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[ohnoitsthebat]

Get To Know You!

Tagged by @vispera-sabbath

Last Song I Listened To: "Paparazzi", by Lady Gaga

Currently Reading: Nothing now. I miss reading :(

Currently Watching: I'm re-watching season 5 of Cobra Kai.

Currently Obsessed With: I've been listening to a lot of Alice in Chains (my fave grunge band) lately and watching their videos and live performances. I've also been obsessed with Gallavich, and am working on a couple of ficlets about them.

Tagging whoever wants to do this!

#things i'm tagged in #tag games #about me

[destielblamscilesinfinity]

Get to know you. Thanks @bubblegumflavor for the tag.

Last song I listened to: It's All Coming Back to Me Now, Celine Dion. Yup, I listen to Celine Dion.

Currently reading: Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon, Patience: The Companion Piece, riseofthefallenone, Carry On, Rainbow Rowell, Heartstopper Volume 2, Alice Oseman.

Currently watching: Supernatural, Seinfeld, Frasier, Designing Women, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Organized Crime, American Idol, Young Sheldon, Abbott Elementary, The Connors, Outlander, Night Court, After Midnight, the list goes on and on. I'm a TV girl.

Currently obsessed with: Outlander series, books and show, Destiel, First Prince, Cobra Kai, Frasier, music, etc.

I'm not good at tagging, so whoever wants to do this consider me tagging you.

#drums of autumn #diana gabaldon #carry on #rainbow rowell #celine dion #heartstopper #destiel #firstprince #red white and royal blue #frasier #designing women #seinfeld #outlander #law and order #svu #organized crime #the connors #supernatural #spn #lawrusso #cobra kai

[malereadershortsworld]

Hi ⚡︎

Masterlist

Hi guys! I’m here to bring a smile to your face and write down all the cute (or sexy 😭) scenarios in your head. I will only be doing male reader and male characters! Don’t be scared to request I'll love to hear from you all. This will be like a gif series of sorts so pls don’t except full on essays (some will still be long, however). If you want to request a show and you don’t see it on here still try to request it! Unless its anime.

⇣ What do I write for? ⇣

Cobra Kai : Miguel Diaz, Robby Keene, Eli Moskowitz, Demetri

Wolf Pack : Everett, Harlan, Austin, Conner, Cyrus

Marvel : Peter Parker, Thor, Deadpool, Shang-Chi

Stranger things : Steve Harrington, Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Johnathan Byer, Lucas Sinclair

Legacies : Mg, Ethan, Landon, Jed, Ryan Clarke

Julie and the Phantoms : Like Patterson, Alex, Reggie

Alice in Borderland : Arisu

Titans : Dick, Gar

Descendants : Jay, Ben, Hook

Euphoria : Nate Jacobs, Chris McKay, Elliot

911 : Evan Buckley, Eddie Diaz

Teen Wolf : Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, Liam Dunbar, Theo Reaken

Lab Rats : Chase Davenport, Adam Davenport

Ginny and Georgia: Marcus Baker, Zion Miller

You : Joe Goldberg

Young Royals : Wilhelm,Simon, August

13 Reasons Why : Justin Foley, Clay Jensen, Zach Dempsey

Gossip Girl (reboot) : Otto, Akeno, Max Wolfe

The babysitter : Cole, Max, John

Outer Banks : Pope, JJ, John B, Rafe

Shameless : Carl Gallagher

The Chilling Adventure of Sabrina : Nicholas Scratch, Harvey

Riverdale : Jughead, Archie, Reggie

On My Block : Ruby Martínez, Cèsar Díaz, Jamal Turner, Oscar Díaz

Bullet Train : Ladybug, Tangerine, Lemon

The order : Jack Morton, Randall Carpio, Hamlisch Duke

Elite : Samuel Garcia, Patrick Blanco, Phillipe, Ander Muñoz, Guzman, Iván, Joel

Love, Victor : Felix, Victor Salazar, Andrew

Flash : Barry

Scream 6 : Chad, Ethan

The Legends of tomorrow : Nathan Haywood, Behrad Tarazi

One piece (live action) : Sonji, Zoro, Luffy, Usopp

To check out specific gif shorts of a show, click the # that’ll say the show name and short! ( Example : cobrakaishort , euphoriashort, etc. and it’ll be in the hashtags at the end!) It’ll send you to all the shorts made about that show by me.

ALSO I DO HEAD CANNONS AND U CAN REQUEST

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Pinterest boys stories

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What don’t I write?☠︎

I don’t write for anime (I don’t watch it sorry 😭)

Incest, rape, furry content, mpreg

#cobra kai #wolf pack #marvel #stranger things #legacies #julie and the phantoms #alice in borderland #teen titans #euphoria #911onfox #teen wolf #lab rats #ginny and georgia #you netflix #outer banks #on my block #elite #riverdale #the chilling adventures of sabrina #the order #13 reasons why #chucky the series #male reader

[dijiimg]

Hello guys, so I have an account on tiktok with imagines, the name is: diji._

I decided that I would accept your requests here and create longer stories. I can write for y/n and h/n, but I can also accept requests from these series and movies (of course, if you have a request for another series, etc., I will try to watch it and create something great especially for you!)

