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gjdraws · 2 years

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(On S5 and the tragedy of Daniel LaRusso)

As @variousqueerthings and I were talking about, Cobra Kai is written by hardcore Johnny fanboys. This is not inherently a bad thing (me, I'm looking at me I'm the Johnny fan).

But yeah, it means we've seen some iffy Daniel writing. We've seen Daniel written as: petty (the rent raising), jumping to conclusions (the miyagi do trashing being Johnny's brainchild), hurtful (lookin at you Robby) but the one thing his character has always been constant about is: violence is a last resort.

The thing that struck me most about this season was how this show, ostensibly drawn from roots of No Be There, has finally taken that dreaded U turn to glorifying No Mercy.

Because isn't that what they did with Daniel? A boy - who defeated not one but three examples of Might is Right, and two of No Mercy - that boy, caving to those philosophies? After Chozen even taught him a Miyagi Do pressure point method of "take away the ability to wage war"?

I've read analyses of Daniel's fight against Silver which paint using the Quicksilver method in a slightly better light. And they make for a good read. But.

But.

TKK3 was about Terry forcing Daniel to do violence. In the club, in the AVT match. "From the moment I met you, I've been making you do things you don't want to do." And then the writers made Daniel do it again.

If Johnny's themes are about breaking out of the cycle of violence/no mercy, Daniel's themes are pacifism and finding a better way.

The trouble is, the writers took pacifism to be "back down from a fight", and in a schoolyard bully taunt sort of way (yes i see the irony). Which is so tragically oversimplified. Richard Kamen managed to show us what it is in one line, where Daniel asks Mr. Miyagi "You could've killed him, couldn't you?" And Mr. Miyagi said yes.

Mr. Miyagi's pacifism came from having seen the long lasting evil violence inflicts, and the Might is Right being inherently useless in the end. This is a man who survived the war, and the internment camps. He knows violence and its hurts.

The thing is, pacifism means more than "I dont want to fight you". It means, "I can fight you. But I choose not to, because it will gain us both nothing". Again, Mr. Miyagi karate chopping the head of a bottle, so that the racists would understand that fighting would gain them nothing.

But our writers ignored that and took Daniel - horribly wronged (not once, but twice) Daniel. A Daniel who'd struggled for four seasons to live up to Mr. Miyagi's ideals because he believed in them. They took that Daniel and had him win against Silver in a beatdown. Not even using the "take away the ability to wage war" method in S3, no he took the thing he hated most about himself in TKK3. And he enacted violence using the way Terry had taught him ("I've been making you do things you don't want to, Danny boy).

So who really won? I know who lost. The man who said "no passion before principle", "Before revenge, dig two graves". The man who hated the idea of "No Mercy".

It's one thing to show Daniel winning against Silver, God knows Silver needed comeuppance. But to take the karate kid, the boy who forgave Johnny Lawrence (the telling absence of Billy's touchstone for that character "You're alright, LaRusso!"). The boy who honked Chozen's nose, and gained a valuable friend and ally decades later for it. To take that boy and have him hurt Silver (in the way Silver taught him to hurt people) and feel only vindication... That was the poorest, cheapest way to show Daniel win.

They misunderstood and laughed at Mr. Miyagi's "defense only" karate until the only way to show Daniel as strong and righteous and victorious was to use the way of the fist. And if that isn't tragic I don't know what is.

Guess all the No Mercy merch makes more sense now, so sorry Mr. Kamen :/

#ck negativity #cobra kai season 5 #cobra kai #daniel larusso #they could have #SHOULD have shown us Daniel go to toe to toe with Terry #but not like this #Every day i mourn Johnny not even being there #to defend Daniel from a Cobra Kai that wasnt his #To hear Johnny say He doesnt do what you say #to hear Daniels friends rally around him without ALSO going straight to fisticuffs #and ironically Terry's methods arent fisticuffs either #We couldnt see A Daniel lead posse using brains to defeat Terry?#ofc we couldnt #theyre literally selling no mercy merch unironically out here #im happy he won im sad he won like this #ck meta #replies

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krash-and-co · 5 months

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the real 35 portland row is located on tumblr dot com btw

