#defan really won in the end

[dragonlands]

Just finished tvd and the Delena ending could not have been funnier. We never saw them kiss, we never saw even a glimpse of their wedding or any moment of their supposedly happy life. The only moment we get is them both moping around on Stefan's grave showing us that they both loved Stefan more anyway. We even get a confirmation from Elena that through their whole lives Damon just worried if he's ever gonna see Stefan again. Then they die and at the first possible moment Damon lets Elena go and rushes back to Stefan and looks happy for the first time in his human life when he's on his brother's arms.

[univcrse]

julie plec is really calling herself a feminist for breaking up haylijah after trump won for what he did without control over his actions and while i understand that,

1. why did it take donald trump winning for julie to realise “hey i should stop romanticising abuse and glorifying misogyny” after 8+3 seasons of that shit

2. she wrote the tvd ending well after the election result and it still featured damon salvatore, a rapist who has abused every character on the show especially the female characters, get called “the better man” and live a full and happy life with everything he ever wanted, find peace and have the only on screen endgames (delena and defan)… while her female characters (other than elena) were miserable in the end and male characters who were respectful and kind were dead

3. in the finale she still baited klaroline, the most abusive relationship on her shows, where the guy tried to kill her/assaulted her/almost had sex with her without her consent MULTIPLE TIMES. and this ship unlike delena or haylijah was never reciprocated and was just an unstable 1000 year old man stalking an uninterested teen. and hours after the finale she tweeted “caroline will find an inappropriate way to pay klaus back for his generosity” (for money she never asked for), a tweet so disgusting that the actor who plays klaus himself said it sounded like she was calling caroline a hooker. and she baited klaroline twice in the same interview she called herself a woke feminist for ~doing better for women now that trump won~ (receipts below)

4. “but your conscience can’t advocate for that kind of violence”

klaroline:

julie now:

delena:

julie now:

you can keep your convenient white feminism julie, we all know you’re a bigot and more than happy to run the most socially irresponsible shows with the most twisted messages to young girls just for fanservice and views. you didn’t give a fuck about women then and you sure as hell don’t now.

[zalrb]

Oops forgot a title {TVD 1x06 Review}

Hi all! Welcome to the sixth review of TVD season 1. Considering that I haven’t like sat down to watch a full episode of the past seasons of TVD in a few years and my memory might not be the greatest I think I will start with my usual disclaimer: I write my thoughts in real time so if I make a mistake at the beginning of this post, it will be corrected by the end. There will be anti-Damon and anti-Delena sentiments (I’m only mentioning these two because it’s the beginning of the series), and in light of recent events I feel the need to say that there may be some anti-Jenna sentiments too. I will probably bring up other shows and call attention to misogynoir, racism, anti-blackness etc. Also I do not have MS Word right now so I wrote this on Kingsoft, which is eh, so some of the formatting might be off. Ready? Let’s go. 

And Tumblr deleted my numbering again.

OK but seriously it legitimately makes no sense that Elena, Jeremy, Caroline and Tyler don’t know about vampires because if the whole point is that the founding families make up the council and the journals are passed down from generation to generation then they should be indoctrinated in anti-vampire rhetoric from a young age, like it’s a “family tradition.”

My friend works in film and she hates the costuming TVD has for 1864 so now every time I see it I just laugh.

Elena is actually pretty chill considering she just found out Stefan is a vampire, like no part of her thinks she’s going crazy.

“Everything you know and every belief you have is about to change. Are you ready for that?” I find it so interesting that people like to claim that Elena matured with Damon because next to the fact that she actually regresses, Elena was already pretty grown up. She lost her parents at a young age and that aged her up already and then she met Stefan who she navigates the supernatural world with and that expands her mind and grows her up some more, so like??

I never got how vampires could get through the windows without anyone hearing, I mean sure they have superspeed but like I don’t know do they crouch and crawl through really quickly? What’s going on?

There is legit so much intensity between Stefan and Elena when he begs her not to be afraid and to hear him out, like Paul poured himself into that scene.

Just have to call attention to the Dobsley chemistry again because they seriously feed off of each other’s energy in this scene.

I always find it angsty goodness that Stefan is on the porch standing guard of Elena.

Even when Stefan is explaining to Elena that Damon is a murderer he is still lowkey defending his actions when it comes to Caroline, “If he wanted to kill her then he would have, she has no idea what’s happening to her” but the show wants me to believe that Elena led Stefan back to Damon? Stefan never fucking left.

“I’m getting really bored and really impatient and I don’t DO bored and impatient!” Damon legit sounds like he’s 16.

Have we ever seen a TV in the Salvatore Mansion?

“I win, what’s my prize?” *stares intensely at Stefan* “What would you like i to be” Damon, always the cockblocker.

“I didn’t care that I had gotten something that my brother wanted, I didn’t even care if it hurt him, I only knew that I wanted her.” And people are saying Stefan never owns up to being selfish or inconsiderate?

