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medievalandfantasymelee · 11 months ago

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COME ONE, COME ALL to the MOSTE ILLUSTRIOUS TOURNAMENT of the FINEST, the MOSTE PUISSANT and HOTTEST MEN MEDIEVAL MEDIA HAS TO ITS CREDIT.

Be it known that we shall accept submissions of the hottest men OF THE PEOPLES’ CHOOSING from any live-action* TV or movie media property set between the years AD 500 – 1550 (Tudors WELCOME!!), and any fantasy properties which emulate said period!

KNOW ALSO that we, by the grace of this fine hellsite and with the counsel of the moste honorable and illustrious @hotvintagepoll (many thanks), have made

THESE GUIDELINES here given:

ANY HOT GUY who appears in any movie or TV show released in ANY YEAR, from ANY COUNTRY, shall be deemed eligible for entry. Below are listed examples of eligible properties. If YE BE NOT CERTAIN whether your hot guy is eligible, submit him anyway!

Examples of Eligible Properties: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-03), Game of Thrones (2011-19) House of the Dragon (2022), Wolf Hall (2015-2024), The Tudors (2007-2010), Ladyhawke (1985), The Princess Bride (1987), The White Queen (2013), Rise of Empires: Ottoman (2020-2022), Vikings (2013-2020), The Last Kingdom (2015-2022), Diriliş: Ertuğrul (2014), A Knight’s Tale (2001), BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-3009), The Last Duel (2021), The Story of Minglan (2018), The Borgias (2013), Robin Hood (1939), Outlaw King (2018), Pilgrimage (2017), Legend (1985), Braveheart (1995), The Green Knight (2021), Excalibur (1981), Beowulf & Grendel (2005), The Lion in Winter (1968), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), The Black Adder (Blackadder Series 1, 1982), Rashomon (1950)

Remember: This is just a list of examples—WOW ME!

These following titles are examples of properties that do not fall within or emulate the stated time period and therefore DO NOT QUALIFY: The Three Musketeers (Any Version), Pirates of the Caribbean (2004), Barbarians (2020), Gladiator (2000), Ben Hur (1959), Shogun (2024), Elizabeth (1999), 300 (2006), Troy (2004), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001), Disney's Robin Hood (1973)**, Yojimbo (1961), Shakespeare in Love (1998), King Arthur (2004)***

For the purposes of this tournament, "Man" and "Guy" are defined as any bi-pedal humanoid male character played by a man. As such, characters belonging to non-human races such as Hobbits, Orcs, Elves, Demons, Fauns, Werewolves etc. ARE admissible, and, indeed, encouraged.

If you have propaganda you forgot to include in your submission, just hold onto it and send it in an ask after the Tournament begins.

You may submit as many hot men as you like but please submit only ONE ENTRANT per submission.

Do not hesitate to submit ANY hot guy you think may qualify, no matter how popular he is. There is no such thing as a shoo-in with these tournaments. If you think "Someone MUST have submitted him already!" Everyone else is probably thinking that too and then he may well NEVER get submitted and we don't want that.

Do not worry about how many submissions your hot guy might have had already--I need to get a sense of who the strongest contenders are in order to fairly seed the draws, and the best way to do that is volume of submissions.

We are voting on the hotness of the characters. While the actors who portray them are of course a major factor in this, we are not voting on the actors themselves, therefore propaganda pertaining to the actors real lives (aside from anecdotes relating to their portrayal of the character) is not admissible.

By that same token, in the case of historical figures (e.g. Henry VIII) we are judging hotness based on the fictionalized portrayals of them in these properties, not on historical fact.

Regarding immortal/time-travelling/dimension-hopping/extremely long-lived characters, regardless of when the character was born, the main action**** of the story must take place within the Medieval Period (see dates listed at the top of this post) or Medieval-esque fantasy fantasy realm in order for them to be eligible for submission. As such, characters like the Pevensie brothers (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Ash Williams (Army of Darkness) are admissible, but Asgardians (the MCU Thor films) are not.

I, as the Administrator and Master of Revels of this tournament, am exercising discretion in the admittance of characters from works by Shakespeare, since many of them have no set date.

Re: characters adapted from books/written works - Book quotes by/ about your character are not admissible as Propaganda for their tv/ movie counterparts unless said quotes were also written into the show/movie.

Book illustrations and fanart are not admissible Propaganda

SUBMISSIONS SHALL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT, JULY 1st

The Tourney shall begin at a date yet to be determined with the Melee (Qualifying Rounds), wherein the entrants with the fewest submissions and least propaganda will duke it out in a free for all brawl to determine who will enter the Lists.

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRANTS HERE TODAY!!!

-- Master of Revels

*The "live-action" qualification does have a caveat: exception may be made for those CGI films which were all the rage in the mid-00's that used the motion-capture and likeness of the actors; for example characters from, Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf (2007) are admissible.

** this one doesn't qualify, not because it isn't the right time period, but because it falls solidly under the "Animated" category.

***Yes, sadly we are deprived of the beautiful countenances of Clive Owen, Mads Mikkelsen, Ioan Gruffudd et al because the producers of this film in their infinite wisdom and in an attempt to seem "more historically accurate" chose to set it during the Roman withdrawal from Britain, which occurred in the 5th Century (About a CENTURY earlier than Authurian tradition) and is generally agreed to have ended by AD 410. It therefore does not fall under the Medieval umbrella and is not eligible for submission.

**** "Main Action" here defined as "More than half an hour of a movie and more than two episodes of a series"

#medieval fantasy #asoif/got #lord of the rings #a knight's tale #the last kingdom #vikings #the princess bride #house of the dragon #medieval films #tumblr polls #fantasyandmedievalmelee #tournament poll #game of thrones #got

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tojifile · 1 year ago

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@Satosugu . . . ( ´ ꒳ ` )

Tags: idols!satosugu, f!reader, very very cliché wattpad 2018 plot, fan!reader, satosugu x reader, fluff, suggestive, no curse au, cursing, use of petnames, clingy Satoru, kind of ooc (?), reader is 18 n the guys are 19, reader is shorter than both of them, NOT A SATOSUGU SHIP POST (PT.2)

A/N: Still thinking about idols!satosugu, wanna make them so touchy. They’re so adorable, my babies 🫶🫶 Read pt.1 frfr !! (I’m writing this in public lmao)

Kaisen - JJK Entertainment ☆

- Gojo Satoru

- Geto Suguru

idols!satosugu who trusted you too easily, falling asleep the second you submitted to their touch. Suguru’s head on your lap and Satoru’s chin on your shoulder as he pulled you in closer. You could feel the warmth of their breaths on your skin. The cold breeze of the air conditioner making you shudder a bit since Satoru had insisted on removing your heavy winter clothing off of you the moment you entered their hotel room.

idol!suguru who woke up first. He stood up gently, making sure not to wake both you and Satoru up. Although Satoru was a pain in the ass, they were still best friends. He went to the room’s closet and got a blanket and draped it over your and Satoru’s sleeping frames.

idol!satoru who’s still holding you tight. He doesn’t want to let go, he never wants to let go. His head was now hung over the couch’s back rest while you were leaning on his chest, curled up in a ball, still propped on his lap.

You wake up half an hour after Suguru did. Your eyes fluttered awake as the unfamiliar scent of Satoru’s cologne hit your nose. You placed your hands on his chest so you could steadily push yourself up, making the blanket fall to the ground.

The motion of your hands on his chest itself was enough to wake him up. He pulled you to his chest, rendering you unable to get off of him.

idol!suguru who sighed as he saw Satoru pull you to him. “Satoru, let her stand up if she wants to.” He softly spoke. Oh how you loved his voice. And when he’s singing, god! You just want him to hold you close and have him whisper dirty things in your ear.

idol!satoru who snaps you out of your thoughts by being the one to whisper in your ear. “G’morning princess,” he said in a low, sultry voice. Upon hearing his voice you turned red, you couldn’t even respond and this made Satoru chuckle. You were too easy to tease!

idols!satosugu who received new messages from their manager;

manager – kaisen

All flights from Korea to Tokyo are cancelled right now, I’m afraid that we can’t get to the both of you until next week.

For now, have your food delivered to the hotel room. Don’t go out and make sure the girl doesn’t talk. Who even is she?!

Seen by Satoru and Suguru– 6:09

Satoru – kaisen

Oh she won’t talk to the press, she’s literally right here!

Seen by manager and Suguru– 6:09

manager – kaisen

Wdym “she’s right here” ???

Seen by Satoru and Suguru– 6:10

Satoru – kaisen

*sent a picture*

Seen by manager and Suguru– 6:11

idol!satoru who took a selfie with you to show their manager. He got his phone in front of the two of you and he made sure to emphasize the intimate position you were both in. “Smile f’me princess.” And you did as you were told. “Good girl.”

idols!satosugu whose manager was livid knowing they brought you to their hotel room. Now their manager had no choice but to fix it.

idol!suguru who had already ordered breakfast for the three of you. His intimidating looks really didn’t match his caring personality. He was such a good malewife! His fans really weren’t kidding with the title they gave him.

idol!satoru who would stick his tongue out at Suguru, refusing to let you out of his grasp. “Come on Satoru! At least let her eat!” Suguru snapped.

idol!suguru who sighed and gave up. Instead of bringing you to the dining area, he brought the food to you, placing it neatly on the coffee table. Suguru then fed you since Satoru continued to act like a baby and restrict your movement. He was too clingy!

idols!satosugu who constantly cling onto you. They were taller and stronger than you were so there was no way you could escape. It wasn’t like you didn’t like having their attention though. You sighed to yourself. How would you survive the week with them?