SERIES THAT I WILL WRITE ABOUT:

Stranger things

Sweet home

Alice in borderland

All of us are dead

Anne with an E

Outer banks

Squid game

Julie and the phantoms

The society

My holo love

Once upon a small town

The soundtrack od magic

My first first love

My name

Cobra kai

The umbrella academy

Saga winx

Never have I ever

Vicenzo

Insatiable

Glimore girls

American horror story

Austin and ally

MOVIES THAT I WILL WRITE ABOUT:

Marvel (each part)

Scream 1/6

#alive

Unlocked

Twilight

The kissing booth

Mamma mia!

He's all that

Let it snow

To all the boys i've loved before

Thought my window

20th century girl

Chucky

The fear street

Haloween

Miss peregrine's home for peculiar children

High school musical

Descendants

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

The maze runner

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the photos in this post are from pinterest <3

#imagine #cute #smut #history #oneshot #stranger things #sweet home #alive in borderland #aouad #anne with an e #outer banks #squid game #jatp #the society #my holo love #once upon a small town #the soundtrack of magic #my first first love #my name #cobra kai #the umbrella academy #saga winx #never have i ever #vicenzo #insatiable #glimore girls #ahs #austin and ally #marvel #scream

[snowflakeanimelover]

I will take requests!(why not?)

Here is my Masterlist, Masterlist 2, and Masterlist 3.

Un-Anime Related Stories

Please read the rules!

Rules

——Do’s🌸 These are what I do write…

🌸 Will write Male x Female Reader, Male x Male Reader, Female x Female Reader, and Female x Male Reader.(I will try my best!)

🌸 I will write HC’s(reactions, multiple characters), One-Shots(a normal request with one character), and Drabbles(can be multiple characters, very short)

🌸 Yandere, gore, AU’s, and Kissing are A-Okay.

🌸 5 characters at most for HC’s.

🌸 3 characters at most for Drabbles.

——Dont’s🌸 These are what I don’t write…

🌸 smut/lemons/NSFW.

🌸 OCs

🌸 Incest(family loving each other romantically)

🌸 Rape

🌸 Character x character

——Please🌸

🌸 Put details in your request.(if Gender of Reader is not specified, I will use Female)

🌸 Be kind.

🌸 Put the full names of the anime character.

🌸 Put the anime the character is from if it is not from the list of animes I watch.

🌸 Be patient.

🌸Do not spam requests.

——My Rights🌸 I have…

🌸 The right to refuse your request.

🌸 The right to ask questions about your request.

🌸 The right to change your request(if it is needed)

🌸 The right to add onto your request.

——What I Own🌸

🌸 My writing.

🌸 My stories.

🌸 My Art.

——What I Don’t Own🌸

🌸 Your request and you.

🌸 The GIFs used.

🌸 The animes and anime characters.

——Please Note🌸

🌸 There will be warnings if needed, so do not worry(this stands for Yandere and gore)

🌸Thank you for reading the rules!🌸

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Anime’s I have watched

These are anime’s I have watched, so please choose from these. You may request a character from an anime that is not on the list, but make sure to put the name from where that character is from. (I will try my best to get the character right and get information on them)

🌸My Hero Academia

🌸Inuyasha

🌸Dr. Stone

🌸Fairytail

🌸Bleach

🌸The Seven Deadly Sins

🌸Naruto(Naruto Shippudden, Boruto, etc)

🌸Avatar The Last Airbender

🌸Haikyuu!

🌸Beastars

🌸One Piece(haven’t finished it yet, so I haven’t met all of the characters)

🌸Tokyo Ghoul(Haven’t seen 3rd season yet, and haven’t read the manga)

🌸Yu-Gi-Oh

🌸Demon Slayer

🌸Fruits Basket

🌸One-Punch Man

🌸Cowboy Bebop(Anime Only)

🌸Noragami

🌸Rurouni Kenshin(Anime only)

🌸Fullmetal Alchemist

🌸JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure(Parts 1-5)

🌸Tokyo Revengers(Seasons 1-2, Manga)

🌸Trigun/Trigun Stampede

🌸Jujutsu Kaisen(season 1, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, reading the manga)

—Other Fandoms

🌸The Vampire Diaries/The Originals

🌸The Umbrella Academy

🌸Avengers

🌸Sonic The Hedgehog

🌸Lucifer

🌸Five Nights At Freddy’s(all games)

🌸The Letter(video game)

🌸Top Gun/Top Gun: Maverick

🌸King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

🌸Ghost of Tsushima

🌸Stranger Things

🌸Encanto

🌸Cobra Kai

🌸Avatar/Avatar: The Way Of Water

🌸Alice in Borderland(Season 1)

🌸(I may add more later)🌸

Thanks again! Any questions? Please ask!(there is no such thing as a stupid question)

