquill]

For the ask game: tears?

Hmm I don’t have that word in my main CK WIP (staring down eternity), so have a synonym! The sound that Robby makes isn’t exactly a scream and isn’t exactly a sob.

#cobra kai #ask game #wonderwolfballoon

[miggydiaz]

for the salty ask: 3, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 27 for spn

I had to do this one today because I have a LOT of Supernatural feelings and so a lot of these are even longer than my CK one. But thanks for the ask @wonderwolfballoon!

UNPOPULAR SUPERNATURAL OPINIONS AHOY: INCLUDES ANTI-DESTIEL SENTIMENTS AND OTHER UNSAVORY ELEMENTS

3. Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion? 100000000% I have unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion in the SPN fandom. SPN was the fandom that taught me to make JUDICIOUS use of the blocking feature tumblr offers in order to curate my experience. I would actually encourage anyone and everyone to use the blocking feature if they disagree with people. Honestly, we don’t owe anyone our time or energy, especially on the internet! It is much healthier than sending or responding to hate, IMO. 7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?* This is actually a hard one for me to answer, so let me start by saying -- I have not seen a SINGLE episode since 9x05? I think? Whichever episode was the Dr. Deanlittle one where he talks to animals. I just couldn’t do it anymore. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the first 5 seasons, and they are all I watch anymore and I pretend nothing else exists after that (except The French Mistake because that episode is hilarious). But uh... I guess the simple answer is when I was originally watching it, I really loved Dean. He was brash, snarky, rough around the edges... but kind of soft in a I’m too toxically masculine to deal with my softness sort of way that I love seeing characters grow out of as they mature. But when I go back and rewatch now, much older than I was in 2006 when I first started watching, I see how awful a lot of his older behavior truly was. I still love Dean, and I will be a Dean girl until I die probably, but sometimes you gotta remind yourself that your faves have been problematic in the past so you don’t put them up on fandom constructed pedestals.

10. Most disliked arc? Why? AND AS A BONUS, MY ANSWER to 11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why? I could write a literal essay about all of the problems I have with the later seasons (the ones I watched, which encompasses 6, 7, 8, and a few episodes of 9). But by far and away, the thing I hated most, was the Men of Letters.

Okay, this is where I am going to recognize my love of certain characters is at FUNDAMENTAL ODDS with how that character develops later and what history and background we get later on them. I RECOGNIZE this character is problematic, and I would NEVER STAND for his shit IRL, but fiction is complicated and nuanced, and fantastic circumstances do not make for normal behaviors. That being said, with all warnings I could possibly give, and with the full understanding that what I am about to say is basically fandom blasphemy of the highest order...

I like John Winchester’s character.

I know, I know. If you wanna stop reading and block me now, you are free to do that. I will not hold it against you. I am not about to apologize for anything he has done. I just need to contextualize why I have such an issue with the MOL storyline and it starts with the simple fact that I liked John Winchester as he was originally presented.

To me, and with the full understanding that I am answering this from the perspective of someone who DOES NOT regard anything past season 5 as personal canon, John Winchester is the perfect example of a truly complicated character. Here’s a parent who, if we take the pilot and the original s2 Djinn episodes at face value, could have been a great parent, who then got shoved into a fantastically impossible situation and made terrible choices that he thought were necessary in order to keep himself and his sons safe. That does not EXCUSE the heaps of abuse that he piled onto Dean in any way. We know John and Mary didn’t have a great marriage. But we also know from the pilot that John was at least a caring and present father, mostly,  for the 4 years he got to parent in a normal world, and that if Mary had lived, John would’ve been a softball playing dad who raised his kids and had a loving marriage with his wife. (Again, I need to reiterate, I did not watch anything past the early episodes of s9. If there is later canon that negates this, I do not know about it, nor do I want to because I don’t think of anything past 5 as canon) This is all important to me because these things emphasize that John was “NORMAL”. He was a mechanic, from a family of mechanics, whose father didn’t bail on him (a man in the episode where Dean is transported back in time to Lawrence tells John to ‘say hi to your old man for me’ or something to that effect). He was just a midwestern dude. Giving John Winchester a fantastical background through this Men of Letters bullshit made me SO MAD. First of all, I hate when later canon negates previous canon. I cannon TELL you how much I hate it. And the later seasons of Supernatural are riddled with stuff that doesn’t make any damn sense in the context of original, Kripke written canon, which is exactly why I stopped watching. That’s not ~Evolution of the show.~ That’s conveniently forgetting stuff that made your show and its premise so successful to begin with in order to keep filming episodes so you can keep making money. It’s the sacrifice of art for capitalism and yes I know this is a stupid TV show but as a writer myself it PISSES ME OFF.