#idk I referred to 'welcome to the fandom' as 'welcome home' and it made me think lol #we got the art the chatter the lighthearted banter the friendship the thinking cloth with mug stains #the photos on the wall and letters in the mailbox #a whole ton of rooms‚ treasures displayed and passing down #shenanigans galore ofc #so yeah actually!!!#we are in portland row #ofc we are #we couldnt read about a home without subconsciously making one of our own that reflects it #or maybe it just brought out the 35 portland row we already had #maybe that's why we were drawn to it #and why its what we create #or whatever #idk I'm thinking too deep about fandom on the shitposting website #(or not maybe im right)#Lockwood and co #35 portland row #lockwood and co books #lockwood and co netflix #Lockwood and co fandom

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ambivartence · 9 months

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#poll #i couldnt rlly think of a cult class nct dream song.... maybe my first and last? or boom?#also nct 127 also has cherry bomb but i like kick it more #wanted to put mx love killa and tbz the stealer and got7 you calling my name #but all of them had much fewer spotify streams and i wanted to list only the most popular ones ! the truly iconic 🤭 the ones i knew #before i even knew any of the members' names i knew these songs #honestly i knew some of these before i properly listened to kpop #the power the inFLUENCE these hold on me !!! anyways maybe u wont agree 🫠 hence the poll 😃👍#EDIT SORRY I USED THE TERM CULT CLASSIC JUST PRETEND I MEAN KPOP IS A CULT BC IT IS #ofc tumblerinas would get sensitive about me misusing that term i get it i get it we all love to hate on mainstream kpop 🤭#thank u for at least reblogging w ur feedback 🫡 the more the merrier

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krinklefry87 · 10 months

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my roommate and i made a drrr pokemon au so ofc i doodled what we decided for shizaya

#drrr #durarara #shizaya #my art #we couldnt decide between zoroark or absol for awhile but a third party helped us decide (hey cupid)#i wanted to design the zoroark with short hair but it just didnt work since the hair duels as a tail yaknow..#shizuo and akane being similar pokemon was ofc on purpose

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collaredkittyboy · 10 months

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HAPPY FEMBOY FRIDAY

Might've scratched a little too hard this time :3

(Featuring cute aftercare pic)

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littencloud9 · 20 days

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#cont thoughts of my last rb but. i think ppl are so quick to say that teruko is a badly written character bc of her role in the story??#idk how to explain it but. yeah bsd isnt the best at writing female characters and theres hints of misogyny here and there #but ppl always say teruko's entire character is a product of misogyny and that is just. not true.#prob bc people focus too much on the fact that shes a rare female character idk #yeah shes extremely dedicated to the hunting dogs and fukuchi. her LEADER. i dont think thats misogyny #people dont say that about chuuya being extremely loyal to the mafia 😭😭#'her having to give the credit to fukuzawa for killing fukuchi is so misogynistic!!!' except youre ignoring what that scene is really about #it's about two kinds of people. how fukuzawa couldnt kill out of love vs how teruko killed because of it #it's about the fact that SHE can do it. shes strong enough to. SHE understands whats necessary. SHE pushed her feelings aside.#which i thought was amazing. it really solidified her role as a SOLDIER which was how she was introduced. shes VICE CAPTAIN of the hd i fee #like people always forget that.#it's also rare to see a female character act on smth that isnt emotional cause it's always male characters pushing aside their grief for th #better. i loved that we were shown how fukuzawa who is stone cold and an ex assassin CLDNT do it while teruko who is explosive and emotiona #could!! it was an interesting side to both their characters #thats not to say teruko isnt a victim of misogyny. cause people do hate her for traits they love in other characters (shes very similar to #ranpo and chuuya and jouno off the top of my head)#but to say that her entire self is a result of misogyny is doing a disservice to her character #and shows that you cant look past her relationships with male characters idk #saying she doesnt have anything outside male characters is so untrue i cant stand that argument. bc SHE DOES. youre the one not seeing it #her role during the skyfall arc was amazing how do we forget that #anyway sorry. to each their own ofc im not defending bsd's occasional bad writing #but teruko get behind me djhfjhd

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quesadillayuri · 7 months

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anons crazy 4 this one im not sorry. like truly calling it a ZERO out of TEN arc. u must be crazy im not sorry