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🌸Fluff Prompts

[julinamimunson]

Hi everyone! I'm Júlinami, I'm gonna make this post so you can know a few things about me

I'm 17 years old and I'm from Barcelona, Spain

I like to read, write, listen to music and watch animes, cartoons and tv shows

I'm a Cancer and my mbti is ESFJ

My favorite national autors are Iria G Parente and Selene M Pascual, Marta Alvarez and Blue Jeans

My favorite international autors are Rick Riordan, Sarah J Maas, Cassandra Clare, Alice Oseman, TJ Klune, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Holly Jackson

The music I listen to the most is pop in Catalan Spanish and English. One of my favorite singers is Taylor Swift

I like and follow various influencers mostly in catalan, the Spanish and english ones that I follow mostly do content about tv shows movies and anime

My favorite bookfluencers are Niloa Gray, Josu Diamond, Clau Reads Books, Raiza Revelles, Cronicas de una Merodeadora and Andrea Rowling (they're all in Spanish, I'm not much into english book community)

One of my favorite Disney movies is Encanto, I write a lot about it. My favorite characters are Isabela Camilo and Mirabel and Camilo and I relate a bit to Mirabel

I don't watch much horror films but my favorite ones are the Fear Street trilogy and the IT duology

I love fantasy and comedy films and rom-coms. one of my favorite rom-coms is Do Revenge

Some of my favorite book series are:

- ACOTAR Throne of Glass and Crescent City

- The Shadowhunter Chronicles

- Heartstopper

- The Green Creeck Series

- Camp Half-Blood Chronicles

- Some of Iria G. Parente and Selene M. Pascual's

- Mystical

- the Pretty Little Liars book series

- Memòrias de Idhun

- La chica invisible

- El Club de los incomprendidos

- The Lunar Chronicles

- A good girl's guide to murder

My favorite anime are:

- One Piece (My bi queen Nami the first reason behind my username)

- Pretty Cure (there's only a season that I don't like)

- Naruto

- Dragon Ball

- Kimetsu No Yaiba

- Black Clover (I"m watching it right now)

- Ojomajo Doremi

- Ranma 1/2

- Keroro

- Sakura Card Captor

- Fushigi Yugi

- Lamu

- Fairy Tail

- My Hero Academia

- Jujutsu Kaisen

- Wedding Peach

- Madoka Magica

- Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero

- Magia Record

- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeannne

- Kamichama Karin

- Tokyo Mew Mew

- Pichi Pichi Pitch: Mermaid Melody

- Nanatsu no Taizai

- Bandori: BanG Dream

- Aikatsu

- Pripara

- Love Live and Love Live: Sunshine

My favorite tv shows are:

- Stranger Things (My boy Eddie Munson the other reason behind my username, I relate to him and also to Robin. I also love Steve and steddie is my fav ship)

- Doom Patrol

- Titans (2019)

- Pretty Little Liars and Pretty Little liars: Original Sin

- Heartbreak High (2022)

- Rebelde Way

- Ginny and Georgia

- Wednesday (#cancelpercy #cancelpercyhyneswhite)

- Sex Education

- Power Rangers (almost all the seasons)

- Heartstopper

- Never Have I Ever

- Cobra Kai

- The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

- First Kill

- Blood and Water

- One of us is lying

- Firefly Lane

- Young Royals

- Warrior Nun

- Gossip Girl (the original one)

- The Umbrella Academy

My favorite cartoons are:

- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

- Ducktales (2017) (I relate to Webby waay too much)

- Amphibia

- The Owl House (I relate to Luz)

- Gravity Falls (as a kid I used to relate to Mabel)

- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

- Steven Universe

- Bojack Horseman (unpopular opinion: I love Mr. Peanutbutter while also relating to Diane)

- Total Drama

- DC Superhero Girls (2019)

- Arcane

I'll mostly post in english, but my maternal languages are Catalan and Spanish

See you later!

#heartstopper #power rangers #wednesday #ginny and georgia #pretty little liars #titans #stranger things #heartbreak high #fushigi yuugi #kimetsu no yaiba #one piece #pretty cure #seliria #mystical #rick riordan #wolfsong #cassandra clare #sarah j maas #fear street #encanto #taylor jenkins reid #alice oseman #ducktales 2017 #amphibia #the owl house #bojack horseman #she ra and the princesses of power #my little pony #cobra kai #bandori

[ladyxskywalker]

get to know me tag game 💌

thanks for the tag @lcvenderblues 💐

favorite time of year: autumn 🍂

comfort food: baked ziti, sicilian rice ball, matzoh ball soup, linguine with mussels

favorite dessert: chocolate cake, tres leches cake, or my favorite pasticiotta

things you collect: sea shells, charm bracelets, vinyl records

favorite drink: mocha iced coffee, hazelnut coffee, hot cocoa with extra marshmallows, raspberry lemon drop

favorite musical artist: alice in chains 🌼, black sabbath 🦇, skid row, ratt, metallica, selena 💜, il volo, tritonal, asot

last song you listened to: if you loop it, they will come [asot 1086] by andrew bayer

last movie you watched: thor love & thunder

last series you watched: virgin river, cobra kai

series you're currently watching: idk yet ! I'm on the hunt for something new !