/rant

ALSO, the idea that this toxically masculine family was set on this path by Heaven, and inherited this curse that put them on this path from their mother was such a good plot twist in its heyday. We spent four seasons thinking of Mary Winchester as a victim of circumstance, whose fate could not have been avoided because she was the mother to Sam, who is effectively cursed. And then, we learn that its BECAUSE of Mary that this ball even got rolling in the first place. IDK if you were around for that time in the fandom but at least in my circle, this was a big fucking deal. There had been so much (rightful) discourse about John before this, and what kind of parent he was, that Mary became almost deified in the same way Dean deifies her. And then we find out that this whole story gets set in motion by a decision she made because this was the life she found herself in. This was great. It was interesting. And even though the MOL doesn’t negate any of this, it does give John this weirdly fantastical that isn’t necessary. Let this guy be just some Joe Schmoe who fell in love with a kick ass hunter and had no idea any of this even existed. Let Mary and her want to be ‘normal’ be a complicated moral choice that fundamentally altered the paths of her husband and sons. It’s good tv!

Also, I fucking hate the bunker. The best episodes are Dean and Sam having moments in the car, or while in motel rooms on their cases, or whatever. I don’t mind them having a home base. I’m fine with that. But if a building could ever be a Mary Sue character, the bunker is it. I hate all of the MOL storyline, starting with this place.

I may not even tag this as Supernatural, I don’t need angry later season stans in my inbox.

15. Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?

There’s nothing good about anything that happened after season 6. It’s all a bunch of retconning bullshit. Season 6 had its moments where it was interesting, so I cut it a little bit of slack, but as far as I’m concerned, the show ended in season 5. I’m not sure that’s necessarily unpopular, but it does feel that way on tumblr, so. 

16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

Aside from ending it in season 5?

Oooh, I’m about to blaspheme again. I am definitely not tagging this as Supernatural.

I would never have introduced Castiel, and I would’ve given that entire storyline to Anna. Or, alternatively, I would’ve flipped their story lines.

Look, for whatever it’s worth... I agree with the idea that Dean Winchester is a repressed bisexual. His Dr. Sexy love, the entire storyline with Benny in season 8, etc. I just don’t think he feels romantically about Castiel. And like, that’s okay! Just because you’re not into someone who is into you doesn’t mean you owe them a relationship or anything, no matter what the fandom thinks.

But I also think Dean has a big problem when it comes to women. Again, obviously later on in the series, Dean shifts and Charlie happens and Claire Novak and I know all of these things from gifs okay, context is not applicable here because I have none. But early on, Dean struggles A LOT with thinking of women as A) capable and B) trustworthy. He exists in a perpetual state of identifying women along the Madonna/Whore binary. Even Jo, however you feel about her, and to be clear, I loved Jo, but he doesn’t stop thinking of her really as a kid until they’re about to shoot the devil. Up until then, he’s genuinely surprised Ellen lets her out of the damn house.

Giving him a strong, capable woman who rebels against Heaven for HIM would have fundamentally altered Dean’s perceptions of women much earlier on than we get and would have forced him to examine some of that misogyny head on.