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judith-orshalimian · 27 days ago

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Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2018-19 Details!

#fashion #alexander wang #style #fashion show #runway #fashion runway #runway details #dress details #fashion details

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wintfleur · 9 months ago

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⚘ ˖˙𓈒ִֶָ☾.˙ ᰋ ── WHERE’D ALL THE TIME GO?

aka ophelia’s timeline

━━━ ❛ it’s starting to fly

ᯓᡣ𐭩 EARLY LIFE & SCHOOLING !

april 11th, 2002: ophelia is born on a bright and sunny Thursday afternoon in Vernon, British Columbia.

may 9th, 2006: ophelia (4) takes her first ballet class

2008 - 2013: early childhood / elementary school

august 2010: ophelia (8) joined the soccer team and met her now best friend Amber Jameson; they have been inseparable since.

october 2013: ophelia (11) got an ankle injury during a soccer game and sadly had to quit the sport. Her love for ballet was stronger and she didn't want to risk not being able to dance again.

She had to stop dancing for the rest of the year so her ankle could heal, it was miserable for her.

2013 - 2016: start of her teenage years / middle school

march 2015: ophelia (12) joined the theater club and helped make the costumes for their play, in turn finding her love for fashion designing.

april 2016: ophelia (13) went to get her photos taken for her ballet portfolio and was approached by a teen modeling agency.

summer 2016: ophelia (14) went to south korea for a ballet summer intensive program.

She was housed by a sweet family, where she met one of her bestest friends seunghan and his younger brother park sunghoon who is her age. Seunghan is a fellow ballet dancer and went to the training camp with her.

Ophelia became very close with the family, only becoming closer with them as the years go by, she's an honorary park! Seunghan’s parents think of her as their own child and his little sister thinks of her as her big sis!

2016 - 2020: teen years / high school / start of her modeling career

december 2016: Ophelia (14) was on the cover of pointe magazine.

june 2017: ophelia (15) won first place in the Helsinki international ballet competition, in juniors for women.

august 2017: ophelia finished her first wedding dress that she made for her cousin's wedding.

may 2018: ophelia (16) won first place in the american ballet competition

july 2018: ophelia won first place in the varna international ballet competition

was invited to be on jimmy fallon after her win.

february 2019: ophelia (17) made her debut by walking the catwalk and attending the New York fashion week.

may 29th - june 2, 2019: ophelia walked and attended the miami fashion week

september 2019: ophelia walked and attended the paris fashion week

october 9th 2019: the creation of ophelia's youtube channel

Ophelia created her youtube channel so she could have another way to communicate and become closer with her fans.

She mainly posted vlogs of her days as a model and a ballet dancer, and her just traveling and doing random activities with her friends.

december 2019: ophelia walked and attended the NYFW: December pre-fall and fall-winter, fashion week.

february 2020: ophelia walked and attended london's fashion week, fall-winter.

Ophelia meets Ryan James, a fellow model, they exchanged numbers and Ophelia then got in a relationship with him in may.

June 2020: Ophelia (18) graduated highschool with honors.

july 2020: ophelia moved into her apartment/loft in manhattan, New York. With her best friend seunghan.

Throughout 2016 - 2020 ophelia modeled for many different high end brands, her favorites being Dior, Dolce and Gabbana, and GQ.

She was given the nickname “the next model it girl” for her sudden dominating presence in the modeling world.

ᯓᡣ𐭩 JUILLIARD & JACK !

september 2020: ophelia (18) starts her first year at juilliard

february 23 - march 1st 2020: ophelia walked and attended milan’s fashion week

march 2 - 9th 2020: ophelia walked and attend paris fashion week

Throughout the rest of the year ophelia really focused on her ballet career, putting modeling to the side, and focusing on her studies.

march 2021: ophelia (19) won the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP)

may 2021: ophelia won first place in the american ballet competition

july 2021: ophelia won first place in the varna international ballet competition

for the rest of the year, Ophelia modeled for many different brands, but she really just focused on her ballet career and getting more known in the fashion design world.

2022 : breakup era

april 11th 2022: Ophelia (20) broke up with Ryan after finding out he has been cheating on her for many months.

april, may, june, july 2022: ophelia took a break from anything that evolved with modeling during those months, trying to heal from her breakup. Throwing herself into training, practices, and her studies.

august 2022: ophelia modeled for celine as her comeback into modeling

was invited back on the jimmy fallon show where they talked about what she's been up to, the celine shoot, and her comeback to modeling

october 6-9th 2022: ophelia walked and attended los angeles fashion week

november 2022: ophelia was interviewed by WIRED where she talked about ballet and modeling and her love for fashion design

2023: meeting jack

march 3rd 2023: curtis gets traded to the new jersey devils

march 28th 2023: ophelia and Jack meet for the first time at a club and share a kiss.

april 18th 2023: ophelia joins curtis out at a bar to meet some of his teammates, and she sees jack for the first time since the club.

they keep what happened at the bar to themselves (besides Jack freaking out about it to Luke), and pretend to just meet each other for the first time.

april 25th 2023: ophelia and jack run into each other at a bar, things escalate and jack ends up bringing her back to his place where they hook up for the first time.

the next morning they talk about what happened, and how they need to keep what happened between them a secret. They want to keep seeing each other, so they decide to become friends with benefits.

july 2023: ophelia models for calvin klein

july 17th 2023: jack confesses his feelings to ophelia after 3 months of being friends with benefits.

Ophelia didn't take it well and left his apartment in haste (girly was afraid of her feelings and commitment) and they didn't talk for two weeks.

july 31st 2023: ophelia goes to jack’s apartment where she apologizes and asks him on a date.

august 1st 2023: jack and ophelia have there first date and officially start dating (secretly)

november 6th 2023: curtis holds a dinner at his home for his teammates, curtis finds jack and ophelia kissing in the garage and did not take it well.

curtis gives her an ultimatum ‘him or me’ in a moment of anger and that leads to ophelia not talking to either of them for a week, locking herself in her apartment.

november 14th 2023: curtis comes to see her early in the day to apologize for his reaction and what he said, later in the day jack comes to see her and they have a sweet moment, happy that everything is now okay between them.

january 12th 2024: ophelia and jack said i love you for the first time

january 24-28 2024: ophelia walked and attended miami fashion week

february 9-14th 2024: ophelia attended new york fashion week fall-winter

february 16th 2024: ophelia and jack's relationship is exposed to the media when videos and pictures of them at the njd’s family skate go viral.

february 26th - march 5th 2024: ophelia walked and attended paris fashion week

may 2024: ophelia did the 73 questions with vogue

june 2024: ophelia did the “10 things I can't live without’ with GQ

may 6th 2024: ophelia (22) attended the met gala for the first time

ophelia did a get ready with me / last looks with vogue for the met

june 2024: ophelia did diary of a model with vogue

july 2024: ophelia and jack do a couple quiz with GQ

may 2025: ophelia (23) graduates at juilliard

ᯓᡣ𐭩 WHAT'S TO COME !

aka phia and jacks future

. . . to be added

ᝰ.ᐟ 𝓇oro's note. I didn’t add every detail about her modeling and dance career in the ‘julliard and jack’ section, it would have taken forever for me to do that 😭 I will update the timeline as time goes! I hope this helps give you a better understanding about the AU >.<

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rjzimmerman · 7 months ago

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Excerpt from this story from Yale Climate Connections:

Asheville, North Carolina, seemed like a good place to escape the worst of a warming world. The city’s appealing four-season climate includes summers with a typical daily high around 84°F – unusually low for the Southeast U.S. – and winters that aren’t too frigid. There’s typically plenty of moisture throughout the year, but with a mountain rain shadow that keeps Asheville a bit less wet than most of its neighbors. And the city takes climate seriously: findings from a climate resilience assessment have already been incorporated into Asheville’s comprehensive planning document.

In a 2018 Rolling Stone article, Jeff Goodell profiled one climate refugee who had considered the Tampa area before settling on Asheville. “No place is without risk, but in Asheville, the risks seem manageable,” Jeff Kaplan told Goodell. A 2021 Blue Ridge Public Radio segment portrayed Asheville as a climate “winner.”

Then came Hurricane Helene. After striking the Florida Panhandle at Category 4 strength, the storm took a quirky left hook across the southern Appalachians, pushing mammoth amounts of moisture upslope. Making matters worse, a predecessor rain event ahead of Helene had dumped six to 12 inches of rain across the region a day before the storm itself arrived.

The result was one of the most devastating, prolonged, and deadly hurricane-related U.S. flood disasters since the cataclysm of Katrina in 2005. Across the southern Appalachians – including Asheville – Helene destroyed roads, knocked out power and water lines, crippled communications, and took dozens of lives.

Among the things that make Helene different is that it arrived at a time when hurricane behavior is being measurably amped up in multiple ways by human-caused climate change. And it hammered a place now widely viewed to be at least somewhat insulated from the worst impacts of that changing climate.