#listen im a ctommy swords and shields and i dont Love how he's portrayed in a lot of fanon #but the idea that it made the server WORSE. and that it was a 0/10 arc is act crazy . like truly the exile arc was gen really great like i #gen think it was . so well done #also to say that it wasn't worth the discourse surrounding it.#girl its minecraft roleplay. theres gonna be stupid discourse no matter what. like truly #name one arc or even one singular at least mildly popular server that doesn't have stupid asf discourse #like OBVIOUSLY people were dumb about it. that doesnt mean it shouldnt exist.#like the idea of saying that a huge narrative arc shouldnt exist because some audience members couldnt handle it correctly.#like okay sure lets never talk abt anything even remotely nuanced ever again in media. that will fix it.#like ofc some people handled the exile arc poorly. people can't even handle rose quartz #.hellwurld #dsmp #tommyinnit #exile arc #discourse #maybe #idk #im not saying that anon is stupid btw im just saying that im smarter /JOKE.#whatever its the dsmp its fandom its fine that we have differing opinions just know that im right and youre wrong

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drakenathan · 1 month

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just a little girl 🫶

#someone left her in the middle of the street some time ago and ofc we adopted her and i could ask for a most precious bapy.#couldnt*#i love my child.#t.txt

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cashmere-caveman · 8 months

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ur last reblog, the "i am asking you to endure it" one. hwi to seonho in that one scene u know. THAT scene. also maybe seonho when hwi was sent to war. maybe a thesis of their entire relationship with each other actually. i am sick and insane can u tell

(⬇️context for this ask in case anyones wondering )

so true anon this IS their entire relationship thesis actually.... seon-ho asking hwi to endure the war bc he cannot see him dead. hwi in liaodong asking seon-ho to endure the guilt bc he cannot see him dead. hwi in nam manor asking seon-ho to endure his blood on his hands bc even if he plans to die himself he cannot see seon-ho dead. seon-ho in -

#listen i could go on but yea. yea. u get it #also if this is u rhaenys-queenofkhyrulzz u can come off anon i dont bite #if it is someone else i wont bite u either #my country: the new age #also i couldnt possibly have listed all instances but ofc an extra special shoutout to hwi in the opium den asking seon-ho to endure life #their relationship boils down to 'ik ur life sucks and it is at least partially my fault and ik u wanna die but please dont. i need u'#'even if we never speak again even if u wont ever look at me again i need u to stay alive. i need to know u are alive. '#'i am sorry to ask this and i know this is a burden but can u do it. can u please stay alive and be it out of spite but please. i beg you.'#nam seon-ho #seo hwi #seonhwi

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teeny-tiny-starscream · 2 months

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heyyy so i saw ur big merman kazuha post! could u maybe do one with venti too? I really loved it btw!

You got it!! I apologise if these suck ass I'm rusty at the genshin fandom 💔💔

(While writing I now see I'm getting carried away with this KY STYLE CHANHED IM SORRY)

- You would have been a lone traveler, having escaped from (insert place here I forgor). You had been at sea for a few days, no previous knowledge of sailing, when a storm hits. And a bad one. Your boat gets crashed and you end up on a deserted island on your own.

- There's not much at first glance, but as you explore more into the jungle, you see old ruins and what seemed like remains of an old society and a little village. Eventually, you find yourself at a cave entrance.

- On the walls are paintings of, seemingly, an old deity or entity of some kind. It looked to be feared and idolised all the same, some paintings depicting gorey endings to some unfortunate believers and others showing gifts of food and light and life.

- Failing at biting back your curiosity, you venture deeper into the cave. And after about twenty minutes of walking deeper into the cave, there's an eery teal glow. You follow it, and suddenly the cavern opens up. There's a body of water that looks way too big to be in a cave system, and it the rocks and floor around it glowed with something that looked like bioluminescent moss.

- The water itsself doesn't light up, but after a moment of staring at your reflection and pondering your ability to find your way back, two teal spots appear a ways away from the surface. You stare at them in confusion for a moment, but when the algea in the water lights up from movement you reel back.

- A figure towers over you, and in your panic you fail to see a similarity between it and the cave paintings. "What do we have here?" A higher pitch voice teases, and you curl into yourself against the cave wall.

- It doesn't move closer to you, but you hug the wall nonetheless. A confused noise is heard from above, before you hear movement in the water and a soft thud infront of you.

- Peeking through your hands, you see it's crossed its arms on the ground and is resting it's head on it. You uncurl just a bit, scooting away from it. "L-Leave me alone!"