“What Damon wants, Damon usually gets, now I didn’t know it at the time but it turns out that night, Katherine was with him too” — “that night” as in the Founder’s Party. So yes, I believe Stefan had originally thought that he had won Katherine’s hand and didn’t realize she was with both of them until after he was compelled which is the first time they had sex but not the night of the Founder’s Ball.

All this sighing in the Steferine sex scene is just like … I don’t … You two … OK.

I also always found it really sexy that Stefan strokes her neck.

You know they show a lot of enslaved peoples this episode and then we don’t ever delve into that history or acknowledge that the history Bonnie would know would be very different than that of the Founding families. They like to bring Bonnie’s magical history into the mix but never explore how it would intersect with her being African American. But they want to spend a fucking season on the Donovans feeling angry and ashamed? Like I told an anon before who asked me why I watch TVD but not The 100, if TVD had come on now, I wouldn’t be able to.

Stefan waking up and touching his neck and scurrying on the bed to get away from Katherine is more or less what happened with Caroline and Damon except less physically violent because Katherine is manipulating Stefan’s emotions. No, she didn’t compel him to say “I love you” but to tell him to “go on exactly as we have” is taking away his natural emotions about her secret, which was fear and that’s messed up. Which is why Stefan is so adamant on not doing the same thing to Elena.

“You have no idea of the future I have planned for us, Stefan. You, me, and Damon. No rules.” So I do believe he doesn’t know what kind of dynamic they’re all in until after he’s compelled, which I think is manipulative on her part.

And Stefan doesn’t even look like he’s accepting of what he’s hearing but he has no choice but to continue as they were. “She could control my mind and Damon’s and she compelled each of us to hide the secret from the other” — I mean, I know in 1x09 when Damon reveals that he wasn’t compelled the show wants us to feel sorry for Damon but like how must that feel for Stefan, thinking that they were both her victims but then Damon being like “No I knew everything every step of the way.” LIKE?

“Damon and I, looks like we’re stuck with each other, like it or not.” No, fam, you’re stuck with HIM: “Everywhere I go, pain and death follow me, Damon follows me.” LIKE. I’m sorry, seeing a flashback of y’all playing football is not enough to convince me of a once strong brotherly bond that keeps you linked. Then again, I am an only child.

So Mayor Lockwood knows about vampires but not that he comes from a line of werewolves? How does that work? Or did he know?

Damon, why is your shirt suddenly unbuttoned?

And Vicki being in her underwear this entire time is like … But why? I may not find Ian attractive but if Vicki is in her underwear then Damon could at least be completely topless.

People keep asking me if I find Ian a good dancer and they always refer to this episode. Like what about this would make me think he’s a good dancer though?

I never realized that they went to Stefan’s room to legit just trash it. Damon is the pettiest man ALIVE. Like OMG. I’m laughing right now because like … Honestly, Damon give it a fucking rest.

Oh look when he kills Vicki because he’s in his feelings about Katherine.

The last time I rewatched TVD I was in New York and dating this guy and we were going through our guilty pleasures list so I mentioned TVD and he wanted to watch it and I was like, *sigh* you can’t make fun of me and he promised he wouldn’t (he lied) and we were watching this episode and he was like, Kay so you can’t have wooden bullets because … OK I forget the reason why a gun can’t have wooden bullets but he refused to watch the rest of the episode because of it and we just ended up making out lmao.

“But I also wanted to protect you from me.” Stefan legit always admits his own selfish desires.

So cute that when Stefan and Elena get back to her place and Vicki is there and he knows right away that she’s transitioning he first tells Elena to get away from her.

Also really sweet is Stefan being able to calm Vicki down, his voice and that stare, “Calm down. Everything is going to be fine.” And he nods then she nods. Such a grounding force.

Also I may not think the actress who plays Vicki is that great but she definitely did manic vampire transition craze better than Nina.

OK it’s just drinking human blood that doesn’t necessitate killing. Caroline fed from a blood bag. I mean she ended up killing someone that night anyway but still.

Elena is legitimately afraid of Damon, like she actually takes a deep exhale when he walks away from her because she’s that afraid he’ll kill her but they want to retcon this and have her say she was never afraid of him in season 6?

It’s funny, the Vicki/Stefan scene is sort of a parallel to Elena/Damon because Vicki is crying and vulnerable and Stefan says he can help her but doesn’t do anything quite yet because he’s waiting to hear what she wants and what she says is, “I want to go home, can you take me home?” and Damon just forced Elena to turn off her humanity without thinking of the repercussions.

I used to like the Defan moment when Damon saves Stefan from Logan and is all “If anyone’s going to kill you it’s going to be me” because I thought it showed how deep down Damon actually cared about Stefan and I know that it’s supposed to but now I’m like, I mean I guess trashing his room isn’t going to be that fun if he isn’t alive to see the mess.

WHY would you go looking for a vampire on your own though? At least pair up! Omg, the council is USELESS.