Dean has no problems trusting men. This is why the entire Gordon fiasco happens, right? It was less work for him to trust Castiel because Castiel is the inverse of Ruby. Angel to her Demon. Angels and demons don’t really have genders, but for the sake of presentation of vessels, man to her woman. Not even getting me started on the problematic parts of having significant demons mostly symbolized by women (Meg, Ruby, Lilith) and having significant angels mostly represented by Men (Castiel, Michael, Lucifer, Zachariah, Gabriel, Raphael), and how that ties into the idea of Original Sin and yada yada, but just like it’s interesting to have Mary and her decisions be the catalyst for the story, it’s interesting to have this badass warrior angel in Anna who marches down to Hell to yank Dean out, and through her interactions with him, decide to rebel against the ultimate patriarchy, while Dean gets an equally strong female counterpart to Sam’s Ruby, a woman for all intents and purposes that he respects as a soldier and an ally and not just a potential piece of ass.

Also, Castiel fans being literally unbearable is why I left the fandom. Nothing against Misha or anything, and not even anything against Cas as a character (who I very much enjoyed in seasons 4 and 5), but his fans have always been the worst and they try to insert him into everything.

19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

Castiel/Destiel fans, which even though I also hated the direction the show was going, drove me out of the fandom. Not like, personally or directly, but just the sheer mental hoops they had to jump through in order to make their ship work and I just got tired of seeing all of the contrived meta on my dash. Oh, and the rampant misogyny that came out of those early Castiel fans. I didn’t appreciate it from the Wincest corner, and I definitely didn’t appreciate it from the fans of the new guy. Gross.

22. Popular character you hate?

Oof. I don’t know. I don’t really hate Castiel, because again, I liked him a lot in seasons 4 and 5. Even 6 was interesting, even if I don’t regard it as my own personal show canon. I don’t think there was a popular character in those first five seasons I ever really hated. I didn’t fundamentally hate a character at all until the MOL stuff came around. Um. Yeah, I don’t really have an answer for this.

23. Unpopular character you love?

Pretty much every female character ever. Jo, Ellen, Ruby, Meg... although Meg became more popular as the series went on, Anna. Um. OH, BELA. Bela ESPECIALLY, I recently rewatched season 3 and I cannot emphasize how MUCH I love Bela. She was the best purely human foil ever. Bela is hands down the character I love most that the fandom had frothing at the mouth hatred for. It doesn’t help that I legitimately think Lauren Cohan is one of the most beautiful women on the planet. But seriously, Bela. Hands down.

24. Would you recommend XXX to a friend? Why or why not? 

I have! Many of times, and ALWAYS WITH THE CAVEAT to stop at the end of season 5. Not a single one of them has listened to me and almost all of them came to me at the end of the finale and were like WHY DID I WASTE SO MUCH TIME, and I don’t want to say I told them so, but like, I explicitly in neon colored text once told them so, so like, idk what to tell them. But yes! I think if someone is interested in some classic mystery television that has an overarching theme of family and forgiveness and striking out against the boxes that life tries to put us all into, SPN is a great show. But only the first 5 seasons. Also, be prepared for some thematically problematic parts of the show because there’s a lot of cishet toxic masculinity in those early seasons, and we should examine our media critically. There’s also a lot of good though too, and IMO, the good outweighs the bad.

25. How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?

I would’ve ended it at season 5. I would’ve had Sam escape the pit and seen him standing under the street lamp, but then I would’ve had him walking away to leave Dean with Lisa (btw, side note, I DIDN’T like Lisa because I don’t think Dean would ever be truly happy with someone completely outside the life). Not because Sam doesn’t love his brother, but because he *does* love his brother, and because he would want Dean to be happy, even though Dean and Sam’s ideas of what makes the other happy have always been a little bit screwed up.. but that’s a different story.

