#danmiko

[kathrahender]

Me: I'm in a lot of fandoms! Avatar: The Last Airbender, Miraculous Ladybug, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Cobra Kai, Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, and more!

X person: Oh! Really? What are your favorite ships of those fandoms?

Me: Zukaang, Zukka, Lukadrien, Klance, Lawrusso, Thranakin, Obimaul, Spideyflash, Parksborn, Drarry and Hedric!

X person: Wait- so you ship two men instead of the main straight canon couple? You hate women!

Me: What-? I literally also like femslash ships! And some straight ships and polyamorous straight/queer ships too! How is that hating women???

X person: No, don't say anything else. You're just a fucking misogynist. Period.

Me: ?????

Nah because imagine being so stupid that you think the reason why people dislike/hate some straight ships is because they hate women 💀 They're probably the same people who call you racist just because you hate a bad-written black character, claiming you hate them because they're black💀

[shrinkthisviolet]

Samtory, Lawrusso, and Danmiko for the ship bingo!!

Samtory/Lanichols:

I love this ship! I doubt it’ll be canon, and tbh I’m fine with that, because generally there are only a few authors I trust to write it well anyway (and within the canon, Samguel has been the driving force throughout all the seasons, so it would be bizarre to throw that away). Canonically, I just want Samtory friendship. Thank you s5 for that (even tho Sam apologizing to Tory first was weird…literally why)

I think Sam and Tory have a fascinating dynamic that some fanfic authors make brilliant use of—and yes, I did color in “they could fix each other” and “they could make each other worse” because tbh it could go either way and I think it goes both ways at times 😂 in fanon, they’re amazing! I have 3 fics about them in my AO3 recs, which I highly recommend 💞

Lawrusso:

I’ve talked before about how I don’t like this ship as much as I used to, and it’s because I liked it back when Johnny was a more interesting character who seemed to have an actual arc and growth going for him. There was even a time when I shipped Lawrussomanda (aka the ship with no good OT3 name), because the three of them had such a great dynamic in the early seasons!

But my dislike of Lawrusso now stems from my dislike of Johnny as a character. So much regression and so much backsliding and pointless drama *sigh* I only like them when Johnny is written as a better character (which is why it depends who’s writing them and how they write Johnny).

(However if you wanna read a great fic about them…Root Beer Floats and Green Tea by @desolateice is super long but so incredibly worth it imo 💞 it’s movie-verse and picks up right after KK1!!)

Damiko:

In the movies, they’re my absolute OTP 💞 in the show, Amaniel’s married, so Damiko besties. Hence, it’s complicated 😂 I liked a few of their s3 scenes, but some others felt like ship-teasing (and I somewhat believe that they dropped the Chozen x Kumiko tease because they realized that they implied emotional cheating and had to cover it up)

I will always, however, side-eye the show writers for not making Damiko married at the show’s outset when it would’ve been so easy to get them back together. Like?? Would that not also make Sam’s arc more interesting?? A half-Japanese kid (maybe one who looks white passing, if they wanna keep Mary Mouser)?? Especially if they kept the white-passing aspect, it could’ve contributed to Sam’s conflict between karate/heritage and fitting in! I just…*sigh*

(This series, btw, is a fantastic Damiko post-KK2 AU, I can’t recommend it enough 💞)