#tkk ck tag

[porchtart]

for me it's the way i'm up to 10k words on a little post season 6 part 2 terretory fic and don't seem to be stopping anytime soon

[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."

[cobra-creampuff]

About Me!

I USE HE/HIM PRONOUNS.

My name is Jack and I'm in my 30s. This is my fandom and personal blog. I also blog about art, publishing, and my original projects @calicohyde.

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Currently, my main fandoms are The Karate Kid & Cobra Kai, Our Flag Means Death, IT (mostly the movies), Shameless, and Ted Lasso, but there will be plenty of smatterings of other things too!

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[lulamadison]

Hi! 3-4 of your favorite CK/TKK fanfics?! ☺

Oooooh. This is a good one thank you! I've recced a few of my faves several times on the Fic Rec tag below, so I'm going to try to post some different ones 😀

The Long Way Around by Kdyelo is actually the final part of a series. The whole thing is fantastic, but this was my favourite part!

A fantastic text message based fic - hilarious and sad in parts. The sequel is unfinished, but is still being updated slowly (Be patient. It's worth it when it happens 😀)

A drunk Las Vegas Lawrusso wedding fic!

a little less fight and a little more spark by TheBestDetective

And this one by @backinblack-80 but check out the tags before reading! It is awesome though!

[allvalleyskillschallenge]

October: Trick or Treat

Hello, and welcome to the October round of the All Valley Skills Challenge! This month, we're getting into the spooky spirit! It's time to bust out your shower costumes and skeleton pajamas because...

We're going Trick or Treating!

Below, you will find three moodboards our mods have created that are different takes on this theme. They will serve as your prompts for this challenge. Feel free to interpret them as strictly or broadly as you wish:

(Moodboards by @wicked-jade, @desolateice and idontknowkaratebutiknowcrazy.)

You will have one month from today to create and submit fanworks inspired by these prompts. This is your chance to show off your creative skills, whatever they may be. Whether it’s fanfic, art, meta, gifs, or edits, our goal is to encourage all forms of creative expression within the TKK/CK community.

This round will officially close on October 30th at noon, CST, so if you would like for us to share your works, make sure to submit them before the deadline. Tag us @allvalleyskillschallenge and #allvalleyskillschallenge, to make it easier for our mods to find and reblog your works!

We’ve also created an AVSC Collection on ao3, if you would like to add your works there. We highly recommend that artists who wish to share uncensored, NSFW content do so on ao3, to avoid violating tumblr’s guidelines.

Please check out our FAQ for more details. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact us at @allvalleyskillschallenge, our asks are open.

[zannolin]

wip word game!

tagged by my beloved @blusandbirds <3 thank u friend

Rules: you will be given a word. share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word. my word was FIRE.

F — so this is from a WIP that might never be finished since i'm not really writing lawrusso or tkk/ck fics anymore, but i still have it lying around and enjoy what i wrote for it:

For the second time in his life, Daniel LaRusso thinks: I’m going to watch him die right in front of me.

I — this one's a little sneak preview from chapter 2 of please don't hold me to it:

It’s like the painting has cast a fishhook into his mouth, catching him in the tender skin of his cheek, holding him there while it reaches down his throat to grasp at his insides and squeeze.

R — this is from my byler scorpio races au, that most beloved of wips:

Right now, Mike Wheeler stands in the blue-shadowed October evening, and he can think only of the sea, of the beach, of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

E — this is a wip i have been SHAMEFULLY neglecting but have a bit of the roadtrip au:

Even then, it wasn’t that he had a crush on Will specifically, but that he had one on a boy at all, which was something he didn’t learn about until he was thirteen years old, watching a man talk about his boyfriend on a cooking show and listening to his father complain that surely they didn’t have to show that kind of thing on TV.

my word is RUIN, and i'm no pressure tagging @pinkgrapefloyd, @rebelpeas, @beautyofsorrow, @bookinit02, @lordgrimwing and anyone else who wants is welcome to jump in <3

[aestheticsuwu]

Get To Know You!