27. Least shippable character?

Probably Zachariah. God, could you imagine? And... maybe Alastair, but I’m sure there are fics out there that I do not want to think about.

#wonderwolfballoon #I cannot for the sake of my own sanity tag this #I don't need angry SPN fans coming at me #I hope the bold text at the top helps people to understand what's behind the cut

[indecisive-behaviors]

So since I like to suffer I decided to do two variants- the leather jacket which was the most voted and what will now be referred to as “the cursed jacket” Thx to @phantomcomet for burning the image of that jacket in my brain forever and to @underture and @w-the-fury-of-gods-own-thunder for hopping on the cursed jacket bandwagon- y’all asked for this XD (also @wonderwolfballoon​ just cuz <3)

#cobra kai #johnny lawrence #lawrusso #this is technically fan art for a fic i have not written yet #my art #this caused me great pain #the artist has one (1) regret #and its that i cant do backgrounds

[lilyandrose]

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know better

tagged by: @wonderwolfballoon ☺️

favorite color: purple

currently reading: for books I am reading

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins, it’s a book of gorgeous short stories.

As for fanfiction, obviously I’m reading some cobra kai fics on ao3—

Root Beer Floats and Green Tea by desolateice is a lawrusso fic that updates literally every day it’s incredible!! It’s KK1 AU and it’s amazing pls go read it.

Also I am reading two different Migueli fics rn—

The Wheel of Imbalance by BetaCobra

Boy Problems by AcrylicPizza

Both are amazing pls go check them out!!

last song: NASA by Ariana Grande as part of my playlist on spotify: bad bitch fighting songs

last movie: Space Jam—the original it’s a fun time

last series: im almost always rewatching something but I’ll tell y’all bout the new stuff—I just finished season 2 of Never Have I Ever and I am currently watching Season 2 of Outer Banks

sweet, spicy, or savory: I’d have to say maybe savory?? But idk this is like the hardest question on here tbh

craving: my friends—going back to college soon

coffee or tea: I don’t like either—Lemonade is the secret menu answer to this question

currently working on: final internship presentation, wish me luck y’all!! :)

Tagging: @alienfuckeronmain @heterophobicrichietozier @montygreen @arthurpendragonns @1980-something-holo-librarian @rochc93 @rhea-imagined @nomercyonlytears

If ya want to :)))

#me #fanfiction #about me #books #series #lawrusso #migueli #some recs in here haha #movie #food

[carltonlassie]

rules: tag nine people you want to get to know better

tagged by: @deputychairman 🥰

favorite color: green!

currently reading: i as ashamed to say that I still haven’t finished the readthrough of the copy of Good Omens I found on my walk. Most of the times I’m reading fics instead, but even then! these days I’m behind on so many fics! Not sure why!

last song: 창귀 (changgwi) - Ahn Ye Eun. It’s like, a horror song?? about a korean folklore ghost? spirit? (If you get mauled by a wild tiger then you turn into this evil spirit that haunts other people to meet the same fate.) The music video is creepy and very much in the vein of Korean summer horror flicks!

last movie: not another Korean thing 😭 but it was Kingdom: Ashin of the North. Prequel? Special film length episode? for the zombie show Kingdom. It’s set in ancient Korea so it makes it more fun with the costumes and the lore (like, it’s not a plague in the sense that it’s a disease that’s released from some facility, but there’s this medicinal flower that causes the whole thing)!

last series: I’m rewatching white collar, and oh! Just watched a few episodes of Dr. Death, and dang this doctor needs to like. Get some professional help! The guy from Fringe is the main guy, and Christian Slater plays a fun shirt wearin, spunky counterpart to this other reserved doctor who’s trying to stop this horribly incompetent (or psychopathic—that part is unclear) doctor!

sweet, spicy or savory: see, i agree with deputy on this. All three of them! Aren’t like, barbecue wings in this area? Sweet and spicy pork?

craving: some time off from work….. or green tea cake I’ll take either.

coffee or tea: unfortunately I can’t have coffee bc it makes me jittery 😬 but I’ll choose something between mate, rooibos or hojicha these days. My go to used to be earl grey but I’m suddenly sensitive to the caffeine in it too? Not sure what’s happening!

currently working on: doing some organizational stuff for the @karateclubzine ✨ finishing up more Eagle Fang chapters, thinking about writing more for the shassie fics I’ve started but never finished 😭 brain juice come on yip yip

Tagging uuuuuh who hasn’t done this yet?

