#Julie plec

[tswiftupdatess]

Michael Trevino, Julie Plec and Candice King were at The Eras Tour tonight!

(August 17, 2024)

[nightingale2004]

An au for the Bonkai fans (myself included)

Bonnie Bennett, the goddess of magic and witchcraft

And her husband Kai "Malachai" Parker, the god of chaos

(Do with this au as you will)

[rhaenin-time]

There are too many people who, upon encountering a woman character with too many specific traits and flaws established, lose the ability to identify with them and turn to secondary, less active, less developed characters that they can more easily project into.

As in, they'll reframe the whole story in their head and insist the true protagonist is a secondary or tertiary character. That the original protagonist is a 'Mary Sue' not worth regard. And it's weird because so often women characters are also criticized and labelled as Mary Sue's for the opposite reason as well.

I do not mean said secondary/tertiary character is bad or uninteresting. I simply mean it's inaccurate to frame them as the protagonist, and I do often see said characters proclaimed to have traits they don't possess (often traits taken from the protagonist).

It's a phenomenon not restricted to women, but I have noticed it's more common with women. For some reason they rarely do this to the men of the story. And I feel like there's some internalized misogyny in there.

I see it on both the audience end and occasionally even the writer's end. *cough* The Vampire Diaries *cough*. For now, I'll call it the Trapped in a Island with Josh Hutcherson phenomenon where Jenny Nicholson points out that the author wrote a self-insert, got jealous of the self-insert when she took on too much of a life of her own, and proceeded to write a new self-insert to push the old one aside.

Some examples:

Rhaenyra → Alicent, Helaena, and occasionally Baela & Rhaena (might also be some ageism in there too)

Arya & Dany → Sansa, the Dead Ladies Club, Brienne on occasion

Elena Gilbert (TVD) → Caroline Forbes

Those are the most blatant examples, but I swear this phenomenon is EVERYWHERE.

Anyways, I'm looking for more specific examples so I can better look into it. If you can think of another one, do me a favour and drop it below!

[skkskskshsksjsjsjsjshks]

Bonnie Bennett deserved better

[thebellekeys]

Doing an academic breakdown (likely for a future publication) about all the implicit racism in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals... Miss Julie Plec, it ain't looking good for you right now. I'm 1,500 words in (with citations and textual evidence) and not even halfway done.

[fearlessfairy]

M'kay. If dullena could do vamp pancakes, which was a bamon thing, all I'm saying that Bamon could kiss, that would be a fair exchange.

But we know, let's stuff Elena into everything Bamon had.

When you think about it, it's pathetic....bamon can't even have a damn pancake thing, aesthetic, ritual. :D It's more funny than sad how insecure Julie Plec, Dries and literally everybody was about Bamon potential and Kian chemistry.

[bonkai4ever94]

To the side of the Fandom who says black witches and bonnie wasn't treated differently

No other characters got these types of comments over and over by the show runner not to mention the childish degusting passive aggressive behavior from julie and co anytime they had cons that had bonnie questions I can go through all the bonnie/black character tweets from this woman and compare them to how she and co talk about all the white characters and then we can see if they was all treated equally because I can tell you now it won't be the case

[blckthrns]

how do you have esther (a villain, who's supposed to be in the wrong) say that elijah hurts every woman he loves and instead of proving her wrong you make elijah responsible for hayley's death???

[xdarkeningkrystals]

Can interviewers and articles please stop gaslighting us into thinking we loved TVDU because of Plague?

She will never be the reason, no matter much they try to make her think she was.

[thesocietalmisfit]

[fictionalnation]

I would like some of the big names to finally speak out about Dan… like Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice, Ariana Grande, Really the whole victorious cast. I understand everyone has their own time to speak out I too am a survivor of child sexual molestation, but its so important to speak out. Its so important to protect people. All these abusers need to be shown publicly as abusers. Looking at Disney and Julie Plec and Marc Schwann and so many others who have also caused trauma.

[nightingale2004]

TVD AND KLAROLINE FANS I HAVE A FANFIC IDEA (if this fanfic does exist, I apologize ahead of time, but please do send me the link if it does exist)

Alright, so imagine if Klaus and Caroline were already in a relationship together, and Klaus had to deal with things in New Orleans (as always) and the Mikaelsons desperately want to meet Klaus's new girl that's got him completely whipped (you seriously can't tell me otherwise that the man isn't whipped)

Klaus obviously protested against it considering the dangers they were facing, but then things started getting bad, so the smartest sibling, Elijah, summoned Caroline, and she joined in on the Mikaelson New Orleans family chaos while keeping klaus from murdering his family which BTW scored a LOT of points from the other Mikaelsons.

I strongly believe Rebekah would be jealous that she is no longer Klaus's favorite but is grateful that Caroline can keep his distracted. Marcel immediately likes her and sees her as a mother figure, like he sees Klaus as a father figure and would definitely make mom and dad jokes. Elijah already loves her and has great respect for her for putting up with his brother. Kol and Davina are more impressed than someone led this long with Klaus without getting killed. Same thing with Hayley.

Of course, Hayley would not be the only bride in New Orleans, but the Mikaelsons are definitely throwing a great wedding for Caroline and Klaus. Plus, I think Hayley and Jackson would both respect Caroline more than Klaus and always go to her when it comes to supernatural politics.

Freya would definitely like her but at the same time be a little jealous since all of the family are in love with her

(Like I said, if this fanfic does exist, PLEASE SEND ME THE LINK OR POINT ME IN THE DIRECTION OF THE FANFIC! I NEED IT!!!

Also, Klaus and Caroline give me such a mafia boss and his wife mixed with beauty and the beast vibe)

[annoyingvoidzombie]

When Life Gives You Reunions

[gwyneth1907]

Legacies had a chance to be dark academia angsty teen drama and ended up being a Disney show for tweens

[westidia]

I just realized something. Why did they call esther the “first witch” when she learned all her magic form Ayana….

classic Julie plec…

[rhaenin-time]

So back when the TV writing industry was slightly more permeable without connections and TV itself was more episodic, a common way to get your foot in the door was with "spec scripts." Where you'd write your own episode of a show.

You (well, your agent) would never submit a spec script of the show to the show you want to work on to the actual show you want to work on though. Rather, it was only meant to demonstrate that you understood how to write a self-contained story that remained faithful to the overarching story. Consistent in tone and theme and characterization. That not only were you a writer, but a writer able to tell a story someone else asks for, alongside other writers.

So yes, you'd basically submit fan fiction. And your goal was to make it read like a genuine lost script, rather than like... "fan fiction."

Anyways, Julie Plec once wrote a Buffy spec script. And it's EXACTLY what you think.

I mean it, a hellish mix of cringey and boring. All the incompetence and self-indulgence we associate with bad fan fic, but with none of the fun. None of the soul. If you ever feel embarrassed about writing what you consider a particularly cringey fan fic, just remember that Julie Plec not only did worse, but that she wrote it for a professional reason, looked at it, and decided, "Oh yes. This will get me all the jobs." And proceeded to SUBMIT it.