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#both of mine are overflowing

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happy april 30th!

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pissing each other off as foreplay

#it's the lawrusso way

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X and y

Thanks for the asks, Lauren!! 🥰

X: A character you enjoy making suffer.

I mean... c'mon, now. We all know the answer to this one already. 🤣😂

Making Johnny cry is like, my one true calling. I put that blond man through the wringer like it's my job. I blame Billy's sad blue eyes.

(Though I guess you could say I enjoy making Lyle suffer too, by making him put up with Johnny.)

Y: A character you want to protect.

Basically all the kids, lol. But especially Robby. I will defend that boy with my life. He deserves so much better, and if the show won't give it to him, well... guess I'll just have to do it myself. Same goes for Tory... every time I find myself including her in a story, I always end up trying to fix all of her problems for her. I just want things to go right for her, for once.

#fanfic ask game

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F, O, T for the Fanfic Ask Game

Thanks for the asks!! 💗💗💗

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

This one's hard, because writing dialogue is my favorite thing. I feel like I could post the entirety of 'I Ain't Evil (I'm Just Good Lookin')' because that whole thing is basically all banter, and I love it dearly. But Daniel's whole drunken 'teenage karate biker gang' rant still stands out in particular:

“Well, maybe if God doesn’t want to be called a crackhead, he should put down the fucking pipe!” Daniel argued, his voice getting louder and his gestures wilder. It was a good thing Johnny was mostly sober and had excellent reflexes, because he had to duck to avoid an accidental black eye. “Like, what even is my life?” Daniel continued, warming up to a full-blown rant. “There I was, just an innocent kid from Jersey, minding my own business –”

“Oh please, like you’ve ever minded your own business!” Johnny muttered darkly, rolling his eyes. He crossed his arms over his chest and settled in for the incoming tirade.

“Bite me, Johnny,” Daniel snarked back, though without any heat. “Like I was saying, there I was, minding my own business, when my Ma up and forced me to move to this place. And what was the very first thing that happened when I got here? I became the mortal enemy of a teenage karate biker gang.”

Johnny burst out laughing. “Are you fucking kidding me right now? A teenage karate biker gang? Really, LaRusso? That’s what you think we were? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?”

“Do you know how ridiculous you guys looked?” Daniel countered. “Look, you were teenagers. You knew karate. You rode motorbikes. And you ganged up on people you didn’t like,” Daniel reasoned, poking Johnny in the chest with each point. “Teenage. Karate. Biker. Gang.”

“I mean, to be fair, we didn’t really gang up on people in general. Mostly just nerdy little girlfriend stealing pipsqueaks from Jersey,” Johnny argued with a sly grin.

It was Daniel’s turn to roll his eyes. “You even had leather jackets with a special little club patch. You were definitely in a teenage karate biker gang, John.”

“Okay, okay!” Johnny held up his hands, conceding the point. “Biker gangs are badass, so I’ll take it as a compliment,” he added graciously.

Daniel frowned, like he was trying to figure out his train of thought before Johnny so rudely derailed it. “The biker gang isn’t the point. The point is that I attract karate psychos at an alarming rate. First it was you –”

Johnny opened his mouth like he was about to take offense, but then he just snapped it shut and shrugged, like, ‘fair point.’

“Cool. So you’re saying I was your first?” He smirked instead, with a smug bounce of his eyebrows.

“Then there was Okinawa,” Daniel stressed, not quite drunk enough to take that bait, no sir. “Getting sucked into Mr. Miyagi’s whole blood feud situation. Being forced into a deathmatch with a knife-wielding karate maniac –”

“I thought you only honked his nose?” Johnny interrupted again, barely suppressing his laughter. “And Chozen’s like, your karate cousin now. He sends you weird Japanese KitKats, and lovingly hand-crafted copies of ancient scrolls and shit.”

“Shut up, Johnny! You ate like, all the Sake and Strawberry Tiramisu flavored ones, you dick.”

“Are you going somewhere with all this?” Johnny chuckled, hiding his shit-eating grin behind his hand.

“Yes!” Daniel insisted, though he honestly had no fucking clue anymore. He took another drink to buy some time but was still at a complete loss. “Umm, where was I?”

O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?

I would say it usually starts with the characters. Most of my stories are more character-driven than plot-driven, anyway. Usually it's some random image or scenario or snippet of dialogue that pops into my head and won't leave me alone, and I end up building around that.

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

There are some I'm ambivalent too, but I can't think of anything that I just outright despise. Like, just as an example... omegaverse stuff doesn't really do much for me, but I'll give a story a chance if the premise sounds interesting, or if it's written by an author whose work I already like and trust. As long as it's well-written and in-character, I'm pretty open minded to giving most tropes a chance.

#fanfic ask game

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OOOHHHH for the fic ask: I please? And since it's you, also K :D

Thanks for the asks!! 💖💖💖

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

Hmm, I can't really think of any examples off the top of my head. I'm fairly shameless and don't have much guilt when it comes to liking what I like, I guess. 😂

Does putting Johnny through the emotional wringer count?