Many folks seeking out climate-change-protected places in the U.S. have leaned toward small, progressive cities in relatively cool parts of the Midwest and East. Spikes in heat, drought, and wildfire that have plagued the West seem more likely to be tempered in these apparent havens. And in many of them, climate adaptation efforts are already underway.

As it turns out, most of the country east of the Rockies is getting wetter. Especially over the central and southern Appalachians, some locations saw a 5 to 10% rise in official annual precipitation when their 1980-2011 climate averages were replaced by the 1991-2020 figures. In Asheville, a typical year’s precipitation jumped from 37.32 to 40.61 inches.

Along with Asheville, a couple of other often-cited climate-change oases in the U.S. Midwest and East have experienced landmark rains and floods in recent years.

Duluth, Minnesota, referred to in a 2023 New York Times writeup as “climate-proof Duluth” (and the subject of a study on how climate migration might change the city), experienced the worst flooding in its history on June 19-20, 2012, when the city was swamped by a record 7.24 inches of rain in 24 hours. Colossal rains were even more widespread across northeast Minnesota on June 18, 2024, when a number of stations reported 5-7.5 inches of rain – a daily total with an expected recurrence interval of 500 to 1,000 years, according to the National Weather Service.

Vermont has long stood out as a potential U.S. climate refuge, with its environmentally friendly reputation, ample greenery and mountains, and normally mild summers. But when former Hurricane Irene ripped across the state as a tropical storm in August 2011, it brought massive rainfall that triggered one of Vermont’s worst disasters on record, rivaling or exceeding the notorious floods of 1927 in some areas. Then in 2023, weeks of early-summer wildfire smoke filtering south from Canada were followed by the Great Vermont Flood of July 10-11. Triggered by up to 9.61 inches of rain, the floods caused more than $2.2 billion in damage across northern New England and triggered the region’s first-ever flash flood emergency.

#climate change #climate haven #Asheville NC #Hurricane Helene #california

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ststsgsg · 10 months ago

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All of the Fic Recs I Have Received, PT. 1

tysm to: @kltar0 @itsthecityoftheflower @neighborhoodlum @sablegear0 @fadingbasketballgoopprune :D !

SATOSUGU

bluebird, spread your wings (here’s a piece of the broken dream) by tangerineseason

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationships: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru, Fushiguro Megumi & Gojo Satoru, Fushiguro Megumi & Getou Suguru, Fushiguro Megumi & Getou Suguru & Gojo Satoru, Minor Haibara Yu/Nanami Kento - Relationship

Characters: Getou Suguru, Gojo Satoru, Fushiguro Megumi, Other Jujutsu Kaisen Characters

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Sports, PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, Speed Skater Getou Suguru, Figure Skater Gojo Satoru, Speed Skaters Nanami Kento and Haibara Yū, Past Child Abuse, Past Abuse, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fushiguro Megumi Has Abandonment Issues, Gojo Satoru has Abandonment Issues, Touch-Starved Fushiguro Megumi, Touch-Starved Gojo Satoru, Child Fushiguro Megumi, Parental Gojo Satoru, Gojo Satoru is Fushiguro Megumi’s Legal Guardian, Gojo Clan Bashing (Jujutsu Kaisen), Protective Getou Suguru, POV Getou Suguru, Alternative summary: Megumi finds joy while Suguru and Satoru fall in love, Additional Warnings In Author's Note

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2023-11-06 Completed: 2024-01-19 Words: 74,291 Chapters: 8/8 Comments: 111 Kudos: 482 Bookmarks: 138 Hits: 12,087

Summary:

Fill your eyes with wonder, Suguru.

His mother had always said to him, a sort of incantation that had clung to his heartstrings, returning to him in the moments of daze, accompanying the awed breaths that would tumble past his agape lips.

He had devoted himself to chasing that gentle murmur, spoken to him as he had waded into the world of dreams, but his eyes, no matter how desperate for such a sight, had yet to behold a wonder that would draw his heart to a standstill, a momentary interruption in the steady hum of its beats, falling silent in the presence of something it perceived holy.

At least, until now.

For Suguru was no poet, but as he watched the man on the ice with a caught breath, every graceful twist and turn of his body enchanting, resembling a blue star gone waltzing across the night sky, he thought he might have finally understood what they had meant.

me and my husband, we're doing better by interludewings

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationship: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru

Characters: Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru, Fushiguro Tsumiki, Fushiguro Megumi, Hasaba Nanako, Hasaba Mimiko, Gojo Satoru's Parents, Getou Suguru's Parents, Ieiri Shoko, Iori Utahime, Nanami Kento, Haibara Yu (Jujutsu Kaisen), Itadori Yuuji, Tengen (Jujutsu Kaisen), Uraume (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - No Curses (Jujutsu Kaisen), Fake/Pretend Relationship, Fake Marriage, Exes, Exes to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Fluff and Crack, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Light Angst, Family Fluff, Crack Treated Seriously, Title from a Mitski Song, Accidental Marriage, Parental Gojo Satoru, Parental Getou Suguru, Gojo Satoru-centric, Gojo Satoru Being an Idiot, Jealous Gojo Satoru, Jealous Getou Suguru, Kid Fic, Child Fushiguro Megumi, Child Itadori Yuuji, Minor Haibara Yu/Nanami Kento, Minor Ieiri Shoko/Iori Utahime, Minor Fushiguro Megumi/Itadori Yuuji, The Parent Trap-Style Shenanigans, this is really unserious

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2024-02-04 Completed: 2024-02-04 Words: 46,260 Chapters: 3/3 Comments: 70 Kudos: 675 Bookmarks: 159 Hits: 9,043

Summary:

If someone had told Satoru a week ago that his impulsive choice to adopt children would lead to him standing at his front door, ready to welcome his ex-boyfriend—who also turned out to be his lawfully wedded husband—who was going to move in with him for three months in an elaborate ruse to deceive an orphanage director and a social services officer into believing they were still a couple in love, Satoru would have simply laughed in disbelief.

In which Satoru Gojo decides to adopt two children, only to discover that he accidentally married his ex-boyfriend, Suguru Geto, during a drunken episode just months before their breakup. Now, they find themselves living together, forced to maintain the facade of a loving couple. This leads to a series of petty tricks, cringe-worthy pet names, and the unexpected challenge of raising children together.

Fleeting looks of Clashing Purple and Opal Blue by Lexili333

Rating: Not Rated

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationships: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru & Gojo Satoru

Characters: Getou Suguru, Gojo Satoru

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Eating Disorders, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hair Brushing, soft touches, First Kiss, Idiots in Love, Getou Suguru Needs a Hug, Gojo comforts Geto, they're so in love, Really they are, no beta we die like junpei, Hugs, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Protective Gojo Satoru, Communication, Yes they actually talk it out this time, Soft caresses, Sleepy Cuddles, Sleepy Kisses, Cursed Techniques (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2024-03-08 Words: 6,260 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 27 Kudos: 235 Bookmarks: 44 Hits: 2,077

Summary:

''And reaching out for the soft white strands softly brushing Satoru’s forehead came as easily as breathing for Suguru.

At first it was just fingertips, hesitantly lifting up some of the fringe that fell over Gojo’s blue eyes.

Suguru smiled, for he had been right.

It was soft.

The barely there touch of his fingertips grew into a greedy desire to comb his whole hand into the cloud of white. And so Suguru did. His fingers grasped at Satoru’s hair, rubbing at his temple and snaking his hand to the back of Satoru’s head.''

Or, Satoru and Suguru actually communicate this time. (I just had to write this because the headcanon of Gojo taking care of Geto while he's at his lowest is literally always on my mind)

i was confident alone (now my heart's craving another) by noctetsai

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationships: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru & Gojo Satoru & Ieiri Shoko

Characters: Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru, Ieiri Shoko, Nanami Kento, Haibara Yu (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Student Gojo Satoru, Student Getou Suguru, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Fluff and Angst, Gojo Satoru is a Little Shit, Protective Getou Suguru, Getou Suguru is Whipped, Slight Codependency, as a treat, Feelings Realization, this fic spawned from a shitpost, please treat it as such, it's supposed to be mostly silly, Slice of Life

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2024-06-20 Completed: 2024-07-16 Words: 32,774 Chapters: 5/5 Comments:141 Kudos: 528 Bookmarks: 139 Hits: 6,852

Summary:

Yaga levels them all with a look. "You're being reassigned."

Shoko sighs. Oh boy.

Twin scrapes can be heard as Satoru and Suguru leap up, voices overlapping in protest.

or, Satoru and Suguru get separate assignments; this is widely considered a bad move

Love is a Twisted Curse by le_paquet_fou

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Major Character Death

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationship: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru

Characters: Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru

Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Mild Blood, Canonical Character Death, Dead Getou Suguru, Grief/Mourning, because i wanted to make the final satosugu scene even sadder, we all suffer here, no beta we die like men

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2024-06-24 Words: 1,288 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 23 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 177

Summary:

Suguru dies in Satoru's arms, leaving both of them cursed by their love.

