#susan karate kid

[purty-pumpkin]

We all like to joke that Daniel and Johnny had to sit next to each other at graduation due to their last names, and of course the amazing potential that situation has for hilarity...But I would like to propose an even FUNNIER scenario:

SUSAN'S last name falling in between theirs and her being subjected to their antics for the duration of the ceremony. : D

(also i have no clue what their school colors are, I just went off the cheerleaders' practice and their pompoms lol)

[eightyfours]

Happy Halloween from The Karate Kid (1984)

[hideousvampire]

things me and my siblings said but tkk bc thats all i care about

me and my sibling are so daniel and susan except were constantly swapping whos who(trust)

[gay-caveman]

kk/ck text posts!!! :3

[dykesynthezoid]

Something I deeply appreciate is when Daniel and Susan are in fact two halves of a whole idiot. By which I mean like

Daniel, not too long after arriving in the valley, is struggling to figure out how to get closer to Ali and one day he sees Susan sitting in the library and despite the fact that he’s kind of terrified of her, he decides to go up and ask her about Ali

And Susan looks up from her magazine with the most bored expression to ever exist, but she does end up taking pity on him and reluctantly offers him some advice on dating and girls and the like. Except the thing about her advice is that she very clearly has not realized that she’s not actually into guys yet, and this colors a lot of what she tells him

But regardless Daniel finds himself so lost in all of this that he does keep coming back to talk to her about this stuff. And over time it’s like it stops being advice about girls and for some reason starts to sound a lot more like advice about boys, partly because Susan keeps trying to frame things from a supposed “female perspective;” and also, if she secretly has a specific guy in mind, well, Daniel doesn’t need to know that.

She’s all, “well you know how guys are, Daniel,” and Daniel’s like uhh?? I guess??? but clearly she’s not actually that concerned about his input

And like. Once again. This girl is not actually into boys. But she does not know this. And the result is the most absurd, useless, teenage, Tiger Beat ass dating advice that has ever existed. And you have to understand, Susan thinks she is being SO helpful. She thinks she is genuinely doing Daniel a huge solid here. She’s practically a saint. He’d be totally lost without her

And the entire time Daniel is thinking that none of this really sounds right, but also what does he know, he hasn’t dated any guys. Susan obviously knows about this sort of thing. He should just listen to Susan

[abracazabka]

Because Billy Zabka is from New York and his accent is very very obvious in the first movie (especially in the deleted scenes), I think it'd be very fun to imagine a hockey au where Johnny plays for the Rangers and Daniel plays for the Devils and they have such a severe rivalry that they can't go any game without fighting each other.

But then Johnny ends up getting traded to the Devils after a bit of a sketchy trade and it is absolute chaos in the Prudential Center.

HI HAHAHA THIS TOOK ME FOREVER TO ANSWER SORRY SIFIEIFIF ... Mostly cuz I don't know anything about hockey, BUT:

I googled the territories and the VERY STRONG rivalry between the Devils and the Rangers. And honing in on this between Johnny and Daniel? HEHEHE I AM OBSESSED!

I have read a couple hockey aus, and even an ice dancer/hockey player au, so they are out there if you haven't read them!! Unfortunately I can't specifically recall titles or authors :/

Also since, as you can tell, I am not a sports person, I googled the teams' uniforms ... and I find it veeeery interesting that, from what I can tell, Daniel is in the red uniform at first while Johnny's in blue. Sort of a switcheroo from their usual color symbolism in Cobra Kai haha.

Not to mention that Daniel's a "Devil" like HAHAHA oh man I can only imagine the shitty corny insults Johnny comes up with. But then Johnny gets TRADED? lol sucks to be you, man (actually no it doesn't, get ready to be hit not with just pucks and sticks and competitive bodies, but the GAYLOVE BEAM as well)

Also imagining the coverage of this is hilarious. "Well, if Lawrence and LaRusso would stop making eyes at each other and undergoing intricate rituals to touch each other's skin, maybe we'd fucking get somewhere in this match!"