current obsession: *sigh* layne staley, & somewhere up in the spirit world I'm pretty sure he hates me 💛 jk I'm weird I know ! ☮️

dream place to visit: anywhere with nature, a place surrounded by mountains & water, maybe a waterfall, amazing sunsets, wildflowers...🏞

a place you’ve been to that you want to go back to: yankee stadium, the brooklyn botanic gardens & my favorite museums

something you want: a kind & loving partner, to have a nice relaxing birthday next week, & for all of us to be ok, however that looks & feels like 🙏🌸

currently working on: the closer series epilogue, & an alternate ending 🤦‍♀️ also a few weird fic concepts that prob will never see the light of day 💭💗

no pressure tags: @uwingdispatch @clydesducktape @artemiseamoon @hopeamarsu @honeymunson @mylifeisactuallyamess @baba-fett @obiknights @ghostlyvalour @saradika @zinzinina @starryeyedstories @penfullofwordsaheadfullofstories @thedaisycrownwitch @ashotofspotchka

#get to know you tag #feel free to tag yourself ! 💌

[abysscronica]

other than One Piece what other fandom are you in? or better what shounen did you watch?

You mean to talk about or submit ask on it? I don't know about fandoms per se, but I can tell you the media I'm familiar with.

This is my Anime Planet profile, I use it to keep track of the manga I read & anime I watch. It's public, so have fun.

You can find the rest of the media I'm familiar with under the cut divided in categories.

Comics:

The Peanuts poetry!

Corto Maltese for the artwork more than the plot

Lucky Luke

TMNT (original series)

Sturmtruppen

Tex here and there

Alan Ford (before reboot) here and there

Batman (stories with Joker and/or Harley Queen before the reboot)

Marvel comics: everything mutants-related and the major crossovers from the beginning until 2010s

TV series and movie franchises I somehow appreciate or know enough, in categories:

Please keep in mind that the comments are my opinion and my alone! You're entitled to love and hate whatever you want, always.

Comfort shows (yes, leave me alone):

Friends

HIMYM

The Office

Sex and the city

Emily in Paris

(first three are for comedy, fourth is for vibes, and last two are there mainly because of outfits & scenery, I really don't care about the plot)

Epic fantasy series:

Game of Thrones good up to season 5

The House of the Dragon liked it

The Lord of the Rings trilogy LOVE LOVE LOVE IT

The Hobbit trilogy okay?

The Rings of Power didn't enjoy it

Primal amazing

The Witcher good to laugh & pass time & Cavill

Shadow and Bone cute

The Dragon Prince cute

Avatar, the last Airbender loved Aang, Korra okayish

The Legend of Vox Machina cute

Urban fantasy series:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer good

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 1 good, season 2 okay, the rest you can skip

The Walking Dead first three seasons nice, then dropped

Once Upon a Time season one good, then dropped

Wednesday cute

Superheroes series:

all MCU movies and series (Netflix & Disney+) too many to comment, ask me if you're curious

Spiderman (1994) good

Batman the animated series great

The Boys & Gen V enjoyable

Invincible enjoyable

Space opera (and similia) series:

Star Wars original trilogy the only one I respect

Star Wars prequel trilogy meh

Star Wars new trilogy what the hell was that?

Star Wars... filler duology? Rogue One is good

The Mandalorian enjoyable

The Book of Boba Fett some episodes are good

Futurama good at the beginning

Doctor Who (new series) watched up to Capaldi, the first seasons are good

Star Trek new trilogy cute

Rick & Morty love it

Other sci-fi series:

Arcane amazing!

Stranger Things seasons 1 & 4 are good

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) enjoyable

Alice in Borderland enjoyable

Love Death Robots like it a lot

Heroes season one only

Crime/suspance or so:

Squid Game enjoyable

Breaking Bad okay

Sherlock first two seasons good

CSI (LV & Miami) first seasons great

OITNB love the beginning and the end

Thirteen Reasons Why first season only worth it

The Dropout very good

Killing Eve ups and downs

Vintage series:

Happy Days

E.R.

Others:

Zerocalcare's series as an Italian, really appreciated them

Band of Brothers loved it

The Crown enjoyable

Cobra Kai okayish

Community first seasons enjoyable

Sex Education cute

The Queen's Gambit very nice

Scrubs cute

The Looney Tunes (many but not all the series) too many, ask me if you're curious

#personal #media I'm into #more or less #some more than others

[variousqueerthings]

Daniel LaRusso: A Queer Feminine Fairytale Analysis Part 1 of 3

Disclaimers and trigger warnings: 

1. These fairytales are European, although there’s often overlap in themes globally. I know European fairytales better, which is essentially the reason I’m not going to branch out too far. I opted to also stick to Western movies so as not to narrow things down, but also in particular “waves hand towards all of Ghibli” amongst many others. There’s a reason the guys in Ghibli are so gender.