~*~

A small look into the moment between Gojo watching Geto's final breath and rejoining his students after the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

moonlight by cj_ackerman

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)

Relationship: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru

Characters: Getou Suguru, Gojo Satoru

Additional Tags: Sensory Overload, Established Relationship, Comfort No Hurt, suguru is head over heels, hes so down bad, Pure Comfort

Language: English

Series: Part 1 of suguru geto/satoru gojo adventures, Part 1 of jjk one-shots

Stats: Published: 2023-08-27 Words: 2,516 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 6 Kudos: 393 Bookmarks: 47 Hits: 4,447

Summary:

In Suguru’s arms, Satoru is warm, cozy, and sated. He lets down Infinity, drops his guard, closing his eyes. With a deep breath, he accepts the kiss pressed to his forehead. Only in Suguru’s arms will Satoru feel safe.

tentacles coveted, but sadly not present by Aamalysstuff

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationship: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru

Characters: Getou Suguru, Gojo Satoru, Ieiri Shoko

Additional Tags: Sex Work, Public Hand Jobs, Phone Sex, Sex Toys Under Clothing, Top Gojo Satoru, Bottom Getou Suguru, Face-Fucking, Marathon Sex, Dirty Talk, So Much Trashy Porn Dirty Talk Oh My God, Roleplay, Light Dom/sub, Getting Together, Also Getting Back Together, Can Someone Be Your Ex If You Technically Didn't Date Them At All The First Time Around?, Nipple Piercings, And Nudes, Poor Shoko The Things She Has to Deal With, Both the Author and Gojo would have wanted to include a tentacle monster in this, Please handwave canon for the purpose of enjoying raunchy fanfic

Language: English

Series: Part 1 of tentacles coveted

Collections: Satosugu

Stats: Published: 2022-02-14 Words: 23,770 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 123 Kudos: 3,279 Bookmarks: 741 Hits: 52,902

Summary:

“So what do you do for money, then, Su-gu-ru? Do you offer mass murder bonuses? Catering services? Do you sell your nudes?”

“Hardly that.” Suguru scoffs. He rolls his eyes. “My nudes are not something people can afford to buy. ”

“Hmmm, I could afford them.” Satoru shoots back with a grin. “I'm rich enough to buy your nudes.”

Suguru levels him with a look, and there’s about half a smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth.

“Do you wanna buy my nudes, Satoru?”

***

A story in which Satoru ends up funding Suguru's Cult activities by buying his overprices nudes and personalized nsfw otome CDs.

It's also character study in whether or not someone can be a genocidal mass-murder and a tsundere at the same time.

Kaleidoscope by Pandamonio

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationship: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru

Characters: Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru, Ieiri Shoko

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, but is it?, Past Lives, Dreams vs. Reality, Recovered Memories, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Historical References, Mythology - Freeform, They're studying the classics, and incidentally discover they are meant to be lovers in every timeline, Holy Roman Empire, They think about it a lot, Bottom Getou Suguru, Angst and Fluff and Smut

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2023-11-19 Completed: 2023-12-03 Words: 10,099 Chapters: 2/2 Comments: 54 Kudos: 340 Bookmarks: 76 Hits: 3,932

Summary:

“I’m in the classics department,” he answers and has to bite his tongue not to say the word ‘actually’ because that would be pedantic and prove Satoru right.

“Ah, that’s better,” Satoru says, nodding his head, all traces of animosity forgotten. “Then you’re smart, like me.”

In his dreams, Suguru is a jujutsu sorcerer at the verge of a breakdown.

once we have sufficiently tortured one another by irrevenance

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

Relationship: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru

Additional Tags: Top Getou Suguru, Bottom Gojo Satoru, Trans Gojo Satoru, Choking, Ambiguous/Open Ending

Language: English

Stats: Published: 2024-01-21 Words: 4,664 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 38 Kudos: 860 Bookmarks: 193 Hits: 7,844

Summary:

Suguru’s throat goes dry. “You’re no longer a sorcerer,” he realizes, a hysterical laugh bubbling in his throat in response to the sick joke that has laid itself before him. “And you came to me?”

“Yes,” Satoru says pleasantly. “What will you do about it,” and here he lowers both his eyelashes and his tone, a mockery of seduction, “Getou-sama?”

PT. 2 | PT. 3

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fic recs #jujutsu kaisen fic recs #satosugu #itafushi #sadly there is a 10 images limit to any one tumble post so i can‘t put them all into one

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What we know about how old every Cobra Kai character is

Recently, lots of questions have come up in the CK fandom about how old all these people are supposed to be and when their birthdays are. The short version is that the writers don't care enough to keep things consistent and have contradicted themselves many times. For the (very) long answer, see below.

If you notice any errors or any additional information that I missed, please let me know.

Thanks to @demetriandelibinaryboyfriends for consulting on some of this.

First, it's useful to pin down when each movie and season takes place, as well as some major events within each one. (Much of this is taken from or duplicative of this timeline, but I'm more willing to speculate.)

The Karate Kid takes place between August and December 1984. (Strictly speaking, I don't think the films ever mention a year, so the first one could just as easily be set in the fall of 1983, when it was filmed, as in 1984, several months after its release, but Cobra Kai is very explicit on numerous occasions that Johnny and Daniel fought in 1984, so let's go with that.) The Halloween Dance was presumably close to Halloween, Mr. Miyagi started training Daniel shortly after that, and the tournament was on December 19.

The Karate Kid 2 picks up on the evening of December 19, 1984, then flashes forward six months to the summer of 1985. It seems like events in Okinawa unfold relatively quickly, so the whole movie might be over by the start of July, but it's hard to be sure.

The Karate Kid Part 3 takes place about a year after the first film, so fall and early winter 1985, concluding with another tournament in December. I've seen some attempts to pin down when specific events happen (eg when Daniel starts training with Terry and when he leaves), but I'm not fully confident in them and they aren't very relevant, so I won't get into them.

Cobra Kai Season 1 starts in August, right before school starts, and concludes with yet another tournament, this one on May 19. From the All-Valley merchandise, we know that the tournament is in 2018, which makes the season's time period August 2017-May 2018. Time within the season is a thornier matter. Things start off pretty clear -- episode 2 is the start of the school year, episode 3 is around Halloween -- but then episode 5 begins with Miguel's training montage, which seems to take place over the course of several weeks, and judging by the decorations in one shot overlaps Christmas. However, later in the episode, everyone else is still reacting to the events of episode 4 as if they just happened: Johnny and Shannon are still debating Robby's living situation, Kyler is spreading rumors about Sam in retaliation for her dumping him, etc. The main ways of resolving this are a) the montage actually took place over about a week and Miguel just improved ridiculously quickly (not too much of a stretch in this show); b) parts of the montage are actually set before episode 4; c) it took weeks for the consequences of episode 4 to play out for some reason. In any case, the cafeteria fight most likely took place in January or early February, with Cobra Kai getting a rush of new students shortly afterward and the rest of the season playing out over the spring of 2018. As noted above, episode 10 is on May 19, 2018 (although that was a Saturday, while the weatherman Sam is watching earlier in the episode says it's Sunday); since Daniel, Johnny, Sam, and Miguel still seem to be wallowing in the immediate aftermath of episode 9, it seems likely that it was the day before, May 18 (although as noted above, things sometimes seem to play out slower than would make sense). This would put the destruction of Johnny's Firebird in episode 8 on the night of May 17. Before that, things get murky.

Season 2 picks up immediately afterward on the night of May 19, 2018. Daniel and Robby spend May 20 fixing up Miyagi-Do (on my first watch, I assumed that montage took place over at least a week, but their outfits never change and time in the rest of the episode clearly doesn't progress that far. I guess Robby's shoulder healed near-instantly from the ambient Miyagi magic). The first post-tournament Cobra Kai class presumably takes place on Monday, May 21. Valleyfest in episode 3 is probably around the Fourth of July, while most of the rest of the season plays out somewhat uncertainly over the course of the summer. Episode 10 is the first day of school (generally mid-August for LA public schools) and episode 9 is once again the night before.

Season 3 starts two weeks after the school fight (so late August or early September 2018). We see Sam's phone right before the laser tag fight in episode 5 displaying the date as October 20, which lines up with the dates on Robby's emails earlier in the episode. Demetri's arm is healed enough to resume karate by episode 8, so that's probably at least a month later, probably into December. The Christmas party, the house fight, and Johnny and Daniel's confrontation with Kreese are generally assumed to take place on December 19, 2018, though as far as I know there's no evidence for this beyond the title of episode ten. In the final scene where Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang start their first merged practice, the kids' injuries from the house fight have started to heal but not made much progress, so it's probably December 20-22.

Season 4 picks up in the middle of the dojo merger scene (so late December 2018). The tournament in episodes 9-10 is on May 18, 2019. Filling in the time between is tricky, but Devon says she's been training for six weeks, which would put her recruitment in episode six somewhere in early April, and thus the MD-EF schism of episode 5 probably in late March.

Season 5 takes place an amount of time after the end of season 4 roughly equal to how long it takes Miguel to get from LA to Ceuta. Google Maps suggests it's about a 20 hour drive, so depending on whether the bus had any stops, detours, or layovers, we're probably looking at something in the neighborhood of May 19-21, 2019. The rest of the season occurs during the summer of 2019, with few cues as to when anything is happening. Episode 10 seems to take place before the start of the school year.