Tagged by @vispera-sabbath (thank you🥰)

-> Last Song I Listened To: Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter

-> Currently Reading : I haven’t read anything as of late 😮‍💨

-> Currently Watching: House Of The Dragon ( I have never watched Game Of Thrones or this type of genre, so I’m going out of my comfort zone 😁 Are there any HOTD watchers in CK/TKK fandom?)

-> Currently Obsessed With: 🤔uhm, I think perhaps maybe with HOTD characters. New Babygirl unlocked 🔓🔑

Prince Jacaerys Velaryon

Oh I’m also lowkey obsessing over this ship in the show MOTA- John “Bucky” Egan x Gale “Buck” Cleven

Tagging : @demetriandelibinaryboyfriends @shortkingkeene @keenest-of-heart and whoever wants to join cause I don’t know who to tag 🫣!!!

[macchiatosdumptruck]

It's so strange being in the tkk/CK fandom with all the other girlies (gender neutral) because we're horny for the old men, and then to come to the burgeoning bb2023 fandoms tags and see all this xolo thirst. And while on one hand I know he's 22 and a young adult, on the other hand I'm so used to looking at him and thinking "that's a baby"

[dykesynthezoid]

I really love the amount of fandom events and challenges we have; I find it really engaging; but I always wonder how other people’s experiences differ. My personal motto is the more the merrier, but maybe I’m an outlier.

[ckfemslashnetwork]

CK Sapphic Summer has officially concluded!

We want to thank everyone for such a fun event! Shoutout to everyone who participated— it’s such an honor to be able to showcase your work!

For those who wanted to participate but weren’t able to, we’ll be having another event around February; and hopefully having more time in advance will give more people opportunities to contribute!

In the meantime, the blog will continue to periodically reblog non-event ck and tkk femslash content in order to showcase f/f fan creators and keep people feeling encouraged to create; so keep an eye out!

Curious what people made this month? Here’s our tag for our very first event with all the amazing works we got to enjoy

[porchtart]

sometimes i'll hear/read a take about terry silver that is so incongruent with how i perceive him that i genuinely find myself going HUH????? and wondering if we're watching the same show, and the answer is we're probably not because MY life has been so deeply affected by trauma and ptsd that when you show me a character that is also traumatized and has ptsd that is going to inform how i see absolutely every thing they do and idk that everyone is doing that lmfao

[evilelena]

I'm so weird, I fill out three-year-old Cobra Kai surveys on tumblr.

Karate Kid/Cobra Kai survey

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It’s the year 2021 and you’re obsessed with The Karate Kid. How are you feeling?

Well, it's now the year 2024 and...fine? I was never really "obsessed" with the Miyagi universe until October 2022 when I started going through all the episodes for my so-called "fan fixion". it's not really fanfic; intentionally bad recaps with fictionalized elements are just something my sister and I used to do ages ago for the lulz. We actually did them for Beverly Hills, 90210 and The Shield. The Cobra Kai ones are done by me; but my sister remains my one consistent reader. She's also the one who challenged me to incorporate the phrases "practice dumby" (yes, spelled that way), "Why is this happening to me?!", and "Ouch, ouch, oh, ouch!" (a line from one of my old childhood stories) into all of my recaps -- or whatever you want to call them. (In case anybody ever looks at those and thinks wtf?.) Despite not being "obsessed" until a year and a half ago, I still really liked CK and re-watched many episodes even before October 2022!

Did you grow up with TKK or are you new to the series?

Kind of both? I was born...uh, long enough ago that I was alive when TKK was released, although I don't remember its release because I was a very young child. I did see parts of all three first movies here and there over the years growing up -- and I watched that masterpiece The Next Karate Kid in the late 90's or early 00's while going on a Walton Goggins movie binge -- but I never appreciated them until my ex-on-good-terms recommended Cobra Kai. (I'm pretty new to the "fandom" but have been watching CK since May 2018.)