“You’re bleeding!” Elena may be confused and angry at Stefan and worried at Vicki but if she thinks he’s hurt, she goes into overdrive.

I like how still Stefan is when Elena says she can’t be with him anymore because it feels like he’s holding his breath with grief while Elena is sliding down the door hyperventilating and it just goes back to this idea of them being able to breathe when with each other.

Also Stefan can hear Elena crying through the door because vamp hearing.

Thanks for reading!

[kotou97]

“I was feeling epic”

I was sobbing and crying until two minutes ago, and my eyes are still red, but I have to write this post, I’m just feeling so many emotions at the same time.

Last night the series finale of The Vampire Diaries aired and I watched it just now, on my bed, here in Scotland. There are just so many things I want to say about this amazing TV show, but I don’t know if I can handle this.

The very first time I watched the pilot of TVD was when it aired in Italy on the channel ItaliaUno. My parents didn’t want me to watch it because it wasn’t PG13 (and to this day I don’t understand why) but I watched it anyway because in that period I really loved vampires. I was 12 and that night I had a bad fever, so I decided that it was God’s punishment because I was watching a TV show about vampires.

That didn’t stop me, though, but I was pretty bad at following TV shows at the time. It was maybe the next Summer that I heard someone at the beach talking about how much he liked the character of Damon so I inquired how he watched it and he told me the mysteries of “streaming” TV shows. That’s how I started watching TVD with Italian subtitles. I binge-watched the entire second season and went back to watch the first because I clearly didn’t pay enough attention the first time. But then it was over, what then? I learned that the new season was going to begin in September and I remember it being a torture to wait until that date. What was even worse? The fact that I had to wait a whole week for the new episode! Every Friday I was excited to see the new episode and I would watch it again later the same week, waiting for the new one. 

It was The Vampire Diaries that opened the gate for the many TV series that I’ve been watching in these years. It allowed me to meet so many new people, I found out about Luigi Toto and his recaps of the episodes, and through that the “Gruppo di Sostegno Shipper Depressi”, on Facebook. 

Yep, because TVD also taught me the meaning of “shipping”, and oh boy did I ship. I remember around the fourth season there were actual “Shipping wars” going on in that FB group I was talking about. I would write thousands of words justifying and defending my OTP: Stelena. Looking back at it now it seems pretty ridiculous, but at the time it would really trigger me. 

With TVD I got closer to my (now) ex-girlfriend, and to this day we would still often talk about the show and if we were liking it. Today I wrote her a really heartfelt comment about the end of the show and it really got me.

A huge part of what made this show so important to me is how much English it taught me. I went from watching every episode with Italian subtitles, to watching it perfectly fine without any help. I still remember that it taught me English words like “compel”, “bury” and “fix”. Hell, without TVD I probably never would have won the scholarship that allowed me to go to the US (maybe I wouldn’t even have wanted to without TVD) which ultimately led me to come here in Scotland. If you think about it, it’s astounding how much a TV show can affect your life. 

We all know that TVD is not a high-quality show, but what really struck me and made me love this show until the very end is its characters and moving scenes. I’m sure I’ve cried more with TVD than with any other series or movies combined. The way they combine moving scenes with music is just brilliant and its ability to move me was always my favorite part about it. 

The music is just awesome. I can’t name all of the songs I’ve discovered through TVD that I still listen to this day: Losing Your Memory, Holding a Heart, Turn to Stone, Never Let me Go, there are just so many that will probably keep on listening forever. 

I can’t help looking back at how the characters were and how they’ve changed in the series. Caroline, the shallow and envious girl that’s now a strong and independent vampire. She got her wedding with Stefan. Oh, Stefan, he sacrificed himself one last time to allow his brother to live a human life with Elena. I think the Defan will always be the main focus and soul of the show, their relationship conquered everything. I love how they showed so many characters we hadn’t seen in ages for one last time (Aunt Jenna, we love you).

Honestly, I could be sitting here for hours talking about all the amazing characters and moments that moved me, but the truth is that this show really changed my life. In a way, it’s a symbol of my teenage years, a part of me dies with it today. TVD gave me incredible moments and awesome memories and possibly allowed me to be here in Scotland right now.

I must have watched the first seasons at least three or four times, and I’m sure I’ll watch it again, one day. TVD was there throughout my whole high school experience, but I guess it’s time for me to say goodbye. I don’t know if I’m ready, but I will have to be, because there aren’t going to be any more episodes.

THANK YOU to everyone who made this show possible, Julie Plec, Nina Dobrev (that bitch shouldn’t have left, though), Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder and everyone else, it really was a hell of a ride. I can’t believe it’s been seven years for me, now I’m almost 20 and I suppose it’s time to let it go. 

I don’t think there ever will be a series that will hit me so deeply again, mostly because I can’t go back to being a young teenager, but I will forever cherish this show that will have a place in my heart. 

Grazie di tutto, Vampire Diaries, non ti dimenticherò mai.