Season 6 opens at the start of the 2019-2020 school year (probably August again). In episode 4, Miguel and Demetri get early admissions decisions, which usually come out in mid-December. The timing of the Sekai Taikai is ambiguous, but the show definitely gives the impression that everyone hopped on a plane to Barcelona a day or two after captains were selected. Allegedly Daniel's phone in a Barcelona scene says that it's April, but this seems way too late in terms of both college acceptances and personal relationships (it doesn't seem like Robby has been spending months wondering where Tory is, or that Demetri and Eli have been feuding for that long). The most likely explanation is that that scene was filmed in April and they just didn't bother to fix the date. It then takes Terry a few months to convince everyone to resume the tournament; Miguel says Stanford let him in during his fight against Axel, so that would probably make it March or early April, although such decisions sometimes come at other times. The stuff near the end of the last episode where the kids young adults are heading off for various summer programs are presumably in May or June 2020. The scene where Daniel mentions Anthony competing in the All-Valley is a little confusing, since we don't know if he's talking about the 2020 or 2021 tournament; it could be in May 2020, in early 2021, or even in fall 2020 if the AVT committee had their hands full running the Sekai Taikai and needed to push the local tournament back a few months.

With that out of the way, let's try to pin down as many character birth dates as we can:

Johnny Lawrence: He graduated high school in the spring of 1985, so he was probably born some time between the fall of 1966 and the summer of 1967. August 20, 1967 is the commonly given date, but no one has ever given a convincing source for it. My best guess is that someone just invented it and added to a wiki, and everyone else went, "yeah, that sounds right."

Conclusion: Sure, let's go with August 20, 1967. This would mean he turns 50 around the start of the show and 53 just after the end.

Daniel LaRusso: From the first movie, we know that his birthday is December 18, the day before the All-Valley. His year of birth is more contentious. His birthday in the first movie is clearly intended to be a 16th birthday party, since he talks about getting his license and according to the script (screenshotted in the timeline linked above) his cake has sixteen candles in it, which would put his birth year as 1968. However, I have seen frequent unsourced claims that his birth year was later retconned to 1966, which is when you would expect someone in his high school class to be born.

Neither answer works very well. To accept the 1966 date, you need to believe that:

Not only did he compete in an under-18 tournament at the ages of 18 and 19 (which could be attributed to Miyagi and Silver shenanigans to sneak him in, or just flexible tournament rules), he didn't even mention at any point that he shouldn't be eligible

Daniel willingly spent his 18th birthday at the DMV, when there were 729 preceding days which were not his birthday when he would have been eligible to get his license

Mr. Miyagi got the number of candles on his cake wrong

On the other hand, the 1968 date requires you to believe that:

Daniel graduated high school at age 16 despite not seeming as exceptionally booksmart as that would require (maybe it was a side effect of all the moving around he did? New York state is unusual in allowing kids to start kindergarten at age 4 as long as they turn 5 before the end of the calendar year, so if we baselessly speculate that his family lived in NY in the fall of 1973 before moving to Newark later on, he could have started school early. He would then need to gain one more year somehow in the transfer to New Jersey, the transfer to California, or by skipping a grade at some point)

Mr. Miyagi wanted to cosign the lease for his bonsai tree shop with a 16 year old in the third movie (Mr. Miyagi was never really the type to worry about silly little laws like that, and we have no evidence Daniel's name actually ended up on the lease)

Lucille was willing to leave her high school graduate but not yet adult son in the care of a man she had met less than a year ago for the entire summer and fall of 1985 (it was the 80s, and Mr. Miyagi has very trustworthy vibes)

To make matters worse, Daniel says at some point in the show that he's the same age that Mr. Miyagi was when Daniel met him, which would be 59 if you believe the gravestone and even older if you have more sense than that (see below). I'm inclined to think Daniel and/or the writers just miscalculated there and he's actually at least a decade younger than that.

Conclusion: December 18, 1968, but I'm not happy about it. (So 48 at the beginning of the show, turns 50 at the end of season 3, and 51 at the end.)

Miguel Diaz: We get our first blatant contradiction within canon. Miguel's hospital bracelet, barely visible in some scenes early in season three, gives his date of birth as 3/14/2003. (It also lists his admission date as August 22, which is more than a week after LA public schools usually have their first day, but there are many possible explanations for that.) However, in episode five of that season (so probably October 20, 2018 per above discussion), Carmen says "he's seventeen", whereas the bracelet date would make him 15 at that point. Being born in 2003 would also make him young for his class year, but he's pretty smart and has moved around at least as much as Daniel did, so that's a smaller issue than his mother getting his age wrong. Assuming the hospital got the day and month right but the year wrong doesn't help much: March 14, 2002 would put him within the expected range for his high school class (fall 2001-summer 2002), but would still make him 16 rather than 17 in season three. March 14, 2001 would make Carmen right about his age, but possibly make ineligible for the 2019 All-Valley.

Conclusion: Early fall 2001 (so 15 at the very start of the show, 16 for most the rest of season one, turns 18 early in season six), but if you want a concrete date on which to celebrate his birthday, March 14 is your best option.

Samantha LaRusso: We only get concrete age information in the first two seasons, and unfortunately she seems to get over a year younger between them. Early in the season, she offers to drive Yasmine to the first day of school, suggesting that she was already 16 by then (or even older, given that California appears to be pretty restrictive about teens driving each other around), which would put her birth date in the summer of 2001 or earlier, unusually old for her high school class. Supporting this, in the second half of season one (early 2018) she says, "Eight years ago I was eight," suggesting she is already 16 at this point.

Meanwhile, in episode 8 of season 2, we see an invitation to Sam's first birthday party in Daniel's scrapbook, with the date given as October 14, 2003, which would presumably put her birth in October of 2002, unusually young for her high school class. Supporting this, later in the episode we flash back to Amanda pregnant with her at the LaRusso Auto grand opening in 2002.

Inconclusion: I have no idea. My best attempts to reconcile all of this involve temporal distortion fields.

Robby Keene: After that nightmare, we finally have one of the clearest-cut cases in the entire franchise: Johnny explicitly tells Miguel when Robby was born in episode three of season two. The only slight wrinkle is that Sid says in the first episode of the show (August 2017) that Robby is 16, when in fact he wouldn't turn 16 until the following February, but this can be attributed to Sid not knowing Robby's birthday and Johnny not caring enough to correct him.

Conclusion: February 4, 2002 (15 at the start of the show, turns 18 between episodes 10 and 11 of season 6)

John Kreese: He seems to be roughly college-age (though not in college) in the season three flashback to 1965. Otherwise I don't think we know much.

Conclusion: Mid-1940s probably (so in his early to mid 70s during the show)

Nariyoshi Miyagi: The only years mentioned in the movies are a) his first time on his father's fishing boat was 1927 (so he was alive then but still a child, probably a pretty young one) and b) his wife and newborn son died in November 1944. We also know he left Okinawa for Hawaii when he was 18, and he would have needed enough time after that to meet, marry, move to California with, and impregnate his wife.

His gravestone in the show lists his birth date as June 9, 1925, which would make him two on the fishing boat (seems a little young), leaves him less than year to court his wife, and, most ridiculously of all, means he moved from Japanese territory to American territory in the middle of World War II (IIRC Robert Mark Kamen raised similar objections to the CK creators). In season six, Daniel mentions that the documents he found list his birth year as 1918, but Mr. Miyagi was born in 1924, which may be an attempt to retcon this. If the end up making a Miyagi spinoff, possibly these issues will get addressed further, though given their track record they could just as easily be dropped entirely.

The deeper issue for any account of Mr. Miyagi's life is that, as I understand it, immigration from Asia to the US was nearly impossible between 1925 and 1965. Kamen based Miyagi on old Okinawan immigrants he knew as a teenager, who presumably would have come over in the 1910s, but Daniel is 20 years younger than Kamen, so most of those Okinawans were dead by his teens and later generations were not allowed in to replace them.

Conclusion: I'm partial to 1920, but there's a range of okay options, especially if you're willing to postulate alternate histories of US immigration law.

Tory Nichols: in season four (early 2019) she tells her aunt, "I'll be 18 next year."

Conclusion: Some time in 2002, probably the first 8 months given her class year (so 16 when she first appears, 18 at the end)

Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz: At the beginning of season two, right before the first post-tournament Cobra Kai class (so probably Monday, May 21, 2018), he tells Miguel he's getting his license next week (so somewhere between May 28 and June 1). This might suggest his 16th birthday was around then, but it's also possible he turned 16 earlier and just didn't prioritize getting his license as fast as possible. Before he joined Cobra Kai, he didn't really have anywhere to go except school, Demetri's house, and the comic book store, and afterward karate was taking up a lot of his time, which may have slowed things down.

His fake ID says his birthday is June 9, but I assume that's just a 69 joke, or maybe he stole Mr. Miyagi's birthday as a prelude to stealing the medal.

