#kay's replies

[dawnbreakersgaze]

The way I'm cry rn

I don't feel like I deserve this but I'm gonna do my best to make you proud 🥲🥲🥲🥲

[the-axe-and-flail]

Was was was, was is is? Was was was but now was is is so is is now was and was was was but now is so in conclusion was is is and was is still was but was is also is while is is still is and was.

Anon I apologize I'm too God damned stupid to be smart enough for this 🥴🤣

[miss-goodie-2shoes]

aww the actor au, you just know that they are absolutely hilarious during press tour interviews

Oh 100%

Here's something small I made for the actor au a awhile ago

[the-vegetarian-artist]

"HES GONNA TAKE HIS EYE!" I scream as I'm being dragged off to the padded room

although the chance are slim let these bitches be messy when their inevitable fight happens in season 3

Tagging @goldendaydna cause they be my biggest supporter in my angst 😌

[dawnbreakersgaze]

Hahaha okay but I just read this to him and he blushes HARD and goes “Oh we have more kids now (referring to @spiderlilypetals lol)? I mean I guess if it’s with you~” 😂😂😌🥰

He’s so precious I just

I'm still getting over hearing a mutual absolutely fawning over her husband

"You're a little bit of a himbo *giggle*"

"...Yeah."

My parenttttssssssssss

@dawnbreakersgaze

[dawnbreakersgaze]

booping you here too, because i can ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Im buried under the weight of all these boops ♡♡

[sipthegossip-if]

AHAHA!! yesss! when i saw the title i immediately started humming the tune! i absolutely adore måneskin! oh and this is the same nonny from earlier btw lol. i would love to talk abt them w you, but i don’t wanna draw away from your IF’s blog!

speaking of… could i have a few lil facts abt kai, alex, or river?🙏🙏 idk who to choose😭

i hope you have an amazing day/night!!

context.

facts about river.

kai

has a secret collection of russian literature; they are a huge fan!

culinary expert.

they knit whenever they feel the need to relax.

has a fear of pigeons and will go to great lengths to avoid them.

has an intense rivalry with a local cat. animals really don't like them.

worst memory? their mom forcing them to dance during family events as a kid.

alex

is lowkey a conspiracy theory fan and often discusses wild theories, only to backpedal when they realise they are taking it too seriously.

terrible at cooking so they order takeout and pretend they made it for the praise. (they will Google mc's favourite food and have it "coincidentally" show up on set the next day)

pranks the cast by hiding their phone chargers and then themself forgets where they hid them.

they have a pet cactus they speak to everyday. it's their best friend.

hope you have a great day/night too nonnie! <3

[the-axe-and-flail]

Yesss I love these ones! I splurged and got the resin version of Gyomei and it's just 😙👌👌👌 he's MASSIVE and God so perfect. Compared to my other PVC's he's a monster 🤣

I want the Yoriichi in resin soooo bad. Cheng Studios needs to hurry and release the Kyojuro and Mitsuri ones already 😤

Since I already got 2 Rengoku figures in my living room. I thought I treat myself with 2 other hot dudes...

They are so fucking BIG?! Like they are over 30 cm! But the details are amazing and I am just so in love 🥹

Kokushibo is frigging ripped that I have always the urge to scrap with my nails on his abs which creates LITERALLY ripped noises and I am kdljflskjdf

[hwanwooyoung]

the never-ending fairy saga [18/?]

↪ huening kai + 'lo$er=lo♡︎er' / 'moa diary'

[st-just]

as someone who mostly doesn’t read any fiction by sociology majors or queer people who like to construct things, I want to know more of what you think about Cobra Kai. It’s interesting to see someone with a more “academic” relationship to fiction watch and talk about silly pulp stuff that I like.

I admit it’s utterly corny and “non-prestigious” for lack of a better word, but it does somehow speak to me in it’s shameless ‘80s-ness, and I want to know about what this says about me.

(I do like more intelligent fiction as well, but mostly artsy movies. Prestige tv or literary fiction has historically been too much of a time commitment to stay philosophically focused the whole time. I was a voracious reader as a kid, and I’m trying to read Anna Karenina, but the internet has rotted my attention span. I can do a 100 minute art movie, but reading a book chunks at a time is somehow hard to stay engaged with.)

Sorry this has taken so long to answer - was waiting to finish season five and then just forgot

I mean mostly I think it's entertaining trash with some enjoyably scenery-chewing performances and surprisingly good fight choreography? I also respect the utter commitment to the bit, in this world where 'karate' is a pan-Asian marital art that does legitimately give low-level superpowers and also guns don't really seem to exist. The shameless '80s nostalgia bait clashing with the modern setting is also done with enough effort and self-awareness to mostly be really fun. But it's honestly more background noise than anything I'm actually watching with analytical intent.