2. TW for discussions of rape culture and rape fantasies

EDIT: FUCK I’M A GOBLIN CHILD! FORGOT TO PUT A MASSIVE MASSIVE THANK YOU TO @mimsyaf​ WHO HAS BEEN THE NICEST, KINDEST EDITOR ON THESE THOUGHTS AND CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO THEM AND GENERALLY IS A WONDERFUL PERSON!

Part 2

Part 3

1. Introduction

I recently wrote a little thing, which was about Daniel as a fairytale protagonist – specifically one that goes through some of the kinds of transformations that are often associated with female protagonists of fairytales.

I used quotes from Red Riding Hood, Labyrinth, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Dracula, which, as an aside – the overlap between fairytales, horror, and fantasy and the ways each of those genres delve into very deep, basic questions of humanity and the world is something that will always make me feral. I will be generally sticking with fairytales though. Also I am very excited about some of those Labyrinth concepts going around!

I’m going to use “feminine” and “masculine” in both gendered (as in relating specifically to people) and non-gendered (as in relating to codes) ways throughout this, depending on context.

To be binary for a moment, because sample-sizes of other genders are low, women are usually able to fall into either feminine or masculine arcs, although sometimes the masculine-coded woman can become a “not like the other girls” stereotype and the feminine-coded woman a shallow cliché – in both cases they’re also under more scrutiny and judgement, so it’s always worth asking “is this character not working for me because of the writing or because I have ingrained biases? (Both?)”

Men don’t often get feminine-coded arcs. Because. Probably a mix of biases and bigotry. But there are some that seem to have slipped beneath the shuttered fence of “Sufficient Narrative Testosterone,” and Daniel LaRusso is one of them.

2. Some Dude Comparisons (Men Doing Manly Action-Hero Things like being trans symbolism and loving your girlfriend… seriously those things are hella manly, I wish we saw more of that onscreen…)

a. Neo

Much like Neo The Matrix, whose journey is filled with transgender subtext and specifically and repeatedly references Alice In Wonderland, Daniel doesn’t go through quite the kind of hero's journey usually associated with Yer Standard Male Hero, especially the type found in the 80s/90s.

Neo is my favourite comparison, because of the purposefulness of his journey as a trans narrative and the use of Alice. But I’m sure there are other non-traditional male heroes out there (but are they trans tho? Please tell me, I want trans action heroes).

Neo “passes” as a socially acceptable man, but online goes by a different name - the name he prefers to be known by - feels like there’s something inherently wrong about the world around him and his body’s place in that society, and then gets taken down the rabbit hole (with his consent, although without really “knowing” what he’s consenting to) to discover that it’s the world that’s wrong - not him. And by accessing this truth he can literally make his body do and become whatever he wants it to.

Yay. (The message of the Matrix is actually that trans people can fly).

Neo is – kind of like Daniel – a strange character for Very Cis Straight Guys to imprint on. He spends most of the first movie unsure about what’s going on, out of his depth, and often getting beaten up. He is compared to Alice several times and at the end he dies. He loses. He has to be woken up with true love’s kiss, in a fun little Sleeping Beauty/Snow White twist. Yes, after that he can fly, but before that he’s getting dead-named and hate-crimed by The Most Obvious Stand-In For Normativity, Agent Smith, and being carried by people far more physically capable than he is (people who also fall outside of normative existence).

Trinity and Neo in The Matrix. The fact that a lot of the time neither of them is gendered is something. Literally brought to life by true love’s kiss.

I’m not about to argue that Daniel LaRusso is purposefully written along these same thought processes, so much as the luck of the way he was written, cast, directed, acted, and costumed all came together in the right way. And this is even more obvious when compared to That Other Underdog Fite Movie That Was By The Same Director as Karate Kid.

b. Rocky

The interesting thing about Rocky is that he is (despite being a male action icon) also not written as a Traditionally Masculine person. Large portions of Rocky – and subsequent Rocky films – are his fear and insecurity about fighting vs his inability to apply his skills to another piece of work and wanting to do right by his girlfriend (and future wife), Adrian. The fighting is most often pushed onto him against his will.

Much like in Karate Kid there is barely any fighting in Rocky I. Most of it is dedicated to how much Rocky loves Adrian and the two of them getting together. The fight is – again like in Karate Kid – a necessary violence, rather than a glorified one (within the plot, obviously watching any movie like this is also partly about the badassness of some element of the violence – whether stamina or the crane kick, it’s all about not backing down against a more powerful opponent).

Rocky is played by Sylvester Stallone. He’s tough, he’s already a fighter (albeit in the movie not a great one yet), he’s taking the fight for cash – so although he’s also soft-spoken and sweet, you’re aware of the fact that he’s got those traits that’d make a male audience go “Hell Yeah, A Man,” or whatever it is a male audience does watching movies like that… cis straight men imprinting on oiled muscle men sure is a strange phenomenon, why do you wanna watch a boxing match? So you can watch toned guys groaning and grappling with each other? Because you want to feel like A Man by allowing yourself to touch the skin of other men?

