#anti-bonenzo crap

[queercherrypie]

Today I saw a tweet where a Bonenzo shipper said this:

"it must be horrible being a bamon shipper, there's no kiss, romantic declaration, hot, present, just some old fanfics and a failed dream."

I looked at this and thought: Is it better to like the ship that reinvented Stockholm syndrome? Both ships are toxic in the end. I don't know why a person thinks they are superior if all you have to do to destroy this ship is just pay attention to it.

The pot calling the kettle black…

Enzo is just a guy jealous of Damon and Bonnie's relationship. He envies that, Enzo already said on the show that he envies the things that Damon has. The writers had a good opportunity to look at Bonnie's relationship with Enzo and give me more scenes where they have discussions like:

"You're only keeping me alive and safe because of Lily's plan! This is your way of keeping her alive!" And Enzo being like "No! I'm doing this because I care about you."

Show me Bonnie doubting Enzo's intentions, show me Bonnie actually fighting back. Show me them actually falling in love not just rotten bits that make me question Bonnie's sanity. Show me a relationship that didn't just serve to fill the existential void of those involved.

Show me something real!

Because what Bonnie really wanted was to be with Damon and what Enzo really wanted was to be with Lily and they're just two pathetic hot messes together to me.

[thenerdyunhealthybrit]

Bonnie’s Ships

Okay, I decided to make a post on Bonnie’s ships. None of them are Anti because I do genuinely see the appeal in all of them. There is not one Bonnie ship that I actively detest and create Anti posts about them. If I was reading an ensemble fanfic, I would care who Bonnie was with, as long as she’s happy.

FYI: The order is Beremy, Kennett, Bamon, Bonkai and Bonenzo if anyone just wants to go to their ship, I think that’s all her ships. I apologise if I omitted any out, just let me know and I will add one.

Beremy:

To be honest, this wasn’t an awful ship. When they first got together, I thought it was cute - it was the most human relationship in the supernatural show. But then...Ghost! Anna happened. Now I loved Jeremy and Anna as well, they were sweet but I hated how Jeremy cheated on Bonnie with her and frankly it ruined this ship for me because Bonnie deserved better. The writers then brought them back together in a very lazy manner because once they got together, they were barely a couple - now in real life this would be good, since they aren’t experiencing any drama, but not only was there zero focus on the ship (unlike other secondary ships) but the writers constantly split Bonnie from the main storyline. The end of Beremy just didn’t really register.

Kennett:

Sorry, Kennett shippers, I tried to find a good gif for you guys but couldn’t find one. So here it goes, I like this ship. Nate and Kat had great chemistry, it was a shame that the writers didn’t explore that. Yeah there reasoning was bullshit (since they didn’t have a problem with Davina being with Kol), they should have been honest and said “We are keeping the shows separate, Kol belongs on The Originals!” - What was great about this pairing was that you have the bad guy/good girl dynamic but the bad guy doesn’t change. He’s still bad, but it was the kind of bad to everyone else except you. As I said, it’s a shame it wasn’t explored, especially since I read that the actors wanted it. But for all you hardcore Kennett shippers - count your stars lucky, by S5 the show was out of it’s doors in the show’s popularity and writing. Look at the mess of later seasons and some of their ships. At least in headcanons, fanfics and fan art - the writers can’t ruin it for you.

Bamon:

This is a tough one because I am Anti-Damon (Sorry folks, he just gets away with a lot of unforgivable crap) but I am fond of Bamon. These characters do have chemistry, however I’m not sure if it’s the romantic kind - sometimes characters have chemistry as friends but as soon as they go from friends to lovers, the chemistry dies - Out of context, this could be a ship I could ship, they have a beautiful friendship and their prison world storyline was better than the main one. However, in context, I feel a conflict because as I said, I’m not Damon’s biggest fan and Bonnie use to very strongly hate him, there are some stuff that he did that should be unforgivable, especially since before she felt strongly about it. I think if the show followed the books, Bamon could have been a great ship, but with all the stuff that happened in the show (and how the writers brushed over it), I prefer their friendship.

Bonkai:

Okay, this was Kat’s strongest chemistry with any of the actors. This could have rivalled some of the biggest ships on the show. I think it has to do with their dynamic. Bonnie has been through so much crap in her life, she’s always expected to save the day and make sacrifices and never gets the reward she deserves, as a result her character has become quite serious, she’s had to grow up more than the rest of the characters. Meanwhile Kai is a psychopath, but he’s fun and he plays into that dynamic really well and Kai did become the strongest part of S6. However, I think as the season went on, the writers kept digging this hole for Kai to fall deeper and deeper in, narratively it got to the point where he couldn’t be redeemed. But there was that point where he could have become an Anti-hero. Again, other issue was with the writers, Bonnie refused to believe that Kai could be redeemed because of all the bad stuff he in, but she has no problems with forgiving Damon. This will be one of the biggest what ifs, because on chemistry alone, I ship it but on context I don’t. 