@indecisive-behaviors @phantomcomet @zaxal @bobakick @xroub @mindlesssins @wonderwolfballoon

#tagged

[palfriendpatine66]

No context spoiler (🚢 )

Thanks for the tag @wonderwolfballoon! This one was a really fun one!!

Rules: share one line from a WIP that could be a spoiler, but on its own is not. Can be from a WIP or something posted.

Having someone else who knew the truth made it just the slightest bit more bearable, that the knowledge wasn’t his to carry alone.

(shameless plug: catch up on my obikin titanic au,The Ship of Dreams, before the final chapter drops tomorrow!)

I’m having an anxiety day and can’t handle tagging anyone so: if you’d like to share an out of context spoiler for your wip: I’m tagging you. Yes you!

[phantomcomet]

@mochisquish thanks for tagging me :) 

IT’S THE YEAR 2021 AND YOU’RE OBSESSED WITH THE KARATE KID. HOW ARE YOU FEELING?:  This is going to end up being my long haul fandom apparently. Terrifying. 

DID YOU GROW UP WITH TKK OR ARE YOU NEW TO THE SERIES?: I watched the first movie during middle school because a friend asked me to. I liked it, but wasn’t too into it. Saw a few gifs of CK and rewatched the movies and fell in love with the whole series. 

WE GOTTA DO THE BASICS. FAVORITE CHARACTER:  Adult Johnny & teen Daniel. I love these disasters equally. 

FAVORITE SHIP:  Lawrusso. 

UNDERRATED CHARACTER:  Rosa. I love that lady so much. 

UNDERRATED SHIP (DON’T SAY THERAPY, LOL):  Lanoush. They’re also idiots together. 

WAX ON, WAX OFF OR SWEEP THE LEG?: Sweep the leg

WHICH OF DANIEL’S DUMB LITTLE OUTFITS IS YOUR FAVORITE?:  those camo pants haunt me 

CHARACTER FROM THE FILMS YOU MOST WANT TO RETURN, WHO’S NOT TERRY SILVER: I want to see Jessica so bad. She was Daniel’s only other friend besides Mr. Miyagi. I refuse to believe they haven’t talked since 1985. I need her in s4 and for her to take one look at Terry/Mike and go, “he has a restraining order against you.”  

SCENE THAT LIVES IN YOUR HEAD RENT-FREE: the whole damn series at this point 

WILL ANTHONY LARUSSO EVER BE RELEVANT?:  Anthony would be the only person that actually calls the police. He’s too powerful so he’ll never be a main character. 

YOU LIVE IN THE VALLEY AND ARE FORCED INTO THE KARATE GANG WAR.  WHICH DOJO DO YOU JOIN?:  Miyagi-do. I would flinch my way right out the door of Cobra Kai. 

WHAT’S YOUR TRAINING MONTAGE SONG?:  Let’s Get Down to Business. We need a Mulan montage plz. 

IT’S THE CROSSOVER EVENT OF THE CENTURY! WHICH TV SHOW ARE YOU COMBINING WITH COBRA KAI FOR AN HOUR-LONG SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL?: uhhh. Fuck it, My Name is Earl. Earl tries to teach Johnny about karma. Kreese and Terry drop dead and that’s what makes him a believer lol.  @indecisive-behaviors @variousqueerthings @wonderwolfballoon @hunkydorkling

#tag game #i'm behind on all of these

[knightthart]

Bitches, I took this personality test and I am Castiel. Like, is the character I most resemble with.