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

You know me well. 😂 One of them is already an active WIP: Or Forever Hold Your Peace. Basically, for the uninitiated: Dutch and Johnny are bitter exes that haven't spoken in years, and are reunited at Jimmy's wedding. That one is pretty angsty, because Johnny is just not in a good place. Like, even by my usual standards. I can't really say much about it without spoiling future chapters, but there are hints scattered throughout it about their history, and what went down the night Dutch got arrested that messed Johnny up so badly.

Let's see, what else... At one point, I also considered a 'Bad Luck' sequel where Daniel has a heart attack during class, right in front of Johnny and the kids. It was going to be based on a series of drabbles I wrote for one of the AV100 prompts. But I have too many unfinished sequels in that series already, so I never bothered starting it.

But the absolute angstiest idea was for a stand-alone LawRusso fic. I never wrote it because it features a much darker version of Daniel than I usually write, and I got cold feet. It was going to be set after they lose the All Valley in S4. They lose their dojos, and both of their lives fall completely apart. Carmen blames Johnny for Miguel running off and breaks up with him when he fails to find him. Daniel goes into a downward spiral, much like S5. Amanda leaves him, and the dealership fails despite the Doyona bailout. Silver wins. But instead of going to Johnny for help, Daniel blames him for everything and takes it all out on him. And Johnny feels so guilty/hates himself so much for fucking up everything with Miguel and Robby, that he figures he deserves it and just lets him. Cue lots of dirty/nasty hate sex, with self-loathing, self-destructive Johnny letting Daniel use him to vent all of his pain and rage (while also having feelings for Daniel that he knows are not reciprocated.)

So yeah, that one was very dark. All hurt, no comfort. Just very, very bleak.

#writing ask game

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FanFic Ask Game

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?

C: What member do you identify with most?

D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?

E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

H: How would you describe your style?

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)

Q: How do you feel about collaborations?

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?

X: A character you enjoy making suffer.

Y: A character you want to protect.

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

#sure why not

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i don't smoke for the obvious reasons of not wanting to develop an addiction to nicotine but god do i so often feel the emotion 'i need a cigarette'.

#this #this is exactly it

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#never #though on days like today i kinda wished i did #like sometimes i just get this weird craving for a cigarette even though i can’t stand the smoke #it’s strange i dunno

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I just wanted to draw Jessica and Daniel having a fun day at the mall

: )

(it's taken me sooo long to get these done omgggg)

#omg they are adorable!! #seeing these brightened my day #i wish we'd gotten more time to see these two being besties #daniel larusso #jessica andrews #tkk fanart

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requested by anonymous

#okay but i was actually impressed he was able to reel all that off by memory #johnny lawrence #miguel diaz #cobra kai

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COBRA KAI FANFICTION AWARDS 2024!!!

Hello all you lovely people! Thanks to some fabulous new volunteers we have decided to go ahead with the awards this year.

The nomination forms will be posted within the next month, so it's time to start thinking what brilliant fics from 2023 you would like to nominate.

This year we will be asking for up to 3 noms per category and there will be 45 categories. Further details will follow shortly, but so you can start getting your thinking caps on here are the categories:

Character Categories:

Best Ali

Best Amanda

Best Carmen

Best Chozen

Best Daniel

Best Demetri

Best Hawk

Best Johnny

Best Kreese

Best Miguel

Best Mr. Miyagi

Best Original Character

Best OG Cobra --  can focus on any or all of the OGs that aren't Johnny

Best Robby

Best Sam

Best Supporting Character -- any character that doesn't have a category devoted to them, can be M or F

Best Terry

Best Tory

Story Length Categories:

Best Completed Longfic (45k+)

Best Drabble (100)

Best Ficlet (101-999)

Best Multichapter

Best Novella (10k+ one chapter fic)

Best Oneshot (1k-10k)

Best Series

Best Fic Collection (separate oneshots, ficlets or drabbles that are different chapters of one fic)

Genre Categories:

Best Action

Best Angst

Best AU

Best Challenge

Best Character Study

Best Comedy

Best Fluff

Best Gen Fic

Best Holiday

Best Romance

Best Smut

Best Whump

Shipping Categories:

Best Cruiser (big ship)

Best Frigate (medium ship)

Best Lawrusso

Best Polyam

Best Tugboat (small ship)

It will be made clear in a later post and on the voting forms which ships fit into which categories.

Fanfic Community:

Best Reader

Best Writer

#ck fanfic awards 2024

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YOU’RE THE BEST!! AROUND!!!

#daniel larusso #tkk fanart

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They're about to kiss.

Dumb doodle because idk

#their whole thing distilled to its essential essence #lawrusso fanart

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"My whole life was haunted by one stupid kick. I thought if I could go back in time, do things different, dodge it, block it, my life would be fixed. The kick wasn't the problem. I had to stop focusing on what was behind. Start looking at what was in front of me."

#lego cobra kai

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#i had a bunch of them #but the one i was most attached to was a dog #a basset hound specifically #my aunt and my mom bought it for me when i had my tonsils removed #still have him on a shelf in my room

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we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

#it would probably depend on the state of decomposition #like how gooey is this corpse? #either way i’m likely shouting ‘the fuck?!’ #but it it’s skeletal remains it would probably be a more curious tone