That said the show's conception of and preoccupation with masculinity is just fascinating for how deeply held and also unselfaware it seems to be?

Like Johny is clearly a comic, pathetic figure, right? Especially in season one, he's a failure of what mature masculinity is supposed to be (deadbeat dad, shitty insecury housing, no steady work or marketable skills, embarrassing piece of shit car, neither a long term relationship nor success when he tries for something casual). His fetishistic attachment to the outward signifiers of '80s machismo is presented as something to laugh at, both because of how outdated they are and because he can't live up to them. But! The show also presents him as having a kind of Quixote-esque nobility about him, and the next five seasons of tv are a long sequence of him basically achieving all the things he was pathetic for lacking in the premier.

More broadly, the show has a very, very clear thesis that the vital core of being a Good Man is a) being able to deploy incredibly violence through personal strength and skill b) but choosing not to do so as a demonstration of restraint and virtue c) unless it's for a just cause or someone is really asking for it. Like, literally every male character with an arc is good at karate! Even the MIT-bound dweeb who was introduced to get shoved into lockers and the annoying brat Ipad baby younger son! The show simply does not care to waste screentime on a guy who can't punch you into a coma.

(There's something almost like, chivalric about the plot beat in season 5 where Daniel has dutifully chosen to give up his vendetta against Silver because protecting his wife and children is more important than abstract principle or glory, and then his wife needs to cajole and convince him to get back in the fight with her blessing. Warrior-aristocrat-ass gender role enactment

(Because it's the 2020s, a select number of women can be warriors too. As long as they're incredibly conventionally attractive, and also never defeat/emasculate any of the really important men. I did actually laugh when the only non-supermodel-hot major female character was written off between seasons with like a single line of explanation))

Besides all that - I mean it's kind of hilarious how the show is so studiously colorblind is filling its supporting cast and has a few relatively prominent asian characters whose race is just literally never important in any way, and then also portrays The Orient like it's 1980 and the closest anyone involved has ever come to Asia is watching a couple horribly dubbed wire-fu movies.

[dawnbreakersgaze]

I was thinking, if you don't mind, that I could get you sprawled out on your couch?

I've got this terrible, awful desire to hear you say "draw me like one of your French girls" while draped across a couch in the afternoon sun of your big bay windows.

The vision will make sense when I'm done, you just have to trust me on this one.

I promise I'll let you keep the piece for your private collection, of course. Your comfort is my utmost priority.

Hey Rafa, I'm working on a new piece, thinking about doing a figure study. Interested in posing for me, since your figure seems to be so very worth the study? I thought maybe the artist might like to be the art for a change 🤭

Something tells me you're up to something.

Buuuut, it's an... Interesting change to be someone's muse.

Sure, why not. What poses do you want?

[dawnbreakersgaze]

thank you 💜

You're so so welcome 🥺

[the-axe-and-flail]

Just wanted to say

Hi to you back ☺️

[junewild]

oh yeah, friday night my husband is sleeping over at his partner’s place, so i’m playing lancer with my tabletop group. his girlfriend and i are going rockhounding in the morning before i run to costco with two of our best friends for group camping gear, and then i’ll take my partner out for dinner and head over to paint minis with my sister. then on sunday i’m waking up at 6 to go shooting, swinging by the farmer’s market on the way home, and then i’ll be meal prepping with my mutual aid group—we have some cool new recipes that should taste good even after they go through an office microwave. if i get done early enough i’ll swing by the gym to climb with my best ex, or maybe we’ll drag his mattress out to the living room for a movie night again. but i can’t stay out too late… i have to be up early so i can see my gym friends before i head to my day job at the theatre

[dawnbreakersgaze]

My love language is not talking to anyone for weeks and then busting into your inbox with edits of your F/O as an apology bc I love you 🥺🥰

Let me just aggressively smash my face into your face via the astral plane like some kind of weird cat lol

how i'm doing after @dawnbreakersgaze sends me presents

[gayestcowboy]

one of the reasons i hate generative AI is that i have a chronic injury that makes me unable to write by hand for longer than a few sentences and therefore i need a keyboard in order to write essays for classes, and i’m a bit worried that professors won’t allow me to type essays as a result of potential AI use, even though i have a perfectly valid medical reason to need a keyboard. i’ve seen a few posts online saying that the only way to prevent students from relying on AI is to make them write by hand, and while i understand the sentiment and don’t even necessarily disagree with the general point, the matter of accessibility still needs to be addressed somehow, and it’s just a bit frustrating on a personal level as someone who has had to fight with teachers and professors in order for my needs to be met even before the era of chatgpt