I also got Hughie

DO THE TEST AND TELL ME WHO YOU ARE @dauntlessdiva and you @wonderwolfballoon (and you that are reading this, I am curious).

[andyridgeley]

would you rather date ted lasso or daniel larusso?

ahhhHHHHHHhhh listen i love them both but...ted lasso...it's gotta be ted lasso :')

give me two fictional characters and i'll say which one i'd rather date!!

#thank ya friend!!! :') #fare thee ask #wonderwolfballoon

[andiftheycare]

So I was tagged in this by @wonderwolfballoon some time ago! Thank you so much for the tag. I struggled a little bit with putting 7 movies together because I usually rewatch TV Shows as a form of comfort watching - so this is going to be a mix of stuff that I watch when I’m super sad 

Here are my Top 7 Comfort Movies in no particular order! 

1. Lès Miserables - 25th Anniversary Concert  I’m one of the few people on this website that finds Les Mis extremely amusing. With the musical, however, is the comfort of well-know songs mixed with Ramin Karimloo’s stunning voice and Hadley Fraser’s great R. Oh, yes, also the gays. 

2. Howl’s Moving Castle Self-explanatory. Miyazaki’s a balm for my soul, and any of his movies are great when the mood is low and life’s hard. However, this one has my favourite soundtracks so it’s the one I pick when I can’t decide on what to watch. 

3. Kingsman It’s funny, it’s british, it has Colin Firth as Harry Hart, super spy.

4. Pride and Prejudice (2005) I’ve been watching this movie since it came out in dvd and I purchased it because I was in my Pride&Prejudice days (I was 13? 12?). Anyhow, I was disappointed Colin Firth wasn’t in it until I played the dvd - discovering that this movie has GREAT hands quality content. If you watched it, you know what scene I’m talking about.

5. Mamma Mia!  Abba are a blessing to this world. 

6. Melin BBC, 5x13 - Diamond of the Day, part 2. Rewatching this over and over again is somehow cathartic. 

7. Supernatural, literally any random episode from S1 to S8.  Special mention to: 1x06 (Skin), 2x01 (In My time of Dying), 2x20 (What Is and What Should Never Be), 3x11 (Mystery Spot), 4x01 (Lazarus Rising), 4x16 (On the Head of a Pin), 4x20 (The Rapture), 5x14 (My Bloody Valentine), 6x15 (The French Mistake), 6x20 (The Man who Would be King), 7x01 (Meet the new Boss), 7x17 (The Born-Again Identity), 8x01 (We Need to Talk About Kevin), 8x11 (LARP and the Real Girl), 8x16 (Remembers the Titans), 8x17 (Goodbye Strangers)

Bonus - Less Watched, but still good depending on the mood:  X-Men: First Class, Mulan (1998), Hercules (1999) So yes, I’m tagging: @not-a-human-perspective @greaseonmymouth @little-arcadia @literally whoever wants to do it! please tag me so I can lurk 👀

#meme

[miggydiaz]

For the salty ask 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 16, 20, 22, 23 and 26 for cobra kai pretty please

My answers are so long, so I am putting this under the cut @wonderwolfballoon! Also I just noticed your Daniel icon I SWEAR I’M NOT DRAGGING HIM TO BE MEAN!!!

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?* My biggest IDGI ships for CK are probably Elimetri or Kiaz. I’m not here to yuck other people’s yums or anything, but I do think there is something to the idea that Migueli isn’t popular because it’s a ship predicated on mutual respect for one another. Kiaz has the obvious enemies to lovers vibe and I just generally don’t sail those ships. Elimetri has... its problems, IMO, most especially around the idea that Demetri has to like... save Hawk from himself? Idk. I just like romances that I feel are based on love and mutual respect and not ...tropes.