- After a moment of contemplation, it speaks again. "I must say, the first little human here in centuries and by far the jumpiest!" You send it a vulgar gesture, and it giggles. It GIGGLES AT YOU.

- Upon closer inspection, the closest association you can make to it is a teal betta fish. You recognise the figure as the deity depicted in the cave, and you shudder. "Y-You're the god, from the cave paintings."

- A chuckle. "I am. I've been following you for a while, traveler. Guiding you to this cave. You belong here, on this island." You tilt your head in confusion, the deity looking at you with something like pride. "My friend Dvalin helped me guide the winds, the storm, I realise now was a bit harsh." He says it as he overlooks a few cuts and bruises you picked up from the wreckage.

- "That was YOU?" You ask, a bit more offended than you thought you had the energy for. "It was. But, you found my island, so all is well." A bit of dread wells up in your stomach. "Right where you belong. I think you'll find this place to be quite wonderous."

#°•.✍︎kino writes✍︎.•°#genshin g/t #g/t #genshin venti #so anyway if you couldnt tell i improvised all of this #eery ending bc we stan possesive god venti #i could?? make an au out of this?? if the people wanna see more ofc #anyway enjoy this while i wait for no transformers asks to pop up ever (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE)

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widevibratobitch · 2 months

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being a divorce child is all fun and games until ✨the holidays✨

#first phone call #'can i go to dad's at 4? he wanted me to be there at 3 but i said ill come at 4 is that ok?'#'i thought you'd go in the evening... doesnt your father know my husband just died?' '..sure. sorry'#another phone call #'hey dad would it be ok if i came around 6?' 'cant you at least come at 5?' '...5.30?' '...5?' 'ok 5' [<-will be there at 5.30 anyway]#ANOTHER phone call #'told dad ill be there at 5.30 is that better?' 'you can go at any time you want pls dont change it on my account ill be fine dw about it'#GIRL. WHICH IS IT.#it'd be easier if we just had a groupchat lol #but no ofc i gotta be the mail pigeon #old dog sigh #its whatever at this point but my god why all the drama #couldnt he have stayed alive a little longer........ like dude. right before easter fr??? plz my god

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vonlipvig · 29 days

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ok WAR TIME omw to kick reinhart's ass with my secret weapon LOAD LAST CHECKPOINT

#will i cheat? absolutely i am not above that at all #you couldnt really cheat in sordland's war since that was decided wayyyyy before with all your economy stats and stuff #this? oh i can manipulate this for sure AND I WILL #(ofc that depends on if i have enough units to win.....but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it)#jules plays suzerain

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hella1975 · 1 year

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the summary here is to not leave ur assignment to the night before when it was released 20 days ago. alternatively just do not be neurodivergent in an academic institution they will EAT you

#the adhd was on acid tonight genuinely might be the worst ive ever had #like i was getting overstimulated by my DOGS WALKING ON THE TILES #LITERALLY THE SOUND OF CLAW ON TILE #THAT WAS IT #the moment i clocked it i was a goner i started hearing the hum of the radiator the drip of the tap etc etc i went supersonic #and spent the entire time with that ball of panic in my chest like i was being hunted for sport #like girl it's not actually that serious please GOD #and i COULD NOT READ A FUCKING SENTENCE LIKE IT WASNT EVEN THE CONTENT #IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY SENTENCE I JUST COULDNT READ IT I WAS SAT ON THE SAME SLIDE FOR 20 MINS EACH TIME #but ofc i couldnt have taken the stress away by starting the assignment sooner #bc then i wouldnt be scared enough to be productive #so ofc we MUST wait until the very last minute. duh #i hate it here truly fuck every tiktok bitch that ever thought adhd was a fun little thing YOU CAN HAVE MINE IF UR IN THE MARKET BABE #hella goes to uni

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variousqueerthings · 1 year

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heterosexuals really want to see lenny and midge get together

queers understand that it's all about susie and midge

#really like both characters -- not a fan of it clearly moving towards the romantic #the marvelous mrs. maisel #ah well i knew it was a heterosexual show #but it IS post-2018 it coulda been bolder...#it's that very heterosexual progression narratively -- a dude in and out inevitably becoming love interest because he is there consistently #any other dude is just filling in until the narrative decides that now is the time to get them together for good #meanwhile the lead's whole narrative up until a certain point (when the narrative has started shying away because the queerness has become #Too overt) has revolved in some way around someone of the same gender #already framed in terms of the domestic/building a life together #eventually this domesticity will be supplanted by a more acceptable het domesticity i imagine #we've seen it many a-time before and im sure we will again #ofc there's the extra weirdness of lenny bruce being based on... the real lenny bruce #you couldnt have gone for a fictional person? based off of lenny bruce?#holding out for midge to not end up with any guy i believe in you show!