Bonenzo:

If you’re still reading this, then thank you for staying with me. Anyway, now onto Bonenzo, or is it Bonzo? Anyway, to make it simple, I ship it. When they first happened, I found out from a friend since I was on a hiatus from the show and I first thought “Wtf?” They barely shared any scenes before and I honestly thought that if they were going to put Enzo in a ship, it would be Caroline (Carenzo are a BrOTP of mine). But anyway, I never understood it, then I hear about the one episode about it and slowly I got it. I think this is down to Michael and Kat’s real life friendship as they give a real human aspect that other The Vampire Diaries ships (I know I said something similar about Beremy, but with Bonenzo, you don’t forget that they’re together) don't since they are too focused on the supernatural or having angst. Now, I wouldn’t say their chemistry is on fire, but they have a sweet chemistry, it’s impossible to not root for. These two, like many of Bonnie’s ships were robbed (especially since we were promised a big season for Bonnie in S8). I’m bitter about Enzo’s death, these two had probably the most mature relationship in all of The Vampire Diaries AND The Originals.

Moral of the story: BONNIE WAS ROBBED AND DESERVED BETTER

Sidenote: Thank god for Fanfiction, because they write better for Bonnie than the writers ever did.

[herelivesahobbit]

bonnie bennet deserves better

im EXTRM. pissed off about what the writers did to bonnie bennet in the last couple of episodes of the vampire diaries. 

first of all, bonnie bennet has always been the character that gets the short stick. she has been used repeatedly as nothing more than a plot device. while kat graham has had fantastic chemistry with notable villains over the years (kai, kol) as well as with our anti-hero (damon) she has been denied the fantasy fulfillment given to the white girls on the show. no vampires fighting over her, no string of suitors, no villain turning good because he flirted with her a few times. even when there WAS blatant chemistry and people really shipped them and took to social media to express their feelings, something the writers GENERALLY pay attention to for this show. bonnie just wasn’t deemed worthy of being given a surprise romance of redemption the way the other girls were and i dont think i need to explain again why BUT I WILL briefly b/c im mad. being a supporting woman of color character really fucks up your love/lust trajectories in romance fiction. her happiness has clearly been deemed the least important not only by the writers - fuck you, racist writers - but also the fans. they spent years calling her the most annoying character and giving her the side shift in all these powerful woman narratives. when rebecca or katherine or caroline did anything badass - they were hailed as awesome and the BEST and MY NEW FAVE. but bonnie being all those things from day 1 has earned her nothing but hate.

ok, then we got bonnie and enzo. i’m not handing out any redemption road medals to the writers because they did that only after their neglect of bonnie’s love life became so obvious they couldn’t explain it away (its romantic vampire fiction so don’t give me the whole bonnie don’t need no man crap. bonnie needs to be loved and Adored and seen as special just as much as the other girls. let elena or caroline be the strong, independent ones who don’t need no man for once. let bonnie be the special one they all want to save. why has it been 7 seasons before she got a remotely exciting love life? in a show about love and lust and romance and vampires, its telling.) so yes, we got bonenzo, but once again, they were afforded none of the screen time the white as lily . main couples have got over the years/stelena, delena, steroline and even klaroline that didnt even end up happening got the /epic/ treatment, but bonenzo was just a tacked on romance because they wanted to convince themselves they weren’t racist. 

but all right, i took that shitty ass lazy and badly written arc b/c i don’t have anything else and for some god forsaken reason i cannot explain i still watch this piece of crap show. and once i got over the fact that the beginning happened offscreen, i actually really liked them. they were the most adult, pure relationship on this show (something steroline could have been, but isn’t).they had decent chemistry (still think not as much as Bonnie had with Kol and Kai - but those ships have sailed most likely). bonnie was getting a happy ending, was being treated as one of the shows protagonists and not just a supporting character, with internal conflicts and motivations and actions that weren’t just plot device related, though still not as  much as i would have liked.

and then this - they not only kill Enzo, but they do it casually and downplay the grief she must be feeling. the way they pull this BIG twist makes it clear that bonnie was never a priority on this show and bonenzo wasnt the EPIC romance they wanted us to believe it was. her purpose has always been plot fuel and thats the way she will end the show.

the only thing that justifies this shitty treatment is if its just one of those TVD twists thats gets untwisted in a few eps time (even so, they still downplayed the reaction to Enzo’s death way too much.)

 else, this is just another reason why i am extremely glad this show is ending.

[bonenzone]

enzo coming back as a ghost to say a final goodbye to Bonnie is not a "spoiler" at all, it's a theory, a wishful thinking of an anti bonenzo account on twitter./// this 'spoiler' came out before the damn final was written so we know that's crap, i feel like a few of us shipper did predict Enzo's death and resurrection was going to be how they turn him human again, rather than the cure, they did that for alaric actually in season6

Exactly and I’d go with our predictions based on logical and actual spoilers over the hopeful thinking of anti’s.