Apollo and Rocky in Rocky III. This sequence also includes prolonged shots of their crotches as they run. Sylvester Stallone directed this. This was intentional. Bros.

Daniel LaRusso is not built like that. But that doesn’t really have to matter. Being smallish and probably more likely to be described as “pretty” than handsome, and not having a toxic masculine bone in his body does not a feminine archetype make. It just makes a compelling (and pretty) underdog. 

c. Daniel

So where does the main difference really lie? Between Rocky and Daniel? Well, Rocky has the plot in his hands – Daniel, largely, does not. Rocky is acting. Daniel is reacting or being pushed into situations by others. Just like our boy Neo. Just like Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Snow White – just like some of the women in some contemporary(ish) fairytale films like Buttercup (Princess Bride), Dorothy (Wizard of Oz), or Sarah (Labyrinth).

This isn’t a necessary negative about stories about girls and women, so much as looking at what it is girls and women in fairytales have/don’t have, what they want, and how they’re going to get it. It’s about power (lack of), sexuality (repressed, then liberated), men, and crossing some taboo lines. It’s also about queerness.

3. The Karate Kid Part One: Leaving Home

Daniel LaRusso is a poor, skinny, shortish kid (played by a skinny, shortish twenty-two-year old) who doesn’t fit in after having been taken away from the home he was familiar with against his will. Not every male protagonist in a fairytale leaves of his own will, and not every female protagonist leaves under duress – Red Riding Hood, for example, seems perfectly happy to enter the forest. However generally a hero is “striking out to make his fortune,” and generally a heroine is fleeing or making a bargain or being married off or waiting for help to arrive. She is often stuck (and even Red Riding Hood requires saving at some point).

Daniel then encounters a beautiful, lovely girl on the beach, puts on a red hoodie (red is significant), is beaten up by a large, attractive bully, loses what little clout he may have had with his new friends, and generally has a mostly miserable time until he befriends and is saved by Mr Miyagi. To do a little Cinderella comparison: Miyagi is the fairy godmother who pushes Daniel to go to the ball in disguise as well, and that disguise falls to pieces as he’s running away.

Then Daniel asks for help, Miyagi gets him enrolled in a Karate Tournament, and starts teaching him. Daniel wins the tournament and gets the girl, the end.

While Daniel has chutzpah and is a wonderful character, none of the big events are initiated by him, except for the initial going to the forest/beach (and within all of these events Daniel absolutely makes choices – I’m not saying he’s passive): Lucille takes them to California, Miyagi pushes him to go to the dance, Miyagi again decides to enroll him in the tournament and trains him, and only because Kreese doesn’t allow for any other option, Ali is the one who more often than not approaches Daniel, and even their first encounter is pushed by Daniel’s friends.

Daniel really is at a dance/ball in disguise and receives a flower from a girl who recognises him through said disguise, it’s unbearable! It’s adorable! I get it Ali, I fucking get it!

Daniel’s main journey within this – apart from not getting killed by karate thugs (love u Johnny <3) and kissing Ali – is to learn from Miyagi. He’s not necessarily a full-on feminine fairytale archetype at this point, although there are fun things to pull out of it, mainly in the context of later films and Cobra Kai: the subtext of karate and how that builds throughout all the stories, the red clothes, the themes of obsession, his being targeted by boys whose masculinity is more than a little bit toxic and based on shame… more on all that coming up.

He doesn’t technically get a home until they build him a room at Miyagi’s place, but he definitely leaves the woods at the end of this one, trophy lifted in the air after being handed to him by a tearful Johnny and all.

And then they made a sequel.

4. The Karate Kid Part Two: Not Out Of The Woods Yet

Daniel’s won the competition, Kreese chokes out Johnny for daring to lose and cry, more life-lessons are given (for man without forgiveness in heart…) and Daniel and Ali break-up off-screen, confirming that TKK1 was not really about the girl after all, which, despite Daniel and Kumiko having wonderful chemistry, is also an ongoing theme. Daniel enters the screen in The Most Baby-Blue Outfit seen since Tiana’s dress in Princess and the Frog? Or that dress in Enchanted? Maybe Cinderella’s (technically silver, but later depicted as blue)? 

(Sidenote: At everyone who says Sam ought to wear a callback to that suit,  you are correct and sexy).

Surprise, Miyagi’s building him a room.

Double-surprise, Miyagi needs to go to Okinawa.

Triple surprise, Daniel reveals he’s going with him, because he’s his son dammit.