 I am also not a Lawrusso shipper although I have a lot of those on my dash and you all are great! Again, not yucking yums! Daniel just makes me want to head butt him too much to pair him romantically with anyone 😂 I don’t even want his wife with him. He needs to self reflect~ 

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?* 

I once saw someone ship Amanda and Anoush and I noped out of that so fucking fast I almost tripped over myself. I’m not sure if they’re popular. I just think some people feel the need to get Amanda out of the way to sail their ship and stuck her with Anoush which... no. Just no. Let Amanda be a messy single queen with a martini hobby, thanks! 

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?* 

Not in CK. I’m lucky because I pretty much stick to my little Migueli bubble and I’m okay with that? Lmao lord knows the Squad on my dash is all about the DISCOURSE™️ so idk if I just don’t feel the need to get sucked into the wider ship wars because we have good healthy debates, but so far, so good. 

6. Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?* 

I never hated it... I just didn’t have many feelings on shipping with this show in general at first. Then I was in the CK tag one day and I saw Migueli fan art. Then I discovered @afurioushawk‘s falconry series and it was all over for me after that! So fandom DID make me love a ship, just not one I hated.

9. Most disliked character(s)? Why? Oh boy. How much time do you have? In some instances, it’s a good thing season 3 happened because otherwise, this would be a multi-page essay on the problems with race and class privilege as it pertains to Sam LaRusso and just some... generally not nice comments about Demetri that I’m conflicted about because I’m not sure if the writers are intentionally trying to write him a specific way and it’s just not translating to me or what. But season 3 revamped both of their images with me a lot. I’m way more flexible in terms of Demetri, but lmao I was the number one Sam LaRusso hater for a minute there (or maybe number 2, I can think of at least 1 other person who was in that boat with me back in like... August/September, but I won’t call them out because I don’t want them to get hate...) However, I have grown a bit in my opinions of Sam, and even though I still think she’s responsible  for a lot of shit she NEVER gets held accountable for, I also think that’s a reflection of the adults around her too, and this includes my otherwise unproblematic queen, Amanda.

But honestly, my most hated character (other than the obvious villain that is Kreese) is Daniel. No matter how handsome Ralph Macchio looks in cable-knits, because Daniel has always been a sanctimonious, shit starting drama king and I say that about KK Daniel too. I’m not saying Daniel was the ~true villain~ or anything, or that Johnny was innocent -- I can only drink so much Red and Yellow Kool-Aid -- but Daniel’s always been annoying to me as a protagonist, and turning him into a smarmy wealthy car salesman who is also a class traitor did not do him any favors in my book. I will say, I also like Daniel more in season 3 than I have in previous season, but since he is the adult, I will be mad at him longer than I will be at the kids, ya feel?

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

 Johnny’s entire season 3 storyline. The sheer level of REGRESSION at every turn drives me bonkers. It’s like watching him go through all of the stumbling blocks of season 1 all over again, but without the “he’s learning! He’s going to make mistakes!” free pass that I was willing to give him the first time around. He regularly jeopardizes Miguel’s recovery and it’s played for laughs. He fucks up on every level with Robby. He spends most of his time running away when things get hard or too real. He drops the ball completely with Hawk, and like, not to put too fine a point on it, but a lot of Hawk’s issues are because Johnny put Hawk on this ‘flip the script and be a badass’ path and then offered him no guidance for how to walk that path and instead left him in the hands of Kreese. And then he has the nerve to go to Hawk and basically be like “I made you what you are!” lmao yeah Johnny, you sure did, that’s why he’s breaking peoples arms, hoss. And then all of the nonsense with Ali and Carmen, like... if you were planning on teasing KK fans with Ali and him getting back together, why write her as married in the first place? Why even tease the idea of Carmen and Johnny until after you were sure what you were going to do with Ali as a character? Instead, they do what they did in season 3 and it makes him look like a colossal jerk. So yeah. Literally every choice they made with Johnny this season, I hated.