We gotta do the basics. Favorite character:

Johnny, for sure. Second favorite is Terry Silver.

Favorite ship:

Johnny and Daniel when they're bickering and squabbling like an old married couple.

Underrated character:

Stiven. Too bad he left, or he and Hawk could've become pals. I like how Stiven bravely tried to start a fight with Tory during the LaRusso house brawl, and she punched him away like she was batting away a pesky fly.

Underrated ship (don’t say therapy, lol):

Johnny and Ali? I (gasp) prefer them to Johnny and Carmen.

Wax On, Wax Off or Sweep the Leg?

Sweep the leg!

Which of Daniel’s dumb little outfits is your favorite?

Any where he incorporates the color blue. Bonus points if it includes his special blue-and-white karate headband.

Character from the films you most want to return, who’s not Terry Silver:

Charlie -- that minion of Ned, or whatever the main bully's name was in TNKK. (Charlie, played by Walton Goggins, was Ned's Rickenberger.)

Scene that lives in your head rent-free:

Oh, there are so many. Way too many to name in a three-year-old survey.

Will Anthony LaRusso ever be relevant?

Technically, he was one of the most relevant characters in 5x10. Without him, Kenny Payne might still be Terry Silver's prize pupil. (And Silver might not have been arrested. Stupid Anthony!)

You live in The Valley and are forced to join the karate gang war. Which dojo do you join?

Eagle Fang, but I'm not leaping from one building to another. (Sensei Lawrence is more than welcome to call me pathetic, though.)

What’s your training montage song?

"Gonna Fly Now"?

It’s the crossover event of the century! Which TV show are you combining with Cobra Kai for an hour-long Saturday night special?

Beverly Hills, 9010. Mel Silver can be Terry's cousin.

Tagging:

Nobody, because this is three years old.

[desolateice]

7, 8, 30

7. Your favourite ao3 tag. The only one I have saved is Johnny/Daniel mostly because I got tired of trying to go in via TKK or CK since some are one or the other or both. The one I use the most is not necessarily my favorite but I've found underage drinking ends up being my like most common warning. Idiots to lovers probably would be my actual favorite. I love when it's mutual attraction but they just don't realize it because dumb and then slowly figure it out. 8. How slow is a slow burn? 😂😂😂😂💀 You're asking me? The person who wrote a fic where I don't think they get together for like at least 30 chapters? Slow. Let it marinate until every comment is wtf. 😂😂

My own fic aside, i think it depends on the story. Slow burn could theoretically be done quickly but be used in the case of like their lives it's been a slow burn. Maybe they liked each other as teens but don't get together until they're older and they're looking at it from that lens could be a quick slow burn. But it could also be done long like mine. I think it depends on the fic and the story you're trying to tell. 30.Describe a fic that almost happened, but then it didn't. I mean I've got 3 chapters of a chicken fic and a whole lot cut so....there's that one. 😂 There have also been plenty for other fandoms where I was like well maybe and then just didn't. I'm sure I have quite a few but at the moment my brain's blanking. I will say my original plan with Root Beer Floats was to go all the way up to CK or at least past TKK4. I wanted to write Johnny and Daniel meeting Julie and Daniel and Julie having a slight rivalry over Mr. Miyagi. (I have a drabble based off this) I also wanted us to meet the adults from CK. Like Amanda and Anoush and maybe Tom Cole. But then I decided I didn't want Daniel to stay on the route of doing car salesman stuff. I wanted him to have a shot at something else so it just didn't work.

[mrs-monaghan]

Anons running to your blog talking about tk promotions.. I sense some disturbance in the Force because their friends on tw screaming about how Tae's invited JK along because they are so loud and tk are always together 24/7 and they already came out at least 10 times and it's not a BH event so the comp can't hide them..And this is not for promotions and they can't wait the Marvels premier in November because Seojoon plays in that movie too.. yk, same bs different day..