Conclusion: Probably late May 2002 (so 15 throughout season one, 18 at the end of season six), but could be earlier

Demetri Alexopoulos: His social media handle is DMan2002, so presumably he was born in 2002. In season four he implies that he's known Eli since kindergarten, which suggests he was born in the first eight months of 2002, rather than being born in the fall or December and starting school in New York before moving to California or starting a year behind Eli and catching up by skipping a grade. (They can't have both skipped a grade because then Eli wouldn't have been old enough to get his license in May 2018.)

Conclusion: January-August 2002 (so 15 when the show starts, turns 16 in season one or two, turns 18 in season six or right after the show ends)

Amanda LaRusso: In the third movie, Jessica appears to be fresh out of high school (so most likely born 1966 or 1967), and I get the vibe that Amanda is pretty close to her age, probably a little younger.

Conclusion: Most likely late 1960s (so late 40s or early 50s during the show)

Carmen Diaz: She says she was 18 when she had Miguel, which would put her birth year as 1982-1983 (if you believe me) or 1984-1985 (if you believe the hospital bracelet).

Conclusion: 1982 or 1983 (mid to late 30s during the show)

Terry Silver: Old enough to be in Vietnam in 1968, maybe a little younger than Kreese. The TKK3 novelization allegedly describes him as 40 years old in 1985 (so born 1945), but that seems a little old to me.

Conclusion: Some time in the second half of the 1940s (around 70 during the show)

Chozen Toguchi: In the season five flashback to 1972, he appears to be roughly ten, which would line up with his apparent age (early 20s) in 1985 in the second movie.

Conclusion: First half of the 1960s (so in his late 50s during the show)

Kenny Payne: In eighth grade in season four (spring 2019)

Conclusion: Probably somewhere fall 2004-summer 2005 (13-14 when he first appears, 15 at the end of the show)

Anthony LaRusso: In season one, Amanda references his conception ten years earlier. In season four, a year later, he's in eighth grade (13-14 years old typically), presumably because Griffin Santopietro aged three and a half years in that time and puberty made it hard for him to play much younger than he actually was. Maybe he skipped some grades? (He might be smart enough, but I have trouble imagining him applying himself in school nearly enough for that to happen.) Maybe he stole some years from Sam between season one and season two? Maybe Amanda couldn't remember how old he was because all her spare braincells were devoted to tracking Sam's rapidly shifting age, or maybe she was rounding severely?

Conclusion: Probably some time in 2005 (so 12-13 in season one, 15ish at the end)

Kyler Park: Season six reveals that he's actually been a year ahead of the main teens for the entire show and graduated in the spring of 2019, so he's at least a year older, possibly more if he got held back at some point.

Conclusion: Probably fall 2000-summer 2001 (16 at the start of the show, 19 by the end), could be even older

Devon Lee: Probably a high school freshman in season four (spring 2019)

Conclusion: Most likely fall 2003-summer 2004 (14-15 when she first appears, 16 by the end)

Kim Da-Eun: Under ten in the season five flashback to 1980 (the actress appears to have been 9 during filming).

Conclusion: First half of the 1970s (in her late 40s in seasons five and six)

Yasmine: Has a birthday party in episode 9 of season 1, which as mentioned above was probably on May 18, 2018, though it could have been earlier. We can be pretty sure that the party was on her actual birthday, because Demetri said, "I saw on your Facebook it's your birthday," and he's enough of an annoying pedant (affectionate) that if she was celebrating on a day that wasn't quite her birthday, he would have remarked on it.

That just leaves the question of which birthday it was. 16th would make sense for a high school sophomore, but California doesn't even give learner's permits to anyone younger than 15.5, and Yasmine was driving back at the beginning of season 1, nine months before the party. If she's turning 17 in episode 9, she could have had a license back in episode 1 (driving other teenagers around unsupervised would still be illegal, but she probably wouldn't care). However, this would probably require her to have been held back in school at some point, and I can't really imagine her parents allowing that. It's much more likely that they bribed the DMV or something to get her an early license.

Conclusion: Probably May 18, 2002 (15 at start of show, 18 at end), but a few days or a full year earlier are also possible

Aisha Robinson, Moon (Taylor?), Piper Elswith, Mitch, Chris, Edwin, Big Red, Abe, Dieter, etc: Seem to be in the same class year as the main teens (though Piper could be a year older, which would explain why she disappears after season four). Therefore they were most likely born in the fall 2001-summer 2002 range, but exceptions are certainly possible.

Brucks, Rory, AJ: Most likely in Kyler's year, one ahead of the main teens. Brucks is confirmed in season six to have graduated at the same time as Kyler, while Rory and AJ disappear after season one, so it's hard to tell and they could even be older than Kyler (though Kyler mentions Rory in season four, suggesting that he hasn't graduated yet or stuck around after graduating)

Conclusion: Most likely fall 2000-summer 2001

Bert: We see him walk past Miguel's locker in one scene in season one, suggesting he's already in high school at that point, which would make him only a year younger than the main teens. However, we know from season four that eighth graders are sometimes given tours of the high school. He definitely doesn't look like he's with a tour group, but we also know from Kenny's experience that kids sometimes get separated from their tours. Owen Morgan was 13 when season one was filmed, so if Bert was supposed to be in high school at that point, it's entirely possible he skipped a grade.

Conclusion: Could be anywhere from fall 2002 to summer 2004 (so 13-15 when he first appears halfway through season one, 15-17 at the end of the show)

Nate (Oh?): Doesn't appear in season one, but is definitely a high school student by the time the 2018-2019 school year begins at the end of season two. Bert seems to regard him as a peer, which likely means they are the same age and/or grade, but you never know. In season four, Bert dismisses the idea of a junior being romantically interested in Nate as ridiculous, which would be a little weird if Nate was a sophomore at that point (Sam dated Kyler when she was a sophomore and he was a junior, after all), but teens can get some pretty weird ideas about social norms (and one might headcanon that Bert had a crush on Nate himself and was trying to fend off competition by any argument he could think of, however specious).

Conclusion: Somewhere in the fall 2002-summer 2004 range, a bit more likely to be in the later half

Kwon Jae-sung, Axel Kovacevic, Zara Malik, Yoon Do-Jin, Maria Alvarez, Diego Aguilar, other Sekai Taikai competitors: probably in their late teens, given that they're competing in a youth karate tournament but are played by adults

Bobby Brown, Ali Mills, Tommy, Jimmy, Dutch, Susan, etc: Presumably somewhere in the fall 1966 to summer 1967 range.

Shawn Payne: already in a juvenile detention facility when Robby arrives in September 2018, released probably late summer 2019. This might suggest that he turns 18 after that, but some cursory research suggests that California sometimes keeps people in juvie into their twenties.

Conclusion: Probably in the same fall 2001-summer 2002 range as the main teens, but who knows

Louie LaRusso Jr and Vanessa LaRusso: We see Louie LaRusso Sr (who is supposed to be their father) die in late 1985 in the third movie at the age of 70, which provides a fairly hard lower limit to their ages, especially since he was very sick and probably in no shape to be fathering children for months before that. This is borderline-plausible for Louie Jr (Bret Ernst was born in 1972, according to IMDB, though he looks a fair bit younger than that), but Julia Macchio was in her late 20s when she first appeared at Vanessa, making it a bit of a stretch to believe she's old enough for Louie Sr to be her father. It makes a bit more sense to me to assume that Uncle Louie was actually their grandfather, which allows for a bit more flexibility.

Conclusion: Some time in the 70s or (more likely) 80s; no later 1985 (or maybe early 1986) if you accept their canon parentage

Kim Sun-Yung: The creators have said that he's around 100 in 2019, which would line up with him being a young man during World War II.

Conclusion: 1910s or 1920s

Mike Barnes: He's under 18 in 1985 for the tournament in the third movie (unless Terry paid some bribes to get him in), but he's already pretty firmly established himself as a national competitor, so he's probably 17 or close to it.

Conclusion: Most likely some time in 1968

Hector Salazar: He says he was close to Miguel's age (so late teens) when he married Carmen

Conclusion: Early 1980s

Kumiko Tanaka, Rosa Diaz, Shannon Keene, Anoush Norouzi, Raymond "Stingray" Porter, Sid Weinberg, Gunther Braun, Feng "Sensei Wolf" Xiao, Tom Cole, Armand Zarkarian, Homeless Lynn, Lyle the pawnshop guy, Nestor the Mini Mart guy, the All-Valley committee, the Fist, etc: Not much to go on beyond eyeballing how old they look (and considering the ages of their kids, in Rosa and Shannon's cases)

Trey, Cruz: We see them in adult prison in season three (fall 2018), and they generally seem a bit older than Robby.

Conclusion: 1990s, probably late 90s

Lia Cabrera, Zack Thompson, Slade Wang, Marcus: In Kenny and Anthony's class year

Conclusion: Most likely fall 2004-summer 2005

Counselor Blatt: younger sister of Ali's friend Susan, seems to have overlapped with Daniel in high school

Conclusion: Probably 1968-1970

#cobra kai #long post #pedantry

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How did you come to Islam?

I am glad you asked!

So the year is 2018/2019, there abouts.

I made my first Muslim friend!

I found this out by asking the most terrible question I've ever asked anyone ever "hey since you have x name, does that mean you're Muslim.?"

He said yes. He was SUPER chill about me being like innocently racist. I still cringe about this exchange. I am currently cringing typing this all out.

But I was like 19/20, and racial etiquette was new to me.