14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom? People who hate Tory are not valid, sorry not sorry.

16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change? I would have kept Miguel entirely out of Tory and Sam’s beef. Or at least not directly inserted him into it like he was with the kiss. I know the writers thought it was necessary to push Tory to the point of inciting a fight at school, but I am just so exhausted over girls being unable to fight about anything but boys. Also I would bring Aisha back.

20. What is the purest ship in the fandom? 

I am probably biased, but I still maintain it’s Migueli. Look, Miguel stood up to Kyler for Eli and Demetri both. Hawk joined CK because he saw what it could do for some skinny nerd who was getting his ass kicked. And he took to CK, really took to it! Even flourished before he started getting mixed messages. And he and Miguel were pretty much inseparable after that. They coordinated their wardrobes ffs. Hawk dubbed him El Serpiente and no one else calls him that — it’s Hawk’s nickname for him. Miguel confides in Hawk only secondary to Johnny, who is like a father to him. The entire Coyote Creek exchange shows they can fight and disagree but... well, to use the cliche, they don’t go to bed angry, you know? They’re square the very next day. Hawk is the first person at Miguel’s side when he gets kicked over the balcony and the LOOK he gives the second floor where Robby is? That boy is out for blood immediately to avenge Miguel. So much of his s3 behavior is fueled by that need for vengeance because MD is wholly responsible for what happened to Miguel. And Miguel is so confused and betrayed by Hawk’s shift in behavior, and yet still holds out hope that Hawk will see through Kreese’s BS and come with him to The Dojo I Refuse to Name. And when Hawk does make that deflection finally, he shows up at MD with Miguel. There’s so much more that I know I’m missing but whether someone ships them or not, that is a tried and true love and respect for one another, a willingness to fight for and defend one another that you don’t often see in TV friendships... or even in most tv relationships. And I just think that’s the best ❤️

22. Popular character you hate?

 Daniel, hands down. I mean... I don’t even necessarily hate Daniel, you know? I just think it’s really, pardon the pun, rich that a guy of immense wealth and privilege can’t get a therapist or turn to his far too patient wife for help with his existential crisis over his high school bully opening up a karate dojo to make some money and help a kid who is getting the crap kicked out of him. I get that Daniel’s narrative is necessary for the rivalry, but it does nothing to make him sympathetic as a character.

23. Unpopular character you love?

 Tory, definitely! Everyone hates her and then there’s me and the Squad over here banging away on our Coors Banquet cans yelling TORY RIGHTS! Seriously she catches so much flack for a teenage girl who is... the sole income provider for her family? At 17? While caring for a sick mom and a little brother? And fending off a creepy landlord? Tory has it so rough and then she meets a cool girl at her dojo who asks her to hang out at some fancy ass country club which is probably the nicest place Tory has ever been in, and then she gets talked down to and accused of being a thief and has another girl lay hands on her, only to find out that same girl is her new boyfriend’s ex and... ugh. I HATE that Tory gets shit all over when Tory and Sam wouldn’t even have beef if Sam had apologized to Tory as she SHOULD have. Tory isn’t innocent, but damn, I’d be pressed too.

 My other unpopular character I love? Nathaniel. Seriously that kid is THE best. He’s a literal child but is out there like I WILL FUCK YOU UP, even though he’s MD. Honestly, his Cobra Kai energy is so ferocious I won’t be surprised if he moves back to CK eventually. Anyway, I love him.


26. Most shippable character?

 Miguel, hands down. It’s because he’s so affable and sweet overall. And because his hair is so fluffy and pettable that no one can resist touching it. I like to imagine that one day he and Hawk are talking about their hair and Hawk makes a joke about how Miguel’s mane is getting so long that it’s going to be bigger than his own, and then he reaches out to ruffle it and internally has a bisexual meltdown because oh no IT’S SO SOFT AND NICE. But uh... anyway, yes. Definitely Miguel.

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