The Karate Kid Part Two is maybe the least Daniel-LaRusso-Feminine-Fairytale-Protagonist of the three, because it’s not really his movie. Daniel runs around with Kumiko (aka the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen), continues to be The Best Non-Toxic Boy a middle-aged Okinawan karate master could ask for, lands himself another Built Karate Rival (twice is just a coincidence, right? Right?), and eventually doesn’t die while wearing red again – twice: When Chozen almost strangles him to death at the Miyagi dojo and then during the final fight. The Saving Of The Girl (both the little girl in the storm and Kumiko) actually puts him in a more traditional masculine space than the previous movie did, even if the main theme of the film is about compassion and kindness and by the end, once more the boy whose masculinity is built on rockhard abs and matchsticks is on his knees. Daniel just has that power over big boys. It’s called kick/punch them in the face hard enough that they see stars.

There’s an aside to be made here about how much Daniel really is an observer in other peoples stories in this, although he is the factor that sends both Chozen and Kumiko into completely different directions in life (Chozen and Kumiko main characters when?) Anyway he comes out of it presumably okay, despite being almost killed. Maybe a few therapy sessions and he’ll get over it. Too bad Terry Silver is lurking around the corner…

5. The Karate Kid Part Three: The Big Bad Wolf

Alright people have written Words about the third movie. It’s fascinating. It’s odd. It’s eye-straining. It’s like olives – you’re either fully onboard the madness or it’s too off-putting for you (or you’re like. Eh, don’t see what all the fuss is about either way...). It’s basically a non-consensual secret BDSM relationship between a guy in his thirties (played by a Very Tall twenty-seven year old Thomas Ian Griffith) and a 17/18 year old (played by a shorter twenty-eight year old Ralph Macchio).

Also recently we got more information on Mr. Griffith’s input on the uh… vibes of the film. Apparently it wasn’t just The Sweetness of Ralph Macchio’s face, the screenplay (whatever that amounted to in the first place – release the script!), the soundtrack, the direction to not tone it down under any circumstances, the fact that Macchio categorically refused to play a romance between himself and an actress who was sixteen, no: it was also TIG coming up with fun ways to torture Daniel’s character and suggesting these to the director. Clearly everyone has fun hurting Mr Macchio (including Mr Macchio).

The point is that aaallll of that amounts to that Intense Homoerotic Dubiously-Consented-To D/s subtext that haunts the movie and gives a lot of fun stuff to play with. It’s also a film that – if we’re analysing Daniel along feminine-coded fairytale lines recontextualises his role in this universe.

The Fairytale goes topsy-turvy. Through the looking glass. Enter Big Bad Wolf stage right. Karate is a metaphor for Daniel’s bisexual awakening. 

“Oh, when will an attractive man touch me in ways that aren’t about hurting me?” he asks after two movies of being hurt by boys with rippling muscles. “Why do men continue to notice me only to hit me? Do you think wearing red is making me too noticeable? Anyway, Mr Silver looked really good in his gi today.” 

Daniel’s diary must be a trip.

#daniel larusso #the karate kid #cobra kai #ck #johnny lawrence #cobra kai meta #my writing #part one of three #some comparisons to matrix and rocky because I love to talk about those #terry silver

[scarletttries]

All the shows I do or would write and take requests for: [Requests are Open]

Peacemaker

Moon Knight

Succession

Cobra Kai

Scorpion

The Crew

CSI

Law and Order: SVU

Numb3rs

Ted Lasso

Alice in Borderlands

I'll keep updating this as I watch more shows, but feel free to requests any stories or headcanons for any of these shows :)

#writing #requests #requests open #cobra kai #scorpion #peacemaker #moon knight #crime show one shots

[sproutwings]

Tag game

Rules: tag 9 people you want to know better!

The lovely @arleney tagged me.

three five ships: Slade/Dick (DCU), Tommy/Bubonic (Eye Candy), Mitch/Joey (The Firm), Jason/Tim (DCU), Barry/Leonard (The Flash)

first ever ship: Once I knew what shipping was, Mulder/Krycek from The X-Files. Way before that, I was very invested in Batman/Catwoman from the 60s Batman TV show, and D'Artagnan/Milady from Three Musketeers. Not sure which one came first.

last song: "No More Fight Left In Me" by Imany. I've had that stuck in my head since watching Kaori Sakamoto's free skate (which was amazing btw! I rarely get to squee about figure skating here but it was such a powerful performance, it had me crying like a baby).

last movie: Deep Water. It's a hot mess, but I've watched worse movies for less attractive protagonists. No regrets.

currently reading: I read a 50k DCU gen fic this morning (while mentally adding '... and then they kissed and jumped each other' after every chapter, because I don't do gen).

currently watching: I just finished Batwoman (Alice! ❤️). Gotta catch up with Flash and Cobra Kai next.

currently consuming: I would say a Toffee Nut Latte, but there's no 'currently' about it. The glass is empty, boo!

currently craving: Another latte. Also, a warm nest to curl into and get some good sleep, and pain relief for my back ache.

Tagging (if you feel like it - ignore if not!) : @moriavis @asexual-fandom-queen @elasticella @sunherirai @waysheswings

#hello ask box #memememe #sandrine's favorite things

[dramastream]

Is 'all of us are dead' getting a second season? Just wondering if you know something since you put (2022-) on your most recent set.