The main lead in the movie is Tae's friend playing a soccer player in the SK national team...let me think who sang the official soundtrack of the WC? who met with the SK national team in Qatar? Tae can support his friend and JK can tag along with him in a soccer related movie, just saying..

But Jk doing a 1,5 hours live for Jm all by himself was fanservice and comp driven promotion bc JM needed it for his flop album? But suddenly JK is not same baby who has no own will and controlled by the company because he apperead in a premiere?

D-Day just dropped a few days ago, the tour hasn't started yet, maybe we got more content from Nj too and anons already talking about "tk promotions starting" thinking they are doing something? :D

But changing the subject: did you the Namgi Suchwita? how they talked about JK CK photos and they mentioned Jm being half naked too in SMf pt2? again with the "members can't mention jkk without the other" moments.. XD buy one, take 2.. :p

Buy one get one free indeed!

(Sorry I'm late anon)

Jikookers have consistency because Jikook have consistency. The cult's story is always changing because Tkk are not a couple so they don't have repetitive behaviour to compare to and analyse.

Just because I helped my friend carry her bags today, doesn't mean I'm gonna do that tomorrow if I don't feel like it. But i will always help my other half carry their bag if they want and need me to. Because I love them and I like helping them. Maybe I've even gotten into the habit of doing so that I don't even notice anymore. But my friend, my friend can sort themselves out. They have two hands just like me.

That's Jkk and Tkk in a nutshell. And that's how u tell friends from lovers. The vermin are always complaining oh JK didn't do this for V but he did this for Jimin. And the amount of of times it happens too! Like what will it take for these people to finally wake up???

[allvalleyskillschallenge]

September: Back to School

Hello, and welcome to the first round of the All Valley Skills Challenge! For our inaugural month, we've decided to start at the beginning - literally. Both TKK and CK begin with a scrawny outsider starting over at a new school, so our theme for September is:

Yep, it's time to go back to school!

Below, you will find three moodboards our mods have created that are different takes on this theme. They will serve as your prompts for this challenge. Feel free to interpret them as strictly or broadly as you wish:

(Moodboards by @idontknowkaratebutiknowcrazy, @wicked-jade, and @desolateice. Thank you for your help, Amy!)

You will have one month from today to create and submit fanworks inspired by these prompts. Remember, the AVSC is open to all creatives, not just writers! This is your chance to show off your creative skills, whatever they may be. Whether it's fanfic, art, meta, gifs, or edits, we want to encourage all forms of participation and creative expression within the TKK/CK community.

This round will officially close on Sept. 29th at noon, CST, so if you wish for us to reblog your works, be sure to submit them before the deadline. And please make sure to tag your posts with @allvalleyskillschallenge and #allvalleyskillschallenge, to make it easier for our mods to find and reblog your work!

We've also created an AVSC Collection on ao3, if you would like to add your works there. We highly recommend that artists who wish to share uncensored, NSFW content do so on ao3, to avoid violating tumblr's guidelines. The link to the Back to School subcollection can be found here.

Please check out our FAQ for more details. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact us at @allvalleyskillschallenge, our asks are open.

Now get out there and show us what you've got!

[bubblegumflavor]

For the WIP tag game, I am curious about all of them but this one caught my eye: dancinginthefire.odt

Hii<3

Dancing in the Fire is the story that I am currently writing! Daniel LaRusso is a professional dancer in his early 20s who moves to New York because he wants to make it at Broadway. He rented a room in a stranger's appartment (Johnny Lawrence) whom he has a bad start with, but for the moment he has no where else to go, so he has to make it work somehow. He soon meets new people and starts to bond with them, but they all seem to be enemies of Johnny Lawrence and his gang, which doesn't make his situation at home any easier. Especially the odd guy who lives across his window, Dallas Winston, is the one everyone is warning him about.

We follow the story through Daniel's eyes, it is a Crossover AU set in the 80s with characters from TKK/CK, The Outsiders and Stranger Things. 9 chapters are currently published and I am about to finish chapter 10. =)