Also!! In the movie, Ali is a karate fan! She knows things about karate! She knows how the tournament works! She's watched it! She's engaged! So I can only imagine she's a hockey fan too. And she sees right through these two's idiocy mwahaha. Also, Susan is some kind of hockey player too and they're in lesbians with each other, I'm obsessed with this too.

HEY BOYS IF YOU COULD TAKE AFTER THE GIRLS THAT WOULD BE GREAT. PLEASE NO MORE KNOCKING TEETH OUT. JUST KISS FFS

lmfao I'm sure I did not answer this adequately but given my lack of expertise, I think I did...my best. LOL. thank you anon for the lawrusso delusions <3

[spookyblazecoffee]

*Modern AU*

Daniel: I'm so happy, I could kiss you! Johnny: Um...Neat. *later* Johnny, lying face down on their bed: I said "Neat," Ali. Who the fuck says neat these days? It's not neat to say neat but I said it anyways because I'm fucking stupid. Ali, reading a book: Don't beat yourself up too much, Johnny. Everyone gets nervous sometimes. Remember what I did when Susan confessed their love for me? Johnny: Didn't you thank her? Ali: *closes the book and looks at the ceiling* I fucking thanked zem.

[transjlawrence]

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🍄 - Share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

One of my headcanons for lawrusso is that Daniel has definitely had to help Johnny with technology. Johnny's the type of guy who will absolutely put his google searches as a Facebook post and Daniel has to help him delete the posts and go back so that he can see what he was actually trying to look up. I also think that Johnny will do little acts of service for Daniel like washing the dishes after dinner or fixing his table that keeps tilting from side to side since he's more actions over words.

🍬 - Post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

Not as popular of a character but I think I've seen a lot of popularity for nonbinary/trans Susan but tbh I think both Ali and Susan would be trans/nonbinary.

[skyf0ckz]

Thinking about that random fic idea I had where Johnny and Susan became best friends in college bc they were both gay and in love with their best friend.

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

Amnesty Week: Vogue

@allvalley100

Susan flips through the latest issue of Vogue Patterns.  Barbara, sitting next to her, looks over her shoulder.

“Hey, slow down.  I was trying to read that news about Calvin Klein.”

“Later.” Susan keeps flipping. “I need to see what patterns they’ve got this month.  Finally.”

Susan studies the dress pattern.  Glances back at the photo.  She purses her lips.  “Who came up with these? A nun?”

The color wasn’t bad.  The pattern wasn’t complicated.  She had the recommended fabric.  But the length was the issue.  Too long.  Too conservative.

“You can always alter it,” Barbara suggests.

“Yeah, you’re right.”

[mschanadlerbong900]

MY GIRL I LOVE YOU SUSANNNNNN AHHHFHFHFHFHFH

❤ Susan appreciation ❤

[eightyfours]

The Girls

in The Karate Kid, dir. John G. Avildsen (1984)

[hideousvampire]

this is tkk to me

tkk was 10 minutes long (it was supposed to be 12 but whatever)

i lov e susan susan i love susan

random screenshots i took while making this

this is my new favorite image of johnny

[gay-caveman]

okay so do you guys know that part in ck when ali and johnny see each other again and ali says something like:

"my daughter was on the path to becoming a ballerina and then she joined a punk band"

that led me to the head cannon that in college ali, susan and barbara created a band and were semi-popular in the late 80s-90s.

like imagine jessica somehow becomes friends with one of them and invites daniel to one of their shows. she's all like "Daniel you HAVE to come to my friends show sometime you'll love it". and so they go and daniel is just bugging out trying to figure out if that's ali or not because she dyed her hair and she looks completely different from when he last saw her.

but then. imagine this okay. hear me out on this.

so we know johnny 'partied through all of his 20s' and also loves music (specifically rock) so just imagine him and the cobras ALSO going to the same concert as jessica and daniel. IT HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL. LIKE HOW WOULD THEY REACT??? AHHHH.

anyway this was just a really long post about how I think her daughter saw old pictures of her back when she was in the band and thought 'holy FUCK thats so cool'

and so she asked ali about it and ali brought up a huge bin from her basement with all her old clothes and stuff from then and so now that's all her daughter wears.

