8 Bookmarks by thisyearsmodel

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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    It's been ten and a half years since Johnny and Daniel competed against each other for one million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor. But now they're back on our TV screens: different, but the same as they were over a decade ago. In this age old battle of good and evil, brawn and brain, survival and death, who! will! win!

    Tune in tonight, at 7EDT!

     

    Or, a Survivor AU where Johnny and Daniel, instead of getting really into karate as a channel for homoerotic tension, get into reality TV show competitions.

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    18 May 2025

  2. Rec 56

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    In need of a break, Johnny answers an ad looking for a fake boyfriend to take home for Christmas.

    Things get complicated when the ad turns out to be from Daniel LaRusso, the twerp that crane kicked him in the face nearly a decade ago.

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    13 Feb 2025

  3. Rec 14

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    Loretta, the middle aged woman with the fading orange hair, is not the first therapist Terry has seen. No, he and John saw one, after the war, mandatory evaluation, and Terry saw another, right after 1987, when he’d gotten his ass into rehab, for real. Given up the cocaine, the prostitutes, the late night drives down Reseda Boulevard. Moved on.

    Loretta was better than either of them. She understood him. She saw that his boundaries had been de-prioritized, that John leaving him after the war was a core wound that he had never been able to recover from psychologically. She said continuing to practice karate was a toxic form of self-soothing that inhibited the recovery process.

     

    Or, Terry goes to therapy and Robby develops a soul-destroying, life-ending, unrequited crush on Mister LaRusso.

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    16 Nov 2024

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    He couldn’t let it happen. No matter what, he was not going to let that man lay a fucking finger on Armand ever again.

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    31 Oct 2024

  5. Rec 92

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    “You’re shitting me!” Daniel looks positively gleeful.

    “I am not.”

    “This is awesome. Fucking Florida.”

    “Mm. We should go there in the summer. Revisit our island,” Armand suggests romantically.

    “Yeah, sounds great, babe. Milan, 1641—”

    “I think I’ve just isolated the root cause of your two divorces.”

    “Ha-ha, nice try, asshole, we both know it was you. So anyway, Milan.”

    “Milan,” Armand sighs his surrender, though does not stop the light smile from curling up in the corners of his lips.

     

    Or: freshly retired from journalism (and life), Daniel needs enrichment; Armand lovingly puts up with the results.

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    13 Oct 2024

  6. Rec *

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    He’s sitting on a beach he hates, trading shitty jokes with a centuries-old monster whose body count would put Ed Gein to shame and who is almost certainly also plotting to turn him into a flesh lampshade.

    “Don’t be dramatic,” Armand says, picking up on that thread, “I do wish you’d stop returning to that.”

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    18 Sep 2024

  7. Rec 57

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    It's not that Daniel distrusts Johnny. Not anymore. It’s hard to when he looks at him and remembers that night outside the dojo, Johnny through the shattered window, the nod he gave in answer to the question Daniel couldn’t even ask. They’re on the same side now, and for once, Daniel believes it.

    But some part of him is still sixteen and running faster than he’s ever run in his life on Halloween night. Some part of him is still climbing the fence with Johnny’s arm reaching up to grab him around the waist.

    He can’t help it, standing across from Johnny Lawrence in the back garden of Mr. Miyagi’s house thirty years too late. He hesitates.

    (or, on newton's laws of motion, classic rock, and the intricate rituals involved in touching your former karate rival.)

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    05 Jun 2024

  8. Rec *

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    In 1984 he won the Valley’s most famous karate match on a fluke – or did he? Our reporter takes on the local legend and successful businessman, his erstwhile nemesis and a pitcher of martinis, and learns something about himself and the transformative power of karate along the way.

    By Jake Hemingway

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    09 Sep 2021

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