Now, I knew nothing, and I mean NOTHING about Islam.

For quite a few years, it was just something my super cool "got me through my abusive relationship" online best friend practiced.

Iiiiiinnnnnnn 2022? Around there.

I was at Michael's, the crafts store, and there were these GORGEOUS stickers for Ramadan. I immediately sent a picture of them to him talking about how beautiful they were, lamenting about how I'd love to get them, but that would be cultural appropriation. I think he said it would be fine if I got them, but I still didn't get them, it didn't feel right because at the time I wasn't Muslim(obviously.)

Sometime later, it's Christmas and I'm in one of my "I need to start a business or else I'm always going to be in poverty" moods. Don't ask me why this was a thing, because I very clearly cannot produce enough of anything to run a business. Anyways. I'm thinking about making Christmas cards and then my brain goes "Well what if I make something for Muslims? I don't want to leave them out of things."

So I message my friend, asking if that would be okay.

He explains that Islam doesn't have a winter holiday like Christmas, that Muslims go off a lunar calendar and he tells me about Ramadan.

And I'm like "mhm. Okay. What's Ramadan?"

And so I spent the literal rest of the night (literally HOURS) researching Ramadan and Eid. I read THE ENTIRE wiki page for both /including/ the parts that explain the different ways different countries and regions celebrate Ramadan and Eid.

Fall 2023 I find out that what I thought was an Indian take out restaurant (because I get curry there don't hate me I was told it was an Indian place) was acting, specifically, a HALAL restaurant and I'm like "mhm. Okay. So what does that mean?"

And again, I spend hours on Google with those drop down "similar questions" just learning a little bit about Islam.

And like through these experiences I learn a basic principle that I have embodied since becoming Muslim "Islam is a religion of love and peace"

Come to 2024.

I think February. Really wanna say February. My sense of time and time keeping is really bad.

But it's the beginning of the year. I'm having a real ROUGH time of it. I'm having intrusive thoughts of self harm. I'm constantly being triggered by Tumblr because of the I/P conflict. I'm constantly triggered by trumblr because of talks of transphobia of kinds. I'm triggered by Tumblr because of the porn. My best friend is increasingly becoming a bad friend. IM NOT COPING. To the point I was hospitalized twice, and should have been a third time (thanks Brylin for never calling me back for that admission)

And through it all, I'm praying to the universe. I'm like, I'm lost, I'm suffering, I need some guidance. Please someone, anyone, give me a sign.

And there was this feeling.... this VERY distinct feeling. It was in my chest and in my belly. I can't really describe it other than light and energy radiating. Like a pulling feeling. It felt like a calling. And something inside me kept saying "turn to Islam. Turn to Allah."

I was apprehensive at first. Yknow, being a pagan witch at the time and all. It felt... well, why would Allah be calling to me.? I'm a pagan witch!

But I don't know. I won't lie and say I never found comfort in being pagan. But there's something.... different in Islam. I can sit and listen to the Quran and crochet and I just feel... at peace. I can watch videos discussing Islam and the thoughts usually racing in my head just... stop. I'm fascinated by Islamic history in a way that other periods in history haven't fascinated, /and I say this as someone who loves history/.

I will admit, there's part of me that doesn't feel good enough for Allah, for Islam. But then I remember how many times the Quran says "Allah is the most forgiving, the most merciful" and that's... that's what I need. Someone to forgive the parts of me that can't keep up because of my disability, and is understanding (see, merciful) for all the things I am not.

So tldr: basically I had a friend who started my interested and then Allah answered my prayers.

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Elegantly Black

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Paolo Sebastian Once Upon a Dream 2018 Spring Summer Couture Collection

Paolo Sebastian The Nutcracker 2018-19 Autumn Winter Couture Collection

Ziad Nakad Fall Winter 2017 – 2018

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From April 4, 2021 — Camille wears:

Mach & Mach – Silver crystal dress from the fall/ winter 2018/19 collection

#camille rowe #camille rowe pourcheresse #fingermonkey #camille rowe bel #camillerowep #april 2021 #2021 #identified items #id items #mach and mach

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judith-orshalimian · 4 months ago

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Akris Fall/Winter 2018-19!

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bongaboi · 2 years ago

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The REAL power behind the North Korean throne revealed

Always careful to walk at least several paces behind her baby-faced brother and keep out of shot if cameras are around, she looks so pale and fragile that its seems a strong wind might knock her down.

Indeed, compared to her obese and surly-looking sibling – North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un – she seems a gentle soul, charming even, who couldn’t hurt a fly.

When her brother met President Trump for a historic summit in 2019, she was seen shyly peering out from behind a wall. Observers thought it almost adorable.

And yet – according to a ground-breaking and revealing new book – those who judge Kim Yo-jong on appearances may be making a fatal mistake.

Believed to be 35, the youngest child of former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il is actually a ruthless political operator (even by her brutal family’s standards) who some tip to succeed her brother and who their father regarded as the most able of his offspring.

Yo-jong may even be heading for an explosive power struggle with her niece – Jong-un’s daughter Ju-ae – who is thought to be just 10 but has already been publicly hailed as her father’s heir apparent.

But judging by what this new book reveals about Aunt Yo-jong with her ‘trademark Mona Lisa smirk’, it would be foolish to assume that little Ju-ae will one day be sitting on the throne of the Hermit Kingdom.

For Yo-jong, say North Korea experts, is ‘the brains behind the operation’ – and terrifying brains, at that.

According to US academic Sung-Yoon Lee, whose new book ‘The Sister’ provides the first detailed insight into Yo-jong, it’s not for nothing that some Pyongyang officials have nicknamed her ‘bloodthirsty demon’ and ‘the devil woman’.

The de facto second-in-command to her brother, Yo-jong can have even the most senior government officials executed on just a word.

In 2021, she was elevated to the nation’s most powerful body – the State Affairs Commission. And since then, Lee says, she has had ‘the ultimate power of the cruel dictator; the power to play God and decide who lives and who is killed’.

Doted on from childhood, Yo-jong was largely hidden from public view for decades. But in 2018, she sparked a media frenzy when she attended the Winter Olympics in South Korea as her country's official representative and was pictured sitting close to Vice President Mike Pence.

Journalists hailed a glamour, delicacy and charm so lacking in her dumpy brother and many wondered if North Korea could finally be veering away from its dreadful past.

Instead, predicts Lee, Yo-jong is her 39-year-old brother’s zealous and spittle-flecked chief propagandist and is potentially ‘fiercer and more ruthless’ than him.

And, given his health problems with suspected heart disease, diabetes and obesity – the regime as good as admitted he was nearly killed by Covid-19 – North Korea may need a new leader sooner than expected.

Of course, obtaining information about the ferociously secretive dictatorship is immensely difficult but in 2021 Yo-jong reportedly ‘ordered several executions of high-ranking government officials for merely “getting on her nerves”.’

Those she found ‘less disagreeable’ were simply banished – along with their entirely innocent families – to detention camps and gulags, ‘where a life of grueling forced labour, beatings, torture and starvation rations awaited’.

According to Lee, rumors of Yo-jong’s ‘impulse to purge and kill’ soon became so rife that top officials started holding their breath in her presence. If she approached them they would avert their gaze or stare at the floor.

Ignoring her is apparently far safer than trying to win her praise – for ‘just being recognized by her might in due course lead to a fall from favor and a brush with death’.

A computer science graduate, Yo-jong doesn’t reserve her bloodthirsty impulses just for cowering officials. On the few occasions she’s been allowed to show her teeth on the international stage, she’s left little doubt that her finger on Pyongyang’s nuclear button would be every bit as unsettling as her saber-rattling brother’s.

In April last year, the First Sister dropped the sweetness act and warned South Korea that if its military ‘violated even an inch of our territory, our nuclear combat force will have to inevitably carry out its duty… and a dreadful attack will be launched’.

The South Korean army, she added, ‘will have to face a miserable fate little short of total destruction’.

As the head of propaganda, she has also demonstrated a knack for concocting particularly vile blasts against her nation’s enemies.

When, 2014, South Korea elected their first female leader, Pyongyang state media carried quotes calling her a ‘wicked sycophant’, ‘dirty old prostitute’ and ‘capricious whore’.

President Obama was outrageously branded a ‘wicked black monkey’, and a gay High Court justice in Australia was labelled a ‘disgusting old lecher with a 40-odd-year-long career of homosexuality’.

All of the comments were either written or signed off by Yo-jong.

Certainly, she’s come a long way since 2011 when her brother succeeded their father. At the time, few people outside Pyongyang even knew her name.

North Korea is also a staunchly patriarchal society. And one in which, for all its socialist pretensions, women generally look after the family at home while the men handle the politics.

Nonetheless Yo-jong’s own parents were said to be the first to recognise she was special. Even if they felt they couldn’t acknowledge it in public – her father instead elevating her underwhelming, basketball-obsessed brother.

Kim Jong-il had seven children by four women, either wives or concubines, but he reserved his chief affection for a dancer named Ko Yong-hui who bore him both Jong-un and Yo-jong.

Yo-jong’s own parents were said to be the first to recognise she was special. Even if they felt they couldn’t acknowledge it in public. (Pictured: Female North Korean soldiers march in parade).