[variousqueerthings]

Ali shows up on her doorstep: "I got divorced."

Susan shouldn't let that affect her. Thirty-five years on and a string of broken-hearted girlfriends down the line, she should feel like she's past it all, that stupid highschool first proper crush. She's a confident, out lesbian who doesn't get tied down.

So incredibly over it.

She's convinced herself of that for years, while sporadically keeping touch with Ali the A-student, Ali the doctor, Ali the married woman with two kids -- Ali the was she imagining it or did she sometimes look at her a certain way? Ali the sometimes she said things about girls that seemed like she might, but she only dated boys, but these days everyone knew that could mean anything. Ali the completely unsurprised when she met one of Susan's girlfriends, taking it in her stride like she had always known, but then why not tell her...

Ali the great friend.

They hadn't really lost touch, so much as just not had the time. Susan had a commitment, or Ali was at a conference, last minute interference on both sides. Adulthood, that most homophobic of constructs.

"I got divorced. Went back to my Mom's for a bit. Saw Johnny. Saw Daniel." She downs her wine, indicating for Susan to top her off.

Susan scowls over her beer and does as Ali asks. Thirty-five years and they still loom, like old stains on an otherwise beloved rug. The part of the story she has no interest in and never had.

"And?"

"You know, I think... there might be something going on there with the two of them."

"There always was."

Ali blinks. "You noticed and never said?"

Susan narrows her eyes. Something is off in the conversational flow, two different streams running parallel: "Ye-es? They weren't exactly quiet about it. Doing it right in front of the school the whole time."

"Wai-... okay wait," Ali tries again, "they... I mean. Something going on going on. Like that."

"Yeah, like I said. Not surprised they're still at each other after all this time, they never could let go." Ha ha, she thinks miserably, look who's talking.

"Yeah. Yeah, but." Ali sighs: "Oh god, I shouldn't dance around this, I mean gay. They're gay. Or bi. Or maybe straight, but gay for each other, I don't know. Gay going on."

"Huh," Susan says.

"That's all you've got to say, huh? This is making me re-evaluate my whole life!"

Susan takes a measured gulp, not wanting to jump immediately into saying something wrong. Her first instinct stays with her however, and so she subsequently says: "I don't care, to be honest. They were both assholes to you."

"Oh, come on that's not-"

"Fair?" She bites down on her next words- I'll tell you what's not fair...

Ali deflates. "It's not that though. I mean, yeah, it's that feeling, was I just in the middle of some kind of thing that wasn't about me, and what's the point of me thinking about it after all this time, but I just thought, when I saw them again, wow first Susan, now you two. Like highschool me was some kind of magnet for some reason. And then after highschool I- but then I got married so..."

Susan holds her breath, as if any motion at all might steer this train of thought off course, but Ali doesn't continue. She lets it out again on the words: "and now you're divorced." She's surprised by the words, taking a second to figure out how they connect with anything that Ali has been saying, but then Ali looks at her, and there are tears in her eyes.

"I'm such an idiot," she says.

"No," Susan says -- a statement, not a comfort. If there is one thing that Ali isn't, it's an idiot. Smart, driven, kind, eternally patient and forgiving long past when it's healthy for her, and perhaps in the past too concerned with what her parents have wanted, but never an idiot.

"I feel like I've been living someone else's life," Ali continues, and then hastily adds, "not the kids. I don't regret the kids. But what am I doing to them if I don't... I'm not brave..."