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guideaus · 21 days

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i watched wolf children and im not sure i liked it LOL

#personal #uh quick lemme rewatch all of wolfwalkers again #i wasnt really interested in hana and the werewolf husband/dad. him dying was sad ofc but then i couldnt help questioning the plot #like wow he really didnt tell her shit abt his life as a werewolf?? and then i felt bad for her for a lot of the time. like it didnt feel #like she has much outside of her kids. even if theyre only there for 10/12 years. i thought it was interesting the daughter was the #stronger extroverted one and the son was sick but then the movie reverses that. the girl's strongest relationship is now w a boy who did #that 'boys will be boys' thing and ur supposed to like that he came to her house everyday but i was like why tf isnt the mom asking #how her daughter feels abt this?? then the boy becomes an adult at the age of 10 despite the dad seemingly matching normal human aging #i thought a point of the movie was that they were werewolves but then each child chooses the path of one or the other. why is it so b&w #and i couldnt help but think the mom was dumb how her and Ame work at a place that helps injured animals and she ignored his master #and then yuki (who is trying to be human) is ignored in favor of the now wild child being in the woods...#we dont even see yuki reunite w the mom and both children leave easily #idk i feel like i need to rewatch wolfwalkers. this is like the opposite of a werewolf movie for me

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coffee-bat · 9 months

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i haven't been having the best time lately

#sorry vent incoming in tags. you dont have to read you really can skip this #/so the day before yesterday i had a major argument with mom. about something incredibly small but she got super mad at me (basically i #suggested she might have made a mistake while cleaning the oven bc when i turned it on i smelled and felt burning chemicals. like-#-teary eyes and sneezing i wasn't imagining it. and she got super mad and started yelling)#for the whole afternoon it was either silent treatment or yelling abt how what i said is 'unforgivable'#and ofc rejecting apologies and attempts to calm the situation down bc 'this isn't something you can just fix with an apology'#i literally just asked if she's sure everything went right with the oven cleaning. bc it was done in a rush.#so anyway at 10pm i HAD to get the situation to a manageable level bc i was starving and she was in the living room (we have an open kitchen #) so if i wanted to get sth to eat i'd have to confront her. so screaming match ensued again with me apologizing and explaining my point -#and her yelling over me. it went on for 40 minutes. finally after me apologizing like 70 times she calmed down but said that 'what i did is-#-unacceaptable and she does not give permission for it to happen again'. i went to sleep without getting anything to eat of course.#and this fucked me up. bc i really thought we were doing better. i really thought our relationship would only get better now esp after we -#-bonded on vacation. but turns out not. and shes still lowkey mad.#THEN yesterday im studying for a zoology exam and mention it on the phone with her #she goes 'who do you have zoology for'. i respond with the name of the teacher. confused.#'professor (x) died on friday.'#??????????#'it's not published anywhere yet so yeah YOU have to tell your class'#i had a panic attack legit. i threw up from stress. i couldnt do it. first off bc of shock and secondly bc how am i supposed tojust jump #into group chat like 'oh hey btw professor died'#thankfully the info was posted officially by uni at 10pm. so i didnt have to do it. but mom kept pressing me to the whole day #i was nauseaous all of yesterday bc of it. i couldnt manage to study anymore after the shock. sure he was older but he was so energetic and #seemed healthy. i wouldnt have expected it it was just. a huge shock. im still not over it #like you cant know someone for half a year then not be shaken when they suddenly die yknow. and mom is lowkey making fun of me like #'what were you emotionally attached??? he wasnt anyone close'#no he wasnt but im still shaken. and being mocked is only making it worse. as is having to keep studying for his subject for the next few-#-days.#sorry ok vent over theres just. a lot happening for me and im struggling i needed to let it out ig. theres just too much at once #vent #death mention

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