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it's not confirmed yet by netflixkr but it took netflixkr 4 months to confirm s2+3 of SG (sep-dec21) and also 4 months to confirm s2 of d.p. (end of aug-dec21). d.p. didn't do well globally at all and was a flop, nationally it was doing a lot better. aouad is getting a 2nd season because it's doing massive numbers globally and nationally. if netlixkr gave SG s2+3 (and dir. HGH was against expanding it at first), it'll give aouad also another season

aouad was watched more than the witcher s2, cobra kai, lupin, and you. and they all got renewed by netflix. not even alice in borderland is on that list and netflixjp greenlit s2 of that and they are already in post-production for it. aside from SG, no other netflix original kdrama made it on that list. silent sea was a flop. kingdom got 2 seasons and a special movie and it’s not on there. hellbound and my name did better but my name is concluded and hellbound might get a season 2 as an anime.  the director of aouad said he was planning s1 with s2+s3 in mind so we'll likely get a confirmation in apr/mar. maybe they might switch to another director for s2 since they like to do that, but we’ll def get an s2 with how well it’s doing.

#info #ask

[mjmacchio1991]

hello! i hope you're having a great day dear! <3

Hello Alice! How are you? I hope you are starting to feel better! I am having a great day and I’m currently watching ”Cobra Kai” season 3 and it’s a good show! Hope you are resting, drinking some tea, and listening to some good tunes to lift your spirits! Have a great day! <333

#Alice! <333 #Sending all my best wishes in your recovery!

[p1325]

#fanvidfeed #bestshows #endoftheyear #happynewyears #happynewyear #pop #mashup #tvshows #disneyplus #netflix #hbo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the list of the shows I used : -Wandavision, Squid Game, Acapulco, Sex Education, Blood & Water -Gossip Girl Part 2, Love, Victor, Zero Chill, Marvel's What If, Young Rock -Y The Last Man, True Story, We are Lady Parts, The White Lotus, You -The Great, The White Lotus, Euphoria, Invincible, The Wonder Years -The Pursuit of Love, The Witcher, Superman & Lois, Ted Lasso -Acorn, Blade Runner, Harlem, Dopesick, Dickinson, Elite, Cruel Summer -Dave is coming, Emily In Paris, Hacks, Hightown, Hit & Run, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Pose, Generation, In Treatment, For All Mankind, Fate Winx, Girls 5ever, Chucky, Blindspotting, Cobra Kai, Eden -Big Shot, Brand New Cherry Flavor, American Horror Stories, All Creatures Great and Small, Blackish, Atypical, Cowboy Bebop, Dr.Death, Money Heist -Master of None, Marvel's M.O.D.O.K., Landscapers, Monsters at Work, Resident Alien, Scenes from a Marriage, Servant, Shadow and Bone, My Hero Academia, Succession, Rutherford Fall, Star Wars - Visions, Stay Close, The Sex Lives Of College Girls, Sweet Tooth, The Beast Must Die, The Bite, The Irregulars, The Chair, Station Eleven, The Club, Lucifer, The Mighty Ducks -Solos, Schmigadoon!, The Nevers, What We Do in the Shadows, High School Musical: The Series, Pretty Smart, Starstruck, Nine Perfect Strangers, Never Have I Ever, Narcos Mexico, Midnight Mass, Misif, Pen15, Only Murders In The Building, Masters of the Universe, Loki, Losing Alice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdL7U... Artist: Various

#end of the year #2021 #happy new year #2022 #pop #pop music #mashup #tv shows #wandavision

[heymonty]

So what other shows are you into?

hm. i don't watch much shows but the last show i watched was 'Squid Game' (luckily the first ones who did before it became a hit as i think it deserves.)

But the other shows I'm into were The Pacific, Prison Break, Cobra Kai, How To Get Away With Murder (tho I stopped watching when one of my fave characters died. 😣 but i still plan to continue if i got the heart), Westworld (still haven't watched the 3rd season tho 🙈), Stranger Things, Locke and Key, Kingdom, Alice in Borderland, The Queen's Gambit.

#answered #anonymous

[vveissesfleisch]

tag people you want to know better/catch up with ♪( ´θ｀)

thanks for the taggity tag @vvidderschynnes <3 

Last Song: feed my frankenstein by alice cooper

Last Film: hot tub time machine (because there truly is never a wrong time)

Currently watching: rewatching cobra kai and hurting my own feelings while i gather strength/gird my loins to start trust fx. 

Reading: just cracked the putrescent vein by dorian bridges, a gift from my bff

Craving: a massage so deep and so painful that i can feel in my aching ancient bones, but i suppose the foam roller will have to suffice for now

tagging, only if you’d like to do the thing, @joeslie @meetmeinthematinee @rhubarbdreams @paper-storm @badwolfbadwolf

#get to know me #IT SPEAKS