Susan takes her hand, then moves up her arm and then thinks fuck it, and does what she's imagined for years and years, which is to wrap herself around Ali and kiss her on the temple- then she hovers, unsure and tense, lips barely grazing skin, barely resisting. Ali is different now. Wonderfully older. Different to her early fantasies, changed in the interim of oh maybe next year, if there's time, and still so very exactly what Susan wants. It makes her feel almost dizzy, but still, she waits, until-

Ali turns her head to meet her, and the tension snaps. Susan doesn't hesitate anymore -- she's too old for girlish insecurities around whether another woman might push her away suddenly, get cold feet, project insecurities onto her. If Ali is on the precipice now, it's up to her whether to jump and join Susan in the cool cool waters below, where she's been waiting for her all this time.

She jumps.

Finally, Susan thinks, finally this story is about just us.

Although, in the back her head, she supposes she should thank those two incredibly stupid boys for giving her a nudge. She won't, but she acknowledges that Ali might -- will probably invite them for drinks, that's the sort of thing Ali does.

Susan supposes she can give them that much.

As long as Ali is all hers, she can be nice.

"I don't get it, you hated Johnny, now you hate Daniel-"

"I do not hate Daniel... I just think he's... you know..."

Susan waves her hand at where said accused of you know is mouthing up a storm at some unfortunate freshman who happened to sit down opposite him in the cafeteria. The poor kid hasn't even been able to take a bite, he's so busy trying to catch up with what Daniel is saying.

"Friendly?" says Ali.

"And I didn't hate Johnny-" Susan tries another argument, feeling more and more like the defendant now "-until he started acting like an asshole-"

"Ha," Ali leans against her, so she's impossible to escape (she smells - as always - really really good). "The first time I said he was cute, you wrinkled your nose and asked if his mommy irons his jeans for him."

"Well? Does she? You oughta have at least found that out."

"You called him "pretty boy," and I somehow don't think that was a compliment," Ali continues, mercilessly grinning.

"Well... he is," Susan grumbles. Stupid pretty boys the pair of them. They should just go back to fighting each other and save girls the trouble of having to deal with them. But of course then Ali would have to spend all her time being supportive again. She still coos over Daniel and his stupid limp after the tournament.

Stupid, stupid boys.

Ali's tone turns a little more serious: "Hey, wanna do a girls' night? Just you and me. No boys allowed, just Teen Beats and, I don't know, we can rewatch Norma Rae."

"Yeah," Susan smiles at her. They'll end up stripped down to massive t-shirts, laughing all night, and fall asleep tangled into each other, just like always, and Susan will barely sleep, because everything will hurt too bad and it'll be totally worth it-

"And be nice to Daniel. Please."

Right. Daniel. It's all a ploy to get her to be nice to Daniel. The smile drops and she scowls at him still obliviously talking, cursing him with her eyes.

It's fine. If she knows anything about boys, he'll screw up too, sooner or later. But Susan and Ali, they'll last until the end, because Susan knows how to treat a girl right.

"Yeah, I'll be nice."

[dykesynthezoid]

Absolutely disastrous Daniel & Susan fake dating plot where Ali and Daniel broke up earlier in the second half of senior year and at some point Susan comes to Daniel and tries to convince him that they should pretend to date to make Ali (andJohnny) jealous (Susan is convinced that if she can just keep Daniel and Johnny focused on each other maybe the rest of them won’t have to deal with their weird bullshit, and she’ll finally get a chance to have Ali all to herself if she can just get her new stupid UCLA boyfriend out of the way)

She’s not exactly straightforward about any of this with Daniel, though. Why would she be

Daniel: You mean. Make Ali jealous, right?

Susan:

Susan: Right.

Susan: Obviously that would be a big part of it.

Daniel:

Daniel: You also said something about Johnny.

Susan: Hm?

Daniel: You said it would make Johnny jealous. Don’t know if that’s really something I’m looking to do, I mean— That’s kind of what started our whole thing in first place.

Susan: Your whole thing. Yeah.

Daniel: Is it just because you don’t like him? Like you just think it’d be funny to mess with him?

Susan: Well, from the circumstances, I wouldn’t have thought you would have liked him very much either.

Daniel:

Daniel: Right. Yeah. Obviously. Of course.

Susan: Of course.

Daniel:

Susan:

Daniel: *Clears throat* So I mean. Fuck that Chad guy right