They and elder brother Kim Jong-chul lived in the ruling family’s gated compound, given every luxury including the best food and toys money could buy, while their countrymen and women languished in poverty.

Up to the early 2000s, Jong-chul was all but set to succeed their father – until it was announced in 2009 that he wasn’t.

According to the family’s sushi chef, his father suddenly decided Jong-chul was ‘no good because he is like a little girl’.

And while Jong-chul reportedly now lives a quiet life in Pyongyang, appearing at occasional Eric Clapton concerts as far afield as Singapore and London, the actual ‘little girl’ in the family was clearly made of sterner stuff.

As a child, she was addressed by her proud parents as ‘sweet princess’ despite having a reputation for being strong-willed and stubborn.

Interestingly, the couple referred to their sons as ‘Big Brother’ (Jong-chul) and ‘Little Brother’ (Jong-un), in other words from the perspective of their sister.

Soon after she was born in 1987, she became the ‘axis of the royal family’, always sitting next to her father at meals while her brothers sat further down the table.

By the age of eight she was sufficiently sure of herself to fire her personal aide. Aged nine, she physically dragged her older brother – who was 16 – out of a women-only theatre on their family estate after he sneaked in.

She and her brothers were sent to be schooled in Switzerland, using pseudonyms and pretending to be the children of North Korean diplomats.

Her father was a psychopath who had his own half-brother Hyon murdered in 2007 to protect his children’s succession right. In the 1980s he attempted to assassinate the South Korean president and blew up a passenger plane in mid-air as one of many terrorist acts.

Lee says Jong-un and Yo-jong have clearly both inherited his murderous instincts. Indeed, Jong-un is suspected of having his own half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, assassinated in Kuala Lumpur airport with nerve agent in 2017.

Quite what his sister would be capable of is yet to be seen. But in the meantime she remains an increasingly powerful and vindictive presence in the background.

Even aged 21, when she was spotted trailing her father to an important meeting with Bill Clinton, it is thought she was already playing a key role in government.

And, unlike her Supreme Leader brother, she can speak English – a notable advantage when it comes to global politics.

When, during a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2018, the US delegation cracked a joke, she laughed while Kim Jong-un stared blankly ahead, clearly not understanding.

This may be one of the reasons as to why Jong-un clearly depends on his sister and keeps her close.

During the funeral eulogy for Kim Jong-il in 2011, his daughter – evidently overcome with emotion – suddenly left the official line-up.

For anyone else, such an outrageous break with protocol at a sacred ceremony would have been considered even worse than ‘half-hearted clapping’ and punishable by death.

But, from the earliest days of her brother’s rule, Yo-jong has been ‘untouchable’, says Lee.

Not that ordinary North Koreans would have known: state media never mentioned her once until March 2014 and that was only to say she’d cast a vote for her brother in an ‘election’.

She was mentioned twice more that month when she accompanied Jong-un to concerts. On both occasions, her name came last in the list of more than a dozen attendees and with no reference to her ‘blue blood’.

All considered then, it’s hardly surprising that her private life remains a mystery.

In 2018, during the trip to South Korea for the Winter Olympics, she appeared on one occasion without a coat and seemed to have a slight bulge around her abdomen.

Intelligence analysts speculated that she might be pregnant and South Korean media claimed she confirmed as much to Olympics officials. As to the likely father, she reportedly married Choe Song, a government official’s son, in 2014. It’s also claimed she had a child in 2015.

According to Lee, Yo-jong and her brother have devised a ‘good cop, bad cop’ strategy on the world stage whereby she employs her femininity and deceptive charm to offset Jong-un’s surly aggression.

But while it might publicly appear that she’s in a subservient role – standing happily aside and handing her brother a pen for him to sign the historic joint statement with President Trump in Singapore in 2018, for example – once again, appearances can be deceptive.

In 2019, Jong-un took a long train ride to Vietnam for a second meeting with Trump. He and his sister were caught on camera at a rest-stop during the journey, standing by themselves as he had a smoke and she held up a crystal ashtray for him with both hands.

Some commentators said it smacked of her subservience but in fact, says Lee, she was making sure he left no cigarette butts bearing traces of his DNA for foreign intelligence services to examine.

‘No one else, aside from his wife, has such intimate access to the Supreme Leader,’ says Lee.

But will she be loyal forever?

Just as her butter-wouldn’t-melt appearance hides a woman who kills on command and revels in vile abuse, perhaps nothing about Kim Yo-jong can be taken for granted.

#kim yo-jong

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So I think I found the right article.

The thumbnail quote in the original tweet is the second paragraph:

And like, unless I'm missing something, the article ... isn't talking about grids getting damaged because of overload. I do think that what @crazy-pages said is correct, because I've heard parts of it often enough before, but the article is pretty much just talking about market economics. Do I have the wrong article?

MIT Tech Review has limited free articles, so I've copied and pasted the full text below the cut. It isn't a super long read.

A few lonely academics have been warning for years that solar power faces a fundamental challenge that could halt the industry’s breakneck growth. Simply put: the more solar you add to the grid, the less valuable it becomes.

The problem is that solar panels generate lots of electricity in the middle of sunny days, frequently more than what’s required, driving down prices—sometimes even into negative territory.

Unlike a natural gas plant, solar plant operators can’t easily throttle electricity up and down as needed, or space generation out through the day, night and dark winter. It’s available when it’s available, which is when the sun is shining. And that’s when all the other solar plants are cranking out electricity at maximum levels as well.

A new report finds that California, which produces one of the largest shares of solar power in the world, is already acutely experiencing this phenomenon, known as solar value deflation.

The state’s average solar wholesale prices have fallen 37% relative to the average electricity prices for other sources since 2014, according to the Breakthrough Institute analysis, which will be published on July 14. In other words, utilities are increasingly paying solar plants less than other sources overall, due to their fluctuating generation patterns.

Wholesale prices are basically the amount that utilities pay power plants for the electricity they deliver to households and businesses. They shift throughout the day and year, edging back up for solar operators during the mornings, afternoons and other times when there isn’t excess supply. But as more solar plants come online, the periods of excess supply that drive down those costs will become more frequent and more pronounced.

Lower prices may sound great for consumers. But it presents troubling implications for the world’s hopes of rapidly expanding solar capacity and meeting climate goals.It could become difficult to convince developers and investors to continue building ever more solar plants if they stand to make less money or even lose it. In fact, California construction has already been flat since 2018, the study notes. But the state will need the industry to significantly ramp up development if it hopes to pull off its ambitious clean energy targets.

This could soon become a broader problem as well.

“California is a little sneak peek of what is in store for the rest of the world as we dramatically scale up solar,” says Zeke Hausfather, director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute, and author of the report.

That’s because while solar accounts for about 19% of the electricity California generates, other regions are rapidly installing photovoltaic panels as well. In Nevada and Hawaii, for instance, the share of solar generation stood at around 13% in 2019, the study found. The levels in Italy, Greece and Germany were at 8.6%, 7.9% and 7.8%, respectively.

The race

So far, heavy solar subsidies and the rapidly declining cost of solar power has offset the falling value of solar in California. So long as it gets ever cheaper to build and operate solar power plants, value deflation is less of a problem.

But it’s likely to get harder and harder to pull off that trick, as the state’s share of solar generation continues to climb. If the cost declines for building and installing solar panels tapers off, California’s solar deflation could pull ahead in the race against falling costs as soon as 2022 and climb upward from there, the report finds. At that point, wholesale pricing would be below the subsidized costs of solar in California, undermining the pure economic rationale for building more plants, Hausfather notes.The state’s SB 100 law, passed in 2018, requires all of California’s electricity to come from “renewable and zero-carbon resources” by 2045. By that point, some 60% of the state’s electricity could come from solar, based on a California Energy Commission model.

The Breakthrough study estimates that the value of solar–or the wholesale average price relative to other sources–will fall by 85% at that point, decimating the economics of solar farms, at least as California’s grid exists today.

How do we fix it?

There are a variety of ways to ease this effect, though no single one is likely a panacea.The solar sector can continue trying to find ways to push down solar costs, but some researchers have argued it may require shifting to new materials and technologies to get to the dirt-cheap levels required to outpace value deflation.

Grid operators and solar plant developers can add more energy storage—and increasingly they are.Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory highlighted similarly declining solar values in California in a broader study published in Joule last month. But they also noted that numerous modeling studies showed that the addition of low cost storage options, including so called hybrid plants coupled with lithium-ion batteries, eases value deflation and enables larger shares of renewables to operate economically on the grid.

There are likely limits to this, however, as study after study finds that storage and system costs rise sharply once renewables provide the vast majority of electricity on the grid.

States or nations could also boost subsidies for solar power; add more long-distance transmission lines to allow regions to swap clean electricity as needed; or incentivize customers to move energy use to times of day that better match with periods of high generation.

The good news is that each of these will help to ease the transition to clean electricity sources in other ways as well, but they’ll also all take considerable time and money to get underway.

The California solar market offers a reminder that the climate clock is ticking.

This story was updated to add details from the Joule study.

#I don't intend this as any kind of callout #I just want to make sure we're actually reading and citing our sources #environmentalism #sustainability #solar panels #renewable energy #economics #uwo convo

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